The Fraudster Glossary
The purpose of The Fraudster Glossary (TFG) is to encourage more cybercrime researchers and law enforcement officers to go on offense against the criminals who use social media and messaging platforms such as Telegram, Instagram, Tik Tok, Discord, and Facebook to facilitate their activities.
We can’t stop what they’re doing unless we understand what they’re saying.
The leader of this project is Eric Huber. He can be followed and contacted through his LinkedIn profile.
The Fraudster Glossary © 2023-2025 is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.
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| Term/Phrase | Description | Actual Fraudster Usage | Commentary |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3PT | Three-peat | "Just Popped Again Off The Same September Grub 🚨🚨 3PT" | Basically, it's when a fraudster does three successful frauds on the same account such as depositing and depleting three fraudulent checks. |
| 508 | Autel - MaxiIM IM508S. Vehicle smart key programming device and more. | "can version V.1.70 gm of 508 get GM/chevrolet ?" "can 508 grab C8's" | |
| 911 | 911 S5 Residential Proxy Service | "connect your 911 or VPN to your client state" | |
| AA | USAA Bank | "Navy & Aa instant . Let's collab" | |
| Acc, Ac | Account | "Any Spotify premium accs bulk sellers?" "I drop 10 mins within the acc being opened" "How long should I wait after linking a phoned to a bank acc" | |
| Acorns | Acorn investment app. (Acorns Grow Incorporated) | "Anyone can do acorns ? OTP Swapped with me. Email Access" | |
| Actavis | Promethazine hydrochloride made by Actavis Generics | "this shit was good me and the boys we might need another Wock and actavis tomorrow" | See: Drank |
| Addy | Address | "Deliver card yo your addy" "Throw addy into google maps. Not found gang" | |
| afk | away from keyboard | "AFK TIL FURTHER NOTICE" | |
| Age filter | Screening for a particular age range | "Premium calls~Age filter 55+" "Age filter quality calls available ✅" "Age Filter 50+" | Commonly seen when fraudster call centers are advertising their services. |
| AHT | Average Handle Time | "POPUP ( aht 30 min plus )" "Banking / Login BSOD Premium Calls started , AHT 25+" | THis is how long someone is on the phone with a call center. The context is generally a call center offering fraud services that is advertising its metrics for potential customers. |
| AI Model | In the context of pig buthering type scams, this is a person who uses AI face changing technology to become a persona used to trick victims into thinking they are talking with a real person. | "Good morning sir/madam, I would like to apply for Model Real Face & Model AI" | |
| Akorn | Promethazine hydrochloride made by Akorn Inc | "Now that’s what I call drank the strength on these is insanee! A few other big label brands are also available including! Tris Akorn Actavis Hi Tech Quagen Walgreens" | See: Drank |
| All CU | All credit unions | "USAA AND ALL CU PM ME RN📲FOR INSTANT BREAD🤑💵" "All cu let’s get locked in for $10k Ach" | |
| an/rn | Account Number / Routing Number | Log in - Email Access - Wire - Carrier [ Spectrum ] Checks - Ach - State IL - Zelle - DOB 72 - SSN - An/Rn - RDP Access 🌟 | |
| Ammy | Amazon or Amazon account | "Aged ammy kick em" | |
| AP | Audemars Piguet. A popular watch brand with fraudsters. | "Following your footsteps.Was confused on which one to buy .Either the AP or Rolex so I bought both" | |
| Apay | Apple Pay | "What methods hitting with apay" | |
| Arp | AR Pistol | "them mini arps can go from 3" to 12" like some of them mfers smaller than keltecs" | |
| Arrow Key, USPS Key, Key | US Postal Service key to open mailboxes | "USPS Key 🔑 is available AKA Arrow Key dm if you need if Especially those who needs Checks cause it’s easier to get them in Mailbox 📪 using this master ke" | |
| asl | As Hell | "I was doing citizen and chase before but ngl this PayPal wave is smooth asl,this bitch got me hitting crazy figures" | |
| Attachment, attachments | Adding another authorized signer to an account | "Chevy w/ the head Spanish or White for attachment In Central Florida 🍞" | |
| Avb | Available | "A/N R/N avb for all accts ✅" "More ccs avb for bulk buyers" | There might be other more specific uses of this such as when talking about cards where the context that I see seems to be relating to available balances such as when a fraudster is offering up an ATO that includes card accounts. |
| Bag | Money. It can also be closer to "making money" depending on the context | "Interested Hola @ Me Let’s Make Some Bags" "Ladies and and gentleman I am doing some 100% legit cash app and PayPal transfer on here if you interested let tryna make some bags." "Let's bag heavily...." | |
| Back End, Backend, Bac End, BACKENDZ, etc | Receiving the proceeds from succesful fraud | "Who can cook slip ill pay u on the back end" | |
| Ball | Thousand. | "Did a 20 ball on rbfcu ain't get a chance to screenshot but here go wipe" | Context is king on this one. This is when the word ball is being used as a substitute for thousand when a fraudster is talking about a transaction, check, etc. |
| Band, Bands | One thousand dollars | "If you’re from Canada, you tryna make some bands real quick, TAP IN let’s get real💰" "Just made him 2,750.50$ off Cash app Debit Easy free bands off this new cashapp wave 🌊" | The context is a stack of $100 bills that make up $1,000 dollars |
| Banklog, Bank Log | An online banking profile | "Once you log into the banklog, on the navigation bar on the website of the banklog you bought you will see payment on dashboard" "List of bank log available" | |
| Beam | Laser | "Glock 29gen5 Comes with a beam clean" | |
| Beamed | Scammed | "by beamed i mean scammed" "[name redacted] is poor on tele he beamed my friend 3k for the @ lol" "right now if you send anyone an electronic bank transfer on telegram you’re getting beamed 9 times out of 10" | |
| BEC | Business Email Compromise | "Need biz wells for bec wire payment ASAPP !!!" "Taking bec classes business email compromise with spamming lessons dm for more info" | |
| Biti | Citibank | "I gotta Biti, Business Regions & OA" | |
| Bill=Ship | Card fraud related term meaning that the shipping address and billing address match. | "BILL=SHIP = means - The CC Billing Address should be the 'Exact Same' as the Shipping Address 100%." | |
| Bill Pay | Using a bank's bill pay feature to deplete funds from a compromised account | "Log Into your bank and "Clock on bill Pay" .make sure you bet a bill pay log tell the spammer you want a bill pay log" | Bank Bill pay functions can work using electronic rails or they will result in a check being issued. I've seen tutorials posted that expressly say that the end goal is getting a check issued for the depletion, however. |
| Billing | West African Romance Scammer Context: Extracting funds from a victim | "sharp daughter billing format" "Billing Format For Ur Dating CL" | |
| Biz | Business | "10 biz chase with piece" | The fraudster has ten business accounts with debit cards available. |
| Bizzy | Business | "Popular bank bizzy 🌊" | |
| Bin | Bank Identifier Number. The initial numbers on a card that identifies the financial institution | "APPLE 🍎 PAY BIN+ CC AVAILABLE WITH METHOD FOR CLICKING APPLE 🍎 AUTO ADD BIN+CC AVAILABLE 👌" "Account numbers fresh fullz and bins tap in" | |
| Bin Skipper | "BIN skippers are specific BINs (bug BINs) that skips the 3D Secure/Verified by Visa for purchases up to or below a certain amount, typically $30 or less. Fraudsters often offer these as giveaways or included in the "package" - Stephen Domingo | "JD BIN SKIPPER + METHOD + FULLZ AVAILABLE 🔥 " "Bin Skipper And Method To Guide You On How To Use It. £200" | |
| Biz, Bizzo | Business | "offy biz going on pnc?" "If you have navy fed 3month + for M2M pm now 15k transfer ❤️ only ask for 40% . Good biz only" "I've got a 7. Year oa and a 7 month bizzo chase 3 year navy 6 year chase" | |
| Blick | Pistol, Firearm, etc | "I just got my blick, dmmm still cant believe this pa, I'ma order that golden Draco on my next paycheck" | |
| Bmo | Bank of Montreal aka BMO Bank | "Got a clean bmo drop 5k withdrawal limit who can load pm" | Sometimes referred to as BMO Harris |
| Bip | Steal | "anyone know how to bip a 2000-05 Yuhkon or Tahoe" | |
| Boa | Bank of America | "huntington i would use boa grub" | |
| BO4 | Bank of America | "BO4 -Balance: $84,800" | |
| BOM | Bank of Maharashtra | "🧚BOM (Bank of Maharashtra)+MQR" | |
| Bombing | West African Romance Scammer Context: Sending out mass messages to attempt to get victims to engage with the criminal | "BOMB THESE PAGE FOR BLACK AMERICAN 🇺🇸 CLIENT 🍷" | |
| Box | 1. ATM 2. Box of goods (such as checks, debit cards, etc) sent to another fraudster 3. Mailboxes 4. Steal mail out of a mailbox | "Difference between teller drop chev or box drop chev ?" "Should I mobile or box PNC" "To those who wanna buy new USPS Key, Only Legit and Real customers tappin in 🤞🤞 Lets box some mail" | A pretty broadly used term that can mean many things |
| Bra | Synonymous with "Bro", "Brother", etc | "Appreciate you bra" "Real [redacted] ⚡️ Bra If Dis Truist Slip Do Wat I Need It To Do Ima Pay $2K For Da Private Chat" | |
| Brazy | Crazy | "I been going brazy with ya glass 🔥🔥" | |
| Bread | Money | "Anyone trying to make some quick bread hmu" | |
| Breesh | Money | "pm me fam lets make breesh" | |
| Brodie | Synonymous with "Bro", "Brother", etc | "U the goat brodie" "On brodie I can tell you put love into this shit" "thanks brodie went through!! can i re use the card??? lmk" | |
| Brody | Synonymous with "Bro", "Brother", etc | "Thanks Brody" | |
| Bruh | Synonymous with "Bro", "Brother", etc | "Just check it bruh the linkable card you gave me this morning I just finished linked it and it linked 100% vouched bruh let’s get it. I appreciate u" | |
| B/S/T | Buy/Sell/Trade | "KC CHAT B/S/T🔌🏚️💰" | |
| Bsod | Blue Screen of Death | "We highly work on bsod calls pop up calls" | A BSoD occurs when the Windows operating system experiences a serious error so you'll see this in the context of tech support fraud. |
| Bucked | Stolen from, ripped off, etc. | "cause i been getting bucked left to right. [edited] buckin me for 20$ on some poor shit lol" "[Telegram profile] a ripper [edited] bucked me for open up BAD BUSINESS" "😭😭 man this tele shit be a gamble dawg I done got bucked a few time to shit is all a risk" | |
| Bulletproof hosting | A technology hosting service that don't much care what is done with their service and will generally not cooperate with legal authorities. | "BULLETPROOF HOSTING THAT IGNORES ALL TAKEDOWN NOTICES" "Bulletproof cPanel for secure and continuous hosting." | |
| Bundles | Two or more checks offered for sale | "6300 + 1400 First Repub Bundle" "Bundle 12k 12k 900 ( $550 )" "Oa bundles" | |
| Burner | Non-attributable A very common use is with "burner phones" which are phones that the fraudsters don't think can be traced to them that they use for fraud, but it can be used in other contexts like apps that can't be traced to them. | "dumb question... if my burner phone won't let add a plan is my shiii burned ??" "who can make me a burner cash app" | |
