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Crisis on the Silk Road: If you can't trust Britain's biggest online drug dealer, who can you trust?
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Telegraph

By Willard Foxton Internet Last updated: January 24th, 2013

With reader comments

Over the weekend, Britain's biggest seller of marijuana on the illegal but very successful online drug-dealing website Silk Road (SR, to those in the know) seems to have cut and run, disappearing from SR with a huge amount of his customer's money. Alarm bells were raised when the seller, known for his reliability, began asking for people to buy his product "FE" – Finalising Early.

This process – which bypasses SR's protection mechanisms – releases the buyer's funds from escrow into the seller's hands before they ship anything. Hardened users of the SR website see this as a huge warning sign, but this seller had one of the best track records on the site. The seller seems to have absconded with several weeks' worth of money; certainly, the administrators of the site have suspended his account.

As one user said: "This has played out like a typical cut-and-run scam. SR would not suspend an account without serious reason for concern, so its suggests that something dodgy was going on. I could speculate as to what happened but the simplest explanation is usually right: scam."
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Ludacris said:
(Oh No!) Cry babies go home!
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"Give me the money, and I'll be back with your drugs" is seriously the oldest trick in the fucking book. SR is obviously not perfect, the whole idea of "finalising early" always seemed dodgy to me as it removes the escrow protection that SR offers.
 
lol yeah i bet. i was going to report that post, but i got busy and forgot, seems u have taken it down.
 
Okami said:
Yeah doesn't this thread break the sourcing rule somewhat?
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Apparently the staff of Bluelight has decided that mentioning SR by name is OK. It's such an open secret; since Gawker outed them in 2011, they've been written about in virtually every media market multiple times.

From my point of view: I always try to be as permissive as possible. If something is allowed anywhere on BL, I want to allow it here (except for loungefail, which I still don't comprehend). I feel objective discussion of all matters is essential for a cultural forum like ours.

I'm not the only mod here though.
 
I love how they always talk about getting onto Silk Road as if you have to be a computer geek to figure it out. It's as easy as installing Firefox!
 
S.J.B. said:
I love how they always talk about getting onto Silk Road as if you have to be a computer geek to figure it out. It's as easy as installing Firefox!
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LOL I'm dumb....I first heard of SR three years ago and still have never figured it out
 
23536 said:
Apparently the staff of Bluelight has decided that mentioning SR by name is OK. It's such an open secret; since Gawker outed them in 2011, they've been written about in virtually every media market multiple times.

From my point of view: I always try to be as permissive as possible. If something is allowed anywhere on BL, I want to allow it here (except for loungefail, which I still don't comprehend). I feel objective discussion of all matters is essential for a cultural forum like ours.

I'm not the only mod here though.
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I am with you, Numbers.
I also don't understand what they are doing in the Lounge (or why)!
 
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