Buying Insider Stock Tips on the Dark Web
Summary
TLDRThis video delves into the shadowy world of the dark web, exploring the possibility of insider trading tips being sold alongside other illicit goods. It discusses the arrest of Apostolis Travias for selling such tips and speculates on the potential for criminal insider information to be leaked and traded. The host searches the dark web for stock trading-related content, uncovering an ecosystem of groups and services, and ponders the risks and rewards of engaging in such activities.
Takeaways
- 🌐 The script discusses the accessibility of the dark web, which is believed to contain 90% of the internet that is not accessible through regular browsers like Google Chrome or Safari.
- 💡 The idea of purchasing stock picks on the dark web is introduced, suggesting that there might be insider information being sold illegally.
- 📈 The video mentions the potential for making millions through trading based on leaked insider information about publicly traded companies.
- 🔍 The presenter explores the dark web to find any evidence of insider trading tips being sold, referencing a real case where the SEC charged someone for selling such tips.
- 🚨 The SEC press release from July 20, 2021, is highlighted, which charged a man named Apostolis Travis for selling insider trading tips on the dark web.
- 💼 Travis allegedly sold order book data and pre-released earnings reports, which are forms of insider information, through subscriptions on the dark web.
- 💸 The video describes how Travis was selling this information at relatively low prices, raising questions about why someone with access to such valuable data would sell it so cheaply.
- 🕵️♂️ Undercover IRS and FBI agents investigated Travis's services by subscribing to his tips, which led to his arrest and prosecution.
- 🔎 The presenter's exploration of the dark web using a VPN and the Tor browser did not yield any concrete findings related to stock trading or insider information.
- 🚫 The video concludes with a disclaimer that the exploration was for research purposes only and does not encourage any illegal activities.
Q & A
What is the dark web and how is it different from the surface web?
-The dark web is a part of the internet that is intentionally hidden from search engines and can only be accessed through special browsers like Tor. It is where websites are masked and secured for privacy. In contrast, the surface web is the part of the internet that is indexed by search engines and can be accessed through regular browsers like Google Chrome or Safari.
What kind of illegal activities are mentioned as being available on the dark web?
-The script mentions illegal activities such as the sale of illegal substances, different identities, credit card numbers, and various types of fraud or crime.
What is the connection between the dark web and stock trading as discussed in the script?
-The script discusses the possibility of insider trading tips being sold on the dark web, which could potentially be used to make significant profits in the stock market.
What is the significance of the SEC press release mentioned in the script?
-The SEC press release highlights a real case where a man named Apostolis Travis was arrested for selling fraudulent insider trading tips on the dark web. This press release serves as evidence that such activities do occur and are being monitored by regulatory authorities.
What was the nature of the services offered by Apostolis Travis according to the SEC complaint?
-Apostolis Travis allegedly sold order book data from a securities firm and pre-released leaked earning reports of publicly traded companies through one-off sales, weekly, and monthly subscriptions.
How did the authorities catch Apostolis Travis, as mentioned in the script?
-Undercover IRS and FBI agents signed up for Travis's service to investigate. They subscribed to his insider trading tips and received emails with stock ticker symbols and trade recommendations.
What was the outcome of the investigation into Apostolis Travis's insider trading tips?
-The investigation led to the arrest of Travis, and he is currently being prosecuted for his fraudulent scheme.
What did the script's author find when they attempted to access the dark web for stock trading information?
-The author found various marketplaces offering illegal goods and services but did not find any solid evidence of insider trading tips related to stocks or trading.
What is the 'Stock Insiders' community mentioned in the script, and what does it offer?
-The 'Stock Insiders' community is described as the only insider trading community on the dark web. It offers a platform for exchanging insider information and even pays individuals for submitting insider information that can cause significant shifts in stock prices.
What was the author's conclusion about the existence of insider trading information on the dark web?
-The author concluded that while they did not personally access any insider trading information, the existence of platforms like 'Stock Insiders' suggests that such activities may be occurring on the dark web.
