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Dark Web Dream Market Users Claim Missing Funds after Temporary Downtime
After two of darknet’s biggest markets, Hansa and AlphaBay, were taken down by two global law enforcement operations, Dream Market gained thousands of users and became one of darknet’s biggest marketplaces.
On September 13, according to reports, Dream Market went down for several hours, which led users to believe its admins had pulled an exit scam – a popular scam in which fraudsters shut down their services and disappear with user funds – or that law enforcement compromised it.
After the market came back up, several users started claiming that their accounts were emptied and that some of the transactions were automatically finalized, despite vendors not receiving any of the money held in escrow.
On Dream Market’s subreddit, a user named “smithrocks2227” described his experience, and claims to have screenshots of everything that happened: from the deposit confirmation, to his balance after the market came back up. He stated: