<ul><li><keyword id="12596922" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="rentahitman" source="Orion">RentAHitman</keyword>.com, a fake website that pretends to offer services to take out people, received an actual request.</li><li>This woman who requested to have her ex-husband killed was later arrested and also received jail time.</li><li>This however wasn’t the first request the website received as many other people sought its services.</li></ul>Wendy Wein, a 52-year-old woman from Michigan decided to hire a hitman to kill her ex-husband from this website called “RentAHitman.com”. But the website turned out to be fake and instead Wein was caught by the police and received jail time. The interesting thing here is that the website was made as a joke with multiple clues that would make anyone realise it’s fake but looks like some people are just very gullible. The <keyword id="12596926" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="rentahitman-website" source="Orion">RentAHitman website</keyword> has a very detailed description of what it does, its services and even testimonials from its customers. It has claims about being safe and private, and how it has over 17,895 U.S. based field operatives but all of this information is displayed in a way that anyone would realise the website is a joke. But not for Wein who actually filled out a form with all her information and also the person whom they want killed, according to a <a href="https://gizmodo.com/a-woman-pleads-guilty-to-using-rentahitman-com-to-try-t-1848115123">report</a> by Gizmodo. Wein then agreed to meet one of the field operatives who was actually an undercover police detective. How did this happen? The website owner Bob Innes informed the police about Wein who sought the service thinking it’s real. “She was hellbent on... seeking revenge to take out her ex-husband,” Innes was quoted as saying to the Washington Post. Wein met the undercover cop, gave details of her ex-husband saying that he’s a pedophile, and even offered $200 for the murder and $5,000 once the job is done. Wein was later arrested by the police, produced in court and is now facing a minimum of seven years in prison. The idea behind RentAHitman RentAHitman was created in 2005 by Innes to start a cybersecurity company with some of his friends. That didn’t work out and he couldn’t sell the domain name so the website was just left like that. Innes decided to check the website’s email years later and found some 300 requests from people globally seeking its services. Not the first person fooled Wein was the most recent case but turns out there have been many other people serious about using RentAHitman to take down people. Innes saw some legitimate requests and started working with law enforcement to inform about these people which even led to some arrests. There were some crazy requests like this one woman from Kansas who wanted guns, bombs or anything to take down the targeted people. RentAHitman is still very active and Innes continues to inform the police about people who can be potentially dangerous. SEE ALSO: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/india/news/police-charge-amazon-executives-under-narcotics-law-for-smuggling-marijuana-on-the-platform/articleshow/87843896.cms" data-type="tilCustomLink">Police charge Amazon executives under narcotics law for smuggling marijuana on the platform</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/news/beware-of-these-popular-netflix-scams-and-phishing-attacks/articleshow/87843343.cms" data-type="tilCustomLink">Love binge watching? Beware of these Netflix scams and phishing attacks</a>

This fake RentAHitman website has been receiving actual requests to take down people

<ul class="summary-list"><li>A Tennessee man was arrested this week, charged with accepting money from an undercover FBI agent to kill someone.</li><li>Josiah Garcia allegedly submitted an application to RentAHitman.com without knowing it was a parody site.</li></ul>A Tennessee man has been arrested, accused of taking payment from an undercover FBI agent to act as a hitman after applying for the job on what he thought was a legitimate hiring website. Josiah Garcia was arrested this week and charged with using interstate facilities in the commission of murder-for-hire, authorities <a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-mdtn/pr/air-national-guardsman-charged-murder-hire-scheme" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced Friday</a>. <a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.tnmd.94152/gov.uscourts.tnmd.94152.1.0.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Court documents describe </a>Garcia, 21, telling the site's administrator that he applied to the website because he was looking for work, needed money to support his family, and is expecting a child. The website, <a href="https://rentahitman.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">RentAHitman.com</a>, was created originally in 2005 by Bob Innes, as a way to advertise his cyber security business. Companies hired him to test their resistance to cyber attacks commonly called "hits," according to <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/04/14/rent-a-hitman-tennessee-job/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Washington Post</a>.However, the cyber security business failed, and Innes decided to pivot the website to a parody mercenary site after receiving many requests through it for actual contract killers. Now, Innes manages the site filled with fake testimonials from fictional customers, but he forwards requests he thinks could be dangerous to law enforcement, the Post reported.The court documents said Garcia submitted an application to the site in February, following up several times, and then reiterating his belief that his "military experience, and rifle expertise" made him qualified to perform mercenary work.The resume Garcia submitted stated that he has been a member of the Air National Guard since July 2021, and he told the site's owner and investigators that he was unemployed other than his Guard work.According to the complaint, the FBI directed Innes to inform Garcia on March 16 that he would be contacted by a "field coordinator" to discuss his first assignment. On April 3, an undercover FBI agent used the number Garcia provided to Innes, and the two spoke several times on the phone and by text before meeting in person.Garcia confirmed to the agent that he was not a member of law enforcement, and the complaint alleges that he hoped his military employment wouldn't interfere with his ability to make money as a contract killer. The agent told Garcia several times that he could back out at any time, and that he would only be committing a crime if he agreed to commit a murder and take payment.Prosecutors said in the complaint that Garcia only asked how soon he could start, and about the payments, and that Garcia told the agent multiple times that he had been looking into contract killing as a way to make money for a long time, and was comfortable with the psychological impact.Garcia is accused of taking half of a $5,000 contract and accepting an assignment to kill a fictional person described as an abusive husband at a meeting earlier this week. He was arrested after allegedly asking if he needed to provide a photo of the body as proof. Authorities said they discovered an AR-style rifle upon searching Garcia's home, and that he had told the undercover agent he was planning to buy a handgun.Court documents show that he came to the meeting intending to tell the "field coordinator" that he was having second thoughts because he had recently secured another job. However, once he arrived, investigators said Garcia accepted the payment and contract without mentioning second thoughts.An order has been filed assigning Garcia a public defender, but court records do not yet list an attorney. The Air Force did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Garcia's claims of being in the Guard, but a spokesperson did confirm his enlistment to <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tennessee-air-national-guard-hit-man-josiah-ernesto-garcia/">CBS News.</a>

