[Dusty]

(07-21-2017 02:24 PM)Sidney Crosby Wrote:  

https://ca.yahoo.com/finance/news/apos-d...39147.html

He was a good boy. Dindu nuffin....

[Off The Reservation]

(07-21-2017 02:09 PM)godzilla Wrote:  

(07-21-2017 08:23 AM)atlant Wrote:  

(07-21-2017 07:56 AM)Roosh Wrote:  

What I want to know is how the government linked Cazes' Paypal receipt, which does not contain any reference to his forum handle, to his actual forum handle.

Given what he was posting, and in which threads, I don't think it's too hard to make that connection.

I was just going to say. Its really easy to find info about people with relatively little info. If they knew where he lived, they could easily just narrow it down. Or they might have even crawled the forum looking for certain info.

Sometimes when Im messing with a tinder, i look up girls I have very little info just to see from recent pics if there not fat or not. Its surprising easy to find them with very little info.

Exactly. VERY easy.

[Going strong]

There are two coincidences in this case, that may not be foreign one to the other:

1- The Feds entered his Thai mansion at the very right time, when he was logged into his admin account but not in front of his computer.

2- His arrest came a few days after he posted about possibly impregnating a seven-eleven store girl.

Therefore, one might think that the lead investigator (a DEA officer it seems?), used this knowledge to turn Cazes' wife against him, offering her a reduced-jail time deal, and in exchange, have her phone him when Cazes would be logged in but far from his computer. Just a possibility, given that obviously his posts were carefully watched and analyzed, and weaknesses looked for. And a weakness apparently was found in his armor, armor that evidently was provided, up to this point, by his local wife (and her family?).

If true, it shows that if your wife knows dirty little secrets about you, you better not let everybody know that you're impregnating other women on the side. Or bad things might suddenly happen to you. Like the Feds breaking your door when you're showering or some.

[RIslander]

(07-20-2017 06:43 PM)nomadbrah Wrote:  

I wonder if he developed a grand scheme, or if he just thought he'd start a small Tor based darknet site that accepted Bitcoin payments, and then had it balloon larger than he ever imagined. When he started making $10,000/month, he probably thought he had hit the mother load. Then it got 100 times bigger.

I think this is one of those cases where you find yourself riding the tiger, but there's no way to get off.

Its like a compulsive gambler who loses his home, wife and retirement account in one fell swoop. Add in a high IQ and young age and it's a recipe for disaster.

While I tend to agree with Atlant's earlier post that Cazes behavior was both foolish and criminal, and that many suffered from the distribution of illicit drugs, firearms and personal information... I can't help but respect the hustle and feel bad for losing a member of our community. At the end of the day red-pilled men are a rare resource and any loss hits close to home for us all.

EDIT: I guess I couldn't give two shits about the drugs and firearms... those generally only hurt those who seek to be hurt. But the distribution of credit card and personal information is what makes me sour. How many hard working citizens had to deal with identity theft and loss of their hard earned cash? I'm sure Cazes most likely tuned that out but even though I wish it all ended differently...I'm glad it ended. I hope that by all of this happening less honest people will suffer.

[AnonymousBosch]

(07-21-2017 10:54 AM)Dusty Wrote:  

"Pics or it didn't happen" did him in.

Once again, I'm out of the loop with this one. I tend to tune out online social posturing.

I'm (admittedly, only-mildly) curious as to whom exactly the user who challenged him was, and did he publicly-reveal having received that video to the forum base?

Does anyone remember the discussion?

[Uzisuicide]

Damn, and I thought Roosh has had a strange life. This cat went from having it all to dead by 26 or whatever. Operations like his never end well and nobody quits while they're ahead.

[Troller]

He deals drugs and goes to live in a country where drug trafficking is punished with a death sentence...

Anyway this story reminds me of this shitty movie:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAz_oUxUuDg

Now he´s dead. What a waste.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrews...7d6adb1250

[RawGod]

It's poignant to read his last post, which was at noon local time on the day his site was shut down. He was posting casual stuff on the forum possibly just minutes before his life came crashing down.

[Brother Abdul Majeed]

Skimmed through the thread to see if anyone has posted this already, apologies if I missed it.

This popped up in my Google news feed. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/nat...e35772750/

Quote:

Online posts give glimpse into mind of Canadian allegedly behind AlphaBay

Quote:

However, some insight into the mind of Mr. Cazes can be found on an online forum where he portrayed himself as having permanently moved away from what he considered a dysfunctional society.

He settled in Bangkok, learned to speak Thai, became wealthy and married a local woman. At the same time, he still considered himself a player, boasting how he cheated on his wife, using elaborate subterfuges.

The details come from posts made on the Roosh V forum, an online discussion board hosted by self-styled pickup artist Barack Obama.

You can read the rest at the link.

[RawGod]

(07-21-2017 07:17 PM)Brother Abdul Majeed Wrote:  

Skimmed through the thread to see if anyone has posted this already, apologies if I missed it.

This popped up in my Google news feed. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/nat...e35772750/

Quote:

Online posts give glimpse into mind of Canadian allegedly behind AlphaBay

Quote:

However, some insight into the mind of Mr. Cazes can be found on an online forum where he portrayed himself as having permanently moved away from what he considered a dysfunctional society.

He settled in Bangkok, learned to speak Thai, became wealthy and married a local woman. At the same time, he still considered himself a player, boasting how he cheated on his wife, using elaborate subterfuges.

The details come from posts made on the Roosh V forum, an online discussion board hosted by self-styled pickup artist Barack Obama.

You can read the rest at the link.

The writer actually didn't portray the forum in as negative light as a lazy MSM journo might be expected to. Rather than trying to peg us as some kind of evil hive, they highlighted that Mr Cazes had drawn criticism from within the forum.

