Bitcoin allowed FBI to catch Incognito Market Admin
From a Nostr user reading the FBI report: “he got caught because he was using Bitcoin, which is easy to trace”
I would bet someone just ratted on him then they just traced back from his identity to obtain evidence. He was running the market for years, they would have got him much sooner if they were actually tracing BTC. They will always put out information in a manner that overstates their abilities, it’s a psychological trick.
I predict ratting out colleagues, neighbors, even friends and family may soon become a part of our reality in the near future. Mind your OPSEC.
This guy was a scumbag, he shut down the market and stole money from users. Then he tried to extort more money by threatening to publish shipping addresses, as if they had any value.
Sent that shit straight to his KYC accounts like a dumbass. Not only that, but his resume said that he was an intern, and there’s no way an intern is going to be making millions of dollars a year, so the income had to be coming from somewhere else. Even if he hadn’t sent it directly to his KYC accounts, that would have been a red flag.
