Vouch
A public endorsement from an established member that a seller delivered. Vouches accumulate into standing, standing sets price, and a lost reputation is the only real penalty most of these markets can impose.
Why it matters to you
Vouch history is how you tell a capable seller from a loud one. A listing about your organization from a vouched broker deserves a different response than the same claim from a new account.
Where we meet it
Vouches are the closest thing this economy has to an audit trail, and they are written to be read by strangers. Reading them is how an analyst decides whether a claim about their employer is worth escalating.
Connected terms
Garant
A forum-appointed escrow who holds payment until the goods check out. Criminal marketplaces run on reputation systems and dispute arbitration: trust infrastructure for people who trust no one.
Exit scam
A market or a trusted vendor takes the escrow balance and disappears. The recurring end state of criminal platforms, and the reason escrow and reputation systems exist at all.
Access listing
The IAB's ad format: industry, country, revenue, access level and price. Everything except the victim's name, which is disclosed to serious buyers in private.
Where this term stops being vocabulary
Dragnet is where you watch it happen to you
Knowing the word is the cheap half. The platform is the half where the term arrives attached to your domain, with a timestamp and the source it came from.
More from the trade
Access listing
The IAB's ad format: industry, country, revenue, access level and price. Everything except the victim's name, which is disclosed to serious buyers in private.
Bot shop
A marketplace that sells the output of one infected machine as a single unit: its cookies, saved passwords, browser fingerprint and time zone, packaged so a buyer can load the lot into an antidetect browser and resume the victim's sessions.
Carding
The trade in stolen payment card data and the craft of turning it into goods: testing cards, choosing merchants, shipping to reshippers. An economy with its own schools, slang and reputations.
Cashout
The last mile: turning stolen access, cards or balances into money the criminal keeps. Gift cards, crypto, mule accounts, reshipping, each with its own fee and its own specialists.