Historical — narcotics marketplace (U.S. case record)
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Incognito darknet market
Incognito is a historical catalog entry. U.S. government releases describe a darknet narcotics shop that closed in March 2024, with the operator later arrested and sentenced. This is an editorial profile, not a marketplace listing.
Catalog facts
- Reported launch
- Reported October 2020
- Public focus
- Historical — narcotics marketplace (U.S. case record)
- Catalog status
- Seized — Closed 2024; operator later prosecuted
About Incognito
The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York describes Incognito Market as a Tor narcotics bazaar that formed in October 2020 and closed in March 2024. The 3 February 2026 sentencing release identifies the operator as Rui-Siang Lin, who used the handle Pharaoh, and says he led the shop from about January 2022 until that March 2024 closure.
That official statement says the operator shut the shop and took at least $1 million in user deposits from an in-site “bank,” then posted an extortion message. Arrest followed in May 2024. Lin pleaded guilty on 16 December 2024. On 3 February 2026, U.S. District Judge Colleen McMahon imposed a 30-year prison term, five years of supervised release, and about $105 million in forfeiture.
The same release gives high-level volume figures: more than $105 million in narcotics sales, more than one ton of narcotics, more than 400,000 buyer accounts, more than 1,800 vendors, and more than 640,000 transactions. We cite the existence of that case record, not a how-to and not a live link.
Our older note said “Seized 2024.” The public record is closer to a 2024 closure plus a later prosecution. Status stays Seized so this name remains in the historical list. Onion slots stay empty.
Reported history
- October 2020
- SDNY says the shop formed here. Lin is described as a founding member.
- January 2022
- The sentencing release says Lin led the shop from about this date under the handle Pharaoh.
- March 2024
- SDNY says the shop closed; the operator took user deposits and posted an extortion message.
- May 2024
- Contemporaneous reporting describes an arrest after arrival at JFK. The later SDNY release records the prosecution that followed.
- 16 December 2024
- Guilty plea before Judge McMahon, per the February 2026 SDNY release.
- 3 February 2026
- SDNY announced a 30-year sentence, five years of supervised release, and about $105 million in forfeiture.
Reported public features
- Historical entry only. Tags in our file: Historical.
- SDNY describes a Tor narcotics bazaar with an in-site deposit “bank” and a 5 percent vendor fee. Those are case-record details, not a live feature list.
- The official release says the shop sold illegal narcotics and misbranded medication and was reachable over Tor.
- TRM Labs later treated the March 2024 closure as one of the events that concentrated Western Bitcoin-enabled share onto Abacus.
What this page does not claim
- This is not an active market. There is no live onion in our files.
- Catalog status stays Seized so the name stays in the historical list, even though the official narrative is a 2024 self-closure plus later prosecution.
- Volume and account figures come from the SDNY release. We do not treat them as an in-house audit.
- A reused Incognito brand after a prosecuted closure is a clone risk.
Public sources
How TorBible records Incognito
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