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This is historically where the Mafia came from, as a means to keep members of a price fixing cartel mutually honest. The old saying about "no honour amongst thieves" being solved by outsourcing to a body to provide a parallel system of contract enforcement.

Harder to achieve online but not impossible, though plenty of criminals make enough without essentially having to place themselves at risk of physical attack from organised crime.



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