BitMarket Thief Arrested By Polish Cybercrime Unit

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Quote from: gentlemand on April 12, 2015, 07:15:07 AM

Quote from: Amph on April 12, 2015, 02:13:30 AM

i want to add that it's more of a incompetence of the average user, that don't know how to protct their wallet, many don't even run antivirus, or they download too many shit on their machine

thieves would have an harder time if people knew how to use their pc better

But if we go for the largest bitcoin losses - the inputs wallet, bitcoin savings and trust, gox, numerous dark markets - it had nothing to do with bad pc security and everything to do with being gullible and not applying due diligence.

You can have the securest computer ever, but it counts for nothing if the coins are handed over willingly by people who should know better.

so true

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Quote from: Amph on April 12, 2015, 02:13:30 AM

i want to add that it's more of a incompetence of the average user, that don't know how to protct their wallet, many don't even run antivirus, or they download too many shit on their machine

thieves would have an harder time if people knew how to use their pc better

But if we go for the largest bitcoin losses - the inputs wallet, bitcoin savings and trust, gox, numerous dark markets - it had nothing to do with bad pc security and everything to do with being gullible and not applying due diligence.

You can have the securest computer ever, but it counts for nothing if the coins are handed over willingly by people who should know better.

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Quote from: Ron~Popeil on April 11, 2015, 09:57:57 PM

I am still waiting for them to catch the bitcoin trader bastards. They dealt in fiat as well so it should not be that difficult to find them. Scammers and theives are the biggest threat to bitcoin by a wide margin.

i want to add that it's more of a incompetence of the average user, that don't know how to protct their wallet, many don't even run antivirus, or they download too many shit on their machine

thieves would have an harder time if people knew how to use their pc better

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I am still waiting for them to catch the bitcoin trader bastards. They dealt in fiat as well so it should not be that difficult to find them. Scammers and theives are the biggest threat to bitcoin by a wide margin.

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Quote from: 2double0 on April 11, 2015, 06:59:57 AM

Quote from: LiteCoinGuy on April 09, 2015, 10:13:30 AM

now they can hunt Josh Garza and Mark K Cheesy

They seem to be an old show now, but yeah these thieves must definitely be caught in order to prove everyone (esp. scammers) that they can't get away this easy even in Bitcoin Tale.

Mark K might have done a deal with the Feds to get off the hook by dropping Pirate in it, I'm hoping the Japanese weren't involved in any deal and go after him instead.

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Quote from: LiteCoinGuy on April 09, 2015, 10:13:30 AM

now they can hunt Josh Garza and Mark K Cheesy

They seem to be an old show now, but yeah these thieves must definitely be caught in order to prove everyone (esp. scammers) that they can't get away this easy even in Bitcoin Tale.

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Quote from: darby on April 11, 2015, 06:55:47 AM

Someone scammed me out of 2.8 BTC for an asic advertised here on adsense. I would sure love to see that back!

I don't think that you're going to see them hunt your guy. You'd have to be the one who will start the investigation. You'd need real ID, proof and then you just sue the man.

Anyhow I'm glad to see some people are finally getting arrested. These scams are getting out of hand. Someone has to start taking down the bad guys before more innocent people get hurt in the meantime.

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Quote from: Cruxer on April 11, 2015, 06:38:25 AM

Quote from: LiteCoinGuy on April 09, 2015, 10:13:30 AM

now they can hunt Josh Garza and Mark K Cheesy

I wish it could be that simple

Respect to Polish Cybercrime Unit, Bitcoin is quite new and they managed to operate in its borders

Someone scammed me out of 2.8 BTC for an asic advertised here on adsense. I would sure love to see that back!

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Quote from: LiteCoinGuy on April 09, 2015, 10:13:30 AM

now they can hunt Josh Garza and Mark K Cheesy

I wish it could be that simple

Respect to Polish Cybercrime Unit, Bitcoin is quite new and they managed to operate in its borders

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Quote from: SpanishSoldier on April 10, 2015, 04:33:36 PM

Quote from: LiteCoinGuy on April 09, 2015, 10:13:30 AM

now they can hunt Josh Garza and Mark K Cheesy

Mark K was arrested too. Nothing happened. If u have not done anything against the state, state has nothing against u. Ross Ulbricht & Charlie Shrem tried to defy the state. They are now jailed.

