Go Tell That Spammer, The Scammer, The Crypto Jacker. Tell'em That God's Gonna Cut'em Down.

I HATE spammers, scammers, and just anything evil that tries to capitalize on the regular user, and for the most part I haven't really had any run ins with them, but them bastards are getting crafty and crossed paths with me so I thought I would share the tactics I observed and some of their junk. 

I will start with a Facebook/Zelle scan that was tried against my wife. So Cmoney was posting stuff on FB to sell, she was asking around $200 for the item and she got a hit that same night at around 4AM. He wanted to pay and come get it ASAP, but said he wanted to use Zelle to buy it then come get it later that day. as he was at work. We didn't use Zelle so we asked if he could use any other service, which he said no and said he will pass. Well Cmoney wanted to sell this thing so we got a Zelle account to accommodate this guy. We gave him our Zelle info to send money, which he then says he sent the payment, but nothing showed up on our end, then an email came saying this BS:

For your account to be credited fully with the sum of $230.00 USD You are required to send the sum of 

$100.00 USD (FIRST) to the buyer’s Zelle information for your buyer’s safety

We of course were all, yeah f that. Thats when I took a deeper look at the email from "Zelle" and noticed the from address was zellepay.customerservices024975@gmail.com which is obviously not a Zelle email, but you dont see that URL until  you go into header details, just a hover over the form/to area in gmail shows the below:

So the email is so long that google cuts off the TLD and all you see is the zelle portion. Here is a look at the expanded headers view:

So here there are some clues to its fakeness as you can see the gmail domain. However note the red box, GOOGLE SAYS IT'S AN IMPORTANT EMAIL!!! This is crazy and adds to its legitimacy.

Well we figure WTH and played along, but tell him we cant send the 100 bucks first. He then says he will pay it as long as we pay it back. We say sure we will pay it back no problem. We then get an email saying Zelle got it and all is good, he thought we would just send the 100 right away, but nah lol. We told him as soon as he sends the money for the item we will send his money back. We never heard back lol. I guess they don't like going off script. Maybe next time :) 

Enjoy the 1's and 0's.