Crims in Criminal activity shocker! Innocent drug-fuelled customers hit, as pre-planning murder purchases go up in fragrant smoke.
I wonder if they'll try a different site to Hire-a-Hitman?
Dark web souk AlphaBay outage: Users fear they've been scammed
Dark web marketplace AlphaBay has dropped offline, sparking frenzied speculation that its admins may have disappeared for good after pocketing a swag bag of digital currency. The outage may be down to a simple security update, if assurances offered through Reddit are true. The AlphaBay marketplace became inaccessible in the …
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Thursday 6th July 2017 21:37 GMT gypsythief
Re: Sorry, what did they do again?
Well, apparently the "King of the Paphs" referenced in the picture caption, or "Paphiopedilum rothschildianum" as it's more commonly known, only grows between 500-1200m[1] on North-East facing slopes of Mount Kinabalu in Malaysia, that are near ravines rich in Serpentine rock[2]. As a result it is highly endangered, and Orchid fanciers pay up to $5000 per cutting[3], which I suspect is a) highly illegal, and b) highly profitable.
Hence being sold on the dimmer, darker, dodgier corners of the webernets.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paphiopedilum_rothschildianum
[2] http://huntingtonblogs.org/2012/04/king-of-orchids/
[3] http://thehigherlearning.com/2014/07/25/why-are-people-paying-as-much-as-5000-per-stem-for-this-orchid-photo-gallery/
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