Innovation in The Underworld: Reducing the Risk of Ripper Fraud

Ripper.cc is a 2016-launched service that aggregates profiles of marketplace fraudsters (“rippers”) and offers browser and Jabber plugins to highlight them across forums and chats; the report explains how the service aims to reduce the "ripper tax," increase trust among criminals, and potentially enable more profitable and scalable cybercrime by professionalizing marketplace dispute resolution.