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You missed an important point: if they wait until checkout then the payment process will complete and they'll get to walk away with law enforcement's money. Th
by Zikes 11y ago
You missed an important point: if they wait until checkout then the payment process will complete and they'll get to walk away with law enforcement's money.
They have every incentive to wait until the very end to tip their hand.
- pakled_engineer 11y agoThese fraud shops make you deposit first then you go shopping much like how silk rd worked, so at anytime could have seized the coins. For all we know this screen upon checkout is random, and whoever doesn't complain to get their money back is the cop. Most fraud outfits have major customers they deal with or cashout teams they offer specific BINs over chat, the online store is for bottom tier thieves on public sites.
- dopamean 11y agoIf they really wanted to increase their take they could have that fed identifying system running on the content server as well. That way they can show inflated prices to feds, have the feds try to buy, then walk away with a bigger haul.
- nerfhammer 11y agoI don't understand why they tip their hand at all. Why not just sell them randomly generated numbers?