Dark Web Users That Feared For Their Safety (/r/AskReddit) Reddit Stories

serious dark web users have read it was there ever a point in your use that you felt you were genuinely in danger what happened [Music] i once bought a bit of weed and i received a blackmail letter threatening me with awful things like sending cp and calling the police if i didn't send one btc one thousand dollars at the time i was scared poopless but nothing ever happened always check the reviews before buying anything a friend of mine used to use silk road on the darknet when bitcoin was ten dollars a pop he placed at least 100 orders through it and never had any issues it's a shame he didn't keep all the bitcoin he bought because he would have been a millionaire now dark web ain't scary b i once bought a big crate of cup noddles for a cheap price everything feels government owned i used to frequent drug sites they would go down for weeks at a time then pop up again have weird prices sellers were different it made the dark web feel like a labyrinth more than a ruleless wasteland had a buddy who used to order weed the distributor got busted and the postal service let him know there was a suspicious package for him he could either pick it up or it would be destroyed in college some friends and i ordered a 100 sheet of acid using bitcoin to our college p oh boxes we got pretty terrified when it didn't arrive when it should have we thought it was found by usps our own mail service or the d we were paranoid turns out they just shipped it later than they said we got our 100 tabs but that was a very stressful week and a half for all of us came across a chan style site every post was about trains won't say i felt in danger but i felt so out of the loop that i was missing something that i just got off i was trying to buy those super cool laser pointers and i got a random message saying i know where you live i noped out of that side straight away accidentally stumbled upon some cp once noped out pretty fast but was still worried for weeks the fbi would come after me drugs seized paranoid months nothing happened not the modern dark web but back in the days of usenet i posted some harsh criticism and alt religion seedology yes that was a typo for scientology but i'm leaving it for context of a bunch of posts the online threats were funny but when i started getting death threats by mail i backed the frick off i own a fairly rare car that had a rare error code i looked it up on google and there was only one other person on the car makers forum that had the same error and this guy took months and months going back and forth between car shops and the forum thread to try to get the issue fixed everyone on the forum was pitching in to try to help him so i kept going through this long forum thread to try to figure out if he ever fixed it and suddenly there's no more replies from the guy everyone was scratching their heads for a while we thought he had maybe gotten the issue fixed and didn't bother to update us on it then one day a news article popped up about a really rich guy who died in a thai jail cell and then we connected the two stories and they matched up the same make and model of the car in the news article matched up with his car and they were both claiming to be in thailand at the time so what happened was that that same guy who was still talking on the forums got raided by the thai police around the same time he stopped replying to the forum turns out that he was running one of the biggest dark web market places where drugs were being sold and exchanged it had something like one million dollars in revenue per day and he was hiding out in thailand while living in luxury they found him dead in his jail cell a few days later they claim he died of suicide one time i got twice the amount of drugs that i actually ordered was paranoid for about two hours and then i just got really high and it was fine idk if it was the dark web but accidentally came across a website that was basically just pornhub but for gore i saw a couple seconds of a man with his hands already chopped off getting his face peeled off by some sort of cartel and nope the frick out i had to take a break from the internet for a couple of days be safe boys and girls don't give out your information or communicate with others and if you plan on purchasing anything use a secure linux os like tails use private keys connect to public whiffy spot not your house end crypto messages use multi-signature markets so your chances of losing your bitcoin lessons escrow preferably never send your bitcoins from a wallet attached to you directly to the seller tumble your coins first and when the package arrives don't open it for a few days a friend of mine gave me all this info and told me i should help you guys out there's hid men human trafficking and snuff films and such but a vast majority of these sites are scams asking you to send them bitcoin a small portion of users on the dark web would be there for this sort of stuff however buying drugs online is quite popular and widespread single vendors can have five hundred dollars zero zero zero plus in lifetime sales it's quite safe to use you use pgp to encrypt your address so only the seller of the drugs has access to your private info if your package is seized la have no proof you ordered it unless they seize your computer and you have that information stored on it you can use tails usb to avoid this even if your packages get seized you'll often get a love letter saying what they seized and there is no follow-up after that i've used the dark web once or twice scariest thing was when my screen went black for a few moments and turned back on wasn't anything big just my display cable freaking up but it did give me the creeps as for dark or disturbing poop i've only found a list of random addresses the dark web really has a lot of stigma associated with it for the most part it's just people curious about the dark web or people trying to scam you or sell you drugs you have to do a lot of looking to find the really freaked up stuff you're more likely to find dark web type crap on reddit or youtube than the actual dark web i actually learned how to access the dark web by listening to npr they had a segment where an author who was writing a book about it basically gave step-by-step instructions on how to do it i did everything he said and by golly it worked truthfully it was pretty underwhelming mostly just drugs and counterfeit items passports money etc dart i did find some weapons with the serial number scratched off pistols and shotguns but nothing that would start world war three i also saw a couple ads for hitmen but they seemed pretty hokey and were most likely undercover cops i never felt in danger but i have never gone back because there's nothing i really want from there no government agents have kicked down my door either i've never personally felt i was in actual danger so to speak since i take proper precautions but