Darknet hackers are selling crypto accounts for as low as $30 a pop

[drwhobox]

As I said I am unaware of those hacked exchange accounts but I know in darknet people sell stolen credit cards which we can buy for very cheap but at the end of the day we will definitely get caught if we use hacked credit card to make any purchase.

Okay let's talk about creating an account using the stolen KYC documents is not easy either because most of the exchange requires selfie while submitting documents for verification to verify the liveness of the person which also can be helpful to avoid using account with someone's documents.

Yes if you use hacked credit card to purchase anything eventually you will end up caught scamming. So the exchange will ban your account or hold your account for further investigation. I used to take free trials with fake cc and someday after the account got banned by the company. So it was just waste of time that moment.

[suzanne5223]

There's no legit reason for anyone to use a bought exchange account because the major reason in the first place is to either use the account to launder money through crypto or use the account to request a loan from the exchange site.
In the meantime, due to different hacks and data breach happening lately, I think it's time every crypto enthusiast make security their top priority.

[lovesmayfamilis]

To all of the above, we can add that hacked accounts sometimes have a certain amount on them. The price varies depending on how much is in the account. Hackers sometimes withdraw not everything from their accounts but leave the rest, and such accounts appear on darknet forums either for a penny or even for free.
But buyers of such goods can be held liable if they are caught, and they are responsible not only for the tiny amount that was supposedly left in the account of the hacked account, but for all those large amounts that the hacker previously stole.

[Ojima-ojo]

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As I said I am unaware of those hacked exchange accounts but I know in darknet people sell stolen credit cards which we can buy for very cheap but at the end of the day we will definitely get caught if we use hacked credit card to make any purchase.

Okay let's talk about creating an account using the stolen KYC documents is not easy either because most of the exchange requires selfie while submitting documents for verification to verify the liveness of the person which also can be helpful to avoid using account with someone's documents.

Hey, Findingnemo just to point out a few of my personal observations and possible correction as the above-bolded words make you sound as of you are a culprit in the buying of accounts on the darknet, so rather than using the world, (we) better extend the sentences by replacing the world we account buyer's, just my 2 cents and back to the discussion.


Those account sellers on the darknet may choose to avoid the exchanges that require selfies because not every KYC process requires you to post your selfies and at that those account sellers can farm those accounts with stolen documents, and the possibility of replacing already verified hacked accounts details is easy such as replacing the e-mail and phone numbers and 2FA securities, this process gives the buyer a further control over those bought account but then it won't help on the long run since the account will run into troubles in the nearest future.

[rico99]

sometimes such offers appear on darknet marketplaces like tor2door...I have used tor2door multiple times to make purchases on the darknet market with best results...but to be honest I've never seen positive feedback

[AakZaki]

KYC is definitely the main purpose why hackers hack crypto accounts. but selling for $30 a pop is too much. Crypto accounts that have KYC or CEX accounts are very valuable because criminals will use them for crime.
It is quite easy if the account is hacked, just report it to customer service and it will be followed up.

[Pity Token]

Can't believe it's just $30 a pop. They must have a lot of accounts available to be able to sell at such a low price. Kind of worrying as it means our data is not secure on CEX - especially the lesser known ones. I prefer using DEX's, but we need more fully featured ones that don't charge gas fees to make each limit trade

[judeafante]

KYC is definitely the main purpose why hackers hack crypto accounts. but selling for $30 a pop is too much. Crypto accounts that have KYC or CEX accounts are very valuable because criminals will use them for crime.
It is quite easy if the account is hacked, just report it to customer service and it will be followed up.

They lowered the amount because the majority of centralized exchange now knows that there's a probability of those who undergo KYC are not the real account owner, so they ask for a selfie and they give the user a specific word to place when doing a KYC, of course, you cannot use the bought account in this situation, in the past a verified Binance account pegged $200 in the market.

