[Cryptocurrency] British Heroin Addicts can now Fence Stolen TVs and Mobile Phones Directly into Bitcoin at CEX.

I was in my local CEX the other day (it's like a tech-y "Cash Converters", but with the staff from a cool vinyl record shop instead of Fagin).

I'm quite old for a darknet vendor, definitely old enough to be the father of the wool-hatted emo who served me

After ignoring me for about 5 minutes, he looked at me like he wanted to say "sorry grandad. We don't sell 8 track tapes or gramophone horns"

I couldn't really say "I'm a darknet drug vendor, and I need a fifth untraceable android phone for my bitcoin wallets. One with a big screen so I can receive orders over surespot and still type without having to remove my surgeon's gloves and get figerprints on drug baggies".

I said "I want to buy that phone there, and I want to pay . using bitcoin" because I saw this:-

https://uk.webuy.com/blog/feature.php?article=tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1918688228918285001.post-1547063677399655692

and volunteered to be the British Tor vendors Association's guinea pig (the BTVA are always on the lookout for new ways for its members to launder bitcoin).

Within a minute I was surrounded by the goths, emos and trustafarians who comprise the staff, seeing their first bitcoin wallets. I was suddenly William Shattner at a sci-fi convention, and it was every other customer's turn to feel invisible. "I'm going to get the manager. You're our first bitcoin sale, and she's been on the training course".

Morticia from the Adams Family emerged from the store room. She scanned the bar code, and discussed which till to use with the white rasta. A QR code with the shop's bitcoin wallet and payment amount appeared on the screen. I connected my phone to their open wi fi connection (called "unprotected CEX" which made me laugh), opened mycelium wallet, pointed my phone camera at the little chequerboard square on screen, then clicked "send".

Within 2 seconds, the screen said "payment received" (their system doesn't wait for confirmations) and the staff were all asking me where they can get bitcoin.

Here's the bit that may interest you non-vendors:-

I was about to recommend localbitcoins when Morticia said "HERE, you idiots. Customers can buy AND SELL second-hand gear at CEX for bitcoin. You would remember if you weren't so stoned. I must have told you ten times. Our stores are getting bitcoin cash machines. The first one is going in our Glasgow store"

A mental picture of Rent boy and Spud out of "Trainspotting" carrying in their grandmother's TV sets came to mind, followed by a more accurate one of bodybuilders from Inverness down for the day to launder bitcoin (a whole coven of former UK-Prozone employees went solo up there, which is why Inverness is the now the scam capital of the UK. Possibly the world).

If you live near one of these CEX branches, you can turn your old DVDs and games into MXE:-

Belfast Birmingham
Bolton Bradford Brighton Bristol Bromley Cambridge Cardiff Derby Edinburgh
Exeter Glasgow Sauchiehall Street
Glasgow Union Street Gloucester Harrow Hounslow Kingston Leeds Leicester Liverpool Lord Street Liverpool

Manchester Norwich Nottingham Plymouth Preston London W1 Rathbone Place Salford Sheffield Southampton London W1 Tottenham Court Rd Wigan

You drug fiends are always on the lookout for utraceable ways of getting bitcoin, and I'm always looking for ways to get rid of them. Lets exploit CEX. Maybe they will put bitcoin ATMs in all their stores - sorted.

RedBook. BBMC.


Comments


[13 Points] Vendor_BBMC:

I can't tell you how tempting it was to start this thread off with the word "so" in the Reddit style

"So I was in my local CEX the other day". Then use the word "sketchy" somewhere. I resisted, because everyone on Reddit who begins with "so" always follows it with an incorrect premise in the second sentence, then a truly idiotic proposal in the third.

Now that I've pointed it out, you will notice it all the time.


[6 Points] clairvoyance1:

Do you understand opsec? What would it take for law enforcement to contact each branch and ask for video recordings of yesterday and find you?


[3 Points] None:

That was what me and /u/harrypottersballs were just thinking. Irvine Welsh could make a sequel to Trainspotting with bitcoin and heroin.

The British Tor Vendors Association always sounded so fancy to me. Like you guys drink tea together and talk about books and stuff.


[2 Points] machete234:

Lets tell everybody so that the loophole gets closed as quickly as possible!


[3 Points] None:

This is interesting, I have a few things worth flogging for BTC.


[3 Points] Amgblacklabs:

Which vendors are members of the BBMC ?

Aren't you and hank the same person?

I think Opsec fail. Probably the company's first bitcoin sale or at least one of them. So probably not to hard to locate the store and the CCTV.

Please don't encourage teenagers to buy drugs, especially when you sell the meth. The ultimate low life drug that will indeed have kids selling there mum and dads shit to these fucking drug exchanges.

Meth chemist you probably shake and bake. Have some decency don't encourage kids.


[2 Points] Gratefulstickers:

I use to sell things at CEX in NYC but after selling many items of questionable legality they put a flag on my account saying I need a receipt to sell any item, thus making CEX pointless. Going to check the bitcoin thing Friday.


[1 Points] boredraw:

They've had this for a while man.


[1 Points] DNMd:

I always enjoy reading your posts. This is awesome mate. Wish I had this branch here!


[1 Points] None:

Everyone knows the scam capital of the world is Nigeria, stop trying to steal their thunder. Also if you send me 2 btc I can transfer you your million dollar inheritance, you're actually related to a Nigerian prince and I need the btc to pay the fees to transfer you that money


[1 Points] Hank_Vendor:

I'm still a little hesitant. I once tried to use PayPal in JD Sports and it was an absolute car crash. Firstly the signal in this particular steel box style store was non existent. Secondly the guy scanned my bar code once and it didn't work. He then tried it a least ten more times. But he didn't do anything differently. Just repeating the same failed step an uncomfortable amount of times.

Before I knew it I was surrounded the coolest poor teenagers in the world and their poor boss. Trying to buy £120 trainers exactly the same as the pair I was wearing, using PayPal! Amid a brief flashback of every stolen PayPal account listing I've ever seen, I realised: this is a crazy thing to do. A classic solution waiting for a problem.

I paid with cash and vowed never to return to that oily sweaty teen hole


[1 Points] onkativ:

What a cracking read


[1 Points] lynyrd_cohyn:

Don't you have to provide photo ID when you sell stuff to the likes of CEX?

Edit: yes you do


[1 Points] throdofro:

Any places to do this in the US?


[0 Points] Amgblacklabs:

Oh and if the store has a copy of that phones IMEI number then you could be in real shit. Most probably got a nice little gps device installed in that phone.

As Tupac said " you may have made g, today but you made it in a sleazy way!" Selling meth to teenagers.