There had been warning signs for a while, at least since the point at which Yura had threatened to expose him as a cop. In June 2016, when Monteiro hacked into Yura’s Gmail account, he had noticed that the scammer had created email addresses under the name of Chris Monteiro and Eileen Ormsby, an Australian journalist who had also written about Besa Mafia. At the station, an NCA officer told him he had been arrested for incitement to murder, in connection with Besa Mafia.
One Illinois nurse was sentenced to 12 years for trying to hire a member of the Sicilian Hitmen International Network. Her case shows law enforcement probably won’t have much sympathy if your hired gun ghosts you. Sign up for our email newsletter and get the latest industry news along with early warnings of new scams and fraud alerts. “There is actual crime, but we are too busy talking about some guy who wants to kill his ex-girlfriend’s new boyfriend,” she said.
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- We found ourselves in the middle of an apparent live marketplace for murder – and there was only one thing we could do.
- Dark web researchers have long called the site a fraud, alleging that it is purely a vehicle to pilfer crypto from dumb but murderous Tor users.
- According to a report by the BBC, there were over 100,000 listings for hitmen on the dark web in 2019.
- He was ordered to get a mental health background check.
- The Pences worked with traditional agencies, submitting to hours of training, interviews with social workers, psychological reviews, and home studies.
Part timeline, part list, part flow chart, the document included a breakdown of the various hacks and dumps the website had suffered, and even a top 10 of the website’s most dangerous users – in a fully wikified format. Always the wikipedian, Monteiro had begun to structure his trove of Besa Mafia-related information in a password-protected BesaWiki. One of the “most wanted” users on Monteiro’s A3 was someone who went by the name of Dogdaygod. Yura reassured his customers that the leak was not a big deal. Our website got hacked, but hackers only got information about some users,” Yura wrote in a message to a customer. “They did not stoled any bitcoin.” Meanwhile, he set about launching a new, rebranded website.
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A law enforcement source told “48 Hours,” “there is no evidence at this time that Mrs. Alexis States was involved.” But in a shocking turn of events, Yura began sending “48 Hours” the names of targets — turning on his own customers. Some days, Jane Sharpe mourns the loss of her friend, Amy Allwine, by blowing off steam at the gym.
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She works in corporation in Bellevue but I don’t know where exactly. She has a three-years-old son that she picks him up at 5 P.M. Send me a proof when the job’s done.” A payment of 0.53 bitcoin (worth around $5,000 at the time) was made to the tipster’s wallet on February 4, 2020, law enforcement said. In February 2020, the anonymous scammer told the FBI in Washington state about a $5,000 order, saying, “I feel that all targets that have been paid for are in danger. Customers that pay to kill someone show that they are serious about killing that person,” according to a just-unsealed search warrant reviewed by Forbes. The tipster was not identified and it’s unclear if the FBI knows their real identity.
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At that court appearance, Harper said it was her “divine right as a mother to protect my children” from KV, who she had accused of abusing her children mentally and physically for years. Reported that her car appeared to have been keyed and that she received “unpleasant phone calls” from a person using an electronic device to disguise their voice. The affidavit said the “threatening” calls came from untraceable computer-generated phone numbers and internet calls.
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Harper was arrested on Feb. 5 and later confessed to “paying bitcoin” to have KV killed. In June she pleaded guilty to a murder solicitation charge. I think it’s possible that by alerting Elena to her husband’s plans, my team and I saved her life.
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He says those people could have left clues at the crime scene, but first responders bungled the investigation. Prosecutor Jamie Kreuser says the smoking gun was a 34-character code in a message from Dogdaygod, paying for Amy’s murder in bitcoin — that digital currency that people on the dark web often use to buy and sell anonymously. The problem for Stephen Allwine was that code was on his computer. Afterwards, Innes converted RentAHitman.com to a supposed front for a contract killing agency, though he included numerous jokes in its content to clearly signal the site is a parody.
Many of them are limited to certain locations, of course, hence the necessity of some research. And if the authorities reach this provider, they’ll give out data. Therefore, it pays off getting a VPN from a country that’s not in very good relationships with yours. “There has never been a murder definitively attributed to dark-web hitmen.”
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Some forms of cybersecurity work — like penetration testing, bug bounty programs and ethical hacking — are not just legal, they are essential to protecting digital infrastructure. Criminal hackers-for-hire operate without oversight, selling their skills to the highest bidder. Their services range from corporate espionage and DDoS attacks to stealing intellectual property and hacking government agencies.
But there has still not been a killing commissioned on one of the dedicated hit-man-for-hire sites. The British National Crime Agency did monitor and — working with police in Bulgaria — take down one of the sites that Monteiro had targeted, Crime Bay. “Most people were stoic and calm during the calls,” said Miller. “It took them a while to let the message sink in. One of the women I spoke to was so unruffled by the news that she didn’t even change her plans for the evening. She went to see her friend who lives right next to her estranged husband. “There was a case in the U.K., a love triangle,” he explained.
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He then passes the information on to law enforcement agencies in the UK and abroad. Sky News contacted several of these websites to see if they would put someone forward for interview to discuss their operations. Camorra Hitman is no longer running but dozens of sites claiming to offer the same services are still operating on the dark web. According to Clarksville PD’s case reports, on June 8, Njoroge, a 21-year-old Texan on leave from the Fort Knox base, stole a gun from a shooting range, American Shooters, in the town’s north-west. Njoroge was found dead in the early hours of June 9, face down under the stairs of an announcer’s box on a baseball field. The coroner quickly established that he had died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Recently, there have been several reports of individuals who have been either arrested or convicted for attempting to hire or apply to be a hitman online to end someone else’s life. Major takedowns like Silk Road, AlphaBay, and Hansa have shown that even the most “secure” criminal platforms can be infiltrated. These operations often expose how widespread scams really are. But none of the 24 sites covered in the research have ever been linked to a real-life murder. A few months ago, a middle-aged executive in Singapore was sent to jail for five years after paying the Camorra Hitman site to kill the boyfriend of his young ex-lover in a staged car accident that, not surprisingly, didn’t happen. Monteiro has identified nine cases in which people he exposed were arrested in connection with commissioning hits.
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That someone, perhaps close to you, wants you dead and has paid a lot of money to have you murdered. “48 Hours” tipped authorities who summoned Sharma to the police station. After they questioned him, Sharma agreed to an interview with us. We asked him about the sites he created on the regular internet to advertise Yura’s sites on the dark web.
