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By the same token, who's going to go to the police and say they got the shit kicked out of them for not holding up their end of a drug deal?

That is different because your face is now evidence something happened.

I once worked with someone in college who claimed he had a friend who ran both a darknet drug site along with multiple popular darkent drug review sites. He would use the latter to push the former as one of the most reliable trustworthy services, despite literally never shipping anything at all.

I'm honestly not even sure if doing so would be illegal either, since I can't imagine anyone pursuing a fraud case in an industry that's completely illegal to participate in in the first place

It’s illegal to pretend to sell drugs. It’s illegal to sell fake drugs. (in the US)

You don’t have to worry about a customer complaining to the police. You have to worry about the police attempting to buy and collecting evidence against you.

The question comes down to how good is your op-sec and how unlikely are you in collecting LE attention?

Nope but someone might anonymously report that there is someone with this mailing address selling drugs...

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