I brought down a scamming operation with 15 bytes of PHP

Re:I brought down a scamming operation with 15 bytes of PHP by namanyayg on Thursday September 07, 2023 @05:48AM (#37416698)

Hilarious. Did you find out how their scam actually worked? Are they just harvesting user credentials of those who sign up and then later trying to hack the accounts?

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Re:I brought down a scamming operation with 15 bytes of PHP by eliseomartelli on Thursday September 07, 2023 @05:54AM (#37416726)

They harvest username, email and passwords from users (If someone not too tech savvy uses the same email/password combination for more than one service they can access their accounts). The main function of this scam campaign is to steal "gas fees" money (no actual minting involved, looked at the code). They ask 0.15 ETH for each entry. In my case they could've got something around 6000$.

There are people that have fallen for this scam.

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Re:I brought down a scamming operation with 15 bytes of PHP by stop50 on Thursday September 07, 2023 @05:52AM (#37416712)

I think an certain youtuber would have loved that shell access to make a video about it

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