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Recently someone has contacted me to publish a dummy Chrome extension with broad permissions, which they would have updated with their code. After declining, th
by dessant 7y ago
Recently someone has contacted me to publish a dummy Chrome extension with broad permissions, which they would have updated with their code. After declining, they have offered $20k for the job.
It was interesting to see this strategy, they are trying to implicate people to create publisher accounts for them, verified with credit cards that cannot be traced back to them and do not look suspicious. Though the money they have offered seemed too much for the job, I guess they are also trying to hook developers and convince them to do other stuff down the road.
I do get plenty of purchase and monetization offers, some of which I have shared in a blog post [1], but this was a trick I have never encountered before.
[1] https://armin.dev/blog/2019/08/supporting-browser-extension-developers/ https://armin.dev/blog/2019/08/supporting-browser-extension-...
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- ghostbrainalpha 7y agoCould you help me understand how that could be worth 20k? Is your reputation that good? Why not pay any random person $500 for the use of their identity for the same thing.
- dessant 7y agoI do not know what were their exact intentions. If someone from Google would like to take a closer look, contact me to have the emails forwarded.
- bduerst 7y agoIt's like the third party really had no intention of paying 20K, other than to use it as a carrot to dangle in front of the publisher.
- dmix 7y agoProbably some tech support scam thing. It seems to be the biggest business around in shady blackhat circles. You could push a lot of scareware with an extension with full access to the browser.