Originally Posted by Drukpa Kunley
LOL. having an offshore server for your website doesn't give you immunity. the FBI and DOJ have successfully indicted, arrested, prosecuted, seized assets, and imprisoned numerous individuals for various federal crimes that had their servers located outside of the U.S.
the Feds also did this to people that were foreign nationals.
this will happen when any site takes credit cards, paypal, and other U.S. payment methods they are under U.S. jurisdiction no matter where the site is hosted. even if the site's servers are located totally offshore, if only one of the site's payments passes through a correspondent bank, any USD (United States Dollar) currency transaction usually involves a Standard Charter correspondent bank, the Feds can use that one transaction to bust the site's owners.
Backpage uses Bitcoin
the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the FBI took down RentBoy, The Review Board, MyRedBook, and SFRedBook
adult oriented websites are also prosecuted using the federal statutes, The Travel Act and Money Laundering
The Federal Travel Act is used by the Feds to step in to enforce state laws.
Homeland Security raided Eros.com in November 2017.
All Cops Are Internet Cops
every single federal agency you can think of, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), ICE, NSA, FBI, DOJ, Postal Inspectors, DEA, and many more, including all local and state law enforcement agencies, investigate online crimes.
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