More than 300 arrested over the dark web child porn market
4 days ago more than 300 people arrested by the police at the dark web child porn market.
The website had lot’s of videos with millions of views, the website was takedown by the UK police and national crime agency.
but on the 16th of October 2019 more than 330 users have been arrested from the 38 countries.
US
authorities unlocked nine arraignments against the site’s proprietor
Jong-Woo Son, 23, from South Korea – where he is presently in jail.
In
the UK, seven men have quite recently been prosecuted in regards to the
assessment, including Kyle Fox who was detained for quite a while last
March for the ambush of a five-year-old child and who appeared on the
site expressly misusing a three-year-old youngster.
The Godfather Of Dark Web (The Perfect Scam Podcats)
Godfather of dark web
[00:00:00] Will Johnson: Coming up this week on AARP – The Perfect Scam.
[00:00:03]
There was one site that, where I think we saw 171,000 people registered
to that site, and every one of those 171,000 people was there for some
nefarious reason.
[00:00:12] I stole from people I knew, people that I never met and didn’t care. I was a despicable person then.
[00:00:21]
Will Johnson: Welcome back to this week’s episode of AARP – The Perfect
Scam podcast. I’m Will Johnson, I’m here with my cohost, the AARP’s
Fraud Watch Network Ambassador, Frank Abagnale. Frank, how are you? [00:00:30] Frank Abagnale: Great to be back, Will, thanks.
[00:00:32]
Will Johnson: Frank, I’ve been thinking maybe there could be a sequel
for “Catch Me If You Can. Have you thought about this at all or is it
just me?
[00:00:39] Frank Abagnale: I haven’t thought about it, but…
[00:00:40] Will Johnson: You can do the other 40 years of your life.
[00:00:42] Frank Abagnale: Right.
[00:00:43]
Will Johnson: Right? I don’t know who would play the role, but well I
guess Leo could come back, Leonardo DiCaprio. Because our podcast is all
about scams, we want to spend an episode talking about the Dark Web.
The Dark Web is where cybercrime lives and flourishes, drugs, weapons,
your Social Security number, you name it. AARP Fraud Watch Network
expert, Doug Schadel went on a tour of the Dark Web to see it firsthand.
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Doug Schadel: The Dark Web started back in the early 2000s, it was
actually invented by the US Navy. It was trying to get um, some
communication channel for their operatives overseas to communicate
anonymously. And so they developed this software called The Onion
Router, TOR. T-O-R which is what you need to access the Dark Web, but
early on, criminals started to see this, and being early adopters of
that type of technology, they said, wait, we could communicate
anonymously with each other? Let’s try that. That’s a good idea because
we want to sell a lot of drugs. About 80 percent of the criminal
activity on the Dark Web is drug trafficking. Every kind of drug you can
imagine is for sale on the Dark Web. There is also the buying and
selling of digital goods. This is your digital identity and my digital
identity, Will. What’s a digital identity? Things like your Social
Security number, personal information.
[00:02:10] Will Johnson: To
delve much deeper into the Dark Web, how it started, how it works, and
how it got to where it is today, we went to the source, Brett Johnson.
Many consider Brett the guy who made the Dark Web what it is today.
These days, Brett’s life is transformed. He’s using his expertise for
the good guys as a consultant with the FBI, the Secret Service, and
private companies who are fighting cybercrime.
I sat
down with Brett and we chatted for 90 minutes or so, and I have to say
it was a bit of a bizarre experience after talking to so many fraud
victims over the course of many episodes of this show. But Brett has an
incredible story, and he helps us get inside the mind of cybercriminals.
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[00:02:50] Will Johnson: The Secret Service once dubbed you the Original Internet Godfather, right?
[00:02:53] Brett Johnson: They did. I’m not proud of that title, but that’s what they said.
[00:02:57] Will Johnson: Brett knows probably as much or more about the Dark Web than, than most people.
[00:03:04]
Brett Johnson: Probably more about the Dark Web and online cybercrime
than, than most anyone. There may be some people that are still locked
up that might know more than I.
[00:03:13] Will Johnson: We’ll get
to them, eventually. And the reason being is that you actually launched
one of the first online stores, if I can call it that?
[00:03:21] Brett Johnson: Yeah, I…
[00:03:22] Will Johnson: Trafficking and, and bad stuff.
