Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
Dark Web Criminal Extorts Celebrities, Makes Millions & Shares Legal Loopholes
20 Dec 2024
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An unregulated world of loopholes on the internet. I've sold a lot of questionable products. It was a seven-day trial, then you got billed $60 a month forever. You can never cancel. Celebrities tend to drive revenue. I made a lot of money off of Chris Evans, Tony Hawk, Bam Margera. I got close to 500 sites, and I got an offer to sell the network.
I've been on the internet now, making money some way, shape, or form for 12 years. This is when like internet was starting to like be cool. YouTube was starting to become a thing. You know, there was like, you know, Twitter was like brand new back then. There was like a lot of these opportunities. And then I started finding like these little loopholes. Are you familiar with domaining?
Like where you buy domains and sell them? Well, I thought it would be a good idea to find people that I assume were unintelligent and register their Twitter handles and then sell them back to them. Well, I was like, okay, well, who's cash rich? and my lack of some intelligence, browsers.com. So I went to a list on the site.
They listed all the stars on the site and I just registered all their Twitter handles. So I went, okay, you know, Jenny X. And I was like, okay. So I went to Twitter and I registered that name. And I wrote one line that said, if you're interested in purchasing this name, email me here. And I set up a fake Gmail account. Like I was like, I forget what I called it. And that was all it said.
And I did this for every star on the site. I also did it to some of my favorite athletes too that I'm like more so because I was like, yeah, they'll just hit me up and I'll give them their name. No, it was free.
It's free to register a name?
A Twitter name. It was free. Oh, Twitter. I thought these were domain. Formerly known as X, formerly known as Twitter. So this is like Twitter is brand new. I tagged my name. I didn't hide. I just tagged my name and I said, if you're interested in this, email this and we can talk.
and sure enough stars started emailing me hey i'd like to get my name and i said cool 500 bucks right and like one out of five would send it right the other five i just know the other four i never hear from again so and there was like a hundred or so on the site so like it was able to make like i don't even know probably like seven to ten grand ish over the course of like six eight months just selling stars their twitter handles back
And I was like, wow, this is interesting. What other loopholes are there that I can exploit? Because like I'm saving them the time of finding it. And it wasn't really. Yeah, you're doing them a service. Yeah, I was doing them a favor.
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