Joseph Cox
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first heard Jun 2024
last heard 28 Jan
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And that's a security benefit as well, right? You can't just rock into a normal phone store and get one of these phones, because if you could, the cops would buy them, and then they would get on the network as well. So you have this human-level reseller network that also keeps the good guys out and the bad guys in.
Yes, it's exactly like your scalp cookies. And that's also sort of a business benefit for a NOM, because if a top-tier criminal at the top of their drug trafficking pyramid gets a phone, that means everybody underneath them needs to get a NOM phone as well, because they only talk to one another. So everybody needs to move to that network and that gets more money for a NOM as well.
It's not like normal phones where obviously an iPhone can send a text message to an Android. You can't do that with a NOM. It's just an insular sort of internal network. So soon after launching In Australia, the company got more demand for phones outside, and especially in Europe. And sort of the key person behind that expansion was a drug trafficker called Hakan Ayik.
He is the head of the so-called Aussie cartel, which is a multi-billion dollar super cartel.
He's teamed up with the Cromanjeros and the Hells Angels, groups that would usually be killing each other if they were in the same room. They band together to basically put those differences aside and make a lot more money.
Hakan Ayik gets very interested in Anom. On one side, he needs a secure device to continue to smuggle his drugs. On the other, if he can get in early when Anom is just growing and maybe get a sizable share of the business, he can make an absolute ton of money selling the phones as well.
Drug traffickers have figured out that you don't just sell coke, you sell the phones that also power the trade of the cocaine. as well. And what better ambassador for a nom than one of the world's top drug traffickers saying, hey, this phone is the real deal, so much so that I'm going to put my freedom and my safety behind it as well.
Yeah, exactly. And very soon, he brings in even more people. There's one called Maximilian Rifkin, who uses the nickname Microsoft.
So Microsoft, if you can think up of a drug trafficking scheme, Microsoft has not only probably thought about it himself, he's probably done it as well. Microsoft has spoken about putting drugs inside energy drinks, using corrupt workers inside energy drink factories. He's talked about getting airstrips in Europe to deliver drugs. He's hidden cocaine inside tulips.
He's built amphetamine labs in the Swedish countryside. He's orchestrated drops of cocaine to speedboats in the middle of the ocean. Wow. Done that multiple times. They call that a James Bond job when they drive a speedboat. They throw it overboard and they catch the nets or the duffel bags or whatever. Yeah.
Microsoft is a prolific drug trafficker and a prolific user and, importantly, a seller of these phones, including Anom. He puts his entire business and trust basically into this one platform.
And now, that was Anam. And it starts to spread in Colombia or then in Sweden and Denmark and Norway and Finland. So you have all of these influencers providing exceptional marketing to Anom. If Anom did not have those big names, those Ryan Reynolds, I guess, I don't know if Anom would really take off. And it absolutely did after that.
I mean, he would constantly contact sort of the customer support side of Anam and be like, hey, you should put this feature in. No, no, no, you should take this feature out to the point where the Anom customer support staff are like pulling their hair out at this guy who's like clearly crazy.
But they're told, just hear Microsoft out, entertain his pleas, because he's such a big influencer that we need him on our side.
The first major piece of bad luck for Microsoft is that Swedish police somehow find his amphetamine lab in the Swedish countryside. It turns out the cops followed one of his lab cooks who was making a switch of amphetamine in a shopping center car park. They follow him back and they discover this amphetamine lab.
And they do this really dramatic raid with two parallel SWAT teams going through two different entrances, striking simultaneously. They capture the cooks, basically red-handed, or I guess gloving, hand in glove, because he puts his hands up and he's covered in amphetamine. Hands on your back! Hands on your back! And that's the first bit of bad luck, and they seize all the drugs.
But more importantly, they seize the drugs, but of course they shut down the lab, and that's Microsoft's sort of drug infrastructure pushed out of the window. So that's very concerning.
Microsoft continues doing odd jobs here and there. He's then trying to do another sort of twilight drop of cocaine. in the ocean near japan and something happens where there's a combination of a lot of bad weather and then also apparently the japanese navy get a tip-off that something is going on and they raise the boat and that operation falls apart as well finally
he spins up another amphetamine smuggling operation. Like, okay, rather than building the lab, I'm just going to go to somebody I know who already has one, who can make it, and then I will smuggle it across Europe or wherever. And he does that. There's a seizure here or there. It's like, okay, the cost of doing business. But then again, again, and again,
the cops keep raiding his safe houses, even though it's a different safe house every time. And it's like, how the hell are the cops finding out where my drugs are every single time? And he's running out of money, especially because he operates on credit a lot, where he will sell drugs when they haven't actually arrived yet.
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