Le Dico du Scam
French-speaking scammer slang: Le Dico du Scam
Allo, scama, rez, lookup, shooter… French-speaking scammers who run phishing, fake bank advisor and smishing campaigns have developed their own vocabulary. It shows up on Telegram channels and autoshops, Discord servers, forums, and even in the code of phishing kits.
Le Dico du Scam documents this slang, term by term, from what StalkPhish observes while monitoring these networks. For SOC, CERT and anti-fraud analysts, it helps read an ad, qualify a phishing kit or follow an investigation; for everyone else, it explains how the scams targeting their data and money are organised.
Terms and quotes are kept in their original French; definitions are translated into English. The glossary is collaborative and open source: anyone can suggest a term observed in the wild.
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A
- Allo#
- Scam technique using a phone call.In our analyses: Smishing à la française : techniques 2025-2026
- Alloteur#
- Person who practises the "Allo".In our analyses: Smishing à la française : techniques 2025-2026
- APK#
- Android application/package.
- Autoshop#
- Automated shop (on Telegram), run by a robot (bot), for buying services or data, most often with cryptocurrency.In our analyses: Phishing Netflix, Société Générale, Ameli : kits à 10 €
B
- Bara#
- The "job", the scam.
- Barber#
- To steal.
- Becter#
- To eat; in this context, to scam.
- Bin#
- First six to eight digits of a bank card, which identify the issuing bank and the card type (Standard, Gold, Platinum, ...).
- Boîte / Box#
- Data package.
- Bot#
- Robot, software used for automation.
- Brouteur#
- Scammer running romance scams.
C
- Call#
- Phone call.
- Caller / Calleur#
- Person running phone scams.In our analyses: Smishing à la française : techniques 2025-2026
- Call center / Center#
- Platform for making phone calls.
- Carré#
- Compliant, clear, approved.« C'est carré »
- CC#
- Bank card (credit card).« Vend cc pas cher »
- Check#
- Verification.
- Checker#
- Software used to find out whether an account or login exists on a platform.
- CNI#
- French national identity card (Carte Nationale d'Identité).
- Config#
- Configuration file for a checker or a proxy.
- Combolist#
- Combined list, aggregate of information.
- Coupon#
- Means of payment such as PCS or Transcash vouchers, which can be bought anonymously at a tobacconist.
- Coursier#
- Person whose job is to collect physical items, such as a bank card.« Cherche coursier sur Lyon »In our analyses: Smishing à la française : techniques 2025-2026
- Crypto#
- Cryptocurrency.
- CSV#
- Structured data file format.
D
- Data#
- Data.
- DB#
- Database.
- Décaisse / Décaissement#
- Moving money from one account to another in order to take the sum.« Quelques RIB dispos pour la décaisse »In our analyses: Phishing Netflix, Société Générale, Ameli : kits à 10 €
- Dev#
- Developer, development of applications, phishing sites, etc.
- Drain / Drainer#
- Malware dedicated to stealing cryptocurrencies.
- Drop#
- Gift, free giveaway.
E
F
- Fiche / Lookup#
- File containing personal data.In our analyses: Smishing à la française : techniques 2025-2026
- Flocko#
- Fool, idiot.
- Forma#
- Training in a scam technique.
- Fresh#
- Brand new, freshly obtained.
H
- Histo#
- History; often said of a stolen account that has been used legitimately for some time.« Vend Paypal avec histo »
I
L
M
N
- NDD#
- Domain name (Nom De Domaine).
- NL / NumList#
- List of phone numbers (or emails).In our analyses: Smishing à la française : techniques 2025-2026
O
- OnOff#
- Legitimate telephony platform, used for illegal purposes (see Call Center).« 16 onoff premium dispo 8/u uniquement crypto »In our analyses: Smishing à la française : techniques 2025-2026
- Op#
- Operational.
P
- Panel#
- Web administration and management interface.
- PCS#
- Rechargeable prepaid card.
- Plaque#
- Vehicle registration plate, often accessible through fiches (personal data files).« Qui peut me sortir des infos avec une plaque ? »
- Plavon#
- Plan to make money, often illegal.
- Plesk#
- Graphical platform for server administration.
- Ppl#
- PayPal.
- Proof#
- Customer testimonial meant to prove that a service is good.
- PSF#
- PaySafeCard, a prepaid payment system, also usable online through a preloaded account.
- Pv#
- Private message or conversation.« Viens pv »
R
- RDP#
- Remote access to a Windows machine, used as a nearly anonymous relay.
- Recup#
- Pickup: collecting a payment card most often, but also its PIN code, or even jewellery, cash, etc.In our analyses: Smishing à la française : techniques 2025-2026
- Refund / RF#
- Refund scam, most often involving parcels.
- Rez#
- Results, stolen data.« Rez Mondial Relay dispo »In our analyses: Smishing à la française : techniques 2025-2026 · Phishing Netflix, Société Générale, Ameli : kits à 10 €
- Route#
- Best way to deliver SMS/MMS or phone calls while bypassing some protection filters.
S
- Scam#
- Scam.
- Scama#
- Phishing page or complete phishing kit.
- Screen#
- Screenshot.
- Send#
- Sending.
- Sender#
- Person or software dedicated to sending SMS, emails, …
- Shooter / Shooteur#
- Person carrying out the scam in direct contact with the victim.« Shooter qonto ? Mp »
- Shortcode#
- Short number shown as the sender of an SMS or as the calling number.
- SID#
- Sender ID, phone sender identifier.
- SIM#
- Subscriber card for a phone service.
- SIMSWAP#
- Technique of fraudulently transferring a victim's phone number to a SIM card controlled by the attacker.In our analyses: Coinbase Phishing Kit with a Live Panel to Bypass MFA
- Spam#
- Mass sending of unsolicited communications.
- Spammeur#
- Person who carries out scams.
- Stealer#
- Software dedicated to stealing data, money or cryptocurrency.
T
U
- UHQ#
- Ultra high quality.« Vend scama uhq »
V
Source: the StalkPhish/dico-du-scam repository on GitHub (in French), updated at each publication of the site; English definitions are translated by StalkPhish. Reproduction permitted with attribution.