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Welcome to Meth-stralia: Shocking extent of Australia’s illegal online drug trade exposed
A NEWS.COM.AU investigation has exposed the shocking extent of Australia’s online drug trade, with $7.5 million in illicit substances available to buy in any given week.
By data mining listings on the leading Dark Web marketplace, Agora, news.com.au can reveal that Australian dealers offered more than 9000 individual listings of drugs during the seven-day period analysed.
Stimulants — including methamphetamines, cocaine and speed — were the most readily available class of drugs, with 56 sellers offering 2060 listings.
Over the week examined, the total inventory for stimulants was worth $2.5 million, with an average listing price of $1191.
Ecstasy and cannabis were the next most-listed items.
New sellers constantly enter the market, and the top tier can offload as much as an estimated $800,000 each month.
The news.com.au analysis found that Australia’s top dealer, “TheProfessionals”, has an estimated total income of $3.3 million selling about $824,266 worth of drugs a month.
Australia is an important player on the global black market for drugs, with one in three listings for methamphetamine and Codeine, an opioid pain medicine, coming from Australia. One in four listings for heroin and the psychedelic DMT (N,N-Dimethyltryptamine) are from Australia, as are 37 per cent of all listings of Oxycodone, another opioid pain medication.
These figures represent only a snapshot of the larger industry, with at least 10 other marketplaces active on the Dark Web, a network of anonymous sites that hide the identity of the creators and their IP (internet protocol) addresses.
People can access the dark web via a special browser, which similarly hides the identity of visitors and makes transactions nearly impossible to track.'
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http://www.news.com.au/technology/o...g-trade-exposed/story-fnjwmwrh-1227337102190?
A NEWS.COM.AU investigation has exposed the shocking extent of Australia’s online drug trade, with $7.5 million in illicit substances available to buy in any given week.
By data mining listings on the leading Dark Web marketplace, Agora, news.com.au can reveal that Australian dealers offered more than 9000 individual listings of drugs during the seven-day period analysed.
Stimulants — including methamphetamines, cocaine and speed — were the most readily available class of drugs, with 56 sellers offering 2060 listings.
Over the week examined, the total inventory for stimulants was worth $2.5 million, with an average listing price of $1191.
Ecstasy and cannabis were the next most-listed items.
New sellers constantly enter the market, and the top tier can offload as much as an estimated $800,000 each month.
The news.com.au analysis found that Australia’s top dealer, “TheProfessionals”, has an estimated total income of $3.3 million selling about $824,266 worth of drugs a month.
Australia is an important player on the global black market for drugs, with one in three listings for methamphetamine and Codeine, an opioid pain medicine, coming from Australia. One in four listings for heroin and the psychedelic DMT (N,N-Dimethyltryptamine) are from Australia, as are 37 per cent of all listings of Oxycodone, another opioid pain medication.
These figures represent only a snapshot of the larger industry, with at least 10 other marketplaces active on the Dark Web, a network of anonymous sites that hide the identity of the creators and their IP (internet protocol) addresses.
People can access the dark web via a special browser, which similarly hides the identity of visitors and makes transactions nearly impossible to track.'
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http://www.news.com.au/technology/o...g-trade-exposed/story-fnjwmwrh-1227337102190?
