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How do you spot a scammer? When an escrow is used and the seller dodges the escrow in the last minute.
I warn everyone to use escrow all the way.

I was planning to buy an info item; AGC method at 65% rate; and the price was announced at $150.

He gave up on the last minute.
With these 2 excuses:
-no longer selling it (LOL)
-already sold it to a couple people

Another excuse is he said I took too long which is retarded. Within the last 5 days I was looking for an escrow and eventually found an escrow early yesterday. He agreed to sell it WITHIN the 5 days.

I'm a noob but been here for years, and don't sell anything.

On the last minute, he didn't attend the escrow and came up with all the excuses.
Thanks to the escrow: DarkStar_, I was able to protect my $150.

Here's to show that I actually opened up the escrow on Telegram: Douglass is the Millinillion user.

https://i.imgur.com/lwSq7Kv.png

EDIT: added user profile by request:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1301312

Don't be fooled by any profile!

Quoting for visibility.

Yep, always use a trusted escrow if you are going to make a transaction deal.

How did you get him thou?
Was it only through telegram or this forum?
If the user is in this forum, can you please avail his profile link.

If that person have forum account then you can share that profile link for other community users awareness. I hope that will help so many users to take decission before making any kind of payment with that existing person.

For any kind of payment or transaction its always safer to get trusted escrow service. Its relatively easier to spot scammers if they deny to continue with trusted escrow service.

Added. I just edited original post to add the profile.
It was made here on bitcointalk.org

Escrow is the safest and most beautiful thing and you did a great job by using escrow.

Some other peoples don't understand this and get scammed often. They always learn their lessons after paying a fee.
They always try to save fee from escrow which is a very low amount and eventually ends up with a big loss.

If you had not used the escrow then you were complaining here now for getting scammed. But now see how much you are happy and how sad is the scammer.  :)


edit: what took 5 days to get an escrow?

It took a little while, but he agreed in the time. It was a digital info item, so most escrow didn't do that.

If he could actually obtain AGCs at this rate completely legally, then why would he even be selling it to you? Wouldn't that be saturating his own market that he's making big money from? He could literally sell it on Paxful or Localbitcoins for better rates than 65%. Just use common sense here and you'd already know.

Anyways, kudos to you for actually looking for escrow. Not a lot of newbies do this, and they often face the consequences afterwards for entrusting random people.

It's not conclusive evidence that this person is a scammer (it is extremely probable), though I would personally never deal with him and probably warrants a red tag for backing out of a deal he agreed to. He probably knows his method doesn't work, or is blackhat, and he would get exposed if escrow was ever used.