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| Subject: Millions of dollars missing amid mysterious closure of 'dark web' marketplace Evolution Thu Mar 19, 2015 11:29 pm | |
| The online drug trade was dealt another blow this week. Evolution, a massive website for buying drugs on the so-called dark web, suddenly disappeared on Tuesday, along with millions of dollars in its users' Bitcoins.
The leading store for illicit e-commerce, it seems, was an elaborate scam. In online forums, users of the site mourned their lost money, called for blood, and desperately hoped their last order of pills would show up in their mailboxes.
As recently as two years ago, online black markets worked well enough that many thought buying drugs there was on its way to being as safe and easy as dealing in braided necklaces on Etsy. That utopia began to crumble with the seizure of online black market Silk Road in 2013 and the arrest and conviction of Ross Ulbricht as the mastermind behind the site. It's been tumultuous days ever since. Law enforcement busted dozens of dark web marketplaces in November, and German police last week seized a third of a ton of drugs from a single online dealer.
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