<p>A friend of mine is victem of locky ransomware, and is requested to transfer bitcoins. Of course I recommended against it, but it made me wonder what happens if people do follow the instructions.</p>

<p>In particular, are there any wallets known to be related to these criminals/ how could they ever do a sifnificant cashout?</p>

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2016-03-20T15:58:48.593Z
Possible duplicate of [Why is it so difficult to track & recover stolen Bitcoins?](http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/23109/why-is-it-so-difficult-to-track-recover-stolen-bitcoins)
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# track criminal payments from Locky

(Asked by: username_0 on 2016-03-20)

A friend of mine is victem of locky ransomware, and is requested to transfer bitcoins. Of course I recommended against it, but it made me wonder what happens if people do follow the instructions.

In particular, are there any wallets known to be related to these criminals/ how could they ever do a sifnificant cashout?

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> **username_1**: Possible duplicate of [Why is it so difficult to track & recover stolen Bitcoins?](http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/23109/why-is-it-so-difficult-to-track-recover-stolen-bitcoins)  

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