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matrix001: no company in the whole world would ever have such a document
matrix001: its totally ridiculous

This could quite easily have been a set-up and the exchange convinced Matrix of exactly that. Accusing rival boards of being a sting operation organised by law enforcement was a common practice designed to scare off members so that they would join the competition. If members were to desert DarkMarket, Matrix was convinced Iceman and Card- ersMarket would recruit them immediately and that might threaten DarkMarket's very existence.

Furthermore, silo, dystopia and c0rrupted0ne appeared very keen – perhaps too keen – for Matrix to open another file, a compressed zip file, known as an rar. Zip files were some of the most notorious carriers of trojan infections, and he was certain this one was designed by the CardersMarket crew to suck all DarkMarket's secrets from his computer. He began to wonder whether Iceman and his cohorts were now on stage two of an audacious plan, designed by the FBI, to wipe out DarkMarket.

It was by now about a quarter-past nine on a freezing November morning in central Germany, but Matrix knew he had to act swiftly. He immediately contacted his fellow DM administrators and warned them that Iceman and his cohorts were about to denounce DM:

matrix001: I did not download the file and open it,
therefore i said my rar is not working
matrix001: I bet it was a trojan
matrix001: and if you check the info they passed it's quite bogus . . .
matrix001: But take a read yourself . . .

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