Tip for darknet drug lords: Don't wear latex gloves to the post office

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posted in Community by vasile

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.

2 years, 5 months ago

kassadi - Well, the Tech might improve, but it seems your average criminal is still decidedly average.

2 years, 5 months ago

harrydavidson701l3 - Yes, latex gloves are extremely hard to use for risky actions such as drug delivery. I had a friend who delivered darknet drugs, and he got caught because one of his glove fingers broke, and his fingerprints were discovered the next day by the police. He is now in jail because of this. I have worked as a drug delivery guy as well, but I would never wear latex gloves during my deliveries. I would always put on nitrile gloves for that as they are thicker and don't break as easily as the latex ones. I would then put them back into my pocket when I would finish my delivery, and no one would notice. Check https://medrux.com/latex-vs-nitrile-gloves/ for more information.

2 years, 5 months ago