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One of the Largest Dark Net Markets ‘of All Time’ Falls to Police

posted by mrpg on Monday May 06 2019, @03:45PM   
from the that-you-know-of dept.

MrPlow writes:

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Police from around the world shut down the biggest active black market on the dark web this month, according to announcements from law enforcement agencies in the United States, Germany, and the Netherlands released on Friday.

Wall Street Market, as the black market site was known, was the target of a 1.5-year-long multinational investigation. Three Germans were arrested on April 23 and 24 inside Germany for their alleged role in creating and administering the site that sold illegal drugs, documents, weapons, and data.

"WSM was one of the largest and most voluminous darknet marketplaces of all time," FBI Special Agent Leroy Shelton wrote in the criminal complaint released on Friday.

Source: https://gizmodo.com/one-of-the-largest-dark-net-markets-of-all-time-falls-1834511568

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• A lot of bad people are off the Internet now A lot of bad people are off the Internet now (Score: 4, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 06 2019, @06:26PM (3 children)

  by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 06 2019, @06:26PM (#839753)

  This site attracted rustlers, cut throats, murderers, bounty hunters, desperados, mugs, pugs, thugs, nitwits, halfwits, dimwits, vipers, snipers, con men, Indian agents, Mexican bandits, muggers, buggerers, bushwhackers, hornswogglers, horse thieves, bull dykes, train robbers, bank robbers, ass-kickers, shit-kickers and Methodists.

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• Re:A lot of bad people are off the Internet now Re:A lot of bad people are off the Internet now (Score: 3, Funny) by sshelton76 on Monday May 06 2019, @07:39PM (1 child)

  by sshelton76 (7978) on Monday May 06 2019, @07:39PM (#839794)

  Reminds me of the time my wife and I drove by an Evangelical Free Church for the first time and my wife without missing a beat asks...
  "So how do you think they got rid of all the Evangelicals?"

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  • Re:A lot of bad people are off the Internet now (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday May 06 2019, @08:09PM

    by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Monday May 06 2019, @08:09PM (#839806) Journal

    Antiretroviral drugs. Those guys only have one helix, so~o...

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    I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...

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• Re:A lot of bad people are off the Internet now (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 07 2019, @01:44AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 07 2019, @01:44AM (#839955)

  This site attracted rustlers, cut throats, murderers, bounty hunters, desperados, mugs, pugs, thugs, nitwits, halfwits, dimwits, vipers, snipers, con men, Indian agents, Mexican bandits, muggers, buggerers, bushwhackers, hornswogglers, horse thieves, bull dykes, train robbers, bank robbers, ass-kickers, shit-kickers and Methodists.

  I'll stick with rape, murder, arson and rape.

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