It’s hardly information that the darkish net is full of shady stuff—together with a disturbing amount of internet sites that declare to supply homicide as an affordable service. Authorities arrested 5 males this week who they are saying operated one of many net’s most infamous hitman websites. Besa Mafia claimed that, for a bit of crypto, a buyer may rent a thug to take somebody out.

In a Wednesday press release, officers with Romania’s Directorate for the Investigation of Organized Crime and Terrorism (DIICOT) introduced the arrest of 5 males alleged to be the directors of the location previously identified as Besa Mafia. Alternately referred to as “Camorra Hitman” and “#1 Hitman Marketplace,” Besa has long offered to attach paying darkish net patrons to succesful contract killers.

In its release, DIICOT mentioned that its had nabbed the boys on the behest of the U.S. authorities. “Judicial authorities in the United States of America are targeting the work of an organized criminal group that managed websites that posted offers for contracted assassination,” the DIICOT mentioned. The identities of the arrestees haven’t been publicly launched presently.

Experts assume that just about all hit man websites are scams, designed to bilk cash out of bloodthirsty purchasers who assume they will order up an murderer with Bitcoin like a traditional individual may DoorDash a burrito. “Besa” is not any exception. Dark net researchers have lengthy called the site a fraud, alleging that it’s purely a car to pilfer crypto from dumb however murderous Tor customers.

However, if it’s a fraud, it’s actually a reasonably worthwhile one. The website has allegedly generated gobs of cash, luring in 1000’s of purchasers with its provides to supply a wide range of ugly providers—not simply executions, but additionally beatings and torture.

“If you want to kill someone, or to beat the shit out of him, we are the right guys,” the location once read. “We have professional hitmen available through the entire USA, Canada and Europe and you can hire a contract killer easily.”

The worth for these grisly however pretend providers has run between $5,000-20,000, in Bitcoin, Motherboard reports. Disturbingly, tons of individuals have fallen for the rip-off and really forked over cash within the hopes of arranging a homicide.

Some individuals who reached out to Besa to rearrange a killing have in the end ended up being charged with homicide. Indeed, a data leak of the location in 2016 allowed a researcher to view the location’s “Kill list”—ostensibly the people who customers wished ailing upon. Motherboard reviews that not less than a pair individuals on that checklist in the end ended up turning into precise homicide victims. The people who killed them weren’t hit males, nonetheless, however the individuals who initially contacted “Besa Mafia” about its “services.”