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I don't know where is the right section to post this, so if I posted in the wrong section, please let me know.

I just wanna share my TERRIBLE experience at PAXFUL

I traded my Gift Card for a BTC with a trader in Paxful, it went smooth and I got the BTC, but right after the trade, for just like 3 minutes, my BTC was sent to someone I don't know and I didn't even initiated the trade. WHAT THE FLYING FCK. The BTC address is 1KMfvoGyhRAu7xouFB67FZeRKzFWoBpEb6. I don't know what the fuck is happening and I'm terribly in a financial crisis right now because that money was supposed to be used for my brother's school expenses. I tried contacting Paxful but still never got a reply from the support team. Browsing the website's forum, I saw a lot of people posting the same thing about having their BTC sent out to a completely unknown person though I don't know if it's the same BTC address where my BTC went. I'm so fcked up.

DISCLAIMER: I'm not blaming Paxful here. I just want to warn people who will use Paxful in the future and who are using it right now.

I had the same problem with this site once, Its s fuking site, because i used many other site but my account was not hacked, scammed like this site.
What im now thinking is that, They scam people account itself and When people say that this site is a scam they use to say that "You were Not using a 2 factor authentication" LOL. I was Not using any 2 factor security code on blockchain, coinbase etc but never scammed like you scam your People.

I also recommend people to Be Away from this site.

My scam Accusation thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1362884.0

Regards

I totally agree, I'd rather use LBC than using this site again next time. No one would even answer from the support team. Bullshit

I had also Never heared anything from them too. And Dont even think that they will refund your scammed BTC. They are real scammer I think, Scamm people in a Cleaver way

They look people on their site that have not using 2FA Code and scam Him, and when he open a scam accusation they said you are not using a 2FA code. What the Fuck man Am I Not using a Strong Password?  >:(

I have heard name Paxful from some of guys who wanted to trade for my vanilla cards but i refused them not because of Paxful but for local reasons that i am facing these days with my business. I am sure Paxful is a scammy stuff.
If you wanna be safe trade here with trusted escrow.

What was the volume of Bitcoins you were trading ? You can file a dispute using their online support box.The usually reply within hours.It's too early to predict if they actually scammed you without having a resolution from their side.

It shouldn't matter if you're trading 1 bitcoin or 0.01, a trading platform like that relies on it's reputation for fairness. I have seen other threads in the scam section about Paxful before, probably is better to stick with localbitcoins.

LBC is great.Their support is amazing.Recently have seen issues on their forum regarding time taking withdrawal requests ,never happened with me though.

That is why i search for every thing before going into a business transaction. if you found out about the scam accusation before you send your btc to paxful, you might just have been warned after searching.
Everything is posted online these days even the names and the btc addresses are being searched just to find out who you are dealing with.

Payment is Not the problem, As he didnt mention But the problem is their fishy behavior. Let me Know does something ever happened with you that you have secured password on a Site and someone logged into your site? If you ask me its NO, But how that person logged into my paxful account and Scammed me? And Surprised Same thing happened to OP, Isnt it look fishy? Because they scam those people which dont use 2fa code because they have a reason to tell you that you were not using 2fa code,

Hello,
We are very sorry that this happened to you, please check your login history under account settings security tab. If you are using same password over multiple websites, it is possible that some other website database was compromised where you had registered before and used same email/password combination on Paxful.
We are not interested of scamming our users, we are in bitcoin long run as we love it so much. We care about security of our users and always tell to secure their account with 2-factor to protect bitcoin. We have alot of cool new features and new services coming out. One of them is Paxful Checkout which will revolutionise commerce
www.paxful.com/checkout (http://www.paxful.com/checkout)

Huh here they came with the same lame excuses lol.

Why dont you see my previous Posts? I did already Posted these Messages [what is expected man  ;D] Can you tell me Only One thing, I was using that same Password on many other site Why they didnt scammed me on these Sites?

Other forums talking about the same issue about paxful it's a total scam avoid them or you will end up and lose BTC they will tell you each time the same excuse on why you to robed they will deny any responsibility.

Please check under security tab in account settings from which IP addresses your account was accessed and write about it to our support or just click bottom left corner orange bubble to talk directly with support.
We have thousands of users DAILY using Paxful as a wallet and these complaints about funds being stolen are very isolated cases and happen very rarely.
Also please check our trade volumes as a proof that our website is used by thousands of users.
https://coin.dance/volume/paxful

So you are saying this is an isolated case? Seriously? With lots of issues like this beign posted to your community forum you're saying that it happens very rarely and it's an isolated case? You had the same reason for everyone complaining about it. I even have my 2fa enabled. This is bullshit.

