- Joined
- Sep 16, 2018
Active work in progress. Any other examples of specific individuals or infighting within the scene would be highly appreciated; any surviving documentation of these is sparse due to members still frequently getting the accounts they wasted several thousands of dollars on suspended for being run by retarded children who cannot actually maintain a respectable social media presence to save their lives.
OGUsers is a forum whose main "business" practice has been a blight on social media webmasters and regular users alike for many years. Founded in its current iteration in 2017, the forum is centered almost entirely around the sale and trade of social media accounts with rare usernames (colloquially referred to as "OGs") which typically garner attention among its users for being either very short, consisting only of a single dictionary word, or any other reason for which it may look cool for ADHD-riddled script kiddies to have, such as @xx, @drug, @rainbow, @10 etc.
As one can imagine from such a racket, these accounts more often than not tend to be stolen due to the username having already been registered by chance in the early days of a site's existence, and typically left dormant by its original owner who would have rapidly lost interest in their site of choice. However, this isn't to say that actively using your account would prevent it from being sought-after. Many of these account-peddlers have made a conceited effort in the past to obtain such rare accounts, ranging from often-annoying but relatively harmless pestering towards the account owner with offers to buy the username, to actively malicious tactics such as hacking / social engineering and even forceful measures such as swatting, all for the sake of a coveted "OG" username. Many of these efforts have frequently made headlines online and are regularly featured and discussed by people such as Brian Krebs of KrebsOnSecurity and VICE Motherboard's Joseph Cox, from the 2014 hack of Naoki Hiroshima's Twitter handle @N (as reported by Ars Technica), to the more recent deadly, yet failed attempt to obtain the handle @Tennessee.
Inherent to this entire subculture of obtaining rare usernames for the sake of bragging rights and identification is the fact that almost every single one of the people involved in it has fuck-all idea of how to cover their tracks. It becomes very easy to spot someone involved in this scene once you've seen a few of their profiles, typically emblazoned with references to flavour-of-the-month moeshit anime, dime-a-dozen SoundCloud-underbelly rappers and related glorification of prescription drugs and, more recently, cryptocurrencies, just to name a few things.
Said glorification of rap culture like drugs and guns also then shows in adjacent users' posts, which to any outsider naturally looks fucking embarrassing more than intimidating.
More recently, such accounts have also been shitting up YouTube comment sections for a while, as big channels such as The Cursed Judge and Mutahar from SomeOrdinaryGamers illustrate below:
Suffice to say that these aren't necessarily bots; just some fags looking to farm a clientele willing to shell out money to be promoted on a channel with some funny numbers to it.
Other than that, at a glance, the users and their activity is fairly standard for such a scene.
However, while many of these accounts and their "owners" tend to be just about forgettable, many cases notorious enough to make the news usually put quite the spotlight on the perpetrators, usually as they're about to land themselves in prison. Some examples, ranging from the laughable to the downright mentally disturbed, include:
As one can imagine from such a racket, these accounts more often than not tend to be stolen due to the username having already been registered by chance in the early days of a site's existence, and typically left dormant by its original owner who would have rapidly lost interest in their site of choice. However, this isn't to say that actively using your account would prevent it from being sought-after. Many of these account-peddlers have made a conceited effort in the past to obtain such rare accounts, ranging from often-annoying but relatively harmless pestering towards the account owner with offers to buy the username, to actively malicious tactics such as hacking / social engineering and even forceful measures such as swatting, all for the sake of a coveted "OG" username. Many of these efforts have frequently made headlines online and are regularly featured and discussed by people such as Brian Krebs of KrebsOnSecurity and VICE Motherboard's Joseph Cox, from the 2014 hack of Naoki Hiroshima's Twitter handle @N (as reported by Ars Technica), to the more recent deadly, yet failed attempt to obtain the handle @Tennessee.
Inherent to this entire subculture of obtaining rare usernames for the sake of bragging rights and identification is the fact that almost every single one of the people involved in it has fuck-all idea of how to cover their tracks. It becomes very easy to spot someone involved in this scene once you've seen a few of their profiles, typically emblazoned with references to flavour-of-the-month moeshit anime, dime-a-dozen SoundCloud-underbelly rappers and related glorification of prescription drugs and, more recently, cryptocurrencies, just to name a few things.
Said glorification of rap culture like drugs and guns also then shows in adjacent users' posts, which to any outsider naturally looks fucking embarrassing more than intimidating.
