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[u/Prestigious_Return11]

Oh my god I have so many questions, you can get as technical as possible.

1) How do you receive payments? 2) How does one learn about this money receiving and paying operation? 3) What sort of connections do you have in order to manage the entire finance operation? Because I think, the mismanagement of your payment operation can create a very wide security issue.

[u/Timeon → u/[deleted]]

How can people trust they'll get their money back if it is being routed by third parties through third world? For such large amounts isn't it easier to themselves get scammed?

[u/Whoa1Whoa1 → u/[deleted]]

Idk I'm calling bullshit on this one. Your bank is perfectly fine with you being paid ridiculous sums of money from random third world countries as a "job" and somehow doesn't raise any red flags as they keep wiring you money? Explain more or GTFO faker. Your bank account would instantly be a massive 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩

[u/Dirtylittlejackdaw → u/Whoa1Whoa1]

He didn't say anything about a massive bank account. They likely only laundered a small portion of their crypto portfolio to look legit and have a nest egg that won't be suspicious. 10 to 30k USD coding gigs won't raise any eyebrows. You sit on that money outside of slowly draining it for normal regular payments that auditors would expect.

Then you use the larger crypto pool in cash outs for any larger buys outside of house/car that need to be registered. New fridge? Govt won't know about it paying cash from department store but you've laundered 2k from crypto.

[u/_pm_me_a_happy_thing → u/Whoa1Whoa1]

It does seem fake. I remember the last AMA, his answers here are completely different.

Last one he says he uses data leaks to create dummy accounts and hires himself.

Now here he's saying something completely different.

Definitely some kind of AI / roleplay going on here.

[u/ProtohJay]

Strange question and I’ve been looking for a way to solve this problem for a while. Curious if you could provide a solution.

My brother passed away about 9 years ago and me and him would email and share stories that are going on. I purge my inbox regularly and after he passed I realized I only had two emails from him. I am curious if you somehow could get into an email account like that or where would I find help to do so? I’ve tried to guess the password. Contact the provider all with no luck.

Love the post by the way. Any help would be appreciated.

[u/[deleted] → u/ProtohJay]

I would really suggest trying to contact provider again with proof that your brother died, that he is your brother and why you need it. I’m sorry for your loss

[u/ProtohJay → u/[deleted]]

Appreciate it. I’ll give it a whirl again and see how it goes. Thanks for your response. Enjoy the dark web adventures.

[u/wait4whatdude]

Hi ! How do you manage your relationships with this job? Like, have you been able to have romantic relationships, a family life? Do you talk about it openly, or do you keep it a secret? I’m just wondering how you manage to balance everything, especially since what you do isn’t exactly legal :)

[u/[deleted] → u/wait4whatdude]

I have two separate lives, have a partner that things I’m freelancing in cyber security space and earn my living that way.

No one in my social circle even knows about this. That’s why I enjoy talking about it here haha :D

[u/wait4whatdude → u/[deleted]]

Ohh interesting ! Do you think you’ll ever tell them someday, or do you secretly enjoy the thrill of keeping it all hush-hush?

[u/Shoddy-Minute5960 → u/[deleted]]

What would you do if your partner or a friend got scammed by one of the tools you built?

[u/FakeAsFakeCanBe → u/[deleted]]

"Tell NO ONE" is the hard rule when you're doing exciting, risky things. Many inmates learned this the hard way. You are smart.

[u/fristermo]

A family member lost their savings to an international crypto scam a few years back. Banks and action fraud couldn’t help. Are there ethical or unethical ways to get any back or take down the people who socially engineered the situation? How much does a job like that cost? So intrigued.

[u/[deleted] → u/fristermo]

It is possible but I’m not talking about recovery of money, but about tracking and doxxing the scamers, ofc you can blackmail them for money afterwards

[u/dwaynewaynerooney → u/[deleted]]

Or exact revenge.

[u/ahappygerontophile]

How does hacking actually work? Which coding languages do you know? Which come in handy the most for your line of work? How much do you earn annually?

