Fraud can become an expensive hobby really quick
And I assure you, you will burn through some money before actually making some money
For you to experiment left and right, you need to have some kind of cash flow
Below, I’ve brainstormed a bunch of ways you could make money without spending any money
Of course, you can contribute to the list by commenting down below some creative ways you think will work,
or methods that you’ve used that required less than $10 upfront investment, or no investment at all
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Probably one of the easiest ways to get into scamming
Refund scamming is where you refund a product you’ve already received
It works well on corporations that are usually big, such as: Amazon, BestBuy, and more
Refund scamming involves you actually buying the product with your own funds,
so if you don’t have any money, this isn’t for you
It is the easiest thing to do, because you barely do the work yourself
There are professional people who offer refund services,
which refund products from major brands such as Amazon and others
They have a special way they contact the company, which then results in them refunding you
Their cut is usually 10-30% from the product price, which means you get
1. A full refund (minus the 10-30%)
2. The product you purchased
Then, you just resell the product on secondhand marketplaces for profit
After that, you repeat the process over and over
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You need 3 things
– A product/service known to be in demand
– Leads (The potentially decent/proper target audience) on real social platforms (Facebook, Instagram, Reddit, Discord Servers, wherever else you are targeting)
– Knowing how to attract that target audience (traffic) so they know you exist. That’s done either by organic traffic or paid traffic (meaning you pay to be advertised somewhere)
If competition exists in the spheres you’re targeting, you have 2 options:
– Stand out by giving customers a reason to buy from you instead of
other known competition
– Move to a less saturated social platform/channel/whatever
You can target social platforms such as
Discord / Snapchat / Instagram / Telegram, any social platform really
You could resell fraud services / drugs / other hot items
The important thing here is the target audience,
because there is no money without customers
Learn about organic traffic or unusual organic traffic reach out methods
People want to spend their money, demand is everywhere
Let me give you a vile example of unusual marketing places
There’s always some hot e-girls on Telegram com chats just existing on chats
and talking to guys all day
Just by them existing, natural curiosity comes from people to click on their profile,
which then leads them to her channel where she has freebie nudes and videos that are paid,
and also could have some extra custom services.
That natural curiosity is really a type of organic marketing, they are NOT paying for ads.
You think they won’t find some weirdo lonely loser on Telegram who
got some money from fraud to pay them for some fansigns, nudes or videos?
They’re smart, playing their cards in the right place
And you will also think of a way to make it work on any platform, just be creative
The world is your oyster
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When I wanted to get an extra buck, I used to offer a photoshop service on telegram
because I am excellent on photoshop, and offered to edit/create documents and etc
So, at first I offered to work for free, in return I’d get a
review/vouch by a real person in my telegram channel
That way my name could build some rep
Then I’d start charging small amounts
Then I started gaining traction and demand, started getting DMs, and you get the point
I don’t do it anymore, but you can see, this is infinitely scalable
So, working for free at first is a good way to start building your rep
But if it hasn’t become clear from above, being good at something is 50% of the job
If you have no clients, or clients don’t know you exist,
how are you supposed to get money? That’s why you have to build up your name at first
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Stuff like E-whoring, sextortion, becoming a caller, etc
And much more other creative social engineering ways to earn some $$$
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For e-whoring, I haven’t done it much, but I know it’s a bit saturated, so you need to do it on unusual platforms
where there isn’t a lot of competition and victims are not hip to it
I know there are e-whoring guides and picture packs you can find on forums like Cracked, so you can check out
what’s going on there
I will include a good e-whoring guide if I find one or if any of you guys submit a solid one as well, I will list it,
as you know, this subdread is contribution-driven.
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For sextortion, here’s what you could do
First, sextortion works on people who care about their reputation and fold easily under pressure,
do whatever you want with this information.
Now for the steps
Pick your targets on social media platforms (FB, Snapchat, etc)
First, get a clear picture of their face, then find a nude picture on Reddit or anywhere else that looks similar to them
The picture has to look like it’s been “leaked”, so look for something that looks like it’s been taken from a phone,
not a professional looking pic from a DSLR camera
After that, feed the clear face picture and the nude picture to a faceswap deepfake (it’s super realistic nowadays)
Same goes if you want to make a deepfake video (it’s realistic, but might require post-editing if face is not consistently in frame)
Now, find a porn video with a target that looks similar to the victim, and preferably yet again
find a video which looks like it’s been “leaked”, nothing professional, just a phone video
Amateur porn categories usually have those vertical 9:16 phone videos.
