Episode
09 November 2021 Official episode · Official transcript
dark web
Arya Ebrahami describes operating fake-ID websites and vendor accounts on darknet marketplaces, moderating Nucleus and AlphaBay, handling cryptocurrency, and later cooperating with federal investigators.
Topics: Darknet marketplaces, Tor access to hidden services, Cryptocurrency payments and exchange tracing, Bitcoin tumbling, Operational security failures, Doxxing and identity exposure, Jabber and OTR messaging, Encrypted disks and TrueCrypt volumes, Tails, Remote access through TeamViewer, Cryptocurrency wallets and seed phrases, Federal investigation of darknet marketplace staff accounts
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Qualified statements from this episode, not graph facts.
Darknet Diaries REFERENCES Operation Bayonet
Jack recommends listening to Operation Bayonet before this episode because it provides background on darknet marketplaces and overlaps with this episode.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 104 Details
“I highly recommend that you listen to Episode 24 first. It’s called Operation Bayonet”
Arya Ebrahami USES reallygoodfakes.com
Arya used reallygoodfakes.com as a source for learning how to make fake IDs.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 104 Details
“he finds this website called reallygoodfakes.com”
Novelty ID Store ASSOCIATED_WITH Arya Ebrahami
Arya says Novelty ID Store was his fake-ID website and that it was publicly identified as being run by him.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Arya Ebrahami EP 104 Details
“noveltyidstore.com is a scam run by Arya Ebrahami”
Delaware Fakes USES Doxxing
Arya says Delaware Fakes doxxed him by publishing his picture, name, and address.
Attributed Confidence 94% · Arya Ebrahami EP 104 Details
“It was a guy named Delaware Fakes. He was a whole separate company”
“they were the first people to dox me”
Oracle ASSOCIATED_WITH Arya Ebrahami
Oracle was Arya’s vendor name on Silk Road; the episode presents the pseudonym as Arya’s marketplace identity.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 104 Details
“His vendor name there was Oracle”
Oracle was Arya’s vendor account used to sell fake IDs on Silk Road.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 104 Details
“He decided to make a vendor account on Silk Road to sell fake IDs”
Ted Danzig USES Silk Road
Ted Danzig was identified by Arya as the other fake-ID vendor on Silk Road.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Arya Ebrahami EP 104 Details
“There was two vendors on Silk Road for fake IDs. So, there was Ted Danzig and then there was me”
Arya Ebrahami USES Bitcoin
Arya accepted payment in Bitcoin for fake IDs and held Bitcoin in his wallet.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Arya Ebrahami EP 104 Details
“I’m getting paid in Bitcoin, dude”
Arya Ebrahami USES Tor
Arya accessed Silk Road through Tor, including from his phone while at school.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Arya Ebrahami EP 104 Details
“I used to access Silk Road from Tor on my phone all the time”
Silk Road seizure INVOLVES Silk Road
The Silk Road seizure involved the FBI seizing the Silk Road site.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Arya Ebrahami EP 104 Details
“The FBI arrested the owner of Silk Road and seized the site”
Silk Road OPERATED_BY Ross Ulbricht
Ross Ulbricht is described as the person arrested for running Silk Road.
Explicit Confidence 97% · Jack Rhysider EP 104 Details
“the guy who was arrested for running Silk Road, Ross Ulbricht”
Arya Ebrahami USES noveltyids.co
Arya operated and promoted noveltyids.co as his clearnet fake-ID website after Silk Road was taken down.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Arya Ebrahami EP 104 Details
“Here’s my Clearnet website. That one was called noveltyids.co”
noveltyids.co ASSOCIATED_WITH Arya Ebrahami
Arya identifies noveltyids.co as the website he relaunched and promoted as Oracle from Silk Road.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Arya Ebrahami EP 104 Details
“I said hey everyone, it’s Oracle from Silk Road, veteran vendor from Silk Road. Here’s my Clearnet website”
Arya Ebrahami USES Agora
Arya used Agora to buy Xanax after Silk Road was taken down.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Arya Ebrahami EP 104 Details
“Agora was one of them. So, I’m buying all my friends these Xanax”
Arya Ebrahami ASSOCIATED_WITH Nucleus
Arya became a staff member of Nucleus and performed support and forum-moderation work there.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Arya Ebrahami EP 104 Details
“I became staff on their website”
“I did support tickets, I handled their forum”
Arya Ebrahami ASSOCIATED_WITH AlphaBay
Arya became a junior moderator and staff member of AlphaBay, handling disputes and moderation.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 104 Details
“he was now part of the staff on AlphaBay, helping them run the site”
The episode identifies Alex as AlphaBay’s administrator and says he ran the site.
Attributed Confidence 96% · Jack Rhysider EP 104 Details
“the admin was a guy named Alex”
“the admin who ran the site”
PharmaKing USES AlphaBay
PharmaKing was an AlphaBay vendor from whom Arya bought Xanax.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Arya Ebrahami EP 104 Details
“I found a vendor on AlphaBay that I ended up becoming his number-one customer. It was this vendor named PharmaKing”
Arya Ebrahami USES Jabber
Arya used Jabber to communicate with AlphaBay’s administrator for business purposes.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Arya Ebrahami EP 104 Details
“I would talk to admin on Jabber”
Arya Ebrahami USES Off-the-Record Messaging
Arya used the OTR plugin for Jabber communications, although he later learned investigators had obtained the logs in clear text.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Arya Ebrahami EP 104 Details
“they had logs of my Jabber conversations with the OTR plugin”
Arya Ebrahami USES Coinbase
Arya sent Bitcoin to Coinbase and cashed it out rather than tumbling it.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Arya Ebrahami EP 104 Details
“I was doing the same thing I was doing with Silk Road, which was sending it to a Coinbase account and cashing out”
Arya Ebrahami USES Tails
Arya learned to use Tails as part of improving his operational security.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 104 Details
“He was learning how to encrypt his hard drives and use Tails”
Arya Ebrahami USES TeamViewer
Arya used TeamViewer to give a competitor remote access to his computer and web server.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 104 Details
“the two set up TeamViewer, a way for this other guy to see Arya’s computer”
TeamViewer USES remote desktop access
TeamViewer provided screen-sharing and remote control of Arya’s computer.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 104 Details
“They started a screen-sharing session”
“I gave him control through the TeamViewer”
Arya Ebrahami USES TrueCrypt
Arya used TrueCrypt partitions to store sensitive files and Bitcoin-wallet information.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Arya Ebrahami EP 104 Details
“he goes through all of my TrueCrypt volumes and he saves all of my fucking information”
Arya Ebrahami USES Evolution market
Arya bought counterfeit money on Evolution market.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Arya Ebrahami EP 104 Details
“I had bought fake money online on Evolution market”
Operation Breaking Bars INVOLVES Arya Ebrahami
Operation Breaking Bars was the county police operation connected to Arya’s Xanax distribution activity.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 104 Details
“The county police called his Operation Breaking Bars”
AlphaBay takedown INVOLVES AlphaBay
The AlphaBay takedown involved federal authorities taking AlphaBay down; Arya learned of it while in prison.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 104 Details
“AlphaBay had been taken down by the feds”
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