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In this thread I will post everything about the community member EvBitcoinFan (real name - Alexander Haxton, Atlanta, GA).
In his thread EvBitcoinFan was selling Antminers S4+ at price 800$. According to his thread he sold some single units to some reputable forum members and got some positive feedback.

The link to his thread:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1037331.0;all

Impressed by that me and another community member "Ermak" ordered 6 Antminers S4+.
From my part I ordered 4 devices and paid EvBitcoinFan 13,12 BTC (3200 USD). EvBitcoinFan voided the shipping of the devices I paid for.

Ermak ordered two devices and paid EvBitcoinFan 5,27 BTC (1300 USD). One out of two purchased Antminers from EvBitcoinFan is on it's way to Ermak. EvBitcoinFan voided the shipping of the second device.

After Several sleep less nights I figured out his original personality. So I wrote an email to him. The email address I found was alexandnicolepr@gmail.com. And suddenly after that he showed online.

I am traveling right now and I will deal with my PM's when I get home, maybe three or four people got taken. Not positive yet. Can't really handle all THIS plus my bank and coinbase breach during a 12-14 hour drive.

Really whats on my mind right now is that I can put gas in the car home!





Also I don't know who I am speaking with, I have PM's from two profiles:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=399804
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=513390

In the middle of driving cross country. But if you were baited from my account here into sending funds PM me those PM's and transaction info. I feel terrible that my email, coinbase and account here were compromised. Still trying to figure out how many of my accounts on the net they were into

Let me just say that this all look too convenient. Couple of deals here and there, everything smooth, and then on a big order, boom.
Then, at the same time, you are on a cross country road trip ..  while logged into bitcointalk ..

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Im interested in what other people will think about this, but i dont buy it for a second.

Again, only empty words and excuses, you build yourself out of becoming a respected user is offline and in fact turned out to be a fraud ....... banal if not circumstances and accomplished a great job(Romanko), you'd just gone ..



we can simply return the money and do not wake spend our time on the user (Romanko)  ???

Sasha I am not the one you can play these kind of games with!

You just wrote me back few senseless words again.

You are really asking me which account is mine? R0manko or Romanko?
The one created few hours ago or the one from December 2014?
Who else? What accounts? Where are the proofs?
You are writing only empty words, nobody believes you - you have no proofs at all! The police will investigate it, if you don’t understand!

Why you didn't sent out the devices and voided the tacking numbers you sent me as proofs?

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I think I can answer that question myself - because you don’t have any more of them! You just can't prove anything you say! You also didn’t load anything to UPS like you said you did and put it on hold until the send half of payment. I have more then 10 screenshots of chat with UPS support agents that proof that you didn’t sent anything out.

Is that the proof that you provided me that you sent out the miners?

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You just made a label for sending out the goods but didn’t send them anywhere!
Thats is the real reason you didn’t want to deal safe with escrow!

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You were trying to sell us thin air, took the coins and now telling fairy tales your accounts are being corrupted.
All at one time..oh please..ah sorry, all except your favorite one - the twitter!
I am not a loan agency..you were ready to throw bitcointalk account away and forget about it if I didn't find you in real life!
You messed up here and you will mess up everywhere!
Don’t be childish and return the money! I don't care about the stories you made up to win some time to figure out what to do next, or how you spend your free time, or what is on your mind, you don't listen or hear me at all!

I want my coins back!

here is a screen shot of my wallet address from which I made the two payment to yours

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The refund address is the same!
18dEV9E8vdKrfpS1JeukGfrCMqty7vQeVX

And I am really tired of writing you begging letters!

I don’t use my twitter account much, maybe few times a year, but yesterday after I tagged you in my twitter message asking to return the money (at the same time you were online on forum replying us stories about being corrupted), I had around 10 attempts to change my twitter password..I got the messages to about it on my mail that some stupid ass was trying to reset my password 10 times!

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Who did it? Maybe that was one of the million from your twitter followers?
I don't believe you! Don’t play with me! I mean it!
You want my lawyer to tweet you? Or the police department to sent you an invite tweet?
If you don’t return my money and if it will be needed my present to take you to jail soon I will fly to Atlanta!
I have a valid US visa to take next fly! its only about your move to make the right decision.

P.S.
Your mom is a priest!
Didn't she tell her son that its a sin to steal and to lie?
If you’ll make me go to US I will certainly also come to your mothers church to hear her speech in her native russian or in english it doesn’t matter...and after it I will ask her how did she managed to raise such a liar.