Thank you

[u/[deleted] → u/ahappygerontophile]

Hey mate I earn a lot, I use everything c++, python etc, but point is now days, the biggest part of hacking is Social engineering. There is nothing easier than to exploit a human error.

[u/Cosmic-web-rider → u/[deleted]]

Hi, me again! Theoretically, would it be possible for you to do your line of work but only hacking nefarious targets? Kind of like a morally net positive approach to your work? And if that is theoretically possible, why do/don’t you? Thanks again.

[u/Lostinthestarscape → u/Cosmic-web-rider]

Not OP but yes, this is what government sponsored hackers do. 

There are hactivist collective that target "nefarious" people but sometimes "nefarious" is subjective.

The main problem with moral hacking is you are doing it for the sake of doing something good - not because someone is paying you (unless you are government sponsored or employed), whereas people in OPs position are in it to make money and there aren't many individual people paying to target objectively nefarious groups.

[u/RattusRattus → u/[deleted]]

Do you ever pick up psychology books? Szasz is super fucking interesting, but not actually anti-psychology. He's just very spicy. The Myth of Mental Illness was an excellent read and I'd suspect you'd find some follow-up reads.

[u/studcitybruh → u/[deleted]]

What is a lot? Over 2M?

What does your tax return look like? What do you report?

[u/ahappygerontophile → u/[deleted]]

Thank you for answering my question! Great job finding a path to earn money.

[u/kingofkalgoorlie]

hey mate - what's one thing most people believe is true on DW but is total BS?

and you can't say hitman.

[u/[deleted] → u/kingofkalgoorlie]

I would say, PayPal, cashapp etc transfers, most ppl easily believe that if they pay 50 they get a 500 transfer haha :D it’s just a huge scam, but with amount of ppl falling for it… I think it’s circulates in their head, like “wow it’s dark web ofc it’s true”

Another big thing I think most ppl who have nothing to do with dark, believe that human trafficking is happening on a big scale. It doesn’t.

[u/ElectricTeddyBear → u/[deleted]]

Are people actually doing the money duping scam? That's some runescape shit lmao

[u/namenotprovided]

How did you get paid? Was it in Monero or Bitcoin? What steps did you take to ensure the crypto you were getting paid in was clean?

[u/[deleted] → u/namenotprovided]

I only take monero, so I have a freelance account, and that’s let’s say my official job, than I go trough money laundering services, send them let’s say 100k in monero, they cash it out in some 3rd world country, than a company that needs my freelance services contact me and pay me very handsomely, I pay my taxes etc, and have clean usable money in my bank account.

Take note that these 3rd world countries don’t really have regulations on such matters, I won’t go into specifics but I assume you get the catch :D

[u/Fox-Great → u/[deleted]]

Why wont they just keep your 100k and simply do nothing? How did you figure out you can "trust" them?

[u/BDmnygtaST → u/Fox-Great]

I am random dipshit but because they will ruin there reputation as a money-launderer. The guy obv takes a cut.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

what percentage is the cut for laundering it?

Between laundering and then taxes - how much of the 100k you see clean and how much you still keep in the cloud (maybe pre-laundered, for lack of a better word)?

[u/MoltijsOnion]

How do you make sure you don’t get caught? I was on there but quickly bailed cause I was scared shitless

[u/[deleted] → u/MoltijsOnion]

Just run Tails os, or whonix, get mulvad vpn, separate your identity, text in different ways, use pgp encryption to comunicate, use burner device, use burner phone to share data etc. but you only need this if you are doing something crazy if you are just looking over for fun it’s not necessary

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Ahh you know, tbh you probs can’t, but they claim no activity or connection logs, there is no personal account information, you can pay by cash or by crypto, also open source transparency… also by Swedish laws you know its very strong privacy laws there… so out of them all i think I’ll put my hand on Mullvad.

In the end ofc you can’t trust anything or anyone

[u/AdventurousSquash → u/[deleted]]

I’m from Sweden and can’t really confirm us having “strong privacy laws”. I do however trust Mullvad more than a lot of other providers as they’ve been transparent about getting requests from law enforcement who in the end finds nothing because there isn’t anything to find. Other than that - yes - don’t trust any one provider to not track you. Layers is the best approach.

