The Mistake That Brought Down a Darknet Drug Lord🎙Darknet Diaries Ep. 58: OxyMonster
Source: YouTube · Jack Rhysider · published Jan 12, 2023 · 1:00:13
This episode details how Dream Market administrator OxyMonster, real name Gal Vallerius, was caught by the DEA through critical operational security mistakes including failing to use Bitcoin tumblers and using his real last name on an exchange 15:00.
Key Takeaways:
• OxyMonster became a Dream Market admin within six months while also selling drugs, drawing DEA attention through forum posts and a consistent Bitcoin tip jar address linked across multiple markets 15:00
• His fatal mistake was sending Bitcoin directly to localbitcoins.com without using a tumbler, using "Vallerius" as his username, which agents traced to Gal Vallerius, a French beard competitor 25:00
• When Gal flew to Texas for a beard competition, customs agents convinced him to unlock his laptop under the guise of a child porn search, finding his OxyMonster PGP key and $500,000 in Bitcoin 30:00
Gal pleaded guilty and received a 20-year sentence, a stark contrast to pharmaceutical executive John Kapoor's 5.5-year sentence for pushing fentanyl that killed an estimated 8,000 people 01:00:00.
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JACK: I better do a warning here; this episode is
gonna talk about drugs and dark markets, through like, the whole episode. If you’d rather not
listen to me go on and on about drugs for an hour, you might want to consider skipping this one.
Also, in my hope to listen to Episode 24 first; that one’s called Operation Bayonet which goes
into detail about drugs being sold on these dark markets. Now, you don’t need to listen to
Operation Bayonet first but it does explain a lot of stuff and leads you up to the events before
this one so it’s a good idea to pause this one, go do Operation Bayonet first, and
then come back to this one. [MUSIC] You know, the internet has really
brought to life a whole new userbase that traditionally was very different.
For instance, stock market trading; tr…