Posted on 08/24/2022 5:28:53 PM PDT by algore
Hackers are breaking into unsuspecting victims’ Cash App accounts, a massively popular payment app, and stealing hundreds of dollars, according to victims Motherboard spoke to. In one person’s case, they said, Cash App has not reimbursed them for the stolen funds.
Cash App is one of the most popular payment services apps, with over 50 million downloads from the Google Play Store. Cash App also gained some infamy for large scale cash giveaways on social media. The app is owned by payment services company Block, which was formerly known as Square. Jack Dorsey runs the company.
Marvis Herring, another target, told Motherboard that hackers attempted to steal $1,400, in the form of two installments of $700. In those cases, Herring believes his bank blocked the fraudulent transactions.
Motherboard saw many other people reporting on social media that their Cash App accounts had been compromised in some way.
On fraud websites, dark web marketplaces, and social media, multiple people appear to be selling login details associated with Cash App accounts. Some of these peoples’ listings specify that the logs contain the email address and password for a linked email account. Some of the listings may be scams, but those on the dark web marketplaces come from fraudsters who have received positive feedback from alleged customers, according to the review system that is common on such sites. One listing for hacked Cash App accounts said the vendor has sold that specific item multiple times.
“Our Cashapp accounts are of the highest quality and we provide them at the most competitive prices on the market today,” one listing reads. “Full Information Presented Recently Compromised.”
The listing says that buyers get the hacked login credentials, the victim’s cookie file, and information such as what IP address the victim used. This sort of information can be useful to fraudsters to trick sites or apps into letting them log in as the user.
I recently sold a car and the guy wanted to pay me with CashApp, I asked for cash and he eventually got it but it was not easy for him cause cash app would only let him take so much out a day.
There was a panhandler that in my area a couple of weeks ago. He could take donations via Venmo.
” Jack Dorsey runs the company.” Well, well, well.
Same here.
High tech panhandling.
Even in our backwater barely civilized Indiana.
Hit my venmo, man!
Is he one of them, that after rush hour, packs up and walks over to his car and goes home?
Wouldn’t be surprised.
His sob story was the engine in his car blew up.
Well those Escalade payments are like a grand a month now, so a guy’s gotta do something....
I use Venmo to pay the lawn crowd.
No telling when I will feel up to doing up to yard work.
Can’t wait until the gov goes all digital with money.
Thanks to all the back doors left open so the gov can spy on us, there’s always an easy way in for criminals.
Because that’s where the money is.
I know a couple of people who saw that very thing happen at separate times.
One had a Cadillac the other a nice BMW.
Of course they are
It'll do wonders during power failures and even more commonly, network outages.
What, you lack faith in Chinese chips?
It’s tax free money. John Stossel did an undercover report where he posed as a panhandler and the rate of the small donations he was getting would have added up to tens of thousands of dollars per year, tax free. And he was just sitting there...not even being aggressive.
Well what self-respecting panhandler is gonna cruise in some dirt bag old mini van or 92 Cavalier?
I’m sure Biden’s new battalions of IRS agents will be auditing those guys /s
Panhandler near me has a cat.
I have given him cat food cans and tuna sometimes
Its very common. The busier the intersection, the likelier they are working the gullibles. They can collect a few hundred a day.
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