The disturbing world of the Deep Web or Dark Web: How contract killers and drug dealers use the Internet

The disturbing world of the Deep Web, where contract killers and drug dealers ply their trade on the internet

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Dozens of 'hitmen' are available for hire through the 'Deep Web', or Tor They all offer their services for a price paid in mysterious currency Bitcoin One boasts: 'I always do my best to make it look like an accident or suicide' Others market services: 'The best place to put your problems is in a grave' Hiring a hitman has never been easier. Nor has purchasing cocaine or heroin, nor even viewing horrific child pornography. Such purchases are now so easy, in fact, that they can all be done from the comfort of one's home at the click of a button... and there's almost nothing the police can do about it. This worrying development of the criminal black market is down entirely to the Deep Web - a seething matrix of encrypted websites - also known as Tor - that allows users to surf beneath the everyday internet with complete anonymity. Guns for hire: This site appears to offer the services of a team of former mercenaries from the french foreign Legion

Chilling: So for those looking to bump off a difficult acquaintance, all they have to do is enter the Dark Web and search 'hitman for hire', such as this one

The Deep Web has existed for more than a decade but came under the spotlight last month after police shutdown the Silk Road website - the online marketplace dubbed the 'eBay of drugs' - and arrested its creator. But experts warn this has done next to nothing to stem the rising tide of such illicit online exchanges, which are already jostling to fill the gap now left in this unregulated virtual world. So for those looking to bump off a difficult acquaintance, all they have to do is enter the Deep Web - known also as the 'Dark Web' or the 'Undernet' - and search 'hitman for hire'. There they are presented with lists of willing assassins touting their wares to anyone who will pay. And like The Silk Road, transactions are all made using the mysterious online currency Bitcoin. One site, whose name MailOnline has chosen not to publish, offers an assassination in the US or Canada for $10,000 and one in Europe for $12,000. 'I do not know anything about you, you do not know anything about me,' crows one self-styled assassin, according to The Daily Dot. 'The desired victim will pass away. No one will ever know why or who did this. On top of that I always give my best to make it look like an accident or suicide.' 'I have gained endless experience(s) in this [sic] 7 years,' he goes on. 'It has changed me a lot. I don't have any empathy for humans anymore. 'This makes me the perfect professional for taking care of your problems and makes me better than other hitmen. If you pay enough I'll do Next

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