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Why did he arrange to get people that didn’t exist killed?

• betwixthewires 6y ago
  It's a long story, but basically there was a guy who would pump up vendor accounts and exit scam them, then he attempted to extort the site admin (DPR) with customer data using some story that he owed some real bad dudes a a lot of money, and when the admin tried to contact these real bad dudes about resolving it, he also asked them about selling on site and also taking care of this mutual problem. The real bad dudes agreed to handle the mutual problem for a fee, and DPR paid. Of course, the scammer and the real bad dudes were the same guy, and he managed to turn an extortion into a murder for hire of himself and some fictional associates, and made off with just under a million dollars at the time, not counting what he made scamming customers and also not counting future price increase. DPR, the criminal mastermind that he was, fell for it, never put it together, and paid. He legitimately thought all these names were different people and actually existed. I don't believe he even found out he got scammed until he was in jail facing charges and the scammer was caught for some other unrelated crimes.
  • saberdancer 6y ago
    Is there an article we could read? Sounds fascinating.
    • eddyg 6y ago
      Read (or listen to) American Kingpin by Nick Bilton. It is a great story. https://www.audible.com/pd/American-Kingpin-Audiobook/B06Y1RH224 https://www.audible.com/pd/American-Kingpin-Audiobook/B06Y1R...
      • saberdancer 6y ago
        I read a bit on various articles after commenting first time. I was very amused seeing he transferred thousands of BTC for one hit. For one hit it was roughly 1600 BTC at 60 USD. Bitcoin now stands over 20 000 USD so in todays BTC dollars that was a 32 million fake hit.