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tdubz



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You Can Get Busted For Allegedly Running Fake Dark Web Markets
#23714793 - 10/06/16 11:48 PM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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https://motherboard.vice.com/read/fbi-busts-alleged-dark-web-scammer
When you’re a criminal on the dark web, there aren’t that many places to turn to for help if something goes wrong. It’s not like, say, you can complain to the cops when someone empties your bitcoin wallet on an illegal drug marketplace.
But it turns out, law enforcement is keeping tabs on that sort of crime too. On Wednesday, the United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Connecticut announced charges against a man who allegedly tricked victims into handing over their passwords through fake dark web marketplaces login screens.
Michael Richo, 34, of Wallingford, is charged with access device fraud, wire fraud, identity theft, and money laundering offenses, all in connection with a plan to steal bitcoins using phishing pages.
Richo allegedly posted links to marketplaces on dark web forums. But instead of going to the real deal, when users clicked these links they were directed to a fake login page that Richo controlled, just like a more traditional phishing scam might use a page that looks like Gmail’s login screen.
Dark web phishing links are particularly hard to spot. When unsuspecting victims entered their details, their username and password were sent to Richo. From here, Richo supposedly logged into the target’s real marketplace accounts, and transferred their bitcoins to a wallet he controlled. He then sold those in exchange for US currency, and deposited the cash into a bank account.
In all, investigators found over 10,000 stolen usernames and passwords on Richo’s computer, according to the announcement.
Arguably, because Tor hidden service addresses are typically random strings of characters rather than easily recognisable domain names, dark web phishing links are particularly hard to spot. For this reason, many marketplaces remind users to check that they have landed on the correct URL.
Indeed, scammers have been using fake sites to steal passwords or other sensitive information from dark web users for years. Last summer, researchers found that one so-called dark web search engine, which acts more as a list of Tor hidden services, was directing visitors to 255 fake sites. These were designed to pinch login details and bitcoins, and included spoofed versions of since-shuttered marketplace Agora, and privacy-focused email service Lelantos.
Richo was released on a $100,000 bond. His money laundering charge carries a maximum term of imprisonment of 20 years, as does wire fraud.
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fractalsybolism
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Re: You Can Get Busted For Allegedly Running Fake Dark Web Markets [Re: tdubz]
#23714947 - 10/07/16 01:38 AM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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So where is Jacob Appelbaum? I was wondering.
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Re: You Can Get Busted For Allegedly Running Fake Dark Web Markets [Re: fractalsybolism]
#23714948 - 10/07/16 01:39 AM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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Does he no longer like the dark web or whatever morons call it?
"Freedom of the internet" or whatevers.
Edited by fractalsybolism (10/07/16 01:45 AM)
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tdubz



