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Bitcoin drug deals could haunt people for years

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Re: Bitcoin drug deals could haunt people for years

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Rarely in the UK people pay for a redirect. Other than that the Postal Seervice don't really know who lives where. If your getting post for an ex tenant, that redirect isn't in place.

But the postman who delivers the post will notice that he's delivering the odd bit of post for somebody who doesn't live there.

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Re: Bitcoin drug deals could haunt people for years

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> ... the evidence of that drug deal may still be hanging around in plain view of law enforcement, even years after the Silk Road was torn off the dark web. How about your delivery address being in the merchant's raided servers?

Plausible deniability.

Re: Bitcoin drug deals could haunt people for years

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Rarely in the UK people pay for a redirect. Other than that the Postal Seervice don't really know who lives where. If your getting post for an ex tenant, that redirect isn't in place.

Interesting. My experience is from central europe, or essentially the 3 german countries where people are heavily advised to use their real names.

In the countries you mention, individual apartments don't have numbers, but are rather identified entirely by the name(s) of the occupants. If the parcel is not addressed with your name you won't receive it.

Re: Bitcoin drug deals could haunt people for years

#44

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Rarely in the UK people pay for a redirect. Other than that the Postal Seervice don't really know who lives where. If your getting post for an ex tenant, that redirect isn't in place.

But the postman who delivers the post will notice that he's delivering the odd bit of post for somebody who doesn't live there.

Why? What if I have a guest coming over.

Also postman doesnt give a fuck.

Re: Bitcoin drug deals could haunt people for years

#45

Did I misread the article or does they're entire hack consist solely of scraping the internet for places you may have posted your public address? This is the oldest trick in the book.

I think you need to read the story differently: even when using only such a low bar, you can find lots of evidence. As the article mentions, there are other known ways to find suspicious Bitcoin wallets and their owners on top of that.

Re: Bitcoin drug deals could haunt people for years

#46
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Well, most people just put a fake name, or name of a previous tenant. Houses change ownership, people make mistakes.

This is in fact the last thing you should do according to every single buyer guide. Postal service would assume there is something fishy going on.

It is, yet I still routinely receive mail for two previous tenants of the house we now own. If you're a regular purchaser then yes it will be weird is suddenly a previous tenant starts receiving packages every few weeks on a regular interval and they're not getting returned.

But the real reason you shouldn't do it is that you don't actually get any deniability. John Doe who used to live at my address is not going to order drugs and ship them to my address. Especially if he's moved any reasonable distance, or is dead, or incarcerated, etc. It's no less obvious than just shipping them to yourself.

Re: Bitcoin drug deals could haunt people for years

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I doubt prosecutors in the us at least are gonna care that you ordered shrooms from the Silk Road ten years ago. Might come up if they want to get a security clearance or run for office, though.

You never know how their orders may change, however. We’re seeing people deported for minor crimes committed decades ago, before they were legal adults, and most people would have said that wouldn’t happen until the last year or two. Another, in some ways more important, point is the reminder that all of the people who spent years spamming forums about how bitcoin is secure & anonymous are not good sources of advice…

> We're seeing people deported for minor crimes committed decades ago, before they were legal adults

    [citation needed]
Not that I don't believe you but I honestly haven't heard of this.

Re: Bitcoin drug deals could haunt people for years

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I doubt prosecutors in the us at least are gonna care that you ordered shrooms from the Silk Road ten years ago. Might come up if they want to get a security clearance or run for office, though.

Perhaps not but you could buy more than drugs on Silk Road - counterfeit currency, fake ids, etc.

Re: Bitcoin drug deals could haunt people for years

#49
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You don't seriously think people order drugs to their own addresses, right?

Drug users are not always known for stellar opsec...

Tech guys are not always known for having social contact outside of their precious bubble...

Re: Bitcoin drug deals could haunt people for years

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But the postman who delivers the post will notice that he's delivering the odd bit of post for somebody who doesn't live there.

I get at least 2 or 3 letters a week for previous residents of my house (and I've owned it for 10 years). Probably 1 or 2 packages a year too. (Yes I follow the recommended process for dealing with it.) UK: https://personal.help.royalmail.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/... " It's my address but someone else's name We deliver to addresses rather than names so our advice here would be to put a cross through the address an…

And even then it won't all stop. The direct marketers don't care and some financial companies are bound by law to keep sending the letters if they don't have an updated address for the old residents.

After we started doing this we got a couple of letters from the likes of Zurich Ltd addressed "to the householder" explaining that they'd love to stop sending us junk, but they have to, and if we could give them any details about where the old residents might be, that would be great. I wished them luck and told them the best we knew they'd moved abroad, permanently, possibly to Turkey.

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