"I don't think for one minute if you send you're ever going to see it again."īut experts were not totally convinced that the site was legitimate. Social networks and online back pages have been used to facilitate human trafficking for years.Īpart from the dramatic photos, there wasn't a great difference between the Black Death site and auction sites already known to the UKHTC, the advisor said. Indeed, the trading of people online is not new. He said the UKHTC has seen similar sites, selling male and female slaves, sometimes with indications that the victims are being trafficked for sex work, on more open sites. The NCA requested that we did not name the advisor as advisors' names are not publicly known. "The dark web, as it's known, is not somewhere that we pick up a lot of stuff from," a tactical advisor from the National Crime Agency's UK Human Trafficking Centre (UKHTC) told me over the phone. I asked to be let in at no cost, but this was denied. I was required to pay an upfront deposit to view a livestream of the girls. "Black Death has moved," a placeholder on the site read.Īfter keeping the conversation going through emails, I was eventually given a list of detailed instructions for the auction. "Nice try Europol," read the reply.Īfter more exchanges over several days, and with me fabricating evidence that I possessed hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of Bitcoin, Black Death made it clear they wanted nothing to do with me. I wrote back to Black Death, claiming that I acted as a middleman between businesses. They also contained no identifying pieces of metadata, and a reverse image search did not return any results. All of the images were high quality, complete with dramatic lighting. In the short time after I initially contacted Black Death, another girl was added to the site, this time with a starting bid of $180,000. "Who are you, how do you know about us? Who recommended us?" the owners barked in their email response. I decided to pose as a potential customer to see what I could learn about these so-called dark web human traffickers. "Do not contact us just to ask questions," the site continued. "We will do it any time we are getting too popular," it said. "And we are here to stay." After this, the site apparently changed addresses several times. "Black Death enters Deep Web," the site read on 27 January, 2010. A feed of news updates apparently stretching back years is also listed. "Apparently they're an organized crime group that deals in nearly anything, you name it," the post read.Īfter having landed on the site, users are met with a cornucopia of different services: weapons, drugs, bombings, assassinations, new identities, and trafficking. I found Black Death after a link was posted on Reddit. "I'm interested in the girl," I told the site owners in an encrypted email, "want to see more photos first." It didn't take long for a reply to hit my inbox. She was being showcased on the dark web, on a site run by a group calling itself "Black Death."
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The advert for the upcoming auction included Nicole's breast size, weight, and that she is free from sexually transmitted diseases. With her arms tied behind her back, and the rope connected to a wire frame, "Nicole" lurched forward as the shadow of a man loomed in the background. The girl, skinny, blonde, and topless, appeared to be thrashing around in the accompanying photos. "Nicole's starting bid is set at 150,000$," the listing read.
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