All the scammer accounts have a similar M.O. -
- listing both Kik and Wickr accounts
- encouraging discussion/order off the market
- encouraging FE even when not allowed
- Lots of the scam accounts will share the same images
- same copy and pasted text to the next new account
- Not all accounts do this but some list US telephone numbers which all belong to BANDWIDTH.COM, a VoIP provider. The numbers are in different states but always with BANDWIDTH.
- Most profiles selling the same variety of products use the same pictures
- Profiles are mixed between variety of pills and chems, some weed only, some fraud, some guns/weapons only
- Nearly all account PGP keys were generated in the last week of August
- Nearly all account PGP keys have a gmail.com address associated, <name><2-3 numbers>@gmail.com
- Searching the name from the gmail account often finds clearnet postings for the same drug / gun listings
Same type of accounts are found on Dream but I don't use that market so I don't have info really, if you use Dream and find these accounts please post the info in the thread as well as report the accounts to admins.
Here is the main scam account linking all these fraudulent sellers together: TradeRoute - alphaninja , Dream - alphaninja007
PGP key has User-ID: alphaninja jonclementus@gmail.com
Search results on CLEARNET show YEARS of scams on this email ALL WITH SAME M.O. as our well known scam accounts.
Jul 11, 2013 - ... Pills Available in Bulk . we are suppliers of Molly party pills and other pain meds in bulk . contact us at : jonclementus (at) gmail.com..
Download the wickr messenger from your play store or app store and hit me up via my wickr id..Heritage237
Email : jonclementus@gmail.com
Do we remember one (now banned) scammer account? Listed in my last warning post - heritagestuff19
And you can see the same obsession with Kik or Wickr accounts
Another old clearnet scam site listing: https://hghsupplementsbuyonline.blogspot.com/
Company Name : JONPACK LTD
Address : Boulevard de 20 Mai
Douala Littoral region Cameroon
Contact Person : Jon Clementus
The previous research on domains and sites registered on the clearnet that match this scam M.O. listed a name and address also in Cameroon, being one of Africa's highest educated countries it is not surprising that the scammer comes from here, with more education mean easier access to Darknet and to create scam listings.
The pieces all fall into place now, but hopefully anybody with two braincells to rub together wouldn't order from a vendor when their reviews all posted within 24 hours of the account registration, and when they read like this:
Holy shit man. You're shit is straight from the hood...???. You're a legend in Express Delivery and Good stealth shipping Method.
Stay safe out there folks, please ~
To moderators: This vendor lists their "name" in their PGP key directly, anybody can view it and get this, so it's not leaking any information...
Well the markets get their vendor bond with every new account. I can imagine they're not so hasty.
Edit: don't mean I'm okay with that btw