Administrator of Cocorico Market, a French-language dark web marketplace, Disappears, Suspected to Exit Scam

Recently, "ODN" found another dark web marketplace suspected of "Exit Scam" when visiting Dread.

Cocorico Market is a French version of a small dark web marketplace, founded in 2021, supports English-French switch browsing, the bottom of the site shows 33 active suppliers, 509 active buyer customers, has successfully conducted 1187 orders sales (total: 154,785.07 euros).

The domain name of this dark web marketplace is

http://xv3dbyx4iv35g7z2uoz2yznroy56oe32t7eppw2l2xvuel7km2xemrad.onion

A communication forum is also set up, called "Cocorico Forum: The Rebirth of the French Community", at

http://xv3dbyx4iv35g7z2uoz2yznroy56oe32t7eppw2l2xvuel7km2xemrad.onion/forum/

In addition, the dark web marketplace also has a sub-section in the well-known dark web forum Dread:

http://dreadytofatroptsdj6io7l3xptbet6onoyno2yv7jicoxknyazubrad.onion/d/CocoricoMarket

Recently, Paris, the administrator of the Dread forum, posted an announcement in the Cocorico Market subforum warning users not to use Cocorico Market. Paris' post, titled "COCORICO MARKET IS LIMITED ON DREAD. Exit Warnings! "

The admin is inactive and there has been vendor reports of withdrawals not arriving and the vendor panel not being accessible. Old deactivated listings seems to now be enabled.

This is a public warning to not use this market from Dread Staff. These are the signs of an exit and if you deposit or vend on this market chances are you are funding the admin's retirement (or having the funds land in LEA hands).

Do not use this market.

/u/Mr_le_Coq you can still contact Dread staff and sort this out.

Following this warning, Cocorico Market's providers have also started warning users, with the provider RevenantChild also claiming to have been unable to access the provider's backend for many days and posting under the title "REVENANTCHILD - COCORICO MARKET" in Postings in English and French.

Customers please note - DO NOT place any orders with me on COCORICO.
The market is active, but vendors cannot log in.

See here:
Source
/u/Paris post /post/399459017c20cb4c0c4e

Rather find me on Incognito or Bohemia.

Revenant

Clients, veuillez noter - NE PAS passer de commandes avec moi sur COCORICO.
Le marché est actif, mais les vendeurs ne peuvent pas se connecter.

Vois ici:
La source
/u/La poste de Paris /poste/399459017c20cb4c0c4e

Retrouvez-moi plutôt sur Incognito ou Bohemia.

Revenant

In addition, the user gameboy said, with the disappearance of the administrator, the dark web market site and forum is bound to disappear, but Cocorico forum has a lot of treasured posts, we recommend everyone to keep. He said(Archiver le forum Cocorico).

Salut à tous,

Si mr_lecoq ne réaparait pas le serveur va etre coupé au bout d'un moment par lui ou si il ne paye pas pour x raison donc ca serai bien de faire le tri sur ce qu'il y a sur le forum et sauvegarder les pages html utiles comme les tutos, les sujets interessant sur l'opsec etc afin de servir la communauté (et eviter à certains de se faire scam betement …)
IL suffit de faire control S ou clic droit et sauvegarder la page html. Je ferai bien un petit script pour save l'entiereté du forum mais un peu la flemme et beaucoup de contenu qui ne servira à rien donc bon ..

Je vais le faire de mon coté et le mettre sur d'anonfile, onionshare ou autre si d'autre peuvent le faire et en garder des copies (genre shiva si tas le temps)

Voila je pense que c'est utile tout n'est pas a jeté sur le forum il y a des trucs utiles

Faites attention à vous.

"ODN" believes that there are many possibilities for the sudden disappearance of the administrator, besides "Exit Scam", he may have been arrested by the police or suffered a personal accident, but for the dark web marketplace, there is only one ending, that is: closure.

French-speaking users are strongly advised to avoid Cocorico Market until the situation becomes clearer.

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