Using My Python Skills To Punish Credit Card Scammers
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- Опубликовано: 27 мар 2021
- Here we go again, another day, another scammer. This time a scammer decided to use a live payment processor to test validity of cards to scam. Not very smart and he'll pay because of it.
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Hello friends, hope you're enjoying the video. Just wanted to address a few questions that I've been seeing a lot in the comments. #1. I'm not a hacker, this isn't a hacking video, and I didn't hack anything. I did not do anything that a normal person (victim or not) couldn't have done. No hacks, no exploits, no vulnerabilities, no break-ins. Every action I took was publicly available to me and everyone else that went to that scam site. #2. For those concerned that the scammer is using a stolen card to pay the bill, don't worry too much about that. Consumers have zero liability for fraudulent use of their card. Banks will issue charge backs to recoup their money and the burden will be on the processor and thus on the scammer. Additionally, getting an account with a payment gateway cannot be done anonymously and gateways use a bank account to forward the proceeds to and withdraw the charges, if necessary. So either the scammer gave their real information because they are operating in a country that is lax on the rules and is legally on the hook for the charges, or the processor is in on the scam as well. Regardless of which case it is, nothing bad is coming to any victims. #3. My efforts are not pointless. At the time of this writing, this site as well as every scam site in the long list of scam messages on my phone is offline now. Although I seriously doubt it was what I did that caused that, I can only hope it helped a little.
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Question couldn't this count as DDOSing? Because you are sending hundreds of requests to a URL? If not enlighten me.
@@parker02311 No, because 1. DDOS = "distributed", meaning you are sending requests from dozens or hundreds or thousands of computers. He is only using 1 computer. 2. A DDOS is a distributed "denial of service", meaning it puts the page offline through the sheer number of requests. He isn't sending enough requests to crash the site; he's simply sending a small number of valid requests that incidentally cost the website a bit of $$$ to handle.
The only thing I would have done differently is let it run until the site was taken down.
@@akbarmukhamedjanov7323 Oh yeah, I'm sure that's a *tewtelly* legitimate business you have in mind.
the most impressive part of this video was seeing how he added single quotes and colons to that whole dictionary at once
yeah that's neat, atom expert right there
I've never seen that feature before this video but now that I know about it I want it
@@Poop-nu1so I don't use atom, but with VSCode you can just use the scroll button of the mouse to select like that. And CTRL + ALT + UP / DOWN should do the trick with the keyboard.
I think it works with shift + alt, at least in SSMS
@@PinguinPutasso thank you sir, I will investigate this promptly
Literally laughed my ass off when he said "Just the infinite loop isn't fast enough, let's have 50 threads running this simultaneously"
would like but 111 likes
@Miles ratio
@Miles stfu
@Miles i hope you have an infinite loop for dancing
it's good
@James so god died ?
I work in fraud and you've fulfilled my most common work daydream. I've never laughed so hard and maniacally before, thank you
you work in fraud? 🤨
@@tfwnoyandere ye, as in I work for a bank and stop fraud against the bank and our customers for a living :P
interesting wording 🤨🤨
@@tfwnoyandere ...thanks? Not quite sure what you're implying but please don't take my rushed reply as conspiracy.
Love talking about my job though, hmu if your curious ^^
i just meant cause you wrote you work in fraud which i read as you make a living committing fraud lol
Been learning python for 3 days now. I’m glad that I was able to understand a quarter of what he was doing, or at least understand parts of the code. Still got a lot to learn 👍
how is it going
@@-sY.Nuclear dang, didn’t realize this was a month ago already, but it’s good. I haven’t actually learned more than what I have from this, I actually took a step back. I’m taking notes on a 2 hour video called “intro to programming and computer science” which just goes over general concepts and stuff like that. I’m about halfway through the video and there’s a lot of information, but it’s good. Planning to do Harvards CS50 course after.
How is it going?
How is it going, OP? I am learning too. I myself am doing a course on Udemy. So far so good except for the hardest exercises.
Best of luck to you.
@@Majorskillissue101 How's it going now? Been 3 months buddy
-Me, who has 0 programming skills, 0 Python Knowledge: "Yeah good idea,do that"
Basically we make someone pay a little tramitation so many times he's gonna be in debt
Dang you know python even exists? I only know lua
Literally me , LMFAO OMGGGGGGGGG HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
@@silentsudo LOL
Id use Unity.