You guys make no attempts at stopping scammers and failed to update the website.I literally explained to you guys at one point how easy it is to prevent scammers and what information to give out to help users prevent getting scammed and you guys failed to listen.

For the record, I am trading on Paxful since over a year now. Had my fair share of scammers, but Paxful always resolved disputes correctly. Paxful always responded to my reports of scammers (blocking accounts, providing IP addressing). I have no complaints whatsoever regarding the people running Paxful.

I'm seller on paxful and I never had problems.
Sometime we need to dispute trades but always win.
Paxful always respond to my mail within 1 or 2 hours.

But I agree LocalBitcoin stay better compared to Paxful.

What the hell?! If this shit is actually possible, then bitcoin is completely worthless to me from now on. If i understood correctly, he sent you bitcoins, you took them successfully, and all of a sudden coins went to some body else's wallet. That is too much.

Edit: got it. He is probably hacked/trojaned or keylogged...

Yet you still trade there...

haven't had any problems with mine.

have 2fa set up, and login notifications.

i don't keep much on there.

any disputes are usually resolved fairly quickly. much quicker than lbc.

don't use tor, especially if 2fa is not set up.

paxful is scam be away!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Max is that you? I heard a bitch wailing and I thought it might be you on behalf of your sinking ship LBC.
Whoever you are - you're full of shit :)

Have a nice day,
jecrypto

max who???

Don't play coy with me Max. Call me sometime  :-*
http://www.jecrypto.net/Dont-Play-Coy-Me.jpg

folks, the owners of Paxful got arrested by the FEDS for waving around AK47s on their Miami balcony.  Idiots. Of course this site is a scam

I reported them to http://BitcoinScammer.com

Yet my money has been safe there for months ?

One false statement and you're a liar. Guess what, you're a liar :)

Are you a owner of that website ? Too much of bull-crap in the contents.If you think you're trying to market your website,I've got a bad news for you.Makes your website looks less genuine.

yeah, they got arrested but no charges were ever pressed. Their business seems to flow normally and they made their best weekly sales in the USA last week.

PLEASE STAY AWAY FROM THE SO CALL PAXFUL.COM


THEY STOLE MY OWN BITCOINS AS WELL, ITS THE ADMIN THAT USE TO STEAL SOME RANDOM USERS BITCOINS, I HAVE EVIDENCE

I have never used Paxful since there is no available payment methods for my country ( except Werstern Union which sucks ) , but many trusted members here complained about the site
a noob account can be easily hacked , but when there are many trusted and experienced members sharing their bad stories then definitely there is something wrong
also I can confirm that Paxful is misleading  , for example when I tried to google paxful Syria it showed that over 10K bitcoins were sold in Syria
https://paxful.com/syria/buy-bitcoin

and as I said the payment methods for Syrians isn't that wide , I know only 2 people in Syria who know what bitcoin is
the 10K story is totally a lie , so even in marketing they are using lies

The problem with the scam issue is that we have no way of finding out which one is innocent because of lack of proof or any evidence that further prosecute the one being accused. Actually, you can be the bad guy even though you're the victim.

You're right - read my post here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1990749.msg24049451#msg24049451

I found something alarming and the entire Bitcoin community needs to boycott these crooks. His facebook page says Ray Yosef, so Mohamed Azab Youssef, just "Ray" and Ray Savant. Seems he has an identity crisis.

The CEO of paxful is "Ray" but the Miami-Dade arrest with his possession of cocaine, etc. shows his name is Mohamed Azab Youssef, but Ray? Searching Ray Azab Youssef come up with a health page and it looks like he also goes by Ray Savant. Read this: https://www.activism.com/en_US/petition/equal-treatment-at-funhi-com/97455

He was a former CEO of a company called FunHi and was secretly reading through the member's private messages "for weeks"!!

He is a total scammer!

I searched for Ray Savant in google and the first one that came up is this twitter page:

https://twitter.com/rayshealth

Busted! That's totally him.

A few images down is a thumbnail of a youtube clip - also totally him! Listen to his interview - he's a total pig!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bdOe5YPL6A

and

https://twitter.com/paxful/status/772539249920839680

He looks totally drugged out of his mind in that one!