[boyptc]

That's like easy $30 for the seller. These can be faked or real but those that have been selling them have no obligation to say if they're real or not but of course they'll say that they're all legit.

Those that will buy it are probably thinking of something but then will end up with nothing. So, a scammer will scam another scammer so that's the cycle that will make them scratch their head that what they do unto others have been done onto them.

Whoever buys it have to think if they're able to use it because of different identities.

[cabron]

When there is a chance to get away with it, they will be using those accounts as it will be worht the risk. They already accept the loss if the ever get caught.

But credit card holders I think are also willing to sell their cards and their data for huge amount after all they are already using it as "Buy Now Pay later" so many delinquents and they may just be before selling it.

[dansus021]

Just recently read the news and 30$ for US Verfied Bittrex account is crazy cheap but I think buying account like this has a risk right?

You cannot withdraw any pennies since they need some multiple verification code like from email, phone and 2FA, and if the KYCED user know they must report back and regain the access back by provide their data right?

Very risky

[Bobrox]

In my country Indonesia have been unusual activities when our document or data selling on dark market, many application from healthy insurance until with document ID have been easy for hacker accessing and every month our document publishing on dark market for selling. Selling verified account have been mutual habit because when SUI presale and public sale event many users sell their verified exchange account without think how their document secured at the future.

Some time ever with Pinksale pre sale project with user Indonesian ID and their selfie published because indicate as scammer, I don't sure abot they are scammer but some one else used their document trough bought verified account.

[MCUKing]

The matter to be discussed is how they get these accounts doest exchanges provide help to them or do they use any type of brute force or other way to manipulate the user's personal information?

Obviously, there will be no good use of such as you know the people who are buying such accounts and information obviously are going to use it with the wrong intentions there is no way you can prove any good intentions from the buyer. As many of the above said it can be obviously for Money Laundering and I think yes it can be.

[CryptoHeadlineNews]

I was thinking who are the people that will buy these accounts? Only what that comes to my mind is that the scammers will be the people that will like to buy such accounts.

Some people are using bought verified account. But I am thinking what will be the legit reason to be using a bought account?

I think there are several reasons why people buy accounts, and most especially exchange account, of which they don't need to be scammers in the first place, because one good reason why I have seen people buy account are for arbitrage (i.e people leaving in exchange restricted region), and happened to have found out that coins can be bought at cheaper rate at such exchange and transferred to be sold on a different exchange with high price for profit making. But using bought accounts can be very risky in the sense that if you happen to have a withdrawer issue on such exchange and a facial verification is needed for rectification, it will be nearly be an impossible mission since you weren't the one who verified the account.

[Jon_Hodl]

But I am thinking what will be the legit reason to be using a bought account?

I don't think there is any sort of legit reason to buy someone else's KYC account unless you are going to use it to launder money, evade taxes, or buy illicit goods.

IMHO, I think this is going to be a big problem in the future. Fraudulent crypto accounts will be a big problem for people as they get completely blindsided by governments asking about all of their crypto transactions and unpaid taxes on their gains.

[ultrloa]

I believe the possible buyer of these kind of account are those who wants to launder money easily. There’s no way a regular trader will be interested on someone account because they can easily create one for them and also same as you mentioned, It’s a complete of contract with the exchange ToS.

I saw some user here that buying this kind of account. Money laundering or someone that doesn’t want to provide KYC on exchange but they want to use CEX are the only user that will purchased this scammish offer.

This is the danger of using CEX. Imagine criminal using your account on illegal activities and interpol will make a lead against you for the crime.

This is near explanation about why they want to buy such KYC accounts since they want to separate up the money so that they can easily withdraw the funds they stolen somewhere. One of the reason why we shouldn't sell our accounts or even do KYC on not reputable platform or more even worse decision to be done is signing up our KYC details on airdrops since this will put us on big risk to get involve on some crime they commit.

Lets ignore the money offered since there are more other good options which we can earn decently rather than selling our KYC to unknown people.