more people getting flushed out on the street by practicing bad opsec in real life

['medicine cabinet']

looks like more dark web users are fucking things up for everyone. not wearing their tinfoil hat, covering the windows in mylar, not having every type of vpn and software to scramble and hide your real ip addy.....you have to use all these steps to make sure the dea doesn't come kicking down your door for buying such a mighty pile of drugs worth such a mighty pile of money. they are a couple nonviolent drug dealers. they wernt moving weight, and im sure they were dippin into their own stash hard, they should be given rehab and not any kind of short jail sentence bc the entire time all these dudes are going to think about doing is getting out and getting a big fat shot. that's how most ppl od when comin out of jail. think they can handle their normal shot and it drops them.

SAN FRANCISCO NEWS



August 11, 2016
Contact: DEA Public Affairs
Number: 415-436-7994

Two Brooklyn Men Indicted for Distributing Heroin and Cocaine on Dark Web Marketplace AlphaBay

AUG 11 (FRESNO, Calif.) - Abudullah Almashwali, 31, a Yemeni national residing in Brooklyn, New York, and Chaudhry Ahmad Farooq, 24, a Pakistani national residing in Brooklyn, New York, were indicted today on charges of distributing heroin and cocaine, and conspiracy. Almashwali and Farooq were arrested on August 2, 2016 in Brooklyn, New York, and are awaiting transfer to the Eastern District of California.

According to court documents, Almashwali and Farooq, using the vendor names “Area51” and “DarkApollo,” were large-scale heroin and cocaine distributors on the dark web marketplace AlphaBay. Dark web marketplaces are operated on computer networks designed to conceal the true Internet Protocol (IP) address of the computers accessing the network. Dark web marketplaces allow for payments to be made only in the form of digital currency, most commonly Bitcoin. While not inherently illegal, digital currency is used by dark web marketplaces because online transactions in digital currency can be completed without a third-party payment processor and are therefore perceived to be more anonymous and less vulnerable to law enforcement scrutiny.

According to the complaint, Almashwali and Farooq accepted orders for heroin and cocaine on AlphaBay, and then mailed the narcotics from post offices in New York to customers throughout the United States. They received payment in Bitcoin. In May 2016, law enforcement made two undercover purchases of heroin from “Area51,” which were delivered to a post office box in the Eastern District of California. Postal records revealed that Almashwali purchased the postage for the two heroin parcels mailed to law enforcement, and that Farooq was involved in other mailings. Law enforcement agents were also able to determine that the encrypted email address used by “Area51” and “DarkApollo” was associated with actual Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook accounts used by Farooq.

This case is a product of an investigation by the Central California Darknet Strike Force, an inter-agency task force dedicated to combating the use of dark web marketplaces and digital currency to distribute narcotics and launder money. The lead agency on this case was the Drug Enforcement Administration, with assistance provided by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), the Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation, and the U.S. Postal Inspection Service. Assistant United States Attorneys Grant B. Rabenn and Jeffrey Spivak are prosecuting the case.

Additionally, this case was part of an Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force (OCDETF). The OCDETF program was established in 1982 to conduct comprehensive, multilevel attacks on major drug trafficking and money laundering organizations. The principal mission of the OCDETF program is to identify, disrupt, and dismantle the most serious drug trafficking and money laundering organizations and those primarily responsible for the nation’s drug supply.
If convicted, Almashwali and Farooq face a maximum statutory penalty of 20 years in prison and a $1 million fine. Any sentence, however, would be determined at the discretion of the court after consideration of any applicable statutory factors and the Federal Sentencing Guidelines, which take into account a number of variables. The charges are only allegations; the defendant is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.


https://www.dea.gov/divisions/sf/2016/sf081116.shtml

 

[Crankinit]

God, what a complete waste of time and tax money.

Guess they need a few victories to parade around so they don't look utterly useless against DNM's :/

 

[MMT]

Is this all LEO does now is hunt down drug cases with ever increasing budgets all at the expense of the taxpayer ? It seems that's all they live for nowadays. I guess all the murders,robberys,child abuses,car thefts,white collar crime,etc. have all been solved given that they have all this time to devote to drug cases.It couldn't possibly have anything to do with all the money and corruption involved with drugs that have them so obsessed.Naw,they're doing it for the children. And of course to use big bad drugs to further advance the police state and as an excuse to control and know everything about all of us.

 

[my3rdeye]

looks like more dark web users are fucking things up for everyone. not wearing their tinfoil hat, covering the windows in mylar, not having every type of vpn and software to scramble and hide your real ip addy.....you have to use all these steps to make sure the dea doesn't come kicking down your door for buying such a mighty pile of drugs worth such a mighty pile of money.

VPN isnt going to do shit when you buy postage with a credit card.

"Postal records revealed that Almashwali purchased the postage for the two heroin parcels mailed to law enforcement, and that Farooq was involved in other mailings. Law enforcement agents were also able to determine that the encrypted email address used by “Area51” and “DarkApollo” was associated with actual Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook accounts used by Farooq."

Oh and he used the same email for his illegal business he used for his social media. Once again, yet again, like always, this person was not busted because they didn't used the right software. They were busted because they didn't follow very basic rules that have existed since the 90's. Rule number one is don't go in the post office. This rule hasn't changed, everyone knew it in the days before tor babies were everywhere. Don't use your regular email. This is common sense shit if you sat down and thought about it would be obvious. At the very least this stuff can be easily researched. Before selling schedule one narcotics in the mail you should know this stuff.
I have yet to see a single person arrested for drugs because the police hacked their IP.

 

[ro4eva]

When the DEA sense that there's an opportunity to protect and to serve the community with integrity and punctuality make some mula, they'll make a beeline in that direction at such speed that, to use a tremendously tremendous Donald Trump term, "it'll make your head spin."

What's that? We could make some extra change by robbing that "suspicious looking" person (who has never touched a street drug before in his life) of his wad of cash that he flashed while we drove on by in an unmarked car?! With that money, I could finally buy myself the new iPhone! Yeah, let's "seize" that money. Because I believe in liberty and the pursuit of happiness so long as it only applies to yours truly. <--- how could someone this crooked live with himself and claim he's one of the good guys? These bad apples have directly aided in ruining the ideally-sacred trust between American communities and the law enforcement which is supposed to work for them (not against).

 

['medicine cabinet']

Oh yea, blue boxes for sure. No need to go to the post.

 

[Hiltoniano]

They fucked up in a lot of ways. Not bad opsec... None at all. These fools were asking to get busted. Still nobody should go to jail for that but I digress... In the current systems what they did was not very intelligent. Hope they don't rot in prison , but they need to get their shit tight if they wanna play drug dealer on te Internet.