Topic: Who is "Variety Jones"? - page 12. (Read 47178 times)

[–] jesuisgay 1 points 2 months ago

   I am convinced that Gypsy Nirvana became MrMerlin on silk Road, Hiniguel on Silk Road 2.0, the shadowman and now vendorZ ("vendor zen") on agora. He's always banging on about "karma". Hank and I know his name and address, but being BTVA members, we will never doxx anybody under any circumstances. I CAN tell you that he lives in Surrey (west of London), has a kind of french name, and has a private plane flying license. he used to be an estate agent and has a mobile food services company (selling hotdogs at festivals, i imagine). I have a gut feelingthat he may have moved here from New Zealand a long time ago.

Gypsy Nirvana is imprisoned in the Philippines and has been since his arrest in summer 2013... he was supposed to be extradited back to the UK but missed his plane presumably worried about US trying to nab him en route or extraditing him when he was back in the UK or something.

See more: http://gypsynirvana.blogspot.fr

His real name is Glen Foster he changed his name to Gypsy officially via deed poll after his ex girlfriend's tattoo shop so he could cash checks made out in the company name in his personal bank account. I don't doubt that he has other aliases and if anyone's really interested then there's plenty of info freely available online.

The real person of interest in all this is Thomas Clark/ PoM/ Variety Jones/Cimon.

I'm fairly certain that he's the CW that cirrus used who is mentioned in gwern's latest post in the Silk Road sub which is why he's disappeared and not been mentioned in relation to any SR arrests despite clearly having a lot to do with the site behind the scenes.

Who do you think it's the richest vendor from all DNMs? by jajamanja in DarkNetMarkets

[–]Vendor_BBMC 4 points 1 day ago*

He hasn't retired. I opt6ed not to name his last vendor identity, or his current one.

There's quite a lot of coincidence involved so our paths kept crossing.

I used to be quite a serious cannabis breeder, selecting only for cannabinoid ratios. Every few months I used to get on a train to Kingston-on-Thames to the Gypsy Nirvana shop, where he ran "Seeds direct". It was a strange shop, half of it was a tattoo parlour run by his ex-wife, who I remember being a goth Witches of Eastwick-type.

Later, he took over an angry, unpleasant weed forum called "Overgrow", but some of the data was lost, including "strainbase" which was a fascinating collection of data and descriptions of hundreds of weed varieties (this was in dailup 56k modem internet days)

Fortunately, I had copied and pasted every weed description into a massive word doc so I could print it on the laser printer at work. I had the only copy in existence, so I emailed them the word document and strainbase was saved.

Our paths crossed again when I started selling on Silk Road. I would sell out in a day or two days, so I recommended MrMerlins meth as the next-best alternative when I was out of stock. all the other vendors were scammers.

Meth was much more expensive in the UK at that time, and I had a figure in my head that was lower, which I shared with Merlin (who was a HUGE vendor of every drug. Meth was just a sideline). I checked that he could still make a profit at that price, and we undercut the market simultaneously.

Around this time, Silk Road was seized by the FBI. MrMerlin just disappeared, but another decent guy emerged with the same products called Hiniguel. He must have bought the wooden table he photographed his drugs on from MrMerlin, because the wood grain was the same. I recommended Hiniguel's meth when BBMC's sold out, my customers said it was as good as Merlin's.

I was surprised to hear that Hiniguel had pulled some kind of a scam after having a massive row with some SR2 admins, and possibly going off the rails a bit on his own supply. The SR2 admin may have known that Hiniguel was the same man who was Ross' mentor. Nobody else seemed to - they thought he was some crazy vendor pretending to be a millionaire.

On Agora, there was no other meth vendor to recommend who wasn't a scammer, so I encouraged "Hank" to sell Chinese Meth online (he was about the only non-Chinese street dealer, and he never loses his sense of humor even if he hasn't slept for a week - which you need to survive as a meth vendor).

Another vendor appeared, who seemed a bit shadowy. I noticed that a customer in the Kingston-ish area was buying a hell of a lot of meth, and doing the same from Hank. Whenever I sld to this customer, the shards I sent would appear on this other vendors listings, photographed on a table with a familiar wood grain.

This "importer" complained that i was recommending hanks meth. "Mine is every bit as good if you analyze it" (which I didn't doubt. It WAS Hank's meth, rebadged).

the vendor kinda gradually went nuts and scammed, after injuring himself at the gym (according to his profile). Hes now another vendor who appeared the day after the big customer west of london started ordering again. the buyer and vendor's names were similar and his profile was all the same karma/zen/ Nirvana talk.

I don't want to name him because he was PROBABLY Variety jones, and is basically a decent guy-ish. He doesn't sell meth in the UK and our paths haven't crossed since. Hank and I know his real name, and researched him separately. He owns a lot of properties, and few companies, and gained his pilots license in new zealand.

