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I'm purchasing Ripple XRPs for Bitcoins. My current offer is 2 BTC per 10000 XRPs (1 BTC per 5000 XRP, etc). If you are interested in trading, send the ripples to [moderator note: scam (do NOT send to any other address unless I PM you!) and send me a PM with what Bitcoin address to receive your payment.

The Ripple software won't let you spend the last 50 XRPs. Please note that I will not offer this price forever, as it will depend on market conditions.

After trading, I would recommend it if you could leave me a vouch here.

edit: Vouch, bought my 5k XRP with no problems.

I have had many successful LTC->BTC trades with Aahzman. Highly recommended, +1

Personally, I would sell my Ripples right now, the value of it is highly inflated.

Smooth trade, just got 5.7 BTC moments after sending him my 39950 XRPs.

Aahzman is a reputable and professional trader. Sold him my XRPs moments ago, great price!

Btw, did you get my last PM? I want to sell you my LTC too. Thanks

Thanks everyone for the fast trades. I've updated the price to 2 BTC per 10,000 XRPs, which should be a pretty nice figure.

I apologize but I am only purchasing ripples right now.

OBVIOUS SCAM. MARKET PRICE IS 1BTC=11K

SEND RIPPLE TO THIS MAN AND GET RIPPED OFF; hahaha so obvious.

btw testimony are obviously fake.

scam? I'm not sure how I got scammed, I've got my bitcoins. Kinda a stupid idea for him to pay more than market price, but I definitely have not got scammed.

If you think this is a scam, show proof instead of being whiny that someone is offering a better deal than you.

sent PM, will update

Sent BTCs, please update!

Do you still buy ripples with 1 btc per 5000 xrp?

Yes, I'm still buying 5000 XRPs for 1 BTC.

What is your ripple address? How many ripples did you buy now?

Where did you send your ripples? Can you give me his/her ripple address?

r9h3FfkBwHXmvZ2RGdbQdgGbBuJvu7r4gM

this is his ripple address.

check the first post.

There are many positive reviews. When you look in his/her ripple address there are zero ripple on there. How that possible?

https://ripple.com/graph/#r9h3FfkBwHXmvZ2RGdbQdgGbBuJvu7r4gM

this may be a scam

the people posting their trades went through could be sockpuppets (low post count alt accounts of his)

although, he could also be transferring them to a different account.

the extremely good rate leads me to think scam.

EDIT:

look at this guys post history, lots of the same "people" have been selling to him. looks like sockpuppet activity.

Because when people PM me, I create a new Ripple wallet so I can keep track of who is sending what?

But, If he/she is transferring them. You can see the transaction. But are no transaction not even one.

Nobody has sent me any XRPs to r9h3FfkBwHXmvZ2RGdbQdgGbBuJvu7r4gM, I have more than 20 Ripple wallets. I am not disclosing them for my privacy, for the exact reason so people can't see what I am spending things on.

Do you want to make your bank account public?

Stop lying. I ruined your scam and I'm happy :)

Just a friendly bump, still buying

I should have listened to you.

Since I got the XRP for free anyway, I've never really thought of them as having much value so I thought I'd give this a shot. I thought "hero member" meant something. One of the true value stores in life is reputation. Once it's lost, it can't easily be recaptured.

I've sent a few PMs to Aahzman and have done my best to give them the benefit of the doubt. The explanations given to me as to why an immediate BTC transfer as agreed hasn't happened yet strain credibility in my opinion.

I'm headed to bed, but wanted to post here for anyone else. Hold off on this one. Too good to be true usually is.

Hopefully this will be resolved by tomorrow, but I'm not optimistic.

(especially after a "friendly bump" and no reply to my last PM)

What don't you understand about waiting for bter to process?

You're acting surprised? Really? That's actually kind of funny.

I told you 20+ minutes ago I would post here unless you responded to my PM or changed your OP to indiciate you didn't currently have BTC available for transfer. Instead you bumped the thread trying to get more people involved.

I'll post our full DM conversation later for fun, but I'm headed to bed now with a smile. I got a nice lesson today.

I'd like to sell my 10000 XRP for your 2 BTC. I got my 20000 XRP on the giveaway and here's my post on that thread https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=145506.msg1834873#msg1834873 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=145506.msg1834873#msg1834873) and my date registration here on bitcointalk is November 12, 2012, so you just have an idea I truly have (EDIT)20000 XRP.

Here's my #bitcoin-otc profile http://bitcoin-otc.com/viewgpg.php?nick=hashkey (http://bitcoin-otc.com/viewgpg.php?nick=hashkey) though I don't have any feedback yet as this would be my first transaction for Bitcoin if it would proceed.

Anyone offering twice market price is a fraud.  Period.  Anyone that stupid could never setup a bitcoin wallet so please folks, save yourself the trouble.  This is as obvious as could be.  If you get scammed now after all the warnings in this thread, you deserve to lose your money and he deserves to have it, because you're dumber than he is.  Just saying.  STAY AWAY FROM THIS CLOWN!!!

If it sounds too good to be true....

It isn't.

Check my vouches.

You're stupid I warned you. Anyway it could happend to anyone one day... Next time sell to me idiot =D but my price is of course much lower...but a least this is real :)

Then where's lukestokes BTC?

Already got the XRPs

It is okay, I am doing you a favor, ripple is scamming anyways

Dead, I murdered them. Muwauwauwauwa

if you send me first ill sell 5k for 0.95btc

PM me if want the address. 8)

fuck you cunt scammer

Coinseeker, just hit the Report to moderator link on Aahzman's posts and let's hope the moderators would be able to review his actions soon.