| Button | Glock Switch | "Glock button and cash?? Or 2 Glocks or best offer lmk dm me (doesn’t come with 60 clip)" | So far I've only seen the term apply to glock switches, but I have seen criminals demonstrate other types of pistols fire fully automatic such as smith and wesson striker fired pistols. |
| BTC | Bitcoin | "whos donig btc to apay" | |
| Cap, Caps, Cap one | Capital One | "5600 Cap One" "CAP ONE 1,000 LIMIT," "5 Caps slots" | There are many different usages of the word "cap". This is just specific to capital one. |
| Card in hand | Provide a physical card | "NEED ALL 3 MONTH+ 412 OR CLEAN DROPS FOR PAPES YOU GET 30% ⚠️I NEED CARD IN HAND " | This is a common request for deposit fraudsters who are soliciting others to provide them accounts. They want the debit card physically in their possession so that they can drop (deposit a check) on the account. It's not uncommon for deposit fraudsters to show pictures of a debit card on their Telegram channels and ask "Who sent me this". This is where someone physically sent the deposit fraudster a debit card, but the communication wasn't great. |
| Carding | Credit Card Fraud | "Carding is a process of using someone else's card illegally or simply we can call it credit card fraud which hackers call this process carding and we call the peoples carder" | |
| Carrier | Mobile phone provider | "Carrier:Verizon" | |
| Cashy | Cashier's Check | "Sometimes they do send cashy out in mail if shit stick had that happen before" | |
| Cat Pool 猫池 (māo chí) | Multi port SMS modem | "Selling mass SMS sending and receiving tool, bulk registration for various chat software. esim, SIM pool, gateway, card pool, simbank, simpools, welcome to inquire" | hxxps://garwarner[.]blogspot[.]com/2025/09/sms-pools-and-what-us-secret-service.html hxxps://www.linkedin[.]com/posts/garwarner_sms-pools-and-what-the-us-secret-service-activity-7378311904781549568-5g6D |
| CC, CCs | Credit Cards | "Discover cc open ups ?" "CCs (debits/credits) 📝 Dumps💰 Fullz✅ " | I've seen evidence that CCs is sometime used as a broad term that also covers debit cards. |
| Ccleaner | System cleaner/anti-forensic application | "1. First things first, Clear your browser Cookies & History with the CCleaner software" | |
| Charles | Charles Schwab | "This Charles really poppin on tho" | |
| Cheddar Bob | Accidentially shot yourself | "Pop out with switch cheddar bob yoself u never shot shit in yo life lil folks" "[removed] gonna chedder bob himself for tele" | |
| Cheese | Cash | "My customers getting paid Errtime just tapin with me if you trynna get this cheese out" "Who gotta account I can drop sum quick same day shii on ? Instant cheese" "I think this the new easiest way to get this bread 100% legit Get at me ima put you on work. Trustworthy leads we finna get this cheese 💯" | Almost all use of the word "cheese" that I am seeing is synonmous with cash, but it might be a bit flexible of a term, but I'm still not 100 percent confident of the definition. |
| Chev | Chase Bank or JP Morgan Chase | "Chev = Chase" | |
| Chevy | Chase Bank or JP Morgan Chase | <br /> "Anyone got a boa or Chevy swing my way will split 50/50" | |
| CIBC | Canadian Imperial Bank of Canada | "Who got cibc dead fullz ?" | |
| Cl | West African Romance Scammer Context: Victim | "Show your cl documents say you buy house 🏠" "Format for beginners to start up conversation with new cl" | This is almost certainly short hand for "client" |
| Clapped | Deleted, destroyed, etc | "Join up Gods prot palace back up page old one got clapped " | |
| Clean, Cleaning | Depleting funds from a succesful fraud | "Who wanna learn how we get into bank accounts and clean them out easily‼️ you’ll just need drops to send to when doing this" "May all bags continue to clear may ALLAH be with us all 🤲🏼..May all bags be cleaned 🧼" "Me and my boys not leaving a single dollar with you 😂😂we cleaning all banks after drop 😂😂" | |
| Clip, Clipped | 1. When a fraudsters account gets frozen. 2. When the bank detects a check is fraud. | "Does the m&t get clipped when i log in with vpn from a phone?" "So if you don't endorse it it's gonna guaranteed clip ?" | |
| Clipper | Cryptocurrency malware that replaces a legitimate address with a criminal's address. | "A Clipper is a type of malware that changes the crypto wallet address you copy (usually from your clipboard) and replaces it with the attacker's address. Example: You copy your friend’s wallet: 0xAb123... The clipper quickly switches it to: 0xScam456... (attackers wallet) You paste without checking and send crypto to the attacker instead ✅You willingly make the transaction, but the address was secretly switched." | |
| Clone Cards | Card created by a fraudster rather than issued by an institution | "Make money with clone cards and dumps with pin" "Low and high balance clone cards available dm for your orders" "You can link your clone cards to your cashapp and get all the money out from the card don't miss out guys let's get rich 🤑 together 💪" | These are cards created by the fraudster. They will buy blank cards generally with an EMV chip/magstripe from someplace like Amazon and then load the information for a compromised card onto the blank card. They will then write the PIN for the card on the actual card and sell it. When you see these, they almost always are white card with an EMV chip with the PIN written with a black marker. |
| Colab, Collab | Collaboration between fraudsters | "Who do BEC in here? Got a proposition for anybody trying to collab" | |
| Combo | Combination of an email address and a password, a userid and a password, etc | "✅Combo: Email:Pass / User:Pass" | |
| configs | 1. Configuration files for the OpenBullet open source software used for credential stuffing and other attacks 2. Configuration files for any sort of tool used by criminals to facilitate their work | "🔥Make sure to forward to people for more configs 🔥" "1) OVPN config 🔥 " | |
| Cook, Cooking, Cook up | Creating a counterfeit check | "ANY SLIP PURCHASE COMES WITH A FREE COOK UP IF YOU NEED IT" | This term gets a bit squishy also depending on who is using it. In some cases, "cook" will mean taking compromised bank information such as the account and routing number and creating a brand new counterfeit check. "Recook" will then mean taking an existing check and using it to create a new check. |
| cPanel | Web hosting control panel software | "- cPanel: Only $25/month with free SSL." "💪HOSTING : 🔴 Bluehost cPanel 👊 🔴 Hostgator cPanel 👊" | |
| cpc | Chase Private Client | "Chevy CPC Log Balance : 360k $" | |
| CPN | Credit Privacy Number | "Bro my homie got a AP off a cpn" | |
| CRA | Canada Revenue Authority | "NEED ALL CRA ACCOUNTS THAT HAVEN’T DONE THEIR 2023 TAXES FOR 15-40k PM " | |
| Credit Sweep | Disputing all negative items on a credit report | "Whats Credit sweep ?...; Credit Sweep is a process where all Negativity on a credit report are disputed systematical all at onces, without no reoccurrance of any kind,...Inquiries, Collections, Repos, Foreclosures, Late Payıments, Medical bills, Bankruptcy,Auto& Mortgage loans and dentity theft etc. its a general Cleanup credit repair Process that takes 21 days at Max.... Message me for more info." | |
| CU, CUs | Credit Unions | "NEED ALL CUs" "PNC, OA and all CUs labs only" | "Cus" sometimes stands for "because" when they are talking about credit unions the letters CU are generally capitalized. |
| Custo | Customer | "Another custo happy linkable hittin pm" "Custo been taking advantage of the buy 1 get 1 free Experian Boost cpns. He hit Verizon and Spectrum so far. " "Custo purchased a boosted cpn and made magic happen 🍾" | |
| CSC, CVV, CVC, etc | Security codes on the back of a card | "How can I find out a cards zip code with just card number CVC and exp ?" "For all your [ fullz / cvv ] needs ask your bin and province." | The fraudster usage for these codes on Telegram is for the codes on the back of a credit card that is used to validate a card not present transaction. The acryonym depends on the type of card being used. MasterCard uses CVC, for example, and Visa uses CVV. |
| d7 | XTOOL - D7S - OBD2 Automotive All System Diagnostic Tool ECU Coding Key Programmer | "What’s better km100 or d7 for dodge Chrysler jeep Infiniti" | |
| Dagger | Palmetto State Armory Dagger Pistol | "come get this dagger first come first serve throw a reasonable offer" "Psa dagger otf lmk 📲 best offer takes it" | |
| Dba | "doing business as" | "171k stim dba open up complete inny work" | This is for check fraud where a fraudster will create a business account that has a DBA name that matches or is close to a fraudulent check they wish to deposit and deplete. |
| DCU | Digital Federal Credit Union | "DCU Openup with Debit linked to piece available" | |
| Dead Fullz | Having all information for an expired credit card | "Fresh live fullz and dead fullz with Ni,dl,mmn" | |
| Direct Deposit | Electronic funds transfer from a compromised account to another account. | "Direct Deposit: means sending payment directly into an account or prepaid banks/cards using the Account number and Routine number of the Payee/Receiver" "If you got a good cashapp it's easy to clear the funds after direct deposit from banklog 💰💯" | Basically, it's the fraudster electronically moving funds from one account to another using whatever rail is avaliable to them such as ACH. |
| Disco | 1. Discover Card 2. Discover Bank | "I Sell Credit Card (Visa/Master/Amex/Disco/Bin/Dob/Ssn/Fullz) All Countries...." "Who open disco or boa personal ?" | |
| DM | Direct Message | "if you want to learn how to make 1000$ to 3000$ a day, I will teach you my method for free, but I want 10% of your profits after. DM me saying "method" and i will teach you for free." | |
| DMV | 1. District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia 2. Department of Motor Vehicles | "Who in dmv got usps inny" "IF YOU IN THE DMV AREA AND HAVE THIS BANK PM ME ASAP !!" "Physical IDs dmv quality..." "all these documents available for all states, they're accurately verified from the DMV and certified by the department of states, whoever tries to impost us is the subject to copyright conviction " | It's usually easy to tell which definition is in play based on context. |
| Dolphin | Dolphin anti-detect browser aka "Dolphin Anty" | "Online access OcTo/dolphin" "Online access Dolphin (I'll provide login)" | |
| Drainer | Malware used to steal cryptocurrency from cryptocurrency wallets | "we're an experienced exploiters, coders & reverse engineers. We're a brand new Solana drainer with features that you've never seen before" "🧹Drainer A Drainer is a script/tool that automatically steals crypto from your wallet once you sign a malicious transaction as i said earlier. Example: You connect your wallet to a fake site (like a fake airdrop or mint site). It shows a harmless-looking popup. You approve it → it gives the drainer permission to move your tokens/NFTs. The drainer empties your wallet. ✅You don’t send crypto directly - instead, you approve a contract, and it drains your all your assets." | |
