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Table 9 COVID-19 related guides on scamming appearing in the listings, together with a brief description and the number of listings related to that sub-category

From: Dark Web Marketplaces and COVID-19: before the vaccine

Topic

Description

Listings

SBA loan

how to illicitly get money from the USA Small Business Loan program [81]

19

Bank account

how to exploit pandemic related security to open bank accounts

16

Fraud Pack

pack containing multiple generic covid related frauds

7

Covid-19

Generic guides explaining how to exploit the pandemic in many different ways

7

Amazon

Amazon related fraud guides

6

GoFundMe

GoFundMe related fraud guides

4

Apple

Apple related fraud guides

3

Unemployment fund

How to illicilty get money from government unemployment funds

3

Other

Other COVID-19 related fraud guides

34