Fake dark web European trafficking site is fake and now closed

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pirate dot london

3 min readJun 16, 2018

Update, the day after I posted this article, the site closed. Let me know if it resurfaces elsewhere.

If you wander onto the weird parts of the dark web these days, past the idiotic Romanian scammers and human hunting services, you may find yourself upon yet more scammers attempting to exploit immigration anxieties and desperate refugees alike.

“The Key to Europe” at qvzzb6uxjjoi2xmt.onion claims to offer a service to cross the Bulgarian border into the EU:

Let’s back it all up to laugh at, no one has time to wait for their slow-ass site to load.

With a such a high-risk elaborate criminal operation, presumably they will be running a highly secured hosting setup? Oh wait, here’s the open /images/ directory:

/images/ ( tor2web mirror )

And let’s take a look at the site happenings at /server-status/

/server-status/ ( tor2web mirror )

Gee golly, what a hardened operation!

We can see various automated web scanners hitting it, also that the Ubuntu server has been running for 57 days now and located at EEST, Eastern European summer time. It looks like scammers have learned from tales such as the fake Equifax hack site that free shared hosting is too easily deanonymised.