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by RIMR 1408 days ago
From what I can understand, and I'm probably off-base a little:

Government: "We are sanctioning these known criminal wallets."

Tornado Cash: "Anyone receiving deposits from these criminal wallets will be blacklisted."

Criminals: deposit a small amount of crypto into every wallet they can find associated with Tornado Cash, blacklisting all of them

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> deposit a small amount of crypto into every wallet they can find associated with Tornado Cash, blacklisting all of them

They're likely just sending small amounts to just about anybody. Not only addresses associated with Tornado.

Regulators: Please forward all unexpected deposits from (addresses) here: @address

If not done past date <whenever>, add account to OFAC.

Not an issue.

Hmm, that sounds like fun scam for someone to actually run.

Now what to do with those funds after you receive them is an other issue.

And this is why every government outreach tends to require having an Agent attached.

Nevermind that people are more than willing to impersonate Federal Agents.