End of game for the “Fast scama” account on Telegram which offered scam kits for sale. The Parisian brigade for the fight against cyber crime (BLCC) of the judicial police, under the aegis of the cyber section of the Paris prosecutor’s office, closed the illicit 2.0 trade aimed at monetizing around thirty “phishing” or “phishing” kits. », this technique which consists of posing as an institution in order to obtain banking details or passwords.
“The hacker offers everything, turnkey”
These kits included real contact details of individuals, obtained fraudulently, likely to be contacted subsequently, in the name of a very real French bank for example, whose page was hacked, in order to extract money from them. Among the lot, there are always victims who take the bait. “It’s like a crime kit, where the hacker offers everything, turnkey,” says someone familiar with “phishing”.
According to the investigation, this complete kit, resold for between 75 and 300 euros per unit, would have brought in thousands of euros for its reseller, a young man of 26, living in Corsica, with 1,600 subscribers. He is expected on June 13 at the Paris judicial court, the Paris prosecutor’s office having national jurisdiction to prosecute these facts. He is being prosecuted for “attacking an automated data processing system, and fraud, offenses punishable by seven years in prison.
He will be alone at the helm. This does not prevent the purchasers of these kits from being prosecuted, at a later stage, if the courts lay their hands on them. On Telegram, there are already other sites of the same name… “pale, false copies of the first”, analyzes a source.
At the end of March, two boys with gamer profiles, originally from Normandy and Toulouse, just in their twenties, were also arrested, suspected of having spent more than two million false documents online, for three years, via their websites, Selkisscan and Selkisonline. They will be judged on September 10.
A thriving business with unequivocal platform names, such as Cosa Nostra, echoing the Italian mafia, a darknet forum dismantled at the beginning of April, by customs (DNRED) and the gendarmerie, under the aegis of the Paris prosecutor’s office. Narcotic products and digital scam tools were offered there. The alleged administrator was indicted and placed under judicial supervision, as part of a judicial investigation. The investigation continues. In place of the forum now, an inscription in red “This domain has been seized”, signed by the investigative and judicial services.
