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Oh, I meant more like going on the dark web to buy a list of everyone whose email got leaked by Ledger, then cross-referencing that with a list of other known credential leaks, and trying all those username/password combinations on Gmail, coinbase, and wherever else until I find someone's wallet with millions in it then just draining that.
Yeah I understood, but in both cases stealing from crypto investors is where it's at so I decided to share my idea as an attachment to yours. In your case the money is actually easier to trace than my idea, once the buyers' USD money hits an offshore account via wire transfer it essentially ceases to exist, but with direct crypto transaction the transaction ledger is more permanent and easily accessible, but in both cases the base of operation should be pretty safe while it remains off shore from the targets.
Ah gotcha, good point about traceability. Maybe just Monero cryptobros? I don't know what kind of growth that's seen though; may not be particularly exciting.