More recently, such accounts have also been shitting up YouTube comment sections for a while, as big channels such as The Cursed Judge and Mutahar from SomeOrdinaryGamers illustrate below:
Suffice to say that these aren't necessarily bots; just some fags looking to farm a clientele willing to shell out money to be promoted on a channel with some funny numbers to it.
Other than that, at a glance, the users and their activity is fairly standard for such a scene.
An example of an OGUsers trade thread from the person behind the evil / Santa Youtube account, SippinTris (formerly ItsToxin) as taken from a Google cached snapshot on Aug 11. They offer a YouTube account with 78.3 thousand subscribers in exchange for a verified TikTok account or at least one with a large statistic such as followers or interactions.
Again, as is a regular occurrence with any of the accounts changing hands in this way, the channel in question is... gone, after less than a mere two months.
The thread still exists, however, and has been edited to advertise yet another trade, presumably for the TikTok account Burger that they had obtained for that YouTube channel.
Again, as is a regular occurrence with any of the accounts changing hands in this way, the channel in question is... gone, after less than a mere two months.
The thread still exists, however, and has been edited to advertise yet another trade, presumably for the TikTok account Burger that they had obtained for that YouTube channel.
However, while many of these accounts and their "owners" tend to be just about forgettable, many cases notorious enough to make the news usually put quite the spotlight on the perpetrators, usually as they're about to land themselves in prison. Some examples, ranging from the laughable to the downright mentally disturbed, include:
Joseph O'Connor / PlugWalkJoe
If you were around on Twitter around July 2020, you may or may not remember a large-scale hack that occurred on the site, with upwards of 130+ verified celebrity Twitter accounts caught in the hack. Now, in today's political climate, you would expect that whoever got a hold of accounts as important and influential in the Twitter sphere as Jeff Bezos, Barack Obama, Warren Buffett, and even the site's own Jack Dorsey himself, would have struck gold. You and I would hope that the hacker responsible might have trawled through these high-profile individuals' communications to see just what sort of discussions would have been had, what secrets might be withheld, what implications these might have had for the average person. Did this hacker pull through in the end, then, and come out of it with anything at all that could give the likes of WikiLeaks a run for their money?
No. We just got stupid shit like crypto scams instead.
As Krebs reports, it took no more than two weeks for three main perpetrators to be charged for this showcase of squandered potential, with the primary ringleader, Graham Ivan Clark (a.k.a Kirk / OpenHCF), eventually receiving a three-year prison sentence in March of this year. Later, in July, justice would be served to a fourth individual connected with the hack: Joseph O'Connor, a UK national going primarily under the nickname PlugWalkJoe.
Even while the hack took place, Joe would frequently brag about having access to the internal Twitter moderation tools that were used to orchestrate the hack on accounts such as @shinji, and make a name for himself even prior to that for SIM swapping, which is the practice of phoning bored and incompetent telecom workers to pose as the owner of a phone number and convince them to transfer that number from the actual owner's SIM to yours. High-profile victims of his attacks were social media influencer Addison Rae and former actress Bella Thorne, who was then promptly subjected to blackmail involving nude photos on her Snapchat.
These antics had further been documented in some rudimentary detail along with a list of other accounts under his control with braggadocious usernames such as @percocet, Sexologist and ComplexTheGod, but it wouldn't be until a raid had been carried out on his Spanish home prior to his arrest that a Spanish news publication would reveal the reality of Joe, not as an elusive tech-savvy criminal mastermind, but a socially-awkward hermit in arrested development.
Some choice translated quotes from this publication's article include:
No. We just got stupid shit like crypto scams instead.
As Krebs reports, it took no more than two weeks for three main perpetrators to be charged for this showcase of squandered potential, with the primary ringleader, Graham Ivan Clark (a.k.a Kirk / OpenHCF), eventually receiving a three-year prison sentence in March of this year. Later, in July, justice would be served to a fourth individual connected with the hack: Joseph O'Connor, a UK national going primarily under the nickname PlugWalkJoe.
Even while the hack took place, Joe would frequently brag about having access to the internal Twitter moderation tools that were used to orchestrate the hack on accounts such as @shinji, and make a name for himself even prior to that for SIM swapping, which is the practice of phoning bored and incompetent telecom workers to pose as the owner of a phone number and convince them to transfer that number from the actual owner's SIM to yours. High-profile victims of his attacks were social media influencer Addison Rae and former actress Bella Thorne, who was then promptly subjected to blackmail involving nude photos on her Snapchat.
