The ballad of Plural of Mongoose AKA variety jones. In the case of the corrupt federal agent. PART 2

A-C-A-B wrote:
Thank you for posting you story. It will be interesting to see what's true and what's not, because I KNOW the Evo story is bullshit. I'm not saying you made it up, PoM, I'm saying you were probably led to believe this Diamond is cooler than he really is. K and V had their game tight. There was a reason their wiki only suggested using Whonix. ;)

If I had gone through every detail of our communications during the process, my post wouldn't have made it up here by Christmas, eh. :whistle:

Diamond told me he 'had' Evolution, and was negotiating his take for the scheme. When he told me it would be gone in 2 weeks, I scoffed at him. The Force & Bridges stuff taking so long to come out, and nary a whisper of it during the trial, made it easier 'n fuck to goad him. If Evolution wasn't gone within the two weeks specified, he would give me an advance of a cool $1,000,000 in btc, for what I guess we'll start calling 'The Pirates Gold Encrypted Wallet' scheme.

With that kind of prior knowledge, without a clue (Well, everyone was always screaming exit scam about one market or another, Agora got it the worst, and exited like gentlemen, go figger.) that anything was going to happen, the exit was sudden and swift, and 10 days after he made that promise.

So, either Kimble and/or Verto is Diamond (Not to be lightly dismissed, I'm sure there are a fucking TON of renegade feds working their way, privately, up the lucrative, multi-billion-dollar DNM food-chain. It's the new wild west, and those fed-techies have the skill-sets and insider knowledge to fucking clean up.), or Diamond managed to find a way in. That's not too unlikely, he would have had literally nation-state level of hardware and illegal monitoring at his disposal, that could do correlation attacks that only someone with nation-state level assets could even think of attempting.

Diamond ain't some script kiddy in mums basement installing LOIC because he fancies himself a 733t hax0r.

So unless you're Kimble or Verto, you can't really say for sure. And if you are Kimble or Verto, take a long hard gander at the other guy, eh.

Peace :fly:

Roots wrote:
My only question is, what happend to your motorcycle?

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And let us never speak of this again, mmmkay? :emp:

<skips off for a well deserved nap>

well_lol_doh wrote:

Hello Mrs sexy Oz freelancer book writing lady,

One of these days - possibly in 25 years or so when like drugs are legal and shit - we'll all have a RL Silk Road reunion. There will be a beer pong and popcorn muffins as well as everyone's D.O.C.

And the second I see you, I'm SO gonna lick your face or at least air lick it, like how posh people air kiss.

Rawr.

Have a lovely holiday xxxxxx :dreamon: :slave:

I'm speechless. (Well, almost!)

I'm not sure if that's really kinda creepy, or really kinda cute. :facepalm:

What the hell, I'm gonna go with cute!

Good luck with that, eh. :laugh:

SR-Refugee wrote:

    well_lol_doh wrote:
    According to Joseph Cock:

    "The TorChat ID of who Variety Jones claims is 'Diamond' has gone offline. Was previously 'extended away'. " :popcorn: :lurk:

    I need a popcorn castle.



Well what do you know I was right.

Really?

I musta missed the post where you said that Diamonds torchat ID was going to go off the air after I posted it. Mebbe you could link to it? :loony:

Didn't surprise me, at all, that he's gone dark on torchat. He's one pissed off fella right now, and he'd know better than anyone if there's a de-anonymization attack out there that he may be vulnerable to. Also, I doubt he was getting too darn many messages of support from folks, eh. :arse:

Catching up on my PMs and emails, and then I'm working on a post to answer a bunch of questions all at once.

EDIT: Thanks for everything smokes, I hope folks take the time to follow what you're saying about the corruption at the highest levels. Keep on fighting the good fight, eh.

Saw this pop up on the image gallery up top on the main page, stole it from user Mud Boy's gallery.

SECOND EDIT: Shit, that wasn't the image I meant to post, musta grabbed the wrong link. I'm gonna leave it up there anyways. :facepalm:

THIS is the image I meant to post: ((He did not include an image.))

Well, it looks like Motherboard managed to get a statement from the FBI.

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/fbi-is-investigating-whether-a-crooked-agent-harassed-variety-jones

"We are aware of the allegations made by Variety Jones and have forwarded them to the appropriate office for review," an FBI spokesperson told Motherboard in an emailed statement. "The FBI takes claims of employee misconduct seriously as we are an agency with the mission of upholding the law."

While the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation has responded to Motherboards request for a comment, no authorities from any arm of the United States Department of Justice have yet to respond to my requests to make arrangements to make myself available for the service of any indictments they may have laying around with my name on 'em. Or, to use the vernacular, I'm still trying to turn myself in, to no avail.

zybose@safe-mail.net

Yes, I'm still on the same email I've previously supplied to Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Mr. Serrin Turner.

well_lol_doh wrote:

...stuff about emails...

