I noticed because I was trying to start a trade with him. Possibly I’m the first
person on the internet to notice, and it’s right when r/Monero and
r/CryptoCurrency are dark because of the Reddit protest, so it’s difficult to
warn people. I see r/xmrtrader is still up; I may make a burner account and post
it there, or someone else is welcome to.
http://nehdddktmhvqklsnkjqcbpmb63htee2iznpcbs5tgzctipxykpj6yrid.onion/nojs/user/LetterGuy21969
[http://nehdddktmhvqklsnkjqcbpmb63htee2iznpcbs5tgzctipxykpj6yrid.onion/nojs/user/LetterGuy21969]
He formerly had agoradesk and localmonero accounts under his real name for
years. About 5 months ago he deleted them and created the current pseudonymous
account. He has quite a web presence under his real name, and is a crypto “OG”,
active in Bitcoin since at least 10 years ago. He often had the lowest price for
XMR via cash by mail (~4% above the rate on CoinMarketcap) and would accept
trades up to $10k. He recently set his account to require trade requests to be
approved by him before becoming live, and since a few days ago (06.08), he
stopped responding to trade requests or trade chat, but his ad was still up.
LocalMonero makes it easy to go on a ‘Buying vacation’ with one click, so that
was odd. His profile still said “Last seen just now” until 3 days ago, which
suggests he had a keepalive script. I tried to SMS text him via an anonymous
provider and received no response. So, I was thinking, dead, arrested, or
hospitalized? Or maybe just on vacation? OpticBit recently died. Hospitalized
but unconscious? People typically have their phones with them in the hospital
these days. Arrested? I started checking for death and arrest records, which has
to be done on a county by county basis. There were no such records in his home
county, but he still wasn’t responding to texts. This morning, I tried another
neighboring county, and found that he was listed as in custody, arrested by the
US Marshals, who execute federal warrants, booking date and time June 09 2023
13:00, no charges listed yet, but listed as ineligible for bail. If you have
traded with him, you have his name and address and can confim this. I’m not sure
that I should publicly dox him in the process of warning people, but it will
likely become public soon enough, and I can provide it to moderators for
verification. Find a map of his state, find the large county directly to the
north of the one where he lives, find their arrests & booking records web site.
Find his age or DOB via a people search engine. Search with his name and age,
and the arrest record comes up. I have a screenshot of it. If you have traded
with him, consider your position, because the feds now have his computers, cell
phone records, sms texts, any records he kept, potentially his localmonero
account password to view all his prior trades and trading partners (they do have
a ‘delete my account and all information’ option which trading partners can
use), any postal mail that was still in his possession, and likely records of
inbound tracking numbers, and possibly scans of parcels. The US government is
suddenly declaring war on crypto. Everyone’s answer to how to buy Monero without
invasive KYC has been “Just use LocalMonero, cash by mail.” LocalMonero have a
massive ad at the top of r/CryptoCurrency ever since Binance delisted XMR in
Poland, Spain, France and Italy a few days ago. Maybe they were a tad
overconfident in raising their profile so much? I had been thinking that it
would be rather easy to shut down cash by mail onramps - all you have to do is
make a trade request and the sellers send you their address, and then you arrest
them for operating an illegal money service business. I didn’t say anything
because I didn’t want to give them ideas, but it seems that they are already
doing it. Screenshot of his current terms of trade for posterity in case
LocalMonero remove it:
[https://monero.town/pictrs/image/ce759cdd-2257-40f5-aaa4-c4ef9a9ab2b0.png]
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