Nathan Michael USES Diablo II
Nathan says he sold Diablo II items and used Diablo II dupes as part of his online money-making activities.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Nathan Michael EP 164 Details
“I was selling Diablo II items.”
Episode
07 October 2025 Official episode · Official transcript
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The episode features Nathan Michael describing a long-running credit-card skimming, carding, counterfeit-card, and retail-fraud operation associated with the Oak Cliff Swipers, along with later hacking and cybercrime activity.
Topics: Payment-card skimming at gas pumps and ATMs, Magnetic-stripe data and Track 1/Track 2, Bluetooth-enabled skimmers, Manual entry of stolen card numbers and CVVs, Credit-card dumps and underground card markets, Counterfeit payment-card production, Fargo card printers and MSR devices, Retail gift-card fraud, Recruitment and coordination of shoppers/swipers, Operational security and surveillance avoidance, Access device fraud, Use of online services and gaming economies to move illicit value, Unauthorized access to corporate email and publication of confidential information
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Nathan Michael USES Diablo II
Nathan says he sold Diablo II items and used Diablo II dupes as part of his online money-making activities.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Nathan Michael EP 164 Details
“I was selling Diablo II items.”
Nathan Michael USES World of Warcraft
Nathan says he sold World of Warcraft gold.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Nathan Michael EP 164 Details
“Then we sold WoW gold.”
Nathan Michael USES PayPal
Nathan says he used stolen PayPal accounts to buy in-game gold; he also describes being scammed through PayPal chargebacks.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Nathan Michael EP 164 Details
“we were buying it from them with stolen PayPals and shit.”
Nathan Michael USES root kit virus
Nathan says he and his brother had a rootkit virus that stole gaming-platform accounts.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Nathan Michael EP 164 Details
“we had a virus, a root kit virus that stole all the accounts for every gaming platform”
Nathan Michael USES World of Warcraft gold laundering
Jack characterizes Nathan's use of World of Warcraft gold as a money-laundering mechanism for converting stolen PayPal funds into cash.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Jack Rhysider EP 164 Details
“he was using World of Warcraft gold as sort of a money-laundering mechanism”
Nathan Michael USES credit card dumps
Jack says Nathan entered chat rooms where credit-card dumps were sold or traded and obtained full card details.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Jack Rhysider EP 164 Details
“This led him to chat rooms where people were selling or trading credit card dumps.”
Nathan Michael USES manual card-number entry fraud
Nathan describes deliberately demagnetizing cards so Walmart staff would manually enter stolen card numbers.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Nathan Michael EP 164 Details
“I’ve demagnetized the strip on the card so that it would say they gotta punch it in.”
Nathan Michael USES Walmart
Nathan says he and associates used Walmart registers to test stolen card numbers and obtain gift cards.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Nathan Michael EP 164 Details
“We’d just sit there and run that bitch and get whatever we get off of them.”
Nathan Michael USES MSR
Nathan says he used an MSR to write stolen card details onto blank payment cards.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 164 Details
“he used his MSR device to write the credit card details to the card.”
Nathan Michael USES skimmer
Nathan says he purchased and deployed skimmers, including at gas pumps and ATMs.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Nathan Michael EP 164 Details
“I had gas pump ones and everything.”
“we had ones on ATM machines, too”
Nathan Michael USES Bluetooth
Nathan says later skimmers used Bluetooth to download collected card data.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Nathan Michael EP 164 Details
“The later ones had Bluetooth. You just go Bluetooth to it; boop, download.”
Nathan Michael USES gas-pump skimming
Nathan says he placed a skimmer on a gas pump and left it there to collect card data.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Nathan Michael EP 164 Details
“I would just put it in there and let it sit for about a week.”
Nathan Michael USES ATM skimming
Nathan says he used skimmers on ATM machines, although capturing PINs was a problem.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Nathan Michael EP 164 Details
“we had ones on ATM machines, too, back in the days”
Nathan Michael USES opsec
Nathan says he and his brother hesitated to use freshly skimmed cards while trying to maintain operational security.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Nathan Michael EP 164 Details
“I guess we were trying to do opsec on it.”
