Article link: http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/criminal-charges-filed-against-us-citizen-connection-multi-million-dollar-international-cyber
So Ink is a reseller for Willy.Clock notes. Well, as it turns out, a huge counterfeit bust happened recently over in Uganda. An American man who was living in Uganda produced $2 million in fake money. He also was making other currencies, but I believe USD was his biggest.
Now if you don't do much outside of the markets, you might not know, but Willy.Clock has a forum now called CommunityX Recruitment Center(CXRC). You can talk to other people about counterfeits, and also buy them there. There is a person Mr Mouse who sells there and on other forums. So between those two people, that's the only way you can get the counterfeits. Only other way is if you were part of the exclusive forum, where you can buy from Willy.Clock himself, but you must get recruited on CXRC first. So, mind you that these are very good counterfeits, not crappy inkjet prints. They still won't go in a machine, but it passes pen and UV, and it has the correct feel, which is usually 90% of the problem. He even puts on some color shifting ink.
So I happen to be a part of the forum, and Ink is not active on the forum but Mr Mouse is, and he said everything is fine and the reports are about someone else. Maybe it's a fall guy or something, I'm not sure. Mr Mouse could be completely lying or something.
So basically the way this happened was a guy used a fake $100 to buy a coffee(what a dumbass, so obvious) which sounds like he was testing them out, but that means he got caught from a mistake when he first started. Eventually they traced it to him after the bank realized. Willy.Clock told this person that he was setting up a forum, and so this person bought a bunch of the counterfeits from him, to become a reseller. They found out he had PO box(seriously he used that thing in his own name?), and found that he received three packages from Uganda. They got a warrant and found fake money in the packages. This might be Ink, and the reason is because it says they got a search warrant for the other reseller, who was an active member of CommunityX. Mr Mouse is all over forums, and he is active on CXRC, so I assume that he is also active on CX.
So I am not really sure what is true. Either way it sounds all sketchy, but people have been getting orders from Ink... Unless LE is trying to make it seem like nothing happened while they collect address and/or other info.
Anyways this story is all over news so it seems weird that the information might be made up. All the facts make sense.
Just wanted a warning out there and I hope you guys stay safe. Cheers.
TL;DR: Check the article out. Ink may be compromised, but the only other reseller, Mr Mouse, is claiming that everything is fine.
I am also an active member of the CXRC forum.
Mr. Mouse claims that everything is fine, but for all we know Mouse has been compromised to. Frankly, neither Willy nor Mouse were ever careful with their security. They rallied in thumbing their noses at the authorities under the assumption that they couldn't be caught, which is always a dangerous assumption.
Willy commonly advised his customers to try to pass bills in bulk, which is terrible advise and very likely to result in the passer's arrest.
Mouse had recently started an escrow and BTC conversion service, which would give law enforcement an easy way in to attack him.
If you were a member of the forum, I must strongly suggest that you abandon it now. Mouse is deleting or locking anything on the forum that suggests that Willy is under arrest. This is odd behavior from a forum that constantly criticized Verto for doing the same thing.