Quote from: joeblow2 on July 31, 2011, 05:27 pmQuote from: envious on July 31, 2011, 03:49 pmThe amount of time and effort put into that website is phenomenal for a scam. I really hope it comes back online for everyones sake.Aaahhh, quite right young mr. envious, but the best scams in the world are like the description Albert Brooks gives of the devil in the movie "Broadcast News":"What do you think the Devil is going to look like if he's around? Nobody is going to be taken in if he has a long, red, pointy tail. No. I'm semi-serious here. He will look attractive and he will be nice and helpful and he will get a job where he influences a great God-fearing nation and he will never do an evil thing... he will just bit by little bit lower standards where they are important. Just coax along flash over substance... Just a tiny bit. And he will talk about all of us really being salesmen. And he'll get all the great women."I always think of that quote when thinking about scams. A really good scammer would put an inordinate amount of effort into it expecting to get an inordinate return. When that Black Market site first opened I assumed it was either a very incompetent site op, a scam to get access to peoples SR accounts, or an LE trap to garner passwords knowing a lot of people would use the same ones they use at SR.Even SR would be a great trap to catch most of the online sellers, even though a lot of drugs got delivered in the meantime. I'm thinking that's one of the reasons the core OS guys don't participate. They're more safety conscious/paranoid, cloistered, etc. But only a few of them are on here, even under different names.Very good examination. This seems like something right out of Robert Greene's 48 Laws of Power. The reason the OS guys don't participate is mainly due to politics.