Moneypak Activation Codes
Daniel
Last week, I stumbled on a ransomware cashout service hosted in Minsk, Belarus that helps simplify the process. It checks the balances of MoneyPak codes by abusing a feature built into betamerica.com, a legitimate and legal site where gamblers can go to bet on dog and horse races in the United States. Specifically, the ransomware cashout service queries a page at betamerica.com that lets customers fund their betting accounts using MoneyPak.
When I first encountered this ransomware cashout service and discovered the connection to Betamerica, I was sure the miscreants were trying to launder money through the betting site. But after my conversation with Leslie, the true scope of this ransomware operation began to come into focus. It appears to involve the cooperation of several sets of actors:
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How much does the cashout service charge for all this work? More than half of the value of the MoneyPaks, it would seem. When a user logs in to the criminal service, he is greeted with the following message:
The federal incarcerations periods for people who receive and disseminate child pornography is quite severe for the level five to ten rated images . Just the thought of seeing a message that they where involved in such a thing would scare anyone into paying the ransom. If someone thinks they are going to do over ten years in a federal prison , then this is enough to evoke a person to act on this type of social engineering tactic.
I see once again there is a WesternUnion connection as there seem to be with the Crooks that are cleaning out business accounts with transfers from those hijacked business account at whatever bank it is they deal with.
I realize a lot of legitimate wires are sent, but for the fraudulent wires they must seem some patterns, ( same area, same store/franchisee/agents being used in frequency ) they obviously would have some type of way to track wires when their is a report of fraud involved after the fact.
I do wonder though how concerted their effort is in preventing it, because it would seem in a lot of cases of the business account fraud transfers their are some serious amount of wire transfers going to the same areas over seas in that under 10k area, but in short spurts when an account is being cleaned out.
I just have to wonder how much effort they put in to really stop it, because this has been going on a long time, with these small transfers it might be harder to detect due to the dollar amount, but I could be wrong about that to if it is always in similar denominations and in short spans.
So, international law enforcement is going solely after miscreants in this scenario of ransomware money transfers going through legal websites; meaning that the prepaid card services (MoneyPak, PaySafe or Ukash) and legitimate and legal sites (betting site betamerica in this instance) are operating legally? Are the prepaid card servicers and legitimate webites not required to be FinCen registered?
Let the vigilante deluded psychotic self righteous religious nutsos, who are probably snitch-o-matics, spy on me like the true perverts in the world. Spies = why the human race is doomed for failure. But i guess nescessary to fight fire with fire.
The foreigners know more of the history and about the culture then Americans do now. no lie. For the past 15 years they have been supporting all the old artists they no longer play on the radio, and underground artists that never got air play.
U.S. Attorney Rod Rosenstein said Green Dot cards have become the primary source of payment among gang members and other inmates in the city jail. Using a simple code number to make transactions makes the cards hard for authorities to detect, he said.
The codes can be traded within the facility or used to transfer funds to linked Green Dot debit cards held outside jail or prison. Green Dot cards are not backed by a checking account or line of credit.
In the most recent example, federal authorities allege that an inmate at the Chesapeake Detention Facility in Baltimore used Green Dot cards to pay for cellphone calls coordinating a drug ring that the Bloods gang ran in Howard County. Nearly 20 gang members have been indicted with related crimes, officials said last week.
Such extortion plots already existed through more traditional transactions. Maryland prosecutors in 2008 brought charges against a former corrections officer named Fonda Deneen White and her boyfriend, an inmate and high-ranking Black Guerrilla Family member Jeffrey L. Fowlkes.
When Drug Enforcement Administration agents in July 2010 raided the home of Alicia Simmons, a corrections officer later convicted of being a contraband smuggler for the BGF, among the items in her home were Green Dot cards in the names of both Fowlkes and White.
One woman who recently contacted The Baltimore Sun described sending money to her son using Green Dot cards while he was in the Baltimore jail facing an assault charge two years ago. The son said he needed the money to buy cigarettes. She said she sent $50 to him three or four times by calling a cellphone number and giving the man who answered the number.
