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The title of this thread says it all. So who do you think it was?

P.S. don't say Mark Karpeles cause he was never in this forum.

John k ?


edit- looks he paid up  :o

Who is John K? Please put in a link of one of his threads?

john k is one of the staff/escrow in this forum he is holding a hundreds or thousand of btc he gone missing in action for a couple of months and some people cant contact him but since someone said that he already back and paid up his due i think there is no sense adding him up here

This guy pirateat40 was the biggest one:

Heres the Thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=50822.0

and here is his profile: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=35827

Alberto Armandi

Forum (possibly operated more than one account): https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=60475
Twitter: https://twitter.com/albertoarmandi
LinkedIn: http://hk.linkedin.com/pub/alberto-armandi/11/a74/b27

Alleged Italian from Carbonia (Sardinia), current location unknown (maybe HK).

Alleged serial scammer, illegally obtaining several thousand BTC, very likely far above 10k BTC ("bitdaytrade"/"labcoin"-heists and others). Involvement in at least one other alleged scam before bitcoin.

Still not brought to justice.

See for example:

http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1ncckq/labcoin_has_been_outed_as_a_scam_run_by_notorious/

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=88803.0
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=93445.0

(edited several times to add information)

Pirat40 obviously and by the way mark karpeles was on this forum. Search his name Magicaltux.

ok so in this case mark karpels would be the biggest scammer? I wonder how many of this scammers actually have gotten rich through their scams?

Threr are so much Scammer so that I doubt whether Scams would destroy the encryptcurrency?
Because people won't use some thing that always lead to people being tricked.

Pirateat40 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=35827),
Mark Karpeles (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2134‎),
TradeFortress (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=67058)

it would be good if we can also mention the amount of BTC scammed by the members mentioned..!

You can see details of big theft and scams here.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=576337

This is insane. This theft will probably be the biggest scam in Bitcoin, ever.

there is still a lot of scammer which is not included on that list :D
well i think that would be a list of bigtime scammer and those who are not on the list which is the smalltime only has become the laughing stock on this forum

I was just looking at that post, shit is crazy.

That list is only for big scammers, and you can find a dozen of scam attempts every day (mainly in lending section).

yeah i agree that is why when you need a laugh just go to the lending section because there is a lot of clowns out there specially those suck puppets which is obviously is one of the scammers account :D

Holy shit, but he ended up in jail so no win for him.

What happened with the BTC?

There's probably a nice little nest-egg waiting for him when he gets out of prison  :D.

Pirateat40 was who I first thought of as well, but you also should adjust for the USD figure as well.  The bitcoins pirate stole were worth a lot less than the ones that Mt. Gox "lost".

While https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=576337 attempts to do this, it notes it is outdated.

Stay safe. 

BFL. http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/04/digging-for-answers-the-strong-smell-of-fraud-from-one-bitcoin-miner-maker/

He is doing his best to keep it updated. It has most of the scams anyways.

OP is looking for scammers (eg pirateat40), not services that were hacked.

There's a difference between a service that was hacked (which is something that can happen even if you place great importance on the security), and a scammer.

^ Is this the real TF, or his account has been hacked or traded?

Hey TradeFortress,
I'm still trying to settle something with you regarding funds that I lost when Inputs.io was hacked. Can you please PM me so we can work something out? I would really appreciate a response of some sort.
Thanks.

Most likely sold. Posting from that account is pointless actually.

What makes you guys think it was hacked or sold? He's defending the service. The account would probably be worthless to someone else anyway.

I don't have a clue who it could be but I find the whole discussion interesting and pretty informative.  Would be nice to hear what other think

When he first returned he was making posts that were out of character, didn't seem like him. Probably is him, he probably never left, just switched accounts and logs back on the TF account every once in a while.



I can't think of a more worthless reply, enjoying Stunna's new rates?

Good job making claims you know nothing about.

It is a know fact that mark karpeles was known on the forums as magicaltux.

Wow what noob OP is lol  ;D ;D ;D

He was posting weirdly once he came back. It might still be him, we can't really know. His account is useless to him now anyways.

Why do he need to come make a defense, when he has gone and nobody can find him in real life?

I never followed the case but im sure someone else did. 'Probably had assests seized.' Not sure really