18 domains were confiscated to the FBI and the US postal inspection service. On the sites, the victims proposed the work of “quality control inspectors”, which required them to fulfill several tasks:
Obtaining parcels with stolen goods to your address and their shipment to another address. The victim did not know that the goods did not know;
Purchase of some goods at their own funds;
Drawing up photo reports on the work done.
Attackers controlled the “employees” using the online platform, which was issued for the system for collaboration. Sending the parcels to the right addresses, the victims received $ 20 dollars for each ship sent and became accomplices in crimes.
Everything was revealed when one of the “employees” provided the FBI accounting data from his account on the scammers platform. There, law enforcement officers discovered a story of 25 purchases made on a stolen credit card.
American law enforcement agencies investigated these similar benches since February 2021, after 64 complaints about fraudsters were received in the IC3 (center of complaints about the Internet.
And although sites are already under the control of the FBI, their operators are not in the United States, so they have not yet been arrested. The US Ministry of Justice says that investigators have evidence that scammers are based in Russia.