[pakled_engineer]

Tradition, all the Russian/CIS carders have always used jabber or ICQ mainly because they aren't worried about being caught and don't care about the security of their customers either. The bigger fraud outfits like Rescator are likely politically protected being a nephew to a cabinet minister or son of a Novosibirsk police captain. If you are a non connected Russian and try to run a fraud superstore the US feds can bribe lower level police agencies there to go make your life hell.

[TinyRick]

Your first sentence insinuates that Jabber is insecure. Could you elaborate on that? Just genuinely curious, since I used jabber/otr for a while to communicate with friends.

[pakled_engineer]

They seldom use OTR, I think infraud (in fraud we trust) still uses a group server in Azerbaijan to cleartext chat on none of these guys really care, some of the boards still use cloudflare.

[TinyRick]

Thanks for the clarification!