The Rise and Fall of Shiny Flakes

Found this Vice article to be pretty interesting, thought some of you might feel the same way

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/the-rise-and-fall-of-shiny-flakes-germanys-online-drug-market

The police had apparently intercepted 40 kilos of drugs mailed by Shiny Flakes in the months before raiding him.


Comments


[26 Points] Jay-__:

The police only needed a few days to cull the seized hard drive, which was not encrypted, (...)

What the hell?!


[21 Points] None:

15 years. Good thing he's not in the US. Bottom line he got to big, to cocky and slipped in his OPsec.


[17 Points] _ALLONSY_:

Nice share. That jail looks so nice compared to the ones in the US wth


[13 Points] None:

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[11 Points] p3ric135:

50,000 hits of L confiscated... a truly sad occasion, folks.


[9 Points] BigSmileyFace:

Didn't this dude also have a clearnet site?


[8 Points] Dubstep95:

How the fuck did his mom not know he had all that shit in the house lol.


[6 Points] maniahck:

Thanks for sharing, interesting article


[5 Points] None:

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[4 Points] gha671:

I don't get it. Why would a vendor KEEP the address details of customers? Surely it is juts common sense to securely delete them once the order has been fulfilled.


[3 Points] JunglistJunkie:

shiney flakes is a fucking legend to have that much stock at an early age, shame he did'nt last as long as he deserved.


[3 Points] vlwtradex:

Weed, Kokain, Speed, Marihuana, Hasch, MDMA und Pillen

http://www.vitalilagerfeld.website


[2 Points] SpecialAgentDildo:

Great read thanks.


[2 Points] JohnnyClash:

Am I the only person about that thinks this is linked to the Evo Scam? When he posted Vendors run for your life a while back information was leaked about Evo. This might have made the admins jump a little and think its time to shut up shop.

  1. Shinny was on his way out from Evo since start of Jan. Fall outs between members and admins
  2. He later posts from jail telling people to run.
  3. Was this a sign for everyone to flee before the exit scam ?
  4. Few weeks later Evo is gone....

Makes you think....


[1 Points] None:

Cheers


[1 Points] chewygeeza:

"Dutch authorities recently raided the wholesale supplier, Dutchmaster, which led this month to search warrants being issued for other German dealers" Dutchmasters is gone?


[-1 Points] Theeconomist1:

What's disturbing was he apparently didn't encrypt his harddrives (although someone noted that they could have been mounted, which would be why he'd be yanking cables). He also kept addresses of his bigger customers/redistributors. And my understanding was he came under suspicion due to a pack with lack of postage. B/c he didn't switch up post offices or drops, they easily profiled him. I guess you start to get comfortable after a while. Contentment really is our true enemy.

I'm very curious about the posted message of "dealers, run for your life" - I originally assumed it a taunt from LE, but the article makes it cloudy if this was a warning from Shiny or taunt from LE.