AWazon Market

AWazon Market addresses. Open them in Tor Browser. The three are equal, pick any.

awazonip66usn4oq6vn5b3fqjyjjvavzu3ototnjbmi2wg6bocfc7aqd.onion
awazonwilo4vky6obkwrkv62vx24tnf5323pts6d7gohdoj4pjt646qd.onion
awazonvewzuve3emyxtz2z7ko6bjv6m6qieioi2tuvbgwiomn6vyryyd.onion

Spotting a fake address

A lookalike .onion is the most common way people lose a market account. The checks below take thirty seconds and work every time.

The four checks

  1. It ends in .onion. That is the whole protocol, and anything else is a middleman. .onion.to, .onion.cab, .onion.watch and friends are clearnet gateways: they open the onion for you, which means they see the login you type and the pages you open. Fine for a peek, wrong for a password.
  2. It starts with awazon. The market's addresses all begin that way. awaz0n with a zero, awazoon with an extra o, awazonmarket with an added word: these open other people's pages dressed as the market.
  3. Count the characters. A valid .onion v3 address has 56 characters before the dot. Count once, slowly. More or fewer means the string is not an AWazon address.
  4. Compare the last six. Copy the address, open it, and look at the end of what your address bar shows. The tail is the part retyping breaks and the part lookalikes change, because it is where nobody looks. If the last six characters of what you copied and what you opened differ, you are on the wrong site.

Where addresses come from

The three addresses above, an announcement from the market itself, or your own saved copy. That is the short list of sources you can stand behind.

Everything else is a story. 'Top search result' is the weakest source there is: a page that ranks for 'awazon market address' needs you to paste its version of the address, and the ranking is something the owner of the page worked for. 'Shared in chat' is close behind, because the person sharing it usually found it the same way. The check list above exists precisely so a story from a weak source still has to survive four tests before you trust it.

After the address is right

The address being correct makes the site the market. It does not make every page on it harmless: the market hosts sellers, and sellers have their own ways of being fake. The difference is that a fake address takes your password before you can tell, while a fake seller takes your coins, which is annoying and recoverable through a dispute, and a fake address takes the account. How to read a seller and what the account is worth protecting are the other two pages worth reading before your first order.