P.S.S. I have investigated all wallet transactions, where the money was cashed and many many many more proof files

Then why haven't you even changed your password yet?

@ajareselde - Agree with you absolutely)

And meet our hero Sasha aka EvBitcoinFan
Or as he calls himself - "Social Media Person"

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Showing up as recently changed now. Surprised nobody else noticed it before. Who hacks someone else's account and doesn't change the email and password?

Not buying this story either.

...and that's the last time we'll hear from EvBitcoinFan :D

Why exactly were you willing to send him so much money without using escrow? Everyone else he dealt  with involved escrow being used.

Even if someone trades honestly for a few short months, chances are that if you sent them a large amount at once without escrow that they are going to end up running away with your money

Im not so sure about that. If OP has his real identity, he could charge him for internet fraud (or however you call it in the US), here where i live you can get even upto 2yrs jailtime for that.


He did it because he trusted all the positive feedback that user had to that point. I often find myself also sending first to such persons, without escrow, but not in such large amounts, mostly <1 BTC

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@op i would contact him, and later on his family with a few phone calls, explaining what happened. Maybe they are more interested in sorting this out than him. Really hope you get your money back.

EvBitcoinFan’s all accounts were scammed genially by...himself.
Only in this case he is able to get into to all of his accounts even they were "scammed".


I don't really care if he doesn't show up here. But if I won't get my coins back very soon I will fly after him to US and he will return everything back including expenses, moral damage, time loss, and also go to jail.


I was suppose to use escrow in this deal from the beginning and don't give him an occasion to have the first or the second part of the money.
If it was done the proper right way I wouldn't be in this kind of troubles guaranteed. But How come I know the guy want's to take away the money and try to get away with it. Of course its a lesson for me and for everyone else.


I am working with it right now. Its absolutely his choice to put his family through all this shame.

And Tnxs for support, its really a big hit for me and my fam.

ATM it’s not about providing more evidence here.
And I don’t want to make fun of the situation.
I just want my money back.

Had already consultations with the lawyers and US embassy employee how to act in case of a fraud from american citizen.

Sasha aka EvBitcoinFan - You are identified. I don’t care about your made up stories, i don’t care about your locations, I don’t even care if you vanish from Bitcointalk.org. I have all proves in disposition that can put everything in its place. Besides that I have been told that US authorities have under their control - IP tracking for ALL internet logs, internet traces, cashed pages (even after delete), verifications you provided with your real life ID's, virtual wallet movements and cashing services used. After they will put it together with all my evidence, and they will identify what was done, from where and by who. And for sure they will not buy your story of being a victim. Don't be naive. Send me back my bitcoins or after the police investigation you will return me all my expenses according to US court decision and also will go to jail for what you did. Take this serious now. If you are ok now this can change very soon. I have No more patience left.

P.S.

Your parents seem to be nice people and I wouldn’t do this to them, even for a million dollars.
So its absolutely your choice to put your family through all this shame.

Real nice of you to take my accounts getting hacked and putting me on blast without evening giving me a chance to deal with it.

There's a couple people I believe with legitimate claims to have been scammed through my compromised accounts. Romanko, PM me all your correspondence via pm to me and the transactions. This goes for anyone else which I think might be one of two others? At least give me a chance to deal with it. I'll work hard to ensure all my accounts to be secure the best I can and use some profits to try and help pay people back. Don't take this as some open call to PM me to take advantage of me.

Romanko isn't interested in anything about myself or my gmail getting hacked along with coinbase, here, etc. all while traveling
But I will do what is right. I don't believe i am responsible for this hack but I should not be ridiculed and made felt unsafe

Sounds like bullshit to me.

Sounds like he's sweating a little as his personal and family details have been discovered so sticking to the "hacked" cover story.

Just pass all the gathered info over to the police anti fraud department and let then decide if he was really hacked or just scamming.

I am fairly confident that once you repay any money you scammed that your dox will be taken down. Your hacking claim is 100% BS

Of course you can believe whatever you want. I contacted Romanko by email. All I ask for is be nice to people on the Internet and not just write whatever on the computer screen because they are far away and you never met them

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Im sure your priest mom will be proud when she gets the call  ::)

@markj113 great pic) there is no doubt you are right. I can use everything I have to pay him back for the pain and stress, and sleepless night of my fam.

