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A Darkweb hacker recently claimed to have earned more than $ 1 million over the past 14 months through a phishing scam method on the newly created AlphaBay Portal accounts.

The case was known thanks to an interview conducted on the DeepDotWeb portal. The swindler calls himself Phishkingz and made his locks on AlphaBay, an extinct Darkweb market.

The phisher (as known to hackers using the scam method) in question claims to have traded around 500 bitcoins at Localbitcoins in the last 14 months; Total sum with phishing. In the interview, Phishkingz recounted how he achieved the amount of money and methods he used to steal bitcoins. The hacker declares for the interview:
The volume of accounts that have ceased to operate on AlphaBay is obscene. He made more than 1M dollars in the last year doing phishing only on AlphaBay.

Phishkingz
Hacker, Pisher
He then went on to say that the main method is cloning, and that his operations grew so much that he needed help from some employees, saying that he had "27 people working ... running phishers" and stealing bitcoins for him ).

Phishkingz, to achieve his goals, save a marker using Blockchain.info and take 50 addresses every 20 minutes to check the deposits. Then, most of the manually processed withdrawals said - a regret of having experimented with bots.

In practice, the hacker would directly contact new members, and send it to a link with a false verification process. In this way, the scammer can get login details and any PGP private key, password or PIN code.

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False verification process of the hacker.
Also, although the phisher noted that it also sells on Darkweb, the decision to start phishing to steal bitcoins arose after the discovery of an error in AlphaBay forums that allowed it to see new members barely register. It was simply more lucrative, as he himself said in the interview mention, getting to collect, in an account at Cryptopay.me, about 400,000 euros in BTC in the last 6 months that add up to the amount mentioned above.

On the other hand, the hacker commented that AlphaBay operators offered little support to their victims, and that they did not really care about their customers, which made work easier. He explained:
BM (Big Muscles - an Alphabay moderator) is especially stupid. I allow myself to enter the 50% accounts and give him a mnemonic phrase knowing that he had killed the account in the first place.

Phishkingz
Hacker, Pisher
Now, after the recent closing of AlphaBay, the pisher said that he moved to "Dream Market", where he has already made about 4 BTC.

This scam method seems to have become quite popular, since not so far back in time a 35-year-old man admitted to US court that he stole miles of dollars in bitcoins through fake portals that simulated online markets. Perhaps partly motivated to the growth of bitcoin and other criptomonedas.

Stealing from users who make illegal purchases has also become common; In fact, the phisher in this case ruled that he did not feel too guilty for stealing, that his victims should also be thankful that he was not a federal agent.