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Have you heard of Renta-Hitman? It started in 2005 when a young man created a company/website that provided a service to find vulnerabilities in companies. At the time, the term 'hit' meant an electronic hit for a company.
The business was not a success, although the creators maintained the website and domain name (Rent-a-Hitman), which they rarely checked. In 2010, he checked her own emails and found emails from a woman who was looking for legitimate assassins to murder three members of her family, who she believed had lied about her heritage. She included the target's name and address. He passed that information on to his police officer friend, who then forwarded the information to the appropriate authorities.
They arrested the woman, and she served time in prison.
The company/website owner has shifted the focus of the website to being a fake contract killing agency. He felt that the 'killer' had spoofed the website enough that no one would take it seriously, including that it was actually subject to the Hitman Information Privacy Act (HIPAA), an offshoot of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).
I think it's very interesting. If so, read more details on the Wikipedia website. Here is the link: Rent a Hitman
This true crime concerns a woman who accidentally found the services of an assassin on the fake web service Rent-a-Hitman. The mother of three children (ages 2, 7 and 10) wanted her ex-husband's live-in girlfriend murdered, no matter how. It was the easiest way.
She provided personally identifiable information about herself and her subjects. The owner of the spoofing business passed his information on to the Bureau of Alcohol, Firearms and Explosives, which oversees these types of crimes. Agents contacted a woman posing as an assassin. Her emails to the assassin were persistent and urgent. She wanted the action to be taken quickly.
In the message, the woman said it was okay for the target to be in a six-foot hole. “I can’t lose my children,” she said, emphasizing that no one should know about their dealings. They continued to correspond with her for about two weeks until her undercover agent met her in person. Agents secretly recorded the meeting. She agreed to pay her down payment of $100, gave the 'Hitman' a diamond ring, and agreed to pay the agreed amount of $1,500.
Agents arrested and charged her, and she was jailed for six months awaiting trial. She accepted her plea agreement and pleaded guilty to the Commission's use of interstate commerce premises for murder-for-hire.
The judge sentenced the 31-year-old woman to prison. 7-1/2 years in federal prison. Over the next three years, supervised releases will be available. An ATF agent involved in the case said:
“The act of murder is a terrible crime in itself. But trying to hire someone to commit murder is much more egregious.”
Source: U.S. District Court, U.S. Department of Justice, Legal and Criminal Division