The strange journey of Lin Rui-siang, the 23-year-old accused of running the Incognito black market, extorting his own site’s users—and then refashioning himself as a legit crypto crime expert.
  • @TropicalDingdong
    12•6 months ago

    He Trained Cops to Fight Crypto Crime

    Allegedly. Also he registered the domains in his personal name and directly connected his bank accounts to the bitcoin transaction out of the system.

    Probably most lemmy users are engaging in better opsec than this guy is. And it took them years to bust the guy. Just goes to show you that crime pays but botany doesn’t.

  • Flying Squid
    3•6 months ago

    He Trained Cops to Fight Crypto Crime—and Allegedly Ran a $100M Dark-Web Drug Market

    The Trainer. This fall on CBS.