Of course. I mean, given how often this happens- its hard to understand why someone would deposit funds on these things.
It's hard to understand why someone would pay someone to send them illegal drugs through the U.S. mail, often to their actual physical home address, turning what would otherwise be a minor possession misdemeanor into a major federal felony subjecting them to following a state jail term with a trip to Club Fed.
What conceivably makes this look like a good idea? People are stupid, I guess.
Also receiving and signing for an un-opened package at your door is not against the law. Unless someone can prove that you ordered illegal drugs online they have nothing to charge you with.
Yeah keep telling yourself that. If you don't think there are plenty of people behind bars for much less you are literally retarded.
They aren't behind bars for receiving a package. They are behind bars for providing a pattern of behavior proving a criminal activity. There was an incident involving an otherwise upstanding citizen receiving a package in the mail. He brought it inside, and LEs swarmed into his home later. Turns out it was a drug dropoff that he had no knowledge of. He didn't get charged.
I've said this before, and I'll keep saying it - if it were a crime to receive a package containing illicit materials, you could send anyone you had a grudge against away pretty easily thanks to the wonders of internet contraband purchasing. I could literally send a package of coke to your house, and make sure to tip off the DEA about it when it ships. They would trap the package, probably GPS it, and storm you when you open it.
Plausible deniability is the cornerstone of of the internet drug market. This fails when they put a hook into you. Once you establish a pattern of criminal behavior, you're done. Then every package received or seized CONTRIBUTES to that pattern of behavior. THEN you do fed time.
But anyway. The thread was about ~4000 BTC being "stolen" from SR 2.0, not the debates over the "intelligence" of running a mail-order drug empire.