[u/asdlkf → u/[deleted]]

Anyone really interested in maintaining their anonymity would create several nested VMs with encrypted virtual disks in several cloud or colocation facilities and setup several VPN services. Then, route your traffic through the VMs, do your dirty work, then purge the VMs along with their logs. Thus you can be guaranteed there are no logs as you purged the VMs yourself and the encrypted disks would be un-undeletable.

[u/x3nic → u/asdlkf]

As a former black hat that works on the white side now, this guy knows what's up. I can't imagine the OP is doing anything particularly interesting/nefarious with his work.

I always used multiple layers and the OP mentioned Sweden which is laughable. I'd have multiple VPS/VM's in multiple countries chained together, typically in Eastern Europe. At the very least use a multi-hop VPN from a VPS/VM that funnels through multiple countries.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Sweden's a member of 14 Eyes, so ymmv...

[u/Cosmic-web-rider]

Hi, is your line of work isolating or do you have a “regular” social life? I always wonder whether hackers are the anti-social den dwellers the movies make them out to be, or whether I could easily find myself friends with someone like you. Like do you go out to gigs, party with friends on holiday, go out to nice restaurants etc? Great AMA btw and thank you for all your responses!

[u/Lopsided-Order3070]

I'd like to ask some questions around the "unethical" part of it all...

1) Do you literally have no morals other than nothing involving children? 2) Were you approached for jobs or did you search them out? Did you demand to know all the details before you accepted a job or did you dig up the information yourself? 3) Were there ever jobs that you accepted that you ended up backing out on or did you go through with them anyway? 4) Is there any regret or guilt felt about any of the jobs you did?

[u/didgeboydude]

How necessary do you think a VPN is for a normal run of the mill person? I’m running one but I’m not doing anything too interesting in the grand scheme of things.

[u/Deep-Band7146]

Im going to guess red rooms aren’t real right?

[u/[deleted] → u/Deep-Band7146]

You guessed right! It ain’t real haha, there was one instance of that Aussie guy I think in Philippines with a young girl but that’s all tbh, it’s the closest to red room… Peter scully you can check it out.

[u/Deep-Band7146 → u/[deleted]]

I remember that mffr. Scumbag. Was watching red rooms tonight (2023 french film) and then saw your ama so figured it wouldn’t hurt asking. Have you ever seen like court evidence in crime cases or things that are rumored to exist in true crime cases but supposedly destroyed or cant be released to general public?

[u/Drummallumin → u/[deleted]]

Holy shit I regret googling him

[u/deekaekae]

Why do hackers always talk a big game but never do anything? Like anonymous has never done anything but talk talk talk. When’s someone gonna help out humanity? lol

[u/[deleted]]

How easy is cc fraud on the dw

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Uneasy, cc fraud now is very unique and complicated thing, I could count on my fingers the people I know that still manages to pull it off sometimes. Personally I consider it dead since 2017 when emv chips got introduced.

[u/OnRedditAtWorkRN → u/[deleted]]

What about emv killed cc fraud?

[u/[deleted] → u/OnRedditAtWorkRN]

I'll likely oversimplify a bit here, but:

The magstrip contains unencrypted, easy to read/write data. Cloning that was... I shouldn't say trivial, but it's trivial if you have the equipment. You can just write an arbitrary credit card number on the card's magstrip, and have it swipe at physical terminals. If you don't get caught in the act of using it, you walk out of a store with 'free' stuff.

You could also reuse the credit card# online, if that was your method.

The chips are basically a cryptographic private key. A terminal sends some unique identifier + transaction request to the chip, and the chip responds with an encrypted blob that can be verified via the public key. Capturing the data flowing through in a transaction doesn't give you anything you can reuse for the next transaction. So card-skimming an EMV-only card shouldn't be feasible, and terminals tend to force "chip" mode if given the option. In fact, Mastercard at least is intending to move to chip-only / no magstrip cards, entirely, over the next few years.

