[2016-03-31] Alleged Silk Road Dark-Web Vendor Of Cocaine, Marijuana Arrested

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MERCED (CBS SF) — A Merced man accused of being one of the largest vendors selling cocaine and marijuana on the dark web marketplaces was arrested Monday after a federal agent apparently discovered he had registered, or attempted to register and trademark, his drug-dealing alias.

David Ryan Burchard, 38, allegedly used “caliconnect” as his alias on the now-defunct Silk Road and apparently used similar usernames on Silk Road’s successor site and then on other dark web marketplaces, including the now-defunct Agora and Abraxas and the still active AlphaBay, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of California.

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[nichu]

this guy must be the stupidest of all drug dealers  what was he thinking ..who in the right mind would do that if you are doing these kind of activities  . do not link your alias to two different things let alone trademarking   

[hilariousandco]

It seems for many darknet dealers and operators it's often silly schoolboy errors that lead to their downfall. Ross Ulbricht would likely still be a free man had he covered his tracks a bit better when he was trying to set the site up.

[SebastianJu]

after a federal agent apparently discovered he had registered, or attempted to register and trademark, his drug-dealing alias.

*rofl* How stupid can one be. And why doing that at all? Did he has the illusion that not getting caught might make his business somehow legit?

Natural selection I guess. Out of the genepool for some time.

[1Referee]

It seems for many darknet dealers and operators it's often silly schoolboy errors that lead to their downfall. Ross Ulbricht would likely still be a free man had he covered his tracks a bit better when he was trying to set the site up.

It might also be that they feel like they are fully anonymous there, so they don't look at the details that have indeed lead to them being arrested. Nothing in the world is fully anonymous, so even there you have to make sure you don't leave any kind of sensitive information behind.

[hilariousandco]

It seems for many darknet dealers and operators it's often silly schoolboy errors that lead to their downfall. Ross Ulbricht would likely still be a free man had he covered his tracks a bit better when he was trying to set the site up.

It might also be that they feel like they are fully anonymous there, so they don't look at the details that have indeed lead to them being arrested. Nothing in the world is fully anonymous, so even there you have to make sure you don't leave any kind of sensitive information behind.

Did you even read the op? He got caught by trying to register the same username he used on the darknet so he probably would have been anonymous had he not willingly tied his real name to it when he stupidly tried to trademark the dealer name he used.