Yes in the U.S., you cannot be retried if you are found not guilty for the same crime. However if you approach a law enforcement agency with flimsy evidence of a crime, and not enough evidence to establish probable cause then when additional evidence is presented to them they may not take it as seriously (thinking I am crying wolf ect) and they are less likely to spend additional of their limited resources investigating a case.

I am not sure if any of TheGamblers posts were undeleted however I do know that the posts in a number of his scam threads were undeleted, notably his bitcoin stocks thread, and a few others I believe, I think bit-dividends is another one and two or three others.

TheGamblers posts are not one liners. They have mostly been edited to make it look like he is responding to random threads with one liners. If you go to his post history then click on the posts he was making then you will see that he edited the posts and moved the threads he created. The conversations within the threads he created are very different from what he edited his posts to.

I will research and get a list for you within 24 hours. Thanks.

You need to put an actual URL, a TXID that does not link back to a block explorer is not a URL, you would need to put something like blockchain.info/tx/e50b7cfa9791dd37ad03540202295d8d776ee0db6ac8e4cac2c0bb07de2a1377 if you wanted to put the txid as the reference. However a txid is generally a bad reference to make for a trust rating

theymos has already restored a number of James's threads from self moderated threads prior to me finding his dox, however James recently deleted his posts on his accounts that were not banned. As of now the evidence against him is flimsy at best because of the lack of posts so contacting them now would likely result in an open and closed case in his favor which is not what I want.

Well I obviously cannot guarantee any specific results however I can try to see that he is criminally charged, and can follow through.

He could be a junkie however he appears to be more of a gambling addict as he has lost the money he scammed by gambling on at least one occasion.

The problem with the authorities requesting evidence from the forum is that they would need probable cause in order to request information and they need some level of evidence of a crime to start investigating.

The difference between a traditional ponzi and what this kid did was that this kid build up trust of the ponzi and then instead of using new money to pay back old investors, he simply stole the new money and paid old investors nothing. Gamblers may not fully understand the risks involved in "investing" in a ponzi and ponzis are certainly not provably fair.

You are right, any case against this guy will likely be US v. Violpe or Australia v. Volpe however the prosecution /law enforcement needs to be made aware of his crimes to potentially investigate and prosecute them. If they don't know about them then they obviously can't prosecute them. As it stands now his crimes are pretty well covered up as he deleted and edited his posts.

No the greedy morons do not need a white knight however I think James should be held accountable for his actions. What he has done is wrong in a number of ways and he should be punished for what he has done (via legal means).

I am not sure why you are posting from an alt account in order to try to get me to not try to have charges brought against this guy.

Testimony will probably not be necessary by his victims as there is evidence against him that can hopefully get a conviction on the forum.

You are right, his victims were greedy morons however that doesn't mean it is okay to steal from them. You are right that they are unlikely going to attempt to have charges brought against him because they have individually lost small amounts.

The difference between what he did and stealing a car is that he did it many times and took advantage of many people (stole from many people) while stealing a car involves generally one victim and one act. You could argue that someone was desperate for money when stealing a car while the same arguement cannot be made with this guy.

I would not need to have standing for criminal charges to be brought against him as the legal theory behind most criminal laws is that a crime harms society as a whole so society will bring criminal charges (via a government prosecution) against him. This is how a murderer can be criminally charged because the person he killed obviously cannot bring charges - they are dead.

The plan is to attempt to have owners of large Bitcoin casinos lobby Australian law enforcement bring charges against this kid as their business was likely harmed due to his ponzis have caused gamblers have less faith in Bitcoin related gambling when gambling on his HYIP schemes proved to be unfair. If none of the people I ask are willing to lobby law enforcement to have charges brought against him then I will do it myself although I am half a world away from them so doing it myself would likely be more difficult.

Charges have been brought against people who ran ponzis in the past - see pirate40. This kid has even gone as far as to outright admit to scamming people on here and admit to hacking accounts and spreading malware.

What is calling his mom going to accomplish? The estimated amount he has stolen is in the tens of thousands of dollars. In most places that would be considered to be a felony. The estimate only covers his scams on bitcointalk which only started around 18 months ago, however there is evidence that he was scamming for 4-5 years so the total amount scammed is likely higher.

He has scammed on this forum many times. He has stolen an estimated 100 BTC from various Ponzi and HYIP scams. He has made it more dangerous to gamble with Bitcoin because of the increased risk of getting scammed and gamblers will not want to gamble because they fear that their bets are not going to be fair.

His mothers identity (at least her name) has been known for years so I assume that someone has contacted her in the past. Regardless I don't see what contacting her is going to do. This guy has been scamming for years and getting spanked by his parents is not going to get him to stop scamming in the future.

What assets specifically do you have to offer for collateral?

There already is a captcha when registering.

The forum really needs more patrollers to nuke/take care of all the spambots as after enabling the "patrol" button for only a few hours I have reported probably 5 or 6 spam bots that I found in the patrol function.

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One option might be to make it so having an account "nuked" has the same effect as having an account banned when units of evil are calculated (I assume this is not the case currently)

LOL. You assume that I am using AT&T based on the fact that it is one of the larger ISP's in my area. I am willing to bet that you are not able to get my full dox, like I was able to get on James Volpe, and like I likely am able to get on you.

Any account of Candy should be muted, and any txid of any deposit he makes should be made public so his other addresses (and alts) can be found. Candy is one of the biggest trolls and scammers on this forum and I can say right now that anything that candy says will almost certainly be damaging and probably be an attempt to scam.

Why don't you use purse.io? You would purchase something for a buyer and purse would be able to track the purchase to ensure that the order is not canceled prior to it being delivered. This will protect both the buyer of the gift card as well as you.

I would guess that you would probably actually get somewhat better rates then what you would get on here.

I would charge 1% of the loan amount or .0075 btc, whichever is greater, payable when the loan funds. Any altcoins that you would need to be held would need to be traded on a major exchange, and the holding of the altcoins would be subject to counterparty risk of the exchange (the altcoin you mentioned in your loan request does not appear to be something I am capable of holding personally)

There is any estimate when this should be completed? I am wanting to contact stakeholders in the bitcoin gambling arena to lobby Australian Law Enforcement to take action against James Volpe, however my argument for them doing so will be much stronger once the posts from the accounts in the OP are restored.

Well I find it ironic that you say this on mother's day, as I am sure your mother would be proud that you are spending money in order to actively make someone else unhappy.

I am not sure what problem you have with me anyway, as most of my interactions with you have been trying to help you in some way, either to mediate your loan dispute with BigBiz, or with your dispute (that there is no rational reason why you have it) with Vod, or you trying to sell your accounts. All I have ever done that may have in some say hurt you in point out the obvious.

Regardless, I am not going to get in a bidding war with you. Good luck with you trying to make others unhappy

Generally speaking, members of the media are not employed by the companies they are writing about, as this would create a huge conflict of interest. Any time a member of the media even mentions a company that is owned, or owns the same company they are employed by, a note should be made in the article mentioning as much.

Blazedout has more then enough reputation so it would make sense to not need to use escrow with trading with him. I would not be surprised if you would claim the coin never arrived or that you received an empty box if you were to use escrow.

Blazed, can you confirm if you are going to reject this bid please? This person is an alt of KoS, and is a massive troll. He is also giving away his account so he is unlikely going to even still have his account when your auction is over.

This bid is rejected