Bitcoin 'exit scam': deep-web market operators disappear with $12m
by Nicky Woolf in New York from Technology | The Guardian on (#56MP)
Verto and Kimble, the administrators of Evolution Marketplace, have made off with the cryptocurrency sum as Reddit community cries foul
The administrators of a top deep-web marketplace have disappeared with over $12m worth of the cryptocurrency Bitcoin, it emerged last night, in what appears to have been an "exit scam".
On the website Reddit, a user called NSWGreat, who identified him- or herself as a moderator for the site, raised the first red flag in a post to the DarkNetMarkets subreddit marked "EVOLUTION EXIT SCAM".
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