assassination marketplace

plural assassination marketplaces

1. InternetA darknet market where a hitman can be hired.

   A dark web ‘assassination marketplace’ was used to order a hit on the TV chef Ainsley Harriott, it has emerged.

   2018 August 20, Jasper Hamill, “Bad eggs tried to order hit on Ainsley Harriott using ‘dark web assassination service’”, in Vice, United States, archived from the original on 03 Sep 2025

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   Over the following months, Yura had instructed his detail of freelancers to create websites peddling fake news about Ormsby’s and Monteiro’s involvement in the assassination marketplace. They were WordPress blogs, not excessively sophisticated, but strong on SEO. Some had seemingly caught the NCA’s eye: the application for the warrant to search Monteiro’s flat referenced one of these blogs as evidence.

   2018 December 4, Gian M. Volpicelli, “The unbelievable tale of a fake hitman, a kill list, a darknet vigilante... and a murder”, in Vice, United States, archived from the original on 03 Sep 2025

2. InternetA darknet website where one can bet on the date of death of an individual.

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   At the center of the controversy is Augur, an app built to prevent censorship and allow people to create prediction markets. The site's FAQs say this: "Augur is a protocol, freely available for anyone to use however they please." Users are doing exactly that. Some are predicting whether real people will live or die and for how long. And they're betting cryptocurrency on it. It has been dubbed the assassination marketplace.

   2018 July 28, “The Assassination Marketplace Built on Blockchain”, in SecureWorld, United States, archived from the original on 03 Sep 2025