Outlines
🌐 Exploring the Dark Web for Insider Trading Tips
The video script begins with a discussion on the accessibility of illegal goods and services on the dark web, which is a hidden part of the internet not accessible through regular browsers. The narrator ponders the possibility of insider trading information being sold on the dark web, given the availability of tools for white-collar crimes. The script then delves into the concept of the surface web, deep web, and the dark web, explaining how the latter is intentionally hidden and requires special browsers like Tor for access. The narrator shares an SEC press release about a man named Apostolis Travis, who was arrested for selling insider trading tips on the dark web. The tips were allegedly based on order book data and pre-released earnings reports, which Travis sold through various subscription plans. The video also describes an undercover operation where FBI and IRS agents subscribed to Travis's service to gather evidence. The segment concludes with the revelation of Travis's scheme and the potential profitability of trading based on the leaked information.
🕵️♂️ Investigating the Dark Web's Financial Underbelly
In the second paragraph, the narrator expresses curiosity about the existence of an entire ecosystem of groups and services offering insider trading information on the dark web. They question why someone with legitimate insider information would sell it for a low price instead of using it to amass wealth. The script then details the narrator's process of accessing the dark web using a VPN and the Tor browser. They explore various marketplaces and websites, including Alphabay, which offers illegal drugs and other illicit items. The narrator searches for stock-related information and eventually finds a website called 'Stock Insiders,' which claims to be the only insider trading community on the dark web. They discover that the site offers to pay individuals for insider information based on the potential market impact, with significant payouts for major announcements. The narrator also finds websites tracking stock trades by politicians and executives, which, while not illegal, raises questions about the ethics and legality of such activities. The video ends with a humorous caution against sharing insider information, emphasizing the video's educational and investigative intent.
Mindmap
Keywords
💡Dark Web
💡Insider Trading
💡Stock Picks
💡Deep Web
💡VPN (Virtual Private Network)
💡Tor Browser
💡SEC (Securities and Exchange Commission)
💡Order Book Data
💡Market Manipulation
💡AlphaBay Market
💡Hedge Fund
Highlights
The dark web offers a wide range of illegal activities, including the sale of illegal substances and identities.
Only 5% of the internet is accessible through regular browsers like Google Chrome or Safari.
The deep web, which is not indexed by regular search engines, contains private data and records.
The dark web is intentionally hidden from search engines and requires special browsers to access.
There is a potential market for insider trading tips on the dark web, which could be a source of illegal information.
The SEC press release on July 20, 2021, charged an individual with selling insider trading tips on the dark web.
Apostolis Travis was arrested for selling what he claimed were insider trading tips on the dark web.
Travis allegedly sold order book data and pre-released earning reports of publicly traded companies.
Undercover IRS and FBI agents subscribed to Travis's service to investigate the legitimacy of his claims.
Travis's service provided daily stock tips, including specific earnings reports before they were public.
Illumina's earnings report was accurately predicted by Travis's service, leading to a significant stock price increase.
Authorities arrested Travis, and he is currently being prosecuted for his actions.
The existence of an ecosystem for insider trading tips suggests a larger, underground market.
The narrator downloaded a VPN and the Tor browser to access the dark web for research purposes.
The dark web contains marketplaces for illegal goods and services, including drugs and stolen identities.
The narrator discovered a website called 'Stock Insiders' which claims to be the only insider trading community on the dark web.
The 'Stock Insiders' website offers payments for insider information based on the potential market impact.
There are websites that track stock market trades from politicians and executives, which is legal but raises ethical questions.
The narrator's exploration of the dark web for insider trading tips was for entertainment and research purposes only.
