129: Gollumfun (Part 2)

Darknet Diaries

Jack Rhysider

True Crime, Technology

4.9 • 8.6K Ratings

🗓️ 29 November 2022

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

Brett Johnson, AKA Gollumfun (twitter.com/GOllumfun) was involved with the websites Counterfeit Library and Shadow Crew. He tells his story of what happened there and some of the crimes he committed. In part 2, his past catches up to him. Listen to more of Brett on his own show. https://www.thebrettjohnsonshow.com/. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Tell me about what some of the eBay scams were going on.
0:06.0	How can you rip someone off on eBay?
0:09.0	Some of the scam.
0:12.0	Oh man, I mean, what I would do if it were going in Christmas season,
0:17.0	I would see what the hot item was.
0:19.0	Typically, it was a lot of cameras.
0:21.0	It was a lot of laptops.
0:23.0	It was those high-dollar items that people were really wanting,
0:26.0	but they didn't want to pay full retail price for.
0:30.0	So the idea is you need to come in at an amount that causes that potential victim
0:38.0	to put logic and reason at the door and react emotionally,
0:44.0	but you don't want to come in at so low of an amount that it causes them to question what's going on.
0:50.0	And that's a very thin line that happens.
0:53.0	But I'd find like a Canon XL one and I would post that a couple of pictures of that.
0:58.0	Hold on a second.
1:00.0	It can be serious, you said.
1:03.0	Okay, listen.
1:05.0	This is what happened to me at the same time.
1:07.0	Okay, so I'm on eBay.
1:08.0	Okay.
1:09.0	I wanted the Canon GL1.
1:11.0	This was a $2500 camera.
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