Dutch and American LE now targeting buyers.

"The US And Dutch Officials Launches Door To Door Operation on Darknet Drug Buyers"

Following the recent rate of Darknet drug purchases across Europe, authorities in the US and the Netherlands have teamed up to embark on a door to door search leading to the arrest of potential darknet drug buyers.

The US and the Netherlands are two of the leading drug trafficking nations in the world, and it is no surprise that the authorities embarked on such an operation. Similar campaigns have been engaged in the past but the darknet users continue to rise annually.

The Dutch Ministry of Justice in 2016 released a report confirming that the Netherlands is one of the world leaders of darknet drug traders, not something to be proud of. In the report released by the Dutch authorities in 2016, the Netherlands appeared to be the leading producer of MDMA, Ecstasy and herbal cannabis.

Dutch vendors traffic at least 11 kilos of cannabis a month and 10 percent of their total drug revenue comes from the sale of cannabis. This has expanded the range of buyers each year forcing the authorities to launch a special investigation to arrest the buyers and the vendors. This joint operation seems to be the first competitive action undertaken after the shut down of the Hansa market.

According to information, the operation is the continuation of the war against the Hansa market last year. The Dutch authorities took over the website administration and strategically took notice of the addresses of the users before shutting down the platform. With the information gathered, the Drug Enforcement Agencies of both the Netherlands and the United States of America visited over 100 addresses in a door to door investigation.

It is likely that users who took lessons and refrained from illicit drug purchases on the darknet will not be favored as the aim is to complete what they started some years back.

Nanina Van Zanden, the leader of the Dark web operations for the Dutch police hinted that they got insight into the organization and the structure of the Hansa market when they took it over. The arrest of two men associated with the website was not enough as the users were made the next targets on their arrest plan.

The Hansa market was one of the leading darknet marketplaces with a high number of users from which most of them were Dutch or American citizens.

Everything they are doing is, therefore, to ensure that newbies who are thinking of engaging in the Darknet will have a change of heart. They want the Dutch citizens to get to a place where they will begin to think that buying illicit drugs through the Darknet is not as easy as they think.

This follow-up is meant to serve as a model for future operations, and to get drug trafficking in the country under control.

The Dutch authorities alone visited 37 addresses in just two days. According to the information released by authorities on Thursday, they did this to alert darknet users that the anonymity of the platform is not enough to keep them safe from arrest.

Users of the platform were the primary targets for having purchased cocaine, ecstasy, LSD, and hashish. The police said that a 25-year-old man was also arrested for purchasing 150 pills of ecstasy from the Darknet marketplace.

Even though the police said that some of the suspects will go to jail, the operation was meant to inform them about the dangers associated with the online black market.

Europe's regional director of the US Drug Enforcement Agency, Kevin Scully said before the operation that: "we'll be knocking on people's doors and talking with them, letting them know that what they are doing is wrong. The purpose is mainly to inform and educate people about the dangers of buying drugs over the dark web." Scully added that: "We also want to let people know that we've identified them. They can't buy drugs over the internet and assume that we're not going to know who they are."

In the United States of America, this is seen as a step in the right direction as the country has been troubled with high drug overdose deaths recently. Utah alone recorded 78% increase in drug overdose death since 2015. The authorities are leaving no stone unturned in the fight against the Darknet users responsible for the importation of fentanyl into the country. This operation is likely to show a positive result in controlling the high engagement of the Darknet marketplaces among the people of these two countries.

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TL,DR- law enforcement is now specifically targeting buyers identified when they took over Hansa's servers last year. This is to discourage people from using hidden services to buy drugs and specifically people using the darknet markets to sell fentanyl. I really think it would be in the markets best interest to ban the sale of Fentanyl.

https://www.deepdotweb.com/2018/03/07/us-dutch-officials-launches-door-door-operation-darknet-drug-buyers/


Comments


[24 Points] throwahooawayyfoe:

the operation was meant to inform them about the dangers associated with the online black market.

The danger is the fucking cops coming and kicking down your door. If they didn't care about it, it wouldn't be so dangerous.


[8 Points] OrdoOrdo:

I wish the cops fucking died who do this shit.

Like it isnt like stealing or murdering someone when someone buys from DNM. Always trying to preach like they are doing the community a favour etc.

Honestly i think these busts are because drugs are getting easier to acess and cheaper so the local gangs lose money . We have the same here in Estonia , no issues with cops if you buy your stash from a local dealer but you will be raped if you use DNM. Even buying ONE! LSD bloter will land you in jail for years. And because of all the searching all the mailservices are becoming slower.

The worst part is these pigs think they are doing something good with all the fucked up searching.


[4 Points] _PrinterPam_:

It is likely that users who took lessons and refrained from illicit drug purchases on the darknet will not be favored

I really wish people would stop posting DDW 'articles.' They rarely cite any credible sources of information they supposedly have and use the most nonsensical statements, like the one above which translates into: 'People who don't break the law aren't targeted by law enforcement.' No shit.

Not to mention that the link goes to a post about Evolution's sub being set to private. Not sure how that's relevant.


[4 Points] Imightbenormal:

"Ding Dong". Gotta fry my USB drives.

*turns on microwave *


[3 Points] hhayn:

I am somewhat concerned about the AB servers they seized. We’re they unable to get any user/vendor info from them? If so, that’s hard to believe but obviously would be good news. But if they were able to pull some evidence from AB then why do they only mentioning just Hansa?

Or has there been a reliable source of information that has come out and clarified this murky situation?


[2 Points] Hairybristols:

Shows how ineffective they really are if they need to knock on your door and tell you what a bad boy you've been...Better than carting you off to prison, but neither approach will stop people putting substances in to their own bodies, which is their right to do so, despite what the law thinks.


[1 Points] ChrisWiseToad:

Good thing I'm neither of those things


[1 Points] Intergalactic_Reborn:

OH NO NOT THE DUTCH! LMAO


[1 Points] alanturingsACE:

I never used Hansa Market, does anyone here know if they had the "auto encrypt" feature?


[1 Points] handleCUP:

11 kilos a month.... Seriously?


[1 Points] Syfer1324:

so does this mean they're looking for ALL drugs in the US or just the fentynal


[1 Points] BashirGemayel:

freak the fuck out!


[1 Points] gangsterdam020:

DNP is bullshitting, they just act like they care but they really don't and especially buyers have nothing to worry about unless you're ordering keys at a time


[1 Points] FlanderNedison:

Idk they say they care about fent but hansa banned fent before it went down, so they aren't getting people pushing fent on the street with this whole thing for sure. "Users of the platform were the primary targets for having purchased cocaine, ecstasy, LSD, and hashish". Speaks volumes about they're concerns.


[0 Points] AutoModerator:

NEVER let the market encrypt sensitive data (such as your address) for you. Always encrypt it yourself.

The market can always store the plaintext version of your message, and send an encrypted one to the vendor. That way you both think it was encrypted while the market still has the original and unencrypted message.

Also if the market gets taken over by law enforcement, they will store the plaintext versions of the messages that the users sent using the 'PGP encrypt' checkbox to harvest addresses. But they will still send the encrypted ones to the vendor to not make anyone suspicious.

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