Security News > 2021 > August > Phishing Sites Targeting Scammers and Thieves

It's easy to see why Mitch got snookered: The real BriansClub site is currently not at the top of search results when one queries that shop name at Google.

In late 2019, BriansClub changed its homepage to include doctored images of my Social Security and passport cards, credit report and mobile phone bill information.

The site wasn't using PinPays; it was just claiming to do so to further mimic the real BriansClub.

Unwary scammers like Mitch are a dime a dozen, as are phishing sites that spoof criminal services online.

In 2018, KrebsOnSecurity examined a huge network of phishing sites masquerading as the top carding stores which all traced back to a web development group in Pakistan that's apparently been stealing from thieves for years.

Com says the domain was abandoned or dormant for a period in 2019, only to be scooped up again by someone in May 2020 when it became a phishing site spoofing the real BriansClub.

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