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I don't believe that Wardrick ever completed my request of signing a bitcoin address. I asked him to do this after the question of his account being transferred ownership came to light; the thread about him being TF was not replied to but it is possible that he signed a message/proved his ownership later.

Considering that his account is hacked/banned/locked. No.

He should be removed from DT until a time that it can be confirmed that the original Wardrick is still in control of the account. He left several negative trust reports on people's profiles. It needs to be determined if they were left by the real Wardrick or an imposter.

Yes, if the account is not controlled by original owner then he should be removed from DT, because previous/real owner was granted this place and it should not be transfered to new owner

We have no idea who the new owner is/was so if it's proven that it isn't/wasn't the real Wardrick then all of the NT he left upon returning must be removed & he must be removed from DT.

I think we should wait a reply from theymos, he is checking the account.

Feedbecks since his return should be removed and account should be locked until the real wardrick comes back. No need to exclude him from default trust unless there is evidence that he has been hacked before may.

He can create another account to sign the message or email Theymos, if he comes back

theymos has already locked it :



For the question about defaultTrust, maybe he will be removed (for security reason) once the admin will verify the account.

Can I get my NT removed by his hacked account please

did you ?


Is he ?


btw only him and theymos can remove trust feedbacks afaik.

Just hit up jonald and Dooglus for some offset feedbacks  ;)

theymos is investigating everything and I'm sure that they are discussing what to do with his feedbacks and if he should remain in DT

just be patient

Some people had to wait months until they got cleared from their unfair scammer alert in their profile{like me}

Ok thanks everyone hopefully it gets taken care of

I think if original Wardrick doesn't sign the message to prove his identity,   theymos or badbear should  investigate it and give us results to clear our confusion.

Ya Wardrick hasn't come on in a few days, hacked account seems very likely at this time

theymos said already that he locked his account, so maybe he can't login. What happened with his account is quite confusing I think, it's possible it has been hacked multiple times along with the accounts email address (allegedly) so maybe the real Wardrick has no idea his account was compromised. Anyone know how to contact the original owner?

Indeed, it seems to me that all of the recent Wardick activity was probably due to the account being compromised and/or sold and that the little scheme about the account being attacked was in order to throw-off the scent.  I'm glad that Theymos seems to have figured it out.

If the original Wardrick were at all around, wouldn't he log in with a newbie account and prove his identity with a signed message?

@TSP - Any news on when/if the presumably fake Wardrick NT on your account will be removed?

None that I've heard.  And I'm not really a big deal around here so I don't think it's anyone's priority---which is fine.  I think that once Theymos confirms that the recent Wardrick activity was done by an imposter then he and Badbear have to work out how to proceed.  For all I know, they're discussing this now.  Presumably, BB wants all of the old Wardrick's feedback intact and on default trust so simply removing him from his trust list only partially solves the problem.  Beyond negative on me (and maybe a few others?) I know that ndnhc had an old positive removed by the recent "Wardrick".  I think someone mentioned upthread that in some special cases, Theymos has deleted/edited feedback.  In my opinion, it would be nice to restore the state of the Wardrick account's feedback to what it was before the recent flurry of activity from the imposter.

I don't think his account was sold because I would never buy a DT account without the private keys and emails associated with the account, because there would be a chance that some people probably would find out that the account might have been sold, sooner or later

I think that hacked is the most likely option

Looks like hacked since he isn't signing his message as requested

Has the real Wardrick even questioned why his account is locked yet?
Has he submitted a account recovery request?

His account was inactive for quite a while, so I don't think that the real owner has even noticed yet. He may have left the forum.

Maybe the real Wardrick sold the account ages ago - just a thought.

but why the owner didn't buy his private keys too?

and why he is not using the account anymore?

DT accounts are pretty expensive to have one just without use in your inventory

If ages ago = before he becomes DT, then I don't thin it matters