AI
From Carding at 16 to Silk Road Phishing
Godman666 started at 16 writing AIM booters. He met a contact who got cards from a source named Ripple Man G. To earn 10 cards, he had to verify a banner on 1,000 porn pictures. He used free proxies from freeroxy.com to place orders. Boxes of brass knuckles and hats arrived. His partner had a sixth-grade education but was skilled with computers. They sold card databases via e-gold. His mom found a stash of cash behind the closet. He got grounded.
Phishing and Extortion on Darknet Markets
After Silk Road launched, Godman666 cloned the site to catch deposit addresses. He used a Firefox tab that automated cloning. He shifted to selling cards on Evolution, then exited when the market scammed. He sold cocaine on Alpha Bay at 90 a gram against 15 cost, making 150,000 in six months. He extorted Alpha2 by feeding him inside information from a PR guy, earning 5K. A partner named Kinger backstabbed him and extorted Alpha2 on the side. The scheme dried up after a Motherboard article.
Sabotage, Phishing Campaigns, and Wikipedia Marketing
After being fired from Empire Market, Godman666 waged a personal war. He handed phishing templates to anyone with a grievance and operated thousands of servers. He taunted Empire admins by thanking them for paying his rent. On Big Blue Market, he inserted PHP shells and swapped database withdrawal addresses with his own Bitcoin addresses. When the admin shorted Bitcoin and lost everything, it became an exit scam. For Alpha Bay 2, he ran FUD campaigns on Dread using phished upvote accounts. He edited Wikipedia pages for drug markets to include correct onion links, charging 10K per edit.
Creative Compliance and Retirement
At DEF CON 31, Godman666 lost 21K blackout drunk. He created a fake FBI document claiming a Ukrainian market was under investigation. The admin paid him 20K for the document and closed the market the next day. He used offshore Panamanian lawyers paid in XMR to send legal takedown requests for phishing links. He predicts darknet markets will grow as AI displaces developers. He never went to prison and never snitched.
Notable Quotes
I started at 16. Godman666 · ▶ 02:07
they exit scammed and these are just the natural cycles of how the markets Godman666 · ▶ 12:18
the tour project has received well over six figures directly due to initiatives launched by Dread Godman666 · ▶ 23:33
He paid me 20K for it. I got my money back. Nice. And then they closed the next day. Godman666 · ▶ 38:36
I never went to prison. I never pointed my finger and snitched on anybody. Godman666 · ▶ 39:57
Key Takeaways
- Darknet market extortion and phishing are common internal tactics.
- Wikipedia edits can serve as low-cost marketing for onion addresses.
- AI job displacement may push more skilled people into darknet markets.
About the Speaker
Godman666 has operated in the darknet’s criminal underbelly for over a decade. Starting with carding at 16, he moved to spam operations before rising through Silk Road and Tor carding forums. He built phishing empires, sold hacking tools, and ran infrastructure for major markets—including engineering the darknet’s largest phishing operation after a fallout with Empire Market’s staff. A backend role at a top market later ended in financial sabotage (ask about Christmas 2019). Recognized in Wired’s “The Most Dangerous People on the Internet” (2022), he shifted to offshore legal warfare takedown arbitrage, Wikipedia edits, and creative compliance. DEF CON’s Darknet Market Contest? Sabotaged by a hangover.