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by Justsignedup 4324 days ago
The primary question: How the hell do you get this to your door? If I was to order it to a physical box, I face major felony charges as the government has a website to hack, and I am not confident in some random dude's ability to secure his website with every known security hole patched.
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fiatmoney 4324 days ago
Typically you ship to some drop address (e.g., a house you know is empty, or somewhere where they'll leave the package somewhere easy to surveil and pick up). There was a DC-area mayor who had drugs shipped to him in this kind of scheme (he was uninvolved) and had his house shot up by a SWAT team as a result.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berwyn_Heights,_Maryland_mayor'...

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kourt 4324 days ago
who had drugs shipped to him...(he was uninvolved)

"had drugs shipped" is a little ambiguous: someone shipped drugs using the mayor's house as the destination; Mayor Calvo had no knowledge or involvement in this. Despite his lack of involvement, the SWAT teams shot both of his Labrador retrievers, including one that was fleeing.

Photo of the mayor and the deceased: http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/photo/2009/09...

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bequanna 4324 days ago
In this case, wasn't a shipping employee involved?

I seem to recall that the package (drugs, etc) was addressed to the Mayor's home but was intercepted at the distribution center by the shipping employee (involved in the scheme) before being delivered.

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anigbrowl 4324 days ago
You don't. That's what minions are for :)

Seriously, most people would order this for delivery outside the US (where it's even less likely to be detected if passed at a bank or bureau de change). If they want to use it in the US, order it for delivery elsewhere and tehn smuggle it in.

Ordering for delivery by the USPS would be insanely stupid unless you had a very clearly document legitimate purpose. I'm a bit surprised Krebs didn't order some for himself - with his public standing as a security expert I'm sure his lawyer could work out a way for him to obtain some and then turn it over to law enforcment after assessing it.

Of course, it's quite likely that this is some sort of honey trap designed to attract less astute buyers from the world of organized crime/terrorism.

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samstave 4323 days ago
"I ordered $100,000 in fake bills to assess their forge quality."

"As soon as I am done assessing the fake $75,000 I'll turn all $50,000 of it over to the cops. I wouldn't want to have $25,000 in fake bills lying around where someone might find them and wind up spending $10,000 in fake bills."

It would be a real problem if this $1,000 in fake money got out into the wild"

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