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Darknet markets have had an up-rise in traffic in recent years for many reasons. One of the biggest contributors being the anonymity and safety that goes along when using the markets<ref>{{Cite web|last=Arora|first=Beenu|title=Council Post: Five Key Reasons Dark Web Markets Are Booming|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbestechcouncil/2020/04/23/five-key-reasons-dark-web-markets-are-booming/|access-date=2020-06-23|website=Forbes|language=en}}</ref>. Many of the sellers and vendors go through great lengths at keeping their identity a secret when online. Many use VPNs, Tails, and Tor to help hide any trail they could leave behind for investigators. Darknet markets makes the user feel safer as they can get what they want from the comfort of their home. Most people can easily gain access to a Tor browser such as DuckDuckGo that allows a user to explore much deeper than other browsers such as Google Chrome. However actually gaining access to a darknet market selling drugs isn't as simple as typing it in on the search engine like you would with google. Many darknet markets have links that are changing everyday and their address ends in .onion which makes it much harder to track down the users on the markets. To add to privacy the biggest currency on these markets is Bitcoin. Bitcoin allows transactions to be committed between people by exchanging wallet addresses and never having to know anything about the person you're sending money to. <ref>{{Cite news|title=Guide: What is Bitcoin and how does Bitcoin work? - CBBC Newsround|language=en-GB|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/25622442|access-date=2020-06-23}}</ref> |
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One of the biggest issues many of the users face who use marketplaces are the vendors or market itself exit scamming.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Christian|first=Jon|date=2015-02-04|title=The 'Exit Scam' Is the Darknet's Perfect Crime|url=https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/xyw7xn/darknet-slang-watch-exit-scam|access-date=2020-06-23|website=Vice|language=en}}</ref> This is when usually a vendor will act as if they're still selling on the market and have users send them money. The vendor will then close off his account after receiving money from multiple buyers and never give what they paid for. It's hard for the customers to get their money back as they usually purchased something illegal. In 2019 a market called Wall Street Market had allegedly exit scammed, stealing 30 million dollars from the vendors and buyers wallets.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|date=2019-04-20|title=Darknet Users Allege Wall Street Market Exit Scammed, Possibly Snatching $30M|url=https://news.bitcoin.com/darknet-users-allege-wall-street-market-exit-scammed-possibly-snatching-30m/|access-date=2020-06-23|website=Bitcoin News|language=en-US}}</ref>The websites Admins and Managers had sent messages to many of the top vendors blackmailing them to send bitcoin to a specific address or risk having their private information leaked. <ref name=":0" />This further proving that darknet markets are unsecure to anyone who uses them. |
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Federal agents have had a huge crackdown on these markets. In July of 2017 federal agents seized one of the biggest markets called Alphabay.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Brandom|first=Russell|date=2019-02-17|title=The golden age of dark web drug markets is over|url=https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/17/18226718/alphabay-takedown-drug-marketplace-federal-arrest|access-date=2020-06-23|website=The Verge|language=en}}</ref>Many investigators pose as a buyer and order packages from darknet vendors in the hopes they left a trail they can follow. Law enforcement biggest crackdown on vendors are those sell drugs with fentanyl and opiates. With thousands of dying each year due to drug over dose it was long over due for law enforcement to crack down on these markets. Vendors don't realize the extra charges that go along with selling drugs online. Many get charged with money laundering and extra charges brought when the drugs are shipped in the mail. <ref>{{Cite web|title=The Consequences of Mailing Drugs and Other Banned Substances|url=https://www.cottenfirm.com/blog/2019/september/the-consequences-of-mailing-drugs-and-other-bann/|access-date=2020-06-23|website=www.cottenfirm.com}}</ref>Each state has it's laws and regulations on drugs therefore vendors have the face multiple charges from different states. In 2019 a vendor was sentenced to 10 years in prison after selling cocaine and methamphetamine under the name JetSetLife. <ref>{{Cite web|title=Darknet drug vendor sentenced to 10 years prison|url=https://www.dea.gov/press-releases/2019/04/12/darknet-drug-vendor-sentenced-10-years-prison|access-date=2020-06-23|website=www.dea.gov|language=en}}</ref> {{dashboard.wikiedu.org sandbox}} |
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