I just learned threading in Python.
Yeah, that’s one reason he’s golden.
I learned that threading in python is good for networks. For cpu paralleling I'm using multiprocessing.
scratched the surface ... buy yes you did :)
ain't it great lol 😂
@@fiendsgaming7589 Congrats on your comment
After watching i couldn't help shake the feeling that the script that the form was submitting to could have just been a phoney response made by the scammer to simulate a decline, so that the victim thinks theres something wrong with the card, possibly making the victim either use another card or just causing the victim to reach a "dead end" so they leave the site thinking their card wouldn't work in time, when in fact the scammer has already stored their CC credentials.
why bother incrementing an integer in each error message across multiple sessions? seems like a lot of work for a spoof response. in fact, why even post to the server at all? we don't get to see if there was an http request for expired card and whatnot but it seems like you'd just do it in JS if your aim was to fool people.
That would not be possible as if somebody entered a real card, there is no way to know unless you pass it to a CC processor.
@@codejunki567 Anything is possible, the scammer increases the chances of catching a valid card at any point.
@@mikembley I don't think you understand how this process works dude
This is a legitimate concern and likely if the scammer was intelligent would quadruple the number of card numbers stored for any given victim of the scam.
I've got zero experience with python, but lots with other languages. I was amazed at how simple and easy to understand the code and what you were doing. Can't wait to dig into this stuff more!!!
Alt Title: Making the scammer pay for an actual PS5 in decline fees.
It was like 5 and a half ps5s
You can give the video fifty-five titles if you wish.
All could easily be valid.
For your own records, name it as you wish
@@gergodobos154 What about second hand?
And that's the whole problem....there is no decline fees...he has made some silly assumptions
😁
Me: "cool, an infinite loop left overnight to punish the scammer"
Engineer Man: "It's not going fast enough. Let's use threads"
Me: "Time to hit subscribe"
@Miles you guys just don’t know when to stop don’t you
@James I’m gay
@Miles you're gay
Ok I understand loops but what are threads?
same here hahahaha
Love this, this made me feel proud hearing about how you punished them for being scammers, dubbed and liked. Definitely improved my night
A few things I'd do differently: You can right-click on the request and copy it as a ready request that can be sent directly in a few different formats - that would save time getting it right.
Then, I would send asynchronous requests, you don't have to wait for the response this way, so you can really pound in those requests. I'd also aim to use a proxy just in case. Javascript has a better support for asynchronous requests, but it can be done in Python as well. These are just some technicalities in the end though. Your approach has done the deed just as well :)
I was thinking of async as well, no need for threading or multiprocessing when it comes to network io 😁
in case anyone was wondering if each REFID decline cost $0.05. The actual amount his final script charged the scammer is $2228.3 USD
idfk how you worked that out but fair play if thats true
@@kazaa7409 you gotta trust me bro
@@kazaa7409 You go by the returned id number for each decline response. do some math between the start and end of him running the script and you get the total amount of sent requests. I got 2k as well by doing some very quick glancing.
Payback baby! 🤣🤣🤓
LMAO
Imagine creating a scamming website only to lose $3 every second.
But, but...
It's $2.50 NOOOOOOOO
2.50 every 2 seconds.
Scammer gets scammed
That's 10,800$ a hour
@@colappse7463 😂fortnite save the world videos
I could see my own light bulb go off when I was listening to you process the pain you were about to cause. Very impressed and definitely had an evil grin of satisfaction watching.
This video generally got me way more interested in how coding works and how threads work and all that stuff just because it really engaging
Thank you so much
You should've made a "loss counter" which would add 0.05 for every successful response and print that data on screen to display how much he'll be charged.
At the start of the vid it was around 28 997 and by the end at 72 619 meaning that he got about 43k in that window which if you multiply by 0.05 should result to around 2 150$
@@michals7290 You can notice at the beginning that the ref_id is not incremented by 1 for each request, so the payment processer is probably using a global reference id for users or something from a timestamp.
Therefore he did less than 43k transactions.
He'd have to make the money counter thread safe, which is like this whooooole other thing....
@@pendraggon1773 no he wouldn’t lol
@@jackmasseywelsh337 but if you made each thread increment the money counter, you'd have to deal with race conditions? Is this not a classic parallelism problem??
absolute legend
Hiii
How are you in every comment section I go to
horizon why are you here
#HorizonOnTop
did not expect you here
I've been coming back to this video over the years haha, and I'm still impressed with some of the things you do here
This should be a compulsory exercise for CS undergrad students.
