The seven most popular darknet villains

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Due to the events of the past summer, the Russian darknet comes to its senses: with the closure of the RAMP drug trading platform, some are trying to imitate the RAMP move, collect more money and disappear, others are building conspiracy theories. How the Russian darknet was filled with rumors and single-handedly chose seven semi-mythical characters as the main characters, read below.
After a series of summer detentions and closings, the map of the Russian drug market has changed dramatically. In July of this year, in just a week, the largest domestic drug trading platform RAMP stopped its work, the Rutor forum ceased to exist, the largest BTC-e exchange and the largest bitcoin mixer closed. BTC-e administrator was arrested in Greece.
False prophets and fraudsters immediately followed suit, whose purpose is to intercept the attention of the inhabitants of the darknet, who are somehow involved in illegal activities. In the confusion, users spawned a bunch of dark entities, and some of them materialized.
Existence
Existence is a former RAMP administrator who handled disputes between sellers and buyers. Before the fall of the site, he lost the pgp-key, which was warned by his associates. That is, Existence has probably become someone else since then. He allegedly began work on the launch of RAMP 2.0 while treasure men, dealers and growers flooded local forums with hysterical messages about system theft.
RAMP 2.0 started working, but entering the business turned out to be not so much dangerous as unprofitable due to the competition from the remaining ownerless hucksters. Existence presented himself as his old, stolen key and called large dealers to a new site, and disappeared along with the domain, collecting a bunch of deposits. Users and dealers were left to watch the consequences and calculate the "scam". All this crypto-gag looks charming - such an eight-bit Tarantino. In which the crooks fighting for money with other such crooks, on the one hand, look like real knights of the free network and orderlies of the web, and on the other hand, they act exactly like a toad and a viper in a popular saying ...
Not long ago a certain Becon contacted our editorial office, who said that he had worked with Existence for a long time and communicated extremely well. The correspondence went on in the gill for a long time and concerned not only working moments, for some time they became close friends, discussed women, sports and much more, but there is one caveat. Becon honestly admitted to our editorial staff that he was an active user of the infamous PlayPenwebsite ... Let us remind PlayPen the site about which all editions of the world wrote last year, since this is the largest repository of video and photo materials with child pornography, we have repeatedly announced how pedophiles are being detained all over the world, and moreover, we never add to our catalog of sites with children's pornography, the administration of the RuOnion site has always stated that it has an extremely negative attitude towards pedophiles and, forgive me, for no money or other benefits, we will not add a single site with similar content to our onion site directory.
When asked why Becon provides us with this information not only about his supposedly friend, but also about himself, the man said that he will change his nickname and will live in peace, no one knows him, but for the fact that Existence threw him for money, he will do everything so that no one would ever trust this person, so that he would not speak.

Here is a part of the correspondence between Existence and Becon, we will not provide all the correspondence with links, forgive me, sometimes extremely unpleasant things are discussed.
<forlegal11>: Have you seen that Wonder Woman?
<becon>: give a link
<forlegal11>: playpen (childporn) .onion admire
<becon>: uuuuhhhh, I see the access is paid, not everyone can look, no wonder, she's just a child, how old is she?
<forlegal11>: yes, I think about 6-7 years old, I could only touch such people in Tae
<becon>: need to fly to tie ...
The public was monitoring the forums in anticipation of a sign from the hated Existence, whoever it was. They immediately remembered how, a few days after the fall of RAMP, a character appeared on one cryptocurrency forum who was looking for an intermediary to sell 10 thousand bitcoins for cash.

And this is 1,650,000,000 (one billion six hundred fifty million) rubles for a second at the end of July exchange rate. Cash. But no particularly expressive signs followed.

