Did anyone ever actually receive a welcome email from AlphaBay? I find this very hard to believe that they even sent an email out. If they had, who is entering a legit email address into a DNM?
I call bullshit on the FBI. No way this happened. Anyone who says they received the email and don't have proof are either bullshitting or LE. I want to see proof.
This does reek of parallel reconstruction. LE claims that they received a tip from someone in 2016 with the email. The email was supposedly used in the early day Alphabay forums as a welcome and a password reset (headers used to send out those emails). It reeks of parallel. The whole thing does. Sounds too much like Ross. Finding an opened laptop. They caused an outage at the server so they had already located the server before finding the opened laptop.