One employee who works at the Baltimore Detention Center, who spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of being fired, said such cards are ubiquitous behind bars. They are used for every transaction that occurs, whether between two inmates or between an inmate and a corrections officer, the employee said.
Wallets are among the few personal items that officers are allowed to bring into the facility, the employee said, convenient for slipping a card into unnoticed. A wad of cash would be more conspicuous.
Someone put me on game with what the deal is with those. I know that they're probably used for stuff I want nothing to do with. Either way I'm feeling mad bc he mentioned it for something harmless but now I feel some type of way bc it never is for them. We're together, his ad is off here, I am in contact with his mom etc were close, I don't support him financially or anything.. when I told him to miss me with that he said it's not a big deal and we moved on but it's unsettling.
May 14, 2020 - 10:17pm#2Jeanne555Sorry can you clarify what exactly he asked you to do? I googled green dot cards and they seem to be prepaid Visa cards so he asked you to send him one? It is not clear.
Jeanne, refine your Google search to include either "Green dot cards inmate(s)" "Green dot cards jail" "Green dot cards prison" or, more to the point, "What are green dot cards used for in jail/in prison," any of these, and you should find more relevant information as to why there is a bad aura surrounding them (I had to do the same).
Once the people "on the outside" purchase money packs to put on the prepaid cards, they'll receive a security code, and the people "on the inside" can use these codes to purchase whatever they want. Their sellers will then call a 1800-number, "give them the code" and have the money downloaded onto their own credit cards. [/Quote]
The guards and prisoners have accounts using Green Dot Debit cards. The prisoners pay for transactions by transferring the money from the buyers account to the sellers account. They keep their account numbers on sheets of notebook paper. Guards often supply the account numbers. Ralph said that drug dealers who operate in the prisons have relationships with the guards, who, in turn, are the suppliers.
i then filled out their market reaserch and asked for help with my situation, no reply! i called them and there phone line was down. I work hard for my money and the fact that there is no way for me to get it back has really angered me.
and i have had money stolen from me as well ...in the very SAME EXACT MANNER with the same system response as said above....and i have spent several hours on the phone back and fourth with their personell and they have told me to send them a fax of the reciept and i have tried to no AVAIL.....
they were unable to receive my faxes due to whatever their system issues were and they declared that they would not be able to do anything until they received that information through the fax. I also had to endure their EXTREMELY OBTRUSIVELY LOUD music while they placed my call on hold while someone check for my fax status...and as every time before that they continued to say they have not received the fax when all the while my fax was coming from a reputable fax machine within a hospital and a knowing working fax machine. They are out to steal money plain and simple.....
Its rediculous that they can get away with doing this to people. I cannot believe it. I will never use GREENDOT moneypak EVER AGAIN....and someone needs to create a website that send out WARNINGS to the general populous that this is occurring every day.....
A cash transfer product called MoneyPak has attracted online fraudsters who use old schemes to scam their victims. The product, sold by financial services company Green Dot (GDOT), has come under attention from the Senate Special Committee on Aging, which last month held a hearing about scams targeting the elderly.
MoneyPak cards are targeted toward "unbanked" and "underbanked" Americans, or the 34 million households who lack bank accounts or who have some type of account but still rely on services such as check cashing. The reason why MoneyPaks have caught on with criminals is that they carry a 14-digit code on the back that provide access to money that customers have place on the product.
In some frauds, the criminals impersonate a utility or law enforcement official and claim their target owes money. They then tell the victim to pay up by loading money on a MoneyPak and giving them the 14-digit number. That allows the criminal to gain access to the funds loaded into the product.
The scrutiny on MoneyPak comes as more Americans are relying on pre-paid money cards. In 2011, consumers loaded $57 billion on prepaid cards, a number that is expected to reach $167 billion this year, according to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which cites data from Mercator Advisory Group.
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