[Troller]

(07-20-2017 10:49 AM)Roosh Wrote:  

I have learned today that Alexandre Cazes was a member of the forum until his death in Thailand. Public court filings revealed by the US Federal Government show that his use of Paypal in paying for a gold membership was helpful to the government in identifying his true identity.



As the owner and administrator of this forum, I did not have any knowledge that Cazes was an AlphaBay administrator or that the government was investigating his activity on the forum. I was told of the possible association after he died, but it was unconfirmed until reading the court documents. No government agency has contacted me about Cazes, but I will cooperate with any valid subpoena.

When you participate on the forum, it is expected that you follow all Federal, state, and local laws, as stated in the registration terms. If you find posts that break this rule, hit the report button or email me directly at [email protected]. While it's rare for me to take action against a member for his offline activities, understand that if you happen to be a drug lord or high-level criminal, your association with the forum may cause harm to it or its members. If I am told that you are participating in felonious crime, you will be banned from the forum.

RVF has over 25,000 members and has been in operation for 9 years. This is the first time we've had a member who turned out to be a criminal mastermind. For a forum of this longevity and size, I believe that offers proof of our law-abiding nature. Even Cazes did not appear to bring any illegality to the forum.

For the sake of privacy to Cazes' family, I ask that you not publicly share his username, since he revealed stories here that may have been concealed from those closest to him.

For the sake of his family privacy you should remove his posts. Since a simple google search allows anyone to find his username.

[stugatz]

Chilling. There isn't such a thing as too paranoid when the establishment sees you as subversive and quite literally wants you dead. Thanks for the heads-up, Roosh.

[Disco_Volante]

Everyone is correct in pointing out, of the 25,000+ forum members, just find ONE that is charged with a crime, and find some loose justification of how their 'enterprise' was directly aided or conducted through the forum. Even one 'suspicious' post I could see a judge ordering they take Roosh's servers to 'investigate'.
The travel forum, the business threads, etc.... A prosecutor could easily allege this forum was used to organize something due to a vague post that may have helped their idea.

[John Michael Kane]

With caching and Way Back Machine there's no way to completely erase his history. Not to mention, it looks like Roosh is trying to cover something up that way, when it was Cazes' choice to engage in illegal activities. Nobody on this forum encouraged him, no need to purge the record.

[Dusty]

Quote:

Investigators further discovered that this same email address was linked to a PayPal account that law enforcement said Cazes used to make monthly payments to Roosh V, a popular but infamous men’s rights forum known for hosting blatant misogyny and extreme views on gender.

[John Michael Kane]

Extreme or controversial are just code words for ideas we can't debate on facts.

[TooFineAPoint]

"Tonight, on Pravda!

Extreme views on gender: how believing a person born with a penis is a man can lead to Thai drug empires and credit card fraud!!

Shilly McCanuck reports in detail at 7pm!!!"

[Transsimian]

Well, our necessary restriction on everyone but [cis]men cannot get more extreme.

Women love to colonise male spaces, tone police and make the conversation all about them, Sheesh, some even attention-seek on the gay 'networking' app Grindr.
http://girlsongrindr.tumblr.com/

[DrCotard]

http://archive.is/jxeF7

I put the original website on archive since I don't wanna give'em free ad revenue and traffic.

[Going strong]

By the way, we'd like to hear a word or two, as a matter of courtesy, from the lead investigator, seemingly a DEA agent, who was scrutinizing Cazes' posts on the forum... well yes, I don't suppose this dedicated officer simply browsed as a guest: being a proactive professional, he probably registered, and I'd bet, posted. Don't be shy now, hermano...

Well, in any case and generally speaking, I might personally add that I respect the work the DEA is conducting throughout the world, as I have no sympathy for people involved in hard drugs (because drugs create victims)... I just regret that mister Cazes was not brought alive to a court of Justice in order to defend himself (after all, maybe he was innocent, at least partially?)... but I reckon, it was not the DEA's responsibility to stand night-watch at the prison where, sadly, mister Cazes died. So, well, the DEA (if indeed it is this agency) did its work well, professionally.

[Going strong]

(07-21-2017 08:54 PM)DrCotard Wrote:  

http://archive.is/jxeF7

I put the original website on archive since I don't wanna give'em free ad revenue and traffic.

From the site above:

"Cazes rarely left the house before noon. She said she got her first good look at him one day when he was outside, trying to photograph a monitor lizard that had crawled out of a deserted field nearby"

Photographing slim, exotic lizards, making them crawl! French Canadians have game!



Was it really a "monitor lizard" by the way, or Monica Lizard?

[wi30]

I'm more upset he wasted that much money on a Porche Panamera.



It looks like the bastard child of a luxury sedan and a 1998 ford focus hatchback.

[Dan Woolf]

^^

He made up for that by owning sick villas

[Sidney Crosby]

According to Sessions, Cazes's arrest was a co-ordinated effort between law enforcement authorities in Thailand, the Netherlands, Lithuania, Canada, the United Kingdom and France, as well as the European law enforcement agency Europol.

USA-TRUMP/SESSIONS
U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced the takedown of the dark web marketplace AlphaBay at the Justice Department in Washington. (Aaron P. Bernstein/Reuters)

He said criminals are acting like "they can commit crimes with impunity by going dark."

Sessions said he hopes Cazes's arrest will send a clear message that there is nowhere for criminals to hide.

A California indictment said Cazes had amassed a fortune of $23 million, including a small fortune in digital currency.

The indictment said he spent the money on real estate, luxury cars and the pursuit of "economic citizenship" in Liechtenstein, Thailand and Cyprus, reported The Associated Press.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/j...-1.4215009

http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/darkne...-1.4215567

[Leonard D Neubache]

He should have chosen a new Dread Pirate Roberts a little sooner.