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."
• (#2) When You Find Yourself

  Posted by Redditor /u/kick299:

  Found a webcam feed. Coming from my webcam.
• (#3) 'We See You'

  Posted by Redditor /u/fake_fakington:

  This was back before Google. Web pages were, for the most part, still very basic HTML with JavaScript. Hardly anyone used CSS. Only discussion boards and some banking sites had anything approaching mature front-end/back-end combinations. Etc. Early 'Net. Real "deep web" story, not just one about illicit activities on-line.

  I was browsing random blogs, Geocities sites, and the like, just going from link to link. Eventually I came upon an odd page - it appeared to be random thoughts from different people, but for the time, it was very well-designed. The messages seemed to be cryptic in nature, like several people trying to pass secret notes. I started through the source, and hidden in the comments of a JavaScript were various IP addresses.

  I gathered all of the IP's in a text file and began enumerating. Some were routers with banner messages I could telnet to - almost all at universities ("Warning! This is a secure system at University of blah, blah..."). The default Cisco credentials from back in the day worked on most of them, but I didn't poke around. A few of the IP's were web servers with little to nothing on them, mostly Apache on Linux or some BSD, at least one IIS server I can recall.

  I finally came upon a web server with a huge directory of HTML files and TIFF images, with a few smaller sub directories containing the same. nslookup returned no reverse records for the IP. A Visual Route traced it as far as Colorado. The HTML files appeared to be records a psychologist or similar mental health professional would keep. The images were of faxes, apparently of both military and medical nature.

  As I browsed from a sub directory back to the parent, at the top of was a new HTML file named something like "1-.HELLO-THERE.html." The time stamp was from right that minute. I opened it, and in plain text was the message "we see you". No quotes, all lower-case. About 15 seconds later the server dropped.
• (#4) 'My Own Password'

  Posted by Redditor /u/xBEEKAYRANDEEx:

  My own password.

  Found a chan that had a link to a website that when you put in an email address, it would show you the password in plain text if that email address had been pwned. Typed in one of my old (now closed) emails, and there it was. Just a blank page with my email address and password on it, sitting right there for anybody to find.
• (#5) Smile!

  Posted by a Redditor:

  The worst that happened is I went on a sketchy website, then somebody started accessing my camera. 
• (#6) Time To Update Your Security

  Posted by Redditor /u/Jaereth:

  Someone showed me this website once where it was like a stream feed aggregation on these pages, and there were HUNDREDS of pages and each page had probably 50 streams on it.

  They were all feeds from "do it yourself" security cameras that people have in their homes that backup to the cloud. So crazy to see. These people probably have no idea.
• (#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.
• (#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.
• (#9) The Wrong Kind Of Support

  Posted by Redditor /u/TheRealEtherion:

  There were people with suicidal tendencies. There were people telling them that nothing matters and suggesting different ways.
• (#10) Murder For Hire

  Posted by Redditor /u/

  Hitman site. No idea if it was a scam, I'd be willing to bet they just take the money and run, but I noped out quick anyway. It was like you pay them the equivalent of $5,000 upfront in bitcoin and they [take someone out] of your choosing and cover it up and you pay the rest later. 
• (#11) Bad Dude

  Posted by Redditor /u/Gerrard1995:

  The dude who can hack you and put horrible s**t on your computer so you can go to prison. I wouldn't annoy that dude
• (#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.
• (#13) Uranium For Sale

  Posted by Redditor /u/caddet5:

  Scariest thing I saw on AlphaBay was someone selling enriched uranium. Probably a scam, but it was still scary.
• (#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.
• (#15) Wrong Address

  Posted by Redditor /u/TheKingofBananas:

  I first learned about the deep web back in grade 10 when this really strange kid in my grade was going on about it. We sat together in English and had a new teacher that wasn't quite good and didn't really know how to control the class so the last twenty minutes or so she would just let us do whatever. Everyone around this kids desk, let's call him Eli, would crowd around his computer and watch him monkey around on Silk Road and weird other sites he found...

  Eventually Eli decided to order [substances] from some site. This was high school so we all lived at home, so he figured he'd order DMT to his cottage, go up for a weekend, and pick it up to hide in his closet. So, he typed in his address to some guy, worked out the details, and waited. Went up to his cottage the next weekend and we all waited for his return for the stories.

  Eli got back and we all ran up to him to ask if it worked. He said it didn't and he was really p*ssed since he had already paid the guy. He complained to whoever was selling him the [substances] and the guy was really understanding and said he send an even bigger package to his cottage. Eli went up the next weekend. Still nothing. The guy was very apologetic and said he'd send one more. Still nothing!

  Eli gave up and figured it was just a guy trying to make a quick buck. He gave up on the deep web and that was that. Months later he goes up to his cottage with his family and has a big dinner party with the whole complex of cottages. He's shmoozing around and overhears these elderly people talking about going to the cops. He asks why and they tell him. They've been consistently getting shipments of drugs every week. Eli had typed in the wrong address and the guy he was talking to had been sending more and more to the wrong people each week because he felt so bad.

  He was so sketched out that he quit everything and now is doing quite well for himself. Proud of him.
• (#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.
• (#17) Medication

  Posted by Redditor /u/tailless-whale:

  Saw the medication I take every day to function for sale for a fraction of the price. Made me angry how I can buy my medicine online for $0.75 USD per pill while I pay nearly $13/pill with "good" health insurance.
• (#18) Bad Feeling About This

  Posted by a Redditor:

  The Last Jedi leaked movie script. I thought it was fake because s**t seemed too bad and used characters poorly, then when it finally made to cinemas a year later, I couldn't believe it was real.
• (#19) Training

  Posted by Redditor /u/Tehan:

  I once found a forum dedicated to sharing recordings of the automated messages that tell you the next stop on trains. People would post the recordings that they presumably made themselves and then they would discuss them.

  It haunts me to this day. I have so many questions.

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