I wish
100% Agree ✋
It would be better to teach students to think critically instead. In all likelihood, the scammer is using a stolen card, so some innocent person is getting the charges. This is why vigilantism is a crime, because vigilantes don't do their due process to make sure they're punishing after the right person. 🤦
@@user-vn7ce5ig1z A scammer cannot use someone else's credit card. They need that dollar.
@@user-vn7ce5ig1z "You can't change the world without getting your hands dirty."
Dude didn’t stop at the infinite loop; he added 50 threads a loop. That’s some serious punishment.
with an event loop he could get this to go even faster, maybe thousands of connections
The best cars is he knew how to trick the algorithm into thinking he's giving valid credit card information
@@meghanachauhan9380 well, youd think the scam developer would at least store a table of declined credit cards so he only gets charged once for each unique declined cc
@@rabbitdrink wouldn't the scam site shut down because of too many requests/connections?
luckily he was being nice, if it was anyone else they wouldve done like billions
Excellent videos, to be honest my head was spinning with my small computer skills, well done , keep up the good work.
Just started learning to code this year 2024! This kind if content is absolutely amazing and motivational. Your calm deamor while destroying this scammer is awesome. Even though I didn't understand most of this, it's all good. Eventually, I'll get there.
You should just let it run for 10 hours and stream it. When I'm feeling down, I can come to the channel and just smile for a while. 😊
that be over 4 million dollars...
@@deandee8082 good point. better run it for at least 24 hours
@@ThatGuy3714 Nah, did you meant days? Or did you meant weeks? Now I'm not sure.
@@deandee8082
Even better. 😈
Let’s build a Raspberry PI system and run the code. Live stream it to test the durability of the software vs hardware.
You should make a series: "learn python by beating scammers"!
But then if that series were to be uploaded, scammers will find a new way to scam since they know many people will be aware of that anti-scammer series in youtube
@@riz3538 but that's the beauty of python. As long as you aren't making an app it can be pretty versatile and making changes is quick and simple
That will open Pandora's box and we in the programming community don't want that.
@@kestonsmith1354 Why not? Do you prefer scammer hunters or scammed people?
@janet banks yah..... if you are nervous enough to have to do that yall prolly shouldnt be in a relationship, cuz their either cheating already or you have some severe jealousy problems and should seek therapy, trust is a pretty healthy thing in a relationship.... give it a try sometime
If you ever see a scam and wonder "Wow, who would be stupid enough to click on this??" this right here is *exactly* why scams look the way they do. They don't *want* people who know better to get this far, because they might just know how to break their system
Awesome and informative video AND scammers get punished - what's not to like? The perfect video basically! Thanks for doing this!
Tinder Date: Sends more than 5 messages in a minute.
Engineer Man: Spam the inbox using python to assert dominance.
Your IP would be blacklisted if you do this on any major websites. Rate of request is limited.
This was also a failed attempt by this Python user since scammers don't work with bank apis, they use third party apis like Stripe and paypal. So all this fuss is for nothing lol
Its make me laugh tbh
@@softwareengineer9435 Ok boomer
@@arcanedegree9495 Glad you're taking notes.
@@softwareengineer9435 K
@@softwareengineer9435 well he sure did something cuz i believe him more than I believe you
That’s 10,000$+ in damage with some lines of code...
That much?
@@teamacio9043 By speculating most scammers are from india and lets take a midpoint here like 4000$ that converts this to 4000*75= 3 lakh rupees!!!! It is a very big amount in india, i can tell you this because i am from india!
He should’ve sent more
@@enfoBWH well that depends on your financial situation! Most it graduates after btech get a package of 3.5lakhs/year. Many people in india are not earning this much in a whole year...so yeah it is a big amount!!
@@AbhishekMishra-xx1sq do banks in India get charged for declined transactions?
It's never happened to me on any online marketplace
First time seeing your video and I must say this video just gave me life!! Definitely earned a new subscriber! Thanks!!!
this was the video that motivated me to become more invested in programming. thank you so much for your content.
You still programming?
@@patrickarnold4416 yes
Can't even imagine the face on the scammers realizing they just got scammed 😂
Its like DDos?
