More AlphaBay: Are they running obvious scam accounts themselves?

I posted this a lil bit ago but thot it would be a nice time to bring it back up

I just can't think of any other logical explanation. One look at these accounts and you know they're fake. But what gets me is that AB approves them for FE. They HAVE to be aware of them.

Want some examples?

First up we got "mr_maserati". An FE approved, level 3 vendor with 13 feedback, all positive. /user.php?id=mr_maserati

I'll let the pictures of his feedback speak for itself.

http://prntscr.com/9401gw http://prntscr.com/9401lt

Next up is Alice4you. Level 3 vendor, FE enabled, 21 feedback, all positive, all from last month. Coincidentally, Alice4you registered THE DAY BEFORE mr_maserati.

/user.php?id=Alice4you.

http://prntscr.com/9405j4

http://prntscr.com/9404d3

http://prntscr.com/94053f

(missed like 4 or 5 feedbacks in the screenshot)

A buyer said that Alice was his old vendor from Evo but I couldn't find anything on this. Ran the PGP through grams and this person doesn't have history of selling on other sites.

Also note that there are quite a few repeat people leaving feedback.

And next up we got SpecialDelivery. Level 4 seller, 32 positive feedback, 3 neutral, 3 negative, FE enabled. And guess fucking what! REGISTERED 3 DAYS AFTER mr_maserati. March 29, 2015.

http://prntscr.com/9406g3

http://prntscr.com/9407n0

This is only the first page. Again, you can go through his feedback and you'll see lots of repeat people leaving feedback and lots of feedback that is posted at very close to the same time.

Now I posted about specialdelivery before and paged /u/trappy_pandora, however, he never showed. https://www.reddit.com/r/DarkNetMarkets/comments/3sic16/specialdelivery_on_alphabay_reviews/cwxhw1m

I found these 3 accounts on the first page of benzos. They all have hundreds of orders yet I've never seen an actual review posted about any of them on reddit. Didn't bother going through the other categories because I'm tired but if anyone sees any others please post them.

Alphabay had to approve FE on these 3 accounts. Everything about them points to them being scam accounts. They're either dumb or scamming.


Comments


[4 Points] Symetry1:

AlphaBay took over my account 2 days ago with my funds in it. I thought they might run a scam and ruin my rep since they kept my listings up but I messaged my account from a new account saying i wanted to do a $4,000 direct deal and just go ahead and give me the address to send the $4,000 to. I got no response back so I assume they are not screwing with my account while they block my access to it.


[2 Points] LedLevee:

Solid work Sherlock!


[2 Points] None:

It's actually not Alphabay its Isis they hacked Alphabay with the help of Hollands government, in return promising not to invade them. We all know what happened last time someone promised not to invade Holland...


[1 Points] JburnaDNM:

Good investigative work. Would make sense that they are also running the phisher account on the market and on the forum that for some reason they refuse to ban either of them.


[1 Points] Paullrevere:

They charge 300 for FE privaliges , on top of the 150 vendor bond


[1 Points] thatdude107:

I think vendor Xmen is an Alphabay run scam account as well. They have escrow listings for huge amounts of xanax with too good to be true prices. They have great feedback on markets but it definitely seems sketchy. Then somebody posted a review recently saying that they placed an escrow order and the vendor sent them a link to tracking. However, the link actually redirected them to another page which redirected them back to Alphabay and somehow drained the users coins. This seems like it would be alot easier to do if you were actually an alphabay admin and not just some l33t hacker lol.


[1 Points] duppy487:

What about HuggleBunny?


[0 Points] redditulousfun:

I could be wrong but doesnt fe approved just mean they have payed their vendor bond? I know nuc works like that but havent looked at how ab does it