Using My Python Skills To Punish Credit Card Scammers

Hello friends, hope you're enjoying the video. Just wanted to address a few questions that I've been seeing a lot in the comments. #1. I'm not a hacker, this isn't a hacking video, and I didn't hack anything. I did not do anything that a normal person (victim or not) couldn't have done. No hacks, no exploits, no vulnerabilities, no break-ins. Every action I took was publicly available to me and everyone else that went to that scam site. #2. For those concerned that the scammer is using a stolen card to pay the bill, don't worry too much about that. Consumers have zero liability for fraudulent use of their card. Banks will issue charge backs to recoup their money and the burden will be on the processor and thus on the scammer. Additionally, getting an account with a payment gateway cannot be done anonymously and gateways use a bank account to forward the proceeds to and withdraw the charges, if necessary. So either the scammer gave their real information because they are operating in a country that is lax on the rules and is legally on the hook for the charges, or the processor is in on the scam as well. Regardless of which case it is, nothing bad is coming to any victims. #3. My efforts are not pointless. At the time of this writing, this site as well as every scam site in the long list of scam messages on my phone is offline now. Although I seriously doubt it was what I did that caused that, I can only hope it helped a little.

the most impressive part of this video was seeing how he added single quotes and colons to that whole dictionary at once

Literally laughed my ass off when he said "Just the infinite loop isn't fast enough, let's have 50 threads running this simultaneously"

I work in fraud and you've fulfilled my most common work daydream. I've never laughed so hard and maniacally before, thank you

Been learning python for 3 days now. I’m glad that I was able to understand a quarter of what he was doing, or at least understand parts of the code. Still got a lot to learn 👍

-Me, who has 0 programming skills, 0 Python Knowledge: "Yeah good idea,do that"

I just learned threading in Python.

Crunched the math, if each decline was 5 cents, you just costed that guy 2,228.30

After watching i couldn't help shake the feeling that the script that the form was submitting to could have just been a phoney response made by the scammer to simulate a decline, so that the victim thinks theres something wrong with the card, possibly making the victim either use another card or just causing the victim to reach a "dead end" so they leave the site thinking their card wouldn't work in time, when in fact the scammer has already stored their CC credentials.

in case anyone was wondering if each REFID decline cost $0.05. The actual amount his final script charged the scammer is $2228.3 USD

Imagine creating a scamming website only to lose $3 every second.

I could see my own light bulb go off when I was listening to you process the pain you were about to cause. Very impressed and definitely had an evil grin of satisfaction watching.

I've got zero experience with python, but lots with other languages. I was amazed at how simple and easy to understand the code and what you were doing. Can't wait to dig into this stuff more!!!

Alt Title: Making the scammer pay for an actual PS5 in decline fees.

You should've made a "loss counter" which would add 0.05 for every successful response and print that data on screen to display how much he'll be charged.

Love this, this made me feel proud hearing about how you punished them for being scammers, dubbed and liked. Definitely improved my night

This should be a compulsory exercise for CS undergrad students.

absolute legend

I've been coming back to this video over the years haha, and I'm still impressed with some of the things you do here

This video generally got me way more interested in how coding works and how threads work and all that stuff just because it really engaging Thank you so much