@@e5caflowne500 no. Watch the video again.
Somewhere around the mid-point between the Pikachu face and the Darth Vader "Nooooo!"
In all likelihood, they're paying the transaction fees using a stolen credit-card, so it's probably some random innocent person getting hit. 😕
THEY GOT WHAT THEY DESERVE.
As a former CS student who has now switched majors, I'm just shocked that you can type a comma on multiple lines at the same time...
I came into the comment section just to see if someone else was surprised about this XD
Where and why has this information been hidden from me all these years?!
@@factualactuals3495 That's not power; it's wizardry (?)
right/
@@factualactuals3495 Exceeept it's Atom, not VS Code.
@@KANGAR1982 MS has gotten alot of shiz from companies as they cbf anymore to come up with ideas
it’s amazing how simple yet effective this line of code is, beautiful work good sir
I really enjoy watching videos like this and it makes me want to stop scammers like this guy
I would love to be a fly on the wall when the scammer watches this video.
There are some youtubers that make videos getting into scammers computers, and I saw one where they were able to access the scammer webcam and show the scammer picture to him and film their reaction. Priceless! Search for "i show scammer their webcam" or something and be delighted :D
@@astropgn That's Kitboga. I see you are a man of culture as well
@@astropgn really scammers are not that bad. It's the guys who get scammed even after millions of warning who deserve it
@@sovereignboss1841 Why do you think that those people receive millions of warnings? Just because you see millions of warnings out there? THe internet is big, assuming that everyone has the same amount of information is not productive.
Kitboga, but the true master is Jim Browning. Jim B is the world's true live catcher of Internet Scammers. Watch some of his videos, it's incredible. He's responsible for dismantling entire subindustries of some common scams.
I am just learning Python and the big thing from this video was the way you formatted all that data simultaneously to make a Dictionary. Got out the manual and figured out how to do that myself. That was the big takeaway for me. Thanks.
Very good!
how do you do it?
@@OMAR-ep9ve Depends on your editor. Just look up multi-cursor for your editor.
@@OMAR-ep9ve usually option/alt plus click or drag or arrow keys
What manual?
I understand nothing of what you do but I totally get the spirit of why. You're brilliant. You shouldn't have stopped it!
Holy shit dude, you're a legend. I don't know how to program but you look like a god damn wizard. Love this kind of content. Hopefully you're right about card decline fees!
Oh my god watching you code was beautiful lol I love it when scammers get punished!
Even though I had ABSOLUTELY NO IDEA what you were doing in Python, I found this hilarious. If it really is about 5c per declined attempt to the scammer, I would let the script run until the scammer has to shut his PC down to stop it, then fire it up again and run it some more. YES, I hate scammers, they are even below the level of "scum of the earth". I wouldn't piss on one if they were on fire.
Good because I would hate to see one underdone. :)
Keep in mind this scammer is probably also a programmer. Give him enough incentive he might try to backtrack to your computer and seriously mess with you in return. Worse is, if this guy is part of a boilerplate room doing this and if his skills are not up to taking down your computer or snatching all of your financial transactions from your computer someone else in the room might have those skills. It takes too long to do on a regular basis but top teach someone a lesson?
@@suzannehartmann946 it’s called using a vpn lol
I would, but then I’d proceed to douse them in oil to start the process again
star the fire
Ok but is anyone gonna talk about that super useful method of editing multiple lines at once 🤯
lol... in vscode just hit ctrl + alt + arrow up/down and another cursor will be created in the line above/below the current one.
What is more impressing is there are ppl writing python not in vim
Know your IDE… 💪
I was amazed by that as well.
Anyone know if PyCharm was a similar feature?
@@martinhawes5647 Yes, click and hold the scroll button and select the lines where you would want to type at the same time and then release the scroll button and there you go.
You make me want to learn coding. I took a class and was so fascinated, but there’s so many details that takes me awhile to wrap my head around. The way you show it and talk about it makes it seem a lot easier than it has in my head over the years.
