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Nina Kollars - Confessions of an Nespresso Money Mule - DEF CON 27 Conference

DEFCONConference · 596.9K views · 2019-11-16 · 19:55

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Overview

At DEF CON 27, Nina Kollars tells how buying Nespresso capsules on eBay led her to investigate fraudsters reselling goods bought with stolen credit cards. She describes her non-technical tracking and reporting efforts.

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HN points to it as an entertaining and informative explanation of the economics of reshipping and stolen-card resale scams.

Recommended by 4 HN people across 4 months · HN mentions 2020–2025

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h3xadecima1 · 2025-01 · Recommendation

Nina Kollars gave an interesting talk on scammers selling coffee through eBay using stolen credit cards. Signature way of knowing is they're shipped direct from nespresso and the purchase price is 40-50% cheaper than retail. I ordered some keurig pods and experienced the same direct shipping and cheap prices. [VIDEO]

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clutchdude · 2023-11 · Recommendation

In addition to the other commenters, here's an excellent defcon talk on what these some groups do: Nina Kollars - Confessions of an Nespresso Money Mule - DEF CON 27 Conference [VIDEO] Essentially, they wait for a buyer of a product to come along to a listing and order it - they'll then buy it using stolen credentials, have it drop-shipped or reshipped to the end user. Everyone but the person with the original card comes out ahead, which is then pushed to all of us via higher fees if they notice and report the fraud.

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Mountain_Skies · 2020-09 · Recommendation

Nina Kollars had a nice related talk during Defcon on a similar scam buying what she thought was gray market Nespresso pods whose "seller" bought for her using a stolen credit card. They also gave her a free Nespresso machine, presumably to give her motive to keep quiet. [VIDEO]

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