| Drank | Drugs such as purple (promethazine) and other similar drugs | "If anyone needs drank or yerks Imk Straight pick up from the pharmacy" | It's a liquid that comes in a standard pharmacy bottle when it's actually prescribed. It's also a popular recreational drug. The term also seems to be used broadly for anything similar to the Promethazine-Codeine mix, but I've seen them literally show pictures of bottles of that mix when referring to it. I've seen references to different colors like purple, green, and yellow |
| Drop Account, Drop, Bank Drop | Account used to receive fraudulent funds | "Who wanna learn how to get into accounts and start wiring⁉️ you’ll always need drop accounts to wire/zelle to right away✅" "A bank drop is an account that loaded funds are moved in to" | |
| Drop (card fraud context) | Address used to receive items | ""DROP = means - The Address where You want Your Carded items to be shipped to."" | |
| Dropped, Drop | Deposting a check | "Anybody else dropped on chevy today" "finna try n drop on my ipad cuase I just broke my burner and ik my phone gritz" | |
| Drop Time | The deposit cut-off time for a financial institution | "Dat 2pm shii incorrect shii b buzz fr I almost missed drop time cuz that Ai nd searching on Google shii" | |
| Drip | Fraud, Fraud method, etc. | "WHO GOT DRIP METHOD AND TRYNNA TRADE DM ME ASAPP" "Wanna join private chat and learn this drip" "Zelle & wire drip (Spoofing) Drip pm me fa scripts tutorials everything got em all for the low💯 vouched on everything 💯" "Aged banks and credit unions tap in!! Let's drip" | This term is used pretty broadly so it's a blurry definition. The context is generally saying that the fraudster as a "drip" which is some method of doing fraud. I have seen it used as a verb for commiting fraud such as "Let's drip" |
| DTMF | Dual-Tone Multi-Frequency signaling. | "🔸 PGP / Conference Calls 🔸 Live DTMF 🔸 Call Streaming - Listen to call in Real-Time!" | This makes for an interesting Google search, but it's the signaling system that uses the sounds that you get when you use a touch page to dial a number, etc. |
| Dump, Dumps, Dumpz | The full information available for a card | "Join for the best deals in bank Logs, dumps with pin, credit card, money orders, fullz, documents ( fake id, bank statements, passports) checks, methods money transfer" "I got freshly skimmed data high balances ssn/fullz dumpz" "DUMPS DEBITS/CREDITS" | Fraudsters use this information to clone cards or use them for card not present purchases |
| Dusty | Aged bank accounts | "NEED DUSTY CHASE FOR MONDAY" | |
| Eat, Eating | Making money off fraud | "We have to make the bread all my Gang time waits for no man let's see the ATM. I promise whoever ain’t regretting working with me to take a risk, da person will surely eat on my table fasho" | |
| Emt | Email Money Transfer | "Drop for 2k emt vouched only" "1.7K EMT FROM TD I SEND FOR YOU WITH PROOF BTC RDY OR DONT PM " | Canadian payment rail |
| eSIM | Electronic Subscriber Identity Module | "T-Mobile Esim Verification that can be used to Call, Text and also Verify any kinds of Apps (WhatsApp, Telegram, Instagram) that would last well is available at discount price. It's a Real Sim Card that will be installed in your Apple Mobile, serves as your Sim using it Cellular Data" | See: SIM, Swapping, etc. |
| eth | Ethereum cryptocurrency | "Be btc, eth or usdt ready before yu Tapn for business, make good $. No need of greediness !! 💰🦅" | |
| f2f | Face to Face | "I want flash usdt dm me deal in f2f only in delhi" | |
| Facer | 1. An account opened up by a fraudster 2. An acount opend up by a vendor and then purchased by a fraudster. | "A face is a open up by you/vendor and a head is a real person you know that you are bussing a play wit" "200 for a facer is normal" "Facer is when someone uses a fullz to open an acc and a head is someone who actually made the account with there info" | Another researcher provided me with some additional context on this from their travels. " synthetic or counterfeit identifications / driver’s licenses using the face photo of a bad actor that contains the stolen identity of credit worthy individuals." It also might be used as a term for anyone who is used by a fraudster to conduct fraud, but I don't have enough backing to be confident on that yet. The problem is sometimes a fraudster or two will use a term in a manner that isn't commonly accepted. Maybe fraudster version of trying to make "fetch" happen in a way or just being sloppy. |
| Fam, Fami | Family. Term of respect, friendship, etc. | "Thank you fam" "facts fami this my shit just started it ima join ya shit fasho" | |
| Fasho | For Sure | "It worked well fasho I swear ima gon do long term business wit you big vouch for you" "I promise whoever ain’t regretting working with me to take a risk, da person will surely eat on my table fasho" | |
| Fcfs | First Come, First Serve | "Chevy wit card to drop 3 left fcfs" | |
| Feen, Feening | Craving, etc | "Feening for a slip" "Obviously feening for a sale" | |
| Feits | Counterfeit cash | "Feits(fake cash) playin real hard on here, stacks look too real u wouldn’t know💯 Shii be moving anywhere within the states Lmk if u finna fw em rq" | |
| Fidel | Fidelity | "All Fidel’s For Monday PM Me Now" | |
| Finesse, Finessed | 1. To fool someone. 2. To committ fraud against someone. | "So many rippers out here starving desperately trying. They make multiple accounts and try to finessed you saying they vouch for another dude that’s an account they control" "That shit asked to send a code to email. You said you didn’t have email access so I gave log back untouched and refunded custos, which I’m about to show proof. And he calls that me trying to finesse him lol" | |
| Finna | Getting ready to, fixing to, etc | "if we labbin tmr send me info finna get all pdfs out tonight. if yu we suppose to ship piece pm. let’s score dis week🌊😈:" | I think this is a basically the southern American phrase "Fixing to" morphing into "finna". |
| Fishing | 1. Using a sticky object at the end of rope to put into a post office collection box and bring up mail. 2. Any sort of mail theft such as using an arrow key to steal mail. | "New key new state fishing tonight 🔐" "FISHING WENT GREAT THIS MORNING📬 STAY TUNE FOR UPDATE…" | |
| Fisher | Someone who steals mail | "KEYS FOR SALE FOR ANY FISHERS" | |
| Ft | Facetime | "Who doing m2m on navy's if you can't ft me don't even bother" | |
| Fmt | A common abbreviation for "Format" | "Site for all your latest working format, tutorial and tools..... || Read, learn, save, share or resell ••••• Military fmt , Lotto fmt , Inheritance fmt, Apartment fmt , Online banking fmt , Carding tutorial , Hookup fmt , Elon musk fmt , Dating fmt. Engineering fmt , sugar daddy/mummy fmt , blackmailing , trust/love fmt, sex chats , FBI fmt , binary ..and so much more! " | This is a West African style romance scam term. |
| Fnbo | First National Bank of Omaha | "Anyone with Chase, Citi , PNC, FNBO or DCU?" | |
| Food | Checks, compromised logins, etc | "Remember that banks will search and find businesses to call and confirm deposits of these works. Remember all this is possible, before considering you bought played with food or someone trying to get over on you." "What food for chase nd td" | Very broadly used term |
| Format | West African Romance Scammer Context: Scam Scripts | "FBI Format" "AMENDMENT FORMAT FOR IRS BELOW 👇" | |
| Fr | For Real | "Bro, Ya open ups makes feel like an idiot 🤣 gonna shop more fr" "Y’all gotta try my new gee up he’s good fr" | |
| Fraction Code | The routing code on a check that is expressed in a fraction on a check. | "Yoo have yall ever dropped a slip without the fraction code and it popped & u wiped?" | |
| Frfr | For Real For Real | "Preciate yo work man the acc popped in frfr " | When one "for real" just isn't enough.... |
| Free [insert name] | The person who is the subject of "Free" has been arrested and this is a show of support for that person | I"ve seen this when someone has been arrested and word makes its way to Telegram. It could mean that this person is still in custody, but I've seen it used in contexts where the person has been released after an arrest. It's still a show of support for that person. | |
| Freshy, Freshies | New bank accounts | "DROPS GET NEAR ME FRESHIES OR AGED READY TO SEND PIECE IN NEW WEEK MODE ACTIVATED" | I think this term is very broadly used for anything relatively recent. For example, I'm seeing the term used for new phones that have been aquire for fraud so I might broaden this definition given enough evidence of this being a broader term. |
| Frost | Frost bank | "Frost on frost good?" "I got Frost" | |
| Fruit Machine 水果机 Shuǐguǒ jī | Apple iPhone | 🔥低价出正品水果机 ("Genuine fruit machines at low prices") | |
| Fs/ft | For sale/For Trade | "762 Fs/ft" | |
| Fuck 12 | 12 stands for the police, the law, etc. | "Smh I’m already knowing bro I’m jus happy yu free fuck 12" "Free Dmoney Trump fuck 12 free big T" | |
| Fullz | 1. General: Full information for a victim. (Name, social security number, DOB, address, etc) 2. Credit Card: Having all information available for a card. | "FRESH CC AND FULLZ AVAILABLE NOW " | |
| Fullz score | Credit rating of the person whose fullz you are using for fraud. | "Depending on your fullz score, you can order expensive items. 700+ score can give you from $800 to $1000. With a lesser limit, stay under $300, or else you will not get shipment." | |
| Fullyz | Another term for Glock switches | "Fullyz available now hit me now $75" | Not commonly used probably because it's easy to get it confused with the term fullz |
| Fwm | Fuck with me. It generally means "Get with me", but in some contexts it's "mess with me". | "Come fwm and fasho you gonna eat for ya linkable for cash app & Apple Pay" "You need cashiers,money orders & etc cooked pm me [edited] can’t fwm on they best days" | |
| fw | fuck with (conducted fraud against, etc) | "who fw truist ?" "If you tryna make some bread, I got motions on daily pay you could fw they getting a lot of peeps paid msg me I'll pyo" | |
| Fye | Fire. It's basically saying something is great, etc. | "Gang I need some fye glass or stim. anything to hit next week put me on blood" "Your tutorials fye fr just hitting errday bro,like every fucken timee!!!!" | |
| Gang, gng | Term for another fraudster | "U the goat gang" "Lemme check for yu gng" | |
| gc | 1. Gift card 2. Group chat | "Back in stock on all kind of gc and are Available rn in different prices dm" "Best paid gc on tele" | |
| Ghost | Ghost gun | "Ay should I getta ghost I ain’t active like tha ik they jam n shi jus 1 time use" | |
| GHS | Cedi which is the currency for the nation of Ghana | "FAKE VIDEO CALL APP FOR ANDROID 🙏✅ CHECK ALL THE VIDEOS TO SEE HOW E DEY WORK DM ME IF NEEDED NON NEGOTIABLE Android is 40k Naira / 400GHS" | |
| Gifty, Giftie | Gift Cards | "WHO NEEDS AIRBNB GIFTIES" "Cashing giftys 85% back to u" | |
| Giffy | Gift Cards | "Off the pilot j rewards grabbed a giffy and got gas" | |
