"send XMR to address"
that's what these folks did, and they got arrested:
The finnish guy: https://cointelegraph.com/news/finnish-authorities-traced-monero-vastaamo-hack
The 18 japanese people: https://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: https://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:
You do realize the remote node never learns who you are sending to, or where from (other than IP address, but again, that's not a Monero issue, it's a TCP/IP issue), right?
What it does learn is that you own a certain utxo, if you immediately retry a tx on the same node after the node maliciously rejects it (there will be one ring member that doesn't change between txs, that's the real one).
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