Dark web marketplace AlphaBay’s spokesperson was a 24-year-old Reddit mod

Moderating an online community spread across numerous platforms and countries can be a challenging task — especially when slipping up means more than angry downvotes.

And Ronald L. Wheeler, III, as long-time spokesperson for and moderator of the dark web marketplace AlphaBay, is indeed now facing way more than displeased online hordes. Specifically, he’s looking at sentencing for fraud. 

According to a March 8 statement from the Department of Justice, 24-year-old Wheeler (aka “Trappy”) worked as the public relations arm of AlphaBay — a site selling guns, drugs, hacking tools, and other delightful treats — for about two years before it was finally shut down by law enforcement in 2017.  Read more…

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