{"id":1127,"date":"2017-09-27T11:08:39","date_gmt":"2017-09-27T11:08:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/?p=1127"},"modified":"2018-04-25T12:22:45","modified_gmt":"2018-04-25T12:22:45","slug":"darknet-market-hazard-blackmail-from-the-dealer-you-gave-your-address","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/2017\/09\/27\/darknet-market-hazard-blackmail-from-the-dealer-you-gave-your-address\/","title":{"rendered":"Darknet market hazard: blackmailed by the dealer you gave your address"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kyle Torpey brings to our attention<\/a> the obvious hazard of giving your postal address to criminals so they can sell you drugs:<\/p>\n

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Gwern Branwen notes<\/a> that this has long been a hazard of the space: “These have become unfortunately common. Vendors keep addresses even though it incriminates them<\/em> in quantities sold\/time periods … On the plus side, at least up to 2015 when I stopped tracking arrests, very few of these shakedowns appear to result in buyer arrests.”<\/p>\n

These threats have come up on on Reddit darknet forums previously (e.g.<\/em>, 1<\/a>, 2<\/a>, 3<\/a>, 4<\/a>). The universal advice is not to give in to the blackmailer \u2014 apart from marking yourself as someone who could be shaken down again later (much as with ransomware<\/a>), this sort of extortion will be a separate serious crime<\/a> in itself, and would break any reasonable confidential informant deal. Darknet drug dealer “GrandWizardsLair” points out<\/a> (archive<\/a>):<\/p>\n

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The Grand Wizard has never heard of a case where those threats were carried out. It is possible some blackmailers have called LE only to get ignored. Police get bogus complaints every day from revenge-seekers, jilted exes and various loony-tunes. But we suspect that most content themselves with shaking down a few terrified newbies and drop the matter should their first efforts not pay off.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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