According to anonymous users, the darknet marketplace Berlusconi Market was down for over two weeks. Many believe that the outage led to market administrators being robbed of all funds. Others speculate that Berlusconi Market has been hacked by government agents as there is no sign of it returning online soon. Check out more about Charity Coin
Is it a scam or a boon? As the Berlusconi market’s lights start to flicker, speculation grows
Many darknet marketplace (DNM), participants have learned over the years that DNMs can come and go. In July 2017, Alphabay, a hidden marketplace, went down. DNMs assumed that it was an exit scheme. Alphabay was taken down by international law enforcement. No one knew Alphabay had been seized, as the authorities were operating the Hansa marketplace undercover. While things were going well for a while, Dream was in charge for some time. However, the DNM took over the reins in April. DNM participants are noticing that the lights in their favorite markets have been flickering more recently with Wall Street Market closing and last month’s Dread Outage. Berlusconi Market, which is rumored to be the next fall market, has been offline since September 22nd.
Berlusconi Administrators Go Missing — Darknet Users Search for Alternatives
Customers and vendors of Berlusconi Market have been searching for alternative markets and new opportunities on forums. BM was the most visited DNM after the DNM shake-ups of this year. It has 300,000 members. Many people believe that BM admins have been scammed. This means they took vendor deposits (vendors must pay a minimum deposit in order to sell) as well as customer deposits in escrow.
Berlusconi Administrators Go Missing — Darknet Users Search for Alternatives
According to darknetstats.com, BM is “partially” up and that Berlusconi has been having captcha issues since yesterday. Market access is not possible for users. DDoS attacks have caused the market to experience the same problem in the recent past. “We are trying to reach Berlusconi admin. We will update the status soon.” Darknetstats.com visitors commenting on this post don’t believe BM will return. A person asked, “How can anyone trust a market again if BM also does this?” Another person claimed that they lost contact with vendors, and that the possible exit scam cost them a few thousand dollars. One BM vendor was unhappy that he had to pay $250 for the vendor fee and “compete with many stupid ads” and spammers.
