"send XMR to address" that's what these folks did, and they got arrested: The finnish guy: cointelegraph.com/news/finnish-authorities-traced-monero-vastaamo-hack The 18 japanese people: cointelegraph.com/news/monero-transactions-japanese-authorities-arrest-18-scammers "Just sending xmr to an address" is also bad advice when the most popular monero wallets (cake wallet and monerujo) are known to have been unwittingly giving a list of nearly all their users' xmr transactions plus your ip address to Chainalysis: www.digilol.net/blog/chainanalysis-malicious-xmr.html It is very easy to leak your personal info, especially your ip address, so do not "just send XMR to address" -- even the Monero website warns against this stupid "just use xmr" meme: www.getmonero.org/get-started/faq/#anchor-magic