ASK HN: I encountered an online scam operation. What can I do?
A family member got sent a link in this format
https://bazaraki.to-dispatch.ink/83923676746
and they were asking them to do some payment verification to receive a payment. They usually target victims that are selling on Facebook, Ebay and other websites. They then craft a specific website for your item and pretend to have paid and send you a link to collect the payment. Because you are a "first time user" they have a specific verification page that you need to input your card details.
For example if you sell a piano on hackernews, they then make a website called
hackernews.3ds-order.online/123123
123123 is the unique identifier of the piano, with a correct image, and on the top left they will also put the logo of HN. To sell the fake page even more.I did some reverse lookups on their webapp IP (185.106.93.21) and I got more than 40 pages with scammy names.
Examples:
3ds-order.online, payl.online, processing.tel, qhdns.net, rentcars.store, toptyler.com, transferz.online, deal-express.icu, dealy.ink, fast-deal.live
NS servers: ns1.qhdns.net, ns2.qhdns.net
I contacted some registrars like NameCheap, but they say I don't have enough evidence. I have screenshots similar to this other person that also blogged about this scam [1]So my question to HN is, what do we do in such cases?
[1] https://osint.fans/gumtree-australia-post-credit-card-scam
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