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Why hackers who ask for money don't get caught?
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by JoulinRouge
4178 days ago
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There are ransomware that ask you an amount of money to decrypt your data, there are also people who ask to big websites money to stop a dos attack and so on...
I assume that if you want to pay this criminals you have to pay with a credit card number. So why is so difficult to arrest them? Credit cards are 100% traceable, it should be quite easy to found the nominee of the credit card number even if he 's in another part of the world. |
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- Account hops: the first X accounts are hacked and they bounce the transfer between each other, at some point the transfer gets out to a Nameless account. You know the transfer is made there but you know who's actually the owner. By the time you get the permission to investigate is too late. money are gone. And possibly the original identify was stolen as well.
- Dividi and Impera: you get the payment on one account, than you split between N, where N is small enough to be an hard to track transaction. Later on they merge again.
- Untraceable currency. You get the money in a "standard" currency, and then using the bank as a broker you buy a untraceable currency, let's say bitcoin. At that point, there is no way to track back.
As for any other strategy, you still need an hacked account, or an account with fake identity related. As it is in 2014, there are few countries in the world where is easy to obtain one.