 | This article needs to be updated. (January 2024) |
| Founded | 2005 |
|---|---|
| Headquarters | Northern California |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Founder(s) | Bob Innes |
| URL | https://rentahitman.com/ |
RentAHitman.com is a satirical[1] website purporting to offer contract killers for hire. The site's domain was bought by Bob Innes in 2005 as a potential site for an information technology company to be set up with his friends (playing on the use of the word "hit" as a check on a website's security or the count of web traffic). The company was never started but Innes retained the site. Upon checking the site's email inbox in 2008, he found hundreds of messages requesting contract killing services, but he considered none to be serious. When checking again in 2010, however, he found a serious request from a woman in Canada. He passed her details to the police, and she was convicted for soliciting murder.[2]
Afterwards, Innes converted RentAHitman.com to a supposed front for a contract killing agency, though he included numerous jokes in its content to clearly signal the site is a parody. Despite this, Innes' site has resulted in several further convictions for those attempting to employ the supposed services, as he checks messages sent to him and refers any serious requests to law enforcement agencies.[3]
- ^ Baker, KC. "A Website Called 'RentAHitman.com' Is a Parody — But It Lures Actual People Who Want to Kill". People. Retrieved 25 August 2023.
- ^ News on hire a hitman services - Wetwork on onion, retrieved 2024-01-02
- ^ How This Joke Website Puts Criminals In Jail, retrieved 2023-08-12
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