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Tip for Darknet Drug Lords: Don't Wear Latex Gloves to the Post Office

posted by on Wednesday March 22 2017, @02:12AM   Printer-friendly
from the he-didn't-want-to-get-his-hands-dirty dept.

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

Delivery is the weakest link in the "dark web" drug trade: the postal habits of a large-scale trader have led to his undoing.

Chukwuemeka Okparaeke is accused of dealing in very nasty stuff: Fentanyl, a high-strength synthetic opioid the Centre for Disease Control says is 50 times the potency of heroin and was responsible for nearly 10,000 deaths in the US in 2015.

Okparaeke may have been a capable Tor user, but his logistical clue needed work: he was caught not because someone linked him to his handle ("Fentmaster", on a site called the AlphaBay Marketplace), but because wearing latex gloves while depositing large numbers of packages at US post offices got the attention of staff.

He was seen at several post offices in the Middletown area of New York, and because he was bulk-buying priority delivery stamps, staff had also viewed his driver's licence.

-- submitted from IRC

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  • (Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 22 2017, @06:39AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 22 2017, @06:39AM (#482575)

    If you're going to drop lots of packages containing illicit substances in the mail, do it in various outdoor mailboxes around town, at night, when no one's looking. Don't drop them at the PO during the daytime in full view of the workers with your gloved hands, after buying tons of postage stamps.

    The thing is, the US Postal Service will no longer deliver any stamped mail over 13 ounces unless they are presented in person to a USPS employee at a post office [usps.com]. Granted, I am assuming that some of the sent packages here weight more than 13 ounces - I don't make a lot of purchases of "illegal" drugs.

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