This blog has a follow up: Reputable assassination service outs pirate.london as law enforcement operation!

Since writing up about the status of Tor assassination scams on RationalWiki, I created the most definitive resource about this urban legend ever created. Well it looks like the scammers found it too, with a recent anonymous edit claiming whilst the ones I noted are scams, their one of course is not.

The site in question gave a recent interview to a Brazilian blog, presumbly as a part of their launch marketing nonsense, however my google-fu tracks the domain back to as early as January 2015, which is amusing as the site’s copyright notice claims activity since 2012.

Now interestingly enough, I am aware of some actual online activity from the Albanian Mafia from years back, so let’s see how the site holds up.

No thanks, just browsing

The website itself is entitled ‘BesaMafia’ and claims to offer the usual range of murders and beatings. That said, on closer inspection many details don’t add up. First of all, you can apply to be a killer on the site directly. This seems highly unlikely given the close-knit nature of the mafia organisation that supposedly runs it.

Seifty first!

10. How do I know this is not a scam? Because we don’t have any complaints on the Internet even touch we have been active a long time. Because we don’t ask customer information and because we don’t take credit cards. And because we only accept payment through Bitcoin, an anonymous way to pay, that ensures the customer does not get ripped off because he does not pay the hitman directly instead the funds are going through our escrow.

Well you’ve convinced me, completely unlike the other scams! Oh wait, pretty much just like the other scams…

13. Why people claim there are no hitmen on deep web or all are fake? People who claim this are undercover police who want to scare away newbies from using hitmen. On deep web there are fake drug vendors and real drug vendors, fake credit card providers and real credit card providers, fake gun sellers and real gun sellers, it’s only escrow that can protect you

I find it interesting how this ‘next gen’ market finally acknowledges the existence of the scams and attempts to distance itself.

Let’s look into their privacy advice:

1. If you have not done so already, download the Tor Browser . It’s free and protects your privacy by hiding your IP through 3 Proxies and does not leave any traces on your computer about visited sites. You won’t have investigators coming to your door, but if ever that happens they won’t find anything..

3 proxies?! But I thought I needed 7!?

Use a service like http://www.coindesk.com to exchange currency to Bitcoin, the add Bitcoin to your account on Besa Mafia

I’ll admit, if it wasn’t for this terrible advice, I would have praised the site at being an effective fake. But come on, no tumbling?

For me, what’s most funny is the Reddit shilling you can see here. Various fresh account used for nothing but this purpose testify to the site’s legitimacy and wonder why they’re not taken seriously.

Still, they made a pretty infographic, so we have that.

No one ever complained about our services, you can’t find any complaint on the entire Internet

Sorry, you can now :p