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Re: You Can Get Busted For Allegedly Running Fake Dark Web Markets [Re: fractalsybolism]
#23714953 - 10/07/16 01:45 AM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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ex CIA working with Tor, shit I wouldn't trust that software with anything except catching people.
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Re: You Can Get Busted For Allegedly Running Fake Dark Web Markets [Re: tdubz]
#23714955 - 10/07/16 01:46 AM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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tdubz said: ex CIA working with Tor, shit I wouldn't trust that software with anything.
Yup.
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Re: You Can Get Busted For Allegedly Running Fake Dark Web Markets [Re: fractalsybolism]
#23714959 - 10/07/16 01:49 AM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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Tor was actually important. Imagine that.
Syria, libya, China, Egypt and the list goes on.
That is upsetting.
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Re: You Can Get Busted For Allegedly Running Fake Dark Web Markets [Re: fractalsybolism]
#23714963 - 10/07/16 01:54 AM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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Uh yeah for a short while until it became a safe heaven for all types of criminals. Why or how should I say is Tor one of a kind (insert conspiracy theory here) there should already be different variants of the model the fact that it was the one click an your anonymous seems a little to good to be true and you know what they say about anything that is too good to be true.
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Re: You Can Get Busted For Allegedly Running Fake Dark Web Markets [Re: tdubz]
#23714973 - 10/07/16 02:03 AM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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All types of criminals? Did you by chance understand what being anonymous means? They have a number of lectures at your fingertips here on the internet.
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Re: You Can Get Busted For Allegedly Running Fake Dark Web Markets [Re: fractalsybolism]
#23714975 - 10/07/16 02:04 AM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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I will consider your edit.
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Re: You Can Get Busted For Allegedly Running Fake Dark Web Markets [Re: fractalsybolism]
#23714979 - 10/07/16 02:07 AM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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I wont be purchasing lsd via tor anytime soon or anything. I get ya. Apparently they are trying to make such software illegal anyway, because it sort of always did work apparently. That is sort of how they designed it.
And there was never an "until they". All that came with it was to be expected, and it saved people from having their fucking heads cut off and shit like that. So don't act like the failure of tor is a good thing because of these criminals you speak of. It seems retarded for a person to bring up this subject so much and just talk down about it as if it didn't save thousands of people from getting their heads cut off. That is weird to me.
It's like you don't understand what you are talking about almost?
AAAaaand it's a terrible article, written by a neanderthal.
Edited by fractalsybolism (10/07/16 02:44 AM)
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Re: You Can Get Busted For Allegedly Running Fake Dark Web Markets [Re: fractalsybolism]
#23715021 - 10/07/16 02:42 AM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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Please the U.S. controls most of the world get over it.
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Re: You Can Get Busted For Allegedly Running Fake Dark Web Markets [Re: tdubz]
#23715026 - 10/07/16 02:46 AM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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tdubz said: Please the U.S. controls most of the world get over it.
Well that's clever enough. OK then.
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Re: You Can Get Busted For Allegedly Running Fake Dark Web Markets [Re: fractalsybolism]
#23715083 - 10/07/16 03:54 AM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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Im sure stronger encryption is already in the works already found a handful
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Re: You Can Get Busted For Allegedly Running Fake Dark Web Markets [Re: Fractal420]
#23715171 - 10/07/16 05:34 AM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-richo-17779492 Here is his linkdin, guess he deleted his facebook page... What a POS, he's going to have a blast in prison...
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Re: You Can Get Busted For Allegedly Running Fake Dark Web Markets [Re: fractalsybolism]
#23715196 - 10/07/16 05:53 AM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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even the so called anonymous section on this forum isn't anonymous as I was temporarily banned from it. I wonder how they figured it was me??? hmmm...
it's because no matter what all my threads gets to be under my name, CLIT!
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fractalsybolism said: All types of criminals? Did you by chance understand what being anonymous means? They have a number of lectures at your fingertips here on the internet.
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Re: You Can Get Busted For Allegedly Running Fake Dark Web Markets [Re: tdubz]
#23715216 - 10/07/16 06:06 AM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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how those millions of bitcoins ever get stolen?
I read news about millions of bitcoins being stolen. How? It's all digital therefore someone could be traced to it right? Via IP?
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Re: You Can Get Busted For Allegedly Running Fake Dark Web Markets [Re: tdubz]
#23715906 - 10/07/16 10:33 AM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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Since you can get busted for trying to sell fake drugs in person the same follows if you try to do the same over the internet.
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Re: You Can Get Busted For Allegedly Running Fake Dark Web Markets [Re: tdubz]
#23716578 - 10/07/16 02:42 PM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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tdubz said: Uh yeah for a short while until it became a safe heaven for all types of criminals. Why or how should I say is Tor one of a kind (insert conspiracy theory here) there should already be different variants of the model the fact that it was the one click an your anonymous seems a little to good to be true and you know what they say about anything that is too good to be true.
TOR is not meant to be used like that. All you need is TOR to get on the darknet but smart people will be using at least 2-3 other forms of encryption.
Depending on what your doing TOR is probably plenty, for example I used to enjoy browsing dark net markets. I never purchased anything though and couldn't even figure out bitcoin very well let alone PGP and other important things. Because I was just browsing I didn't worry about just using TOR I also used it for researching illegal chemicals and stuff.
Once again its not illegal to research illegal drugs but I would rather not have them all in my google search history Every time I got on TOR to look something up my connection would have to be exploited again just so they could catch my reading about stuff Even if its not foolproof it beats googling it all like stupid kids I used to hangout with would do.
If you are dealing drugs or something setchy however you should probably have at least 3-5 different layers of encryption working in tandem.
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Re: You Can Get Busted For Allegedly Running Fake Dark Web Markets [Re: musiclover420]
#23720213 - 10/08/16 05:59 PM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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If tor is a trap then how come so many dark net markets exist with so many dealers and yet so few (comparatively) arrests are made?
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tdubz



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Re: You Can Get Busted For Allegedly Running Fake Dark Web Markets [Re: jellyfish]
#23720375 - 10/08/16 06:54 PM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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Because you don't give away the trap just because it's trapping people.
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