| Title | Tip for Darknet Drug Lords: Don't Wear Latex Gloves to the Post Office | |
| Date | Wednesday March 22 2017, @02:12AM | |
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| from the he-didn't-want-to-get-his-hands-dirty dept. | ||
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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