[00:03:23]
Brett Johnson: Right, I built the first online, the first organized
cybercrime community. It was called Shadow Crew, it was the precursor to
today’s Dark Net markets and it laid the foundation for the way that
modern cybercrime channels still operate today.
It is ensured Hu had his very very own first-rate pill press at home
that he used to stamp the meth into Adderall-encircled tablets and even
be part of obscure markings from the real pro embraced treatment to
purpose them to seem, reputedly, to be coherently valid. Lin was liable
for offers and propelling, it’s far assured.
Dark Web Meth
In
any case, whilst the prescriptions themselves yielded two or three
scraps of statistics concerning who become in the back of the business
that, as exhibited by government administrators, exceeded on at any rate
28,000 bundles and made $eight.8m in offers, it was the bundling that
abandoned them.
The two men are charged for utilizing Endicia, an
internet business restrained by using Stamps.Com, to buy postage method
that they by means of then stuck on packs and dropped off at Hu’s
straightaway at any price one mail station, a ten-minute force from his
domestic. Those engravings have been gotten from Hu’s own Stamps.Com
account that had a file of his authentic name and address, it’s miles
guaranteed.
As seemed by the criminal arraignments [PDF and PDF]
ended towards them: “Assessment of the records related to the Stamps.Com
account used to transport the groups containing methamphetamine drove
Agents to peer Hu as the real document holder of the Stamps.Com
account.”
The singular living course of movement
Hu, we
are instructed, utilized a phony name and go back deal with – one in
Whittier, round 25 minutes away – for the postage call, in any case, his
true name and authorized location in which he made the pills had been
at the Endicia account, it’s far ensured. We can envision it wasn’t that
hard for the Feds to get to the ensured record subtleties, from
Stamps.Com, for the reason that it changed into related to being
utilized to send illicit medicines.
Uncle Sam’s examiners passed
via Hu’s home and said they noticed the 2 men there passing gatherings
among each different. Through an open parking spot access the g-men
correspondingly simply considered a suspicious large plastic tote p.C.
Inside the rear of an automobile. The professionals selected to stay and
do some commentary and stated they had been remunerated when, following
half-hour, Hu rose and drove off, taking the course to a near put up
office in Hillgrove, east of Los Angeles.
The
administrators said they watched Hu dumped a vital heap of US Postal
Service envelopes – 87 it modified out – right into a need mail
canister. After he left, the g-men went in, told a group of workers what
their person turned into, it’s miles proclaimed, and appropriated the
holder. Satisfactorily certain, it’s far expressed, the envelope marks
highlighted Hu’s Endicia account wide variety. So the experts opened
them, and to the extent, everyone knows observed comparable capsules
they were given earlier than after they received exams from the pair
through the stupid web.
That become first-rate to get a decision
to provide the Feds a court called for, and the following day they
swooped on each Lin and Hu’s personal dwelling recreation plans. Lin was
gotten ultimate in his phase, anyway Hu legged it, we are advised. He
did not get some distance.
“On May 22, 2019, Agents executed the
court call for at RESIDENCE-2 and experienced HU within the premises,
who fled out the assistant segment of RESIDENCE-2 through various
neighboring homes and become gotten a brief separation away,” Hu’s
arraignment states.
Government stars said they discovered
interior “among various things, a tablet press, distinctive punches and
flops wretchedly, a massive share of capsules, in for all intents and
purposes indistinguishable attributes the ones recuperated from the
packs referenced above and from RESIDENCE-1, that Agents recognize to be
undeniably extra than 500 grams, and a tremendous share of powder.
Bosses subject endeavored a tablet and powder, and both endeavored
wonderful for methamphetamine.”
Hu is as of currently being held
after the courtroom picked he turned into a flight danger issue to the
manner that he, as indicated with the aid of the Feds, made a run for
it, anyway Lin is out on bond – paying little thoughts to the manner
wherein that he anticipated at hand over his one of a kind confirmation.
The two guys fought no longer unpardonable on Thursday this week in a
focal Cali area courtroom, and are imagining starter.
All of
which ought to in any occasion be a movement to happy stupid net avenue
tranquilize masters: don’t utilize your area of dwelling game plan
whilst buying stamps.