German police will fight illegal activities in the Dark Web with new efforts and resources. The German police is concerned about the increasing abuse of dark nets for crime activities. The dark net is increasingly used to procure drugs, weapons, and counterfeit money, allowing users to trade anonymously and pay with digital currencies such as Bitcoin. The BKA confirmed that the German police has shut down five market places in the dark web last year. In many cases, sellers are simply scammers, of course, victims of such kind of scams will never report it to law enforcement.”]
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