The First Appearance of M00nkey Market
M00nkey market first appeared on the CryptBB forum advocating how amazing their market was; a 'one of a kind' market. M00nkey market started paying for adverts on CryptBB and amongst various different sites such as aggregators, services and Reddit. Their appearance on CryptBB was two months before they had a sub-dread on Dread and nine months before their supposed closure as of November the 13th. At this time M00nkey market has less than 500 users, not many features and very poor User Interface. As of now, we know the market was coded poorly in the language known as Ruby, which accounted to several of the down-times M00nkey Market experienced; you could see how unstable the market was. One of our anonymous sources stated how M00nkey's forum "took almost a month to make" and how it was "pretty straightforward" to produce.

 

Who was M00nkey?
Not much was known about m00nkey apart from them being the administrator to M00nkey market, though one of our anonymous sources told us how M00nkey admitted to allegedly being a WHM (White House Market) developer. Although there has been no proof to validate this claim, we suspect this being highly unlikely due to the result product of M00nkey market. From another anonymous source whom had a newly found contact with m00nkey regarding a position on the market, m00nkey told them how they've "fallen into the business" and "wasn't sure of what to do" with the market. Not only does this pose a massive risk to m00nkey market and the community who used the market, this also foreshadows the ultimate death of m00nkey market.

 

From another anonymous source, M00nkey admitted to being a digital vendor who sold combolists/personalized checkers and ransomware as a service. A screenshot of this was provided.

 

It's also known that M00nkey didn't keep a continuously good OpSec either, one user reported seeing M00nkey talk over an iPhone on a private jabber that M00nkey set up. Another user reported seeing M00nkey talk over Windows 10 on their main jabber, a screenshot of this was provided

 

A chaotic disaster with NCIDE Redirection:
This incident started when a user by the name of '/u/fasttask' posted on Cafe Dread about how a domain supposedly owned by m00nkey (m00key.ru) was redirecting the NCIDE (Northern California Illicit Digital Economy) task force, therefore implying that it was seized. A various amount of screenshots have been provided that highlights the main parts of this incident along with the representative information about them.

 

A signed PGP message by M00nkey; provided by /u/fasttask 

A revision of the incident made by /u/newbieforever2018 

A comment made by /u/HeadJanitor; supposedly verifies the seizure of M00nkey

 

M00key and their staff have tried to explain the situation stating how UltraHost (A USA based hosting and domain service), refused to setup their domain due to them not being able to provide an identification of some sort such as a Russian Passport. On UltraHost you must supply passport information before registering a Russian or Soviet based domain. 

 

A comment made by /u/M00nkey explaining how they don't own the domain

A comment made by /u/M00nkey about how they don't have the domain registered 

A screenshot that shows the level of identification it requires to register a domain that we tested out on purchasing 

 

M00nkey providing us proof purchase of said domain 

Invoices of domain which also leaks the host behind the domain 

We've went onto contacting Ultra Host to which they confirmed to us how they would hold your domain until proper identification is provided. Though they've refused to comment on m00key.ru citing privacy concerns.

 

A spree of vote Manipulation
We've raised concerns about m00nkey receiving 10 upvotes within the span of 15 minutes which seemed absurdly unreal. After confrontation, M00nkey openly admitted to having more than 8 people upvote each post for personal gain. This can be seen on this screenshot 

Although we've confronted M00nkey about the vote manipulation once for a singular post, there have been numerous posts which ranked up to 10 to even 15 upvotes from the span of an hour to a day. Comparatively higher than markets such as Bohemia which have a much more established base. 

 

The Senior Mod -/u/mr_BIG
Our team was able to confirm the alt behind /u/mr_BIG being /u/bbPR who handled tickets, ads and PR support on Dread. From the information received, we were able to verify bbPR had no real access to the markets backend. Attempts to contact mr_BIG and bbPR have been ignored.

 

The Man Behind The Scenes - /u/Cyberjagu
Cyberjagu was a previous administrator and pentester for CryptBB - a hacking forum based on Tor. Cyberjagu joined M00key market team a few months after the market came on to Dread. From the information our team was able to gather, Cyberjagu was m00key's right hand man. As per quote: "the real man behind the scenes was cyberjagu." According to what we've been told, Cyberjagu has access to the market servers, we've tried to further investigate this claim but Cyberjagu has been ignoring all our requests for comments. On one of Cyberjagu's comment, they've admitted to others that they've helped m00key run their main account on Dread. 

 

Roibusinesss Shop
/u/Roibusinesss has confirmed on Friday November 10th that their vendor shop made by M00key has vanished, citing no words from M00key the day before going missing and the market shutdown. Though shortly after the shop is now back online. We have no plausible idea to what's happening with Roibusiness's shop and we therefore recommend not using the shop until further notice by M00nkey or someone of relative representatives. 

 

Conclusion
We aren't quite sure what the status of M00nkey is currently as they currently are M.I.A for more than two weeks though we could predict it being either an exit-scam. Though recently another anonymous source contacted us stating how M00nkey is 'moving around' for a few days. This could suggest M00nkey's moving around for LE but for all we know there's always a possibility that they may come back, but if M00nkey decides to continue with the market, it will be unstable with the possible incoming FUD and trust-issues that were developed.

 

We also believe /u/bbPR and /u/newbieforever2018 to be just really good people who were simply given an opportunity. They simply weren't aware of what could've happened to M00nkey as the future is unforeseeable. /u/bbPR was simply a person taken on a promo jig whereas /u/newbieforever2018 was someone who helped with PR and incoming FUD all while suggesting to hire /u/bbPR onto the team. Our main focus should not be Newbie nor should it be bbPR, our focus should be on /u/Cybjerjagu who vanished near time with M00nkey.  

 

Recently Added:
A new leaked has emerged showing us how m00key managed all this servers. 

 

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