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Chapter 27. HYIP (2005)

I suppose that everyone who’s ever tried to legally make money online knows what HYIP is. Paradoxically, first time I heard about it was when I was looking through all those stolen payment system accounts linked with gold. Those…

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Chapter 30. Drops (2005–2010)

I can’t say for certain when I heard this term for the first time, but I get the impression that drops have always existed. Drops, mules, gnomes, slaves — those slang terms all means the same: a person who becomes a virtual…

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Chapter 1. The Dream (2010)

‘Max, do you have a dream?’

‘Yeah, world peace.’

‘What? Are you kidding me?’

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Chapter 57. Addendum. Can I earn?

Can you make money by working at home? In my personal opinion, 99% of all work at home offers are scam, which leaves 1% of legal offers with ridiculously low pay, and even fewer ones with actual decent money in them…

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Chapter 19. The Members (2000-2013)

I often reference the carder message board. I suppose now is the time to tell about it and its members.

There have been about 8-10 large forums and about twenty or so short-lived small…

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Appendix. Hints

Don’t ever read spam

Never open email attachments before scanning them with an antivirus.

Don’t respond to job offers from companies you don’t know.

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Chapter 24. Trojan (2004–2011)

A couple of months after Pit’s arrest…

‘So, what are we going to do now? Shall we assemble the remains of Pit’s team and send them on a shopping tour of Europe? How long can we stay inactive? I’m…

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Chapter 11. Anonymity and Naivety (2000)

Only after meeting QQ I realized how naïve we’ve been and how easy it was to catch us. The first, basic rule is to never use your real data in such business, which was something we’d done repeatedly…

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Chapter 22. @SS as POS (200?)

Once, Mickey picked up a girl somewhere in the red light district of one of European towns. Only when they were having a smoke between the acts did he remember that Pitbull had all the cash, and he was asleep in the hotel…

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Chapter 18. The Champions League (2002-2009)

Our first merchant accounts were opened in the names of actual Americans. At the time it was cheaper and easier. We didn’t have our own clean accounts in the US that we could use to open our own…