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An 8-year-old had no trouble buying an AK-47 online and mailing it home
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0:33Now PlayingA woman in the Netherlands revealed recently that her young son once managed to purchase an AK-47 off the dark web without her knowledge, calling it “something out of a movie.”
“My son started hacking at the age of eight. And that’s when he ordered a gun,” said Barbra Gemen to Euronews.”He started to spend a lot of time behind a computer and he started ordering things on the Internet without paying.”
The concerned parent said the dark web purchases started off with something small, such as “free” pizza, but progressively the deliveries became more horrifying.
According to the parent, her son would use incomprehensible code phrases such as “Pitt is coming to our place” whenever she would enter a room, masking his dealings by communing with illicit actors via online games.
Gemen claims that the hackers used her son to also launder money for others.
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