| Glass | Check | "If need high & low balance glass hit me and all banks bring em for tomorrow" | |
| Gleece, Gleec, Gleecing | Defraud, defrauding | "Who know how to gleec off cash app?" | |
| Gleecer | Successful fraudster | "this my chat join up only real gleecers in this chat valid vendors no hams and rippers" | |
| Glitch | Succesful fraud trend | "CashApp giving out free bandz get active if you go crazy on this CashApp glitch and fire 🔥 linkable. Been going crazy on this wave 🏆💯💰🕊️ when payment ready" | See: Wave |
| Glooking, Glooks | 1. Thank you 2. Short for "Good Looks" aka Glooks. | "Slip just touched down glooks fool" "Glooking gang" | It's a bit inconsistent in use. Might depend on context. Someone was nice enough to tell me that "It is New York/Northeast slang for thank you, basically means good looking out." which helps bring more clarity on this one. |
| Glks | Appreviation for "Glooks". See Glooks for definition | "glks gang" | |
| Glock Switch, Brrr back plate, etc | Device that converts a Glock pistol from semi-automatic to fully automatic. | "Who need glock switch tapn" "3d printed glock switch file $180" "Glock 26 2 magazines Custom brrr back plate Grips/red slide release and sights" | Many of these are created using 3D printers. It's just a matter of replacing the standard Glock backplate with this modified one. |
| Goat | Greatest of All Time | "Ain’t gonna lie bro you the goat love it linked good thanks" "U the goat appreciate u gang 💫" | |
| Gon | Going, Going to | "Pm me if yo got Credit union, I’m dropping $9k on it and we gon be splitting for 50/50" | |
| Gpay | Google Pay | "Gpay accepted the second card" | |
| Gta | Greater Toronto Area | "WHO HAS TANGERINE 🍊 Need all in GTA in hand for 10-20k" | |
| Grinching, Grinch | Scamming, Scammer | Not often used in Telegram conversatons. It's more for usernames and channel names. | |
| Gritz, Grits | Failed fraud attempt such as when a bank detected a fraudulent check deposit and closes the account before the fraudster can deplete funds | <br /> "lol dead<br /> <br /> your accounts are gritz<br /> <br /> you dropped bad food" | I've seen is used as an insult also, but the dominant usage is a failed fraud attempt. |
| Grub | See: Food. Checks, etc. | "got sum boa grub for it hmu" | |
| Gucci | Good | "Anything i threw is gold, i just the bank name and we gucci" "I logged in everything GUCCI sir" | |
| Gwm | get with me | "if you need a new cookup man GWM" | This is a recruitment type term. The fraudster is trying to get people to work with them on some sort of fraud method. For check fraud, it's commonly used by fraudsters who have checks to deposit, but they are looking for accounts to use or they are offering some sort of service like creating counterfeith checks, selling checks, etc. |
| Ham | Someone who rips off other fraudsters | "Who got navy heads all I need is email on account for m2m instant reflection. No hams !" | See: Ripper I've also seen it used in context where it seems its being used to call someone incomplent rather than being an intentional ripper. |
| Hamming | Ripping someone off | "SENT HIM 1 DOC ALREADY THREW IN A EXTRA DOC FOR HIM HOW COULD THAT POSSIBLY BE HAMMING ? Y’all use that word too loosely guys" | |
| Head | 1. Account owner working on behalf of the fraudster. 2. Someone recruited by a fraudster to conduct crimes under their direction. (Ex: White head) | "Usa head needed for sure Cash out 20k deal daily drop" "okay so basically get what you can out the box and cash app before you gotta send head in is what I'm hearing" "A face is a open up by you/vendor and a head is a real person you know that you are bussing a play wit" "A Facer is when someone uses a fullz to open an acc and a head is someone who actually made the account with there info" | |
| High glass, High stims, etc | High dollar checks | "I got a 1 month chase who tryna lab high glass only I can drop today" "I got a navy fed 2y dumb trans no m2m only high glass or high stimmy" | |
| Highs | High dollar checks | "Uppy in also , highs & lows not posting images , can pm" | |
| History | Aged bank accounts. (The context that I see this being used in lends itself to wanting accounts that are not only old, but have activity on them.) | "If you gotta Navy with history & wanna make guarantee money . Dm me now good business only✅50/40" | They consider the best accounts to be used for fraud something that has both been aged and has some use on it so that it looks like a normal account to the financial institution. |
| Hitting | Successful | "Who need a free hitting method HMU" "If you are looking for the latest hitting methods then check out [fraudster name removed]" "I’ve been hitting off daily pay, for sometime now, pmo for walk through" | |
| Hmu, Hm | Hit me up | "Anyone trying to make some quick bread hmu" | |
| House to House, House | Depositing a check from a bank into an account at that same bank. Example: Depositing a check written on a Chase account into another Chase account. | "House on House mean the same bank slip on the same bank account. Names gotta match" | |
| Htx | Houston | "Wtw in htx" | |
| HVNC | Hidden Virtual Network Computing | "Online + Email + HVNC Access" | A term commonly associated with RATs (Remote Access Trojans) |
| ian | I'm not, etc | "yoo, see y’all got the digis back popping. ian tryna rush you or nothing [redacted] bills is coming up though gang" | |
| iban | International Bank Account Number | "And also available bank that provide unlimited virtual card and Ibans for withdrawal and deposit in gambling accounts" | Iban is a way to articulate bank accounts for cross border transactions. For more information, research ISO 13616:2020 |
| ibc | International Bank of Commerce out of Laredo, TX. | "I got a ibc bank" "Can I use My IBC Bank as drop for my chase log ?" | |
| ICCID | Integrated Circuit Card Identification | "VERIZON ICCID LOOKUP ACTIVE RN" | This is a unique number that is 18 to 22 characters long that identified a SIM card. It is sometimes referred to as a "SIM serial number" |
| Iced | Covered in diamonds. Example: An iced AP watch | "i listened to juice wrld's and xxxtentacions songs once and an iced out ap spawned on my wrist" | |
| Icq | The Icq instant messaging platform | " do Western Union Transfer I don't take Upfront payment...I only take 8$ for Cc ...So that when the money gets to your hand you send me my share 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏 NOTE : I CAN GO FIRST. My Real ICQ : [redacted]" | |
| idc | I don't care | "if u got us bank or chase pm rn idc how old it is" | |
| idk | I don't know | "If someone prices fucking with my prices show me their channel 😤😤😤. Idk a glass man getting more work then me since they changed those boxes 😈" | |
| If yk yk | If you know you know | "Who wants to come drive for me? 5-10k a day‼️💰 If yk yk Pm for details" "All slips are not for all bank if yk yk" | The context for what I see fraudsters using this for is having some sort of inside knowledge that others don't necessarily know. |
| Imei | International Mobile Equipment Identity | "SWAPS UP T-MOBILE Things u need for swaps - Number,imei, Iccid only [HMU WITH $$$ READY ONLY]" | 15 digit that is a unique identifier for a particular device. Dial "*#06#" on a mobile device and this number will be displayed. |
| Inny | A person inside of an institution who is working with the fraudster | "gotta wells inny who got motion for that" | Popular insiders for fraudsters are with financial institutions, the US Postal Service, and telecommunicaton providers |
| Ion | "I don't" or "I'm not" | "ion gonna lie you made shit look easy" "you gotta show me ion know him" | |
| irl | in real life | "But when I saw the same person irl he dapped me up acting homies and apologized lmaoooooo" "been dealin wit irl shit haven’t been on tele till now.. message me rn if you needed me, apologies." | |
| istg | I swear to God | "Istg yall fall for the most obvious scams" | |
| Jakes | Police | "I did her shit for 45k went 50/50 Jake's picked her up n said if you tell me who did this to your account we won't charge n they still charged her dumb ass" | |
| Jawn | A really broad term for...everything. It looks like it's a replacement for anything that can be a noun. I see it commonly used in the place of "check" and "account" quite a bit, but it's not exclusive to that, I'm sure | "This jawn was so clean ong" "Y'all want to double back 4-8k jawns only need physical" "Who got old stims they already use and cash I'm recashing them💯only want 5k jawns and up pm me" "I'm in that jawn [name removed] you da 🐐" [this picture with this post was bank application showing access to an account] | So it turns out this is likely a term that originated in the Philly metro area and it even has its own Wikipedia entry. Someone was nice enough to point this out to me recently and confirmed it's a really broad term. |
| Jit | Most common: An insult Rare: South Florida(ish) non-insult: Another person, basically. | "Dumb ass jits sit back and learn" | If a ring is in a certain area, the slang they use on platforms like Telegram will reflect how they use a word locally. I see a lot of south Florida slang making its way onto Telegram this way. |
| Jwett | Illegal Scam or easy way to get money. "Game" in Haitian Creole. | "If U can cash out loan from cpn dat a be da best jwett" | It's usually used in the contect of a username or channel name rather than being used in a sentence. |
| Killer | In the context of pig butcher type scams, this is the person who executes on the last stage of the attack and gets funds from the victim. | "Work experience: work as killer about 1month and work as model real about 1 years ago and Model Al about 1month" | |
| KM, KM100 | Autel MaxiIM KM100. This is a device that program smart keys for vehicles and more. | "when I get my km what my first car to hit should be?" "Can the km take Beamer?" "U can grab a Lexus wit a updated km" | |
| Lab | Verb: Counterfeiting a check. See comments. Noun: Fraudsters lab setup. Photoshop is very popular for creating counterfeits | Verb: "Tap in if you got CUs. Let's lab on these stims" Noun: "If we got unfinished business, PM rn!! I’m in lab " | This one is a bit fluid. I've seen is used to mean making counterfeit checks, but it also might be used in aleration scenarios. The context of what I've seen makes me think it's a bit broader than counterfeit scenarios. |
| Lappy | Laptop | "LAPPY DEAD BARE W ME" "i made a folder on my lappy just for ur glass u sold" | |
| Larping | Pretending to be someting you are not. | "Stole my innys pictures and going around larping like he has carriers up be safe kids" "broke ham larping he’s an att inny🤣" "Bum rippin for drank & other scripts dwc larping escripts will change username block you & play dumb🤣" | Larp = Live Action Role Play |
| Lean | 1. PHENERGAN Plain, promethazine hcl, promethazine, etc 2. Also used as a generic term for other mixes that include some sort of prescription syrup as the primary ingredient | "Selling scoring method (Pharmacys) can be used 🇨🇦 wide and to score for any drug or narcotics (Percs, Oxys, Xans, Lean, etc) tons of proof available only selling 1 copy of the method for super cheap" | |
