A System of Robot Drug Dealers on Telegram Allows People to Buy Illegal Produ...
There’s a new avenue darknet market (DNM) customers have found that allows them to purchase illegal wares 24 hours a day via a robot drug dealer hosted on Telegram. The platform dubbed ‘Televend,’ is an automated software program that peddles illicit narcotics for people paying with bitcoin and during the last few months, the complex system has grown massively. While many darknet markets have fallen to the wayside, a slew of new types of methods when it comes to selling illegal drugs online has risen. For instance, the world’s largest DNM in Russia, Hydra,....
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During the last few months following the departure of the infamous Empire darknet market (DNM), a great number of DNM users have been flocking to alternative vendors. More recently, a new bot service on Telegram called Televend has been attracting tens of thousands of users and the service has grown colossal since it was first introduced. Meanwhile, law enforcement from Germany recently seized nine Telegram groups operating in the same manner. The demise of the darknet marketplace Empire has seen a wave of DNM users flocking to alternative DNMs, but also newly created Telegram channels....
City A. M., London's first free daily business newspaper, reports that a study by researchers at the University of Manchester and the University of Montreal concluded that Silk Road prevented violence associated with the illegal drug trade and represented a breakthrough in criminal innovation. The study is open access and can be downloaded from the Social Science Research Network. The researchers found that many (between 31% and 45%) drug-related transactions on Silk Road were not business-to-consumer (B2C) but business-to-business (B2B), in other words, transactions between drug dealers.....
In 1988 the New York Times reported that an advanced technological threat was facing schools across the United States. What was this existential threat? Beepers (i.e., electronic pagers). School officials were dismayed by students’ use of beepers because, at the time, they were primarily used by drug dealers. One official stated, “I can think of no....
Bitcoin ATMs are highly concentrated in minority areas within New York City. Some suggest they are targeting minorities involved in the drugs trade. Others argue that minorities sending remittances are the target instead. Drug dealers targeted. Twitter user, Dan Anderson (@droplister), created the census data map to highlight the high concentration of BTMs in minority areas. Cynicists would suggest these target minorities involved in the drugs trade, but statistics don’t support their viewpoint. As a matter of fact, white Americans surpasse African-Americans in drug usage by a very wide....
In an effort to uncover the hidden darker parts of the internet, Swiss group Mediengruppe Bitnik created a bitcoin robot as an art installation. The robot is given $100 every week to purchase random items from Agora, an online marketplace where one can buy drugs and other illegal items. The bitcoin robot managed to use its $100 to buy Ecstasy, a Hungarian passport, and a baseball cap before getting arrested. Other purchases included fake Diesel jeans, a Sprite can with a hole cut out in order to stash cash, Nike trainers, a baseball cap with a hidden camera, cigarettes and the "Lord of the....