You can pay them with just about anything these days. You won't find such news, but I'm sure that some would accept bitcoin.
One can find all kinds of things (including these IDs) in the 'Deep Web'.
And I stay on the surface web for a reason

This is just the ordinary web. I don't think that anyone calls it the 'surface web'.

Indeed, you should stay away from the Deep Web and all related illegal activity there.
Well, I call it the surface web. It's just the antonym to "deep", so that's my thought process.
The deep web isn't very cool anyways, I have no interest in anything there anyways. Anything that I am interested in that may be available there I can find legally and from a licensed company.
