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

Why HN readers recommended it

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

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

DEFCONConference

Topic

reshipping fraud

Format

talk

Level

general

HN recommenders in dataset

4

HN mentions in dataset

7

Recommendation years in dataset

2020–2025

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From the original HN conversations

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• Here's a tangentially related def con about the strange economics of that whole scam. Basically, everyone in the chain apart from the cardholder benefits. [VIDEO]

• 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 …

• 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 …