Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
How Hackers Sell Your Stolen Info | Underground Credit Card Markets
30 May 2025
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In my mind, I always thought having a million dollars would make me quit the game. It never would. What I ended up doing was brokering information to other people who decided they wanted to go do that kind of fraud. Use Bitcoin instead of cash. You can transfer it anywhere. It's untraceable. I jumped on a plane under an assumed identity that I had been holding on to in case of an emergency.
And I went to Miami. Now, I had the connect that changed my life. Some say for the worse. Some say for the better. I mean, I'm going to say it just changed my life forever because. OK, so I was born in Oakland, California, born at a time when Oakland was transitioning. It was kind of like coming away from the. Black Panther movement to black people just really being independent, owning property.
A lot of the white people and upper-class people were moving out to the valley, but here it is in Oakland. We were middle-class. My mom worked at a bank. My dad, he got into law enforcement, mind you. They came from Mississippi together with about $200 between them, and they were able to build something before they started a family.
So what happened was I came along, and then a couple years later, I had two smaller brothers.
my dad he always wanted more i'm sorry how old were your parents when you were born my parents was like 20 23 24 when i was born okay mind you like my dad got a job for the city but basically it was a government job so that was a great job to have back in the day because he knew he had some type of security and then my mom worked at a bank until an accident happened at a bank where someone threw some keys across the bank and hit her in the head
So from there, she went out on leave for about four months and she was having like blackouts and things of that nature. So she ended up having to retire early with the settlement. I think it could have been like about 15 or 20K, but we're talking about 1982. About 15, 20K is a bunch of money. And this is when they bought their house. They bought a house. So I never lived in an apartment before.
We always lived in a house. We always had money. I mean, not rich, but we had money, middle class. But the thing about that is... She didn't work no more, so she became an entrepreneur right then and there. She opened a child care center. She opened up a janitorial service. My dad still made more money, I want to say, but we made it all the way through.
But we went to public school with the rest of the kids that didn't have a lot. Right. The kids at my school were on fixed incomes, single parent homes, just a mom, welfare or food stamps. And I didn't even understand why. My major question was like, why are these kids disadvantaged and we're not? One of my friends at school told me that they didn't have any food at their house.
And that bothered me. I was like, what do you mean you don't have any food at your house? But I kind of overlooked it, thought he was joking because when he came over our house, he got to make food. Ate good, even took some food home with him. But after a couple of times, I thought this kid is telling the truth. He doesn't have any food.
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