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-based forum specializing in the trade of stolen credit card details,
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and currency counterfeiting. The site was founded by an individual known as 'Verto' who also founded the now defunct
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. The site required $50 for registration. A 2013 investigation into counterfeit banknotes in
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led to a source of
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n fakes being identified as having been purchased via the Tor Carding Forums. By December 2014 Ryan Andrew Gustafson a.k.a. "Jack Farrel" and "Willy Clock", a US citizen living in Uganda was arrested for large scale sale of counterfeit
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by the U.S. Secret Service which was being sold through the Tor Carding Forums as well as other
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s. In December 2014 the site closed following a hack, directing users to Evolution's forums. In June 2015 a
dark web The dark web is the World Wide Web content that exists on darknets ( overlay networks) that use the Internet but require specific software, configurations, or authorization to access. Through the dark web, private computer networks can communica ...
researcher identified the clearnet IP address of a similar hidden service branded 'The Tor Carding Forum V2' which was subsequently shut down.


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Carding In Textile manufacturing, textile production, carding is a mechanical process that disentangles, cleans and intermixes fibres to produce a continuous web or sliver (textiles), sliver suitable for subsequent processing. This is achieved by passi ...
Crime forums Carding (fraud) Defunct darknet markets {{Tor-Network-Stub