How I Suspect Alphabay's Narcoboss Heroin Vendor Was Doxxed By The Feds..

To this date no one in the public knows exactly how alleged Alphabay's heroin dealer was caught but I have my suspicions. As far as we know everyone who has been arrested due to involvement with Dark Web Market Places where doxxed not due to a flaw in tor but because of user error on their part or informants that knew them irl flipping on them like the SilkRoad case. Two year ago a major cocaine ring operating out of Canada, selling through several darkweb market places where caught after they started to accept money orders as payment for their cocaine instead of btc. This was the first time someone who was involved with a darkweb marketplace was arrested and it led to the seizure of multiple kgs of cocaine and arrests as the network of dealers fell apart turning witness against each other. Then last year we had they arrest of AREA51 and DARKAPOLLO who turned out to be two guys working together operating as heroin dealers on alphabay. They where tracked down after police set up a controlled buy and discovered the package was shipped out of Brooklyn, NY. This information helped secure a conviction and narrow their search but it was not what actually led the feds to Abdullah Almashwali and Chaudhry Ahmad Farooq. The pairs biggest mistake was registering their pgp encryption to a gmail account. Police where able to get a warrant to access the gmail account which had not only been used to set up the pgp but it was also used to buy stamps and shipping supplies that where used to ship the drugs to they undercover cop. There was also credit card information linking these purchased to the two men. They then cooperated with google and their service provider to locate both men.. Now they had enough information on the two men to make an arrest they did and upon arrest they where fingerprinted and analysis of the fingerprints where compared to fingerprints found on the packages. This was the smoking gun and lead to 2 guilty convictions. Shipping the product from the same city they lived in was a bad idea as well as not using gloves to ship the product but their biggest mistake was registering their pgp account to a gmail account that they accessed through the clearnet and used to purchase the shipping products and stamps. I think it is quite possible this is how Alphabay's Narcoboss was also doxxed. Many other vendors, even vendors bigger than him have gotten away free from any charges so this leads me to believe it was user error which exposed NarcoBoss and this error was most likely using a clearnet email address to register his pgp. They could then monitor his emails between him and his Chinese producer, which seems likely based on the info they released about the suspect detailing exactly how much fentanyl he had received, where it came from and a timeline of they events, and identify him when he logged on to his clearnet email account with cooperation from his service provider. Anyway we will see how it plays out and I will be the first to publish the court documents when they are released.