...especially as he used strange, or to use his own words, "cutesy" and "folksy" language. EG: "FBI tergiversator"

A letter wasn't going to cut it, unless I double registered it so a receipt would be sent back to me, eh. That'd be pretty poor OPSEC. A phone call? Hi, I'm from the internet, and I need to speak to whoever is in charge of rogue FBI agents. Hello? Hello?

I needed an independently verifiable record of the communication. The email was not going to get caught in a spam filter due to content by a Bayesian filtering routine. The title line wasn't for viagra, or promising riches from a Nigerian prince. Let's give our Mr. Turner credit for quite a few years of university, a well rounded classical education foundation, and a modicum of common sense. He's not going to stop at what I doubt to him would be an unfamiliar term, and skip off to Starbucks for a coffee. It was, and is, a very serious allegation.

The PGP signature, while it doesn't stand to verify the identity of me, the sender, it does render the contents immune to tampering after-the-fact, and indicates the email was considered serious by the sender, at a minimum.

Finally, by law the email trail to his office is auditable. <Waves at the folks from the Inspectors General office.> Complete records of who accessed the email and when, who forwarded or read it, are all recorded in an audit trail journal that theoretically, at least, is immune to tampering. After Snowden, I'm pretty sure the audit trail journal has its' own, independent, audit trail journal.

So, in reality, a PGP signed email to Mr. Turners' official account was the logical choice.

It certainly never fucking even crossed my mind it would become necessary to make it public.

<dramatically crosses arms>

Jesús Malverde wrote:

To people who might be skeptical about PoM using an internet forum site to make his splash, it really does make some sense to do so on a public forum under more or less friendly or at least neutral control and avoid the gatekeepers and agendas that inevitably go with intermediaries. How else does the message get out publicly and the messaging remain in PoM's control? The FBI has now been forced to publicly acknowledge the allegations made and if the story of Diamond is to some extent true, he or she has no doubt now very much gone from offense mode to defense mode, while his target remains loose, could be anywhere on the globe, and is free to communicate. That can't be good if you're Diamond. Could hardly be worse in fact. If PoM had been imprisoned before he made this splash, he would have been an easy target; now it becomes a good deal more complicated.

A cogent summary of the situation.

Jesús Malverde wrote:

The kidnapping story does strike me as a little cockamamie though. Can't really see that working as described, ransom in data or no. Almost in fact sounds like some of the crazier and more lurid stuff ascribed to VJ as an advisor to Ross in the chatlogs that were released doesn't it? I should go have another look at those. Was that really you PoM? I honestly have no idea now.

Man, I didn't even get into some of the weird stuff.

Diamonds original plan was for me to convince Ross that I had an absolutely spectacular plan to break him out of prison. A small army, swooping helicopters and even a submarine for the final escape, it was like something out of Michael Bays imagination. (Can't imagine where he got the swooping helicopters idea from, but I digress.) I was already setting things in motion, was just short a few million US dollars to put the whole plan into play, and could Ross please give me the passphrase to unlock the wallet I'd somehow managed to spirit away under the nose of the TLA's. We'd buy a small Latin American country, and live happily ever after.

The initial backup plan to that, was to "pretend" to torture me (For certain values of [Air Quotes] pretend [/Air Quotes], I'm sure.) until Ross gave up the passphrase. By this time I had thought that Diamond couldn't possibly get any more off the rails. I was wrong, he could, and when I continuously balked at going to a 'safe house' he set up, he rolled out the kidnapping and torture scenario. See, it wouldn't be necessary to "fake torture" me, after all! Oh, goody.

Off the wall? Ab-so-fucking-lutely.

Unbelievable? Well, folks have done far worse for far less, so no, it was definitely in the realm of possibilties, and Diamond had been amassing a large fortune lately, and had the funds, knowledge, and contacts to pull it off.


Comments


[2 Points] drimilr:

While my personal jury is still out with this guys story, life is usually stranger than fiction.


[2 Points] throwathrowanz:

I wanna believe this story, but I can't help noticing PoM tip toeing around some important questions asked by people on that thread. Something about the whole story seems "off". Fuckin interesting though!


[1 Points] young_k:

I'm continuing to read and continuing to smash bag after bag of popcorn. I don't even like popcorn.

Sweet kettle corn...on the other hand....mmmmm.


[1 Points] brooklynzooo:

Look guys this maniac PoM has been manipulating readers and stirring shit tsunamis since before most of yas were born...

And you can blame nosey ass mufus like La Moustache and Gwern for your coins disappearing from Sheeps and Evo....

I wouldn't believe a damn thing PoM says..... Fucking turn yourself in already man and stop blabbing about it..

If you think the FBI or whomever is gonna kidnap Ross's moms or sis, then it is probably time for you to stop doing drugs, mmmkay?