Quote from: fubar420 on October 20, 2012, 09:29 pmHello all,I am scared shitless. I received a letter in the mail recently that says "You are receiving this letter because your name and/or address has been identified with the purchases of controlled substances online, which may be punishable by imprisonment under Federal law Title 21 U.S.C. 844. These controlled substances were often shipped from foreign countries. With limited exception, it is a felony to import controlled substances into the United States under Title 21 U.S.C. 952. The Drug Enforcement Administration is actively and aggressively targeting these online illicit websites for prosecution.If you have any questions about this letter or have information to provide about illegal online websites, please call the drug enforcement administration at (***)***-****"I'm pretty sure they got my address from when the farmers market got busted awhile back. Should I be worried? What should I do?ThanksFirst and foremost, RELAX. I am absolutely delighted to see that you created a new account to post your message, thus preventing LEA from associating your usual Forum identity with TFM. Good thinking on your part. If you used your real name and address when ordering from TFM, then you are on notice that that name and address is now burned. Nothing is likely to come of this -- when you think about it, the DEA have done you a tremendous favor -- people don't normally find out they are on a watch-list. You now know for a fact that you are on one. I suspect what happened here is that the Feds either got the operators of The Farmers' Market to sing like canaries, and/or they took advantage of TFM's notoriously poor computer security. It sounds to me like nothing so much as the Feds got your name and address off of one of the TFM operator's computers. (They should NEVER have been storing this information, period, but it would appear that they may have done so regardless.) Finding your name and address on a computer seized in a raid, isn't enough evidence to investigate you, let alone convict you in a court of law. The DEA knows this full-well, that's why they're sending out these letters, in an attempt to scare people off. Frankly, if the DEA had two working brain cells to rub together, they would have just silently monitored these names and addresses for potential future violations. Come to think of it, they may have already considered this approach, and rejected it as unworkable. In the case that you should receive a visit at some time in future, remember this: - You are not obligated to speak to them, period, regardless of what they might say in an attempt to get you to talk to them. - Just in case, lawyer-up. Make sure you have a decent criminal attorney you can speak to, if need be. - Keep you house and computer squeaky-clean, just in case.