Bryant Perkins, NYU Athletics turns to Racketeering as a profession, utilizing malware containing payloads for bitcoin redemption of crime-as-a-service. He films his crimes using a technology that CBS built; and helps felons do the same
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Bryant Perkins, Racketeer, Stalker, Harasser. Felon criminal financial fraud enterprise.
He promotes marketing and the filming of the felons crimes, using gaming technology as well as a sports technology that CBS built.
He targeted me as a journalist at a hotel I stayed while doing nature photography from Arcadia to Lassen; Joshua Tree to Big Bend. Stopping in Austin before driving out to DC.
I a guest, and he, a worker at the hotel, I first reported the malware to him, as it was a proximity attack that happened onsite. His response, told me that he already knew, he was involved, and not a bystander, but guilty himself. He was also alarmed that I had discovered it.
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He proceed to steal my ID (although that could be postulated that it happened first, since he is running a Racketeering operation). He tampered with my phone, laptop, watch, and then told me he would make me pay for reporting the malware to the police.
He then asked the General Manager to make sure the hotel was full, so that my accommodation would have to be cancelled. They upgraded me to a nicer hotel within a mile and paid for the suite for the night.
I spent the weekend there, before renting a different car to finish my nature photography tour.
I proceeded to be physically followed by a group of felons in their vehicles, filming me, from Austin to Big Bend. To Mt. Davis. To Dallas. All the way to DC. I photographed much of the harassment.
From Austin to Dallas specifically, criminal Bryant Perkins took the Felon Ride or Die attitude, as well as what he learned in Track & Field at NYU; escalating competition insults to a new level, and engaging in standard cheating principles (which is something losers and those desperate to win do - real winners work hard and follow the law - which is why some cheating can work if a criminal - Perkins - wants to gain a short term lead).
Near Ft. Worth, a dark SUV pulled in front of me and my rental car at a light. I had my phone out as I had been recording the felon group of drivers who had been following me from Austin. The plate said Perkins. The windows were tinted. The music was bumpin'. This is Narcissistic Personality Disorder at it's classic finest. [Read anything by Dr. Sam Vaknin.] The perpetrator requires it to be known that they are involved, and orchestrating this, even if that piece of evidence will seal the deal against them. Their ego requires the glory and they cannot help themselves.
Bryant also owns a marketing company and creates audio/video streaming and engagement for felons and racketeers. He additionally picked up a new podcasting "hobby". He has recorded interviews with three hotel owners that engage in cyber crime, bitcoin gaming, and the illegal recording of women in showers.
The hostel, Drifter Jack's, ended up closing. An employee admitted to me that they were illegally filming the female guests. I spoke with a second employee who helped install the orange lights in the woman's bathroom drain, pointing up towards the lady's most private area. That employee is a known drug user, and was repeatedly talking about female child sex abuse, Jeffrey Epstein, and payloads for submitting solo female traveler names to drug and sex trafficking enterprises. I honestly thought that individual was having a psychotic drug induced mental breakdown when he started telling others about this while he was clearly high. I am Mormon. I work in Finance. I don't know what this person was talking about, other than clearly he is a bad person who hurts women.
The hostel, Firehouse on Brazos Street, told me they had nothing to do with what Bryant was up to. Bryant's co-host, fellow criminal and high school drop out Krysta Murphy, told me she was a writer, and liked getting paid to help write the narrative for how the illegal game was going to get set-up, acted out with MMORPG, and associated bitcoin payload rewards, for disturbing crimes committed against the unknowing guests at each hotel. She told me this was the fourth hostel she'd been to and that besides writing a script for these illegal games, that she took pride in helping get them set-up. I.e. illegally breach the router and data systems of the hotel; that is - if making the right or wrong assumption the hotel owner is not involved, but rather a ghost host for the crime.
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FIREHOUSE HOSTEL - 605 Brazos St, Austin TX
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She added that her highest sales were from Gamers, Gaming Conventions, and also Australian Travelers. Even though this hotel caters to a gaming community, she said that the gaming she personally engaged in was legal.
