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Usually the best exit scam strategy is to leave the market open and running as normal so that people will continue to make deposits while withdrawals are blocked.
They'd be leaving a lot of potential money on the table by just straight taking the market down.
I've been through a lot of exit scams, and most of them stop withdrawals for at least a few days or even a couple weeks first, and then they make some excuse like they're having problems with their wallets, but that they're fixing the problem and everyone will get their money soon.
Or there's been some exit scams like Bohemia, which went the extra step and even stopped us vendors being able to edit our listings or take the listings down. This is a way to get customers to continue placing orders like nothing happened, and the vendor can't even warn anyone not to place an order, because unfortunately a lot of people don't use Dread frequently enough to know if a market is pulling some kind of scam.
Hope this helps, at least a little anyway 👍
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You got to remember that a lot of people can't get their "fix" now, so they'll be itching and scratching and thinking of all the worse case scenarios.
Yes, the worse case may have happened and Archetyp might have been taken over by LE, but it does no good speculating when it's not even been 24 hours.
Is it gets more than 24 hours without any updates from the admin then I will start to worry a little more.
Remember to always PGP encrypt any sensitive data on any market, because at least then if LE take over, they won't be able to read the messages and connect different accounts to in real life people.
It's the people who put their full address in clear text, or send the tracking information in clear text that have to worry the most.
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It's the people who put their full address in clear text, or send the tracking information in clear text that have to worry the most."
Would you like to post that to /d/OpSec? I'm a mod there. I'll approve it. It's a perfect time to be giving that advice. I won't steal your post.
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but its been almost 18 hours man, with ZERO communication from ASNT... not even to his subdread mods. im sorry to say but now your the one who isnt being logical. also, if it is just maintenance, why take down whowasteam.love? and if it is just maintenance, he would of gave a update by now. somethings wrong. IF the site does come back up (big if) i wouldnt trust it, it could be like hansa where the feds took over the market to catch vendors/users. thats what might be taking so long too, LE changing and taking over the servers. that would explain why theres no coms from ASNT too
If he's been busted then there's not much that can be done about that. But to make assumptions about an exit scam before it's even been 24 hours seems a little crazy to me.
It will be more clearer and easier to know what is happening in a couple of days. That's all I'm saying.
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It's the people who put their full address in clear text, or send the tracking information in clear text that have to worry the most about an LE take over.
If it is an exit scam then yes, people will lose money that they have in escrow, and that is a shame, but everyone should assume that any money they put into a darkweb market can be lost at any time if you placed the order at an unlucky time (just before an exit scam or LE take down).
I also managed to make a successful withdrawal about 30 mins before the site went down, which gives me more faith.
Also, if you ordered before the last 24-48 hours, vendors should still be shipping the orders (if they marked it as shipped already).
We've done this throughout every exit scam/LE take over, even if we know we'll never get the money off the market. Repeat business and customer trust is worth more than losing a thousand dollars here and there. Vendors know the risk of possibly losing money due to exit scams and LE take downs while selling on these markets.
any admin can exit scam, any market can be seized. the fact that there's till people who wont admit theres red flags, thats what bothers me.
I just don't understand how you can be so sure before it's even been 24 hours.
Also remember that the market has just gone through a bunch of heavy DDOS attacks, so they could be doing maintenance due to something to do with that.
No one can be sure of anything at the moment.
It's not like you're saving people by telling them that LE have taken over, no one can log in to get their money out.
I'm just saying that it's best to wait longer.
I've been through about 8 exit scams/LE take downs and lost well over $40k total that we had in escrow on those markets.
Luckily we're an FE vendor on Archetyp, so if it is gone for good, we haven't lost anything this time.
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