HACKED: Internet Hitmen Aren't Really A Thing

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Javier Leiva

True Crime, Society & Culture, Technology

4.7 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Cybercrime writer Eileen Ormsby delves into the chilling world of the BESA Mafia, a purported online hitman service. What unfolds is a story of modern folklore, a sophisticated scam targeting those with the darkest intentions, and a relentless pursuit of exposing the world of online assassinations-for-hire in the digital age. Today's episode was a partnership with the podcast HACKED. HACKED is hosted by Jordan & Scott. They explore the strange tales of hacking, internet grifters, cybersecurity and tech. Subscribe to HACKED wherever you listen to pods: RSS: https://feeds.megaphone.fm/hackedpodcast Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/hacked-podcast/id1049420219 Google: https://play.google.com/music/m/I5tmfgninpb6lkzqs6rzljnybby Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/21zZfOy7VCSIIWlJ64DElv Stitcher: https://stitcher.com/podcast/sticks-stones/hacked Pocket Casts: https://pca.st/hacked Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Creative Apple.
0:04.0	Hey everyone, it's me, Javier.
0:08.0	This week, I am joined by my friend Jordan with the hacked podcast and he's going to help me out because I have a head cold.
0:17.0	I sound terrible and I've been listening to the hacked podcast and one episode in particular that I think you are all
0:24.9	gonna love so Jordan is allowing me to play his episode of hacked and Jordan
0:31.1	welcome to pretend tell it tell us about hacked and Jordan welcome to pretend tell us about hacked and the episode that we're
0:35.8	about to listen to.
0:36.8	Oh man I'm very happy to be here and for what it's worth I think you sound
0:40.6	excellent you have like a smoky tamber, it works for you man, it's a radio voice.
0:44.8	Yeah, thank you for also sharing hacked with all your listeners, big fan of pretend.
0:50.4	Hacked is a, it's a show kind of about tech and all the weird things people do with technology and people hacking stuff together and hacking it apart.
1:00.0	It's about that kind of human side of technology and I think this story is a is a pretty good example of that but this episode in particular
1:08.1	It's it's such a great crossover with with my world of con artist and deception because the subject the
1:15.6	subject that you're talking about in this episode is hitman and now this is
1:20.2	something that you know we all know what a hitman is, like we've watched it in the movies and it's become part of, you know, like this lore that you know, you could just hire a hitman and they'll take somebody out but the
1:35.2	reality is that hiring a hitman is almost impossible right like it's very uncommon. You know, I don't know if it's how impossible it is in the real world. I don't really know much about
1:48.4	hitmen in the real world. But I do know that there's this story that if you were to go onto the dark web onto that right
1:55.6	CD corner of the internet, there's just hit men down there somewhere waiting to do assassinations
2:01.2	around the world. And this story is about a true crime writer
2:05.2	a cyber crime writer named Eileen Ormsby who started pulling on that thread and it led her to this
2:11.2	website almost like an e-commerce platform for these hitmen.
2:15.0	And what she found on the far side of that website, we knew we had to make an episode about it.
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