Interview with a Top Alphabay Accounts Phisher

Ok who are you and what do you do? (online persona of course)

Hello I am Phishkingz, and I dominate the phishing scene on the darkweb. I will provide a PGP sig.

What makes you think you dominate the darkweb? I see SO many phishers with different methods?

The volume of accounts I have had since operating on Alphabay is obscene. I have made over $1M in the last year phishing just Alphabay.
I am a well-known vendor but I don’t want to link my vendor name. However my phishing link is well known and I will provide it now.

What is your method? Cloner? Fake logins? Etc?

My main method is cloning. I am able to obtain the login details syncing, and the mnemonic phrases, as well as any PGP private key and password and pin code.

But are you an Onion cloner? Is it on the fly and you change the deposit address?

No, I used garlic software to clone the onion links, and tumblers and to mix the BTCs.

I have a trade volume on local bitcoins of about 500 BTC in total. This is all on an account I created 1 year and 2 months ago. Everything is stolen BTC from phishing and I have a cryptopay.me account that has had over 400,000£ worth in BTC over the last 6 months. Phishing is very profitable on the darkeweb.

How do you get traffic to your links?

I started on the forum. You see, there was a glitch that allowed me to see new members the second they joined… so I would then send them to my link with a verification process. They would see my made up fake verification page. I would use a bb code message like this:

This info is quite hilarious.

Indeed it is. Sometimes I would have to laugh at myself with the massive amounts of bitcoins that these people would throw at me, and us phishers out there.

How did you know when someone made a deposit? And how did you withdraw it fast enough?

I would save a bookmark using blockchain.info/address/hhhhh and then I would highlight 50 at a time every 20 minutes checking for deposits.

You took it out manually or with some auto script?

I used a bot for cashing out but it took weekly maintenance to keep up with the updates on the bay. The admins were very good at closing loopholes and updating captchas etc.

So all these “I made a deposit and good kicked out claims,” was this you the whole time?

All of them. Sometimes I would go to the forum on big hits in order to take the credit. I hated the admins and mods getting the credit for my work. At one point I had 27 people working for me running phishers without knowing I could view the account all the time via my own link.

And now after AB is gone?

Since the downing of the bay I have moved to Dream Market and already made 4 BTC since yesterday launching the new site. With the migration many of my old accounts now work on Dream. I have had a few active vendors.

Did you have any communications with any admins to try to arrange to stop? Or any admin tried to attack you in some way? Like DdoS your phishing sites?

Yes, but to no avail. The admins didn’t really care about their customers, and it only took opening a support ticket with a problem to learn this. BM (Big Muscles – an Alphabay moderator) especially is a stupid one. He would let me into accounts for 50% if I provided mnemonic phrase knowing I had phished the account in the first place.

Don’t you feel bad in some way for stealing simple people’s money?

I do feel bad but I also feel like I am teaching them a lesson they need to learn in places like these. They should be happy I’m a phisher and not a fed.

Lol what a shit show it was over there.

Tell me about it but I dearly loved it. There will never be a market quite like Alphabay, so damaged but so good… I shed a tear when I realized it was gone for good. I never phished anywhere else only AB.

Time will tell. Do you also phish for our users or any other onion / clearnet site beside markets?

No, I only ever phished Alphabay until I migrated to Dream yesterday accepting AB is gone.

What made you want to be so revealing now?

I’m not so sure. I just saw the opportunity for an interview and went for it, also I really like deepdotweb. It has been a part of my life for years. It always has great articles and to be one of them would be an honor.

Thanks! I must say it is refreshing for me as well to do an interview about something different which is not another vendor looking for a free ad.

Phishing can be rather funny. Some of the things that I have seen in those professions you would not believe. Some people are really dumb and should not be on the darkweb at all. That’s just ridiculous if you ever have any vendor posting up info. I wouldn’t mind taking them of your hands.

Yes, as experienced comment moderator on this site I can testify about the horrible things I encountered like people posting their addresses and credit card numbers.

Anything else you want to add?

No, but thanks. I think that will do it 🙂 It was a pleasure talking with you, and I need to get some sleep now. PhishKingz, keep your bitcoins safe and don’t click randomly or your coins are mine!

Alphabay is now gone  –  Choose a new market here!