The Brett Johnson Show

Former US Most Wanted Cybercriminal turned Good Guy discusses prison. How was a known Snitch able to walk the yard? Brett answers that question. More important, it seems prison isn't all negative. The Original Internet Godfather discusses the positive aspects of being incarcerated and how it helped change his life.

Synthetic Fraud: 80% of all new account fraud. The fastest growing form of identity theft on the planet. 20% of all credit card chargebacks. 5% of all overall credit card debt.

$20 Billion dollar a year--for the bad guys.

Former US Most Wanted Cybercriminal and Original Internet Godfather Brett Johnson discusses what Synthetic Fraud is, how it works, if it can be stopped, how it will be committed in the future and how systemic racism played a part in its success.

Ross Ulbricht. Inventor of Silk Road, the first successful darknet market. He's also the man responsible for giving crypto it's first real-world use case. He's also an internet Godfather, a drug trafficker, a man who tried to have 6 people murdered, and an inmate serving Life in prison.

Former US Most Wanted Cybercriminal and Original Internet Godfather comments on Ulbricht's case and sentence.

A person can have an addiction to anything: Drugs, alcohol, gambling, gaming, work, exercise, people, relationships, environments, anything. A person who is addicted loves the addiction more than anything in their lives. They will choose the addiction over everything else. Nothing is more important. Original internet Godfather Brett Johnson discusses his addiction and working to overcome it.

Solarwinds provided network monitoring services for over 400,000 clients including 425 of the Fortune 500 Companies and most US Government Offices. Think Microsoft, Nvidia, FBI, Secret Service, NSA, Pentagon, Office of the US President. You name it? Chances are they used Solarwinds. Then they were hacked. Special Guest Justin Pierce visits The Brett Johnson Show to discuss. How bad was it? So bad a lot of people aren't talking about it.

33% of cybercrime involves taking advantage from the consumer side. Think ATO, Account Takeovers: Bank, credit card, email, merchant accounts, gaming accounts and more. Former US Most Wanted Cybercrook Brett Johnson talks about how ATOs happen and what you can do to protect yourself.

Drop Addresses--Addresses criminals use to receive illegal goods. Think drugs, fake IDs, credit cards, stolen laptops, etc. Find out in this episode how criminals pick addresses and what they look for in your neighborhood when choosing an address to commit crime. Watch and find out how to secure your home and neighborhood.

Brett Johnson discusses overcoming the negative in life and overcoming obstacles. 

Brett Johnson, Former US Most Wanted Cybercriminal, discusses victim mentality from the abuse he suffered as a child to the work he does today in assisting victims of fraud.

Brett talks about the precursor of today's darkweb and darkweb markets--Shadowcrew. Shadowcrew was the genesis of modern financial cybercrime as we know it. Shadowcrew was also the home to a Who's Who of Criminals. Take Michael Patryn and Gerald Cotten--the subjects of Netflix's The Crypto King. Brett givens his experience and insight into the Criminal Crypto Duo.