Mars Market — official link

Phishing clones of Mars Market circulate on forums and search results with addresses one or two characters off the real one. DarkDir lists only the Mars onions published in the market's PGP-signed canon, so you can match the full 56-character string before you ever connect.

How to tell the real Mars Market from a clone

A genuine Mars address matches the signed mirror list character for character. A similar prefix, a shortened string, or an address pasted in a chat without a signature is how clones get in — compare the whole string, not the first few letters.

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Why Mars Market gets cloned

Mars's size is what makes it bait: high traffic means a clone collects more victims per hour, so attackers register near-miss onions and seed them on paste sites and forum replies. The tell is simple — a real Mars login never arrives in a DM or as a 'new mirror' dropped in chat. Check the first and the last six characters of the address against the signed list, not just the prefix, because clones copy the opening run precisely to survive a quick glance.