| Lick | Successful fraud, theft, etc | "What licks are you committing John" "bonad licked 4.5mil off it last week man" "I’m going to buy a trezor All sim swappers that cash coinbase targs and hit 7 fig licks have trezor" | |
| Lids | Fake identification such as driver's licenses | "MD TX IL GA lids" "Lid man in NY or NJ who can do same day ID pm me rq asapppp" | The context I keep seeing this is in regards to fake DL's, but it could be used by some criminals for a broader category of fake identifications. The "L" in lids likely stands for "Labbed" |
| Linkable, Linking, Link | 1. Cashout method where you move funds from a compromised card to to another account, crypto, P2P app, Cash App, etc. 2. Link: Moving funds from a compromised bank account to another account, P2P app, etc | "Linkable debits are cards 💳⚡️that can be linked to either cashapp, PayPal, Apple Pay, Bank account and even your crypto wallet. Just link card to any of your account and withdraw funds instantly without any charge back" "HOW TO LINK YOUR BANK LOG TO CASH APP AND LOAD IT 2" "The reason why I was able to make $7k just today is because of the Bank log I bought off a site and linked it to my coinbase account and cash out" "For those wondering what is a linkable it’s basically CCs that comes with all the extra info to work a method successfully" | The term "linkable" seems to primarily deal with cards, but I do see general references to link and linking for getting funds out of compromised accounts also. |
| Litty, Lit | Succesful fraud method | "Tap and pay always litty doing holiday times" "It ain't next day like last time but still litty" "Oa biz litty " "Ain’t no cap 🧢 Errbody hit me ready for y’all methods lit 🔥 ima walk & guide you through hit urs successfully green ✅" | A lit method is fraud method that the fraudsters are particularly enthusiastic about and it's something that the financial insitution in question needs to quickly take a look at to see if they have the right controls in place. |
| Lows | Low dollar amount checks | "Off that $$200 bundle I grabbed from you 🔥🔥 them lows be going 🏆" | |
| LTC | Litecoin cryptocurrency | "Payment Methods 💰 BTC | 💰 ETH | 💰 LTC |💳 CASHAPP" | |
| lmk | Let me know | "i got a 1k truist persy bizz lmk if anybody want" | |
| IOB | Indian Overseas Bank | "🧚IOB (Indian Overseas Bank)+MQR" | |
| lyk | Let you know | "I’ll lyk before sending your cut" "NOT ALL STIMS POSTED ‼️ LMK THE BALANCE U NEED I’LL LYK" | |
| Load, Loading | 1. Transfering money from a compromised account to another account or card. 2. Depositing a check | "This is a step by step guide on loading Ingo using CHECKS, as we all know that CHECKS is the fastest way of cashing out with no delays and it is anonymous." "Loading Cashapp Using an Huntington bank log" "This dumb fuck brings a shitty drop. Warned him shit might not work. Told me to load anyway. Made me lose a good pape." | There are many different types of loading so it's yet another one of the broad terms you'll see on Telegram, but general usage is moving the proceeds of a fraud into another financial vehicle. |
| Lock in | Work with someone | "Any CU lock in wit me, Swing old or new for instant drop" "Any aged navy’s for m2m hit me ill show log time KEEP ALL BAD BIZ AWAY FROM ME need someone to lock in with that can bring me navys daily‼️‼️‼️" | |
| Log, Logz | Compromised financial institution account | "Legit bank logs are available reach the site “financial for your plan” end poverty" "Who got Truist logs" "who know how to wipe oa log need tips rq got backend for u" | Context is king on this one. In some cases, it's being used to talk about a compromised account where online access is being sold. In other cases, I'm seeing it being used where it's just fraudsters asking for accounts they they can use for check fraud deposits. |
| Lookup, Lookups | Fraudster offering some sort of research for a price. | "🚀Ssn lookups 🚀dl lookups 🚀tlo lookups 🚀MMN,DEA,vin,ein lookups DM LETS WORK🏦💯" | I've also seen it used now and again by fraudsters asking for more open source type tools, but it's generally talking about a paid research service when you see it on Telegram. |
| lv | Louis Vitton | "[redacted] get that leather LV bracelet and flex it like a AP😂😂" "Lv bracelet should be black" | This is a popular brand with deposit fraudsters. I see the log on wallets, bracelets, etc. Turns out they also sell sneakers. |
| md | Mobile Deposit | "I usually just walk did a md last night on TD" | |
| Meals | Roughly plural for food. | "Be forgetting to post the meals🥢" | The text was from a post where the fraudster was showing an original check and a cooked check on Photoshop so that provides some better context. |
| Mmn | Mother's Maiden Name | "Who GOT collabria fullz w DOB MMN BUYING EM ALL?" | |
| Micr | Magnetic ink character recognition | "You think I can use the color micr ink instead of black micr for walk ?" | This is the information at the bottom of a check that provides the account, routing number, etc. It's standardized so that banks can read each other's checks using the same expected information appearance and formatting |
| Mobile | Remote Deposit via Mobile Device | "what should I drop on pnc And should I mobile or box it" | For this example, our fraudster is asking what kind of check should be deposited on a PNC account and whether he should deposit the check via a mobile deposit or put it into an ATM |
| Monyun | Money | "🚘LES WORK IF U TRYN MAKE SOME MONYUN GOT FRESH SLIPS" | |
| MOs | Money Orders | "STILL TAKING ORDER FOR MOS AND SLIPS " | |
| Motion | Making money, having success with fraud, etc | "this chat is all about motion💰let’s run up a M, we loading every bank" | |
| MT 103 Wire Transfer | International Wire | "I need a trusted and serious reciever of Mt 103 cash wire transfer, automatic transfer non kyc" | MT stands for Message Type in the context of SWIFT messaging. An MT 103 message deals with international wire transfers which is the whole point of the SWIFT system. Plus you can send an international wire without SWIFT such as through a CHIPS system. |
| Munyun | Money | "[redacted] clearly ain tryna make no munyun today 😂 cool w me ion mind a day off" "Yoo who tryna make some munyun with me?" | |
| m2m | Member to Member | "Swing all navy’s for m2m asap Will show live proof of log long as you don’t waste my time" "Let me member to member on those Suncoast" "I need all aged Navys for instant M2M transfers must have cash app and Apple pay pm discuss splits and proof" "Then do checks or M2M or whatever. Make the full out of it" | This is an account to account transfer inside of a credit union from one member to another. Credit unions call their customers "members". |
| MQR | Mswipe QR Code | "🔹Karnataka Bank+MQR" | |
| MVR | Motor Vehicle Record | MVR (motor vehicle record) — a new service in "LookUp Info" $60 price PM for more details | |
| Nah | No, not, etc | "This shit finna pop or nah" | |
| Naira | Nigerian Currency | "Grant lotto update Is earning more than all update but you go the bastard tools But that week wey you get tools you earn more than for 4 million naira" | |
| Natty | National Westminster Bank AKA NatWest. Large UK bank. | "Nattys 15k-30k per acc easy" | |
| Navy | Navy Federal Credit Union | "Who got navy fed" | |
| NBA | Never Broke Again | "NBA never broke again what it stand for" | |
| Nbs | No bullshit | "Make u a easy $500 n 5 mins nbs" | |
| No bap | Not lying | "Say gang I need to shop with yo ass you got me paid no bap" "Im still eating off your slips no bap , keep being consistent fam we need you🤝" | |
| NFCU | Navy Federal Credit Union | "Bank of America and Chase Bank, NFCU or any Credit Union with History needed for immediate funding !🇺🇸💥" | |
| ngl | not going to lie, not gonna lie | "ngl we don't take tele that serious how a lotta mfs do" "Ngl last time I bought frm here they was brunt" | |
| OA | Bank of America | "What do I drop on the oa" | |
| Obd | On-Board Diagnostics port | "They not it’s just a measure to make sure the car battery and voltage stays running but the obd port stays on 24/7 so you don’t really need them" | Auto theft related |
| Octo | Octo Browser | "Fidelity log with octo access" | From the website "Octo Browser is a fast anti-detect browser for multi-accounting with maximum protection against browser identification" |
| Offy | Off-brand bank. Lesser known banks/credit unions. | "Anything that ain't a major bank offy gang" | |
| Ong | On God. It's a way of agreeing with something or emphasizing something. | "Need consistent debit/cc seller ong if ur not vouched ur sending first or do not pm me" | |
| Open Ups | New accounts opened up specifically for fraud purposes | "Bank open ups available hit me up" | |
| OTP | One Time Password | "Looking for OTP Bypass Services? " | Used by banks and other institutions to validate customers. These passwords can be sent via text, voice, or email. |
| OTP Bot | Bots used to harvest one time passwords from victims | "does any1 know good OTP bots i might buy some CCs to card a gambling site later" "The bot is basically an automated calling system that has a telegram bot interface that allows you to enter a victims phone number and request the code and depending on the script being used the victim will be fooled into thinking the bot is calling from the bank and request the code they received." | |
| OTW | On the way | "And I'm otw to meet with my head so I'll update you when I get wit her" "NEW UPPY OTW" | |
| Pain | 1. Check 2. Failed fraud attempt | "I think who I got my pain from used it already no bap" "If you got a Navy, Chevy, Boa or Wells and no pain for it PM everything 50/50" "Damn Chevy clipping a band! That's pain" | Sometimes it just the conventional use of the word "pain" in that something painful happened, but in other cases, it's a fraudster talking about checks. Context is king with this one. For the "Damn chevy...." example, it was a fraudster complaining that Chase shut detected his check was fraudulent. |
| Pape | 1. Check 2. Cash, Money, etc | "this goof [name removed] drop a garbage pape in my drop and burned it lmao😂 tried to act like i ripped him lol!" "NEED ALL 3 MONTH+ 412 OR CLEAN DROPS FOR PAPES YOU GET 30% ⚠️I NEED CARD IN HAND " "pm all banks valid let's make some pape" "Dont Come in My Inbox If your Not Pape Ready🫵🏽💰" | |
| Paper | Check | "i got some for tht if u got persy paper" | |
| Percy, Persy | Personal checks or cards | "Uppy persy n biz rn on deck" | As opposed to business, etc |
| Pick Ups | Picking up cards to be used for fraud | "Pick up is not possible for our safety! We understand that many scammers are active on telegram and that is why it is possible to pay after delivery." | |
| Pics | Image of a check as opposed to a physical check | "Glitch my lifestyle 👾 Pics $200 💧 Glass $300 Collabs 💎💎💎💰💰" | Pics generally means pictures, of course, but in the context of Telegram deposit fraud it can be used for an image of a check that can be used for remote mobile deposit. You don't need a physical check to do that so some baddies will go that route rather than physically depositing a check. |
