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A most entertaining piece of threat research from Check Point gives a unique insight into the "Working" life of a Nigerian email spammer who made thousands of dollars from stolen credit cards alone in recent years.

Behind that facade of respectability, "Dton" was in fact an email spammer - a spammer working as part of a Nigerian cybercrime syndicate that generates its ill-gotten gains through buying and using stolen credit card details.

Dton's criminal job was a bit of a drudge, really: the syndicate gave him around $1,000 a year which he had to spend buying stolen card data from Ferrum, a cybercrime marketplace.

Despite his growing interest in online fraud techniques, Dton appeared to be unaware that the RAT on his own machine was exfiltrating his very own personal data and mixing it in with the lists of stolen information he himself was creating.

While Check Point didn't supply any guesstimates about how much of the stolen card cash stayed with Dton rather than being passed back up the cybercrime syndicate's chain, his primary motivation was undoubtedly financial.

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