I am not sure why you would need to know what trust depth they are on. Being on a certain trust depth does not indicate how likely it is they will scam. Do you only want to trade with someone who is on depth 2 or lower?

that sounds pretty serious to me

A BTC address I control: 1QFzNxF8ZqXXRzQAC3R6CzA8W9qkVHCUZJ

I am not sure exactly what the purpose of this thread is. Is it a giveaway?

The color of one's trust rating has nothing to do with what trust depth they are on. Some people with dark green trust are actually excluded from the default trust network.

You probably shouldn't use a trust depth greater then 2 though

In order to properly secure an account you need to change the password, remove any security question and change the email to an address that you are 100% sure they will not have access to. Failure to do any one of these steps will likely result in the account being stolen from you.

Edit: who was holding the accounts as escrow? Or were they being help by the lender?

Also what is the identity of the second account?

well first of all it really isn't a big deal either way. However my argument is that I have probably put more then 10 BTC worth of time/effort/work into finding and stopping his various scams and into finding his dox. And as a result of my efforts that he will most likely stop attempting to scam on here, and as a result of that the marketplace sections will overall be safer, especially considering that people will probably think twice in the future before they try to start similar type scams as they will see there is real risk of facing legal consequences.

The 88% was most likely 7 accurate reports out of 8, 87.5% rounded to 88% then one additional report was marked as good so you would have 8 out of 9 reports marked as good, 88.88% rounded to 89%

I'm not really sure why it appears that you are continually clicking the report to moderator button when your total number of reports does not appear to go up

one additional report was handled. Rounding.

This ad blocker probably actually does a pretty good job at identifying who is participating in paid signatures, especially when it comes to higher ranked users. If someone who really doesn't want to read any posts made by anyone wearing a paid signature (despite how much effort are put into their posts or how good their posts are) could slightly modify the code to hide any posts (instead of just the signature) of anyone wearing a paid signature.

If they really, really wanted to exclude anyone's posts who would even consider wearing a paid signature then you could do the above plus add a blockchain parser/analyzer that can find the likely alts of anyone wearing a paid signature and ignore those posts as well.

Thanks. It looks like his newbie accounts also had the imposter warning removed when he sends PMs. I've received a few spam PMs from him with a sob story from dzeros that would normally have the warning but does not. It should be fine though because he doesn't have any imposter accounts.

I would also like to add TheGambler - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=152722 to the list of accounts that need edits undone and posts undeleted. This was the account that had the most posts deleted and was how this activity was discovered.

I can confirm the following:
*I escrowed a deal between josef2000 and bittyfree roughly two weeks ago.
*The terms of the escrow was that both bittyfree and josef2000 would each pay a portion of the escrow fee
*josef2000 was selling an item
*due to either confusion or otherwise a misunderstanding josef2000 send a small amount to the escrow address in order to pay for the escrow fee instead of having the amount be withheld from him upon the release of escrow.
*the escrow address was 1AeBVpGTgAamqVvvoiQTxu7NehvZD37Jnx
*the address josef2000 requested funds to be sent to after escrow was released was 12cp7RTVgo1cpSyV99uGyc1oz74eYnQir3
*the address josef2000 sent funds "from" to pay his portion of the escrow fee was the same as above.
*I have not looked into any further blockchain connections (nor other connections) beyond the escrow service that I provided.

I would like to request the following:

That all posts from the following accounts that were deleted on or after 2359 GMT on May 1 2015 be undeleted
That all posts that were edited from the following accounts on or after 2359 GMT on May 1 2015 be reverted back to how they were as of 2359 GMT on May 1 2015:

moreia - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=147832
Spodermen - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=366423
Plutonium - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=399356
silvercane - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=351921
fastponzi - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=413326
bit-dividends.com - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=434420
dmugetsu - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=408040
fiisco - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=324783
btcgains - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=351936
gambian-  - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=359740 (note this account has a dash at the end of it's name)

That all posts that were ever deleted by anyone other then a moderator in threads that are filed, or should be filed in the following sections, from the following accounts
Gambling - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=56.0
Investor-based games - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=207.0
Games and Rounds - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=71.0

All of the above accounts
bit-dividends - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=496639
Crypterest - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=487999
InvestCryptos - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=507340
niothor - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=119718

I would like all of the above accounts to be restricted to be unable to further edit and be unable to further delete any of their posts. A scammer tag and/or an untrustworthy tag would really be preferable, however the accounts really need to have the ability to edit/delete their posts be disabled.