| Piece | Debit Card, Credit Card | "Need piece ina hand 💯 for only new collabs with me" "Get me all pieces ✈️ for Monday money 💰" | |
| Plato | Platinum Credit Card | "Lemme finish these 2 Plato's" | |
| Plug | someone who supplies you with something | "Are you new to fraud or do you have some basic experience?..if ur seriously tryna find a legit plug to purchase freshly spammed logs and to get put on these updated methods/plays to start making some real money..be sure to check out" "who sells stims or got a valid stim plug ?" | |
| Pro, Pros | An account opened up using someone else's SSN. | "You sure your pro is straight and you got all da info correct?" "A pro is somebody else real ssn profile" "A CPN is for you, a pro is using somebody else shit" "A Fullz is like Basic info on someone a Pro is more in depth I guess." "A "Pro" is Someone's SSN That Is Already In Use The Dangers Of Using A Pro Is Being Charged With Identity" | |
| Pull, Pulling | Depleting funds from a succesful fraud | "Yoo Inbox me if you got Usaa//chase//pnc for wires Transfer ?be ready to pull" "Shii yall hop on trust wallet phrase log ts hot rn no 2fa, you can easily pull bread to wallet I got $4k" | |
| Punch | Using a stolen credit card to purchase something. | "After you buy these are easy Sites to punch (where Ccs hit most)" | See Punchies. The context I've seen this used as a verb is some fraudster showing merchandice and then listing a bunch of sites that using stolen credit cards to make purchases has worked well. |
| Punchies | Credit Card Numbers | Fraudster 1: "Are darkweb sites done for? I'm trynna get some punchies." Fraudster 2: "Punchies what’s that" Fraudster 1: "Credit card numbers" Fraudster 2: "Oh for ccs yea I’m like wtf is punchies lmfao" | |
| Purple, Purp, etc | Promethazine-Codeine mix | "My man charge me 3200 for dat purp" | See notes for Drank |
| Pm, pms | Private Message(s) | "Flood da pms w orders‼️bookings/food orders 50%off🫗" "Anybody got texas bay cu pm me let’s get active" | |
| Pole | Firearm | "Who trynna buy a s&w9 dm me? I can show live video and I have other poles" | |
| Pop, Popped, Pop On | 1. Succesful fraud 2. When/What time funds are available 3. What time is a bank's cut off for a check being a same day deposit | "it successfully Stimmy slip. Sayless fam It popped I swear never regret shopping with you shit literally I really appreciate doing business with you" "hope you pop on & succesfully wipe" "What time Cap 1 usually pop on ?" "Pnc pop on at 3? | This is a term that really depends on the context of how it's being used to understand. In some cases, it's just a succesful fraud. In other cases, it's clearly the fraudster talking about issues of timing regarding holds and funds availability. |
| Ppc | Popup calls | "ppc calls Facebook ppc Netflix ppc Microsoft ppc" | Usually in the context of an evil call center selling services. The popup shows up on the victim's computer with the goal of them calling into the evil call center. |
| ppls | Peoples | "Regions went instant🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 u wasn’t cappin ima fwu more on the slips and send my ppls your way since u valid🤞🏼" | |
| Preesh | I appreciate it AKA Thank You | "Perfect Preesh brother" | |
| Ps | Photoshop | "anyone got the cracked adobe ps?" "litty then you PS OR you cook up from scratch" | |
| Psd | Photoshop Document | "Arkansa USA #DL New template psd file full edited and High quality 😑" "Document PSD templates of all countries (Id, bills etc)✅" | |
| PSECU | Pennsylvania State Employees Credit Union | "Psecu open ups available" "IF YOU ACTIVE AND YOU GOT AN AGED CHASE,PNC,PSECU,DCU PM ME RN INSTANT TRANSFERS 🫶🏿" | |
| Punch, Punching | Using stolen card numbers to purchase something | "Any sites to punch Micr ink?" "who punching uber/lyft" "Bruh I'm just looking around my room rn like damn I punch all this shi. All on your cards" | |
| Pyo | Put You On | "I can pyo on sum free cash out shi for free I ain’t charging non just finna make some real vouch out here only serious ones will smack before the new year start 💰💵💰💰💰💰" | |
| Quagen | Promethazine hydrochloride by Quagen Pharmaceuticals | "come now not later this shii otf good quagen 125 a Pint 100$ a pint yu cop more than 1" | See: Drank |
| Racks | $1,000 dollars | "44k need atleast a rack" "Other than that he busy making racks" "No way I'm being investigated over 9 racks 😭😭😭" | Racks and stacks appear to be the same thing, but I don't see stacks used very often where it's talking about an amount. |
| RBFCU | Randolph-Brooks Federal Credit Union | "6 MONTHS AGED RBFCU AVAILABLE" | |
| Real face model | In the context of a pig butchering scam, this is a person who uses their real face to established a false pesonsa to trick victims as part of the scam. | "Desired salary: 4k-5k usd Position: ai model / Real face model" | Contrasted with AI models who use AI technology to change their appearance. |
| Recook | Using an existing check as a basis for creating a new counterfeit check | "Learn how to properly cookup new checks using logs or recook old ones and successfully load bank drop accounts." "Stim recooks available 👏🏆 150$ pdf shipped 200$ Original slips 80$ pdf 120$ shipped with Miric" "A recook is recooking glass just changing the amount name and check number and date on it" | See the entry for Cook, etc. |
| rere | Regions Bank | "anybody got rere 🪵 ?" | |
| Redstone | Redstone Credit Union | "who got a redstone credit union for m2m instant bag rn pm me ill show my work" "all redstones aged or fresh hit me instant funds m2m" | |
| Renty | Rental and the context is almost always for a vehicle. | "Who can book me a renty on Turo!! Ian paying till my shit booked & delivered !! & im paying extra , Ian got no Lz bml rn" "I drive what I own I really don't be into rentys like that" "Renty plug lambo truck Ferrari etc for low low 🤫" | |
| RDP | Remote Desktop Protocol | "|CHASE LOG |COMES WITH: |Account Balance: $519 |Online Access+card infos +rdp access ( Email Access+Routing Number+DOB+Zip code+ address+ Personal Fullz + Mmn+Ssn+ Billing Address+ Carrier+Ip/Ua. |Zelle: ENABLED ✓ |Wire: YES Price: $45" | RDP is eternal. Fraudsters will use this to access compromised devices. They will also sell this access to someone when, for example, that person buys a compromised financial institution account. So the price includes access to the compromised account and also the ability to use RDP to log into a compromised computer to access that account so that it reduces the chances that the financial institution will detect a new device on the account and potentially take action. Fraudsters will also use RDP to log into compromised machines to use those machines as a passthrough for whatever they are doing much in the way they would use a VPN, socks, etc. |
| Ripper | Fraudster who rips off other fraudsters | "So many rippers out here starving desperately trying. They make multiple accounts and try to finessed you saying they vouch for another dude that’s an account they control" | See: Karma |
| riri | Regions Bank | "THIS IS NOT A WIPE FOR OA, THIS IS REGIONS NEXT DAY, WIPING RIRI DOWN AT OA, FEEL IT? STOP COMING IN MY SHI ASKIN WHAT I DID ON OA 😂💯" | |
| rn | right now | "Anybody got a desert fcu? hit me rn let’s get active" | |
| RPC | Revenue Per Call | "Banking/ Login BSOD with AHT of 20+ and RPC of $50+," | |
| rq | real quick | "Who got chase / wells I can send to rn going instant pm me rq" | |
| Runners | Low-level members of a check fraud ring. See comments | "NEED RUNNERS IN THE STATE WHO CAN DO BRANCH WALKINS AND CAN GET ID MADE." "Any runners in Alabama tryna grab apple devices from spectrum" "need RUNNERS, if you trynna make $5k+ weekly off middlemanning plays or catching payments then pm me ASAP!" | These are people used by the fraud ring for lower level operational work such as collecting mail from recepticals and delivering them to the primary fraudsters, walking checks, etc. It's a very general term that depends on the context of how it's being used. |
| ROS | Refund On Scan | "The North Face is currently ROS "Refund on scan" meaning that as soon as your return label is scanned, you'll be refunded." | Not to be confused with ROuS aka "Rodents of Unusual Size". See: Fire Swamp |
| Sandy | Santander Bank | "Who got sandy In Boston" | |
| Sauce | Flexible definition depending on context. 1. Fraud methods, training, and this seems to be the dominant usage. 2. Others have reported it's a term that is synonymous with "checks" which ties into another SME telling me that it's a term that means "the goods". 3. Others have seen it used as a verb that roughly means "passing" such as "sauce me the account". | "Y’all drop your Tag , Email OR Apple number for test,we can start with a low to build trust,unemployment Method for cash app and PayPal is back with the new sauce" "Australia (My Gov) update sauce (FREE)" | It's not like these fraudsters have a Académie Française to regulate their terminology. Sometimes words have very different meanings depending on the fraudster and context "sauce" is a great example of this when it coems to Telegram terminology. |
| Sauxe | See: Sauce | "Chev Da Sauxe " | |
| Sb | Somebody | "can sb tell me why my key ain work in a daytona last night?" | |
| Scampage, Scam Page | Malicious website designed to look like a legitimate website to collect credentials for ATOs | "I create Scam pages, Sites and Bank pages for all formats" "anyone got cashapp scam page?" | There are scam pages for everything. Apple, PayPal, Telecommunications providers, Financial Institutions, etc |
| Scott, Scotty | Synonymous with walker. Someone who the fraudster is using to facilitate in-person fraud of some sort. | "Anybody got a female Scotty that can fit the age 50 for a wire in nyc area tap in now" "I need a white Scotty in nc" "bruh istg 😂😂 i told my scott to go in and attach they come out with this shit 🤣🤣 Fuck it i’ll take it however it come" | |
| Scratch | Altering check using a method that involves scratching off the original ink | "LOOK IF YOU WANNA LEARN HOW TO WASH/SCRATCH AND COOK HMU" | |
| Scripting | When a criminal pretends to be a bot to obtain an OTP code | "BASICALLY YOU NOT USING A OTP BOT AND USING A TEXT NOW NUMBER OR ANY NUMBER TO ACT AS A BOT TO GET A CODE" | |
| Send All | There are a variety of uses for this phrase. Commons ones include 1. A deposit fraudster looking for people to provide them with drop or mules accounts for check fraud. 2. A fraudster looking for an account to be used for the proceeds for fraudulent electronic transactions such as a wire, ACH, etc. | "It’s new week let’s make money Send all Chevy" "Send All Boa Drops Over 5 Mo Instant $42K Wire Transfer🔥 I Only Want 30% Back‼️" | |