Man accused of applying to RentAHitman.com and taking money from an undercover agent for a contract killing is arrested

<ul class="summary-list"><li>A California man, Bob Innes, said he accidentally created a hitman-for-hire website, per People Magazine. </li><li>Innes and his friends made the site to start a computer security business in 2005. </li></ul>A California man said that at least 30 people have been arrested after inquiring about hiring a hitman on his parody website, <a href="https://people.com/crime/rentahitman-website-bob-innes-parody-lures-real-life-criminals/">according to PEOPLE. </a>Bob Innes, along with his friends, created the website while participating in an IT program at a California business school in 2005, the outlet reported. They made the site with the intention of starting a computer security company — and chose the quippy domain "<a href="https://rentahitman.com/">RentAHitman.com</a>.""Rent as in hire us," Innes told PEOPLE. "Hit as in network traffic, and men, because there were four of us. We thought it was funny."Although the website was live, the group did not officially start the company, according to the report. Three years later, Innes decided to log back in and discovered a slew of inquiries.According to the report, some people were asking for the price, while others were seeking employment."There was even a female out of the UK who wanted to learn the business so that she could be a hitwoman," the 54-year-old told the publication. That's when Innes realized that he had unintentionally set up a website for those seeking to hire a hitman, PEOPLE reported. Innes told the magazine that he decided up the humor by adding phony testimonials and awards. When a potential customer reaches out for their "services," he waits a day to reach back out to them. After they show interest in hiring a hitman, he connects them with an "operative," which happens to be one of the thousands of police departments across the country, per the report. The website has resulted in more than two dozen arrests and a number of convictions, including a woman who reached out in 2010 about murdering her family members, according to the outlet.

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<ul class="summary-list"><li>A <keyword id="11949172" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="michigan" source="Orion">Michigan</keyword> woman offered a fake hitman-for-hire website $5,000 to kill her ex-husband, per CNN.</li><li>The owner of 'Rent-A-Hitman' turned over her information to the police, who arrested her last year.</li></ul>A Michigan woman wanted her ex-husband dead so she offered to pay a hitman-for-hire website $5,000 to have him killed, according to <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/12/us/hireahitman-website-cracks-crimes-cec/index.html">CNN.</a>Wendy Wein, 52, found <a href="https://rentahitman.com/rent-a-hitman">Rent-A-Hitman</a> online, CNN reported, and she believed that it was a website that could be used to help find an <keyword id="12722484" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="assassin" source="Orion">assassin</keyword>.She filled out a form in July 2020, expressing her wishes to have her ex killed, and later provided them with his address, place of work, and schedule, per CNN.The only problem was that the website exists solely to dupe people looking to solicit murders.Wendy Wein thought she was planning the murder with Guido Fanelli — who said he was the chief consultant for Rent-A-Hitman — but this was actually the fictional alter-ego of Bob Innes. Innes, who lives in California, started the website for an internet security business but it eventually morphed into an online trap for those looking to solicit murders, according to CNN. Now, Innes sifts through requests and hands over serious inquiries to law enforcement.Innes told CNN that he gives people 24 hours to "cool off" before calling the police.A day later, Wein said she still wanted to hire a killer, CNN reported. She later handed over a down payment of $200 to cover out-of-state travel, per <a href="https://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/2021/11/woman-pleads-guilty-to-trying-to-hire-fake-hitman-to-kill-ex-husband.html">Michigan Live.</a> <div type="image" title="Wendy Wein" height="437" width="583" msid="88243054" hostid="261"></div>Innes turned over her information to Michigan State Police. Undercover officers arranged to meet her in a parking lot and arrested her on July 17, 2020, Michigan Live reported.Wein pleaded guilty to charges of solicitation for murder and use of a computer to commit a <keyword id="11893298" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="crime" source="Orion">crime</keyword>, in November, according to Monroe County Prosecuting Attorney's Office.She now faces at least nine years in prison, officials said, per Michigan Live.Wein will appear in court for sentencing on January 13, 2022.

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