BEAC
Once Existence Steel is as popular as Michael Jackson in the world of Thor, with a loyal base of haters dying of excess free time, the ultimate evil emerged - tricking half of the darknet. Sberban (aka CTS, Gazprom, Azbuka Vkusa, Starbads, Dom-2 and thousands more) or simply Narek Surikovich Najaryan born in 1990. This is a hacker who has understood too much - a perfect sociopath who grew up without the influence of any ethical husk.
Calculating a person on the darknet is quite risky: first you deanonymize you, then deanonymize you. But Sberbank made the deanon his trademark. With a punishing hand, Najaryan reveals the data of objectionable former associates and business partners. Sber's strange names are the names of untrustworthy stores with a bad reputation, which he presumably ran on RAMP. Najaryan produced in bundles of shops under the same type of names, untwisted them and closed them after the first paid wholesale order. Then everything was repeated.
When RAMP 2.0 went offline, Sberbank made a name for itself. He robbed everyone registered. He also cleaned up personal data, which partially coincided with the data of users of the first version of RAMP. Users noted (while the resource was working) that money was taken from wallets by changing the address in their personal account. Then they remembered the style of Sberbank, and when the resource fell, there was no doubt: Sberbank was accused of both the collapse of the second version of the market and of stealing the Existence key.
Then the hero came out to the people with a statement that his former employee and Interior Ministry officer Ilya was behind the deception with the reincarnation of RAMP. And laid out his passport. The spectacle of the execution through the deanon caused a flood of accusations from all sides: Sber's particular style of presentation appeared to users in every dealer. It was reported that the author of the Zanzi darknet instant shopping system, a tech-savvy person, tried to buy out the outdated RAMP 2.0, raised on a standard forum engine, for 2 million. But he was deceived by the (false) Existence.
Then one of the old RAMP Lizard01 admins confirmed by the key assured that Existence was real, it just turned out to be dishonest. Zanzi, on the other hand, was a virtual tulpa. This attack of the clones generally confused observers. The only non-traumatic conclusion: Sber is not only Narek, but an organized and protected group of well-trained Narcs.

Sleepwalker
This is a hacker who started out with anonymity consulting and experimented with creating virtual identities. He later claimed responsibility for the collapse of the now defunct marketplace Amberoad. In fact, he was the CTO of Runion. And when in 2017 the administration left the project, he remained there alone and ruined the site.
From this, he began to behave inappropriately, to put it mildly: he went offended and aggressively to fit into the market and destroy everything around him. There was a case that one of their potential clients, who needed a hacker, wrote to him through an unprotected mailbox, Sleepwalker laid out his personal data. And most recently, out of his anger and insolvency, he did the same with a dealer who was trying to open a business on an instant store site developed by Sleepwalker.

Zed
This is the administrator of the old darknet forum Runion, who began by promoting libertarian ideas and pumping the image of a warrior of light against everything bad - that is, limiting, repressive and for the sake of money. but after the hype with the closure of RAMP announced the launch of the site inside Runion, collected deposits and disappeared for a month, under the pretext of a DDoS attack. Then he returned to ask for money again.
They hated Zed and called on to boycott the forum, which now has nothing but instructions on how to hack pages, VK and a crowd of schoolchildren.
Nikkon is Zed's associate, moderator and guarantor who is responsible for making Runion a training manual for the police children's room. He was remembered for the fact that he somehow warmed the forum users for one and a half thousand dollars, began to trade in extortion and deceive visitors to the carder forums.

OXID
A "promising" killer who knows how to control his emotions, published an ad in which he described in detail his services.
Serious criminals never trade in self-promotion - this is the unspoken rule of the darknet. Simply put, all the posts are "kill quickly", "sell a lot" and so on - just fucking clean water.

OXID is a rookie who has decided to become the hero of the darknet. The ability to competently construct a speech and formulate one's thought attracted the attention of the public.
He honestly admitted that he had never worked as a killer, but he was ready to kill, and where and how ?, He would decide for himself. He wants to appear humane and flatly refuses to touch women and children.
A traditional discussion ensued: anonymous demanded proof and blood. Well, OXID himself said that he "can shoot through the skull," but will not show it to anyone.