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What happened: Loaned 0.3BTC interest free to oscarftw on January 19, with due date of January 26 by midnight GMT.  Late fee of 0.1BTC applies for each day late thereafter.

Scammers Profile Link: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=233580

Reference Link: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=871938.msg10205779#msg10205779
Amount Scammed: 0.3BTC plus daily late fee, total due currently 0.5BTC as of January 28
Payment Method: BTC
Proof of Loan Funding: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=871938.msg10205980#msg10205980
PM/Chat Logs: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=871938.msg10288301#msg10288301
Additional Notes:  Negative feedback left.  Awaiting response from oscarftw in order to resolve.

I left him negative feedback. Let me know if/when he repays

why did you leave a negative feedback if you are not involved in any business with that person? pffff   :)

Negative trust indicates that a person cannot be trusted.
If somebody in the default list leaves negative trust, it is a red flag to everybody.

what he sent you as collateral as your lending thread title loan with collateral only
you can sell that collateral and recover your loss

did you ever drive a Rolls Royce? maybe not. go and leave a negative feedback about Rolls too.....by default :)

how can you call a business or person scam if you are not related with that business or person at all? just because others are screaming scam?! are you a sheep or what? LOL

I learned this lesson using the example of oscarftw too.
Beware of oscarftw. He seeks your confidence and increases the loan.
If it has reached the summit, he no longer pays back.

Maybe he paid back also, then he will ask you kindly to delete your negative feedback about him. Don't do it.

a user can easily change his/her name

@ducatitalia , news about the situation ? Does he repay you or not ?

This is the latest communication from oscarftw from Jan 29:

Hoping he comes through---Would be such a shame to ruin a senior level account over this small loan.  I've offered to try and work something out to assist...awaiting his response..

I got a few nasty PMs after I gave him negative trust for defaulting on your loan. This makes me believe that he is probably not going to repay

Ok , I've left him a negative feedback ... that's very bad. I hope he will repay you.

I used to have him on skype, then he removed me when I denied a loan request.

have you used his services? :)

No, I didn't use his service. Ask also the other users , thanks for your post.

Oscar owes me .4BTC as well.

He hasn't been responsive on Skype.

From a friend of his, he claims to be having Border/Custom/Immigration issues of some sort and said that he is trying to sort everything out.

I hope this is the truth and I hope that he comes forward and makes a statement or at the very least responds back on skype.

"Friend". Sounds like bullshit. How did/does this friend contact you?

how can you leave a feedback to someone's services you never used? how old are you? 17? :)

You don't have to have traded with someone to leave feedback if there's good evidence of a scam or strong suspicion one is going to be committed. If it wasn't for people leaving these sorts of feedback there would be a whole lot more scams going on around here.

I don't know what that means, but someone vouched for him on skype with whom I previously had contact with which was why I ended up giving him an unsecured loan.

Since Oscar was wayyy behind on his repayment date, i asked said contact what's up and that's the response that I received from him.

Sorry for your loss. 0.1 BTC/day late was very expensive!

It sounds a little bit like you are the same person as oscarftw. The information you provided is very sketch.

Who exactly was it that "vouched" for his friend?

Few weeks back he sent me a PM asking for a loan...glad I ignored him.

Are you kidding me?  On what basis do you have for throwing such a serious but baseless accusation around?

Please provide your reasoning and any shred of evidence whatsoever to backup this allegation.

Also, I did not include the identity of the friend as it is unfair to him/her because I do not wish to involve someone who might be witch-hunted due to guilt-by-association from people like you who jump to conclusions without doing any research, disregard actual logic, and not use their brain.

Edit; If this person wants to come forward, by all means they can to validate my claims but they are definitely not required to.

you should leave a feedback based on YOUR experience with a certain person not based on what you hear from someone. You can never know what's between them

Nope. Evidence of scams can be presented. People can find evidence of a scam on their own. Trust is not moderated.

To have a red negative trust applied to a scammer or suspicious account, someone in the default trust needs to apply a negative rating.

Just wanted to give an update.

I received this message on skype yesterday:

[2015-01-26 2:44:34 PM] OSCAR: Sorry for delay I kno I m a bit late but within 24 hours I pay the loan back with + interest.
[2015-01-26 2:44:38 PM] OSCAR: TY for your udnerstanding.

I then received this later https://blockchain.info/tx/7b0725d6af655b72c7c1d87bb90b1f6c6fc4daad166146c720d7a58e158ba46a .

It's not the full re-payment but he sent this:

[2015-02-28 10:46:47 AM] OSCAR: Did you receive the coins?
[2015-02-28 10:46:49 AM] OSCAR: 0.3
[2015-02-28 10:46:58 AM] OSCAR: I ll send the rest interest + late fee

So it looks like he's starting to slowly pay back everyone.  

And again, if anyone accuses me of being the same person, i will lose my shit

It's been a while, but wanted to put this out there, since I see that the oscarftw account was recently used on July 15, 2015 (though no posts have been made since January).  I am willing to forgive any late penalty if the borrower would like to repay the original 0.3BTC loan amount.  This provides an opportunity to "save" their senior level account and re-enter the forum with a fresh start.  Repayment addy is in my sig.  Call it a gesture of good faith, for what it's worth.