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Economy => Scam Accusations => Topic started by: HiroS on March 16, 2014, 04:01:28 PM



Title: Purchase from utanapisztim, now no response
Post by: HiroS on March 16, 2014, 04:01:28 PM
Fake seller is utanapisztim.

This was my bad for doing a trade like this on a trust basis. I wanted to buy several Hirocoins and the buyer would not send first and neither would I so he said split the amount in half. I sent 1/5 of the total amount which was 0.3BTC 24 hours ago and have not got anything in return. They said they had a lot of Hirocoin to sell.

They are in this forum trying to sell coins to people. I assume that they have no coins and intend to rip more people off.

Since this incident I have had two other people approach me to sell me coins, I have told both of them to sell to me through an exchange that supports Hirocoin and I never hear back from them.


Title: Re: Purchase from utanapisztim, now no response
Post by: KWH on March 16, 2014, 05:06:41 PM
Fake seller is utanapisztim.

This was my bad for doing a trade like this on a trust basis. I wanted to buy several Hirocoins and the buyer would not send first and neither would I so he said split the amount in half. I sent 1/5 of the total amount which was 0.3BTC 24 hours ago and have not got anything in return. They said they had a lot of Hirocoin to sell.

They are in this forum trying to sell coins to people. I assume that they have no coins and intend to rip more people off.

Since this incident I have had two other people approach me to sell me coins, I have told both of them to sell to me through an exchange that supports Hirocoin and I never hear back from them.

Links? PMs?


Title: Re: Purchase from utanapisztim, now no response
Post by: Tomatocage on March 16, 2014, 05:26:38 PM
Gonna take a wild guess that utanapisztim is a new user. If that's the case, please see this thread that's stickied in multiple places, including the alt coin section: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=137288.0


Title: Re: Purchase from utanapisztim, now no response
Post by: naphto on March 16, 2014, 10:32:40 PM
Fake seller is utanapisztim.

This was my bad for doing a trade like this on a trust basis. I wanted to buy several Hirocoins and the buyer would not send first and neither would I so he said split the amount in half. I sent 1/5 of the total amount which was 0.3BTC 24 hours ago and have not got anything in return. They said they had a lot of Hirocoin to sell.

They are in this forum trying to sell coins to people. I assume that they have no coins and intend to rip more people off.

Since this incident I have had two other people approach me to sell me coins, I have told both of them to sell to me through an exchange that supports Hirocoin and I never hear back from them.


Use escrow, do not send first, even if you split the amount !!!!


Title: Re: Purchase from utanapisztim, now no response
Post by: HiroS on March 19, 2014, 12:50:33 PM
I have learned my lesson and should have known better. Someone said to be responsible and report this. I'll take a look for the thread over in altcoins mentioned here and will put this there if that is the correct place