You can find good videos deep within the rabbit hole at redgifs.com, coomer.st (onlyfans leaks), fikfap, reddit, etc. This also goes if you want to e-whore, but for e-whoring for it to be more believable you need to find a 6/10 or 7/10 girl, not a 10/10 which looks super hot and etc.
A now old but decent deepfake app is “rope-live”, it’s truly very powerful and looks realistic when configured right (and it’s 100% free and open-source)
To find other decent free deepfake softwares, you can search on YouTube, Reddit, within Discord AI communities,
open-source options also exist inside huggingface, github, and etc, or you can ask AIs such as Grok to do extensive research
and find the best one by asking him to check each app and how people feel about it on forums or etc
Open-source options are good,you can run them on your PC, but they require a decent GPU
So for them, you can either rent a VPS with a GPU and run it there, or pay for software such as ZeroGPU
If you really have 0 dollars, try to stick to free trials on sites/discord servers/telegram bots/etc
For the video, if post-editing is required, the most you should do is basically have the original video and the deepfake video on top of one another
Then, locate exactly the problematic deepfake regions, usually appears when the victim’s face is barely visible, resulting in the deepfake showing artifacts,
that’s where you should start cross-fading to the original, so you can remove those artifacts, then when the artifacts are gone, quickly cross-fade to the deepfake video again
After you do all that:
Upload the fake pic/vid to reddit or some porn site,
or upload the half-nude pics to a fake insta profile or etc
(or anything else creative your brain can think of)
**If you post on social media, it’s bonus points if you buy fake likes through a SMM panel to make it seem real**
Then preferably with an aged account, you can DM the victim something like
“yo ur nude is on <site/profile>, you want to see it”
“i saw your nudes at <site/profile, is that really you”
“are you the girl/guy i saw on reddit?”
Or you could start the convo totally normal, so when they accept you, you can instantly switch the topic
The point is to message them a “hook” type of message, which gets them to reply to you,
which allows you to then send them the “evidence”.
Above, I mentioned that you need an aged account, because fresh accounts often get put inside a “spam” folder
when you try to DM the victim (unless you get them to accept your friend request or for them to follow you too)
Avoid sending links/pics/vids as the first thing in the DMs, that also sometimes gets you in the spam folder
If you got them to reply, good. Now you start negotiating, offering to take the nude down, or threatening them that you’ll spread the pics/vids
to their job colleagues, friends, public places or anything else you think will have a reputation impact on them,
so they are more likely to fold under pressure and give you the money as quickly as possible
Of course, pre-posting a nude is really immoral and cruel (because even if there is like a 1-2% chance of it happening,
it can actually go viral, and it can pre-ruin someone’s reputation), but it has the highest % success rate for you.
So, if you want to do it in a more moral way, think of a way to threaten them that you will post the pics/vids, but never post them in reality
One of the ways you could do that is to take a screenshot of an already popular nude, then photoshop their photo on top of the photo on the Reddit, then send that to the victim
Although doing it this way could result in a slightly bigger chance of them just alerting everyone that there is an AI video going around of them and not giving you shit, but let’s be honest, no one fact-checks a fucking screenshot, they believe everything, and they will most likely get worried if they see that there is a famous post of someone with their face as a nude
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For callers, get a script or make one up, get a free or pirated voicechanger, record your voice and practice, then analyze yourself
You also need to get good at improv and thinking of shit on the spot
Get good at it, then start working for yourself or someone else
If you have an improper accent, calling may or may not work for you, but don’t let that demotivate you,
because some people need callers that don’t need proper accent
Working for others for % or for free at first to build your name is fine,
don’t let them bitch you around though.
Just like with organic traffic, you need to be at the right places
and hunt for a job, offer yourself, be in chats, forums, have a channel with example of your work,
etc
Also, social engineering is a buzzword term for persuading
You’re subconsciously socially engineered often, by watching ads, reviews, etc
Which persuade you into TAKING ACTION.
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If you barely have money to spend on fraud resources
Look around you and think about what you don’t need anymore and resell it on Facebook Marketplace or etc
But keep in mind, this is just so you can cover your basic expenses, like a VPN, Telegram account, and maybe some cheap logs or resources here and there
You shouldn’t spend your last pennies on fraud resources that you don’t even know if you are going to make back or double.
But if you think it’s a good investment, go for it.
As for reselling, there’s lots of people who resell replicas of famous products such as watches, airpods, shoes, and other demanded products that sell quickly. They get them from CNFans, pandabuy, alibaba (with secret keywords) or other chinese sites that secretly allow you to buy replicas. You can find more about where to find replicas on Reddit. However the replica reselling area is very saturated, so you need to find a target audience outside of facebook marketplace and other third-party selling websites, otherwise your post will be buried under the 100 other pages from people that sell replicas on them.

