Elonmuskwhm: How the FBI trapped Dark Web criminals with illegal operation
The investigation by Joseph Cox of 404 media Based on hundreds of pages of legal documentaries and online publications. Elonmuskwhm was promoted to the White House Market forum, based on Dark Wet, to convert illegal silver cryptocurrencies.
A Dark Net network managed by the FBI
Customers were mainly drug traffickers and hackers who sent their digital assets to ElonmuskWhm to then receive species by post with a 20 %commission.
Elonmuskwhm was therefore the ideal solution to trap criminals. Legitimate companies that convert cryptocurrencies into Fiat currencies in the United States have the obligation to register with the authorities. They collect customer information, such as conventional banks.
The obligation therefore poses a major problem for criminals: Binance or Coinbase require identity documents that companies transmit to the authorities in the event of a legal order. Elonmuskwhm was an anonymous alternative, without identity verification.
Originally, Elonmuskwhm was managed by Anurag Pramod Murarka, a 30 -year -old Indian national, from 2021. The FBI identified him and then arrested before taking control. While the platform managed, Anurag Pramod Murarka has transit nearly $ 90 million in cryptocurrencies.
According to Gabrielle Dudgeon, specialist in public affairs at the Office of the American Prosecutor of the Oriental District of Kentucky interviewed by Joseph Cox, the federal authorities operated ElonmuskWhm for approximately eleven months. Infiltration allowed them to make the link between the platform and criminal affairs. For example, drug trafficking in Miami, an armed robbery with a knife in San Francisco or even computer hacks with boot in millions of dollars.
The FBI used methods “extremes”
Joseph Cox underlines that FBI used methods “extreme and undoubtedly anti-constitutional” To unmask the operator of Elonmuskwhm by demanding from Google to obtain information from the people who watched a YouTube video over a period of eight days. According to a press release from the Department of Justice, Anurag Pramod Murarkaa was sentenced in January to 121 months' imprisonment.
This is not the first time that the FBI has managed illegal networks to trap criminals. For example, the Federal Agency has taken control of “Anom”an encrypted phones company that would have sold its devices only to criminals. The office has watched about 11,800 aircraft in 90 countries
The FBI also hacked and infiltrated a ransomware group called “Hive” Involved in destructive attacks. The agency was able to monitor the group's activities, collect information on its economic model and identify its victims.
