So back in 2015 I started messing with the DW. I eventually got a package that got stuck in customs. This wasn't a small package and I felt like I had really good opsec, but greed got the best of me. I should've let it stay in the PO box but I had a friend pick it up for me. Then I got the dreaded text to my burner phone... "Cops"

I went into overdrive mode. I got everything as fucking far away from me as possible. I never kept anything incriminating at my house, but I went around and even got rid of shit that could look suspect if I got that knock.

I knew they were on to me because I told my friend if anything happened I would pay his bail or get him a laywer. He wanted bail so thats what i got him. When he got out he said they knew my name. So I waited.

I was on DOC and had to call a number every day. This would say a list of PO names and if mine was read, I would have to see my PO the following day. Within a week of everything going down I finally heard his name and that's when they got me. Alphabet boys came in from all directions. I got interrogated and kept my mouth shut. They tried good cop/bad cop on me (they were pretty damn good at it too, didn't realize until after they did that) and they got a warrent for my house. I didn't know if my buddy ratted me out. They said he did. When the FEDs said that I told them to show me the written statement. They didn't have one and I believed at that time I was calling their bluff.

As they searched my house my PO searched my car. I got rid of my two burner phones and only had my personal phone in the car.. but assumed I could've said something stupid on it so I refused to unlock it. My PO told me "If you don't unlock this phone I'll violate you for 30 days, and on the 29th day I'll bring it to you and if you don't unlock it I'll violate you for another 30 days until you do. Your time on supervision freezes and I'll keep you there until you cave" I told him FUCK YOU TAKE ME TO JAIL. The asshole did just that lol.

So while in jail I stressed. They put an informant in my cell. He was supposedly on the chain to go to another jail and just passing through. I been to prison and know how the chain works. There was no way he would be sitting in my cell for a week. Let alone two weeks waiting to catch a bus. He was there for basically my whole 30 days. He tried to bond with me, he would always be within ear shot of my conversations. He even asked me about bitcoin after awhile and asked what drugs I've done. I just acted like I had no idea what he was ever talking about and said I've only smoked weed.

So I get out and now have a new PO. The FEDS put a car on my street to watch my house. No one was in it. I know it was the feds because I live on a long one way in, one way out street with only a couple houses on it and I knew the 3 other houses that lived on it. No one knew who the car belonged to, but it was gone within a week.

I kept my head low and got a normal 9-5. I put 5k of dirty money they never found and became a truck driver. I lived in fear that one day they would come back and get me because the statute of limitations is 5 years.

Well guys. 5 years later I got some mail. It was from my county saying I had items in storage I could come pick up or it would be destroyed. A cellphone, USB sticks, iPad and some other random shit. I let them keep it.

Now I have been in the free and clear for awhile, ask me anything. Or I can go into greater detail about my story, cuz some wild (and funny) shit happened that month lol

Deep Dot Web was seized by the government and the owners were convicted because the website had URLs to markets. But the links actually were referral links that gained them money when a user signed up using DDW links.

As you know, if you hover over a link with your cursor, the actual URL is shown. How was DDW able to hide this? I'm sure if someone found out, they would have made a big deal about it. Instead, DDW was able to make millions of dollars via referral links that were hidden as a regular URL to the markets. How did they pull this off?

TL;DR: How was DDW able to hide their referral links as regular links to the market?

I'm having a hard time accessing onion sites or mirrors. I click on the link and no dice. Is it my settings or am I on the wrong directories etc. Some work, most don't.

I'm on tor browser for android with nordvpn if that helps. TIA

Four years ago, there were numerous markets with a whole slew of listings. Now, I can’t find a single market place that’s not labeled as a scam.

Am I looking in the wrong places? Or have all the sites been taken down?

Title says it. Laptop out of commission and only have my iOS until I find a cheap one. Any recommendations/guides? Thanks in advance!

im just looking around for cool stuff online and saw crawlers mentioned? should I use them

I saw a post on dread claiming that tor.taxi was sold to a group of scammers, and that they are no longer a safe place to access links. Is this true? I can’t find much discussion beyond the one post

A buyer ordered something from a vendor and a wrong pack got shipped to his address. Then the vendor shows up to the address IRL to retrieve the package.