Don't worry about it too much. Just take it step by step. Start by understanding coding as a whole and the different concepts like loops, arrays, classes, threads etc. Then you can start implementing all of these with python which is really easy and then you can get into web development basics. How http requests are sent and handled, maybe learn a bit about web APIs. And that's as far as you need to go for this video.
hey man im currently learning via The odin project, is this a good thing?@@GeneralPet
It's always satisfying to see people using their skills for good, especially when it comes to combating fraud and scams. As someone who's interested in both technology and finance, I'm always looking for ways to improve security and protect people's assets
As a computer science student with experience in multiple programming languages, I am shocked with how such simple code can lead to hundreds of thousands of dollars for this scammer. You really let this scammer off the hook by stopping it that early, had you let the code run overnight he'd of been millions in debt.
I am guessing the payment processor would have started blocking at some point. I know we had an issue like that at work before when someone ran some automated tests incorrectly and our account got temp blocked because of the number of requests being submitted. Its also possible that it would have continued though.
@@Nick-tm2sw After how many requests does it start to block?
@@Phoenix-dg7gb I have no idea. It would depend on the payment processor. We obviously have no idea who they are using for that though.
I myself am a computer science student, though I didn't know that this could do be done. I'm just wondering if the same result could be achieved in C++ as that's the only language that I know pretty well.
@@reflex9238 Of course it can be. Stuff like this could be done in any language that I can think of but it is more difficult in some. C++ isn't the one I would pick to do things like this though. Pick the right tool for the job. If you know C++ then Python should be simple for you to learn decently well over a weekend or 2.
I love how the "amazon" offers you a free ps5 but doesn't want to pay 1$ worth of fees
Ikr
I can't find an in stock one to buy and here they are giving them away!
wish moment
Yeah! Some people deserve to be scammed.
It was the very last one in stock too! Lucky that.
This man is doing God's work. Thank you for the chuckle. Signing up for Python classes!
I finally came across this video again even though I couldn't find it for 2 years.
just in 2021 this video impressed me to learn python, it's still the best thing I've learned
"We could do an infinite loop, but the problem is this 2 second delay, so it's not running fast enough" Dude, you are AWESOME!
Thank you So much Sir That was super helpful God bless you Man
This is the coolest way I've seen it done...brilliant
Thank God someone who knows programming and how to stick it back to the scammers is giving them what they deserve! Bless you! Thank you from older people that only dream of doing this.
As a programmer, the funniest thing ever is to make tools to fuck up with scammers
Recently I got one of theses discord nitro gift scams fucked up. It used real discord endpoints proxied to try and login, so made a tool to actually attempt thousands of login at once and let it run overnight
@@akatsukilevi lol great that it's proxied
There should be some sort of award/reward for guys like you who are fighting for us against the scammers!
Depends on the company.
If this was hosted with my company for example, and you reported it, it would be investiaged in mins (because abuse always is) and if we had identified it as a scam (we would have) we had notified the authoritys, dropped the site and slipped you £50 for your troubble. Usually via paypal, but some have chosen to have a server cheap for a few month :)
Why do you think they're on youtube? They make a TON of money. Those channels attract a ton of subscribers and views. Guys like Jim Browning became a millionaire for doing this. While some of the "scam fighters" do this because they're emotionally attached to the matter, they mostly do it for easy money. This video got 3 million views for instance and it's simply bs. The scammers doesn't lose a single cent from someone making a script like this.
@@asdadfafafafffallslsldd8068 looks like you really have a problem with it. Just deal with it, seeing scammers get wrecked is entertaining anyways
@@LeonardoMastrogiovanni Are you ok? I despise scammers. I'm just stating that the guys that are making scam fighting videos are making a fortune out of it. That's a fact and it's a highly relevant reply to this guys comment who seems to be a bit gullible about how this works and why they do it.
@@LeonardoMastrogiovanni You need to stop with your assumptions. I didn't write my comment out of jealousy. I simply stated the fact that they are making money which the guy I replied to didn't seem to understand.
I learned some valuable lessons from this video!
Thank you!
LOLOL that was great! I literally just started learning python last week and I'm excited that I understood a bit about what was going on! That was a great way to use it👍
Engineer man to the rescue. Not only does he thwart a bad guy but he teaches us all a little programming along the way.
"I think we've pretty much sent them enough..." Oh, no, I don't think we have. Turn it back on and let it run for days, please.
I've done similar, and at most you get 10-12 hours before someone notices.
@@threeMetreJim we should run them as a group then. Like 500 people running this program at the same time.