early on i did accidentally come across a site forum while exploring that was filled with snuff photos of women people had assaulted and then knocked out or killed shut down my browser pretty quick after that but felt an easy for a long time after [Music] don't frequent it a lot but once i accidentally left my browser in full screen and a stranger in a chat room asked me if my curved monitor was nice freaked me out a bit my friends and i were once ordering some green off the dark web on the way we saw a dude selling cyanide don't ask me how i got it don't tell me what you'll use it for violation of either condition will void the sale webcam turned itself on once that was scary i immediately unplugged it and my network cable ran three complete scans of my system for malware and viruses found nothing hasn't happened since you don't just stumble onto the scary parts of the dark web you had to have been looking for something sinister if you happen to come across one of the sites even then getting access to said sites isn't as easy as most of them are invite based most of it is just the normal internet with questionable forums think 4chan but slightly worse and petty drugs it's very hard to reach the criminal parts of the dark web unless you have very specific urls and even then the host has the option to deny you access however once you're in it can become a slippery slope the scariest moment for me was when i stumbled upon a creepy arg and thought it was something much more sinister until i found out it was just an og the dark web isn't really that scary it has been romanticized and exaggerated by creepy pastors tv shows and etc edit i know stuff like the red room and cp exist on the dark web it's just that it is not that common most are scams or require a membership the common user won't find much but you will find something really f putting if you dig enough every time remember that the person you just bought drugs from knows one your address 2. that you have drugs in your house 3. there's probably evidence of dark web using your finances computer trash they can rat you out with impunity just because they are feeling malevolent they also could just get caught and be careless with destroying ex-customer information so it hangs over my head to this day the idea that the dark web is an extremely shocking and dangerous place is largely inaccurate it's mostly weird libertarian blogs and very sterile amazon type websites for drugs complete with reviews of different vendors not really a dark web user but i got doxxed by a niana z group on the dark web and ended up having to use the dark web to find the websites that had my information department of homeland security and the fbi showed up on my doorstep because they were threatening to send me little bombs and send people to abduct an army it was scary poop they all fell of the face of the earth recently so i'm just hoping the feds got to them edit i elaborated more in the comments feel free to ask questions but i might not give too much more information out i don't want to be identified by anyone who's come across my docs or is associated with the group who did this in the first place so i had ordered many times on the dark web but one day i decided to place a rather large order of xtc pills from europe to the usa i had a terrible feeling in my gut after the order was placed and actually had some serious food poisoning or something that night lol cut two weeks later i ended up getting arrested for the pills and enter in the worst time of my entire life the only real difference between the internet you and i are using right now in the dark web is that you need special software or configurations to access it you have plenty of opportunities of finding bad poop on the regular web with that in mind i'd say that the regular web is more dangerous since it lulls you into a sense of security i mean most people these days have a significant amount of their personal information on there the dark web you're likely going to have a sense to be more anonymous personally i just used it for playing a wow private server back in the day since the hosts didn't want to get a c and amp d from blizzard i found a chat room advertised as true free speech platform all political opinions welcome to discussion i thought i could go there to debate with nazis who were willing to say whatever they want without repercussion it was really just a place to post child porn nothing but child porn every user was sending links to three or four pictures at a time or commenting on pictures the rest of them sent there were dozens of users i disconnected my laptop from the internet and deleted my tor browser not dark web but mid 90's web i was 12 and obviously puberty was in control this was chatroom days kid i was acquainted with an eagle scout nonetheless had all these floppy and i mean floppy disks full of pornographic images from samastha pedley in texas me and a few other friends were over puberty so were eager to see naked women it soon took a quick turn with girls that were likely my age i immediately nope the frick out and never really talked to the kid again but knowing the boy scouts i wasn't getting involved but i was like 13 and didn't even wanna tell my mom i was interested in women i regret that day a lot i should have called the police sadly i just compartmentalized it 1996 was weird religious silk road and cgmc user here i used to get the stuff delivered to my dorm but the package didn't come directly to my room i had to go pick it up from my dorm building office for my third or fourth order from silk road i got an email saying that a package had arrived for me but when i went to pick it up i was told by ira that my package was in the door's office i was freaked out i also for some reason was getting a lot of spam calls which added to my anxiety i was scared poopless i didn't go to pick it up for like four days and kept getting emails from the door to come pick it up i didn't go because i thought that it was a setup but after a couple days i said frickit because i had paid a lot of btc for that order so i went to pick it up it was literally nothing the people holding on to my order couldn't have been more nicer they couldn't give me a reason why that package was delivered there and not to my dorm so i just ordered more lol edit the package was usually delivered by usps priority which is ran by the federal government and i went to a state university so technically the federal government transported illegal goods to the state government for meal mayo hi there look if you enjoyed the video well why not go ahead and hit that like and subscribe to reddit stories in fact if you want to see even more responses to this thread well then take a look there's the link in the description below and remember show some love to those authors while you're there and i look forward to seeing you next time you

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Published: Sat Jul 18 2020