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.

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 ...

An entrepreneur as professionally careful as the Dread Pirate Roberts doesn't trust instant messaging services. Forget phones or Skype. At one point during our eight-month preinterview courtship ...

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.

When in June 2011, the New York Senator Chuck Schumer asked the DEA, (Drug Enforcement Agency) to overshadow the domain, the creator and owner of Silk Road Dread Pirate Roberts, a nickname based ...

In the classic movie, the Princess Bride, a poor farm boy is captured by an infamous pirate, and presumed dead by his heartbroken girlfriend. He is, in fact, not dead, but has been hired by said ...

Ulbricht, known as the “Dread Pirate Roberts” of the massive online drug market, was arrested on federal drug trafficking, hacking, and money laundering charges on Oct. 2. Behind bars ...

But authorities allege he went by another name, also plucked from pop culture -- “Dread Pirate Roberts,” taken from the movie “The Princess Bride.” Prosecutors say “Dread Pirate Roberts ...