Vietnam-based cybercrime markets enable account sign-ups at scale

The report outlines a thriving underground market for fraudulent social-media and email accounts and related services used to support scams (romance, investment, extortion), ticket fraud, review manipulation and other abuses. It describes merchants selling accounts, fraud kits, residential proxies, phone farms and anti-detect tools—often via open web shops and messaging platforms—notes organized criminal compounds in Southeast Asia, and references large-scale operations (e.g., Storm 1152) that have sold hundreds of millions of accounts, amplifying global fraud risk.