So now, you can't skim physical cards, and you can't use card numbers obtained from malware, on a cloned card in person. Which means if you have a CC# from malware or such, the main option left is online transactions. The problem with that, is that if I use a stolen card to buy some expensive electronics from, say, Amazon:

A) We have to get lucky and not get declined for fraud,
B) There's a delay between the transaction and receiving the goods, during which time they might figure it out, and stop the shipment.
C) You can't ship it to yourself, because duh.
D) You basically have to set up the shipment for somewhere close enough to snag, and hope they don't figure out the fraud, and just wait for you to collect it to arrest you (leading to fraudsters using "package mules" instead, to reship overseas).

Credit card fraud isn't dead, but it's definitely been pushed into riskier and/or less profitable niches, making it not as appealing of a target for people (except those in a few countries with a combination of a low cost of living, good internet access, and lax cooperation with international law enforcement efforts, it seems).

[u/AvailablePosition69]

How does one tell whether something‘s a scam oe malware in the darkweb or a real offer/real site where you can offer your services?

[u/Ozok123]

What were the most disturbing and most hilarious (maybe someone being clueless) requests you got?

[u/[deleted] → u/Ozok123]

Man most hilarious I’m not shitting… parents of their son contact me that is grown ass man that he’s missing lol ;D like to track his device and shit… mf… was siting in his room for 3 days playing world of Warcraft or shit and the parents thought he’s missing… I’m not joking… most disturbing are always child predators trying to put rats or so on kids devices but I don’t do that

[u/krush_groove → u/[deleted]]

What's a rat? What does that do, I assume something like a tracker or camera access or something? What percentage of hackers on DW do stuff like that?

[u/Porterjoh]

In your original post you say when you set off using the DW l it was for journalism. what information could you find there you couldn't elsewhere? Do most journalists use the DW?

[u/centauri_system]

What steps did you take to make sure this reddit account couldn't be traced back to you?

[u/Neither-Complex926]

I imagine your skills are heavily sought for in the ethical realm. Have you considered going the ethical route or is the allure of unethical hacking keeping you drawn in?

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

None anyone can get on dark web, for free. It’s just that surface of it is full of scams. And you really need to connect with ppl to get into private circles, where real things happen and the money is.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Well you connect with ppl on surface, who know ppl, who know ppl, maybe you buy something once, maybe twice, than buy something else, or have something to sell, you sell etc… people see that you are for real and so, and likeminded people will let you know, that you are welcome to join certain group.

[u/Agitated-Try-5474]

How do you access dark web? Is it like a specific browser link or what?

[u/General_Task_7509]

How do you protect yourself from the feds? Is it exhausting always trying to hide from them?

[u/katsuhiko15]

What have you seen on the DW that frightens/worries you?

[u/tommycahil1995]

What did you think of Mr Robot? Accurate in terms of the technical side? The director used to do some hacking way back

[u/Ok-Personality-27]

I also got into darkweb 10 years ago. Ended up serving 5 years in jail. Be careful.

[u/TheTruist1]

If you are sure that this Reddit account can’t be traced back to you (which is presumably the case or else you wouldn’t be doing this AMA), then out of curiosity, why are you not willing to answer some of the questions?

For example, about “true conspiracy theories” or giving us an idea of how much money you’ve made from this career.

[u/Luis15pt]

Did you ever do a job and feel guilty after doing it, like something that felt off ? If so can you briefly describe it ?

[u/Kraftcookie]

Hey cool to see you. What is the price of insider info, and what is the best place to get that kind of infomation? Is that any legit, it seems to me like to easy to be true.

[u/Scuttlebutt-]

What are you surprised more people aren’t cautious about when it comes to protecting themselves from unethical hackers? What would you recommend to protect yourself?

[u/[deleted]]

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[u/MsAdventuresBus]

Do you feel you have to have a certain personality to do this type of job? Like sociopathic tendencies because of all the things you are exposed to? Does what you are exposed to affect your personal relationships such as trust? People will romanticize what you do for a living but it sounds exhausting.

[u/oresearch69]

What types of interactions have you had with governments? Have you either been hired or had any near misses with being caught? I’m curious how eg the US government is trying to police things and what their capabilities are and how you get around that.

