🚨 Impact Market Alert 🚨 POSSIBLE EXIT SCAM 🚨

Category : Market News | Sub Category : Market News Posted on 2025-12-19 16:09:13

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This is a serious and urgent warning to all users and vendors of /d/ImpactMarket. Multiple major red flags are stacking up...

🔴 Current critical issues
1. A vendor contacted /d/newmarkets modmail stating they are unable to withdraw funds.
2. Impact Market is currently offline.
3. /d/ImpactMarket sub has been set to private.
4. Posting unexpected contests to lure more users.

Taken together these signals point toward one conclusion: a possible exit scam following a trajectory similar to Elysium Market.

/d/newmarkets Modmail /conversations/dc187775609081036003/

⚠️ Context That Makes This Worse
📌 /post/281bec60940cc593af2c "Impact Market is back!" posted in /d/newmarkets

Just recently Impact Market announced a "come back" aggressively recruiting established vendors.

This is a classic late stage and trust bait tactic used to increase escrow volume before disappearing.

📌 /post/9b6b89e551da369aa59e Sponsored Contest ($500 XMR) posted in /d/Contests

Deposit driving promotions immediately before withdrawal failures and admin silence are a known exit scam pattern.

📌 They contacted me directly requesting ads slot on /d/Darknetplace. I provided a 48 hour trial period and we agreed on a 1 month deal for a 150x100 ad slot. Initially they stated payment would be made a day after the ad went live. I declined those terms and requested payment upfront before publication. They agreed and stated payment would be sent within a few hours.

Since that message no payment has been received and no further communication has been made by any of the admin.

🚨 A proper explanation is required from the admins of Impact Market.

/u/impactmarket /u/steff /u/zephyra are hereby given 24 hours to provide a clear verifiable public explanation addressing:
1. Site downtime
2. Auto finalization failures
3. Vendor escrow theft claims
4. Status of user and vendor funds

Failure to do so will result in Impact Market being publicly treated as an EXIT SCAM.
No more benefit of the doubt.

All the users and vendors are requested to follow these precautions if the site becomes accessible again:
1. Attempt withdrawals immediately.
2. Screenshot everything: balances, orders, tickets, TXIDs, PGP proofs.
3. Assume escrow funds may already be gone.
. Warn others and clean your house.

Markets that do not:
1. Auto finalize trades.
2. Withhold vendor payouts
3. Ignore both buyer and vendor tickets
4. Private their subs.
5. Run unnatural promos.

This follows the trajectory of past exit scams.

Go!