All Day I Dream about Redacted

How a bug bounty break caught an NFT scam which uncovered major credit card fraud

By Dominic Alvieri

@AlvieriD

May 22, 2022

Counterfeiting and credit card scams have been around since the products themselves. This isn't new. Distributions of the said scams are becoming more and more creative.

The scam gates have opened.

{Cover photo courtesy of scam site /rockport-france.fr 165.231.200.159 in Estonia}

One thing leads to another

Finishing a technical report on a bug bounty I decided to search related cryptocurrency and NFT projects which were recently announced looking for bad actors whom often target new projects. Adidas, Hyundai and a soon to be named company were all being targeting.  Confirmations. 

This is the most recent Adidas court order victory.

Adidas was first alphabetically and had several NFT and crypto related spoofs being represented by several actors in various countries show up on the first queries. NFT minting wallet drain spoofs and the usual giveaway scams showed immediately. 

Several related scams including /adidas-mint.com,  /drop-adidas.com and /drops-adidas.com were reported and closed along with half a dozen others. Another set of names caught my eye so I drilled down deeper.

 

Counterfeits and credit card fraud all over the world

Adidas-CostaRica caught my eye due to the current Conti ransomware situation in Costa Rica now. Uruguay, Ecuador, France, Malaysia and nearly apanning the globe.

/adidas-uae.com

/adidas-peru.com

/adidas-ecudor.com

/adidas-slovenija.com

/adidas-uruguay.com...

more and more variations showed up on related searches:

/AdidasColumbiaOutlet.com

/AdidasShoes-UK.com

/AdidasShoes-Canada.com...

Most of the domains in question lead to one ip address and Alibaba registered. Counterfeiting products and credit card theft alerts have been issued for these fake domains which are not official Adidas promotions. Reebok, Rockport, Nike and several other major brands have been targeted with these fake spoof websites. Outlets, sales and discounted prices are the major lures and no sneakers have been delivered to any friends who have attempted to sign up and purchase.

The Cyber Show

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Black Lives Matter campaign at Amazon.

 Amazon Corporate Hiring Policy

Black Lives do Matter, All Lives Do, with or without a felony.

By Dominic Alvieri, @AlvieriD

Black Lives Matter campaigns have been everywhere this year.
What exactly does that mean?

Amazon ran a great Black Lives Matter campaign earlier in the year. Or so we thought.

Upon further investigation it turns out that only certain lives matter, not all when it comes to corporate hiring policies.

Amazon is not alone.

How can a campaign matter if it excludes a huge portion of the population?

The largest incarcerated population in the World also has the largest felon population outside of prison seeking gainful employment. Amazon is always touting jobs but will never hire a felon.

The Cyber Show blog on Blogger, by Google.

The campaign began showing the true colors with the announcement of the Bezos Academy for underserved children. Amazon will never hire anyone who has made a mistake in the past. All lives matter but only to a point with certain companies.

What about their children?

Can the child of a felon attend the Bezos Academy Amazon?

What about working for Amazon? That is a no. Corporate policy, sorry.

Please buy from us, we support black lives. What?

CNN Report of the new Bezos Academy.

With the largest incarcerated population in the World, The United States also has the largest population of released felons back into society. Amazon is constantly touting jobs and new warehouses, but the truth is they will not hire a Black, White or any color felon. Sorry, doesn't matter how long ago the crime was or even what happened. Amazon does not care what or when it was.

But you can still buy from us!

We have a policy.

Does having a policy make it right?

Amazon has a strict corporate policy.

There is a new Bezos Academy preschool, tuition free for underserved communities.

Can all black children attend, even if their mother or father has a felony record?

As of press time, Amazon has not returned a request for comment.

Corporate hiring policy is very clear...

Amazon will never hire a person with a felony record. Period.

Where can the largest incarcerated population work?

The jobs ordeal is continuing with politicians and wall street pushing below living wage jobs and Amazon will not even hire you. So where can they work?

The frame here is that 25 years ago you could have made a mistake and you paid your debts.

Or so you thought.

What ever happened to paying your debt to society? Amazon carries that debt forever.

Many companies and people do. 

What illegal thing have you done now? Prior felon.

What illegal things have you done in 25 years? 

Now people can do horrible things for 25 years and we elect them president.

The last three lines should make the point clear. 

Dominic Alvieri, @AlvieriD

Analyst, Researcher and Tracker.