"ACE", the Prime Marketplace admin, is trying to extort users. Ignore him.

By Terry Werner
September 29, 2026

As most of us know by now, the tiny Prime Market has exit scammed. Now, the former admin has thretended to leak the data of users who do not pay a random. It's a bluf, and no one should fall for it.

So a few of you are about to send this guy $100 to "save" yourselves. Stop for a second.

He posted it himself on his own LDN. Buyers and vendors have until October 1 to fork over $100, or he releases everything he's got on you. Names, addresses, order history, whatever. All the stuff he spent years telling us he never saved in the first place.

That's not him closing up shop politely. That's a ransom note typed out on the front page. From the same guy who built the whole thing on "no logs, no data, no surveillance." Funny how that works.

Ask yourself the obvious question. If he really kept nothing, what's he releasing on October 1? What exactly is he charging you to delete? The second that deadline went up, he told on himself. He had your data the whole time, and he's fine torching every last one of us to get a payday. That privacy pitch was the sales pitch. This is the invoice.

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Don't pay. Not buyers, not vendors, nobody. Sending him money doesn't make you safe, it just paints a target on you. It says "this one's still active, still funded, still scared." You think that's the end of it? Give it a week. There's always a second ask. A guy holding your entire file doesn't suddenly grow a conscience because a hundred bucks hit his wallet. You pay, he pockets it, October 1 still shows up, and now he's got your money and your data.

If you are worried, here's what to actually do:

Assume everything you ever did on that site is already in his hands. Don't plan around "if," plan around "when."

New PGP keys, starting now. Anything you used there is toast.

Change your passwords, especially if you reused them anywhere else. Don't be the guy who didn't.

Get your shit in order now. If the dump drops, it drops. People get through this by being ready, not by paying him off.

Watch out for the clone sites. Inside a week there'll be new domains offering "data deletion support." Same clown, different URL.

And tell people. The quiet ones who never open the forum are the ones this screws over the hardest.

Vendors, this one's for you. He's dangling your entire OP in front of you on a countdown and asking for a fee he keeps either way. That account's dead regardless. Start clean somewhere else and don't look back.

We've watched this exact ending before. Sudden closing, last-minute "fee" for a favor that costs him nothing, and a countdown so the panic does the selling for him. That $100 isn't mercy. It's a toll booth on his way out the door.

Bottom line, and then I'll shut up: he just told you what he took. Believe him. The data's real, the deadline's real, and your money changes nothing about either one.

Don't pay for his exit.

Dread admin HugBunter agrees: "Everyone ignore this, don't pay a thing. I can very easily leak everything on him in return, its an eye for an eye on this type of doxxing now. Exit scamming with $4 so tries to pull this shit... insane."

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