Mark K did the exact opposite of what Ross Ulbricht & Charlie Shrem did. The latter tried to popularize the crypto-currency, defying the state and the banking cartels. The former tried to destroy the crypto, by damaging its reputation, thereby aiding the banking cartel.

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Quote from: lucullus on April 10, 2015, 05:12:22 PM

the only bad thing about bitcoin is the felons

History is made by extremists as well as moderates.

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Excellent news! wonder if Tokyo police could get some support from them? Grin

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Quote from: lucullus on April 10, 2015, 05:12:22 PM

the only bad thing about bitcoin is the felons

And sadly they will never be far away. If you'd asked a scumbag ten years ago what the perfect vehicle for enriching themselves would be, something like Bitcoin would've popped out of their slobbering mouths.

It'll take a much brighter public, or plenty of bulletproof middle men for it to become a trusted option.

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the only bad thing about bitcoin is the felons

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That's new:

Quote from: EvilPanda on April 10, 2015, 06:01:36 AM

AFAIK no, these 2 companies are not the same. Bitmarket.pl is operated by this guy: https://www.facebook.com/michal.pleban

Always wondered, is this guy and "Bitmar" (admin @ forum.bitcoin.pl) the same person?

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Quote from: LiteCoinGuy on April 09, 2015, 10:13:30 AM

now they can hunt Josh Garza and Mark K Cheesy

Mark K was arrested too. Nothing happened. If u have not done anything against the state, state has nothing against u. Ross Ulbricht & Charlie Shrem tried to defy the state. They are now jailed.

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Quote from: QuestionAuthority on April 09, 2015, 10:37:50 AM

Quote from: EvilPanda on April 09, 2015, 10:30:23 AM

They are a good exchange, I remember every time they were in trouble the owner covered everything with his own money. The article also lacks details, like the fact that they quickly found a new bank to cover the withdrawals and the site is fully functional. I hope now that the thief has been caught the funds can be recovered.

The funds might be returned if found because it didn't happen in the USA. If that happened in the U.S. the recovered funds would be stolen by the government and never returned.

Heh.

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Quote from: Hazir on April 10, 2015, 11:28:34 AM

Quote from: Purple Wayne on April 10, 2015, 06:11:21 AM

Hmm. I wonder how they caught him it doesn't say in the article. I think actually catching bitcoin criminals is rare due to the nature of it but they usually slip up when they try sell the coins for fiat or launder them in other ways like that darknet owner got busted for after he scammed his users.

It was probably the same with this thief. Recently some Czech guy creator, manager and admin of Dark Markt in Czech turned to be fraudster who grabbed bitcoins of users was caught when trying to buy a house for stolen bitcoins, he transferred money to his girlfriend account and it did not help him. I see the light in the tunnel when I read that more and more bitcoin thieves are being caught by the police!

I expect this will be true over time. Thieves will learn the hard way it is difficult to _perfectly_ cover your tracks in an ecosystem where every transfer is logged. Forever. And available to every sleuth. With a bank robber, if he hasn't been caught in six months he can probably breathe a little easier. Not so with bitcoin.

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Poland can into Bitcoin.

From venturing into Poland not too long ago, picture me unimpressed, but they've probably improved a lot the last decades, I'd give them that. Still they have a long way to go.

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Quote from: Cryptowatch.com on April 10, 2015, 12:39:43 PM

Quote from: mantaxer on April 09, 2015, 10:05:03 AM

The Polish Cybercrime Unit based in Krakow have announced the arrest of a 28-year old man in connection with the theft of around 85,000 PLN from Polish Bitcoin exchange BitMarket.pl

http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/32033a/bitmarket_thief_arrested_by_polish_cybercrime_unit/

I most suprised they actually have a cybercrime unit in Poland.

It's just like anywhere else in Western Europe these days. Actually I was rather annoyed by that. It wasn't foreign enough for my liking.

Considering the combo of blockchain analysis and the necessity to cash it out via exchanges, I'm pretty surprised there aren't more thieves who've been nailed to the wall. No doubt it'll become harder in the years to come to get away with it.

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