Transcripts
i mean you can buy pretty much anything
on the dark web right from illegal
substances to different identities
credit card numbers pretty much any kind
of fraud or crime that you can think of
so i was thinking you know how people
sell their stock picks on the regular
internet you pay lambo man on instagram
and he's gonna tell you which sneaky
stock he's investing into that's gonna
get you rich quick most of the time it's
some fugazi type of info just your
everyday local fake flexors you guys
already know the vibe but apparently we
can only access like five percent of the
whole internet through a regular browser
like google chrome or safari the deep
dark web is the other 90
and maybe you can start to see where i'm
going with this i got the crazy thought
of there's a lot of tools being sold for
all kinds of white-collar crime on the
dark web what if one of those tools is
stock picks but given that it's a dark
web what if there's straight criminal
insider information being leaked on
there of publicly traded companies which
if people trade based on that that's a
surefire way to make millions right so
this video we're gonna access and
explore the underground shady world of
insider trading tips on the dark web
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so there's the surface web which again
is like 5 10 of the internet and you can
access that through a google search then
you have the deep web which is a portion
of the internet that is hidden from
regular users that kind of contains
records private data just stuff you
wouldn't want indexed on the regular
surface web then you have the dark web
which is where websites are
intentionally hidden from search engines
and you can only access them through
special browsers that mask your identity
and that's where all the sneaky spooky
stories and all the legal stuff happens
so i actually searched stock trading and
the dark web on a regular google search
on the surface web to see what kind of
stuff would pop up if there's any
incidents of this if there's any
information or articles about it and
after some digging i found an sec press
release which the ssc is the united
states securities and exchange
commission they regulate the stock
market and make sure that nothing sneaky
is happening let's say a top executive
at tesla has some crazy information that
they know about the company maybe the
person knows that the tesla earnings are
terrible before they release so they go
to their cousin and say yo tap in buy
puts short the tesla stock before the
earnings because it's going to go down
that's insider information and trading
like that is illegal they put you in
jail or if the executive themselves
trades based on this insider information
that's illegal right to jail point is
there's a press release from them that
went out on july 20 21st titled sec
charges the bull with selling insider
trading tips on the dark web which i was
just mind blown this is exactly what i
was curious about basically there's this
greek man named apostolis travis who was
arrested in peru for perpetrating a
fraudulent scheme to sell what he called
insider trading tips on the dark web
travis claimed that the information he
was selling consisted of order book data
from a securities firm that was provided
to trevias by an employee of the firm
travis allegedly sold those tips through
one-off sales as well as weekly and
monthly subscriptions the bed was
selling a monthly subscription for
insider stock tips i present to you the
netflix for insider trading all your
favorite fraudulent stock market tips
all in one place and do you think
insider info that's kind of a big deal
and you can use that to make millions
off the stock market pretty easily
surely that that kind of information
would be pretty expensive well let me
tell you i found a copy of the actual
sec complaint and there's even some
screenshots here of his listing buying
my service will i'm assuming he-man said
give buying my service will give you an
edge by knowing what the big boys are
buying or selling 29.95 for one sneaky
tip the weekly plan for 99.95 you can
get monthly insider stock tips delivered
to you for 2.99 so he was apparently
selling order book info from some fund
which is like what the fund is buying
and selling as well as pre-released
leaked earning reports of publicly
traded companies the complaint says that
eventually undercover irs and fbi agents
signed up for a service to investigate
so they subscribe to his insider trading
tips netflix one of said agents signed
up for the daily tips i guess they were
a little stingy and started receiving
these emails which had the ticker symbol
of the stock and whether the trade
should be a purchase position or a short
position now it doesn't really say how
profitable or accurate those daily tip
emails were or if the information was
completely legit but it looks like
travis eventually started upselling on
his services charging people money for
specific earning reports before they
released and even looking to trade other
people's money on august 1st 2017 at
approximately 4 43 a.m pacific time he
sent one of the agents this email about
illumina's yet to be released earnings
saying that the total revenue was going
to be 662 million with a diluted
earnings per share of 82 cents and nine
hours later illumina announced its
quarterly earnings during a conference
call reporting a revenue of 662 million
and a deluded earnings per share of 82
cents and so a day later on august 2nd
2017 illumina's stock price closed at
197 percent per share which was a 14.8
increase from the previous day's closing
