Scamming scammers

The size of the hacking/scamming/phishing criminals are increasing. We all know this. The size of the criminals available creates new market spaces. We know that too. Criminals tends lack ethics. We see evidence of that all the time! 

And here is a nice story to show you again the lack of ethics amongst the criminals - Mr. Brain offers his free phishing kit to aspiring scammers. Nice one, Mr. Brain! I bet they love it!

Only drawback - Mr. Brain gets a copy of all activities and all the information collected from the kits. And the scammers themselves get scammed!

Why Mr. Brain does it like this? We can only guess. What we do know is that it gets increasingly risky to run scams and phishing - as ISPs and law enforcement are now actively on the lookout. Thus, finding an ISP and running your scam yourself is no longer the best method.

Add to that the increasing number of dumb n00bs out there, wannabies who like to be Great Hackers, but lack skill, understanding and motivation. What do you get? A market for hacking tools. 

As with legitimate business, many different business models exists - selling tools and kits directly, revenue sharing - and now "information sharing" without consent.

I am quite sure that Mr. Brain have access to the infrastructure necessary to monetize on the information. And I am more sure that his clients - the wannabies above - have no or only little clue on how to monetize the same information.  And the poor n00b ends up scammed.

I must admit - I love it. 

I am ROFL imaging their faces when they realize they are 0wned.