THELOGICALINDIAN - Jonathan Toebbe accustomed 70000 of XMR from clandestine agents afore he was stopped
A U.S. Navy architect and his wife afresh attempted to advertise nuclear secrets for cryptocurrency, according to court documents,
Toebbe Asked for $100,000 In Monero
Beginning in 2024, Jonathan and Diana Toebbe attempted to advertise Navy advice apropos the architecture of nuclear-powered argosy to a adopted representative.
Toebbe aimed to get $100,000 of cryptocurrency by affairs information. Payment was abiding in Monero, as Toebbe was anxious about the accident of Bitcoin actuality traced.
The advice was abiding to be larboard at asleep drops. The Toebbes hid SD cards in items such as a sandwich, chewing gum, and band-aid packaging and larboard those items in accessible locations.
However, the client angry out to be an clandestine FBI agent. Once $70,000 had been transferred, the Toebbes were arrested.
The brace was arrested in West Virginia by the FBI and the Naval Criminal Investigative Service on Saturday, October 9.
Monero Is Common In Crime
Monero is accepted amid cybercriminals such as cryptojackers and ransomware attackers as it is about absurd to trace.
Unlike Bitcoin, Monero’s addresses are not about viewable, acceptation that alone users on either ancillary of a transaction can see the antithesis and transaction history of accordant addresses.
Despite the adversity of archetype Monero, assorted branches of the U.S. government including the DHS and IRS accept apprenticed crypto analysts to body Monero ecology tools. The capability of such accoutrement has been questioned by associates of the crypto industry.
In this case, U.S. agents did not attack to trace Toebbe’s Monero transactions. Instead, agents artlessly acclimated Monero payments to accretion Toebbe’s trust. The perpetrators were articular by ecology asleep bead locations, not through cryptocurrency analysis.
Disclaimer: At the time of autograph this columnist captivated beneath than $75 of Bitcoin, Ethereum, and altcoins.