Thats pretty much everything I can add to the variety jones story. If I made a mistake in my logic at any point, the whole thing falls apart - its just my 2 cents.

[–]Vendor_BBMC 17 points 1 day ago*

MDMA is very cheap compared to meth.

I sell the highest-purity D-meth on the planet, with current exchange rates its back above 1 btc per gram. But BBMC are quite specialized, and only produce small batches. Cocaine makes much more money.

When Evo went down, the largest coke vendor in the BTVA lost 40btc - less than A DAY of sales. He was quite happy to lose 40BTC but hoover up the trustworthy Evo admins. They were offered jobs on sites he was building in exchange for going public about Evo, because they were essentially making themselves unemployed

The richest vendor will be the former "variety Jones", who became Mr Merlin, then Hiniguel. MrMerlin was a darknet legend, but because he was so closely involved with Silk Road he decided to rename and lose the reputation he'd built-up. Hiniguel had identical product listings a week later, I'm not sure that anyone else spotted that.Everybody was taking the piss out of Hiniguel's comments when SR2 stole the escrow, but they had no idea who he was.

He was one of my best customers. A New Zealander living near Heathrow. He has a pilot's license.

Its a shame, because he's gradually become a worse and worse vendor. Hes fine at first, but tends to scam then check into rehab.

Check out "Gypsy nirvana's fap tape" on youtube, where he films himself sacking an employee at one of his homes (Amsterdam, by the looks of it.

Hiniguel is not BlueGiraffe: I've spoken with BG and done business with him and he's a stand-up guy. Hiniguel is almost certainly Vlad1m1r aka N***** J***** , a Compliance Documentation Officer at B*** P*** (ever wonder how he did that "money laundering?"). I don't know whether or not he is Stealth/Defcon/Hux or the rest of the snicker Silk Road Administration and Development Team. But he knows exactly who they are. What's more, I suspect he's going to sing like Maria Callas once Inspector Morse picks him up for an interview.

(Old-timers may remember Vlad1m1r from his bitcoin "hedge fund" scam that he pulled off with the aid of his partner "Limetless," who disappeared soon thereafter and whose writing style was remarkably similar to Hiniguel's. But what do I know? I'm just the greatest mind the psychedelic world has ever known).

Oh what a tangled web we weave...

My story included Variety Jones in its longer version, when it was a 30,000 word (!) manuscript. But, it got complicated, for narrative purposes, to explain that relationship as space got tight. I mean, the story is already the longest Wired has ever published, and he just didn't have that much more room.

That said, Variety Jones/cimon clearly played an important role. He wasn't another user of the DPR handle, but he helped Ross conceptualize his role as leader. And he guided Ross toward the moral Rubicon of hiring a hit man. Variety Jones was the Silk Road's Rasputin, whispering into the Czar's ear.

In an interview with Forbes, he said that he was actually the successor to Silk Road’s creator.

Variety Jones in the news.

Postby Jesús Malverde » Tue Feb 10, 2015 4:04 am
VJ seems to be a persona PoM modeled his own public persona on. But like Bloke says, he seems in retrospect to have been a bargain bin simulacrum of the real thing. The fact that VJ has come through this with his anonymity publicly intact strongly suggests to me he was an informant or other asset used to infiltrate Silk Road. PoM may well have been an informant as well, used to collect intel on the international seed trade, but he was too crazy, unstable, incompetent and unreliable to have been an actual part of any team I think. If he was informing, he was probably just a free agent used to gather info then discarded when he lost access to info to sell and had served his purpose. I suspect the person who posted here claiming to be Colin Edwards was correct when he reported Thomas Clark was serving time as Her Majesty's guest for growing. The Thomas Clark identity was pretty much resolved as definitive by the final court case brought by GN against him under that name that finally ended his little charade he was running. Smokes claimed he was a published sci-fi author under a pen name after he met him in London but it's hard for me to imagine he possessed enough discipline to write books that a publisher would pay money for. A pity he has such a common name, it'd probably pretty trivially easy to track him down today and shake out his history if he had a name like Richard Baghdadlian.

Hey Smokes, what was the pen name Tom said he used? That was probably bullshit as well of course.

Now, I'm gonna hafta out myself here in the next 24 hours - post up my own pic, name, and details, to confirm what's going on.

After 20+ years in the shadows, that ain't easy.

RC is Richard Baghdadlian aka Richard Calrisian.

Also, it was stated at the beginning of http://buymarijuanaseeds.com/community/threads/poms-proving-ground.89418/#post-813607

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Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2006 7:54 pm Post subject: crazy shit goin on in real-time

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Crazy shit, murder and international intrigue, going on in real-time!



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The above are some PGP signatures.

It is important that later, they be available to show that the items they refer to, are exactly as I received them.

