Incognito boss arrested

[Ismene2]

Couldn't happen to a nicer fella:

A 23-year-old Taiwanese man was expected in federal court Monday afternoon to face charges of owning and operating the dark web narcotics marketplace Incognito Market.

Rui-Siang Lin was arrested on Friday at John F. Kennedy Airport in New York, the Department of Justice said in a news release. He allegedly supervised all of Incognito Market’s operations, “including its employees, vendors, and customers, and had ultimate decision-making authority over every aspect of the multimillion-dollar operation,” the DOJ said.

Prosecutors said that the market, beginning in 2020, sold $100 million of controlled substances, “including hundreds of kilograms of cocaine and methamphetamines” as well as bogus prescription drugs like mislabeled oxycodone.

Lin, who allegedly used the aliases Pharoah and faro, faces charges that include running a criminal enterprise and money laundering.

Incognito suddenly closed in March and the operator extorted all of its customers and vendors with fees of $100 to $20,000 to not publish information about their transactions. “YES, THIS IS AN EXTORTION!!” Lin wrote, according to the unsealed indictment against him.

 

[benson7]

Ha ha!
I wonder how he got caught.

 

[someguyontheinternet]

Hmm @pharaoh what are your thoughts on this

 

[Ismene2]

Be an idea for everyone who dealt on incognito to clean house cos one things certain that little fucking bitch-ass is going to tell on everyone he can.

Wouldnt it be good if the reason they got him was cos of the attempted extortion?

 

[Jnowhere]

Well, I guess using the darknet is not a good idea. I just hope that piece of shit doesn't get offered immunity to tell on everyone. Think about it, one little scumbag gets up to life. Or hundreds if not thousands get busted. Which would be a greater deterant and give the government more bragging rights? Busting dozens or hundreds of suppliers and busting hundreds if not thousands of buyers, which would be a bigger win for the government; that or one guy? Also the DOJ and DEA could look like heros in the eyes of other countries anti drug agencies. I bet he does some time, then witness relocation bs for him. All this really does is open up opportunities for others to take his place. Silk Road?
This guy extorted people, I would be almost be willing to bet serious money that this guy had a list hidden somewhere or possibly more than one list; so in case he got caught he would have a bargaining chip to save his ass decades in the federal pen. He is 23, looking at a possible life sentence, he extorted people, he will roll over faster than a trained dog.

 

[Arnold]

Ha ha!
I wonder how he got caught.

I'm guessing like the silkroad boss.

 

[Jnowhere]

No, the silk road guy paid government agents to kill people, which didn't happen and if you read the story, he fucked up and gave the feds a little piece of evidence that helped lead them to his capture. He did something by accident that led to his capture. Besides paying to have people killed; will really make the feds go after you.
Besides the government created TOR; I seriously wonder if they have more control over it then they let on or are willing to admit too. The government of America is actively engaged in a hugh data mining and surveillance project that is a threat to all.

 

[someguyontheinternet]

I seriously wonder if they have more control over it then they let on or are willing to admit too.

They don't but they can do timing attacks using their backbone splices if the traffic originates in the US or a 5(12 or whatever) eyes country

 

[Arnold]

No, the silk road guy paid government agents to kill people, which didn't happen and if you read the story, he fucked up and gave the feds a little piece of evidence that helped lead them to his capture. He did something by accident that led to his capture. Besides paying to have people killed; will really make the feds go after you.
Besides the government created TOR; I seriously wonder if they have more control over it then they let on or are willing to admit too.

You watch too many movies.

Law enforcement broke Silk Road's cover in a number of ways. A drug agency investigator infiltrated the site and became an admin, thereby gaining inside information about the site operations, and finding Ulbricht's chats showed Pacific time, narrowing down his likely location.[25] Law enforcement seized a Silk Road server in Iceland[26][27] and gained a trove of chat logs, further enriching their knowledge.[28][unreliable source?] Ulbricht was connected to "Dread Pirate Roberts" by Gary Alford, an Internal Revenue Service investigator working with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration on the Silk Road case, in mid-2013.[29][30] The connection was made by linking the username "altoid", used during Silk Road's early days to announce the website, and a forum post in which Ulbricht, posting under the nickname "altoid", asked for programming help and gave his email address, which contained his full name.[29] On October 1, 2013, the Federal Bureau of Investigation arrested Ulbricht at the Glen Park branch of the San Francisco Public Library and accused him of being the "mastermind" behind the site.[31][32][33]

Federal prosecutors alleged that Ulbricht had paid $730,000 in murder-for-hire deals targeting at least five people,[33] allegedly because they threatened to reveal the Silk Road enterprise.[42][43] Prosecutors believe no contracted killing actually occurred.[33] Ulbricht was not charged in his trial in New York federal court with murder for hire[33][44] but evidence was introduced at trial supporting the allegations.[33][45] The district court found by a preponderance of the evidence that Ulbricht did commission the murders.[46] The evidence that Ulbricht had commissioned murders was considered by the judge in sentencing Ulbricht to life and was a factor in the Second Circuit's decision to uphold the sentence.[45]

Ulbricht was separately indicted in federal court in Maryland on a single murder-for-hire charge, alleging that he contracted to kill one of his employees (a former Silk Road moderator).[47] Prosecutors moved to drop this indictment after his New York conviction and sentence became final

 

[Jnowhere]

You watch too many movies.

