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Ronnie Tokazowski

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Darknet Diaries
141: The Pig Butcher

So if you're unfamiliar with the term confraternity, think of a college fraternity here in the States, but mixed with black magic and voodoo. And what I mean by that is some of the hazing rituals for black acts include a human sacrifice or trying to use those type of techniques in order to, quote unquote, gain extra powers to become a better scammer. What?

Darknet Diaries
141: The Pig Butcher

So if you're unfamiliar with the term confraternity, think of a college fraternity here in the States, but mixed with black magic and voodoo. And what I mean by that is some of the hazing rituals for black acts include a human sacrifice or trying to use those type of techniques in order to, quote unquote, gain extra powers to become a better scammer. What?

Darknet Diaries
141: The Pig Butcher

Hey, hey, trust me, trust me. Yeah, no, I'm dead serious on it. No, it's not like I went off into Cyberland, but no, no. But no, Black Axe is one of the larger groups who's doing a lot of the business email compromise activity.

Darknet Diaries
141: The Pig Butcher

Hey, hey, trust me, trust me. Yeah, no, I'm dead serious on it. No, it's not like I went off into Cyberland, but no, no. But no, Black Axe is one of the larger groups who's doing a lot of the business email compromise activity.

Darknet Diaries
141: The Pig Butcher

And specific to the human sacrifice, the way that that plays out, is for your Nigerian scammer, they are called a Yahoo boy. So in order to become a better scammer, a Yahoo boy plus, there is a human sacrifice ritual where you have to kill somebody to gain better powers to go and continue this type of scamming.

Darknet Diaries
141: The Pig Butcher

And specific to the human sacrifice, the way that that plays out, is for your Nigerian scammer, they are called a Yahoo boy. So in order to become a better scammer, a Yahoo boy plus, there is a human sacrifice ritual where you have to kill somebody to gain better powers to go and continue this type of scamming.

Darknet Diaries
141: The Pig Butcher

And like I said, sounds far out there, but it's widely documented that this is unfortunately one of those cases and that's why I get so bitter towards ransomware is that people are like, oh, somebody might die here, over here. Somebody might die over here because of this ransomware attack. I'm like, no, we have people literally sacrificing each other because of this stuff.

Darknet Diaries
141: The Pig Butcher

And like I said, sounds far out there, but it's widely documented that this is unfortunately one of those cases and that's why I get so bitter towards ransomware is that people are like, oh, somebody might die here, over here. Somebody might die over here because of this ransomware attack. I'm like, no, we have people literally sacrificing each other because of this stuff.

Darknet Diaries
141: The Pig Butcher

And like, that's where the problems are on some of these cases.

Darknet Diaries
141: The Pig Butcher

And like, that's where the problems are on some of these cases.

Darknet Diaries
141: The Pig Butcher

Okay, yeah, yeah. So this was a Black Axe case they had down in South Africa. And like I mentioned earlier, I do a lot of work backing forth with law enforcement, so I get to hear a lot of the good stories as a result of this. But they were doing the case. They went down to go and arrest the individuals. And they were kind of at this compound down in South Africa.

Darknet Diaries
141: The Pig Butcher

Okay, yeah, yeah. So this was a Black Axe case they had down in South Africa. And like I mentioned earlier, I do a lot of work backing forth with law enforcement, so I get to hear a lot of the good stories as a result of this. But they were doing the case. They went down to go and arrest the individuals. And they were kind of at this compound down in South Africa.

Darknet Diaries
141: The Pig Butcher

And they were able to get into most of the houses and most of the buildings. And there was one window in the back that they couldn't get into. So they were able to bust it down, got in there. And in that building, what they found was they found a pile of money covered with blood and dead chickens.

Darknet Diaries
141: The Pig Butcher

And they were able to get into most of the houses and most of the buildings. And there was one window in the back that they couldn't get into. So they were able to bust it down, got in there. And in that building, what they found was they found a pile of money covered with blood and dead chickens.

Darknet Diaries
141: The Pig Butcher

So as they came out and unlocked the door to get in there, they kind of got talking to the people that they were addressing. And they were like, what's this? Because you don't really expect to find that on a law enforcement engagement. So what the scammers had said was, well, it turns out that the magic here in South Africa is not as strong as the juju in Nigeria.

Darknet Diaries
141: The Pig Butcher

So as they came out and unlocked the door to get in there, they kind of got talking to the people that they were addressing. And they were like, what's this? Because you don't really expect to find that on a law enforcement engagement. So what the scammers had said was, well, it turns out that the magic here in South Africa is not as strong as the juju in Nigeria.

Darknet Diaries
141: The Pig Butcher

So we need a larger pile of money. And that's one of the things that most people don't realize is that there is a spiritual aspect that plays on this that many of the scammers believed. And when you account for that and you account for a lot of the way that they perceive a lot of that stuff, it gets really, really interesting.

Darknet Diaries
141: The Pig Butcher

So we need a larger pile of money. And that's one of the things that most people don't realize is that there is a spiritual aspect that plays on this that many of the scammers believed. And when you account for that and you account for a lot of the way that they perceive a lot of that stuff, it gets really, really interesting.

Darknet Diaries
141: The Pig Butcher

And because of, again, that spiritual aspect, it's like I said, there's so many other things that the scammers are kind of playing with and using or believe that they don't fully understand, like, well, they're playing with, in my opinion.

Darknet Diaries
141: The Pig Butcher

And because of, again, that spiritual aspect, it's like I said, there's so many other things that the scammers are kind of playing with and using or believe that they don't fully understand, like, well, they're playing with, in my opinion.