If one or two of you could download them, and keep 'em safe fer a bit, I'd apprecitate it.

They will help to prove that Gypsy Nirvana and Dutchgrown, in a conspiracy with RC, contracted to have me killed.

Now, I'm gonna hafta out myself here in the next 24 hours - post up my own pic, name, and details, to confirm what's going on.

After 20+ years in the shadows, that ain't easy.

Bear with me during the process.

@edge - heh - sorry I told you to sell popcorn futures short last week - I just luv fucking with you.

Guys, are you sure PoM is Variety Jones?

Here's what I found (warning it's a long read): http://buymarijuanaseeds.com/community/threads/poms-proving-ground.89418/
Scroll down to KindRed's post.


That doesn't sound like PoM is Variety Jones to me, or at least that it wasn't at the time.

None the less the entire post is an interesting read.


EDIT: Who is RC?

Here's Curtis' info on Mt Gox from the "Dump" that I have a copy of.

Taxin' my memory, they were able to liquidate CR's Mt Gox account quicker than others were able to get moneys outta Karpeles' fist.

For the life of me, I can't remember the site where you can buy and sell other types of digitial coins, like pp coins and the rest...

Thanks

AR

http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Mongoose


So, the Plural of Mongoose IS NOT mongeese. I guess I'm back to connecting Satoshi Nakamoto to MyBitcoin.  

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/alt.thebird/EIU7xkJtkjI


The above is what I'm somewhat alluding to in the other thread about Brothers Green, coming to that conclusion upon reading ALL of Darren's 1176 posts, currently reading some of them again extracting nuggets.

http://www.thc-ministry.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=41101#41101

Posted from Mongoose @ >>>>>>>>>

RC is working with the Authorities. OG and CW IP's were logged.

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About 48 hours ago I broke my 26 month long self-imposed exile from the internet to post the results of my converstations with RC. Nobody else seemed to the the will or ability to track down and talk to him, and my concerns for the industry and the people I love who participate in it out weighed the enjoyment of my recent relative obscurity. I was sure any calls were going to be monitored, but hey - it's not like my name has never been associated with cannabis seeds, eh. So I called RC. Twice.

The first call was to get his story of what happened to him, and the servers for Overgrow and Cannabis World, and to offer support, financial and otherwise. I had been in contact with a few friends and business acquaintances, and had passed the virtual hat around - to the tune of well over US$50,000 pledged to assist RC, with no strings attached. RC said he would have to talk to his lawyers first for instructions on handling such a large donation. OK, fine. RC has all my contact numbers (always had, btw) and I expected a call the next day with instructions from his lawyers.

After my first call to him, I noted that Marc Emery from Cannabis Culture had a front page story saying RC had split the country, etcetera. Fuck. So, after some introspection, I decided to take the plunge - I was returning to my long lost home, the internet. RC had told me he would be releasing a statement, drawn up with the assistance of his lawyers, within 24 hours. Now, I had taken RC at his word as to what had happened, and I thought his clients, suppliers and members of his sites should have at least an idea of what happened, so I called him back, and said so. He agreed I could post what I put in my first post on the internet in 26 months.

Some things RC said to me didn't sit well with me. I did wake the guy up, but still... my instincts were making my hackles rise. As time passed, I kept thinking - who the fuck doesn't leap on a US$50,000 gift? My instincts said I wouldn't hear from his lawyers about it. I was correct.

Now, I have known RC's real name - and much more information about him, from back in the day when I made a deal with ~Shabang~ to buy out his 1/2 of Overgrow. I started doing the phone call thing to newspapers, the Quebec Provincial Police, RCMP public affairs office, blah, blah, blah. No record of an arrest. No record of bail or release. No records for RC, period. I had a couple of phone calls with ~Shabang~ as well, as he is one of the few people in the world I felt comfortable brain-storming with some of the information I was working with. I trust ~S with my life.

I called everyone I knew - and I know a fuckload of folks - to try and pry out some facts. I got a ton of calls, PM's and emails, and the picture they were painting wasn't jiving with some 'facts' that RC gave me. In fact, the fucker lied to me - to you - to the industry.

