Hacking For Profit

[deleteme]

hope this isn't too old to dig up again, beats creating a new one asking the same basic thing.

Has anyone actually tried the basic phishing/myspace stuff for a profit? I could imagine at $20 per person screaming about getting a password you could make a decent monthly at it. Plus since once you have the phishing page setup it just takes sending an email to potentially make the $....I dunno, surprise you don't see more of it. Minimal risk really, what myspace/hotmail ever do?

Hell I'd even pay $50 for a myspace password! haha..no really....msg me damnit

Curious though.

[Moonbat]

The hard part isn't making a phishing page or anything of that sort, the hard part is getting the victim to login through it, people aren't as dumb as phishers would like them to be.

[deleteme]

Unless I'm missing something it's not necessarily a deal-breaker. Spend *hr setting up a realistic looking login screen, then that'll forever be almost your only investment. After that it's just sending whatever message to the 'mark' and hope they log in. *sec to send that email, if they do it you get whatever-$20, if not who cares you did so little anyway. 2hrs of programming and you can have a snazzy website that automatically sends the mark the message and collects payment if successful. hide the NS through proxies and use e-gold (or other harder-to-trace service) for payment...bada-bing.

Obviously all I'm doing is rambling about how profitable robbing a **** is...but just curious why you don't see more of it out there.

[Moonbat]

I have a fake MySpace page that'll write the user/pass to a file, but I've yet to find any buyers.

[deleteme]

the great thing about software is it's infinitely resellable so you don't need big ***** on each one...yeah that was me warming you up.

PM me some details on it.

[Ezekiel]

I found some buyers, but then got bored and got a job.

When I'm at home, I'm severely unmotivated to do anything but sleep, eat, shower, listen to music all the time and browse random sites. E-work is out of the question.