How to Verify Fawkes Market Links & Avoid Phishing
Phishing is the number one way people lose money on darknet markets — not exit scams, not vendor fraud, but typing a password into a website that merely looks like the market. Fawkes Market publishes its official links at fawkes.sc, and this page shows you how to use that — plus a few ten-second habits — to stay safe.
The only links you should ever use
These are the official Fawkes Market access points, exactly as listed on the market's own verification page:
| Type | Address | Verified |
|---|---|---|
| Tor onion | fawkesgrixgdi6mepgocuntt34o73okuasaxmuqyu4miskuhhzp2dgad.onion | Yes |
| Clearnet mirror 1 | https://fawkesmarket.ru | Yes |
| Clearnet mirror 2 | https://fawkesnetwork.ru | Yes |
| Clearnet mirror 3 | https://fawkesmarket.com | Yes |
| Clearnet mirror 4 | https://fawkesmarket.in | Yes |
| Verification hub | https://fawkes.sc | Canonical |
Anything not on this list — search results, ads, YouTube descriptions, Telegram messages, "mirror" sites with extra words or hyphens — must be treated as untrusted until verified.
The 10-second verification habit
1Glance at the address bar — every time
Before typing your password, read the domain character by character. Phishers rely on look-alikes: swapped letters (rn for m), extra hyphens, added words ("fawkes-market-login"), or different endings (.co, .shop, .io). Reading beats remembering.
2Bookmark the official pages once
Bookmark fawkes.sc, the onion address and your favourite clearnet mirror. Using bookmarks exclusively breaks the phishing business model: their fake sites only get traffic from search engines and careless clicks.
3Check for HTTPS on clearnet mirrors
Official mirrors serve valid certificates with no browser warnings. A certificate error page means stop — do not click "advanced" and proceed.
4Enable PGP 2FA — your safety net
With PGP two-factor authentication, a phisher who captures your password still cannot log in: the market challenges you with a message only your private key can decrypt. It is the single best protection against the phishing sites that slip through.
How phishing clones actually work
A clone is a pixel-perfect copy of the market's login page on a domain the phisher controls. Some register dozens of look-alike domains and buy search ads so their fake "Fawkes Market" outranks the real mirrors for a few days. When you log in, your credentials — and access to your balance — go straight to the attacker. Others spam "new mirror" links into forums and comment sections, especially when the market is under DDoS and people are desperately hunting for a working link.
The defence is always the same: the URL. The market's real onion address is 56 characters generated from its own key — a clone cannot reproduce it. On clearnet, only the four official mirrors listed on fawkes.sc are genuine.
Warning signs of a fake Fawkes link
- The domain contains extra words, hyphens or misspellings (fawkesmarket-uk, fawkesrmarket, fawkes-markets).
- You found it via an advertisement or a comment, not a bookmark or fawkes.sc.
- The site asks you to "re-verify your wallet" or re-enter your PGP key immediately after login.
- Your PGP 2FA challenge suddenly stops appearing at login.
- A "mirror" that is not on fawkes.sc but claims to be official.
FAQ
I logged into a suspicious page by mistake — what now?
Are link directories like this one trustworthy?
Why did my search engine show a fake Fawkes site first?
Related pages
- Official onion address — the phishing-proof access point.
- Clearnet mirrors — all four, verified.
- How to access Fawkes Market — the complete beginner walkthrough.