This is the first Bulletin in an occasional series identifying and highlighting the fraud typology taking place on the Dark Web
Key points and developments:
- There were roughly 14,000 adverts for fraud related items available in June 2020.
- The three main markets identified for selling fraud items were ‘Empire’, ‘White House Market’ and ‘Dark Market’.
- Compromised accounts make up for the most advertised fraud item with roughly 4,000 adverts, followed by fraud tutorials (2,200 adverts) and stolen personal information (2,000 adverts)
- As always, the price of credit cards and personal information varied greatly depending on a wide variety of factors.
- A new market aggregation dark net site named ‘Recon’ has allowed for easier searching across a number of markets.
Item | Average Price Across Markets |
Credit Card/Bank Account | £16 |
Fraud Tutorial | £48 |
Personal Information/Documents | £10 |
![](https://pdacounterfraud.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Investigating-Fraud-on-the-Dark-Web-Bulletin-June-2020-graphs.png)
Example – Dark Web Market Adverts from June 2020
![](https://pdacounterfraud.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/ex-1.jpg)
An advert for full information (known as ‘fullz’) on a UK citizen – a list of the type of information available can be seen on the left. This is often used to open new accounts or try to break into existing ones.
![](https://pdacounterfraud.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/ex-2.jpg)
An advert for passport scans and high quality utility bills. These are often used by fraudsters for online verification/KYC.
![](https://pdacounterfraud.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/ex-3.jpg)
An advert for custom scans of documents – the customer can request what documents they want and the seller will try to fulfil the order as closely as possible (for instance, ‘driving license of a UK male’). There have already been 708 sales of this product.
![](https://pdacounterfraud.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/ex-4.jpg)
An advert for full UK information on a UK citizen, along with their credit score. This assists fraudsters in applying for loans and credit cards, and the examples given by the seller have a relatively high credit score backed with a great deal of information.