This is obviously hypothetical. I have neither the funds nor the knowledge nor the contacts nor any of the materials discussed to do this.

Would it be a profitable idea to create a website that caters to people who want to make anonymous, criminal for sale ads? For example I'd create a site called something like blackmarket.com, and I'd subtly advertise around inviting people like identity thieves, criminal hackers, carders, etc. to post ads for identities, cc's, ssn's, undetectable malware, ddos services, etc. Of course, the ads would be worded in such a way where it would all be hypothetical. I'd probably put up a form with item, price per unit, details, contact, etc. And make the ad like if you wanted to buy x @ $x, email me at X@X.com and we can discuss something interesting. Would that be legal? Profitable? I was thinking $2 per ad. Maybe i could expand later into other illegal activities to, or create something like LinkedIn for criminals. Btw I originally came up with this idea b/c of a lack of its services, if you catch my drift.

illegal ...what was the name of that carders website where the owner went to jail? carders.en?

blackmarket.com has already been taken.

Pwned.

I'm pretty sure that's illegal.

Shame I missed out on shadowcrew, sounded like a sound place

Wasn't that the place where the Admin or Mod got arrested then bitched out on everyone and got everyone else arrested?

Yeah he got busted then helped LE out by tricking members to go through a VPN he had set up and then do their deeds.

I hear before that happened it was a good source for buying SSNs, CVVs and any other juicy info. Most dumps talked about on the news were obtained by someone from that site.

i lul'd