@@threeMetreJim just change the post request to have requests.post(url, headers={ "ip" : r }, data=data) where you can create a new random ip adress every few cycle
@@jordanforce2064 You can if it's programmed in Javascript... Post a web page with an interesting video to watch and have the JS run in the background, then post a link to a popular social media page (yes I have done it before, but the results can be quite disastrous, and likely against a lot of T&C's)
@@threeMetreJim That's clever.
Never heard of you but I’m glad I found you great video
Oh my goodness you're the best!!!!!! Alot of why I wanted to learn to code is to get scammers and to mess with them. My mom is super susceptible to them. Not all heros wear capes!!
I loved it... I am a retired programmer and amazed at your knowledge and skill - Great Job... Love your punishment... please create some more to get rid of the scammers
Alternative title: motivation to start learning python.
ruclips.net/channel/UCi1K2xVac9WaQs-86DBoUUAfeatured
It's amazing youtube sent me here. Since I've been doing loads of tutorials on Json and using requests.
RUclips apparently thought "You will get how this is funny now."
@@letsburn00 loved it.
Learned more about threading in this video than anywhere else. thanks :D
This is gold man ill always check scams for stuff like this from now on
Now just IMAGINE the number of people from the audience running the same program after seeing this.
I tried it now, they took the website down haha
@iRunzs He pinned a comment explaining, so hopefully that grandma isn't getting nailed with charges lol
On them, or actual legitimate stores...
unintentional ddos
Bro, you should literally get a reward for punishing that scammer. Brilliant
I absolutely LOVE these types of videos! too bad there aren't much of these
I really enjoyed this video:) so cool you made them pay for scamming you, well done sir!
You can speed this up significantly by ignoring the response, just send the request with a very small timeout and ignore the timeout error.
isn't small timeout canceling the active request? or is it just for response?
@@___whateverr language is far from the bottleneck here
@@___whateverr the programming language doesn't matter in this example
I’ve always loved watching people code. I am really overwhelmed looking at it and it seems so daunting but man is it satisfying watching someone do it
been self-learning for about 2 months and i understand almost everything he did except the speed at which he edited things(not tabbing) and acquiring the data. back to the laptop i go
@@lxLanarchyxl i just started my journey about a week ago but i started with JS and ofc HTML CSS, any free recourses you would recommend ?
@@justmoe1632
That’s not really coding like this is though.
@@anti-ethniccleansing465 true,
@@anti-ethniccleansing465 JS is also object-oriented, it's alot like python, but sure python is alot better for stuff like this. This script isn't really that complicated. In my opinion I think that javascript is harder than python
Excellent! You’re so much nicer than I would’ve been! Makes you want to hunt them and punish ALL of them!
Glad to see scammers being punished and it actually teaches me some new stuff to use in python as well so thanks for that
This was beautiful. I learned more on requests and threading. Thank you sir!
As a python developer myself, this is actually simple and clever method. Great job!
Y'know I'm something of a Python developer myself.
@@kartoffelwaffel I've got a massive python
This is the most basic shit ever. Also his way of doing it is so inefficient. You use async operations with aiohttp + for request you copy as curl and convert it into python.
And also illegal. LUL
@@bp3016 Explain further
Probably one of the coolest videos I've ever seen on youtube, thanks.
Man you are genius. Amazing video. Subbed and liked. Keep the good work. May I know which linux distro you are using or the terminal?
Thank you. 🙏
Absolutely amazing! Your Python writing skills are incredible and inspirational!! I'm now a new subscriber. Thank you. 😊👍
i understood 5 words in this video, including 'if' 'and' and 'yes'
glad there are people out there like you doing good with your skills!
Idk about you guys but I understood what he said, not how the coding works though.
Love this! Wish you'd let it run for longer though. Keep it up!
@Engineer Man Great job. I wish I knew how to do what you did. I’m so sick of seeing scam emails. I get at least 4 scam emails every day.
not the hero we deserved but the hero we needed
this inspires me to not let scammers get away with this shit and taking advantage of people who don't know its a scam
Engineer Man (3:25): "It's highly probable that every time I click that 'Order Now' button, it's charging him about 5 cents."
Engineer Man (6:48): "The transaction IDs are like 20,000 higher than they were before."
Me: *Looks up $0.05 x 20,000*
Scammer: *Loses $1,000 in less than 30 seconds*
damn
I feel thats it important to point out that the transaction ids aren't going up by 1 each time.