I gathered all info on the guy and his family: their contacts, where they live, their jobs, what vehicles they drive, their friends etc. etc.
Connected with US embassy and had consulted several lawyers.
Wrote very polite and correct letters to members of his family asking to influence him.
My wife commented his post about his new flat on Instagram by saying that we know the exact address of his new appartment and asked politely to refund (after what he blocked her account).
Later I published in my twitter ( https://twitter.com/feeri4no ) a tweet that he should return the money he got from me and never sent out the miners.

After all these actions I received an email, PM on twitter and Bitmaintalk with willingness to refund.

I have given 24 hours for return of money, or I will do what I have to do.

P.S.

The lesson is : Don't let the people down who give you advance in trust, no matter where you live, who you are, or how luxury your life is - don't do this, bcs you will have troubles that can change your life forever.

I hope my example will help people to learn how Not get into trouble like I did.

Well done tracking him down, I hope it works out for you..

Romanko, you made yourself guilty with your actions (you broke a couple of laws). I am not sure if you are aware of this. Just to be prepared.

Even if you have been scammed, you are no better in my eyes. There is always a correct way to handle things like that by just contacting a lawyer and ask for advice. If I was EvBitcoinFan and my account was hacked (which we still don't know), I would sue the shit out of you. Even if I was a scammer, I could still sue you...

Hope you learned 2 things out of it:
- Use Escrow
- Stay calm, going crazy might cause yourself big trouble

You return the coins? when ?

It may be enough to senseless text in posts and excuses coin return and close the topic.

My approach would be fuck him.  If he scammed me I would post all the info I had.  If he wants to run to the police and explain the scam etc. then let him.

I don’t care what would you do If you were EvBitcoinFan. If you were EvBitcoinFan I would sue the shit out of you, and you would go to jail for committing a fraud. Meaning: you make someone believe he bought from you four pieces of Antminers S4+ for 3200$ and then disappear just until revealing his OP.

There is nothing criminal in revealing someones personality who got your money, voided the sipping and went offline. I am willing to go to the court and to give all the proofs I have. Now I am acting in the most correct possible way. I will not give even a little of calm to the guy until I will have all of my money back.

And the madness in your comment tells me you are trying to help to wash out his name without any proofs. You are talking and acting just like EvBitcoinFan. Can you proof you bought something from EvBitcoinFan as you claim in your earlier posts? Wallet transactions, PM screenshots, waybill, or any other additional proofs would do just fine to proof you are real.

Or what? You gonna chase me down (which is pretty easy)? :) I just wrote my thoughts and let you know that you might want to be careful.

In my country we say: Smart people take an advice, while stupid people will attack the advisor.

Thank you, advisor, for your advice. I will use escrow and I'll stay calm.

I would like to quote Mark Twain in this case: "Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience".

Have a good day.

Good quote, didn't know that one yet.

I just want you to know that I didn't say that he is no scammer, I don't know. I just wanted to say, that you are breaking the law, too and that you should talk to a lawyer if you don't get that money back, instead of threatening and so on.

Thats exactly where my point is. Totally agree with you.

As a normal and adequate person I gave EvBitcoinFan the opportunity to proof and to fulfill his willingness to fix this situation - return me my money back.

Thats it.

Thanks supertee, but really not worth the trouble. But I really doubt right now in Ukraine the way to go about things is lawyers. Extortion is more their business.

Dont think you are in a position to judge anyone.  Most forum members currently view you as a thief.

LOL. That's no judgment, that's just the truth as known to the civilized world.

Romanko, is in the Ukraine. There's really no worth in suing him for extortion. The Ukraine is in shambles and they live in a culture of war, bribery, kidnapping. Not new either, just now the world is getting involved.

You consider him trying to retrieve the money you stole from him as extortion.

Just like most Christians you are deluded, where are your morals on stealing, lying etc. Or is it a case of do as I say not do as I do?

p.s. I would love to see the I.P log of your account after the long distance cross country trip.  Bet the I.P hasnt changed, may be worth dropping admin a pm to check  ;)

The situation in the Ukraine is pretty creepy at the moment and lots of people over there lost a lot and their lifes are hard! So it's pretty poor to write such posts.. I don't have any understanding for posts like this at all..

Extortion?! Sasha, are you joking now? Asking to return the money I sent you after you voided the shipping and went offline?
Don't make fun of yourself pretending to be a victim!
You are apologizing for what happened in your PMs to me and bagging me to remove my posts and tweets, and now you have something to say about Ukraine?
Don't even dare to start this off topic!
There are ukranian armed forces concentrated on the borders with Russia to protect us from further attacks from russian side.
Don't forget to tell everyone that you are Russian, so don't you dare to judge the situation in Ukraine being in the US.
It has nothing to do with this.
You promised to return back the money I sent you.
Do I really need to post here all screenshots of your PMs?
Don't waste your time replying in this thread and do what you promised.
 

