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March 8, 2018 10:20 pm GMT
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Dark web marketplace AlphaBay's spokesperson was a 24-year-old Reddit mod
Moderating an online community spread across numerous platforms and countries can be a challenging task — especially when slipping up means more than angry downvotes.
And Ronald L. Wheeler, III, as long-time spokesperson for and moderator of the dark web marketplace AlphaBay, is indeed now facing way more than displeased online hordes. Specifically, he's looking at sentencing for fraud.
According to a March 8 statement from the Department of Justice, 24-year-old Wheeler (aka "Trappy") worked as the public relations arm of AlphaBay — a site selling guns, drugs, hacking tools, and other delightful treats — for about two years before it was finally shut down by law enforcement in 2017. Read more...
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