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>> HIS's role in
combatting the marketplaces

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on the Darknet

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is a pretty straight-forward role.

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We combat transnational
criminal smuggling.

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And these are now occurring
quite frequently on the Darknet,

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and HIS supports that effort
in the cyber environment

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through a Cyber
Crime Center, or C3.

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Silk Road and Black Market

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Reloaded are two great
cyber investigations

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that were primarily led by Homeland
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or HIS.
Investigation

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started as contraband smuggling,

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and they were discovered
as smuggling occurred

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through via mail

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or through the traditional system.

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However, as investigators
dug into the investigations,

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they discovered that a lot
of the activity was occurring

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on the dark market
marketplaces,

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and then the cyber
investigations took off.

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>> Operation Dime Store started

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because we wanted to find the source.

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And once we found out
that the source of the drugs

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were coming from a website
known as Silk Road,

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we decided that we would try
to figure out ways

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to shut down the website,

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also intercept the packages,
identify the vendors,

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identify the recipients,

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employ different types of analysis
of fingerprints on packaging

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to looking at different trends

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and looking at
the website itself,

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to try to see if there was
other things and clues

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that could lead us to
where the website was hosted.

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And we also employed

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some undercover purchases
from the website,

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as well as employed
different undercover techniques

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to try to infiltrate the website.

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>> Criminals should know
that the Darkweb

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is not completely anonymous,

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and any illicit activity
that occurs on the Darkweb

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will be aggressively
enforced and pursued.

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Homeland Security Investigations,

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HIS, partners
with our foreign

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and domestic law enforcement partners

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in attacking Darknet marketplaces

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that are illicit in nature.

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What people really need to know
and pay attention to is,

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you don't really know
what's on a Darkweb.

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It lends itself
to unscrupulous behavior.

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That can be in the form
of illicit contraband

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in all of its forms and functions,

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most likely
illicit drugs,

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illicit counterfeit
pharmaceuticals, gun-smuggling,

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even the theft
of personal identification

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or hit men for hire.

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They all exist
on the Darkweb.