Doug Shadel's entire career has been about protecting people from criminals--from the type of person I used to be. Doug was kind enough to sit down with me at the AARP offices in Seattle for a conversation about victims. What makes a victim? Why do criminals target certain people? What can people do when they are victimized? How can some one avoid becoming a victim. Find outin this episode.

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Meet Former FBI Agent Aaron Sherman, one of the top cybersecurity experts on the planet and of the best people I have ever met. Together we sit down and discuss my work as an informant for the United States Secret Service. That work ends with me being placed on the United States Most Wanted List.

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What would you do for love? What would you give to or do for someone you loved? Now add in a childhood of abuse and neglect which gave a skewed perception of how a relationship is supposed to look.

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The ShadowCrew is busted. You've heard the tale. But what was going on in my personal life while I was The Original Internet Godfather? Nothing good. Like a bad country song my wife leaves, I get all depressed, start drinking, frequenting strip clubs, and breaking the law. Too bad "Looking For Love in All the Wrong Places" is already a country song

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Former Federal Prosecutor Thomas O"Malley was kind of enough to Appear on this Episode of AnglerPhish. I speak to Thomas about his impressive career and what he is doing now with Frozen PII, before we recap my life of crime before the Secret Service arrests me.

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From the Original Internet Godfather, to the largest credit card thief in history, to the Quadriga scandal and a missing $235 million in cryptocurrency Shadowcrew and Company featured a Who's Who of the top cybercriminals on the planet. Episode 13: A Rogue's Gallery looks at some of their stories.

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I narrowly evade arrest as law enforcement swarms a drop address and the noose continues to tighten as my Second-in-Charge, Kim Taylor, gets arrested, David Thomas becomes a snitch, Script turns stupid, and I realize it's my neck the rope is around. Exit, Stage Left.

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$40,000 a day from ATMs, Hacking Paris Hilton, intercepting Secret Service text messages, Albert Gonzalez gets busted wearing a wig, and my second in charge--MacGyver? Turns out he wasn't a fraudster, but he did stay at a Holiday Inn Express one night.

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Looking back at large sections of my life I either have to laugh or cry. I choose laughter. I recently received a letter from a friend who was able to see easily see through that laughter. In this episode I stop laughing long enough to look at my life, some of the damage done, and what I hope to achieve. We end talking a bit more about the ShadowCrew story and CarderPLanet

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Not really the Russians, but the Ukrainians. Meet Script, Dmitry Golubov, the Father of Modern Credit Card Theft and CarderPlanet. Also learn how criminals learn to trust each other and what makes organized cybercrime so successful for criminals and so difficult for law enforcement to stop. All this and more tales of Brett Johnson's criminals exploits.

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