A Major Dark Net Market Is Down and Users Are Worried They Got Scammed. Alpha. Bay Market, a prominent dark web marketplace that facilitates the sale of drugs and other illegal items, went down last night and users are panicking, afraid the moderators have shut down the site for good and run off with the loot. But it doesn’t seem like users need to worry—at least not yet. This wouldn’t be the first time administrators of an online black market pulled off such an exit scam—the dark web market Evolution vanished in 2.

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But it’s not yet clear that Alpha. Bay’s moderators are following the same path. Most of the fear stems from the coincidental timing of a Bitcoin transaction worth about $3. However, the transaction isn’t definitively tied to Alpha. Sons Of Anarchy 4Th Season On Dvd. Bay, and a dark web expert told Gizmodo that the amount is rather small if Alpha.

Bay’s creators are indeed ripping off their customers. The $3. 8 million in bitcoin transfers “definitely add to the suspicion a bit,” Tyler Carbone, the chief product officer of the dark web monitoring firm Terbium Labs told Gizmodo. But honestly that seems like a surprisingly small amount to take, if this truly is an exit scam.” When Silk Road was shut down in 2. Ross Ulbricht, valued at the time to be worth about $3. The US Marshals Service later sold the bitcoins in a series of auctions.)Alpha.

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Bay is normally pretty reliable, with a 9. Alphabay (like the other dark net markets) does go up and down from time to time, and so, so far, it’s our take that it’s a bit premature to call [this an] exit scam,” Carbone said. It’s absolutely something to watch, to be sure, but as it’s only been down since last night we don’t think that’s enough evidence yet to be convinced.”Update 7/6/1. ET: It looks like users’ fears were unwarranted. An Alpha. Bay moderator posted on Reddit that the site’s developers and administrators “are working to restore Alpha.

Bay as soon as possible.” In the meantime, the moderator warned users to beware of phishing scams. A Terbium Lab analyst told Gizmodo that they are quite skeptical of an exit scam, in part because of Alpha. Bay’s size and its team’s competency. If they’re going to go out, they’d do a good job of it, and that’s not what this looks like to me as of yet,” the analyst said. Correction: A previous version of this story misstated Tyler Carbone’s title; he is Terbium Labs’ chief product officer, not its chief executive.

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