Mail from the (Velvet) Cybercrime Underground
Summary: The administrator of the Russian-language fraud forum thecc.bz, known as Flycracker, launched a "Krebs Fund" on July 14 to collect bitcoin donations from members and used them to buy heroin on the Silk Road, mailing 13 packets to Krebs's Northern Virginia home in a USPS Express Mail envelope postmarked from Chicago. Krebs, who had monitored the forum in real time, alerted the FBI and Fairfax County police before the July 29 delivery, and UCSD researcher Sara Meiklejohn confirmed the fund's wallet deposited 2 bitcoins into a Silk Road-controlled purse.
What's compelling: A forum administrator raised roughly $200 in bitcoin and turned it into a mailed drug delivery aimed at a journalist's home, using a Silk Road account named "briankrebs7" and a seller with nearly 100 positive buyer ratings - a reminder that the criminal infrastructure behind identity theft can be pointed at a named individual for the price of a dinner.
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