I've been reading this reddit and other sources for years, and it is always the same.
- New market is released: SCAM ! LE HONEYPOT! LE, LE, LE, LE, LE, LE SCAM! STAY AWAY! BUY FROM EVO TRUSTED MARKET!
- Established market in technical difficulties: EXIT SCAM! EXIT SCAM! LE BEHIND ALL PGP KEYS!
- New vendor: FUCKING SCAMMER !
- Established vendor in personal issues: PREPARING AN EXIT SCAM, LE TOOK CONTROL OF HIS ACCOUNT.
- Could you check this out? I WON'T CLICK ANY LINK! I'M ON TOR BUT I DON'T TRUST TOR.
- Private message: WHO THE FUCK HE IS? LE? SILENCE.
- Private message 2: IT WAS SKETCHY. SILENCE.
- Private message 3: I'M ON TOR BUT I DON'T TRUST TOR. SILENCE.
- Private message to vendor not related to order: SILENCE.
- long running market offline: THE EXIT SCAM IS FINALLY COMING! I WAS WAITING FOR THIS FASCINATING, MIND BLOWING DAY.
- long running market offline 2: LE TOOK CONTROL OF IT, LE IS DOING X CAUSE Y CORRELATES TO Z.
- How many contacts you have in the community? NONE, THEY ARE FROM FBI, INTERPOL AND SWAT. TOR WILL REVEAL ME ID.
- Package hold on customs: CLEAN HOME, LE WILL HAVE A COURT ORDER TO INVADE YOUR FAMILY HOME.
- Random DNM user: THEY ARE FUCKIN SCAMMERS BUT I WILL BUY FOM TRUSTED 'HACKED' SR2 OR 'HACKED' YOU NAME IT.
- Reddit user vocabulary: LE, SCAM, MDMA, APPLES, LE, SCAM.
- Reddit multisig advocate: TO AVOID SCAM USE MULTISIG ON SITES YOU HAVE TO SHARE YOUR PRIVATE KEY, IT IS EASIER. IT IS INTELLIGENT.
- Random DNM user: MARKET X DID NOT ENCRYPT THINGS FOR ME, THEY DID NOT TYPE A LONG PASSWORD FOR ME, THEY DID NOT RUN TOR CLIENT FOR ME EITHER. FUCKING NASTY! LE! SCAM!
Why do markets/vendors close?
- Very few are caught by police.
- Some exit scam after hearing one thousand times they are scammers, they get hypnotized and believe they are.
- Most of them close 'cause admins don't get any support, after all, they are all scammers , honey pots and motherfs
Agreed for the most part, but multi-sig is legit.
If you see a thread spreading FUD: report, downvote, move on. Unfortunately the paranoia comes with the domain.