Her statement made to me was that she and her company enjoyed legal gaming, gaming Conventions, and the money that gaming brought to the hotel, being a majority of their revenues. She stated that the gaming she was aware of, was above board. She said she was unaware that Bryant and his underground criminal group were Racketeering. She said that she was uncertain how to stop it without the forensics. I turned my forensic data and reports into the Austin Police.
The IT Director suggested he was not part of it, and that the attack was through Bryant's Whatsapp account and over WiFi, 2G, low-level packets. Although the IT Director accepted a subsequent position at a Dental Office.
The owners failed to respond.
PERPETRATORS
Bryant Perkins is an owner and partner of a marketing company that explicitly coaches entrepreneurs on media presence; sets up audio/video for each game; handles streaming and marketing.
He has been abusing people for a long time and was shot in the leg before in college - a message for him to stop hurting women and girls. He clearly has only gained momentum and a following of abusers that help him.
Krysta Murphy is a writer, who helps coach other players and black-market game participants and co-owners (they pay a fee to join each game, sign a non-disclosure agreement, as well as take a cut of the profits). She is instrumental in setting up the illegal technology, boasting to having done it many times, with Firehouse being her fourth engagement.
Terrilyn was in the US on a short term work VISA. She is a self=proclaimed Borderline, who is obsessed with MMORPG. She thinks hacking is cool. She admires felons. She has severe problems with logic, critical thinking, and self-control. If she is still in the US, she may be here illegally. The last time I spoke to her, she said she had no option for renewal.
Firehouse Hostel GM Jessica
Firehouse Hostel IT Director from Vermont
THEIR RACKETEERING SCHEME ALSO INCLUDES HOSTEL HORROR
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REGARDING TEXAS BEING A ONE PARTY CONSENT STATE
Data breaches on are illegal.
Pushing malware into a phone is illegal. Even if it is done via Radio Controls (the specific legality of wireless radio is a strategy these cyber racketeers use thinking that law and their technology saves them from prosecution).
Recording others, even in a one party consent state, such as Texas, is illegal if it happens in a place where the other party has reasonable grounds to believe they would not be recorded. Like in a room, behind closed doors at a hotel, in a bathroom or shower.
For me specifically, my rights to confidentiality are protected as a participant in State Address Confidentiality Program(s). It is illegal to record me specifically, even in one party consent states. With my specific ACP participation, 100% of any electronic, virtual or physical recording, or any identification of me, is legally required to occur with two party consent in writing, and verified that it is authentic vs. fraud. Otherwise punishable by various fines up to $4,000 per incident, per day. (Every 24 hours is considered a new crime.)
WHAT DO YOU THINK?
Bryant, Krysta, and Terrilyn, intentionally set-up, hosted, and received profits, for the illegal game, as did all players pay a fee to buy in, illegally record, illegally stream, and earn / receive profit sharing amounts for their participation.
There is a limit to the GM's liability regarding what her team members are doing that she does not know about. It is also a crime to perjure oneself.
There is a limit as well as to what the GM can and cannot control about other's actions.
The GM should be responsible for the end result and impact on her guests though.
If one were to assume her innocence, then what do you think her response should be about her team members who broke the law? What should her standards be regarding her commitment to her guests? And what actions do you think she should she take?
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Department of Justice
U.S. Attorney’s Office
Southern District of New York
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Wednesday, October 20, 2021
Australian National Sentenced To More Than 9 Years In Prison For Multimillion-Dollar Text-Messaging Consumer Fraud Scheme
Damian Williams, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that MICHAEL PEARSE, an Australian national who was extradited to the United States from Australia in January 2021, was sentenced today to 109 months in prison for his participation in a fraudulent scheme to charge hundreds of thousands of mobile phone customers millions of dollars in monthly fees for unsolicited, recurring text messages without the customers’ knowledge or consent – a practice the conspirators referred to as “auto-subscribing.” PEARSE played a key role in the scheme as CEO of a company that created the computer program that was used to enroll victims into the text message services without their knowledge or consent. PEARSE previously pled guilty before United States District Judge Analisa Torres, who imposed today’s sentence.
