The total volume of money laundering scams that have been discussed in Twitch Turkey for days may have been revealed. But the first numbers to emerge are just the tip of the iceberg. In addition, a method used to steal credit card information was also deciphered.
The money laundering incident, which has emerged on the broadcasting platform Twitch for a long time, but has recently manifested itself concretely, continues to grow. Many users, especially on social media, are involved in this. Twitch They continue to extract previously leaked Twitch data to identify their publishers.
Working on dataWonder What is ThisA Twitter user named ‘ also set out to answer a question we had in mind: Twitch has so far been involved in fraud in Turkey. How much money was spent in total? Although he has not yet been able to give a clear answer to this question, he shared the first data he obtained at the beginning of his work.
Only 2,400 people associated with approximately $10 million:
In order to be able to process the data, the user, who analyzed the most popular 2,400 publishers in Turkey, only found 2,400 publishers. 9 million 883 thousand dollars It showed that he was in the business. But unfortunately this is only was the tip of the iceberg. Because these data belonged only to the 2,400 most watched Turkish content producers from the 6th month of 2019 to the 9th month of 2021. The number of all publishers whose data was leaked from Twitch was 2 million 398 thousand 315.
The Twitter user has managed to sift out only those who produce Turkish content among more than 2 million people in order to calculate the entire approximate amount of money at the moment. As a result of this study, a total of Twitch of 42,094 It was seen that he produced content in Turkish language. next step, 40 thousand people achieved It will calculate doubtful income.
What method do scammers follow to pass your money on themselves?
The most common source of money in Twitch scams is known as stolen credit cards. So, how do credit cards end up in the hands of fraudsters? There really isn’t a single answer to this question. illegally on the internet put up for sale card information, mobs in certain ways the card information they collect, ATM fraud, card copying, seized cards .. So your credit card information can be stolen dozens of methods exists.
However, there is a method that has been found to be used in Twitch scams and is also used in different scenarios: Shopping from fake websites. It is actually quite easy to detect and avoid this method, described by Oğuzhan Aslan on Twitter, but it just requires attention.
In this method, fraudsters copy any service-oriented website and advertise to Google in order to rank this website higher in the relevant search. For example, if you want to load TL on your BIMCell line, you will see it from time to time. ads of fake sites it can come out.
Let’s explain by continuing with the BIMCell example: When you log in to the fake site, you type your BIMCell line information and enter your card information. You then confirm the payment to complete the purchase.
But what you don’t know is where you actually shop from. Because the shopping forms on these websites are not actually for BIMCell or anything else, To exchange Bits on Twitch designed cases. In other words, you buy Bits from Twitch secretly by filling out a BIMCell form.
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