The sender introduces himself as a darknet vendor and announces that there’s someone wanting to place a bounty for the victim. He then proceeds to explain, that he’d rather not have to go through all the hassle, provided he gets paid to be inactive. He then leaves his bitcoin address for the payment along with a warning that the victim only has 38 hours to transmit the funds to the bitcoin address.



The Coinfirm AML Platform already contains countless addresses flagged for similar extortion type activities with some of them reported through the AMLT Network. Below you have a report on how extortion related addresses reported to the AMLT Network look when integrated into the Coinfirm AML Platform and queried by our clients and partners as AML reports. This helps entities across the crypto economy using the Coinfirm Platform further protect themselves and their users from risk as well help prevent the incentive for further such actions.



