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CidneyIndole
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Silk Road BUYERS Getting Busted
#18965131 - 10/11/13 06:11 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Maybe this should get a sticky for a while.
If you recently used that vendor that got busted in WA, "NOD" maybe you should clean house for a while. Though I wouldn't assume you're necessarily safe if you bought from someone else.
It's too early to tell how widespread this could be. And it looks like some, if not all of the current busts are coming from stupid security issues (ie, dealer gets busted and dealer has unencrypted customer data on their hard drive). However, I say better safe than sorry. Is anyone here certain that none of their vendors have been busted?
If you ever sent anything unencrypted over SR, you should have been cleaning house ages ago. If I were a customer there at all, I'd have been cleaning house. That said, I'm exceedingly glad I never bought anything off SR.
Anyway, I found this on reddit earlier. Do pay careful attention to the part at the bottom:
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I don't know if this only pertains to me, but I thought I should let everyone know what I'm experiencing so you know what's potentially coming.
I was arrested by FBI and local police for attempt to purchase and possession of narcotics on Tuesday and just had bail posted this morning. I only ever made purchases on SilkRoad and never sold. I always encrypted my stuff, but they busted a vendor I bought from apparently and that individual kept the post-decryption plaintext on his hard drive =/. They've got like a month's worth of correspondence and package watching on my address. Unfortunately, I still had some of the product (felony quantity) so that's where the possession charge comes from.
Again, I don't know if this is an isolated incident, but I figured I should post it to let others know and spread the information. This whole thing is turning into a cluster fuck. I'm unfortunately screwed because I'm in the medical field and likely can't avoid these charges. I'm in WA state in case anyone is wondering.
Edit: I bought from a couple vendors in WA state, one of which was Nod. They mentioned multiple vendors though, so I don't know exactly who was storing unencrypted info. I'll have more information tomorrow morning, it's kind of been a blur for me dealing with the whole process.
Edit 2: My inbox is inundated with messages and I'll try to reply to everyone when I have a chance. Here's a quick general update to my situation before I go take care of other stuff for the day - apologies if I get some of the legal information incorrect, I'm not a lawyer, so it's not my area of expertise: I just got done meeting with my lawyer and his firm. They're working on my case as kind of a group effort thing apparently, since Tor-related cases aren't very common. I guess they're working over time to get up to speed on everything for all their clients. I've received about 20 private messages from other throwaway accounts saying they're in the same boat, so it looks like it's not isolated. My lawyer told me that if the possession charge wasn't there, they probably wouldn't have bothered, but since they found the stuff, they went after me and will likely try and get as much information off my computer, cell phone, etc as possible. They advised me not to discuss specifics to my case outside of their office for now. I'm trying to listen to them as much as I can, but I'll do my best to give out info, since more people might be dealing with the same shit in the future.
Emphasis added.
http://www.reddit.com/r/SilkRoad/comments/1o6whp/attention_i_just_made_bail_as_a_buyer/
I'm just posting this because I've seen a lot of people on this forum and elsewhere state vehemently that they don't think LEO will ever come after buyers, unless they're buying so much it looks like they're re-selling. I'm not sure that's the case. Maybe if it were some crappy grey-area research chemicals. Or really small time stuff. But with vendor records, and the stuff on SR itself, they may have at least enough for some BS trumped up charges-- attempted possession, using the mail to import, etc
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Re: Silk Road BUYERS Getting Busted [Re: CidneyIndole]
#18965148 - 10/11/13 06:16 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Fuck that sucks. But could be someone from thevinternet tryna scare stoners I mean it's reddit
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Re: Silk Road BUYERS Getting Busted [Re: King Klick]
#18965170 - 10/11/13 06:22 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Damn yo shit is hitting the fan.
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Re: Silk Road BUYERS Getting Busted [Re: CidneyIndole]
#18965172 - 10/11/13 06:23 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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i always compare reddit to tosh.O, probably the reason why i dont ever visit that site.
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Re: Silk Road BUYERS Getting Busted [Re: zZZz]
#18965279 - 10/11/13 06:51 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Seems like they probably got caught for dealing with NOD considering that vendor was busted recently and the feds had been watching them for a while.
Anyone that used those services should definitely clean house though.
Users in general should make it a point to have things relatively clean to avoid getting caught up in an unfortunate situation.
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Re: Silk Road BUYERS Getting Busted [Re: trampis]
#18965296 - 10/11/13 06:54 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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trampis said: Seems like they probably got caught for dealing with NOD considering that vendor was busted recently and the feds had been watching them for a while.
Anyone that used those services should definitely clean house though.
Users in general should make it a point to have things relatively clean to avoid getting caught up in an unfortunate situation.
Yeah this. Also I don't really trust reddit too much.
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Re: Silk Road BUYERS Getting Busted [Re: trampis]
#18965303 - 10/11/13 06:56 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Wasn't NOD a huge heroin dealer?
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Re: Silk Road BUYERS Getting Busted [Re: T-Rex]
#18965313 - 10/11/13 06:58 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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The story I read said they were selling cocaine and meth as well. One of their packages was pulled aside and a drug dog alerted on it, but there were no drugs. There was 3500 cash though. Seems like they weren't doing a thorough job in the packaging department.
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Re: Silk Road BUYERS Getting Busted [Re: trampis]
#18965334 - 10/11/13 07:04 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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trampis said: The story I read said they were selling cocaine and meth as well. One of their packages was pulled aside and a drug dog alerted on it, but there were no drugs. There was 3500 cash though. Seems like they weren't doing a thorough job in the packaging department.
From the criminal complaint, he was tracked because he used a return address on the package that he also used as a drop address ( ) - and he also never switched up his packaging and used handwriting. Essentially he got lazy / complacent.
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Re: Silk Road BUYERS Getting Busted [Re: trampis]
#18965338 - 10/11/13 07:05 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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I spotted this from later in the same thread I linked before.
From the context, I can not tell if this came from a deleted post from reddit, or from a post made on the SR forums and copied to reddit.
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Not trying to make anyone nervous when they shouldn't be, but a close friend to me who works in law enforcement called me today.
He/She told me in their division (a populated area in the united states) there was the amount of several hundred officers getting setup on a task force specifically dedicated to serving warrants in regards to silkroad.
He was only mildly informed on what's going on, and how they are going about things, but told me in the next 10-14 days is when action will be taking place.
Again, I don't mean to raise awareness for nothing, but I felt it was relevant to this community.
He will be keeping me closely informed on any new developments I should hear about.
Cheers
Since when the fuck do people in the US use "cheers?"
Anyway, if this is true, it could get scary....
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Re: Silk Road BUYERS Getting Busted [Re: CidneyIndole]
#18965344 - 10/11/13 07:07 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Won't happen. It's just FUD.
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