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My name is Brett Johnson, former United States Most wanted cyber criminal. Through fraud, identity theft and scams I was able to steal millions of dollars and this. Is how crime works. I built and ran the first organized cybercrime community. It’s called Shadow Crew. I regret every single instance of that, of the people that I knew, that I, that I victimized, that trusted me, that put faith in me every single day. There’s no fixing that. I looked for that opportunity to profit wherever it may be, and I didn’t give a damn about my victims. I didn’t care about my victims start to until I started to to interact with victims on this side of the fence, my online criminal history. Began doing eBay fraud around the year 1997. And what I mean by eBay fraud is, you know, listening things that I didn’t have, getting the money from people and scamming these people. I was selling cameras that didn’t exist, autographed baseballs, you know, Sammy Sosa, Mark McGuire, and they were selling for $60.00 on eBay. Go down, buy a case of baseballs, pick up a Sharpie, start autographing them. And typically when I was doing eBay fraud, I’d profit about $12,000 a month. That leads into selling pirated software. So I was doing that, stealing a lot of money. And I got worried about how much was coming in. I thought I was going to be looked at for money laundering and figured the best thing I could do is get a fake drivers license. I was going to use the fake ID to open up bank accounts so I could have the stolen money filtered through the bank account cash out of the ATM. And that’s how I happened upon counterfeit library. And counterfeit library they only dealt it was a degree mill. They dealt in counterfeit degrees and certificates. It’s fake ID’s, it’s fake work ID’s, any type of university. Degree that you might want to send them $200 center my picture 3-4 weeks later. I get this fake driver’s license, so I start using it to open up accounts, drop addresses, cash, checks, everything else and stealing even more money. A few weeks into that and I’m I’m I’m becoming friends with the owners of counterfeit library because I was also sharing information about how to commit fraud. Two other individuals come in, one was called Mr. X was his screen name. The other one was Beelzebub BL Zebub. He made fake ID’s. Mr. X made a very passable Social Security card and we became buddies so. Beelzebub, he came up with this idea. He’s like Gollum. My my screen name was Gollum Fun. I’ll sell the fake ID’s, Mr. X will sell the Social Security cards and we’ll build this site, this forum. And I was like, sounds like a damn good idea because I was also sharing information about how to commit fraud and it become like this criminal Field of Dreams. People were welcomed in to share and exchange criminal information. You can simply come in and you can read all of the threads. Something that might be sold as a tutorial would be tax return. Identity theft, how to file those taxes, where to target those victims? So counterfeit Library transitioned from a degree mill type of website into a eBay fraud site, a social engineering site, a cyber crime channel site. Initially my position was as a reviewer. I became basically the gatekeeper of Counterfeit Library. Every single product and service went through me. So if someone had a product or service for sale, I would get it in, verify it, talk about it and vouch for that. Seller, So they would send you physically that driver’s license or that Social Security card or that passport or what have you. All right, you’d get it and you’d give your thoughts on it and you would say this seller is reviewed and verified. That tag would then be changed to reviewed. Seller, The rules that we had, hey, no drugs, no counterfeit currency, no child ***********. Over the space of a year and a half, two years, we were Jesus, We were a couple of 1000 members. At that point. We’re doing pretty well with with counterfeit library. It’s fake ID’s, it’s eBay fraud, PayPal frauds, it’s strictly scams. It’s what it is. It’s we’re coming across with that one day. This guy comes over and he had the screen name script. He was this Ukrainian spammer. And what he says is he says, hey, I’ve got credit card information and script dealt with what we call the COB, the change of billing, just just the credit card details and the ability to update billing information. So you would be able to log into the credit card account, You would see the available balance on that card. These days they refer to it as account takeover. We had never seen anything like that. And the initial response from the community was. This guy has got to be law enforcement. And I was like, hey dude, if you’re going to sell on counterfeit library, you’ve got to be reviewed. So he was like, OK, let’s get reviewed. He’s like, well, I need to drop address and a burner phone number. I give him a drop address. I give him the phone number. He gives me the card information, card number, expiration date, three security code. He’s changed that billing information to that drop address and the burner phone number from the actual card holder information. I placed an order with Thompson’s. Computer Warehouse for $4000. Same, same card. I also placed an order with Dell’s outlet for $5000 goes through, $9000 worth of product goes through. Get the product shipped to me. They arrive and the way that works is you have to receive the merchandise and then what would you do? You’d resell it on eBay. I get back online with script, I post the the review on counterfeit library and within the space of two to three days. Counterfeit library transitions from that fake ID and and eBay fraud to basically a credit card theft. Site 1 script comes in and starts offering credit card details. At that point in time counterfeit library simply explodes. Turns out this script had a lot of buddies. They were stealing all these credit cards within, you know, 30 to 60 days. We had hundreds of posts per day of people that were looking for this information of different sellers that were coming out. Billing credit card details or physical credit cards, we had more traffic than we know what to do with. There’s a few different ways you can still credit card details. You can get it through phishing schemes and you get their name, social date of birth, card numbers, pins, all that stuff. And a phishing attack was spray and pray. So you’d send out 2 million emails. If you got 20,000 back, that’s a good day. You got 20,000 card numbers, all of a sudden you can do it physically. All right, And that that involves A skimmer. Maybe you’re, you install one at a bank. At a gas pump an you insert the card or you give someone the card and they’ve got this little device in their hand, they swipe the card through and that kept cures the credit card details. So there’s several different ways to get credit card details and information. Most of the data was coming out of America. You know, you can’t order a lot of computers to a Ukrainian address. You need to order it to an American address and then have them shipped out or cashed out from there. So script is the first guy, the first Ukrainian that comes into English. Freaking environments, alright? For cybercrime or scams or fraud to succeed online, three things have to take place. You have to to gather data, gather the tools, you then commit the crime and then finally you have to be able to cash that crime out. Well, they have the tools. They knew how to commit the crime. What they could not do was cash it out. If you were good, you would profit 30 to $40,000 a month. Cobbs. That change of billing typically sold for 8 to 10% of whatever the available balance was of that card. So if you’re buying just stolen credit card details, just the card holders name number, address, things like that, that’s going to run, you know, 7 bucks up to maybe $30 per card. You know, where do you put that money? Well, I had a house in Charleston, SC, spare bedroom. Cast a lot of it in there. I I also had bank accounts in in several different countries. When I was a criminal, I lived very, very quietly. I had a house on the water. It was not an expensive house. I would typically eat at home. If I ate at a restaurant, it would be someplace like Applebee’s or something like that. So I was able to save some money, but you have to understand that. When I was committing crime. Money got to the point where you didn’t understand the value of it.
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