In July 2105, one of the most popular black markets, Agora, stopped selling guns as announced in a statement published by the site administrators: In response to the increased number of scams related to the sale of weapons, several black marketplaces have stopped stocking weapons altogether. Today the scammer is still ripping people off, but under a different identity.” The scammer used to operate under the handle “Bartsmit” on AlphaBay, a popular market that sells stolen data, weapons, and drugs, among other goods. It’s too easy,” one scammer told Motherboard in an email chat. “I’m just kinda addicted to the scamming part. “One impetus for that is the heavy presence of scammers, who create fake accounts to dupe gullible gun hunters out of their money.” wrote Cox. On November 2015, Joseph Cox from MotherBoard wrote an interesting article to explain the difficulty acquiring a weapon from the dark web. Searching on Google is it easy to find articles that confirm that such kind of problems are very common when dealing with sellers in the black marketplaces. The Beckmann attempt to buy a weapon failed, but it is not clear if the package had been intercepted by law enforcement or it the seller was a scammer. The journalist also asked to the head of the German Bundeskriminalamt (Federal Criminal Police Office) if it is possible to find weapons online and he confirmed that black markets are the right places where to buy them.
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“Because, as a customs expert, it is not so easy to procure weapons.Sounds weird, but is so.Only that this #Beckmann not nearly as informative as “The program with the mouse.”Īt the beginning of the show, host Reinhold Beckmann instructed a third party to buy an AK-47 rifle. “There is this experiment at the beginning of the broadcast.#Beckmann Ordered via middleman a Kalashnikov in the darknet.At the end comes out: $ 800 paid – and get nothing.” reported the German site Focus. It tried to demonstrate that it is very simple to acquire weapons on the dark web, avoiding any monitoring operated by law enforcement.
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The German journalists were working for a show titled “Fear of terror-how vulnerable is Germany” with the intent to understand how criminals could access weapons offered for sale in the black markets. They conducted an interesting experiment to understand if it is really so simple to buy this kind of goods, in particular, one journalist tried to buy an AK-47 rifle, aka Kalašnikov and paid $800 worth of bitcoin. Recently the producers from the German broadcaster ARD have decided to investigate the possibility to buy weapons on the dark web. Of course, victims will never receive the goods and cannot sue the sellers. In the vast majority of the cases when scammers get paid don’t ship the weapons explaining to the buyers that law enforcement have intercepted the shipment.
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Weapons are probably one of the goods that most of all suffer this kind of problems. The dark web is the reign of scammers many sellers claim to have products that will never send to buyers, even when they have paid for it. In this post, I will report two emblematic cases that summarize what daily happen to bold users of many darknets and underground forums Are you searching for an AK47? Read this