Sentences with phrase «online illicit trade»
[Ted Williams has an invaluable piece posted at Yale Environment 360 on the thriving online illicit trade in endangered species and related products.]
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Bitcoin, a digital currency that is traded on a peer - to - peer network independent of central control, has engendered a wave of creative criminality - from bitcoin theft by hacking online platforms to potentially using the crypto - currency in money laundering, bribery and buying illicit products.
IFAW argues that in online sales it's impossible to distinguish between legal ivory (antique pieces that predate strict trade treaties on endangered species) and modern, illicit ivory harvested by poachers.
Rockstar Games has released its latest free expansion for GTA Online, entitled «Import / Export»; check out the launch trailer below and head on over to the official site for a full breakdown of the expansion's content... Expand your criminal empire with a new frontier of illicit profiteering to explore: dominating the city's trade in stolen luxury -LSB-...]
Sir Julian highlighted Europol's work exposing how sophisticated crime syndicates exploit online trade in illicit goods, adding that «online fraud is now the most common crime in the UK».
For most of Bitcoin's nine years, it was viewed as either almost completely worthless — famously in 2010, 10,000 bitcoins were once traded in exchange for two pizzas — or as a more secure means to purchase illicit substances or services through shadowy online marketplaces like the Silk Road, Hansa, or Alphabay — all of which have since been shut down.