What's really funny is the amount of time to create all these "vouch" accounts plus all the posts on all these accounts and hero account.  All to get 10k in ripples.  Worst crook ever.  Lol!

I'm a SCAMMER KILLER oh yeah  8)

the amount of fraud that is allowed to happen because of lack of moderation is both frightening and amazing

feel free to message me if you want to sell your xrp, you will actually receive your btc

edit: it isn't really the mods fault, they are just stretched thin. need more mods.

You did first call it.  That had to take days, at least, to setup.  Hero account plus multiple vouch accounts.  Could have been disaster if he wasen't so dumb.  MAJOR FAIL!

I banned him for the moment for theymos to review.  :-\

With all the warnings, I don't get it why there still someone who got scammed.
What is your current price now?

well i decided to check it out (i've been buying some xrp for a while and thats a gooood price :)) but since i was suspicious i decided to start small with 500 xrp
well i sent the 500 xrp and he says he wnats the 5000
he's not responding to me since i said i start small
and he's not returning my xrp
so i call scammer

Well, well, it seems justice has been served. I hope lukestokes will still be able to get his XRP or BTC back. Thanks John (John K.).

Thanks John.

Based on his transactions he already received a total of 35k ripples.

well i got (a cheap  ;D) lesson just 500 xrp to going back to only using an escrow

Another one? Read my sticky and learn to escrow..

I can smell them. By the way "Jetset220" is also a scammer. I won't be surprise some people will be scammed in few days... I warned people already and got fake accounts complaining on bad transactions with me .... anyway I don't care cause I use escrow so...

Those alts accounts vouching him should be banned also. He will also use this accounts to scam other people.

My problem was treating XRP like monopoly money and pretending it had no value. That was stupid. I never would have sent anything of value to someone without escrow, etc. Lesson learned. I had a momentary lapse in the "trust no one" policy because I didn't really care about the XRP I got free. That was dumb.

Here are the other accounts that should be marked as scammers:

crystalharmon13
fluffypony
kidcudi09
Brewins
alpha523
Kevlar

Can someone help with that? I guess I'll just report them all. Might not be a bad idea to track the IP as well and see how many other similar accounts have been set up.

Based on this: https://ripple.com/graph/#r9h3FfkBwHXmvZ2RGdbQdgGbBuJvu7r4gM it looks like they already transferred out their pirate booty.

For those interested in what a scammer's PMs look like, here's the dialog (note the timestamps to see the conversation in sequence):
http://s2.postimg.org/3p189wii1/Screen_Shot_2013_05_12_at_7_10_20_AM.png
http://s23.postimg.org/wkqey9riz/Screen_Shot_2013_05_12_at_7_10_46_AM.png
http://s9.postimg.org/prw1jape7/Screen_Shot_2013_05_12_at_7_11_02_AM.png

It is sad to think how much time and energy went into this for just a few hundred bucks worth of value. Not to mention the complete lack of integrity on display.

Disgusting to see these techniques filtering into our community. Watch out guys, trade safe...

I did not post on this.That wasnt me.Somebody hacked my account

If you did not post this up. How you get your password back?

you'll regret it SOON hahaha really you will regret it fucking couard blind man.

Yeah, same here... I'm changing my password too.

"Oh, my password was stolen." How are we to know the truth? So frustrating. We're left with "trust no one" which, in my mind, seriously hinders real community development.

FYI, if anyone's curious about ripple's official response on this:

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What a dilemma. If it's true, it's very likely that OP's account got compromised, too.

One should:

- ban those sock puppets

- or find out how three bitcointalk.org members got hacked.

Lol scam

so you didnt post the ps3 thing?

The ps3 thread is mines.I didn't post any of this.I even didn't know what ripple is and I still dont.Somebody did got into my account but from what I see they only posted stuff about this ripple stuff.I change my password so anything you see from kidcudi09 is from the real kidcudi09

IDK.I promise you I didn't do this.The only reason I notice my account posted on this is when I checked my posts and I saw this.I don't even know what a ripple is.So at the time I didnt even know I got hacked until I seen that post thats when i changed my password.Who ever hacked my account didnt change my password.

Please take my name off that list.I didnt do this.

They changed mine. I had to use the forgot password to change it. Then I went through all my posts, and deleted the 2 that I didn't make, both of which were related to trades I didn't make.

Can anyone explain to my why people sell their XRP outside Ripple for 11,000-12,000 per BTC when the price is better on Ripple and you only have to trust Bitstamp + Ripple?

Bitstamp lets you buy xrp, not sell xrp

For those who's accounts were hacked, shouldn't you take responsibility for that? Use a password manager, secure your computer, etc. Passwords don't just "get stolen" unless something else is going on. Is your computer rooted? Do you have a key logger installed?

Ultimately, the answer is for people to not be stupid, like I was. There are systems in place for exchanging value and this forum (clearly) is not a good system for that, especially with the "remember me" login feature. Reputation and identity are incredibly important. After this event, I've learned to not trust any identity here unless signed messages are involved.

where do you live

This is the first time something like this ever happened to me.Maybe it was because I was logged in forever.My computer is virus free(I don't download stuff,and if I do it is something that comes from a valid source)I think the OP was the person who hacked our accounts or somehow got into it.I understand why you feel that way but if you think like that then your being unfair to other people who are really honest(A lot are honest people that are being called scammers) but thats a whole nother conversation lol.All I can say is everybody be safe!!lol