| Setty | The information technology setup that a fraudster is using to create counterfeit checks. At a minimum, it's referring to the computer being used, but likely also is a broader definiton that includes the printer, etc. | "cooks better now at my normal setty not my mac" "Who got actual glass for plays? Let’s collab I got setty and I’m vouched asf💯" "WHO GOT A SETTY & CAN COOK AND PRINT SLIP ??? " | |
| Shawty | Female, attractive female, girlfriend, etc | "Shawty was shocked, told you this clone cards work like a miracle. Home girl cashing out massively" "SET YOUR PRIORITIES RIGHT 🤣. YOUR SHAWTY GONE LEAVE YOU IF YOURE BROKE !!!" "thankful for shawties with tattoos, dyed hair, septum piercings & daddy issues" | |
| Sherm | An insult (weak, fake, etc) | "⚠️ GLASS MEN BEWARE ⚠️this sherm ass broke ass jit is a fucking weirdo. IF U GOT MOTION WATCH OUT FOR THIS SHERM" | It's a little bit of a non-specific insult, but the context of when I see it being used is that it's weak, fake, etc. |
| Shippy, Shipp | Shipping. Broadly used term to refer to something getting shipped such as checks to someone who purchased them from a vendor | "New balance shippy" "Saint I received my package overnight shippy" "Card ready for shipp" | |
| Shi, Shii | Shit | "Doing Half Off Ps5s and Xbox Order Pay On Conf Dont Text Me Asking For Free shii" "✅ Hit me up for your legit work.. No scam shi or charge backs here 🛒💰" | |
| Siggy, Siggie | 1. Signature 2. Signer on an account | "LGFCU ~Female Siggie" "Ya cook mans siggys suck ❌ You want ya siggys to look clean and exact ya know where I’m at 💸" | |
| SIM | Subscriber Identity Card | "T-mobile sim swaps up at 10:15 AM text me" | Used to link a mobile device to an owner's account. They can be physical SIM cards or a digital version (eSim). |
| SIM Swap | An ATO attack where a fraudster gains control of the victims phone. | "Sim swaps for all usa 🇺🇸 carriers available" "Who doing verzion sim swaps ?" | This is a popular attack to be facilitated by wireless provider insiders working on behalf of fraudsters |
| Slap | Broadly used term so context is important. It's generally used in the fraudster world to indicate a succesful fraud. | "Reviews don’t lie Verified by many just ask around Everything slaps and always slaps I ONLY ACCEPT BITCOIN PAYMENT" "I Finally Slap’d My First Chevy" "I slapped one for 4.7k but then I tried again for a 2k jawn n the shit clipped so fast" | |
| Slime | Friend, bro, etc | "thank u slime" "Appreciate you my slime" "where u from slime ?" | I see "slime" used consistently in a positive context and synoymous with friend, etc. "Slimed" Not so much. See the definition for that, but when you use it as a past tense word, it's negative. |
| Slimed | To rip someone off | "Also be cautious, stop handing your work to everyone with a pair of eyes cooking for a set price of USD. Not saying you are being slimed, but that definitely opens your back door wide open. Make sure your cook is trusted, and the only person who looks at those #s are you and him 🫡" | "Slime", however, is generally a postive term similar to friend |
| Slip | Check | "SCROLL UP FOR SLIPS WHATEVER YOU SEE IS AVAILABLE ONCE A SLIP IS SOLD I WILL DELETE IT" | |
| Smb | Somebody | "Smb lmk if this ah scat I can't tell it got no badge" | |
| SMS | Short Message Service | "Dm for spamming lessons for all tools banklogs or cc Can teach both sms and email spamming" | Basically, SMS is texting. It's a text only message that has up to 160 characters and it's the common method of texting between mobile and other devices. It's used for 2FA by financial institutions ano other providers so fraudsters are very interested it it for account takeover, smishing, etc. |
| SMS Cat 短信猫 (duǎn xìn māo) | Multi Port SMS Modem | "Selling SIM pool, backend SMS SIM pool, SK genuine 2g/4g devices, supporting 4/8/16/32/64 cards SMS/voice/goip/SMS modem dongle, guaranteed to teach, can send SMS/MMS/verification codes, free bulk SMS software included" | hxxps://garwarner[.]blogspot[.]com/2025/09/sms-pools-and-what-us-secret-service.html hxxps://www.linkedin[.]com/posts/garwarner_sms-pools-and-what-the-us-secret-service-activity-7378311904781549568-5g6D |
| snm | Say No More | "Snm I gotchu" "Snm gang ima tapn when it touch down" | |
| Spam, Spamming | Synonmous with phishing Broad definied term for using technology to compromise victim data so that you can control of their cards, online accounts, etc | "Hello y’all legit $pammer is here that gonna help you to ease You from buying BANK LOGS and CC FULLZ and start getting them yourself What is $pamming ? Spamming is using some paid tools to get bank logs fullz and cc fullz and info you want.💯❤️" "Spamming/Phishing is when you send out a lot of mail/sms to a targeted group of people in hope of getting sensitive information from them. Example is bank logins, Credit card information, Game accounts, etc" | Both of the usage examples are definitions from fraudsters on Telegram. |
| Socks | Socks proxy service | "who can give me socks 5 please" "First of all, connect your Socks, RDP, or VPN and then login the huntington bank log you purchased" | Googling "socks vs vpn" is a good way to learn about socks and how it differs from VPN |
| Spoofer | (Very broadly used term with many different meanings depending on context, some of them are listed here) 1. Technology that fraudsters use to make a call or SMS look like it came from a legitimate source 2. Someone who impersonates a victim when contacting an institution like a bank 3. Someone who does spoofing 4. Technology that is used to fool another bit of technology about what is interacting with it. 5. Preteding to be a financial institution to obtain an OTP code from a victim. | "BEST FEMALE AND MALE SPOOFERS AVAILABLE" "SPOOFERS/RESELLERS MESSAGE ME" "A portable NFC spoofer Device from $1800-$2200 depending on the design." "Otp code for the Apple Pay receive through your otp spoofer" "I do French Manuel otp 30 us per code ( I use my own spoofer) you PAY AFTER CODE" "SPOOFING IS YOU CALLING THE VICTIM INSTEAD OF A OTP BOT BASICALLY A ROBOT CALLING THEM DOING IT TO GET INTO A ACCOUNT" | |
| Stepped On | Already used such as a check that has already been negotiated. | Fraudster 1: "It's not stepped on right?" Fraudster 2: "What you mean gang ?" Fraudster 1: "Like uu didn't use it yet" Fraudster 2: "Nahhh" "Literally I make sure I handle my part, Want me to put your glass up for yea pm shi not rocket science glass can’t be stepped on 😈" | |
| Stepper, Steppers | Someone who is good at fraud, reliable, etc. | "Y’all know ima stepper!! I never gotta fake anything" "Ima stepper put me in chat !!" "Think it’s time to make my own private chat w steppers + vouched labs + vouched resources" "Steppers shop up they play no games when list posted !!" | It's a broadly used slang term that can take on some different meanings depending on the context, but it's generally someone saying they are good, reliable, to be feared, etc |
| Stick | Magazine for a firearm | "7 mobile with it rn comes with standard pb drum and 30 stick" | |
| Stim, Stimmy | Government stimulus checks. Sometimes used for government tax refund and other government checks. | "1k BITCOIN for this stimmy get your btc ready before you hit me up" | The most common use is for checks issued by the United States Department of the Treasury for any reason, not just stimulus programs. However, I've seen the term used to refer to checks issued by state governments also. |
| Strap, Straps | Gun(s) | "lmk any straps you need y'all already know I got em available always" | |
| Strapped | Carrying a gun | "need a plug doe im tryna be strapped up like the army" "it almost Christmas [redacted] to hungry stay strapped and walk around strapped don't get caught up lackin gang lol" | |
| Striker | Someone working on behalf of a fraudster. See comments | "I need a striker male around 35-60 white at Montreal i got LONGTERM plays with insider☔️☔️🥂🥂💰💰" "need striker mobile careers paying up to 800$ ( DAILY )" "Need a striker asap msg me for phone pickups" "method to make your own scripts for prescriptions of ur choice and score pharma for sale works anywhere in canada or i can sell the script to u you just need to bring a random healthcard and a striker to pick it up pm for all proofs availble" | It's a very broadly used term in, at least, the Canadian fraud ecosystem for someone working on behalf of a fraudster. It's likely that this term is being used because "striker" is a footie/soccer for a player like a forward whose primary objective is to score goals as opposed to someone who plays defense. |
| Striker | A stolen vehicle with a new fraudulent VIN. | "TRADING STRIKERS FOR GUNS LMK ASAP ‼️‼️" | It's basically a higher end stolen car that has been provided with a new identity and then sold for a steep discount compared to if it had been bought legitimately. |
| Stunt | West African context: A tactic used by criminals | "How to Cashout Coinbase $btc using an Empty Credit Karma account COINBASE METHOD Tonight i will teach you one of the easiest Instant stunt you will comeacross online" | |
| Sturdy | Reliable, trustworthy, etc. | "KEEP YO WORD BE STURDY NOWWW‼️" "Who got Sturdy heads with CHASE USAA WELLS let’s lab on wires🔼🔽" | |
| Sunny | SunTrust | "451K Sunny Grub Who need it??" | |
| Super Dusty | Very old account | "I need 10 chev biz or super dusties for Monday 🥶🥶" | See: Dusty |
| Sus | Suspicious | "Yeah just a tip for buyers for fresh prime 6m acc's u can't just add a gift card to a fresh amazon prime acc, ive done it before and lock the acc instantly for sus activity" | |
| Swaps, Swapping | SIM Swapping | "T-Mobile swap completed" | The fraudster tricks a mobile carrier to transfer a user's mobile account to their SIM card. This means the actual customer loses control of their number and the fraudster device associated with the fraudster's SIM card now controls the phone number. |
| Sweep | Depletion of funds from an account | "Who wanna learn how to get into accounts and sweep them easily✅ you’ll just need a laptop or extra device like a burner to use for this" | Rarely used term. "Wipe" is more commonly used. |
| Swing, Swing em, Swing me, etc | Provide something to a fraudster such as an account for them to use for fraud | "Any aged CU swing em my way I’ve got instant glass for you !!" "Banks needed I got glass I can drop right now 💯🤝 swing anybank" | |
| Switch, Glock Switch, etc | A device installed on the back of the slide of a Glock that turns the pistol into a full-automatic firearm | "Glock switch now fully in stock" | |
| Tander | Santander Bank | "Tander = Santander " | |
| Tang | Tangerine Bank | "NEED 1 TANG RN AGED 6 MONTH FOR LOAD" | |
| Tangerine | Tangerine Bank | "All tangerine from montreal area HMU loading 20-40k In hands only pick up or ship me the card" | |
| Tap in | Basically, it means "contact me" to collaborate on something. | "I got live cc’s tap in if you’re interested" "Tap In if you got Navy" "If you wanna learn how to get bank logs in bulk✅ Tap in" | The context is usually contacting the author to work with them on something, get something from them, etc. |
