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The problem with bitcoin is that anyone can see what you’re doing. So if you do phishing and tell a business to transact to your bitcoin address and then you transfer it from there to somewhere else, any Dick and Harry with an internet connection can see it.
The right (better actually, seeing that it’s ethically wrong anyway) thing to do would have been to divert the funds to some random bank account, collect the actual cash, split it up, deposit different portions of the cash into unrelated accounts, and then slowly fund the final bitcoin wallet — virtually undetectable)
Of course, all that wouldn’t make any sense if you used the same computer, so it’d have been even better if you transferred the cash to another country, and deposited it from a VPN over Tor in a VM in another VM - and then delete both VMs immediately with military grade techniques.

Just sayin’

Crispels:
And they can easily access private keys via advanced data mining. That’s my point. So far you have ever typed in your private keys while accessing your wallet(or address if you prefer that) online, your data can be mined using certain exclusive and advanced tools. They can also use network sniffing technology depending on circumstances. There are several ways the FBI can hack into any Bitcoin address or wallet. Many of these techniques are highly classified. They will just announce that they have accessed certain Bitcoin addresses but they won’t really tell you how.

There’s like 2^212 bitcoin addresses out there. Upon PGP and everything. If you like carry Emegwali’s computer, it cannot be cracked using today’s technology

bigbananai:
and they couldnt hack into his gmail? they had to beg google to give them the pw?

Nooo gmail itself has a special backdoor for all those fbi gang
If you want security try ProtonMail

Crispels:
News reference.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/10/25/fbi-says-its-seized-20-million-in-bitcoins-from-ross-ulbricht-alleged-owner-of-silk-road/amp/

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FBI Says It's Seized $28.5 Million In Bitcoins From Ross Ulbricht, Alleged Owner Of Silk Road[b]

Maybe he kept the passphrase in his computer?
Plus on Wikipedia they said they tracked through his trails not by sitting and brute forcing his computer.

Once they’ve convicted you, finding out where you stored your passphrase is significantly easier ( that’s why cold storage is the best-non electronically)

Crispels:
Lmao. Go and read the latest news about the guy that carried out mass shooting in California. The FBI was eventually able to hack into the iPhone - although they didn’t get new information from it.

See the news below
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.businessinsider.com/fbi-unlocks-pensacola-shooter-iphones-without-apple-2020-5%3Famp


Most people claiming to be tech gurus or Yahoo boys in Nigeria are living on outdated information. That’s why I laugh when I see them comment about blockchain and cryptocurrency. They are so foolishly confident about what they didn’t develop or have access to its back end. If you have ever attended developers or hackers/Cybersecurity wizards boot camps or conferences in the Sillicon Valley - you will know the ideas behind blockchain and cryptocurrency and how some folks can easily crack into it. You expect me to develop a wallet now and I will tell you it can be hacked? That won’t incentivize most people to use it. Apple thrives on branding - the idea that their security is impregnable by anyone on the planet but how were some FBI agents siting in their offices able to hack into it like a hot knife going through butter? So many things about the internet are classified and I can tell you that the FBI can get almost anything they want from the cyberspace(maybe excluding Russia and China).

I’m only saying all these because I want my Nigerian brothers and sisters to stay away from cybercrime and earn money online legitimately. The internet is not as anonymous as most people think - even if you use whatever cryptocurrency or encryption.

Yahoo boys thrive in Nigeria because EFCC don’t have the manpower and technical know-how to crack on those ragtag fraudsters. Let some Cybersecurity(not even FBI agents now) wizkids from IBM or Sillicon Valley enter Naija today, they will nab most of those Lagos yahoo boys in a couple of months. Most of these yahoo boys use outdated platforms or bromide procedures to defraud vulnerable people. I know of a friend in the US that can use data mining tools to extract any bitcoin address being used from Nigeria - most of you don’t even know how your network providers protect your IP address or data. And VPN is not even entirely secured.

The best thing is to stay away from crime and fraud but so far you think you can scam people online - be assured that you can be easily tracked with the trails you left behind.

I knew that they unlocked it eventually
So it’s after begging that they now went to go and try for themselves?
Imagine somebody is now using the latest one?

