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In Germany, three alleged administrators of the second largest on the darknet of the Wall Street Market were detained. This was announced at a briefing by the representative of the Prosecutor General of Germany.
Stolen data, fake documents and drugs were sold on the Wall Street Market (WSM) platform. At the end of April, three alleged platform administrators were detained, their age - 22, 29 and 31 years. All of them - the inhabitants of the federal states in the west of Germany.
The organizers of the store had the data of more than a million user accounts. The vendors on the platform listed almost 5.5 thousand persons, while more than 63,000 items of goods were on sale.
In late April, the WSM administration went into hiding, grabbing approximately $ 30 million in user funds. Operators of WSM suddenly began to withdraw funds from the project’s main bitcoin wallets. These wallets were used as a depositing system, where buyers transferred their money, and sellers could withdraw these funds, but after a time, when it became clear that the transaction was successful, and the client had no complaints.
The WSM administration explained the suspicious withdrawal attempts with unexpected problems with the server where the mentioned wallets were located: allegedly they did not synchronize with the bitcoin blockchain, and withdrawals and depositing funds became impossible due to this.
As a result, the money of the users of the trading platform was in a wallet unrelated to the WSM infrastructure - the sellers could not withdraw money from it for the transactions. The operators of the site claimed that this was a temporary and necessary measure, however, users became wary, because it was under this scheme that exit scam was previously carried out on other trading floors.
Now sellers are massively renaming their lots, warning other visitors to avoid WSM and go to other sites. In addition, WSM has been excluded from the DeepDotWeb DarkDeb-resources directory.
WSM users and experts believe that the reason for the sudden escape of the administration with money was the closure of the largest Darkweb store Dream Market, which occurred on April 30, 2019. After that, in the “dark Internet” there would actually remain only two similar platforms - WSM and T.chka. Apparently, the site administration decided that the risk was becoming unreasonably great, and wanted to leave the game before it was too late.
However, it turned out that it was too late: during a search of the homes of the accused, computers were found that were used to control the platform, more than 550,000 euros were withdrawn in cash, six-digit amounts in cryptocurrency, as well as expensive cars. A firearm was found at one of the detainees.
Stolen data, fake documents and drugs were sold on the Wall Street Market (WSM) platform. At the end of April, three alleged platform administrators were detained, their age - 22, 29 and 31 years. All of them - the inhabitants of the federal states in the west of Germany.
The organizers of the store had the data of more than a million user accounts. The vendors on the platform listed almost 5.5 thousand persons, while more than 63,000 items of goods were on sale.
In late April, the WSM administration went into hiding, grabbing approximately $ 30 million in user funds. Operators of WSM suddenly began to withdraw funds from the project’s main bitcoin wallets. These wallets were used as a depositing system, where buyers transferred their money, and sellers could withdraw these funds, but after a time, when it became clear that the transaction was successful, and the client had no complaints.
The WSM administration explained the suspicious withdrawal attempts with unexpected problems with the server where the mentioned wallets were located: allegedly they did not synchronize with the bitcoin blockchain, and withdrawals and depositing funds became impossible due to this.
As a result, the money of the users of the trading platform was in a wallet unrelated to the WSM infrastructure - the sellers could not withdraw money from it for the transactions. The operators of the site claimed that this was a temporary and necessary measure, however, users became wary, because it was under this scheme that exit scam was previously carried out on other trading floors.
Now sellers are massively renaming their lots, warning other visitors to avoid WSM and go to other sites. In addition, WSM has been excluded from the DeepDotWeb DarkDeb-resources directory.
WSM users and experts believe that the reason for the sudden escape of the administration with money was the closure of the largest Darkweb store Dream Market, which occurred on April 30, 2019. After that, in the “dark Internet” there would actually remain only two similar platforms - WSM and T.chka. Apparently, the site administration decided that the risk was becoming unreasonably great, and wanted to leave the game before it was too late.
However, it turned out that it was too late: during a search of the homes of the accused, computers were found that were used to control the platform, more than 550,000 euros were withdrawn in cash, six-digit amounts in cryptocurrency, as well as expensive cars. A firearm was found at one of the detainees.