The Guide to Getting More Out of Life
Monroe Johnson
One of the childhood friends of my little brother Nicholas Alfonso Mason, AKA The Jaguar.
Monroe Johnson – “Yellow Cabs, Black Nights”
Monroe Johnson – “Amory”
I like it. On the mellow, smooth, dapper tip.
I like the blond girl too.
The Rest is Up to You……..
Michael Porfirio Mason
AKA The Peoples Champ
AKA The Playboy you Love to Hate
The Guide to Getting More Out of Life
http://www.thegmanifesto.com
Top Crim of The Week: A-Z, The computer hacker
A-Z is an archetypical new-generation hacker. No one outside of his close associates knows his true identity, virus hunters say. But security researchers and government authorities have exhaustively triangulated his presence in the cyber-underworld for nearly two years. Based on A-Z’s marketing activities in Russian chat rooms and forums, and distinctive coding signatures in ZeuS, investigators peg him to be a male in his early 20s, living in Moscow, working full time as an independent software developer for hire.
Anticipating that ZeuS would reel in thousands of such alerts, A-Z prepared the botnet created in Stage 1 to lend a helping hand. Jackson says the botnet was set to automatically react to alerts. Each alert triggered a cash transfer of $5,000 to $10,000 that took only a few seconds to complete, he says. According to SecureWorks, British law enforcement and affected banks compiled an estimate of ZeuS’ total take over the course of two weeks: $6 million.
ANATOMY OF A CYBER BANK HEIST
In summer 2007, a German gang skilled at pilfering online bank accounts forged a partnership with a Russian hacker known as A-Z, who security analysts say created ZeuS, a versatile tool for infecting PCs. The collaboration produced a lucrative score.
They blast waves of e-mail spam carrying purported links to greeting cards, news stories and celebrity videos. Clicking on a link installs generic ZeuS on your PC.
Generic ZeuS collects data typed on your banking pages and other Web forms; it also turns the PC into a “bot,” that can be used by others remotely.
Gang members spend summer and fall stealing personal data from PC users with commercial accounts at banks that allow online cash transfers.
E-mail is sent to bank patrons asking them to “click here” to reset their security codes. Thousands fall for the ruse, installing a custom version of ZeuS.
Custom ZeuS issues an alert each time the PC user logs into the account.
Alerts get distributed to the bots created by generic Zeus; each bot stands ready to complete a cash transfer in a few seconds.
In two weeks, ZeuS extracts $6 million from thousands of accounts at banks in the USA, U.K., Italy and Spain.
Authorities shut down a computer server in Turkey discovered to be holding key instructions for transferring funds.
Source: USA Today
I have mentioned this Tech Crim phenomenon before in Criminality in The Luxury Sector. Sure makes walking into a bank with a loaded gun look old-school, doesn’t it?
The Rest is Up to You……..
Michael Porfirio Mason
AKA The Peoples Champ
AKA The Playboy you Love to Hate
The Guide to Getting More Out of Life
http://www.thegmanifesto.com
ROLL DEEP – JEALOUS
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Infamous Johnson’s get jail for UK’s biggest heist
Five members of the Infamous Johnson family, responsible for the UK’s biggest ever domestic burglary, have been jailed for up to 11 years each.
Members of the notorious crime family stole antiques worth more than £80 million in a series of heists at stately homes across Wiltshire, Oxfordshire, Berkshire and Worcestershire. The family’s heist were extremely well thought out and well executed.
The biggest of their burglaries was carried out on Harry Hyams’ 17th century home, Ramsbury Manor in Wiltshire, in February 2006.
The reclusive property tycoon and art collector, who built Centre Point in London, had filled his mansion with a world-famous collection of fine art, including works by Titian, Rubens and Rembrandt. After the raid, gang members made off with art and antiques worth at least £30 million.
Richard “Chad” Johnson, 33, and Daniel O’Loughlin, 32, were both jailed for 11 years, Michael Nicholls, 29, was given 10 years, Albi Johnson, 25, was jailed for nine years and 54-year-old Ricky Johnson was given eight years.
“I would like to make it clear to the people out there, to the police and the rich people like Lord Rothschild – if I feel the need when I have got to rob a stately home, I will do so.
I will rob it and hope I don’t get caught. But I will only rob your house if I feel the need and I have got to feed my children and nobody is helping me achieve my goal.
I feel I have got the f****** right to rob the lords out there. I feel I have got the right to rob the lords, sirs and the ladies.”
