• stevedice@sh.itjust.works
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    42
    arrow-down
    4
    ·
    13 hours ago

    I remember this guy being a fucking idiot that paid for several fake assassinations of fake rivals. It was pretty funny.

    • owl@infosec.pub
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      40
      ·
      12 hours ago

      It is funny in hindsight, knowing the assassinations were a scam. But he thought they were real, he talked in great detail about them and payed for them. This is missing from the article, I believe it was part of his indictment.

      • stevedice@sh.itjust.works
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        20
        ·
        12 hours ago

        Oh yeah, he’s a piece of shit for sure. I just think it’s funny that he’s also a moron. What kind of drug lord gets a message saying “Hey, I heard of a guy who wants to take you down, wire me a cool mil and I’ll kill him for you, k?” and just… sends the money? More than once?! He definitely tried to rescue an overthrown Nigerian prince as a kid.

        • _cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          8
          ·
          6 hours ago

          Don’t forget, he was caught because he posted his email in a public forum while advertising the Silk Road. That email address contained his real name.

            • _cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com
              link
              fedilink
              English
              arrow-up
              5
              ·
              3 hours ago

              Honestly, the only reason he’s famous at all is because the Silk Road was used to drum up shock by the media, so the government used him as an example to those who would make them look bad. Otherwise, he would have faded into obscurity like every other idiot criminal who stumbled into short term riches.

        • SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          7
          ·
          7 hours ago

          Yeah, when I watched a synopsis of the story, multiple alarm bells rang in my head midway through watching it. He’s so gullible for how rich he fucking was

          So the twist that was that they were all the same person, didn’t even surprise me, you could see that it was a scam a mile away if you were paying attention

          The scammer was pretty good, though, I will give them that. Too bad the scammer was also pretty dumb about how the handle the money after the fact, and got caught lmao.