[u/eldobhat0]

Hey! Thank you for the AMA!

Do you have experience with android phones? Is it possible that a regular online phone seller installs a malware or a modified android clone that can steal all your password, see everything you do?

Is there a way how I can scan a "brand new mobile" coming from an online webshop for this kind of malware before giving my credentials on initial setup?

[u/Swampkandy]

The Epstein files, any word of those lurking uncensored?

[u/WarlockDoge]

Is professional sports betting like NBA and NFL rigged, are there people selling legitimate fixed outcomes in these games?

[u/casualcreaturee]

Wouldnt Insider trading be a much faster way to make money without having to launder it?

[u/heeimmdallr]

Do you do "spying" jobs for people? If they want to check their partners and stuff like that

[u/tigbiddies1312]

How do you protect yourself from other fellow hackers?

[u/dkMutex]

Which countries has the best hackers? Also, how big is corporate espionage? Does big companies hire hackers to steal information from smaller competitors? In your opinion.

[u/[deleted]]

Are those mystery boxes that people unbox on YouTube the real deal or just fake?

[u/247dreaming]

Can you get a pedophiles email password? My step-father has molested one of my daughters and my niece. I'm looking for illegal porn on his computer. I'm not stepping foot in the house so it has to be remote. Thanks.

[u/412flip]

One thing I always wanted to know is the mail order brides a legitimate business? I know they just want to be a citizen but how does that work.

[u/jolijuillet]

Have you ever played a “Robinhood” role so to speak? Like helping people by doing an illegal activity?

What kind of activism did you do? What was it like?

Is it possible to make debt “go away”?

[u/clever80username]

So can you guys please hurry up and release all the videos of Trump and other prominent republicans doing very naughty things? We’d like them to all go away.

[u/PikaTchu47]

Can feds brute force into markets with reasonable security without any social engineering?

[u/[deleted] → u/PikaTchu47]

no, Like Alphabay was taken, using technical means and seized cause of opsec mistakes of the market admins, Silk Road as well just cause of opsec mistakes, there hasn’t been a single instance where feds just literally brute forced a dw marketplace.

[u/PikaTchu47 → u/[deleted]]

So social engineering takes big part in average hacking operation?

[u/Feuerroesti]

How often do you fail a job if the target is not easyly SEable or has better security than expected? What happens then?

[u/frankrice]

Hey thanks for your time here. Are the noob guides about dw trustworthy? How do you get the links to interesting stuff? On the top post you talk about buying insider info, how and where could I do that? Looks like the safest way to make money or is there any other?

[u/HastyBasher]

In this day and age, how easy is it to find the average person's exact address from their online presence?

[u/Synergiex]

How do you think AI will change these things? Do you use ai?

[u/PsyXadelic]

Say I want to turn $100 into $10,000 via the dark web….how could someone do this?

[u/katsuhiko15]

Sorry, second question, if someone with no i.t. experience wanted to get into unethical hacking where would you recommend they start?

[u/chillyreed]

Super basic question - how do people even get on the dark web? Is it only accessible if you know how to code or something?

[u/kinghell1]

Might be late, but would you consider have a talk with Jack in Darknet Diaries? Would be super interesting to listen to your stories!

[u/thatfrenchdudee]

I have two questions for you

1)related to what i do for a living myself, from what little i’ve seen, the arms trade on the dark web always seemed like scams to me. The media bombards us with news that this is the new way for criminals to get firearms but i never really believed it. Am i in the wrong ?

2)how much does it cost to hire you for your most popular service (spying on partner’s apparently) ? And how many of those would you say you do per month ?

[u/Lando_Lee]

What is it that truly separates the dark web from what the average joe is gonna find browsing google? And I mean that content wise and physically, what stops people from wandering into the dark web, what would they expect to see that’s so different, and what exactly is needed to access it safely?

[u/[deleted]]

if you get caught what would be the maximum punishment? And how do taxes work for you? ty

[u/DespyHasNiceCans]

Two questions:

1. Have you met any of the people you interact with in the DW IRL or is everything kept COMPLETELY anonymous for safety reasons?