These antics had further been documented in some rudimentary detail along with a list of other accounts under his control with braggadocious usernames such as @percocet, Sexologist and ComplexTheGod, but it wouldn't be until a raid had been carried out on his Spanish home prior to his arrest that a Spanish news publication would reveal the reality of Joe, not as an elusive tech-savvy criminal mastermind, but a socially-awkward hermit in arrested development.
Some choice translated quotes from this publication's article include:
Of course, such stunts could not possibly go unaccompanied by things such as paedophilic stalking, with the indictment that led to this raid also citing the swatting and cyberstalking of "a 16-year-old girl, sending her nude photos and threatening to rape and/or murder her and her family," as per the above Krebs link.
Taylor Newsome / Sleep The God / Vv3 / igfilmsv2 / DoXeD
"i sold my bitcoin and bought this trailer"
The very dictionary definition of "wigger" and poster boy for white trash, fuelled entirely by desperation and amphetamines. As per the Doxbin Hall of Autism page:
Alongside continuing to pose as a "pentester" by doing hardly anything more than running the Tor Project website through archive.today ten times a week (look bro, I'm a pentester too!) is a lengthy paper-trail of further posturing, LARPing and dogshit opsec. Highlights include:
- Putting a bounty on a Discord server moderator for telling him to fuck off
- Publicly crying on TikTok over a breakup
- Mistaking a friend calling the suicide hotline on him for a failed swatting attempt after saying he would kill himself
- Faking his death on Twitter for attention
- Being addicted to heroin
- Flexing prison store receipts to claim he got imprisoned for cyber crime rather than for possessing meth
- Pretending to hack his girlfriend's Facebook
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Shane Sonderman
The Kiwi Farms may not have an actual kill count to speak of, but the "OG" scene certainly does!
From the various hits described once again by Krebs, Shane Sonderman can only be described as downright sociopathic. As if endless pizza deliveries to individuals, calling in with bomb threats and even sending random strangers off gay dating apps to waltz uninvited into a woman's home wasn't enough for the vain, autistic pursuit of an Instagram handle 2 characters in length, it took only one more failed hit to spell a 5-year prison sentence at last.
In July of 2021, a 60-year-old man from Sumner County, Tennessee died of a heart attack due to a swatting attack carried out on him. The cause of his death boiled down to the fact that he was the owner of the Twitter handle @tennessee, registered very early during Twitter's founding as a token of appreciation to his own state. Of course, this kind of sentimental value is out of the question for the average OGU "hacker" willing to flush large sums of money down the toilet or even end a life for their username, despite still inevitably letting it go to waste and get banned for not knowing how to use the fucking Internet like a functioning person.
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From the various hits described once again by Krebs, Shane Sonderman can only be described as downright sociopathic. As if endless pizza deliveries to individuals, calling in with bomb threats and even sending random strangers off gay dating apps to waltz uninvited into a woman's home wasn't enough for the vain, autistic pursuit of an Instagram handle 2 characters in length, it took only one more failed hit to spell a 5-year prison sentence at last.
In July of 2021, a 60-year-old man from Sumner County, Tennessee died of a heart attack due to a swatting attack carried out on him. The cause of his death boiled down to the fact that he was the owner of the Twitter handle @tennessee, registered very early during Twitter's founding as a token of appreciation to his own state. Of course, this kind of sentimental value is out of the question for the average OGU "hacker" willing to flush large sums of money down the toilet or even end a life for their username, despite still inevitably letting it go to waste and get banned for not knowing how to use the fucking Internet like a functioning person.
More material coming soon. As I've said in the disclaimer at the start, this thread has been a fairly difficult one to get around to making due to how much of a revolving door this entire "community" is, with accounts being suspended and big-time players getting arrested left and right, with much of their antics thus being lost to time. For now, I hope this will suffice as a starting point, though I am sitting on a few more limited examples and still talking to one or two sources with more first-hand experience with the "OG" scene.
TODO:
- More individual member / adjacent person examples
- Infighting examples (pre-OGUsers examples such as one case on the now-defunct OGFlip)
- Dedicated section on OGUsers' own incompetence such as frequent hacks and database breaches carried out on them (as posted on RaidForums)
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