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Hello, Scam Accusations board. Long time, no see. Hoped we would meet again under better circumstances, but alas, this is not the case.
This user and I have had a couple trades in the past, and even were working out a long-term, mutually beneficial partnership. The transactions were for LocalBitcoins accounts. I had successfully bought two accounts from this user, and today we begain our third. I was comfortable with him, so I sent first (like I had done in the first two transactions). He messaged me saying he had received the BTC and would be sending login details after he changed the password to the account and changed the email to one I had requested. I waited for an hour, sent a few messages, no response. This is unfortunate, because I was looking forward to our long-term relationship, but he decided to sell his integrity and the potential income he would have earned from our deal in exchange fora  mere .095 BTC.

I am camping for the next two days, so it is difficult for me to do anything on this shoddy wifi, but I will supplement this thread with imgur links no later than Thursday night. Quickseller had warned the community about this guy by leaving him some negative trust when he suspected the account might be hacked. I even contacted Quickseller to see what I could do to help the situation and persuade him to remove the feedback of my trading partner. He held strong and refused to until Drogonson would provide a signed message. I, just being my amateur self, decided to ignore this warning and proceed with my deals with the user. I suppose the lesson in all of this is to trust your fellow reputable forum members, always be cautious, and the importance of signed messages and proven ownership. I would like to apologize to Quickseller for my doubt in his judgement and thank him for his devotion to the forum.

Anyways, just wanted to warn everyone elsewhile I gather my images. DO NOT do business with this guy. I suspect he will be trying to do a couple more small exit scams.



Thank you,
TraderCal11

The transaction: https://blockchain.info/tx/ce40c965a8fade603b42075953f03d3911ce3ec10d864a99212cc957a7faa2b9


Sent from my address: 1PmLR9HTUs2vPF75fEd27E8CwJK8YXdZph

Are you referring to this user? Droganson (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=149228) if it is this user then you should have checked the trust profile it is already have negative reputation.. Doing a quick research helps you to avoid getting scammed, you paid for a good lesson here

What is this here ??? i read all over the forum about scams can anyone tell me how to protecting myself?

Weren't you just PM'ing me two days ago trying to vouch that this account is not hacked and is legit?

Indeed I was, read the post

I did read it. I think you should take it as a hopefully not too expensive lesson that you should always use escrow regardless of the size of the transaction.

A lot of people reuse passwords so it is possible that he got passwords of various accounts and then found their LBC accounts and used those same passwords to hack their LBC accounts.

this guy was trying to take out a loan from me a day or two ago, big thanks to quickseller for advising against it. might have ended up another victim

I'm thinking that maybe he figured the account wasn't worth keeping anymore, and decided to just exit. But who knows, it could be hacked.

Glad to hear. Another Thanks to Quickseller.

it might be hacked; when he tried to take a loan from me he refused to sign a message at QS's request.

Ouch

You're hurting my feelings

I don't need to explain my reasons for buying accounts to you, so move along, man.

Another lesson for people who don't think about taking escrow before dealing with a negative trust user.