Who is the Dread Pirate Roberts? Last Wednesday ... It all seems to have been an elaborate ruse, in which a scam artist (or artists) operating under multiple personas made off with $1 million ...

Convicted Silk Road darknet mastermind Ross Ulbricht has been transformed from Dread Pirate Roberts to jail artist. The website raising money to appeal his Feb. 2015 conviction and life sentence ...

On Apr. 9, 2012, Dread Pirate Roberts announced site-wide product ... Within a week, users accused tony76 of being a scam artist who never intended to ship any products following the sale.

Life Imitates Art Imitates Life: The Dread Pirate Roberts Defense As you likely know, the name "Dread Pirate Roberts" comes from the book and movie The Princess Bride, where it's revealed that the ...

The allegation that the Silk Road's Dread Pirate Roberts attempted to ... all appear to have been undertaken by a con artist who merely bilked Roberts out of hundreds of thousands of dollars ...

Silk Road was controlled by a shadowy website administrator with the moniker Dread Pirate Roberts, who prosecutors say took home millions in commissions on more than $1 billion worth of drug deals ...

The Dread Pirate Roberts, head of the most brazen drug trafficking site in the world, was a walking contradiction. Though the government says he raked in $80 million in commissions from running ...

The online drug trade looked doomed. But Silk Road soon reopened, with a new “Dread Pirate Roberts”—Ulbricht’s alleged user name taken from the movie The Princess Bride—claiming ownership.

The U.S. Marshals Service later sold off the bitcoin in four separate auctions. The Dread Pirate Roberts (often abbreviated DPR) alias was created not by Ulbricht but by a still-unidentified Silk ...

Similarly anonymous, Ulbricht allegedly ran Silk Road under the online alias Dread Pirate Roberts, an online alias taken from The Princess Bride novel and movie. Prosecutors are scheduled to ...