Fraud marketplace on ad sites

It's not a secret for anyone that on the popular sites "Avito", "Yula", etc. common fraudulent schemes designed to lure money in one way or another from gullible buyers and sellers.



In recent years, fraud -as-a- service ( Fraud-as-a-Service ) gangs have become widespread . These groups unite in their ranks the organizers ("TS"), support ("support") and ordinary members ("workers").





The organizers ensure the functioning of services (channels / chats / bots in Telegram, phishing sites, payment processing, money laundering and withdrawal), attract β€œworkers” through advertising on shadow forums, provide support and take a commission from each payment.



"Support" - help (give advice and recommendations, as well as themselves connect to communication if necessary) "workers" to deceive victims.



β€œWorkers” - directly process the victims (β€œmammoths”) using social engineering methods (they send phishing links to sites that are indistinguishable in design from real sites) and receive payments from the organizers (minus the commission).





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Distribution of fraudulent transactions by sites. A total of 38 fraudulent transactions were detected, with the total share of 34 of them not exceeding 6%. At 21 sites, less than 100 fraudulent transactions were detected for a total of 2,496,100 rubles. It should be borne in mind that there are transactions that were included in the general statistics (both in amount and in quantity), but were not included in the statistics of this or that site.



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