Posted on 04/17/2024 11:31:49 PM PDT by RandFan
Dozens of people around the world have been arrested after police disrupted a UK-founded website scamming victims on an industrial scale.
LabHost, a site set up in 2021, tricked as many as 70,000 UK victims, obtaining 480,000 card numbers and 64,000 PINs worldwide, the Metropolitan Police said.
It was created by a criminal network and enabled more than 2,000 users to set up phishing websites designed to steal personal information such as email addresses, passwords and bank details.
Criminal subscribers could log on and choose from existing sites or request bespoke pages replicating those of trusted brands such as banks, healthcare agencies and postal services.
The website even provided a tutorial to cater for wannabe fraudsters with limited IT knowledge, with a robotic voice saying at the end: "Stay safe and good spamming."
Those subscribing to worldwide membership - meaning they could target victims all around the world - paid between £200 and £300 a month.
Since it began, the site has received just under £1m in payments from criminal users.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.sky.com ...
I believe it was a a darknet web site (called Lab Host) but they must have had a real world domain name which they have seized
Has anyone heard of it or know anything about it ?
This is a good story for the cops by the way to knock this offline
Sounds crazy and brazen the scale they did it on.
I believe they were sending SMS (texts) that looked real.
Those are very convincing I’ve seen them myself and can see why people are tricked.
Must not have paid their 10%.
Never heard of this. The most common hosts in scambaiting videos are google forms and weebly.
Those SMS ones look very real and tricked even savvy people.
Be careful
I know this ….. email address and phone number identify a specific person. Most give out their email and phone number to whoever asks for such. Yet when a person’s identity is stolen nobody considers how the identity was stolen.
Customer grabs a credit card skimmer at a 7-11 type convenience store.
https://twitter.com/TRIGGERHAPPYV1/status/1777849127658803217
They should do life in prison.
I’ve been getting texts later that say “Our files show that you still owe back taxes…” pretty stupid really.
Typically I buy from only a couple reputable sites but during my searches, I come across lots of sites with the same bats at ridiculously low prices. They are all scam sites
Fortunately, you can also search for reviews of those sites and view the comments of people who were screwed.
Had a friend called me last week about a motorcycle trailer for sale for only $799.. brand new. He was pissed because he bought the same one for $2800 from the same website but said I should get one at this price.
Website looked legit except the website URL didn’t match the business name by one letter and the contact email address has an extra letter in it.
Told my friend it’s an obvious scam, it was not the same website he bought his from (close by one letter) and he needs to pay attention. An obvious if it seems to good to be true it is and showed him the correct website that was almost identical but also had a listing of scam websites to avoid.
” Dozens of people...”
But too lazy to publish their names? How many are named muhammad?
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I’ve had fraudulent credit card transactions on three different credit cards. So I did a dark web search and found my information, including social security number on it. It also said they got it from AT&T, cell and internet accounts. The largest fraudulent charges were on my American Express card that I used to autopay AT&T.
I told AT&T that I was contacting the FCC for investigation after verifying that they were the source of my ID theft.
That was about a week ago. Today there was a news article that 73 million AT&T customer account data was found on the dark web.
ABC News
Data from 73M current, former customers leaked on dark web, AT&T confirms
Some 7.6 million current and 65.4 million former accounts are impacted, it said.
https://abcnews.go.com/Business/att-data-leak-dark-web/story?id=108686296
The data set included personal information such as Social Security numbers, AT&T said. It is unclear if the data originated from AT&T or one of its vendors, the company said.
In a note to customers, the company said that a “number” of AT&T passcodes have been compromised and that it reset the passcodes for all impacted current customers.
“In addition, we will be communicating with current and former account holders with compromised sensitive personal information,” the company said.
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They never contacted me....
‘This website has been seized’
That’s why I use generous amounts of antiseize when building websites.
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