【Scammers buy tools without a card—the payment goes through USDT 🎣💸】
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You might think crypto payments only serve speculators.
This time, they served a scam factory.
Microsoft has just released a court seizure list.
An underground marketplace selling phishing tools has been taken down.
The payment channel they used was labeled $USDT.
And the trail led deeper than anyone might expect. 🎣
The operation seized more than 100,000 domains.
Over 20,000 accounts linked to the case were shut down.
Since January this year, they’ve sent out 1 billion malicious messages.
The victims were 75,000 organizations,
across more than 150 countries.
And the ones footing the bill were mostly ordinary employees at those organizations. 🌍
These groups sold ready-made phishing websites.
Buyers didn’t need to know how to code—just pay, and they were in business.
They also bought expired domain names belonging to educational institutions.
The pages looked like legitimate websites, but were actually designed to steal login credentials.
More than 2,300 templates were built to imitate governments and banks.
They could even clone transport department pages with a single click. 🏦
The most striking part was their checkout method.
The marketplace accepted $USDT directly.
Transactions ran on the TRON network and settled in seconds.
Buyers never had to touch the traditional banking system.
But the on-chain transaction records became a lead for law enforcement.
By following the money, authorities have already frozen some of the assets. 💳
An on-chain analytics company played a major role this time.
It traced the wallets involved by following their addresses.
Some funds have already been frozen; the rest are still being tracked.
To me, this is what on-chain transparency looks like in practice.
The criminals chose it for its speed, but left behind traces they couldn’t erase.
That’s more convincing than any slogan. 🔍
Put simply, technology itself isn’t good or bad.
One person uses USDT for cross-border remittances.
Another uses it to pay a scam factory.
The difference is simply who’s holding it.
Whether platforms are willing to cooperate is the real dividing line.
We’ll have to wait and see whether this gap can be closed. 🧭
📌 In a nutshell: The faster the payment, the more important it is to keep an eye on the receiving end.
Do you think on-chain transparency is protection or a risk? Let’s talk in the comments.
Join Mr. X’s fan chat via the profile page 🔥
You might think crypto payments only serve speculators.
This time, they served a scam factory.
Microsoft has just released a court seizure list.
An underground marketplace selling phishing tools has been taken down.
The payment channel they used was labeled $USDT.
And the trail led deeper than anyone might expect. 🎣
The operation seized more than 100,000 domains.
Over 20,000 accounts linked to the case were shut down.
Since January this year, they’ve sent out 1 billion malicious messages.
The victims were 75,000 organizations,
across more than 150 countries.
And the ones footing the bill were mostly ordinary employees at those organizations. 🌍
These groups sold ready-made phishing websites.
Buyers didn’t need to know how to code—just pay, and they were in business.
They also bought expired domain names belonging to educational institutions.
The pages looked like legitimate websites, but were actually designed to steal login credentials.
More than 2,300 templates were built to imitate governments and banks.
They could even clone transport department pages with a single click. 🏦
The most striking part was their checkout method.
The marketplace accepted $USDT directly.
Transactions ran on the TRON network and settled in seconds.
Buyers never had to touch the traditional banking system.
But the on-chain transaction records became a lead for law enforcement.
By following the money, authorities have already frozen some of the assets. 💳
An on-chain analytics company played a major role this time.
It traced the wallets involved by following their addresses.
Some funds have already been frozen; the rest are still being tracked.
To me, this is what on-chain transparency looks like in practice.
The criminals chose it for its speed, but left behind traces they couldn’t erase.
That’s more convincing than any slogan. 🔍
Put simply, technology itself isn’t good or bad.
One person uses USDT for cross-border remittances.
Another uses it to pay a scam factory.
The difference is simply who’s holding it.
Whether platforms are willing to cooperate is the real dividing line.
We’ll have to wait and see whether this gap can be closed. 🧭
📌 In a nutshell: The faster the payment, the more important it is to keep an eye on the receiving end.
Do you think on-chain transparency is protection or a risk? Let’s talk in the comments.