Buyer posts this on dread:

so i placed an order on Arche from vendor goldsmith. The pack got delivered at some point this afternoon, but i hadn't had a chance yet to pick it up from the mailroom at my complex. So somebody starts knocking on my door, its the vendor asking about the pack. im super sketched at this point and was just really confused because i didnt recieve any messages from him on archetyp. He claims that the pack was for somebody else and he put my adrress label on it by mistake. So i gave him the pack and told him i wasnt going to be ordering from him again. he says my pack will arrive on monday, but the whole situation is pretty fucked. Has anyone ever had a vendor unannounced show up at your address demanding their shit back? could this be some sort of CD? he didnt seem like LEO, but he was also trying to get me to open the pack in the middle of my parking garage which was weird.

edit: kinda surprised the amount of people here that think i made this shit up. i thought thats what dread was for? keeping vendors accountable when the deal doesn't go down as advertised. Goldsmith is more than welcome to chime in here and give his side of the story, but he's clearly been a ghost.

i'm also aware i didnt handle the situation great if it was an attempted CD by LEO, but this was not LEO, the vendor PGP'd me last night confirming it was him and apologized, but i should have never been in this situation to begin with. i get it, mistakes happen, but if you are supposed to be a top rated DNM vendor, you can't put the wrong shipping label on a pack of 10k pills.

FINAL EDIT: The pack finally landed. Goldsmith made it right and gave me a full refund for my order. So i got my shit, got my money back, and didn't end up in jail. Sucks that this whole thing happened, but appreciete how goldsmith handled it and made it right in the end.

Most people think that he's trolling but the vendor responds:

I take the blame and I am very sorry for what happened which should have never happened. It was one of the shipping guys who worked for us. Not anymore now. We keep changing guys and locations for security. He did the mistake and in the process of correcting it, he went a head with this action without any discussion with us. We will make sure no such stupidity every happens. I do not want to be here saying NO I do not know what you are taking about because that is not whom I am.

If there is anyway I can compensate you for the trouble please let me know. I will be very happy to do it. Even after which I will still say that it was not acceptable. We will guarantee no such mistakes will happen ever again.

TRUST ME I could have avoided all this by just saying NO I do not know what your talking about. But thats not the way things should work. I strongly believe in honestly and integrity. Which is also the reason why we shipped all the orders we received on Incognito even after we knew a lot of money was going to be stolen. You can check with all our buyers from Incognito whose orders were accepted. Every one of them got the product.

We also try to beat the prices for my own selfish reasons. I personally went to a lot of anxiety and depression and suffered without proper medication as I could not afford at that point. I remember when we were on ASAP I even sent free meds to an old pal as he did not have enough money to order all the product he needed.

All I am trying say here is, we are honest, have integrity and are kind. But that does not give us any right to justify stupidity by any of the people working for us. We are already taking extreme measures to make sure no such thing every happens. Once again my friend let me know if can compensate you in any way.

Source on Dread: /post/7578875b6dc7c69324ba/#c-93a8ec2234001a3c00

Do they just let you off if its a small amount? Or will you get arrested?

Someone just check my process and make sure it sounds right please!

I go into Kleopatra

I go to notepad

I write message

I select other person as recipient

I encrypt said message

I copy paste and send the aforementioned message

Is this correct? The recipient stated they couldn't decrypt my message and I verified the key they have is indeed my key.

Thank you in advance. I appreciate any help.

Ordered something from a reputable vendor from NL and it was intercepted: no love letter, but tracking showed it sat in customs a month, it arrived with stealth broken open and no contents, package had green "inspected by US CBP" tape on it (if you're curious, looked like: https://pasteboard.co/S9DsLJcM3Hef.png).

Obviously won't order anything internationally again to this address, but is it safe to order domestically to the same address? Does the US CBP share notes with USPS?

Anyone use dark matter?

Archetype refuses to load for me

Looking for an alternative

I got a new usb a week ago and have been booting tails through it (shift + restart on pc). However, today I got an error message saying it couldn’t read the data (it said systemfs or something similar). Now, I don’t even see the usb as a device that I can use to boot. What should I do? I don’t understand how the usb could break after such a short amount of time

Hi, i ordered a package domestically but got a royal mail notice saying the sender didnt pay the full postage fee and they want me to pay it. someone said this could be a "love letter" but idk everything i see is unclear. is this a possibility?

edit: from the uk btw

Been using Tor to get to onion links for ages.

Two days ago had some problems getting to a one particular widely used site (but everyone was), but everything else worked. But for the last day, I can't connect to Tor at all. I've tried my wifi, wifi with VPN, mobile hotspot, mobile hotspot with VPN - nothing works. I just get stuck on this page.

Does anyone know how I can fix this form the error log below? Not sure whats going on as I didn't make any changes to my network or my Tor Browser settings. I also deleted and redownloaded the app as well, with the same results so it's overall odd.

