[HN Gopher] E-Crime Rapper 'Punchmade Dev' Debuts Card Shop
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       E-Crime Rapper 'Punchmade Dev' Debuts Card Shop
        
       Author : todsacerdoti
       Score  : 53 points
       Date   : 2024-01-17 17:08 UTC (5 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (krebsonsecurity.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (krebsonsecurity.com)
        
       | monkey_monkey wrote:
       | I don't get it - isn't this just _really_ stupid? Like putting a
       | big target on his chest and saying to everyone (criminals as well
       | as law enforcement)  "Come and get me"?
        
         | kikokikokiko wrote:
         | He sells an opsec package on his e-shop you know. It's fine, no
         | one can get him.
        
         | whatamidoingyo wrote:
         | It sounds like a psyop... The people who buy from him are the
         | real targets and will be put on the lists. No way someone is
         | this dumb, I don't believe it.
         | 
         | I do believe people are dumb enough to believe it, though, and
         | will make purchases from him so they can obtain diamond chains
         | as well.
        
           | 2OEH8eoCRo0 wrote:
           | > It sounds like a psyop
           | 
           | You guys love that word.
        
           | mattmaroon wrote:
           | If you live a life that allows you to believe nobody is this
           | dumb, I envy you. Don't leave your bubble and in fact, please
           | send me directions.
        
           | ametrau wrote:
           | Yeah it does sound like a honeypot.
        
             | jimt1234 wrote:
             | I was thinking 'honeypot', too. It makes me think of
             | scantily-clad, female undercover cops, walking the streets,
             | looking to arrest johns for solicitation. Walking the
             | streets, looking and talking sexy isn't illegal. But
             | soliciting someone for sex is. So, not a lawyer, but I'm
             | guessing that talking about online crime and even putting
             | "hacked accounts" up for sale isn't illegal, but knowingly
             | trying to purchase is.
        
               | iamthirsty wrote:
               | > even putting "hacked accounts" up for sale isn't
               | illegal
               | 
               | IANAL, but isn't it kind of a weird Catch-22, where if
               | weren't illegal, it could be prosecuted as some sort of
               | fraud?
        
           | kikokikokiko wrote:
           | You better believe, this guy is this dumb for real. The most
           | amazing thing about it is this genius, top 1% human material,
           | apparently went to university. Ain't it great to not have
           | annoying things like SAT scores stopping our best and
           | brightest to achieve their life goals?
        
             | jeron wrote:
             | university of kentucky will admit anyone breathing with a
             | pulse
        
           | toyg wrote:
           | Dumb? He's going to make money from the idiot wannabes who
           | _will_ buy his  "valid" lists (which will likely turn out to
           | be entirely composed of previously-leaked, long-blocked
           | cards).
           | 
           | There is a lot of money to be made for people not afraid to
           | look like an idiot.
        
           | seanhunter wrote:
           | > No way someone is this dumb
           | 
           | If you ever find yourself thinking this, you are definitely
           | always wrong. The world is a very big place with lots of
           | people in it and some of them really are incredibly dumb.
           | Example?
           | 
           | I met (IRL) a guy who managed to drill a hole in his own
           | stomach while trying to put up a bookshelf[1].
           | 
           | No matter how outlandish and ostentatiously ridiculous
           | something seems to be I _guarantee_ there is someone out
           | there who is dumb enough.
           | 
           | [1] He didn't tell me how he had got the injury himself, his
           | wife and my aunt told me, and they had (respectively) been
           | there when he did it and taken him to hospital.
        
         | mise_en_place wrote:
         | It's a joke in the urban community that rappers rap about their
         | crimes and confess to them, there are quite a few comedy
         | sketches about it.
        
       | crawsome wrote:
       | Krebs is a national treasure. If you ever read his book "SPAM
       | NATION", you'd see how valuable he is. He stood up to Russian
       | cybercrime in the 00s who even tried to threaten his life. He got
       | bulletproof hosters taken-down again and again. These hosters
       | were hosting phrama scams, spam, malware, CP, you name it. He
       | consistently works in the interest of the public good, even when
       | it's hard.
       | 
       | Brian works hard for his money, unlike upstart cybercrime
       | braggarts like the guy he's exposing. I'm so happy people like
       | Brian exist, people like him have the motivation and time to
       | investigate hubris-laden morons like Devon Turner.
        
       | meepmorp wrote:
       | Apparently, the cybercrime rapper is terrible at opsec and is
       | seemingly a dumbshit. I, for one, am shook.
        
       | mattmaroon wrote:
       | I really only clicked on this because I had no idea how to parse
       | that headline, and I'm glad I did.
       | 
       | Can we do an over/under on what date this guy ends up in jail?
        
         | jimt1234 wrote:
         | Or, the over/under on what date 'the streets' catch up to him,
         | and _unfortunately_ , he gets robbed/shot/murdered? If you're
         | gonna flex like that online, someone is gonna come at you at
         | some point.
        
           | mattmaroon wrote:
           | That's true, sounds like it's come close before.
        
           | throwup238 wrote:
           | TFA: _> "Things may eventually catch up to Devon if he isn't
           | careful," @Brainjuiceofficial observed, noting that Turner
           | has been shot at before, and also robbed at an ATM while
           | flexing a bunch of cash for a picture and wearing $500k in
           | jewelry._
           | 
           | He's already been shot at. It's part of the thrill and street
           | cred fantasy. There's almost definitely a bullet out there
           | with his name on it already.
        
             | jimt1234 wrote:
             | I used to live a little dangerously when I was young. At
             | some point I realized that some people just don't give a
             | fuck - jail, beatings or even death is not a deterrent for
             | them, at all. To last in the streets, you either have to be
             | one of those people, or bulletproof.
        
       | GBond wrote:
       | This won't end well for him. But at least he can sell the story
       | rights to Netflix
        
         | barbazoo wrote:
         | Or whoever manages his estate.
        
       | jkljsfdasdf wrote:
       | This is one of those invulnerable-feeling youth things I think.
       | You could get the idea punchmade dev is hiding his face based on
       | krebs images. But I just Binged punchmade dev and saw at least 20
       | pictures of his face.
        
         | Y_Y wrote:
         | "Binged" like you binge-watched some videos? Or you mean you
         | bung it on the Microsoft search engine?
        
           | Exoristos wrote:
           | "I Bung it" is great. What about "Bing'd it"?
        
           | datadrivenangel wrote:
           | Just bung it has a nice ring to it.
        
         | kikokikokiko wrote:
         | He hid his face, but even then his tatoos were all visible.
         | Anyone that really wanted to know who this dunce was would know
         | in no time.
        
       | mesozoic wrote:
       | His raps are not even good though. Snitching on himself to make
       | bad rap SMH
        
         | dvngnt_ wrote:
         | I thought his song "long live heather" was okay in which he
         | rapped about selling fentanyl-laced drugs to the homeless
         | population https://youtu.be/e9pFGESCc6o
        
           | sudosysgen wrote:
           | It's even worse, he raps about people overdosing on his
           | drugs, first of which was Heather. I really hope it's all
           | fake.
        
       | ametrau wrote:
       | I read it. I don't see how it can be real. I think he's using the
       | controversy for media attention. If it was real he would have
       | been arrested.
        
       | gumballindie wrote:
       | Cant he just switch to ai or crypto as all modern criminals do?
       | Lander ip or pump coins.
        
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