Title: Crackdown on obvious Currency exchange scams Post by: Samarkand on May 10, 2018, 12:56:51 PM I was wondering why the administration is tolerating the blatant scam
attempts using "locked topics" that have been going on for months. E.g. threads like this where a user attempts to sell huge amounts of BTC through an "International Escrow" that is redirecting to a phishing site. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3395124.0 Another example is this thread by a user with several negative trust ratings that bumps his locked thread basically every day in an attempt to scam gullible newbies. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2757782.0 Of course most users won´t fall for a predictable scheme like this, but there is still the odd chance that someone loses funds by trading with one of the guys in question. By locking their topics after every bump they prevent other users from exposing their blatant scam attempts. This behavior has been going on for weeks and aside from the obvious risks for unsuspecting newcomers to Bitcointalk it clutters the currency exchange subforum. I know that the administrators have a rather libertarian attitude and tend to allow all kinds of things, but this is an obvious risk for newcomers to Bitcointalk and in my opinion a ruthless abuse of the ability to lock your own topics. The fact that the users in question already have been tagged negatively is a good first step, but newbies might not be as familiar with the trust system as most long-time users. Title: Re: Crackdown on obvious Currency exchange scams Post by: hase0278 on May 10, 2018, 01:44:58 PM Newbies should be fine if they are reading properly because there is a red note below the trust rating of the scammer warning all users to trade with the scammer with extreme caution. I think it should be enough to warn newbies to help them avoid that risk. If they still got scammed after that, I think it ain't the administration's fault anymore(since they have been warned). For the first case though, you can just report the post to moderator.
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