Emails being scammed/phished ..why??

[Forthewin1123]

I don’t know alot about this stufff… I don’t understand how they get in the email chain… like how do they see a email was sent to said address and then know to intercept and take over?? But it happens alot … it will happen alot for a few weeks then calm down for a bit and then ramp back up again…
So why don’t we change how we communicate? Why do we keep doing it and pretty much handing our coin over to them? We know ots a weak way to communicate since they do this alot right? I want to take this chance to learn here too so if someone can explain why we don’t chamge or cant change I’m all ears … or how the hackers do this… It just seems like common sense to me that we as a whole come together and agree or research a new way to communicate that is just as safe or safer… for both source and customer… right?
Anyone have any input or something that adds to this or can teach why this works or why we can’t chamge I’m all ears and looking.forward to hear from you guys

 

[Jv8101_0]

its the source that’s being intercepted on their end. I have made recent orders with no problems at all with other sources. Whos to say this Quote on quote phishing isn’t the actual supplier himself/herself? Nothing happens on any of my accounts without several precautionary security protocols/questions.

 

[SCB123]

i think its mostly hacked user/buyer email accounts. I would say most sellers have more secure passwords, and better opsec, than most of the buyers. We get lazy. That being said, I have two email accounts i use for this kind of stuff, and I only access those email accounts from one specific computer. its the best i can do to minimize risk.

 

[Forthewin1123]

@SCB123 so how do they get our emails? They seem to know what to say and everything… … seems they are getting better at ot and adapting and we aren’t…we are doing it the same way and they somehow get guys… I have 9 emails… and a few aliases… I’ve never had this issue yet… I donget weird emails… I got one earlier from “DHL” supposedly… saying to hit the button to recieve.or release my package or some shit…
Maybe we don’t use emails anymore? Thats my thought… is there a way we can upgrade and better protect us all?

 

[Micha3lHunt]

Do the scammers get your mailing address?

 

[Forthewin1123]

@Micha3lHunt I would think if you send it to tje scammer during the process then yes… they have it …do they keep it I doubt it… they want to bitcoin… easy money from their comp…

 

[SCB123]

@Forthewin1123 I think they hack into the purchasers account, and then just read what they can. Unless you delete religiously, all them sent and received emails are there to look at. I could be wrong?? But again, opsec on the service providers that we are using is probably stronger than opsec on our end. Not too hard for somehow looking, and hacking, to portray the part, since they have the old emails to look at.

In my specific case, I use many “non standard” protocols, to minimize the possibilities of random hacks.

 

[Jv8101_0]

@Micha3lHunt honestly I don’t even know. I personally don’t click on hyper links or random emails. I actually clean out my inbox/spam on a daily basis.

 

[Forthewin1123]

@SCB123 yea I’m very behind on how alot ofntgis stuff works… all I know is email is what they are getting us on… so why don’t we look into a new way to communicate…that we all agree on and that is just as secure or more so the email… seems silly to keep using the same method that’s compromised…
They do seem to focus on certain labs I feel like… no?..
I remember lion had guys getting phissed on his thread… forna week or 2… then I recall someone else . Now pharmahgh… lock and load…
So as a community is there a new way we can do this to stop this from happening… ? Like a telegram/wickr style app??
This is why I made the thread…

 

[akabenny36]

There are savvy sources out there that use pgp. If you know how to use it…it becomes unhackable. I know syn does.

 

[Forthewin1123]

@akabenny36 I’ll look into this… I’m kinda ignorant to alot of this stuff…