Being around for almost 3 years, Vice City market has garnered a great reputation for itself. Despite that, Vice City is the latest market to make it onto the exit-scam list. Questions started being raised after the market started behaving suspiciously months ago with stores reporting issues with their withdrawals. These suspicions have now been officially confirmed by a well trusted Dread forum moderator.
More about Vice City market.
Vice city market first launched in 2020 and has experienced fairly rapid growth since. In early 2023 the market had over 10,000 listings with 10 times as many users. The market itself was not too well built, didn't have a modern design and didn't offer any special features. This suggests that its growth was based on the trust Vice City market ha built over the years.
Signs of an Exit Scam.
Users and vendors started reporting weird issues with the marketplace months ago. Despite that, and due to the amount of trust the market had most of these claims were ignored. The reports consisted mainly of withdrawal issues. Some users reported getting error messages while trying to withdraw cryptocurrency, while others reported receiving nothing over 24 hours later.
Vice City Market Exit Scam Confirmed.
As months passed, and withdrawal issues started piling up it became clear that the markets admins have decided to exit scam. To prevent users from depositing money into the market a Dread moderator made and announcement claiming the market is exit scamming. The announcement titled "Do not Use Vice City Market" was made by the moderator known as Solar. The post did not make any certain claims by just wrote that the market is "likely exit scamming".
Most dread users seem to be on the same page and believe that the market has exit scammed. The subdread of the marketplace is also actively being flooded by users unable to withdraw, login and even contact support. Vice City market has remained completely quiet, not responding to any users or claims. In-fact the last post made by the official vice city dread account was in mid April.
Conclusion
With the year being 2023, a market exit scam does not come as a surprise to anyone. Facing the prospect of being caught by law-enforcement, most dark-net markets shut-down at some point. Unfortunately most of them now go down with a show, while stealing funds from all of their users. Despite all the exit-scam reports, vice city market is still accessible but users are not advised to use it.
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