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I thought he needed a 50 BTC loan: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=83113.0

He must have figured scamming 5 BTC was good enough.

Yeah, settled on scamming for 5 BTC.

5 BTC loan
repay: 6BTC by 31/05/2012

wave bye-bye to those BTC.  unless he is just planning on using this loan to secure a larger one.

ah damnit.Lately we seem to be flooded by scammers who borrow money and never pay back.I was caught out by a situation just like this a while ago.Now trying to sell off the bad debt of 5BTC.Whats the best way to sell debt on here? As I've seen people do it before on here.

Pretty much this.  My bet is on the former.

honestly no one will be buying a 5 btc dept off you. That's just too much of a hassle finding who the scammer is for this amount of money.

iknowitsme just asked for a 20 BTC loan from me. He pm'd me his passport and address. Should I trust that?

My opinion - no way. I don't care about real ID photo and address somewhere in South Africa when other facts doesn't match. He wants to buy 2 HD5830's with 50btc loan and pay back 60+ within a month. He has only 5 btc (loan from IBB, checked in blockchain) i.e. he doesn't actually mining. There is no way to repay the loan with that hardware for such period of time.

My 5 bitcents.

Scammers *ALWAYS* have their hands out looking for loans and/or selling gift cards/coupon codes.  I haven't looked up iknowitsme's recent post history, but I bet he matches at least one of those categories.

He was offering Australian iTunes cards in another thread.

Is the passport address in Australia? If not, that's a red flag. der_meister mentions South Africa.

Yes, country marked as ZAF. And a big sign above "Republic of South Africa".

Oh well, that's better then Republic of Nigeria anyway.

He (she?) hasn't done anything yet with the coins you sent.

http://blockchain.info/address/1CEU4CVYqNg3z1qEnsiS7vVQqcZue5PmcR

Just as suspected.  This is just a shill loan to try and parlay into a 50btc scam.

 ;D

So, did he repay?

What you think ;D :P? http://blockchain.info/address/1CEU4CVYqNg3z1qEnsiS7vVQqcZue5PmcR

So the good news is it hasn't moved. Maybe theres still hope.

Hey Sen, have you considered donating to people like psy and bo2573 who call out these scammers and actually help people avoid getting scammed?  It sure beats giving away BTC to dishonest scum.

Any update?

Nah, I'm just a naysayer troll, haven't you heard?

Maybe he scammed the bitcoins at a public computer and just wrote down the bitcoin address from the client on the machine.  He doesn't have the private key.  That's why he can't access them and that's why they haven't moved.  Just a guess.

That's gotta suck to get scammed by someone who's not even using the coins for anything. I mean it has to suck getting scammed no matter what but I'd feel better knowing that money went to a silkroad address or something.

Looks like he moved the Bitcoins. Did he repay?

Can't tell if that's a serious question or not.

No, they're not. The address was emptyed on 2012-06-09 02:57:49

http://blockchain.info/address/1CEU4CVYqNg3z1qEnsiS7vVQqcZue5PmcR

Sen, you should be proud of yourself, even tho you were scammed.

You made a scammer put a shoe on his head and send you the pic just for 5 BTC. ;D

Just one thing bugs me: Why are all the t-shirts different from pic to pic?

actually i didnt ask that shoe on head picture, he provided that to someone else

but the other 4 , he gave me those , thats why i gave him the loan.

 All his scammed cash is here it seems.
 http://blockchain.info/address/1GVApwPtKeJND27Je5kC565kU9mMCg7uE4
 And this one too maybe.
 http://blockchain.info/address/1GTUR3yvVvv4pC2ik5vh1avKcXBun5JNjz

Hope you get your BTC back one way or another. Makes me cringe seeing these guys pop out of the wood work like cockroaches. What a douche. Got no soul whats so ever.

I got that pic for free. I never had any intention of loaning and actually asked for a picture of a shoe on is mining rig's "head".

Without knowing the guy, I believe it's likely because he has a chronic sweating and body odor condition that requires him to be constantly be changing his clothes throughout the day.

So why are we doing all this crap, when if he is a scammer then there is nothing we can do about it?

As a former borrower, I would like to offer Senbonzakura 0.5 BTC if interested, for his continued efforts within the BTC community.  As this small gesture is all I can do right now, I'm sure others might agree to match my contribution to cover the loss as I for one would not like to see the Islamic Bank of Bitcoin get scammed.

That's a nice gesture.
I just don't agree with the "to cover the loss" reason. That's like saying to scammers to scam IBB because the ones that do appreciate what IBB does will cover the loss ;)

I disagree. I don't care to spark a debate, I just didn't want to be blunt and just offer 50 bitcents for a laugh at a guy with a shoe on his head.. lol

That's the best reason you could find.

What is wrong with providing repayment address when payment is ready?

If he excommunicates you and everyone else, it should be ample reason to state that he is a scammer, especially considering your faultless reputation as a longtime interest-free lender here.

^ wait for it...