Did The #2 Largest Dark Net Market, BlackBank, Exit Scammed?

So, BlackBank market, one of the 3 current leading markets has been down for the past week or so for “security maintenance” (Does implementing a tumbler ring any sheep bells?)
The most recent news posted on Blackbanks’ sub Reddit by blackbank_team, one of the market support staffer, seems to indicate that the admin, MDparity is no longer communicating, a strong indicator that this might be another exit scam in a long line of markets who decided to vanish with their users funds – with evolution being the biggest so far, this is the Reddit thread posted by the support staffer:

I know, you’re afraid and i’m afraid too that mdparity will never ever come back
But to answer all of your questions
My messages here aren’t usually pgp signed, but there are only 2 persons who have credentials for this profile
I can’t believe mdparity has decided to exit scam now, if he has done it i’m astonished, but i believe he hasn’t done it, some might have happened to him, since he’s not answering my messages
I will give him until the first day of june before declaring BlackBank dead, so let’s wait toghether
MrDoe

Since many markets are currently experiencing Ddos attacks and are currently down, it might be an easy opportunity for market admins to disappear without anyone noticing until its too late.
To be clear – this is not a confirmed exit scammed, but it sure starting to look like one, so we will be following and updating.

Pandora Market: Scam or just Down?

I get the feeling that we are going to have to keep this image around:

We really wanted to report something about this case – but this is the only info

We had some reports about Pandora market being down, both site and forum – probably again, “take the money and run” type of scam, we will follow and update if needed. it wont be a big surprise if it just stays that way.
We had few people mailing us, one comment left, we there was also a few people reporting about this in Reddit and in SR2 forums. Hopefully this will turn out to be false alarm.

Lets make this clear: Most of the (Tor) Deepweb Marketplaces turn out to be scam sites eventually – Silk Road1  & BMR  – were exceptions, people know that and try to take advantage of that – as it became well known that there is a lot of money to be made with scam markets – so use your common sense!