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Discussion => Silk Road discussion => Topic started by: Uncle Morpheus on February 28, 2013, 05:07 pm
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Russia just banned Erowid but Russia’s version of Silk Road is growing fast
Original thread here: http://weirderweb.com/tag/russian-anonymous-marketplace/
A Russian law passed in November 2012 aimed at blacklisting sites promoting drug use has apparently just blocked the popular drug education website Erowid.org (http://www.erowid.org) for certain users in the country according to a post on Reddit (http://www.reddit.com/r/Drugs/comments/199g4p/erowidorg_is_now_banned_in_russia/). A Russian government site (http://zapret-info.gov.ru/) listing prohibited sites shows that Erowid was added to the register earlier this month and was blocked on February 23. Russian user GreatfulListener says (http://www.reddit.com/r/Drugs/comments/199g4p/erowidorg_is_now_banned_in_russia/c8m1dt1) it is only “a matter of time” before the block affects more Russian internet service providers.
Erowid remains available in Russia via the Tor network. In fact, the Russian Tor community has undergone significant growth over the last year. RAMP (http://ramp2bombkadwvgz.onion), the Russian Anonymous MarketPlace, is now providing a leading Russian alternative to the English-speaking Silk Road (http://weirderweb.com/2013/01/01/a-history-of-silk-road-the-nets-largest-hidden-service-and-drug-marketplace-weirder-web-8/).
RAMP, founded in early 2012, boasts 5,867 members on its forums. Silk Road, the center of great media attention (http://weirderweb.com/2013/01/01/a-history-of-silk-road-the-nets-largest-hidden-service-and-drug-marketplace-weirder-web-8/), has 54,247 members while Black Market Reloaded, a quiet but strong success, has 4,495 members.
The culture of the place is somewhat similar to Silk Road. In fact, many of the customers seem to use both marketplaces.
Forum discussions touch on important topics such as sales, safety and scam reports. Transactions are handled in a distinctly simple way: instead of a programmed escrow system reminiscent of Silk Road, RAMP operates through emails. A customer can use the RAMP’s escrow (which takes 5% off the top for the site’s operators) by emailing the site’s owners or a customer has the option todeal with the vendor directly.
RAMP’s two owners are a couple of Russians named Darkside (who handles customer and vendor relations) and Orange (who handles design and the backend of the site).
(http://i2.wp.com/weirderweb.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/ramp.jpeg?resize=259%2C433)RAMP makes much of its income through advertising. After a user buys a vendor account for 5 bitcoins (currently $150), they can purchase sticky topics for one month (3 BTC), two months (5 BTC) or 3 months (7 BTC). Banners on the top of the site costs 10 BTC per month. The user Passion (http://ramp2bombkadwvgz.onion/viewtopic.php?pid=6489) is currently advertising the sale of fentanyl (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fentanyl) (seen to the right). 1 gram costs 1400 Rubles ($45).
Unlike Silk Road and Black Market Reloaded, several vendors accept payment in WebMoney (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebMoney) (a Russian e-commerce company serving a number of currencies) in addition to Bitcoins. RAMP also has a thread dedicated to reviewing Silk Road vendors who can service Eastern Europe.
Some RAMP vendors have an awfully interesting way of delivering their product:
If you’re in the Moscow area, Passion will make a “drop” in an out of the way place (such as an abandoned building) within 24 hours of a purchase and send the customer the coordinates on Google Maps. It’s up to the customer to make the pick up. It’s a decidedly old school twist on the new online drug marketplace that comes with several obvious potential downfalls. On the bright side, the drop can save time if you’re in a fix: you can potentially get your drugs on the same day you place your order. Muscovites have all the luck!
Like every anonymous marketplace, RAMP is not without scammers and problems. In fact, the most viewed thread is about a Doctor Om, a Moscow-based vendor who offered hashish, amphetamines and other drugs. Om hasn’t delivered product to dozens of customers for several weeks now, prompting many to call him the site’s worst scammer. It’s unclear at this time just how much money was involved in the transactions but it’s safe to say thousands of dollars are at stake.
If RAMP is Russia’s smaller and stranger Silk Road, the Shop of Magic Products (http://ovamadkumardi66b.onion) (seen below) seems to hope to take its own place as the region’s version of Black Market Reloaded, a quiet, well-run and relatively uninhibited market for vendors of many goods. The site has been around since at least October 2012 but has never been able to pick up much momentum. Today, it offers various forged documents as well as a handful of drugs but activity has slowed to a crawl and the website is subject to regular errors. Bro, the man behind SMP, has a lot of work ahead of him if he hopes to compete with RAMP for customers.