Just coming back from a week-end in Ukraine (Poltava) and have not seen any war, bribery or kidnapping. Quite the contrary - I found the people very nice and the city/country seemed fine. (of course things look more difficult than in western europe - and there were many uniforms in the streets - but I felt like it won't stay like that forever) That being said, I think Romanko takes little risk disclosing information about his scammer, nobody is going to go after him for that... But, EvBitcoinFan, if he is right, you are going to face real trouble now and in the future. (for example when you are looking for a new job)

Does anyone have the alleged scammers email? If so, let me know because I will release a full DoX containing all information(s) on him, his location, his family, his work, etc.

Can you stop carry bullshit and bring back the coins?
you can answer a simple question?


When you return the coins?

You are in deep shit man. Scamming people and trying to play the victim. Return the bitcoins you stole from the guy.

I know various people in the FBI, and won't hesitate to contact them if he doesn't return the Bitcoin.

Are you able to expand further?  If we can successfully get FBI to look into some cryptocurrency crimes, I think the bitcoin community will be much better off.

Bitcoin is gaining attention to the U.S government rapidly, the IRS stated that it is going to be taxed. So we're getting somewhere.

Thank you guys for your support! I really really appreciate it!

After revealing some of the personal info of EvBitcoinFan (his original name is Alex Nicolas Haxton, and he's from Atlanta, originally Russian) he contacted me, apologized and promised to return my money in few days. It was on May 15-16. On the same day he sent me back 4,4 cons. Since then no willingness to refund, no intentions to return the rest of the coins at all.

I stopped posting, I wrote numerous emails to him, it seems to me I used the word "please" in my emails more than hundred times. No use at all. Most of the time Alexander ignored my emails or wrote something like "what?" or "I returned all the money I had", or "I'll write you an email later/in the morning", or "I'm getting my wifi installed so it will be easier". I got nothing but some senseless responses. Got the impression of fooling myself to believe in returning my money in a nice way without anyone getting hurt. So it is obvious to me that there is NO sense to hold negotiations with a liar!

And for the record. About his "I gave back all the money I had". The guy is waiting his ordered new electric Tesla (costs over 70 000 USD). And while he is waiting for his new tesla the poor guy drives an electric BMW i3. He just moved to a new apartment with rent over 2000 USD monthly. There are numerous examples to prove hi is so phony.

While I'm making room to arrange my flight to Atlanta I would appreciate any assistance or any contacts of accountable people in police or FBI. There can be much more victims of Alexander than we think.

P.S. About responsibility for revealing the scammer's OP: he revealed it himself on bitcointalk.org by posting his reliable account on BTCJam where he invited people to follow his Tweeter and boasting over the fact that he has over one million followers. So if anyone wants to follow his tweeter - here it is @AlexanderHaxton. I'm sure he will be more than happy to have few more "real" people to follow him rather than to buy hundreds of thousands of non existing followers.

Greetings from Kiev, Ukraine - a beautiful country with nice, open and hospitable people!

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Romanko, if you don't mind me asking, how many more coins are still owed to you?

Sure, it's ok!
From my part I paid EvBitcoinFan 13,12 BTC by making two transactions (6,56+6,56 BTC).
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EvBitcoinFan returned 4,4BTC on May 15. So 8,72 BTC are still to be returned.

There is another guy from Kiev - nickname Ermak, who purchased two Antminers from EvBitcoinFan. Luckily for Ermak at least one out of two purchased Antminers from EvBitcoinFan is on the way. Ermak will receive it in 3-5 days. The rest of the Ermak's coins (1,77 BTC) are stolen. Here is a screenshot of his transaction:
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EvBitcoinFan ignored him all the way! Not even a PM from May 12. Not even an apology. No surprise to me.

Ermak doesn't speak English and uses translator for communication on forum. 
That is why he asked me to count his coins and mine coins all as one and to representing his interests in my thread.

So overall EvBitcoinFan owes 8,72+1,77=10,49 BTC

I confirm everything Romanko wrote above.

We are together in this situation with EvBitcoinFan who took our money and trying to make fun of us.

I hope he returns your coins and I have posted negative feedback against him until this matter is resolved. I encourage others to do the same, we should not tolerate these scammers on here.

