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Buyer made me sign up with escrow.com to send him btc he then sent me a fake escrow.com email with btc address which I fell for.

His bitcointalk alias is https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=334325 - FitnessRegiment

Address I sent to: 1CiG8y2SxhmKbMLqvi5TvVEvkdccsCJ5nB

how much you scammed??

9.5btc

Really sorry to hear your loss.
I am afraid we will never see that newbie account come online again...

wow,, why you believe newbie to sending 9.5 btc?  :o

If you read the original post, he didn't believe the newbie, he believed the escrow.com email....which turned out to be fake.

Wow. Clever scam.

Watch out for this one !!!!

Sorry for your loss.

Fitness what is wrong with you ?
Those coins don't belong to you.
Do the right thing and return it.
Karma will catch up to you, you
can't scam that.

Feel bad for you OP -- that is a ton of BTC to lose. Hopefully that was just a small portion of your total holdings.

sorry to hear that.

I don't get it? Why didn't you do research on the site? And, why didn't you think of 'escrow.com' being a E-Mail for another currency?

I think he did. But scammer sent email from their domain with scammer btc deposit address.

In the past he has used @engineer.com or @contractor.com. Does he have an @escrow.com address now?

He may have just spoofed it. 

oh 9.5 BTC :-[  sorry to hear this

escrow.com never send emails asking to push domain or send money to other person in emails 

those addresses are options in mail.com -

http://www.mail.com

Not an anonymous service so may be able to get some i.p data if referred to the police.

He had used service.escrow@europe.com under the escrow.com guise and transaction number. I had overlooked it. My fault I know.

try reporting to escrow.com support and see if they can help you

do you still have the email ?
if so, was it sent to your gmal or hotmail etc etc... post up the email headers, the scammer might of been dumb enough to use his own system to spoof the emails.. if you need help getting email headers let me know.. and by headers i mean the SMTP details (not the from, to, subject lol). gmail and hotmail both give you this info if you click on the write buttons..

and 9,5 :( that sucks balls.. your taking this alot btter than I would, but I guess not much you can do.. but ya let us know about email headers..

maybe we should post up a sticky on how to check email headers to verify if email looks to be spoofed or not.. to attempt to try prevemt this in the future ?

hmmm I suppose I could even do it....

This is not a helpful suggestion. Escrow.com had nothing to do with it and was not involved in any way with what happened.

If I spoofed an email from Bill Gates saying I'm giving you $5 million dollars, would you contact Bill Gates and see if he can help you?  ???

They might have scammers IP and that could be useful.

9.5 is a big number, Feel sorry for your loss.

Yes, i remmmember this person, FitnessReginment is his skype name

This information might be useful to track this person

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=308889.msg6026476#msg6026476

escrow.com would not be able to help you in anyway since email spoofing can be made by anyone just not throuh escrow.com email..

Could you show a screenshot of the offending fake escrow? I would be interested to see, along with a complete dump of the email, we can see where its coming from.

Unnecessary since the scammers full info is already known: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=668160.0