Plus Bitcoin addresses don’t have locations in themselves nah- unless your wallet guys track it (one of the reasons for them to have set up their own wallet with Tor and a good VPN)

All those US VPNs, yes they can snitch on you. That’s why you’re supposed to used one based in Switzerland ( especially one with a no log policy - even if they asked them what you were doing, they don’t keep records)

Anyhow I agree with you in that Nigerians don’t even bother to secure themselves - you’ll see some of them doing fraud with their MTN line connected to internet with Google Chrome
(They wouldn’t even turn on incognito mode)

But imo if you take time they wouldn’t catch you (st least you’ll give them a hard time)

And to all the aspiring scammers out there don’t do it ohhh
(But if you want at least use a Linux VM please- put some effort into it)

Crispels:
Don’t mind them. I created a thread about it some days ago and some people were arguing with me. You can use iPhones and Bitcoin to evade EFCC arrest but when it comes to the FBI, so far you use the internet outside of Russia and China, they will track down everything you do(or did). With data mining, FBI agents will use certain tools to unravel all the bitcoin addresses in Nigeria. They are all in the cloud and data mining will unravel every user - by matching it with their transaction IDs and email addresses. People are so naive to think something created by a fellow human being like them cannot be detected or will be known to only them

Lol
Data mining… data mining
It’s because the people that we know that are using bitcoin aren’t bothering to secure them
If somebody should sit down and do this thing ehn…FBI will not even sniff the person

Crispels:
Lol. That’s what people like you think. Who created bitcoin? The FBI has the largest bitcoin wallet in the world. With data mining tools in the US, people can match bitcoin addresses with the identity of their owners using transaction IDs. So far you use the internet, you can be tracked down by American agencies - except if you live in Russia or China. Forget all these privacy talks - the FBI has a history of hacking into even iPhones.

FBI hacking iPhones… FBI that we’re begging apple to unlock iPhone 5c (7 year old phone) for them not too long ago

Crispels:
Lol. That’s what people like you think. Who created bitcoin? The FBI has the largest bitcoin wallet in the world. With data mining tools in the US, people can match bitcoin addresses with the identity of their owners using transaction IDs. So far you use the internet, you can be tracked down by American agencies - except if you live in Russia or China. Forget all these privacy talks - the FBI has a history of hacking into even iPhones.

Which data mining tools??
Every transaction on the blockchain is visible for anybody to see in the world. That’s why bitcoin themselves said it in their website to not use the same address more than once.

Hedonisco:
Hmm.

WhatsApp transcripts? But wait. I thought WhatsApp has "end to end encryption"?

If there's any lesson here, it is simple. Don't Bleep with the US and any organisation within it.

Don't use US search engines, browsers, IM apps, etc. These guys would tender all records to the feds when the chips are down.

Regular WhatsApp is end to end encrypted( nobody can look at what you’re sending and understand). However, the backups in iCloud of Google Drive i.e. the transcript, is unencrypted. So they might have accessed those ones.

Also, the fact that the messages are encrypted in transit doesn’t mean that one malware on your phone might not be able to read it

ArcFresky:
I laugh when u guys underrate the FBI.

Let me explain something I know.
The FBI would have spent at least 6 months watching this guys, they would have hacked their phones computers and phones except if it were an apple phone.

Their btc addresses would already be known.
If they ever used their laptop especially a windows laptop to login to their btc, even if they format their pc, as long as that harddisk is still working, even if you break it, they will recover his btc and everything he owns....


Just forget it, when FBI catches u, especially noncitizen..... As yoruba will say, ti e ti taa.

Hushpuppi and his gang, they would have even been using apple laptop plus that apple phone

Solatium:
Whatever you might want to postulate here,those guy's are far ahead of any criminal enterprise, whatever the technology or procedure that you might want to employ,there is always a backdoor entry access given to Law enforcement agencies before the technology goes public.
Do you know that all the fiber optics carrying internet traffic and calls all over the world had been tapped into by NSA ? that their HQ in Maryland will give you Data on anything you want in a jiffy.
FBI have more than enough evidence to nail these guy's,they are not your regular police ooo.

Lol, not everything has backdoor ohhh… Go and ask Edward Snowden and his guys

Allisonstvs:
can't bitcoin give fbi the login details themselves.

Nah, Bitcoin is decentralised ( nobody is in charge of it so it’s up to you to secure your details and stuff)

Solatium:
The key Phrase there said REVERSE ENGINEERING. how many people have knowledge of that?
That is even too complex,all they need is the Mac address and service tag or serial number on your system,Your ISP provider will supply your modem/router number,all your internet visitation will be presented to you.
You think once you wipe from your systems it ends there abi?

1. If they were using a VPN(especially one of those ones that doesn’t keep any records) then the internet history is gone.
2. If they just wiped it normally, then MAYBE some stuff can be recovered.
3. But if they encrypted it before they wiped it, that means the data would have been scrambled so even if they bother to scam the drives and find something - it will be meaningless ( and decrypting it would take an unreasonable amount of time)

The only thing is that, being Nigerians, they probably wouldn’t have taken these precautions (as is evident by the fact that Hushpuppi was flaunting anyhow on Instagram) but as you’re defrauding those kind of amounts

Solatium:
No torture is required,the HDD or SSD on the computing system is all they need.
Reverse engineering will be done and everything you have done on that system from day one will surface, including all your login details.

They’ll wipe it nah

They can even make their own wallets for added security