Can You Really Hire a Hit Man on the Dark Web?

How could anyone take these websites seriously?

Now and then I stumble across an article that has the Talking Heads start playing in my head: "And you may ask yourself How do I work this? And you may ask yourself Where is that large automobile? And you may tell yourself This is not my beautiful house! And you may tell yourself This is not my beautiful wife!" That weird sense of cognitive dissonance where I sort of realize that there are people doing this stuff that are actually members of my species. People that will pay to have other people killed. People that will accept pay to kill strangers for money. And people that will actually scam people that want to have other people killed. "And you may ask yourself How do I work this?" My exact thoughts. I have no frame of reference, no internal context within which I can place this. "How do I work this?" indeed. I just seriously don't know how to think about this. But for some reason this article made me very sad.

Sorry, but as much as I hate to believe it, it is just not credible to think you *cannot* hire a hit man on the Dark Web. In fact there are credible reports that the (now shut down) "Silk Road" marketplace dealt in murder for hire as well as illicit drug deals. It's not surprising that such murders, if any, would not be widely known.

The "dark web" name is just an invention to scare suburban mom's. It's nothing more than a website that asked to not be indexed on Google.

Instead of hiring a hit man, take the money you were going to use for the hit, max out your cash advances, borrow money from you in-laws, and head to Vegas in an old car you bought for cash. Get lost for a few weeks or a few months or a few years. Your ex won't want you anymore. Problem solved.

Some people apparently have no sense of privacy or common sense. Hard to believe people would actually risk indictment to seek out a murderer. Then again the White House Occupant has suggested he could even do it himself. On 5th Avenue. And get away with it.

Hire one of these ding dongs and find out very quick that they are usually informants for federal or state law enforcement officers. The news is full of stories where someone in prison tried to hire a hitman to kill or maim someone and found that his "hitman ran right to the authorities and the supposed "hitman" was an undercover agent!

The Internet, just like in real life, has always been filled with scammers of all types. From those that started stupid email meme's, like forward this email to 100 people and AOL will contribute .1 cent per email to the poor sick child, to the Mariana's Web and Red Rooms. What a laugh. But, just like the saying goes, there's a sucker born every minute of every day. And we get to see them all on display. Regularly.

You just trust anybody these days!

Maybe they just darken vehicles, like Kanye’s fleet of murdered out Raptors in Coby, Wyo.

Okay Big Brains, what's keeping me from hiring a hitman to take myself out? Check mate, coppers.

Where were these sites when I was going through a divorce and custody battle?

Take it from someone who has spent a good amount of time on the dark web. The majority of the sites are not indexed and there is about 75 or so sites that are published on what the called the “hidden wiki” and you can browse around those of you want but I think of those as a tourist destination for people or reporters like this one to say they have “been to the dark web”. It’s difficult to find an actual site with services that are legitimate (as in won’t take your money and run). These sites are intended to prey on people who don’t know what they are doing and don’t have to proper software/hardware to protect themselves... which is why you hear about it in the news. There is a reason why you only hear about the fake sites because the real ones are extremely hard to find if they exist that is...

It's kind of a ridiculous premise. They're not selling only murder, but essentially "getting away with murder", since the services suppose the killers-for-hire will never be caught, indeed, cannot be caught. None of the example services mention the police, and how they'll avoid being caught, or how they'll protect their clients if they are caught. I can't think a mercenary killer company wouldn't sell out clients as fast as possible.

Huh. I'd always assumed they were undercover police, but it makes sense that there'd be some con artists in there too. I am curious about the ratio of undercover cops to scammers.

Wow, it is true you CAN find everything on the internet but not everything you can find on the internet is actually TRUE.

"Besa Mafia" indeed! How apropos that the "Besa" is the Albanian code of protection of guests, even to the cost of your own life. When the Germans occupied the country in WWII, the Albanians refused to turn over Jewish refugees, keeping them in their homes and in their families until the war was over or they could be smuggled out. some paid a high price for that act of generosity, but it is was, and is, their way. A noble bunch. Not surprising that the Besa Mafia doesn't actually want to kill anyone.

"Sicilian Hitmen International Network". Really? The name says it all. There is a sucker born every minute.

I would think a large portion of hitmen-for-hire sites on the dark web are actually honeypots set up by law enforcement to attract would-be customers, who might be interested in violating the "murder-for-hire" statute, 18 U.S.C. § 1958. https://www.justice.gov/archives/jm/criminal-resource-manual-1107-murder-hire-offense "Don't do the crime if you can't do the time."

"Sicilian Hitmen International Network" Yup, that passes the sniff test. As always, murder is the easiest crime to solve, internet, Soldier of Fortune, or otherwise. 99% of the time all a detective has to do is look one pillow over...

Interesting article. Thanks.