– Ricky Johnson
Hard to disagree with that logic.
Source: Notorious Johnson family members jailed for UK’s biggest heist
The Rest is Up To You…
Michael Porfirio Mason
AKA The Peoples Champ
AKA The Game Doctor Spock
The Guide to Getting More out of Life
http://www.thegmanifesto.com
Roll Deep – Penpals
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Worst Ad Campaign of the Year: Greyhound
Greyhound has 86’d an ad campaign that touted the relaxing upside of bus travel after one of its passengers was accused of beheading and cannibalizing another traveler.
The ad’s tag line was “There’s a reason you’ve never heard of ‘bus rage.'”
Vince Weiguang Li, who immigrated to Canada from China in 2004, is charged with second-degree murder in the death of 22-year-old carnival worker Tim McLean. He has yet to enter a plea.
As horrified passengers fled the bus, Li severed McLean’s head, displaying it to some of the passengers outside the bus, witnesses said.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080806/ap_on_re_ca/canada_bus_beheading
Pretty Grisly stuff. Sad. Bad timing on the ad campaign too.
It is stuff like this that is the reason most insiders will tell you that China is going to take over International crime in the next decade.
Personally, I have always preferred train travel.*
The Rest is Up to You……..
Michael Porfirio Mason
AKA The Peoples Champ
AKA The Playboy you Love to Hate
The Guide to Getting More Out of Life
http://www.thegmanifesto.com
*Future Manifesto…
Cage – Agent Orange
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On a positive note:
Death Threats and Voice Mail Gangsters
I don’t know about you, but at least once a month I get some guy on my voice mail giving me some kind of death threat (and I will bet my last Dunhill Lighter the guy leaving the voicemail is wearing an Affliction Shirt or maybe a Ed Hardy shirt).
Usually, these death threats are in the form of “If you don’t stop calling (insert girls name here), I am going to find you and kill you” or “I know you hooked up with my girl. I am her boyfriend. If you don’t stop seeing her, I and going to find you and (insert violent verb here)”.
The whole “Death Threats from Voicemail Gangsters” (and their little retarded cousin the “Text Message Gangster”) thing raises some interesting points:
1) If you don’t say the girls name on the voicemail, I probably have no idea who you are talking about. At any given time I am “dating” at least forty girls. And that is just in the U.S. Hell, I probably have intimate relations with at least 15 girls in Las Vegas right now. And at least that many working fly model girls in Miami Beach. And don’t get me started on Buenos Aires or Bogota. So, say the girl’s name on the voicemail, Skippy.
2) If you want to discuss the situation, don’t call from a blocked number (it is always from a blocked number). And no yelling a screaming. Don’t get so emotional and sensitive. Be calm and cool. I have no problem giving you some free schooling to The Game. I am that kind of G.
3) Don’t worry. I don’t want your girl permanently. You can have her back. I prefer not to have “girlfriends” for many reasons. And you can bet your last minimum wage Down Economy dollar that I am not going to have a girlfriend that is unfaithful. The World of Game is No place for beginners or sensitive hearts. Be a Smooth Operator.
4) Realize that I am actually doing you a favor. Now, at least, you know you cannot trust the girl. You should be thanking me. (For some reason, boyfriend guy never looks at it this way, but that is neither beeks nor beans).
5) If leaving a threatening voicemail on my phone is your way of scaring me, well, it’s not working. Just to clue you in (and I don’t mean DJ Clue either) real tough guys don’t threaten people. They take care of business. Real bad boys move in silence. So screw on the silencer.
6) If you think I am scared of dying, you are mistaken. I have stood down the barrel of a gun on many occasions. And I have always been Tranquilo. I have lived with contracts on my life. I have already lived a very fulfilling life. I have traveled the world. I have swooped thousands of beautiful women. If I do get gunned down, suited up while sipping on champagne, I will be laughing all the way to the Afterlife. Hell, I am probably more afraid of living.
Besides, what are you going to do?
Kill me twice?
So don’t sweat it “player”. I’m not.
The Rest is Up To You…
Michael Porfirio Mason
AKA The Peoples Champ
AKA The Game Doctor Spock
The Guide to Getting More out of Life
http://www.thegmanifesto.com
Ice Cube – No Vaseline (N.W.A Diss)
The Leopard Kill in Krugerpark
AZ feat Daddy Rose I’m Back