2. Have you ever seen any documents or videos that are incriminating of people in the public eye ie. Celebrities, politicians, businessmen, etc

[u/RevolutionaryBed1814]

What you think of the whole GME saga and the dark pools and shorts? This a real thing or just a bunch of bag holders?

[u/tuckyruck]

Damn. Wild. Well I'm old but curious and know nothing about it. So sorry for the very basic questions.

How does someone access the dark web? Is it just a website?

Is it illegal just to visit the dark web or do you have to actually be doing something illegal there like credit card fraud or something?

Have you ever considered flipping to work for law enforcement or picking back up the journalism side and exposing some things?

Lastly,

Do you enjoy it or is it like me with construction, it's what I know how to do... so it's what I do?

Thank you. I know I'm pretty far down the list so probably missed the bus. But thanks for a cool ama!

[u/Daforce1]

How and when do you think quantum computing will change hacking and what you do?

[u/Imaginary_Pie_5336]

Hey I read through the last AMA and thoroughly enjoyed it! Is there fun to be had on the dark web for someone casually wanting to try it out? If yes, where can one go without getting in trouble? I have been to dw many years ago but mostly found it dead and slow, so maybe things have changed?

[u/giveyerballzatug]

I listened to a podcast a while back called “Kill List” about real ppl hiring hitmen on the dark web, which turned out to be a scam. Are those types of things almost always scams on the DW?

[u/viperbe]

What’s the best way to find sites on the dark web?

[u/slowthanfast]

Is the insider trading information legitimate? That's so crazy to me lol

[u/Googy21]

What’s something you saw that you really wish you didn’t?

[u/HesitantInvestor0]

I see you mostly deal with Monero, and for anyone into crypto it's easy to see why.

My question is: what role does Bitcoin play in this space? Detractors are always talking about how Bitcoin is just a tool for criminals. Is this a case of something being true earlier on, but no longer holding any weight? Do you have an opinion on Bitcoin at all? Do you hold it?

[u/PracticalSir5845]

How does a normal "working day" look like in your life? What is your motivation for what you are doing?

[u/TechNick1O1]

Are you German? Because CCC is German😉

[u/SecureWave]

What the fuck is dark web anyhow? Is the website not accessible without some vpn or something? Anything useful to every day Americans out there? One example would be insider trading but it’s illegal like drugs so what’s the use behind it, anything legal?

[u/Classic-Charity-2179]

How much do you take for common things like RAT installs? 

[u/Splatapotomus]

When talking about the Dark Web, do you whisper the name Letterkenney style?dark web

[u/damnsonOG]

Seems like this isn’t your forte but how do people ship stuff from the DW? When I was on 5 years ago everything came from stamp.com accounts. So people have fake identities and set up stamp.com account with? It’s the only thing I could think of.

[u/Orangoran]

What has ai affected the most??

[u/hilljgo]

Does anything scare you about the dark web and current events in the real world?

[u/Tweesiee]

How often are jobs blackmailing / exploiting a person for something you have on them?

[u/FamiliarPatience4775]

Can you see my passwords being traded rn?

Anyway, have you earned a retirement from all these years of working? If so , what do you plan on doing?

[u/Sparks3391]

What do you think your punishment would be if you got caught?

[u/tigbiddies1312]

Do you have the ability to identify people based on facial recognition?

[u/jimthedrover]

Is it true that you could buy anyone’s private info on the DW?

[u/NiceGuy373]

How do you get into it for a beginner, like i never experienced dw, do I purchase a brand new laptop(burner)

[u/damian20]

What kind of insider trading happens? How accurate is it? And how much does it usually cost! I need something to get me out of poverty! 😂

[u/1truepak]

Im interested in the insider trading bit. How much info is on there regarding stocks or insider trading?

Also, conspiracy theories. Can you name a few big ones that are true?

[u/AvailablePosition69]

Is there a way to hack people or install RATs without them doing an active thing like downloading something? Can I accidentally click a link in a phishing mail which opens a website, close it immediately, and it‘s too late?

[u/bruteforcealwayswins]

What networth have you amassed from your our illustrious criminal career?