Thank you very much for your encouragement!
I'm afraid Alexander Haxton won't be using his EvBitcoinFan account anymore. This is one of reasons why I decided to reveal some more info on him in my thread.

Really sucks to see this. Guess I was one of the few lucky ones who got what they paid for.

Good luck, Romanko!

Thank you Prelude for your support and encouragement!
I think that selling the miner to someone reputable like you was part of a plan.

Hey guys!

I am in contact with BITMAINtech since 2014 and made bulk purchases.
Now I made a request to find out if Alexander Haxton is their wholesale buyer or associated seller, because he claims so in his twitter, that he cooperates with them.

https://twitter.com/alexanderhaxton/status/589085711371898881
https://twitter.com/alexanderhaxton/status/588732986364796928

From another side I asked BITMAINtech confirm the following info: if it is possible to buy the new S4+ miners from them, after what add value of shipping to USA, some earnings, U.S. shipping and some additional discount and not to exceed the 800$ price (or even 3 BTC price - 720$).

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1035657.120

This topic was moved by the moderator from S4+ thread to scam accusations:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1076459.0

And I am currently in contact with BITMAIN representative and clearing the details.

Also a reputable community member contacted me by PM saying he has very serious accusations against A. Haxton.
In the middle of finding out the details. Will update the community when have more answers.

At this moment no news and no coins   :-\

Hello guys!

Haven't posted anything for more than two weeks. Used this time to gather all the info I wanted to know:

~ the origin of the devices A. Haxton sold on bitcointalk.org;
~ total quantity of the devises he had in his disposition;
~ info about his claimed (on his Twitter) "cooperation" with BITMAIN;
~ info about how he came with such low NON EXISTING prizes on 4+ Antniners;
~ info on his loans on BTCJAM (and it is ridiculous because of numerous scam accusations).

Starting with HOW the guy tries to earn the money.

He made a business project out of his Twitter account offering his promotional abilities due to the fact that he has over 1 million followers (more than 70 % of them he bought himself using services as "buy followers"). No surprise his email address is AlexAndNicolePR@gmail.com. Nicole is his sister and I'm not sure she's involved in his PR activity at all. Not a single sign of promoting anything. But anyway.

After revealing the real name of EvBitcoinFan in my thread on bitcointalk, I was contacted by a person who claimed that the miners sold by Alex Haxton aren't Haxton's property and appear to be stolen.

Now how it all happened... Haxton got 8 pieces of miners to promote them as soon as the were released using his Twitter. Those 8 devices were not for sale. He did not pay for them even a single dollar. He has no documents to prove he bought those Antminers 4+!!!

And for the record if he decided to buy one piece of Antminer4+ arrived from the factory he would get it for no less than 1070 USD.

A.Haxton managed "to sell" on bitcointalk 11 devices (having only 8 in his disposal), and shipping only 6.

Digitalmocking 1 sold - 1 shipped out
Westcoastminer 1 sold - 1 shipped out
Prelude 1 sold - shipped out
Tarzan 1 sold - 1 shipped out
Supert - 1 sold - 1 shipped out
Ermak 2 sold - 1 shipped out
Romanko 4 sold - 0 shipped out

So his "not taking orders on bitcointalk anymore, I will sell the devices on Amazone" is nothing but: "I'm a scammer. I got doxed and I'm not going to sell non existing devises anymore".

In total he is currently known to be in possession of 10.49 stolen Bitcoin (about $2500) that he collected in exchange for hardware he never sent. This is in addition to the several other miners he acquired and sold illegally adding up to over $10,000 in value total.

Also his scamming activity extends to BTC Jam. A.Haxton has numerous scamming accusations. People blame him of trying stealing Bitcoin from them. Not surprising. He tried to get 36 000 USD for a loan, but that never happened because he was figured out. Just as on bitcointalk he worked on creating positive image by taking small loans and returning them back and them BOOM he asked for maximum permitted size of a loan. Just join the service to see it or the BTC Jam group on Facebook and tag "Haxton". I'll add some screenshots anyway.

Just as I predicted there are much more victims from his. Unfortunately...

Some screenshots how people from Facebook group of BTCjam community in mid April 2015 post their experience revealing actions of Alex Haxton.
A month later Alex Haxton aka EvBitcoinFan pushed us to pay him in full for a 6 piece order of Antminers S4+ that he didn’t had, and stole our money.

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Put his information up on PasteBin, it'll get a lot of attention.

Thanks for the tip! Will do so!

By the way all who bought and received their devices from Alexander N. Haxton can ask him to provide documents proving his ownership of the miners he sold.