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Mostly I'm not convinced that they do know what they're doing.
I'd like to know if any of those that have paid (and people have, helpful twitter feed to watch it happening here -https://twitter.com/actual_ransom ) have been decrypted. I strongly suspect not.
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You can watch those wallets all you like, if they know what they are doing you won't be able to follow the money. I have witnessed much bigger fraudulent activities on the BTC network that were watched live by hundreds of security experts. It doesn't take too much effort to disappear the funds if you want to.
You can prove you paid because there will be a unique transaction ID that is associated with the private key of the address you sent the BTC from.