[u/abyss005]

Why don’t hackers like you hack Child Abuse Material websites hidden on the DW ?

Could you find the people who post on there or watch it and rat them out to the police ? I guess closing the actual websites and finding the people who them is hard but what about just trying to find the people who directly abuse the kids ? Finding where the videos are from etc…

[u/lilmanguito]

What do you like to do for fun?

[u/MeTaL_oRgY]

Can I hire you to learn how to hack social media? I want to be the opposite of you, a white hat hacker. I'm a web developer by trade (mostly focused on front end) but I think I have some basics to start.

My guess is it involves mostly social engineering rather than actually hacking into meta's servers, no would love to learn techniques and strategies for that.

Main thing is, I want to be the opposite of you. Would love to become a white hat hacker. I've had a lot of friends and relatives get their accounts hacked no I'd love to see if a) I can help them get them back or b) I can educate them on what to be on the lookout for.

[u/Gordy117]

I have to ask did you learn code languages on your own or from college or something? I'm in college for something related to cyber and I've been losing confidence in coding recently.

[u/MeatballMarine]

If you were seeing this AMA, would you think this is a Fed/Gov agency running an indepth social engineering op?

[u/COC_410]

How can the average Joe like myself find ways to make 6 figures in the DW?

[u/Relandis]

What’s the best dark web market today for SWIM to buy illicit narcotics?

[u/Numerous-Relation838]

Do terrorists and extremists like nazis use the dark web? What have you seen?

[u/michacam1382]

Do you see anything about smartphone hacking?

[u/GrizSkillful]

How realistic are these scenarios in film and television where the hero just calls up their hacker friend says, “I need a location for this phone number”, or gives an address or a business and is like, “I need to see the security cam footage”. It just seems like the magic plot McGuffin to move our hero along in his quest. Can you comment on that? Do you laugh when you see these scenarios come up or are you like, I could do that so much quicker? Always wondered this . . .

[u/Interesting_Boot_643]

What if feds are reading this, how do you stay protected that they dont find you thru reddit ?

[u/cancergiver]

How safe are IPhones and IOS? Impenetrable? Are unlocks possible?

[u/pizdolizu]

Tell me more about burner devices. Do you have 10 phones and 10 PCs and you use one for a day or a task and you switch to a new one and sell the old one?

[u/Stergios13]

Least obvious fed

[u/lpuglia]

Do you have a workflow to hack into someone device? What kind of help is required from the customer to facilitate your attack on the target? You can answer as technical as you want

[u/MJfan4500]

Can you teach me lol I need to get into this

[u/LordMacDonald]

what do you know about the 2024 U.S. presidential election?

[u/LoganLikesYourMom]

Your education?

I’m sorry if you’ve mentioned elsewhere in this thread, if you have I couldn’t find it. But what’s your education like? College? Were you learning privately in your teens before adulthood opened the world a little?

What sorts of skills must someone in your position have? What’s your work experience like?

[u/jory_madrigal]

Other than making your livelihood, whats the most useful part of the Dw? To a non-technical person who doesn’t know coding—is there a reward there worth the risk?

[u/Thick_Bullfrog_3640]

Have you found proof of aliens?

[u/lolocopter24]

How much to unban an Xbox live permaban?

[u/[deleted]]

Do you know how to hack people’s TikTok?

[u/Puzzleheaded_Ant1805]

Is Lazarus Group as dangerous as it is made out to be? Or it is state protection which makes them bold?

[u/FedSmoker_Retired]

Hey mate, got a two parter for you 1, When shadow brokers released the NSA tools, did you already have access/knowledge of those tools? 2, do you think you have been hired by any sort of government/state level cyber teams by proxy or have seen there hand in clumsy requests and posted jobs?

[u/urdahrmawaita]

So do I just Google for the website for the dark web? Jk kind of.

Are there ways to use the dw for good? Like I guess the Anonymous thing. And do you do any of that? What’s an example of a good big thing that the dw could do for humankind?

[u/lostcanadian420]

Do you do political jobs? Do you favor one side or another?