2024-11-12 19:39:48.415 [NOTICE] DisableNetwork is set. Tor will not make or accept non-control network connections. Shutting down all existing connections.
2024-11-12 19:39:53.910 [NOTICE] Opening Socks listener on 127.0.0.1:9150
2024-11-12 19:39:53.910 [NOTICE] Opened Socks listener connection (ready) on 127.0.0.1:9150
2024-11-12 19:39:53.911 [WARN] Cannot find maximum file descriptor, assuming: 256
2024-11-12 19:39:54.462 [NOTICE] Bootstrapped 1% (conn_pt): Connecting to pluggable transport
2024-11-12 19:39:54.463 [NOTICE] Bootstrapped 2% (conn_done_pt): Connected to pluggable transport
2024-11-12 19:39:54.720 [NOTICE] Bootstrapped 10% (conn_done): Connected to a relay
2024-11-12 19:39:54.892 [NOTICE] Bootstrapped 14% (handshake): Handshaking with a relay
2024-11-12 19:39:55.060 [NOTICE] Bootstrapped 15% (handshake_done): Handshake with a relay done
2024-11-12 19:39:55.060 [NOTICE] Bootstrapped 20% (onehop_create): Establishing an encrypted directory connection
2024-11-12 19:39:55.259 [NOTICE] Bootstrapped 25% (requesting_status): Asking for networkstatus consensus
2024-11-12 19:40:06.784 [WARN] Proxy Client: unable to connect OR connection (handshaking (proxy)) with 192.95.36.142:443 ID=<none> RSA_ID=CDF2E852BF539B82BD10E27E9115A31734E378C2 ("general SOCKS server failure")
2024-11-12 19:40:24.793 [WARN] Proxy Client: unable to connect OR connection (handshaking (proxy)) with 192.95.36.142:443 ID=<none> RSA_ID=CDF2E852BF539B82BD10E27E9115A31734E378C2 ("general SOCKS server failure")
2024-11-12 19:40:37.915 [WARN] Proxy Client: unable to connect OR connection (handshaking (proxy)) with 192.95.36.142:443 ID=<none> RSA_ID=CDF2E852BF539B82BD10E27E9115A31734E378C2 ("general SOCKS server failure")

I’ve seen multiple people on this sub posting about various marketplaces and other sites. These people go through the trouble to try to stay anonymous on sites, then just post it to their main Reddit with plenty of info on who they are. Why are people doing this?

I am new to this onion world. What are folks using outside of tor taxi for hosting safe marketplace links?

anyone know any onion sites that can host videos?

Haven’t thought about the deep web for years and was just curious if I could actually dive in it on my iphone

https://preview.redd.it/b9ggbug9gxyd1.png?width=1556&format=png&auto=webp&s=444280d48f0c15571feaf6582ef256b74ae746b9

What bitcoin markets yall have good experience with atm I'm struggling to find any

Now everything should work as expected.

http://coinspacezp5mmyuicbz2hoafbnduj4vzkttq3grn5mnwdue5t343zid.onion/

My friend who regularly orders from the dnm's got busted this summer and is due to appear in court for attempting to import cocaine and possessing oxycodone and meth. The way he got caught was incredibly stupid as he has been ordering successfully since the beginning of the pandemic.

On one of his orders, he was drunk and accidentally typed in the wrong house number on his address in the PGP message. The vendor sent it but two weeks had passed and he thought the package was lost or the vendor was a selective scammer and didn't follow up. It turns out that it was sent to the woman a few houses across from him who opened the letter with no name and after seeing the cocaine inside, turned it into the police.

The postman was informed by the local police department to look for any letters or parcels coming out of the NL and eventually, he saw one sent to my friends address and he got a knock on the door with a search warrant. He's now looking at spending 8 months in jail all for a stupid mistake.

first is vpn on the onion , next is mail service.
has anyone used these ?

and i also did not see the a way get registered . it just had a 'get support' hyperlink that connects to email acc. which i cant (?) reach out to, from a gmail acc (obv reasons) .

any reliable mail to use down there ..?

Hello, I've recently been watching YouTube videos about the dark web and got curious.
I've decided to check out a few websites on a specific video.
The thing is, the website I wanted to go to was blurred.
Would anyone be able to help me find the website?
I'll post a pic as well
It seems to say (something) re market

I've downloaded Tor onto my phone, set Duck Duck Go onion as my browser and set off to Dark . Fail, this told me that I was still on clearnet. I then went to check tor project that confirmed I was set up correctly

Can somebody tell me what's happening here The more simplistic terms the better Many thanks