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ShadowCrew OPERATED_BY Gollumfun
Brett became an administrator and later took over operation and ownership of ShadowCrew after Seth quit.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 128 Details
“Brett, or Gollumfun, was a moderator and admin of ShadowCrew”
“So, Brett took over shadowcrew.com”
Gollumfun SAME_AS Brett Johnson
Jack identifies Brett Johnson as the person known online as Gollumfun.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 128 Details
“Brett, or Gollumfun”
Gollumfun USES Database dumps
Brett used database dumps found on ShadowCrew to search for information useful in opening accounts under other people’s names.
Explicit Confidence 96% · Brett Johnson EP 128 Details
“I started looking through these to see if there’s anything useful for me in that data”
“Sometimes I’d find some data to be able to open accounts under other people’s names”
Gollumfun USES Money mules
The carding operation relied on money mules because the Ukrainian participants could not cash out the stolen card data themselves.
Explicit Confidence 90% · Brett Johnson EP 128 Details
“The Ukrainians simply could not put cash in pocket literally themselves, so they had to rely on money mules”
Brett says he used PayPal to receive payments and later committed PayPal fraud.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Brett Johnson EP 128 Details
“PayPal really becomes popular”
“We were pretty big on fake driver’s licenses, eBay, PayPal fraud”
Brett describes himself as a carder and participated in the credit-card fraud activity centered on Counterfeit Library and ShadowCrew.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Brett Johnson EP 128 Details
“A good carder – and I term myself a good carder”
Gollumfun USES Counterfeit Library
Brett used Counterfeit Library as a forum for communicating with other criminals, learning scams, and conducting criminal commerce.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Brett Johnson EP 128 Details
“I get on the forum”
“I was pretty much friends with the people who run Counterfeit Library”
Gollumfun USES Magstripe writer
Brett describes the carding operation’s use of magstripe writers to write stolen card data onto blank cards; the episode presents this as activity on the forums and by carders.
Derived Confidence 78% · Jack Rhysider EP 128 Details
“Counterfeit Library began exploding with chatter about how to get magstripe writers”
Gollumfun USES ShadowCrew
Brett operated ShadowCrew as an online criminal marketplace and used it to coordinate carding and other criminal activity.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Jack Rhysider EP 128 Details
“Brett took over shadowcrew.com”
“ShadowCrew was a marketplace for illegal things”
Dmitry Golubov USES Counterfeit Library
Dmitry, using the name Script, attempted to sell stolen credit-card information through Counterfeit Library.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 128 Details
“This Dmitry guy who went by Script on the forum was trying to sell credit card stuff on Counterfeit Library”
Counterfeit Library USES Forum vouching and reputation system
Counterfeit Library added a vouching-based reputation feature to make transactions more trustworthy.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 128 Details
“Counterfeit Library added a reputation feature. Specifically you could vouch for someone”
Gollumfun USES Tax-refund fraud
Brett says he filed fraudulent income-tax returns for dead people and cashed out the resulting funds.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Brett Johnson EP 128 Details
“I started filing income tax returns, fraudulent income tax returns, on dead people”
Brett says that finding eBay led him into further online criminal activity and that he used eBay for scams and sales.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Brett Johnson EP 128 Details
“that’s when I find eBay, and then eBay leads into all this other stuff”
“I was selling it all on eBay”
Gollumfun USES social engineering
Brett explicitly characterizes himself as a social engineer and manipulator while deceiving his wife and victims.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Brett Johnson EP 128 Details
“I was the social engineer and I was a manipulator”
Gollumfun USES Blank credit cards
Brett describes carders writing stolen data onto blank credit cards for ATM cash-outs.
Derived Confidence 80% · Jack Rhysider EP 128 Details
“ways to write the data to the card”
“write them to blank cards, and then go to ATMs and cash out”
Brett used ICQ to communicate with criminal associates and operate online relationships.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Brett Johnson EP 128 Details
“We also start talking on ICQ”
“we always talked on Sunday night on ICQ”
Gollumfun USES Forum vouching and reputation system
Brett participated in the forum’s seller-screening and reputation process, including reviewing whether sellers could operate on the site.
Explicit Confidence 90% · Jack Rhysider EP 128 Details
“all sellers had to be checked out by him before they could sell on the site”
Brett placed keyloggers on a computer to monitor his wife’s activity.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Brett Johnson EP 128 Details
“I had placed key-loggers on the computer”
Gollumfun USES California State Death Index
Brett says he obtained access to the California State Death Index and researched ways to exploit its information.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Brett Johnson EP 128 Details
“I got was the California State Death Index. So, I had access to that”
Gollumfun ASSOCIATED_WITH Counterfeit Library
Brett says Counterfeit Library was one of the criminal collaboration sites that enabled this type of fraud.
Explicit Confidence 95% · Brett Johnson EP 129 Details
“before those sites we were talking about, Counterfeit Library and ShadowCrew”
ShadowCrew ASSOCIATED_WITH Brett Johnson
Jack describes ShadowCrew as Brett’s online home and says Brett owned and operated the website.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 129 Details
“His home online was shadowcrew.com, a website he owned and operated”
Gollumfun ASSOCIATED_WITH ShadowCrew
Brett says he posted tutorials on ShadowCrew explaining how to commit eBay fraud and walked people through it.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Brett Johnson EP 129 Details
“I remember clearly posting many tutorials on how to do this type of fraud on eBay, and even walking people through it”
La Cosa Nostra ASSOCIATED_WITH Royal Canadian Mounted Police
The episode says the person running La Cosa Nostra worked for the RCMP and that the site was an RCMP investigation.
Attributed Confidence 99% · Brett Johnson EP 129 Details
“La Cosa Nostra was an RCMP investigation”
Brett Johnson AUTHORED The Brett Johnson Show
Jack says Brett makes the podcast The Brett Johnson Show.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 129 Details
“he also makes a podcast called The Brett Johnson Show”
Brett says Manos Di compromised his GTE mail account and locked him out of it.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Brett Johnson EP 129 Details
“he’s compromised my GTE mail account and has shut me out of it”