Joined: 23 Oct 2015 Age: 37 Posts: 3,201 Location: England
11 Jul 2020, 5:38 am
This is trending on twitter so here's a brief overview of the latest internet conspiracy - so you don't have to look confused when someone brings this up over the next few months. Ever noticed that internet marketplaces sometimes have very oddly priced items?
Internet heroes have spotted some odd listings on Wayfair (and other sites) with the following features:
- very overpriced items - normally in the $10,000+ dollar range - item is named after or references missing child/person - other numbers related to said disappearance - the pedophilia symbols we are all familiar with from "pizzagate" make reappearances
The items/prices are all being scrubbed as we speak, but the theory is that this might have been a way of laundering the money used to purchase trafficked children. You make arrangements, buy a crappy piece of furniture for $10k on some otherwise legitimate site - it comes with a child. Pretty creepy naming things like that whether it has any truth to it or not.
Joined: 13 Jun 2019 Age: 64 Gender: Male Posts: 449 Location: Connecticut, USA
11 Jul 2020, 7:00 am
As long as no one shows up with an assault rifle to rescue victims from the basement of a pizza parlor in DC which doesn't have a basement.
Counter-conspiracy theory (I just made it up now; has to be true, though, because you're reading it on the Internet!): Wayfair did something to upset the Russian mob and Putin sicced the 'Internet Research Agency' branch of the GRU on them. Either that or they ticked someone off who has a lot of time on their hands and is good at making fake YouTube documentaries.
11 Jul 2020, 5:38 am
