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The Abacus Market market, the largest Darknet market in which Bitcoin operates in the Western world, has been surprisingly connected to it appears to be a scaming process.

TRM Laboratory It was mentioned on Monday Access to the site, along with the Clearnet and Infrastructure Mirror, is no longer accessed, which leads to doubts that operators “have likely performed a scam out, closing operations and disappearing with user’s money.”

The closure may be linked to the law enforcement, as ABACUS has seen a record monthly size after the archetyp market, one of the Darknet markets, the longest June.

Abacus Admin attributes withdrawal issues to the DDOS attack

Reports on withdrawal problems began in late June, which prompted the Apacos official, known as “Veto”, to blame problems for increasing new users and an attack by rejecting the distributed service.

TRM Labs noticed that “this behavior was consistent with the well -known exit fraud styles that were seen across the other Darknet markets.”

Despite the assurances, users withdraw quickly from the platform. Daily deposits fell from about $ 230,000 in June to only $ 13,000 between June 28 and July 10.

ABACUS is devoted to the sale of illegal drugs, including steroids and anesthetic, and operating a central portfolio to support bitcoin and monora.

After the EUROPOL Market company closed on June 16, many users moved to ABACUS, pushing the platform sales to the highest level in June 6.3 million dollars.

The same as the volunteer closure of the ASAP market was followed last year, as the Abacus share of the Bitcoin based on 70 %.

“The markets that reach the top of the ecosystem … often become a priority of law enforcement,” TRM Labs explained.

Over the course of its operation, ABACUS has achieved nearly $ 100 million of Bitcoin sales, although the actual size may range between 300 and 400 million dollars due to Monero transactions.

TRM LABS indicates that managers may have a “lost motivation” or a priority “self -preservation” is given to profit after an arishtyp attack and increased scrutiny.

There is also speculation that law enforcement may have quietly seized the market and collect evidence while blocking public data.

However, the supervisor of Darknet Forum, who is closely related to ABACUS, expressed his doubts about this theory, noting that “the official Nubian notifications appeared months after DNM may be written online” in previous cases.

We download 145 Darknet fields

In June, law enforcement in the United States seized Crypto associated with BidenCash, a famous dark web market, accused of selling more than 15 million stolen credit cards and personal data.

The international process has decreased about 145 Darknet and traditional Internet fields associated with the market.

In addition, the Ministry of Justice recently seized more than $ 24 million in the coded currency from a Russian citizen accused of developing and operating the qakbot malware.