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Anyone? PM me, as I get an email notification and come right on to check (comes straight to my lame-o iPhone 5 and iPad 4 lol :P )


Got scammed……………………

I sell you a brand-new iPhone 5s with 64 GB capacity in gold from Verizon. It will be shipped insured from the USA. The packaging and all equipment is inclusive.

I can send it today, in bad case tomorrow. You got a tracking number on the same day.

Costs: 1.4 BTC

Wonderful, thanks for posting here. I will send the BTC to you right now. The transaction of 1.4001243 BTC will be sent to the address you PMed me at 8:19:xx PST.

THANK YOU!!! I will PM you my address.

No problem. Thanks!

I also can sell you a iPad but only 64 GB in grey.

i have a brand new apple ipad air 128gb in silver (wifi only) for u. i will sell it for only 1.3 btc. shipping to all the usa. escrow required!

pm me for more information

Let me get back to you ASAP RoKeBu, I might be getting a $1000 Amazon gift card.

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please take notice that my account "pazor" was hijacked.
do not any transaction, do not pay anything for items, do not make any deals

thank you for your attention

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And this is why we always use fucking escrow.

God FUCKING dammit. $1040 lost earlier, and NOW this. Well. I’M fucking broke.

Goodbye, cruel world………

Yeah…………………………… I felt the blunt force of that trauma first hand…… again……

Damn this sucks, why didnt you think of an escrow agent??

Because I’m a goddamn idiot. I’m too trusting. I’m a noob member here. I’ve been a member for a while, but really only lurked. I figured, I don’t know, that they wouldn’t want to deal with me if I was just going to require escrow…

And then I got burned earlier selling via PayPal too.

And then again with a gift card code that didn’t work. *sigh*

pazor was providing escrow services in the german part of the forum...

Always check Trust, even the Hidden Trust. Follow any Reference links.

I know, it’s all my fault, I’m not asking for handouts or begging. I’m just saying I got scammed, don’t worry.

I was just naive. I’m a kindhearted fool sometimes, when I should be more of a hardass. It’s just hard for me. *sighs* I’ll only do escrow from now on.

No escrow used? such a shame..  ???

Scammers are ruining the marketplace with this shit.  I'll offer my services as escrow for free just to help combat this crap.  Mods, I'll be happy to submit any information about my personal identity, where I work - whatever.  We've got to get more trusted people around here to keep the scammers locked out.

What happened?  And how did the scam work?

Just for other users to be careful

pizza, I would not think telling the mechanics of how he got scammed would be a good idea, only post things that a buyer should be doing if purchasing no matter what, that would be things that would prevent it from happening again. Sounds like Escrow was the way to go, and if he did refuse to us it, realized that  you did not lose a chance to get what you want, what you DID lose was a chance to get RIPPED OFF, and move on.

I know we are conditioned from child hood not to think like that with the old story of sour grapes and all but in this case it is true like 90% or more of the time. (probably closer to 99.99% lol) really sorry to hear about this  OP :(


***edit, the reason I say not to post about the mechanics, is we dont need scammers being schooled on how to scam here, so that any one that did NOT read this, would be unaware of the scam and now have a bunch more scammers on the market hunting them down. :(

Sorry about your loss OP.

There were no true “mechanics” of the scam. All it was was I wanted an iPhone 5s, he offered me an iPhone 5s, and I paid him for it…

Naively trusting a “long-time” member with “a lot of posts”. I was foolish and I didn’t use escrow. I’m just so… so silly. I’ve lost 5btc to scams recently, either on Localbitcoins, here, or elsewhere.

It seems almost everyone messaging the “newer” members (and I’m not a NEW member, I just lurk instead of post mostly…


I’m sorry, everyone. I should’ve used an escrow. I’m really so sorry.

@ionux
That’s so kind of you. Thank you. I’m sure that will help people a lot too. I just hope they’re not like me and they actually take advantage of this.

Yeah man, no problem.  Very sorry that happened to you.  Not that it's much consolation but hopefully other members will see what happened to you and will keep it from happening to others.  :-\

I have to give kudos to the OP for coming forward on this, many people are scammed and never talk about it because they feel foolish for having it happen and refuse to talk about it for this reason, leaving the scammers free to continue their operations unpunished as well as not raising awareness on the importance of using protection for doing business.

Thank you for the alert Peptomax and the bravery it took to come forward and let us know.

I know I made a mistake. I know I was stupid. Gotta keep people in-the-know…

Thank you for the compliment. :)

I still sort of want to buy that phone and iPad though lol. I think I’ll just use Gyft…


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I got themmmm. :) Thank you, guys. You’re so darn kind. I’m completely broke and out of bitcoin now, but it was worth it to get my iPad and iPhone…. :)

I just wish I didn’t fill the pockets of scammers with 5 BTC. :( Sorry for fueling the fire, everyone. For that, I truly do apologize.

As its been said earlier 'prevention is better then a cure, use escrow'
Its for the both buyers and sellers protection !!!

Yeah, I know. I’ve already apologized though. I mean, really, I’ve made it clear I understand where I went wrong.

Don’t worry. I won’t do it again.

sorry for your loss
escrow is a must

Unlucky man, If you dont mind me asking, How did you get scammed on LocalBitcoins.com?
I use that site quite a lot.

PayPal idiocy. You think you know someone… until you don’t.

i was burned on ebay using paypal.  chargeback - won't do that again.