ShadowCrew

ShadowCrew was a cybercrime message board (forum) that operated under the domain name ShadowCrew.com between August 2002 – October 2004.

The concept of the ShadowCrew was developed in early 2002 during a series of chat sessions between Brett Johnson (Gollumfun), Seth Sanders (Kidd), and Kim Marvin Taylor (MacGyver). It was GOllumfun, who came up with the idea of an eBay style business model for ShadowCrew and the subsequent vendor review system that introduced people in need of stolen data or counterfeit identification to verified sellers of such products.

The ShadowCrew website also contained a number of sub-forums where the latest information about hacking tricks, social engineering, credit card fraud, virus development, scams, and phishing.

ShadowCrew offered a haven for "carders" and hackers to trade, buy, and sell anything from stolen personal information, to hacked credit card numbers and false identification. Shadowcrew emerged from another underground site, counterfeitlibrary.com which was ran by Brett Johnson (GOllumfun), in early 2002. and would be followed up by carderplanet.com owned by Dmitry Gubolov a.k.a. Script, a website primarily in the Russian language. The site also facilitated selling drugs wholesale.

The key players were Brett Johnson (GOllumfun) as head of the group, Kim Taylor (MacGyver) as second in charge, Albert Gonzalez (CUmbaJohnny, Scarface, et al.) as forum techie. After Johnson, Sanders, Taylor left Shadowcrew or became otherwise indisposed other would become Administrators and Moderators—Deck (Andrew Mantovani), BlackOps (David Appleyard) and a handful of others. Shadowcrew grew to over "4,000 members" During its early years, the site was hosted overseas, in Hong Kong, but shortly before CumbaJohnny (Albert Gonzalez)'s arrest, the server was in his possession, somewhere in New Jersey. (From Gollum—unsure about that. More likely that after the Gonzalez arrest that the server was moved to New Jersey per the USSS—Gollum)

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