@@deadly_golem Fair, but he's running 50 requests every ~2 seconds which is 1500 requests a minute, which is around $4500 an hour at 5 cents a transaction. Granted its not nearly as much, but thats still a lot to have draining out of your bank account.
most prabable he's not using his own credit card and maybe some stolen cards..
@@NOOB-nz9kc he's using a test card number that's used in ecommerce to troubleshoot payment platforms, did you watch the video before commenting? lmao
Brilliant job my friend thank you for scamming the scammers
so simple yet so devious, this was just delightful to watch
This is phenomenal on so many levels but the threading part has helped me solve an issue with another script I've been making. Keep up the amazing work!
Dude, you rock! If I were you, I would've let that program run for the weekend. You should set up a group of fellow programmers and just screw with scammers. You Are A LEGEND.
nah they should just invite other programmers to run this on their spare computers
😂
Agreed, Antonion G!
@@doqe You can pay for an AWS server and run it on amazon's computers instead for like a dollar a day.
@@LouSipher why not just use it on some hold hardware. Or better yet, put it on an IOT device in the house that's on all the time anyways lmao
I had to implement a multithreaded python algorithm for something in my research and I had been procrastinating learning it for a while. Didn't expect to learn it here. Thank you very much
3:28 I busted out laughing because I knew where you were going with this 😂 you had that smirk on your face too.
That was straight savage. Hit 'em where it hurts. I am glad to see someone with the abilities you have take on criminals like this. Keep doing what you do.
me who literally goed to a another scam site than executed this command took the entire server down and cuz of curiosity literally did a mass ddos attack and cuz of that the entire network got shutdown for 7 hours...... me after doing that "LETS HAVE SOME FUN ON THESE GUYS BABY"
Plot twist; the scammers are forwarding requests to a real company’s payment gateway, not using their own. I’ve seen this often. Validate CC cards against a legit companies’s payment process, then take the successes and use (or sell) those at a later date for fraud.
Exactly, scammers aren't known for being on the up an up now are they?
This is exactly right. Scammers aren't going to pay to validate cards.
Yep. I created a donations form or a charity. After a few days, I realized I needed a captcha because I was getting a lot of scammer requests trying out different cards.
either way, someone is going to notice the increase in declines and be unhappy about it.
Credit card numbers are built up following a specific pattern so you don't need to try and fail. You can use the PYthon package faker to generate as many valid credit card numbers as you like, you can even specify which cc providers you want to use.
Awesome job man, keep up the good work
The fact he is so calm is just amazing
That was excellent! Both educational on programming (practical application) and how the credit card system works (at least within the confines of this video). Great stuff.
Finally I understand usage of threads in casual programming!, thank you sir.
Awesome! What a fun example of threading and requests!
seeing how effortlessly this man added the quotes and commas and all of that to data
Would love to know how much the scammers were slugged by the credit card declines. If it’s Five cents per decline then at let’s say 50 declines per second, that’s $2.50 per second or $150 per minute or $9,000 per hour. Nice.
Anyone need to copy that code and just let it run for years on a Nokia xD
@@rivalun7696 they shuted down the site for sure
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@@rivalun7696 Old good 3310 :D
@@tigriukasinlove Everyone had one. My's laying somewhere arround for shure with 80%+ Battery
Me at the start: I don't understand how it will punish...
Me at the end: I don't understand how it works, but i know that it's incredible...
Ahaha yes definitely .... How we can say ... Give one fake card, post a request with multithreading and that's it. Incredible 45000 visualization ... I don't understand what I wrote but looks fair enough
It is kind of a DOS attack you can say. Sending thousands of request in a very small amount of time can make their server go crazy and even crash. It is a pretty neat punishment. If engineering man did that with multiple server to send crazy response he can take down their whole system(this doesn't mean he has access to the system data)
Me at the end: I also don't know how you just did that...but I also want to know why you stopped? haha
@@elwinjyothis5388 there is a small cost whenever a credit card is declined so every time he sends a request the scammers are charged a tiny bit of money. But since he sent tons of request that tiny bit of money built up to a significant amount. Someone in the comments estimated $2200.
@@BoredAtWork2000 there is a small cost whenever a credit card is declined so every time he sends a request the scammers are charged a tiny bit of money. But since he sent tons of request that tiny bit of money built up to a significant amount. Someone in the comments estimated $2200.
you are a true hero man .. Kudos Sir
why did i never see this channel before THIS IS GENIUS!!