price so if you traded based off of that
information you would have made a ton of
money the proof was in the pudding with
some of his other stuff like the hedge
fund order book tips he was giving out i
don't know if you can really prove that
but with this you can't really fake
guessing the correct numbers of an
earnings report before it's released
that's clear insider info anyways
eventually authorities arrested 30 year
old travis and he's currently being
prosecuted but the crazy thing is he's
not an anomaly there's apparently a
whole ecosystem of these groups and
services out there and i want in i at
least want to check it out the only
thing i can't wrap my head around is if
this travis guy had real insider info
which the sec complaint says that he did
why would you sell it for like 30 bucks
a tip when you could easily compound an
investment portfolio of like a thousand
bucks into millions if you have insider
information that's legit so i don't know
but let's check this out by the way i
don't encourage any of this
entertainment investigation research
purposes only i'm just fascinated by all
of it and with this i looked up a
tutorial on how to access the dark web
which told me i needed to download a vpn
service so i did that it turned it on
for what apparently was an extra layer
of security then i downloaded something
called the tor browser which also masks
your ip and allows you to access the
dark web and with just those two steps i
was ready to go i don't know why i'm so
nervous about this i've never accessed
the dark web this feels mad illegal a
little spooky but let's go ahead and
start up this tour browser i began my
journey on the dark web by visiting the
hidden wiki that showed links to a lot
of popular websites on the dark web well
here i am on the alphabay market looking
at a lot of illegal drugs i don't know
if i could even show this on youtube wow
this is
crazy
but i'm here for a different reason so
let's go ahead and try to search for
stocks okay so there's this listing
which says how to make 131 grand in 21
days signals courses bots but i don't
know it doesn't say anything about
insider info just looks like a regular
signals group that you could probably
buy on the regular web so let's keep
digging i ended up going on a couple
other marketplaces which offered social
security numbers fake passports ids
stolen credit cards all at the click of
a button oh this is a different scheme
you can invest into it's not even a
scheme per se or rather an operation you
can invest into which is
illegal bitcoin mining using stolen
electricity and they're offering 50
returns per month for 18 months this got
to be some sort of fbi website there's
no way this is real hear me out a crypto
pump campaign i guess you deposit money
into this website and they're gonna use
your money to
run crypto pump and dumps yeah me fair
enough so none of the marketplaces i
found really offered anything solid
related to stocks or trading or
investing so i dug deeper started going
through search engines on the dark web
and eventually stumbled upon this okay
i think we might have actually found
something the stock insiders the only
insider trading community on the dark
web wow okay
give it to me baby where where is the
price of apple gonna go where do i look
whoa this is nuts i just clicked on a
section that says how to get paid for my
insider info and it says that if you
have a major announcement that's going
to cause at least a 15 shift in the
stock price they'll pay you up to 25 000
for your tip this is crazy so if you
submit insider info about a listed stock
on one of these exchanges at least one
day before that info goes public for a
minor announcement that's gonna ship the
price at least four percent they'll pay
up to five grand if it shifts the price
at least seven percent ten grand and
again if it's a major announcement
they'll pay up to 25 000
okay i'm only clicking this for research
purposes only but i'm about to press the
how to get a full membership button i'm
putting it out there research purposes
only
man i guess we can get into this because
in order to join this group you
apparently have to provide some insider
information that needs to be true in
order to be accepted
man stop playing with me what so i guess
this is sort of like a sneaky club where
people exchange insider information or
again if you're just interested in
selling it they'll apparently buy it off
of you and they're always being salesy
about convincing people to sell them
information suppose you send us
quarterly results you can earn up to a
hundred thousand per year just for that
not bad for just a few hours of work huh
so i couldn't access this insider's
website but i also found websites that
track stock market trades from
politicians and executives at publicly
traded companies which is kind of crazy
but you can find that on the regular web
it's not illegal because they're
required by law to publish this info man
i'm so curious if this is like a trap
made by the cia to find out who's trying
to sell their insider information or if
this is really an underground insider
trading range either way it's crazy that
it exists if you have a friend uncle
brother sister family member friend
working at a publicly traded company and
they have insider information make sure
you drop that in the comment section
below wait i'm just kidding don't i'm
not soliciting insider information that
was a joke stop typing hope you guys
enjoyed this video and have an amazing
rest of your day peace
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you
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