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WHAT HAPPENED
This user "Thatstinks" is probably the most creative scammer I have ever encountered.

Here is the story.
"Thatstinks" sent me $514 through PayPal. In return I sent him 1 Bitcoin as agreed upon. At the time this was worth around $440. Soon after the transaction this user was messaging me pretending to have not received the 1 Bitcoin. I was confused and did not know what he was saying. He then went on to file a scam accusation against me. I was utterly confused and I went to bed. The next morning I opened my PayPal account and learned that he had filed a claim against me. He sent me a message telling me that the claim included a document which contained a link to the scam accusation, and screenshots of our Bitcointalk conversation. He did all this to make me look like a scammer, so he could reverse the transaction.

When I called up PayPal they told me that the user had filed a special claim where PayPal will investigate and decide the outcome. The user then went on to spam my selling thread with negative comments acting as if he had been scammed, while providing no proof that he had been scammed.
He will most probably win the claim, so at this point I can affirmatively say that I have been scammed.

Scammers Profile Link
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=510478

Reference Link
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1279816.0

Amount Scammed
1BTC

Payment Method
Bitcoins

Proof of Payment
https://blockchain.info/tx/9e464693948b7fd289eb99b18b56454af6c023063c6a27b4064dbad3afcfc202
The other transaction was a transaction to my other Bitcoin wallet, it was my personal transaction.


ADDITIONAL NOTES
My advice to other users is this, NEVER TRADE THROUGH PAYPAL!

why did you accept paypal in first place?  ???

Either report the PM where he sends you his BTC address (https://i.imgur.com/cWdA0lH.png) and ask an admin to confirm it's legit
or grant a trusted member temporal access to your account to confirm it.

If you want I can confirm whether that PM is legit or not. If you agree encrypt your account password here https://keybase.io/encrypt#ecuamobi and PM it to me.

Once you prove that PM is legit you need to sign a message with the address 1PTSLTsCgiT9nM3NCvh7bBK7NhA65myNZj to prove you're the one who sent that BTC.

Alright sent you a PM, feel free to expose this guy as not just a thief but a thief who then tries to blame the victim and photo shopped that address and paypal "Hold". I mean I am reading his snap shots and he even added words and phrases I never use...this guy went the extra mile to steal $514 I tell you that much.

The absolute boldness of his lies is unmatched...I mean he is crying chargeback when no dispute or charge back has been started even, I am holding out hope (foolishly perhaps) so he is caught in yet another lie.

Despite being online after my previous post OP hasn't replied. Thatstinks has and I've accessed his account. What I can find is this:


I find the sent address was 1DnYnC6JKfFh7BgvmT4pbhMZqZhG9MDFRp (https://insight.bitpay.com/address/1DnYnC6JKfFh7BgvmT4pbhMZqZhG9MDFRp) which doesn't have any balance at the moment. I can't find any message with the address 1FzeEZfYzfGkegcF2c4TSE11Zbz5kmhfD4, which of course could have been deleted, but I doubt it.

I also found this interesting message:

This transaction sends 0.34534362 to the address 14scb34BPBeNx8pkS6tSrqn6f77A1v4kiQ and 0.65455638 as change to itself (1FzeEZfYzfGkegcF2c4TSE11Zbz5kmhfD4). This confirms OP is lying.

Here's the full conversation I can find at the moment:
Sent (https://i.imgur.com/vWbiQKR.png)
Received (https://i.imgur.com/FgnQ5Gb.png)

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OP, if you think an important message was deleted by thatstinks feel free to allow me temporal access to your account.

Thank you thank you thank you!

So now that there is proof I am not lying and the seller never sent to the right address (if he tried at all) does that mean you will honor your word Ninjahitoko and refund me or send my 1 BTC + $14 or 1.04 BTC?

I am not holding my breath but I hope he sends it and I don't have to fight with pp.

Yes sure! Then ask a very trusted member to access your account and verify everything  ::)

Hahaha. That's funny; you just confirmed that you were lying.

Do you really think that anyone will believe you if you didn't even PM EcuaMobi with one of the only ways you'd prove that you weren't the scammer?

If you didn't even address the fact that you sent an amount of bitcoins that wasn't even agreed upon to an address that wasn't agreed upon?

If you changed the transaction TxID from your PM to the original post?

...

You scammers really underestimate us way too much, to the extent that I feel sorry for you.

Ah dude, you're so wrong.  So so wrong.  You kinda blew any argument you might have had with that one.

You take your scamming with a passion I have never seen before. You want your money back lol I feel so bad for you, stealing $514 from me, not sending the BTC to my address, trying to flip the script yet being caught in lies, god help you.

Login times prove nothing. If you feel that strongly about EcuaMobi being an alt of Thatstinks (which he isn't), have another trusted member access your account, or is everyone else here an alt of thatstinks too?

Bump

Coincidence. I'm sure that I log in and out at the same time as someone on this forum, though this is my only active account.

Also, I can read your text without the bolding and red. It doesn't emphasize anything when you put it in literally all of your posts.

On a 5 user board maybe. There are currently 2627 users online. No 2760... no 2756 now, so 4 more alts.

F5... 2605, F5 2632, found 27 more alts...

You are officially a joke send me my BTC to the address I gave you and be man I am sure EcuaMobi will not be impressed either.

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I am a women BTW, in our culture Girish Sri Ganesh is a female name.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GQgh-RqQbXg
I think you are against female rights. Be a woman is the same thing as being a man. Women are not inferior to men in any way.[/color]

Oh, God. You let someone with 30 activity to send you PP money. Are you serious?
I doubt that you'll win in this case, because PP doesn't approve BTC at all.

Wasn't it too good to be true? BTC was $440 as you say, and he gave you 500+..

I strongly suggest you read the other thread about him and this one before thinking this scammer Ninjahitoko has any truth to his words. He has been caught photo shopping PM's Paypal and faking a BTC transaction. I have given trusted member here access to my account to view PMs and he did posting them all, Ninjahitoko refuses because he knows within his PM's are the address I gave him and prove he is lying. The ledger doesn't lie, he has sent me NOTHING and used a transaction showing roughly 1 BTC trade to use as proof but the problem was it wasnt my address and so he photo shopped and faked it for proof but refuses to allow anyone access to confirm it, why? Because he is lying!

Not only did he steal $514 from me and 1.04 BTC he then tries to ruin my name, disgusting of him to do this a real beauty this one.

Except it's not against the rules here you stupid cow.  Neither is scamming, which is why you haven't been banned.  You did get nice red negative trust which you're probably trying to camouflage with the red font.  Good luck with that.

bump

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Don't you guys find it odd that somebody pays $514 for something that can be bought day and night for $440 ?
Why would you do that?
I'm just curious about this little detail, regardless who's the scammer et all.

OK something's up. Ninja's alt?

1) Bumping his thread
2) 90% of your posts are in Ninja's threads or related to him/her
3) Accusing him of being a scammer
4) Defending his rep after accusing him
5) Supposedly tipping him 1 BTC?!

And starting a thread saying I'm his alt.  What's up with bumping this thread, anyway?  There's absolutely no reason to.