sms-activate is closing

[lucky.sparks]

sms-activate is closing its business.

So if you have some funds on it(like i do),

You should go and submit a "Withdrawal of funds" request.

 

[ceg]

What similar services are there?

 

[tzssulzbwq2922]

Thank you! I remember topping up my balance to register accounts on Telegram, but I never received any SMS messages

 

[Salamouna]

But minimum is 30

 

[lucky.sparks]

But minimum is 30

I had $700+ that I haven't been using for months, so for me it was a reasonable notice.

All credits go to @AllOutAnime for letting me know.

 

[TheReviewer]

Wondering why, the service is really good.
Any alternative?

 

[ceg]

Wondering why, the service is really good.
Any alternative?

For example, SIM boxes are banned in our country, and I've seen a ton of news about people's homes being broken into if they use them. I think the key issue is the legal issue.

 

[SpawneR]

I literally spent thousands on there, and that minimum $30 is really a dick move from them.
I have no idea why they would go out of business like that; some shady stuff is happening lately with well-established businesses getting closed.

 

[lucky.sparks]

I have no idea why they would go out of business like that; some shady stuff is happening lately with well-established businesses getting closed.

 

[SpawneR]

Wow... Didn't know this could get this serious lol.

 

[SirTop]

Holy cow… honestly, if not for your post I wouldn’t have known.

I wonder what will happen to people who are still unaware come Jan 29

They should probably keep withdrawals active beyond Jan 29 IMO

 

[BKF]

I don't think that they care for people who are still unaware... based on the video provided

 

[theusualkeysersoze]

Wow... Didn't know this could get this serious lol.

Well, well, there is many , many people in this industry who have not got the faintest idea, I have over and over, carders asking me how to set up anit detect browsers and if I wanna team up with them (as if I could not do this alone without an amateur onboarded) and they do so on unencrypted telegram chats. Even the little stoners on reddit who used the dark web to buy a little bit of weed have better opsec and online hygiene than this field which is chock full of uncareful people who should know better.
Just because you might have used a sim service to activate gmail, does not mean that a vast majority of others are not using these services for some serious criminal activity.

 

[theusualkeysersoze]

I literally spent thousands on there, and that minimum $30 is really a dick move from them.
I have no idea why they would go out of business like that; some shady stuff is happening lately with well-established businesses getting closed.

bro, first off, this is not a well established business, lets call a spade a spade, its a criminal operatition, else the police would not be visiting without knocking the door, right?

So now, such enterprises need "special" payment providers, they will not route the funds to their provate crypto wallets, and these PSPs have something called minimum withdrawal amount, depending on the coin.

I am using a crypto PSP for my business and some coins, I had to set the minimum tx amount to 30 , since 5 wouldnt work, 10 or 20 would not be consistent.

These folks last worry was about scamming you out of 10 quid and you are probably BEST ADVISED TO NOT GET THAT REFUND in the first place, what do you think the police will do the the transaction data? Do you wanna make it explicitly clear that you are a customer now THAT POLICE HAS SEIZED THEIR SERVERS AND CONTROLLERs?

As you can see in the vids, they got them with the hands in the cookie jar and the police is probably running the infrastructure.

So have you back then made sure your deposit cannot be traced back to you? have you paid the sms via some anti detect profile which itself cant be traced back to you and what the plan to get these funds out of there safely?

They have mentioned extortion and human trafficking in there, so by all means, go have your little refund lol. people in this environment think they are super smart and nothing will ever happen, we have people here thinking theyre smarter than Google and such.

Proceed with care.

 

[Yoram]

Oh noo I've used them for so long!

 

[BeNews]

This might be the sector that has surprised me the most lately.

 

[theusualkeysersoze]

Holy cow… honestly, if not for your post I wouldn’t have known.

I wonder what will happen to people who are still unaware come Jan 29

They should probably keep withdrawals active beyond Jan 29 IMO

Do you believe the owners who should be in prison or awaiting trial are giving you a hand there or the police might be fishing and then get your IP, email and crypto wallet?

Think this through, what might be the most likely answer and can you make sure your real IP does not leak, that crypto wallet is bullet proof and that email has always been only access from a safe web environment?

 

[SirTop]

Do you believe the owners who should be in prison or awaiting trial are giving you a hand there or the police might be fishing and then get your IP, email and crypto wallet?

Think this through, what might be the most likely answer and can you make sure your real IP does not leak, that crypto wallet is bullet proof and that email has always been only access from a safe web environment?

Good point you shared here, mate... and same for the other comments above.

But I want to point out that I don’t think the video shared by OP about the police bust was directly related to them. It could be part of the reason they are shutting down, maybe they no longer have a provider to work with or something along those lines.

I don’t really know until OP clears it up whether the YouTube video was a direct hit on them.

And for OP who had a 700+ USD balance there, he can’t just let it go like that. I get it if it was a small amount but not at that level.

There would be a serious reason for them closing down but I don’t think it’s because they were directly hit or targeted.

It could even be that they’re trying to move to another setup, especially since they’re suggesting people move to HeroSMS on their page : )

 

[lucky.sparks]

whether the YouTube video was a direct hit on them.

it was for goGetSms. similar service to sms-activate.

you can read more about it here https://www.europol.europa.eu/media-press/newsroom/news/cybercrime-service-takedown-7-arrested

 

[theusualkeysersoze]

Good point you shared here, mate... and same for the other comments above.

But I want to point out that I don’t think the video shared by OP about the police bust was directly related to them. It could be part of the reason they are shutting down, maybe they no longer have a provider to work with or something along those lines.

I don’t really know until OP clears it up whether the YouTube video was a direct hit on them.

And for OP who had a 700+ USD balance there, he can’t just let it go like that. I get it if it was a small amount but not at that level.

There would be a serious reason for them closing down but I don’t think it’s because they were directly hit or targeted.

It could even be that they’re trying to move to another setup, especially since they’re suggesting people move to HeroSMS on their page : )

Ah yes, was other provider, that's clarified and I had seen that video previously actually.

Which does not change my suggestions on modus operandi in any way btw, I always make sure that I did the best to hide everything, while there's always a bit potential for mistakes, you just do not want to be the low hanging fruit sucker who gets picked up, governments will go for these first, the rest, ifnits nothing previous will be "not worth the effort"

I had the (dis)pleasure on having convos with cops regarding when the state attorneys will green light software like celebxxx and such forensics and boy, that stuff is so expensive, it will not get approved just like that, we're talking about low six digit sums per case in developed countries.

So in this case, if your due diligence was done, just withdraw they funds. If unsure and you've done some catastrophic mistakes when loading the funds and done some dodgy stuff, write it off.