ORIGINAL STORY HERE: http://weirderweb.com/tag/russian-anonymous-marketplace/
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The future looks bright for drugs on-line.
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+1 to OP, nice read. Way to go dark web!
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Russians...only because most of them can't speak proper english ;D
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Good read
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WTF?!?!
The user Passion (http://ramp2bombkadwvgz.onion/viewtopic.php?pid=6489) is currently advertising the sale of fentanyl (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fentanyl) (seen to the right). 1 gram costs 1400 Rubles ($45)
A Fucking GRAM Of Fucking FENT For Fucking $45?!?! What the Fuck?!?! That must be a misprint or a scam.
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WTF?!?!
The user Passion (http://ramp2bombkadwvgz.onion/viewtopic.php?pid=6489) is currently advertising the sale of fentanyl (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fentanyl) (seen to the right). 1 gram costs 1400 Rubles ($45)
A Fucking GRAM Of Fucking FENT For Fucking $45?!?! What the Fuck?!?! That must be a misprint or a scam.
I imagine you making the same face as your avatar. hahahaha :D
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WTF?!?!
The user Passion (http://ramp2bombkadwvgz.onion/viewtopic.php?pid=6489) is currently advertising the sale of fentanyl (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fentanyl) (seen to the right). 1 gram costs 1400 Rubles ($45)
A Fucking GRAM Of Fucking FENT For Fucking $45?!?! What the Fuck?!?! That must be a misprint or a scam.
I imagine you making the same face as your avatar. hahahaha :D
lolol!
so funny.. because it's 90% true! lol. :)
+1!!
/thumbs
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heh :) had a good lol there nearly spat coffee 8)
AND went Sr. Member today as well, happy days!
Todays turning out to be pretty good, no work cause of shit weather, stoned off my ass on nice medical weed, lololing like a motherfucker on SR forums and there's even a possibility i'll get an 8ball of meth in the mailbox this afternoon... it's like there's a party in my brain and everyone's invited!
:P 8)
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all i need now is $45 worth of Russian Fentanyl
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This is awesome. I hope more sites like this open up all over the world in every language.
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A Fucking GRAM Of Fucking FENT For Fucking $45?!?! What the Fuck?!?! That must be a misprint or a scam.
So I registered an account and checked it out. In case you're wondering, the registration link is the third one at the top. After that it's pretty easy to figure out the username, password and email fields.
The fentanyl appears to be mixed with some type of carrier. Here's a shitty Google translation of the listing:
Will be available on what you've all been waiting for!
Fentanyl, also known as Chinese white, on a qualitatively new sorbent. Ensures even distribution of the product and the absence of overdose!
Effect: classic gloomy thrust 20 percent less subjective than the very real nice heroin from the 90's, is approximately segodnyashemu Moscow street heroin. Duration is difficult to determine the peak effect lasts about an hour and a pleasant after-effects can pursue smile much longer than the first batch came out a little weaker than expected, as the were afraid to kill someone from the clients. Once disperse current product (and its not too much to say, attempt at writing), we can offer you a more robust version of the Chinese (with a higher concentration of active ingredient).
One gram intravenously successfully raskumarivaet three junkies with 10 years experience and a dose (ie, the veteran front 1g slow enough for four or five times). Novice in matters of opioids leisurely snyuhal shelf for 5 times to obtain a moderate relaxing effect. In the morning asked for a probe smile
The relevant word amongst that gibberish is "sorbent". So it could be a few hundred micrograms of fentanyl on a gram of carrier.
Here's a pic if you're interested: http://xqz3u5drneuzhaeo.onion/users/qicpic/files/8xz.jpg
BTW, that site is really low tech. It's just a FluxBB forum where people post offers in threads and work out transactions via TorMail.
Oh well, at least non-English speaking Russians have something now. :)
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yeah looks like its just $45 for 2 or 3 hits
thanks for going to that trouble of registering astor, appreciate it :)
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That's terrible though, banning erowid! Going to make the users of the blackmarket even more uneducated about what's in their drug of choice.
Glad to hear SR is doing well for them though! Fight on!
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Revolution. :)