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What makes you think this is not the thing on sale?

• tripletao 6y ago
  A hacked Gmail account and an empty new account both have commercial value, but with very different applications. For the quoted price (~$150), a hacked real email account would have to be full of personal information useful for identity theft type fraud, or able be used to gain further control of other accounts that support password reset by email. An empty new account ("PVA", phone-verified account) is good only for spamming, registering fake accounts with services that require an email address, etc., with typical pricing in the tens of cents. PVAs are closer to commodities, while the pricing for a hacked real account would vary a lot with the victim (child vs. college student vs. investment banker vs. careless cryptocurrency enthusiast vs. ...). Of course nothing stops an anonymous seller from defrauding an anonymous buyer in a one-off transaction. But sellers operate under some kind of semi-stable pseudonym, so they do care about their reputations. They might also be selling on a market where some third party would look at the goods provided and adjudicate a dispute.