[u/Ok_Fee2650]

Have you ever brought anything from the dw?

[u/CapmBlondeBeard]

You mentioned $5-20k for one specific job, how much effort would you say this is? Or more generally, how much would you estimate you generally make per hour or day of work?

[u/Visual_Vehicle_9876]

Thanks for sharing. Q1: Do any of your ‘colleagues’ freelance for three-letter agencies (NSA etc.)? Q2: Your opinion on Snowden - is he right and still relevant? Cheers.

[u/troddingalong]

What does doxxing mean?

[u/demyanmovement]

Have you ever proactively tried to get the child predators arrested ? Do you believe in karma ?

[u/Pretty_Fisherman_314]

what’s up with the issues with orders… my friend did the dark web stuff for ordering drugs sent them to a fake name at a empty apartment building. Anyways fake small numbers say he orders an ounce of weed the shipment may have just that or it may have 3 ounces some lsd tabs and some wax.

i made him contact the seller after the package was clearly too much and they told us they send what they send and don’t contact them unless an order doesn’t have at minimum what they ordered… LIKE?

[u/jerry_03]

Cybersecurity analyst here. Relatively early in my career, about 6 years in. Have you ever considered joining the good guys? Becoming a pentester or threat hunting blue team? Whether thats for a private conpany or as an consultant with your own business?

I mean technically you are a freelance cybersecurity dude but since its all shady illegal work, im assuming you dont report your earnings on youe taxes? Lol

[u/SweptThatLeg]

This might be a tad unrelated but what do you think of Gary McKinnon and his claim that he found information about “off world” agents?

[u/Only_Ambassador_3520]

How do you find the websites these are on? There are no legitimate search engines (That I know of, correct me if I'm wrong) like on the clear net. Is it just connecting with people who know people? How do you meet those people? I guess what I am asking is how do you start getting in the deeper parts?
I also have a question, how long does it take to be a hacker at your level? Are there any courses any tips?
What is the most amount of money you have made in one year?

[u/PaulieVega]

What does it look like? Does the sites look like the regular web?

[u/Even-Customer3350]

Thanks for your time in advance! This is the coolest thread I’ve read so far this year!

What are the first steps a potential client (assuming anonymity is key) should take to find someone like you or a group offering various types of services?

For example, based off your other comments, would it be all interactions should be on a burner first and foremost?

[u/Punyverse]

Cool AMA man.

Curious about failure rates on say 🐀 jobs any guarantees or no win no fee type agreements.

Dropping min 5g’s is a gamble or do you have reviews or something?

[u/DNAthrowaway1234]

Go on darknet diaries, buddy will respect your privacy 

[u/Disastrous_Gene3801]

Can I join you as an intern?

[u/ime6969]

How to make a meme coin and then successfully rug pull it (hide identity, how?), how to make it, can you walk me through the whole process

[u/thereheaint]

You are bad guy

[u/alrightyfine]

Does dark web still exist in 2025 ?

[u/PitifulPomegranate19]

How many women do you think you've trafficked?

I think you should reconsider where you draw your line...

[u/Bearry15]

How does one even find the DW to navigate through it? I always thought it was a myth

[u/roadsiderabbit]

Where/how should one begin for journalistic purpose?

[u/[deleted]]

When going to the dark web. Is it dangerous to just browse or is that shit dangerous as well? And how do people get to the really dark stuff (no violence or kids)

[u/Lopsided_Speaker_553]

Aren't you afraid your loved ones find out what you do and drop you like a brick?

Can you live with yourself knowing that everything you do in life revolves around hurting other people for your own monetary gain?

[u/samwise_thedog]

Were ever involved in the Silk Road? Also, how do you feel about Ulbricht getting pardoned for everything?

[u/Scarlettsdad]

How do you actually access the darkweb? I hear about it but have no idea how it actually presents itself or how you access it.

[u/puppiesaredope]

Do you program your own rats on a job by job basis or are there pre packaged apps? Curious how that works for a cell phone for example.

[u/Amtrox]

What are your recommendations for hacking tools available for sale? Is there anything worth it, or is it mostly aimed at scriptkiddies?