U.S. Attorney Damian Williams said: “Michael Pearse played a vital role in an international consumer fraud conspiracy that swindled hundreds of thousands of mobile phone customers out of millions, and ‘earned’ Pearse and his co-conspirators at least $50 million, of which Pearse pocketed more than $10 million. Thanks to IRS Criminal Investigation and the FBI, as well as our international partners, Pearse was apprehended, prosecuted, and now sentenced for his crime.”
According to the allegations contained in the Indictment, evidence presented at the trial of co-conspirator Darcy Wedd, court filings, and statements made during plea proceedings:
From in or about 2011 through in or about 2013, PEARSE and his co-conspirators engaged in a multimillion-dollar scheme to defraud U.S.-based consumers (and others) by placing unauthorized charges for premium text messaging services on consumers’ cellular phone bills. To carry out the scheme, PEARSE and others caused unsolicited and recurring text messages to be sent to mobile phone users containing content such as horoscopes, celebrity gossip, or trivia facts. The victims of the fraud scheme never ordered these services, which were known in the industry as premium text messaging (“PSMS”) services, but were fraudulently “auto-subscribed” and billed for them at a rate of $9.99 per month. The $9.99 charge recurred each month unless and until consumers noticed the charges and took action to unsubscribe. Even then, consumers’ attempts to dispute the charges and obtain refunds were often unsuccessful.
During the relevant period, co-conspirator Lin Miao operated a company called Tatto Inc., a/k/a “Tatto Media” (“Tatto”), that offered PSMS services to mobile phone customers. PEARSE was the CEO of a company called Bullroarer, which was affiliated with Tatto. To enable Tatto to auto-subscribe consumers to unwanted PSMS services, PEARSE and co-defendant Yongchao Liu, a/k/a “Kevin Liu,” who worked as a Java Development Engineer for Bullroarer, agreed to build a computer program that could spoof the required consumer authorizations – i.e., a program that could generate the text message correspondence that one would ordinarily see with genuine PSMS subscriptions. PEARSE and Liu agreed to build the program (the “Auto-Subscription Platform”), which was operational by in or about the middle of 2011. PEARSE, Liu, and Miao then used the Auto-Subscription Platform to fraudulently auto-subscribe hundreds of thousands of mobile phone customers, using phone numbers provided by co-conspirators at Mobile Messenger, a U.S. aggregation company operated by Darcy Wedd that served as a middleman between content providers such as Tatto and mobile phone carriers. Through their successful orchestration of the fraudulent scheme, PEARSE and his co-conspirators generated more than $50 million in fraud proceeds for themselves and PEARSE personally pocketed more than $10 million.
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In addition to the prison sentence, PEARSE was ordered PEARSE to forfeit $10,162,937.96, as well as his interest in three real properties in Australia and other assets, representing proceeds traceable to the fraud that PEARSE personally obtained.
To date, nine other defendants – Liu, Miao, Andrew Bachman, Michael Pajaczkowski, Erdolo Eromo, Jonathan Murad, Francis Assifuah, Jason Lee, and Christopher Goff – have pled guilty in connection with their participation in the fraud. Two additional defendants, Darcy Wedd and Fraser Thompson, were convicted in 2017 following jury trials.
Mr. Williams praised the outstanding investigative work of the Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. In addition, Mr. Williams thanked law enforcement partners in Australia, as well as the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of International Affairs of the Department’s Criminal Division, for their support and assistance with the extradition of PEARSE and codefendant Liu.
This case is being prosecuted by the Office’s Complex Frauds and Cybercrime Unit. Assistant U.S. Attorneys Jilan Kamal and Olga I. Zverovich are in charge of the prosecution.
Updated October 20, 2021
