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#272 – Brett Johnson: US Most Wanted Cybercriminal

Lex Fridman Podcast

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The Three Necessities of Cyber Crime

Demetri had all the credit data in the world and he partnered with all these other Ukrainians who had all this data as well. The problem was, is so much fraud had been committed on that eastern side of Europe that every card had been shut down. Even if you were a legitimate card holder and tried to cash it out, you weren't doing it at that point. So we were running counterfeit library. And literally overnight, we turn from an eBay PayPal fraud site to a credit theft site calledMP fraud. Back then a fairly experienced fraudster could profit $30,000 to $40,000 a month. Just buying laptops,. You know what you have to do? Put them

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