Rotterdam Woman Arrested for Dark Web Hitman Scam

• •A woman in Rotterdam was arrested for trying to hire a hitman on a dark web scam site.
• •The intended victim, Jerom, received detailed threats and lived in fear for over a year.
• •The dark web site has scammed users for over a decade without ever carrying out a hit.

A 45-year-old woman was arrested in Rotterdam on September 12, 2026, for allegedly attempting to hire a hitman through a dark web scam site. The intended target, referred to as Jerom, is a businessman who believes the order originated from his ex-in-laws after a contentious divorce. The woman paid $1,400 in Bitcoin as a deposit for the contract killing, which had a total cost of $9,000. The website used for the transaction has been identified as a long-running scam that has never successfully executed a hit. Despite the failure of the hitman to exist, Dutch law still classifies the act of ordering a killing as a crime. Jerom expressed relief at the arrest, having lived in fear for a year. The police have not confirmed whether the woman was the direct initiator of the order or played a different role.