Nathan Michael USES Google Docs
Jack says Nathan stored stolen card data in a Google document.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 164 Details
“He was storing these cards in a Google doc”
Nathan Michael USES Liberty Reserve
Nathan says he used Liberty Reserve as web money and lacked it when deciding to use freshly skimmed cards.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Nathan Michael EP 164 Details
“back then it was Liberty Reserve. We had no Liberty Reserve to buy any — our web money.”
Nathan Michael USES Fargo printer
Jack says Nathan used a Fargo printer to make counterfeit payment cards.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 164 Details
“Nathan had a Fargo printer, which is a classic printer used to make IDs.”
Nathan Michael USES counterfeit payment card production
Nathan printed counterfeit cards, programmed their magnetic stripes, and added photographs to make them appear legitimate.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Nathan Michael EP 164 Details
“I’d print the cards and then program the mag strip”
Nathan Michael USES shopper network
Nathan recruited shoppers to use counterfeit cards in stores and return purchased merchandise.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 164 Details
“have them go out and shop with stolen credit cards and then bring back any of the stuff you buy with it”
Nathan Michael USES carding
Nathan describes himself as providing cards for shoppers who purchased merchandise with stolen card data.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Nathan Michael EP 164 Details
“I’m providing the cards.”
Nathan Michael USES swiping
Nathan explains that he trained people to act as swipers and planned their shopping routes.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Nathan Michael EP 164 Details
“I’m teaching you to be a swiper.”
Nathan Michael USES MapQuest
Nathan says he used MapQuest to plan shoppers’ routes and stores.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Nathan Michael EP 164 Details
“back then, it was MapQuest, right? I’d plan their whole route out for them”
Nathan Michael MEMBER_OF Oak Cliff Swipers
Nathan says he, his cousin, and a shopper formed a swiping clique called Oak Cliff Swipers.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Nathan Michael EP 164 Details
“We had a little swiping clique called Oak Cliff Swipers.”
Oak Cliff Swipers ASSOCIATED_WITH Oak Cliff
The Oak Cliff Swipers group is explicitly named after Oak Cliff, which Nathan calls his hood.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Nathan Michael EP 164 Details
“we went and got our OCS for Oak Cliff Swipers”
Nathan Michael USES Signal
Nathan communicated with Jack through Signal during the episode's interview arrangements.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Jack Rhysider EP 164 Details
“we should probably switch to Signal, which is a more private messaging app”
Jack Rhysider USES Signal
Jack says he moved communications with Nathan to Signal for more private messaging.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 164 Details
“we should probably switch to Signal”
EarthLink internal-information disclosure COMPROMISES EarthLink
Nathan claims he hacked EarthLink and accessed internal company information, including executives’ emails.
Explicit Confidence 97% · Nathan Michael EP 164 Details
“I got into the company — the president of the company’s e-mails”
EarthLink internal-information disclosure INVOLVES cjb.net
Nathan says he published confidential EarthLink material on the cjb.net website.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Nathan Michael EP 164 Details
“I put it on the cjb.net website”
EarthLink internal-information disclosure ATTRIBUTED_TO Nathan Michael
Nathan personally claims responsibility for hacking EarthLink and releasing internal documents.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Nathan Michael EP 164 Details
“I hacked EarthLink, bro.”
Nathan Michael USES cjb.net
Nathan says he used cjb.net to publish snippets from internal emails and confidential information.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Nathan Michael EP 164 Details
“I put it on the cjb.net website, just a little HTML thing with some snippets from the e-mails”
Darknet Diaries DEVELOPED_BY Jack Rhysider
Jack identifies himself as the maker of Darknet Diaries in the outro.
Explicit Confidence 97% · Nathan Michael EP 164 Details
“This show is made by me, little byte, Jack Rhysider.”
Works mentioned in the transcript. Distinct from show-note sources.
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