Tracking Down the Bulgarian Marketplace Scams

Re:Tracking Down the Bulgarian Marketplace Scams by cynicalsecurity on Monday December 23, 2024 @12:54PM (#42496203)

Why am I not surprised that Russians are behind this scam?

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Re:Tracking Down the Bulgarian Marketplace Scams by akaitea on Monday December 23, 2024 @03:19PM (#42497272)

because their similarity in language with Bulgaria helps performing convincing scams

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Re:Tracking Down the Bulgarian Marketplace Scams by atodorov99 on Monday December 23, 2024 @07:00PM (#42498564)

The author has shared information that he had discovered the scammers are operating in Spain and Italy as well. So it is not specifically because of language similarity.

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Re:Tracking Down the Bulgarian Marketplace Scams by meiraleal on Monday December 23, 2024 @02:01PM (#42496756)

> Why am I not surprised

Because you are being racist?

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Re:Tracking Down the Bulgarian Marketplace Scams by ponector on Monday December 23, 2024 @03:13PM (#42497241)

Too much Russia Today? Racist sanctions against Russia?

Russians are liers, thiefs and scammers. No surprise they are behind this.

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Re:Tracking Down the Bulgarian Marketplace Scams by chasebank on Monday December 23, 2024 @02:49PM (#42497086)

Russian is not a race.

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Re:Tracking Down the Bulgarian Marketplace Scams by pavel_lishin on Tuesday December 24, 2024 @10:31AM (#42502526)

Neither is "Mexican", yet saying something like "All Mexicans are <negative quality>" would be an unequivocally racist statement.

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Re:Tracking Down the Bulgarian Marketplace Scams by tsurkoprt on Wednesday December 25, 2024 @07:11PM (#42512149)

All Ukrainians speak Russian, so it could very well be them.

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