Although the forum does not usually get involved in scams, it has in the past gotten involved in the un-delation of posts/threads. Additionally, there is no question that James Volpe is a scammer, as he has previously admitted to stealing funds from his "investors", (he actually admitted to it previouisly however he deleted the posts prior to me archiving the thread - the quotes inside the post are accurate).

James is attempting to cover his tracks by attempting to cover up evidence against him in a number of scams, as he was arrogant enough to think he was not able to have his "real life" identity uncovered which he was incorrect in assuming. He has a history of deleting all of the posts that his scammer accounts have ever posted and a history of deleting all the posts in a self moderated thread after he scams.

Additionally he has very recently edited the OP of threads he has created to make it look like his posts were very much unrelated to threads he created (which were very often related to various scams) and this will make it much more difficult to investigate his scams and potentially bring civil and/or criminal charges against him. He has done this in 21 of the most recent 40 (remaining) posts that he has not deleted. here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, ,here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here are all examples that TheGambler has done of this, and I do not doubt that he has engaged in similar practices on his other accounts.

I also believe that James was behind the hacking of what I believe to be theymos's close personal friend Akka several months ago.

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Additionally, I would appreciate it if someone could review the linkeddox[/url] to ensure it conforms with forum policy.

Getting the dox was easy and relied on public information. First, I used blockchain evidence to link the account dzeros to the account TheGambler. I knew that he was in the GMT +10 time zone (that included, but is not limited to Melbourne, Australia) in this thread (the OP that contained the image has since been edited, however this post that remains confirms it). I then found the Skype handle (archive) that was posted by dzeros, which matched exactly the twitter handle exactly, and had posted a facebook account whose name very closely matched the facebook username of one of his friends. I was able to find a whois entry with a domain that matches the name of the above Facebook account. A search of the above domain resulted in the phone number and address associated with the above domain that was located in the above timezone.

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This person has overall created an unsafe environment for the community to trade in and has overall wreaked havoc within the community. A lot of time and effort has been put into finding the various alts and scams this person carried out, especially considering the fact that he put in great effort in order to avoid detection.

On a somewhat related note as to how much effort was put into finding this person, and stopping his scams in their tracks, I would like to request a VIP account, or if not then a donator account, or if not then at the very least a custom title of "honorary legendary" member. As a result of my time and effort, someone who has scammed massive amounts of money will likely no longer attempt to scam here and someone who has spammed massively (via bump spam of his various shill alts for his various HYIP scams) will no longer spam.

Idk if they would be able to provide an invoice however I do think they would be able to provide business records that would document the sale.

If you are looking for paperwork/a paper trail for any transaction then your best bet would probably be coinbase - I believe they are serving most of the EU now. You would actually get the market price and your trade would be able to be better documented then most likely anyone on here can do.

If coinbase doesn't work then you would probably want to use a major exchange.

If Is there a chance it might be closing down?

He deleted his posts because he is trying to cover up evidence of him scamming. If you look at threads he created the entire conversation has nothing to do with the title of the thread nor what he edited the OP to (note the edit time). Below are a few examples:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1038343.msg11198958#msg11198958
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1038301.msg11198503#msg11198503
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1034655.msg11163147#msg11163147
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=929204.msg10201112#msg10201112

And there are plenty more

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back on topic, if he deleted his posts, shouldn't he have his rank change?

The 100 BTC amount is just an estimate, however I know for sure it is over 20 BTC. Scammer tags were actually done away with a good while ago so I would somewhat doubt he will be given one

He has negative trust. He had such negative trust even when he was a "hero" account. IMO his accounts should be given scammer tags so he can no longer edit/delete his previous posts as he took so much time to do.

There is proof that he is a scammer in this post/thread as he actually admitted to stealing and being a part of a ponzi (which happens to be the post with his dox)