Yes he made one critical mistake, that gave his real full name. Trying to off his moderators added to the efforts to get: Dread Pirate Roberts, as he was known. I meant he tried to pay people he didn't know were government agents. Sorry I didn't make that clear, but Pacific Time, only narrowed it down. That one screw up where his real full name was what got him caught. Early on he needed someone to do technical stuff or something and used an alias that was tracked to his real full name, that is how he got caught. A lot of people live in the Pacific time zone. Altoid or something like that and it was linked to his real name. You even said so. Ha

 

[Jnowhere]

They don't but they can do timing attacks using their backbone splices if the traffic originates in the US or a 5(12 or whatever) eyes country

Edward Snowden revealed a hugh government program aimed at collecting data on as many people as possible, I don't trust anything from the government.

 

[someguyontheinternet]

Mate the software that creates the tor network is open source. If a backdoor was there it would have been found by now

 

[Jnowhere]

Mate the software that creates the tor network is open source. If a backdoor was there it would have been found by now

Created by the government who control a lot of it.

 

[Jnowhere]

The guy arrested had given a lecture 2 months before on cybercrime and crypto currency tracking to law enforcement according to Business Insider.

 

[someguyontheinternet]

Created by the government who control a lot of it.

That's what enables timing attacks is control of nodes and watching packet timing within the US and other 5 eyes, I already said that. But that's not a back door

 

[wirkdy]

fucked his life up at just 23 and also seriously risks of getting whacked for the scams he pulled on the dealers.

 

[Jnowhere]

fucked his life up at just 23 and also seriously risks of getting whacked for the scams he pulled on the dealers.

They are probably small time, and this guy will almost certainly make a deal. Then protective custody, but you could be right if he fucked over anyone with real serious connections to organized crime. But he probably will make a deal and if the feds want to keep him alive, and he testifies and serves some time and is put in protective custody, then witness protection he might live. But he could end up a marked man if he doesn't. But a computer nerd like him will not last in general population. However he did give a lecture 2 months before this on cyber crime and crypto currency tracking to law enforcement. It depends on what he can trade. Sammy " The Bull" Gravano survived. Then got his dumbass caught again. It really depends on what he can trade for. This guy has coward and snitch written all over him. But it all depends on if he has info the feds want. He is the type who would make a deal. A lot depends on how useful he could be. He extorted people and nailing him required a lot of personnel, time and money for one guy.
The feds might want to nail a lot of people, rather than just one. They could make a deal but I just realized, he is not an American citizen as far as I can tell.
The transactions seemed to be small and they might need him to nail others.
I just realized he could make a deal then he could be deported back to Taiwan.
I think if the American government wants to send a message, they might need him to help arrest others to help justify the time, money and effort put into this operation. But who knows, it depends, the government is great at wasting money. It is toss up, he could be used to help fight darknet drug markets or he could rot or be killed. But there will be someone to replace him, if it hasn't already happened.

 

[benson7]

Apparently the Feds had control since early 2022. They caught the guy because he was sloppy in cashing in BTC and the trail led eventually to an account in his own name. He also apparently paid for a domain in his own name.

Makes you wonder how many markets the Feds are currently controlling.

 

[Jnowhere]

Apparently the Feds had control since early 2022. They caught the guy because he was sloppy in cashing in BTC and the trail led eventually to an account in his own name. He also apparently paid for a domain in his own name.

Makes you wonder how many markets the Feds are currently controlling.

Funny that he gave a lecture 2 months before to law enforcement about cyber crime and tracing crypto currency. Arrogance and stupidity will always undermine native intelligence in a person.

 

[Juicewrldfan]

Be an idea for everyone who dealt on incognito to clean house cos one things certain that little fucking bitch-ass is going to tell on everyone he can.

Wouldnt it be good if the reason they got him was cos of the attempted extortion?

Everyone cooperates when they are facing the kind of time he is facing. I imagine they are slapping Rico’s on him but idk with him being overseas how that works. I dont know international law at all.

I’m sure there out there but I just never known anyone to not cooperate when they are threatening to take the remainder of their life and make them spend it behind bars.

I’m not excusing it but it’s just facts. That’s why you see loyal mafia members like Gene Borello cooperating. Had he been facing ten years I doubt he would have cooperate but nah they were hitting him with like 35 years and that changes everything.

Idrc who someone is when you are facing natural life or something you are gonna cooperate.

Also, I am by far not defending this dude.