| Targ | 1. Target (as in the retail/grocery store) 2. Target (victim) | "Hit for p5 on targ just gotta pick it up" "i have a targ with a 90k AP watch at his house can i rob him" "I'm too rich im a targ for anyone" | Broadly used term |
| TCVS | Treasury Check Verification System | "I’m busy doing tcvs fa all tax check bizz and single names high balance avail tho" | This is the external facing US Department of Treasury website that can be used to validate US treasury checks. |
| TD | 1. Touchdown (successful fraud or succesful delivery of items like debit cards, etc) 2. TD Bank | "Yo my brother the package touched down" "Got a td drop if anyone tryna work 50/50 split" | |
| Teslin | A type of synthetic paper used by criminals for making fake IDs | "TESLIN STATE IDS $250" | |
| Thurl | A complementary term for someone. Trustworthy, etc. | "In there like swimwear u thurl asshit vouch 10/10" "No peons🚫No hams🚫Thurl buisness ONLY" | |
| TLO, TLOxp | Transunion's TLO product | "New TLO account in lmk price 200$ dm let's work 💯" | Used to gain personal information (SSN, DoB, address, emails, phone numbers, vehicle information, etc) for various fraud typologies such as identity theft, account takeover, etc. It's a very popular service with fraudsters. |
| Tlo Lookups | Fraudster offering to use TLO to provide information to another fraudster | "Tlo lookups/account" | This is where a fraudster will have something like a name and address for someone, but they want more like a date of birth and social security number so they will pay someone with TLO access to provide them that information. |
| Toma | Tomorrow | "Big uppy toma" "I'm shipping out toma morning" | |
| tmm | Tommorow | "ALL SHIPPING WILL BE SHIPPED BY TMM 🚀" "Lock In For Tmm Let’s Start The Week Off Right To Everyone 🚀 Let’s Get Right 💵" | |
| TMO | T-Mobile | "Who Need TMO ⚡️⚡️⚡️" | |
| tmr | Tommorow | "Thanks brodie ima cop two more tmr morning " | |
| Tmob | T-Mobile | "TMOB SWAP DONE✅" | |
| tmbo | T-Mobile | "All tmbo bank pros get wit me rn!!" | |
| tn | Tonight | "Uppy tn" "ima be sleeping good tn" | |
| TOTM | Think of the money | "TOTM PM IF YOU NEED GLASS" | |
| Touchy | TD Bank | "Who else dropped touchy Friday Nobody else shit on hold right now ?" | |
| Touchdown Photo | A photograph showing succesful delivery of some sort of product in the Telegram criminal ecosystem | "Send a touchdown photo when your package lands (not compulsory)" "Please y'all who received your shipments, kindly send us a Touchdown photo or video with your hand on the package." | |
| Troll | To intentionally aggrivate or bait someone. It's basically where someone posts something to just provoke a reaction from someone. Typical bad Internet behavior. | "i was trolling you dumb ham ass bitch" "Bro you a troll u jus want attention on my soul" | |
| Tris | Promethazine hydrochloride manufactured by Tris Pharma. | "Appreciate it brother now i have to taste on tris too one of my boys said that it’s better than all of em" | See: Drank |
| Tuts, Tutorials | Education on how to comit fraud | "For swiping tuts join up... Also does giveaways" | |
| Twin | Term of respect, friendship, etc. | "Much love twin yo stims never miss 🫡" "Love you Twin" | |
| U | In the context of payments in the underground economy, this is short for USDT. | "Salary 3000-5500 or more U" | USDT is otherwise known as Tether. This is a popular stablecoin cryptocurrency that mirrors the dollars. |
| Up | Offering something for sale, etc | "👉Uber Eats up🍤🍔🍟🍗 👉 Doordarsh up🍕🌭🥞 👉Uber Usa Rides up🚖🚖" | |
| Uppy | Uploading checks to a channel for sale | "I got new uppy dropping tmmr fresh dates" "Crazy ass uppy to be dropped in private chat" | |
| USDT | Tether cryptocurrency | "Dm If you have verified Btc or usdt wallet with good history for a massive 50/50 deal" | This is a popular stablecoin |
| VBV, Non VBV | Verified by Visa | "- VBV = means - Verified By Visa or NON - VBV" " Got valid 💳💳▶️cc + cvv + non vbv good balance cards for y’all hits on everything 🔥🔥💯💯💯💯" | |
| Vouch, Vouched | Proof that a fraudster delivered their product or service successfully. Builds credibility of the fraudster who is vouched. | "Vouch [fraudster name removed] he did 650$ escrow for me and i got paid. He handles business" "If you not vouched by nobody I know don’t even waste ya time" | |
| VPN | Virtual Private Network | "1. VPN (snap Vpn, 360 Vpn, windscribe Vpn: all these Vpn are good and strong so you can use them if you don't have money to buy socks )" | |
| Vzon | Verizon | "Hmu for you reliable sim swaps Tmob Vzon Att" | |
| Walk or Box | Was a check deposited inside a branch ("walk") or at an ATM ("box") | "Walk or box" | |
| Walked, Walk | Negotiating a fraudulent check inside of a finacial institution | "I walked house biz 2 slips diff location 5k" | |
| Walker | Someone who goes into a bank or other institution to negotiate a fraudulent check. This is generally someone working on behalf of the fraudster. | "bro he asked my friend to be his walker" "Who got walker in Orlando/Kissimmee area ?" | The term "Head" is used interchangable by some fraudsters |
| Walkthrough | This can be a step-by-step document showing how to do somehing fraud related (walking them through the process of doing something) or it can be a live training type scenario | "Book in 1:1s if you want a direct walkthrough OR buy My PayPal💰guide with step by step instructions." | |
| Washing | 1. Altering check. Using chemicals to change payee, amount, etc 2. Money Laundering | "I thought I wash good But ya wash lookin a lil to flawless" "It's hard to beat the feds and IRS. But washing ur money thru xmr is safest possible bet so ur good atleast for now Fbi still hasn't cracked xmr yet" | |
| Wave | Succesful fraud trend | "Show me any apay wave going on in December 2023 and I’ll leave chat" "I haven’t seen any waves for bank logs tbh" "Fr fam I got you all on motion Just tapin With Your CashApp Tag Or Email let eat this waves ain’t got only me let all eat fr No Hate" | See: Glitch |
| Webster | Webster Bank, N.A. (Based out of Stamford, CT) | "Webster Bank 160k" | Webster’s BIC code WENAUS31 and ABA/ Routing # 211170101. |
| Welly | Wells Fargo Bank | "Yo does welly send fraud alert to moble or email ?" | |
| Whose card?, Who sent this?, etc | Phrases like these will accompany a screenshot of a debit card. This is a scenario where someone sent a check deposit fraudster a debit card for an account to be used for deposit fraud. However, the communicaiton wasn't great so the debit card shows up and our check deposit fraudster doesn't know who sent it to him so they go on their channel to figure it out. There are also other iterations that we will see sometimes when it comes to a fraudster getting BTC or some other form of electronic funds and not knowing what it is for. | "Who sent this pm me now please" "Who card this?" "Hey yooo who sent me 955$ on btc?" | |
| Whip, Whips | Car(s) | "HIT ME ASAP WHIPS NEVER LAST YES WE CAN VIN SWAP CLEAN ‼️‼️" | |
| White Head | 1. White head is an elder who is being abused financially or who is under control enough that they can be used as a mule. 2. White people recruited to be used for crime. 3. White people who are targets for scammers. | "Got whiteheads in Canada, hit me up sharp for bulk funds ❤️" "Bro you know what it takes to get white head that obey you" "Massive teenager white heads re there which ya can blackmail" | |
| Wipe | Depleting funds from a succesful fraud | "Not tryna deal with heads so I'm tryna slow wipe too" "Wiped 42k from oa got my teeth done same week" | I've seen it used for checks, logs, etc so it's a broadly applied term for depletions |
| Wock | 1. Crazy, bad, etc 2. Short for Wockhardt branded Promethazine with Codine, etc | "That’s wock Ion wish that on nobody" "Wock $350 only for today" | |
| Wsp | What's Up | "Wsp Joseph i need money mn, i have emergency problem, my friend sanchez told me that you are legit I'm $650 Bitcoin ready" "DONT DM ME WITH "YO" OR "WSP." GET STRAIGHT TO THE POINT. 👨💼" | |
| WTB | Want to Buy | "Wtb Uganda ids Fast sellers kindly" | |
| WTS | Want to Sell | "WTS I HAVE IN STOCK ACCOUNTS" | |
| wtw | Whats The Word | "Wtw on plays gang got uppy in for Waves for Wells, Citibank, M&T, ValleyBank, Navy and everything else still hitting pmmm" "Wtw on balanced PayPal logs" "Yo gng wtw" | Can be used as a greeting or asking about something. |
| wya | Where are at? | "aged cus and local banks wya?? we going same day!" | It can be asking where some physically is, but it's generally more of a term soliciting something when it's in the context of Telegram. |
| Wy@ | Where you at? | "Wy@ wit it?" Response: "I’m in Jersey City bra" | |
| wyd | What you doing? | "If u ain’t cooking wit me wyd 👀" | |
| Wym | What You Mean | "wym charge? like pay ?" "Wym gang?" | |
| Yammer | Fraudster/Scammer | "Totm to my fellow yammers let’s get this bag still need them drops this week so tap in asap before all the fresh work goes go" "Just try to delete it like it all go away dumb ass yammer at least verify the document then delete account" "YOU FALL FOR THAT SHIT YOU AINT NO REAL YAMMER PLAIN AND SIMPLE" | I just have to go with context on this one. Sometimes it's complementary and sometimes it's negative. Not commonly used. |
| Yankee | West African scammer term for American | "Stable info available for Business yankee🇺🇸acct available 👍💼✅" "Female yankee Facebook dating with profile for sale" | |
| Yahoo | General term for West African style cybercrime | "Most of the big men we know in Ghana 🇬🇭 and Nigeria 🇳🇬 are into this same Yahoo business ,🤦Some dey carry big bags everyday through many ways " | |
| Yahoo Boys | West African Cybercriminal | "Any newbies yahoo boy here If you just into yahoo and you do not know how to bomb 💣💣....or chat client you can text me Now let work it out together first cashout 50/50 ✌️" | It's a generic term rather than being a term for a specific threat actor group. |
| Varo | Varo Bank | "who got or can get varo logs" | |
| Yimmy | Another word for "stimmy" | "Yimmys here 2k-20k amounts" | |
| Yktv | You Know The Vibe | "STIMMY 🗽HIGH BALANCE FRESH DATE MARCH 2024 YKTV 📲 NOCAP" "Hmu for all your Bank logs & Crypto logs and open ups YKTV🤤" | |
| yt | White | "kno he gotta be yt" | |
| XMR | Monero Cryptocurrency | "i was gonna clean my funds with XMR" | This is a popular privacy cryptocurrency |
| Za | Marijuana | "who need za ? if i gotta ship it to you it’s gon be extra to cover the service fee" "Za packs $1050 a bag all comes with baggies🛍" | |
| Zoe, Zoed | Ripping someone off or getting ripped off | "I’m not going Zoe your broke ass you going get your slip 😒 don’t message me 20 times gang" "Don’t get zoed 😭 those are NOT my vouches and that is NOT my vendor lol" | |
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Thanks to these folks for contributuing to the project or offering suggestions that I implemented:
Frank McKenna, Keith Maly, Sam C, Andrew Herr, Dingo1945, Cane Stringer, Mary Ann Miller, Anna Fridley, Gary Warner, Stephen Domingo, FunkyCold, a cybersecurity researcher from the Philadelphia area, Ran Locar, and Nick Sprowles.
Please reach out to Eric Huber if you have suggestions or contributions.