Random Scary Deep Web Experiences (19 items)

• (#1) A 'Friendly' Warning

  Posted by Redditor /u/ernyc377:

  A friend of mine claims he was snooping around where he didn't belong (black market forums and hacking forums) when someone private messaged him basically saying, "I've looked into you because I see you in here a lot and I know you're not here to buy or use the services because you're just a kid. I don't mind but others will and you haven't protected yourself well enough to be here. Get off if you know what's good for you."
• (#14) DIY Vasectomy Kit

  Posted by Redditor /u/busty_crustacean:

  DIY vasectomy kit on SR. it was a kit of weird dentist tool looking hooks and some tube thing. $20.
• (#8) Behind The 'Little Doors'

  Posted by Redditor /u/ProgressiveCoder:

  So this may seem like a nebulous answer, but the REAL scary s**t are the "portals". By that, I mean little doors hidden from everyone except the people who know that they are looking for. Seemingly innocuous sites that have clues hidden in the page source, or seemingly innocent image galleries containing images that have audio clues or other things embedded in the code that have to be extracted through specific means.

  When I was in college, the guy who got me into computers used to show me the ones he had cracked. One of them led to a PDF that was a copy of the original Anarchist's Cookbook - 1st Edition, before it was heavily edited and stripped down. It had s**t in there including detailed chemical breakdowns of military grade explosives - way deeper than just your typical "this is how you build a weapon" stuff.

  There were other, more sinister "portals" too. There was one that just led to a chat room he showed me that was some kind of ultra occult LARPing s**t, except they would share ASCII image scans of super f**ked up s**t (like snuff-level violence) that you could really only see if you copy-pasted the code into a word editor and scaled it a certain way.

  Lots of bizarre, hacker-wizardry and some of it is creepy AF.
• (#12) Paying For Someone Else's Ride

  Posted by Redditor /u/xithbaby:

  The only experience I’ve had is some random email I got saying my information was being sold there. Sure enough my Uber account was hacked into and people from Germany and Australia used it to buy $400 in food.

  Uber’s response?

  “It’s your own fault for using a password you may have used else where.”

  I didn’t. I had my account on Uber all of 4 days. Took me 3 weeks to get my money back thanks to PayPal and my bank. Never used Uber again. Never will. I’m positive my driver sold my information after I signed up. I only got one ride.
• (#7) Trying To Buy Buckets Of Bedbugs

  Posted by Redditor /u/urbanhawk1:

  I remember a long time ago there was a guy online that was trying to buy large quantities of bed bugs. When questioned why he wanted them he basically said that he wanted to try to breed them to be resistant to normal methods of killing them while simultaneously breeding in a weakness that only he knew. This way he could release them in peoples houses and then force them to pay him to get rid of the bed bugs since no one else would be able to kill them.
• (#16) Riddle Me This...

  Posted by Redditor /u/Catterstrope:

  While randomly clicking around Tor one night I found a site with a riddle and a text box to enter an answer. After figuring it out, it took me to another page that had a message to decode and another text box, basically every page was a puzzle and got harder every time, I was 15 and not very smart with those kinds of things so I found a forum where other people had discovered the site and were talking about it, apparently on the final page it just displayed a date and a quote from Alice in Wonderland.

  I believe it was just a site made to be some sort of entertainment for very experienced de-coders and programmers but there was speculation that it was a hacker recruiting site similar to Cicada 3301, either way, it creeped me out a lot.

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