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Sam Bent

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292 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

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Darknet Diaries
132: Sam the Vendor

for one less of your shipping supplies anyway. And then I would take, I would order like generic catalogs that were really big, like Granger that had 500 to like 2000 pages in them. And I would tear out the pages, crumple them up into a ball and throw them in there. And I would pack it. So like, there's no packing peanuts. So now I don't have to buy that on Amazon.

Darknet Diaries
132: Sam the Vendor

for one less of your shipping supplies anyway. And then I would take, I would order like generic catalogs that were really big, like Granger that had 500 to like 2000 pages in them. And I would tear out the pages, crumple them up into a ball and throw them in there. And I would pack it. So like, there's no packing peanuts. So now I don't have to buy that on Amazon.

Darknet Diaries
132: Sam the Vendor

You know, like I would make sure that my expense, because, you know, whatever you're sending out, that's one end that you can get popped. But like you buying supplies is just as dangerous. Right. So all you have to factor in all those things. And like, you know, if you can factor those things in and make sure that they have no overhead, even better, you know, because now you're more profitable.

Darknet Diaries
132: Sam the Vendor

You know, like I would make sure that my expense, because, you know, whatever you're sending out, that's one end that you can get popped. But like you buying supplies is just as dangerous. Right. So all you have to factor in all those things. And like, you know, if you can factor those things in and make sure that they have no overhead, even better, you know, because now you're more profitable.

Darknet Diaries
132: Sam the Vendor

I would have my flash drive that I would always keep on me. And I kept it on me because first off, you have to figure I'm a moonshiner. So there's 170 proof alcohol around me at all times. Like it's possible for me at any time to, you know, take this flash drive out of my pocket, pour 170 proof alcohol on it and light it and hopefully melt it to a point where it can't be recovered.

Darknet Diaries
132: Sam the Vendor

I would have my flash drive that I would always keep on me. And I kept it on me because first off, you have to figure I'm a moonshiner. So there's 170 proof alcohol around me at all times. Like it's possible for me at any time to, you know, take this flash drive out of my pocket, pour 170 proof alcohol on it and light it and hopefully melt it to a point where it can't be recovered.

Darknet Diaries
132: Sam the Vendor

But really, obviously, that's not a guarantee. You know, it's not like I have thermite sitting around, even though that was an idea of mine at one point.

Darknet Diaries
132: Sam the Vendor

But really, obviously, that's not a guarantee. You know, it's not like I have thermite sitting around, even though that was an idea of mine at one point.

Darknet Diaries
132: Sam the Vendor

I would do regular perimeter checks. So probably four a day, I would walk around. I would look through almost every window in the house and just kind of look at what was going on outside. Was there a car parked down the street? And there were times where I saw a car parked down the street. Yeah, there's a ton of stuff. I wouldn't have a cell phone.

Darknet Diaries
132: Sam the Vendor

I would do regular perimeter checks. So probably four a day, I would walk around. I would look through almost every window in the house and just kind of look at what was going on outside. Was there a car parked down the street? And there were times where I saw a car parked down the street. Yeah, there's a ton of stuff. I wouldn't have a cell phone.

Darknet Diaries
132: Sam the Vendor

If you had a cell phone, you somehow knew me and I knew you well enough where I trusted you enough to come to my house. Your cell phone stays in the car.

Darknet Diaries
132: Sam the Vendor

If you had a cell phone, you somehow knew me and I knew you well enough where I trusted you enough to come to my house. Your cell phone stays in the car.

Darknet Diaries
132: Sam the Vendor

Oh, for packages?

Darknet Diaries
132: Sam the Vendor

Oh, for packages?

Darknet Diaries
132: Sam the Vendor

USPS only. Why? Because it's run by the federal government, which means they require a warrant to open it. If you ship DHL, UPS, FedEx, any of those or private companies, they can open your package at will. Whereas with USPS, they require a warrant.

Darknet Diaries
132: Sam the Vendor

USPS only. Why? Because it's run by the federal government, which means they require a warrant to open it. If you ship DHL, UPS, FedEx, any of those or private companies, they can open your package at will. Whereas with USPS, they require a warrant.

Darknet Diaries
132: Sam the Vendor

And they need reasonable suspicion with probable cause in order to apply for that search warrant and have a federal judge sign off on their ability to even open that package.

Darknet Diaries
132: Sam the Vendor

And they need reasonable suspicion with probable cause in order to apply for that search warrant and have a federal judge sign off on their ability to even open that package.

Darknet Diaries
132: Sam the Vendor

Making a package safe to ship was actually it's kind of difficult because they try to make it as generic as possible so that they can classify almost any package as suspicious. So like if you use, quote unquote, too much tape. What's too much tape? Well, that's arbitrary. It's up to them.

Darknet Diaries
132: Sam the Vendor

Making a package safe to ship was actually it's kind of difficult because they try to make it as generic as possible so that they can classify almost any package as suspicious. So like if you use, quote unquote, too much tape. What's too much tape? Well, that's arbitrary. It's up to them.