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An Elaborate Darknet Phishing Scam Is the Top Google Result for Basic Bitcoin Tutorials

• https://motherboard.vice.com, Jordan Pearson

As far as online scams designed to steal money and information go, a site called darknetmarkets.org is very impressive and equally scary—not least because Google is currently serving it as a top search result for Bitcoin tutorials.

Darknetmarkets.org, for all intents and purposes, is a "real" website. Its logo looks to be made of chopped-up cocaine, and the site is filled with legitimate-seeming resources for anybody looking to buy drugs on the darknet. News articles populate its homepage, and the site features how-tos on topics like using "mixing" services to hide your Bitcoin transactions from the authorities. A sidebar contains links to the "top" sites to buy drugs on the darknet. If you search Google for "how to mix bitcoins," darknetmarkets.org comes up as the number one result.