Just after midnight last night, I got a call from Marc Emery. Some of you may have heard of him. If you want to Marc bash, stay the fuck outta this thread. I've been in this industry for quite some time, and I don't believe in tearing down anyone who has the guts and determination for a cause that he does. If you don't like doing business with him, then don't. I have managed to negotiate this industry for years without hurting and name calling of people who are, in my eyes, on the same side. (Just ask Dr. Chronic - shortly after his site launched on OG - and when Gypsy was, as usual acting like an asshole and treating the Doc like shit on the boards, his site went down - hardware failure. That day was the first time I talked to the Doc - I called him and offered to host his site until his hardware was repaired. He declined, but that was the basis of a solid business relationship with him, one of my competitors. I have since met the Doc, and he is one of those truly rare finds - an honest to goodness decent and nice man. I would like to think I can call Dr. Chronic my friend, and I won't put up with any Doc bashing here either End of rant)

Emery and I chatted for over 1/2 an hour. At the outset, I was clear that I couldn't give him any information, but we could discuss what we both had knowledge of. I can tell you now that Emery had RC's real name for quite some time, and had been checking high and low, much like I had been, and had found no trace. Emery gave me a who's who list of people who know RC - in some cases for decades - and who RC had shunned any form of contact with since this all started. He quite graciously offered me all they had found out, and didn't pressure me for information in return. His concern for anyone affected by the fallout from this is genuine. The industry is in an uproar, and I hadn't seen anyone else with people working the phones trying to unearth the truth. By approximately 12:53 AM (GMT) Mr. Marc Scott Emery had earned my respect. We ended our chat, but now I still had more questions.

Rumours, speculation and innuendo filled the forums everywhere, and my instincts were screaming by now. Several details RC had given me were blatantly false, but not a smoking gun. Not yet.

And then, this morning at 10:30 AM (GMT) my phone rang. It was an old acquaintance of mine - and he had brought me a smoking gun. He had done business with RC, and RC paid him by check. The check was made out to a business that has nothing to do with cannabis or cannabis seeds. It was the only time that business had ever negotiated a payment from anyone in the industry. And he had just been raided, with the warrant looking for cannabis, cannabis seeds, and financial records. Fortunately, the raid was, well - a bust. Nothing was found, cops were red-faced, and my friend was fine. And pissed off. There is only one person who could have pointed the police to his business. Mr. Richard Baghdadlian, known to you as RC.

I don't doubt that RC was raided, and I don't doubt that his home and business were searched. In fact, I have confirmation they were. He was not arrested. He was at home when I called him, and has since shut off all contact with anyone. I called his lawyers (that little deal a few years ago with ~S, me, RC and OG had left me with all kinda interesting contacts) and they informed me they were not able to contact RC.

So, I'm gonna say it - and lemme tell you, this ain't easy, but now it's time to face some hard facts.

Richard Baghdadlian is co-operating with the authorities to save his own ass, at the expense of breeders, clients, and tens of thousands of members on his sites.

Anyone who had any financial transactions with RC in any way is at risk.

Anyone who posted on OG or CW is at risk. Those forums are gone, and will never be back - the security of every member has been comprimised.

I don't believe IP's were not logged on OG and CW. ~Shabang~ and I discussed this, and how ~S had originally set up the null logs, and db records. Since then, however, RC had instituted many 'anti-troll' features on the boards. Lemme 'splain...

Ask any troll here - if they posted from, say Proxy A one day, and then 3 days later from Proxy B, using the same handle, and admin got tired of them. So, they IP ban Proxy B, while the troll is still signed in. That's how RC would like you to believe it was done. However, if they then tried using a different handle, and Proxy A - well, damned if that one wasn't blocked as well. I can guarantee you that RC had gone back to some default settings to log IP's for everyone, all the time. There is no doubt.

RC is a rat.

OG and CW logged IP's.

The servers weren't seized - they didn't need to seize them - RC has given them complete access to the database records.

People are getting busted based on contact with RC.

I have given oldpink the heads-up a couple of hours ago that I was going to write this up and post it here. Kindly don't tear him up - he is working hard with little information, and is doing the best he can.

As many OG and CW refugees are also hanging at www.hg420.com, I've just got off the phone with Doc Chronic as well, so word of this will get out. (That's important, as that snivelling cunt-rag Gypsy likes to delete any quotes from me over at ICMag. Fuck off Gypsy, and stay outta my thread.)

If I have more information to offer later, I'll post it up in this thread.

If you have some information to give me, email is [email protected], or give me a call - from a safe phone, of course, at 07766 871 905 in the UK, 0044 7766 871 905 in Europe, and from N. America use 01144 7766 871 905.

Take care everyone, I hope you're all safe.

Love,

Plural of Mongoose

PS - if yer gonna quote this post over at other sites, kindly quote the entire post, thank you very much. Mongoose

PPS - Fuck you Richard Baghdadlian - FUCK YOU... Fuck you... fuck you...

Just having the middle name "Clark" doesn't make him Thomas Clark. I have the court documents "Thomas Clark vs Gypsy Nirvana" PLUS his forum posts that prove the connection him beeing beeing PoM. Now the theory, that PoM is Variety Jones is still only based on the chat log, where VJ says, that he has given a lot of hints to Ross about his identity and "googling for Plural of Mongoose alone" will reveal his identity. This could be a fake hint, but it is very unlikey due to various facts. Means, it is still possible, that someone else took over the VJ/PoM personality from the good ole OG times, but I doubt it.