00:00A young drug baron of the Dark Web of 23 years, nicknamed Pharaon, has been arrested in New York.
00:04He is accused of running a drug sales platform on the Dark Web called Incognito Market,
00:08which would have generated more than 100 million dollars in profits.
00:10Each ad on the site was sold by a particular seller who paid 5% of each transaction to Pharaon.
00:15These fees allowed him to get rich and finance the payment of his employees and computer servers.
00:19According to the reports, he would have been betrayed because of many enemies he had made,
00:22who were more than happy to denounce him.
00:24In addition, an extortion attempt was reported during an Exit Scam,
00:27a scam during which the owners of the site disappear with the money of users.
00:30He would have demanded payments ranging from 100 to 20,000 dollars,
00:33threatening to reveal the previous purchases of users to the authorities.
00:36Arriving at the JFK airport in New York from Taiwan, the young man was arrested by the FBI.
00:41According to the statement, Lin is accused of being a chief of participation in a continuous criminal enterprise,
00:45liable for a minimum sentence of life imprisonment.
00:47It should be noted that in 2023, more than half of the 2.5 million daily visitors to the Dark Web
00:52participated in illegal activities.
00:53However, some people use the Dark Web for more legal reasons,
00:56like citizens of different countries who seek to access uncensored information.
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