Your trust and transaction history is not sufficient evidence of you being trusted enough to use PayPal as a payment method for buying $1500 worth of bitcoins. It is a large amount of money and you do not have an extensive positive trust profile which supports your claim of credibility.

The kind of trust you have on your profile seems to be a farmed kind of trust. It is the type of profile which shows structured transactions with other new members with the goal of creating a fake impression of being trustworthy. $1500 is a lot of money and I suggest that nobody here take up this dangerous offer. You seem to have forgotten that Paypal is a high risk payment method and is very much reversible. Your "trust" is not convincing enough. You could reverse the transaction anytime up to 180 days in the future.

Scammer.

Good feedback on another site is not good feedback on this site. It is not a valid reference.

Newbies inviting people to skype are usually scammers.

PayPal is highly reversible. I suggest nobody transact with this scammer. If you do, do so at your own peril. This kind of dishonest garbage will often tell you to send first or they will force you to send bitcoins incrementally in small amounts. When you send them the bitcoins, they will disappear and block you on Skype.

PayPal is refundable and reversible when the sender claims that the payment was done erroneously or fraudulently. It is a high risk form of payment.

Since you do not have an extensive trust record on this forum, it will difficult for anyone to trust you with their bitcoins. PayPal is a popular way of scamming. Scammers use it to steal bitcoins because they know they can reverse the payment immediately after they get the bitcoins.

Escrowing the transaction cannot help protect the coin seller. The protection is one-sided. Only you are protected because you can reverse the transaction after escrow releases the coins to you.

I suggest you think of another way to pay for the bitcoins.

The criminal energy and sophistication is incredible. Breaking into a simple wallet is hard enough. And you have these criminals who must be very educated. They have a strong technical know how if they can exploit vulnerabilities of these wallets within minutes. The mathematics  of data encryption is not for a newbie. This is a highly coordinated work of intelligent felons.

Stealing $31m in minutes is to be condemned but somehow I feel like they are to be commended for the feat. As much as I detest thieves, pulling it off in minutes is almost not human and rivals if not even surpasses legendary thefts of the past century.

I sent a message to their support staff on their website, alerting them to the many complaints posted here and there on this forum. This is unacceptable. They have strict operational rules and they expect their customers to be compliant at all times but when they fail they give everyone the silent treatment. They have the audacity to sit on other people's funds and delay their access to those assets!

Listen to your customers and stop defrauding them, you fraudsters!

Address this complaint:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2115216.0

and those of many more here!

You should be reported to the financial regulatory authorities of the jurisdiction you operate in and those of your customers whom you have caused so much grief, loss and inconvenience!

Liars, thieves and fraudsters are the kind of people I detest and despise most!

This is so bad it stinks and screams of fraud. The hurried way of writing it is also a dead giveaway.

Minimum investment: 0.005 btc
Starting today
Funding time 1 month (let it rain with coins)
Profit target 15%
Deposit address 1ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQR123456789

There. I timed it and it took me less than a minute to write this garbage of an offer. Is this what they do all day? Create this template-like offers and mass-post them, then sit and wait for naive members here to fund their wallets?

He probably read the sticky about that dreaded keyword "collateral" and realized that a loan won't work. So he decided to be creative by rewording his intentions.

Thanks for taking the time and effort to report your experience here. This is an exchange where time-critical trades are executed. A response after 13 days, an auto-generated one in fact, is unacceptable. I also have a Kraken account verified to tier 3 and it has been active for over a year. Reading your experience and those of others making complaints on their ANN thread erodes my faith in this exchange.

You're right to ask what one should think about this company. The fact that you had the patience to wait for 13 days is commendable. If this happened to me, I would be furious and less forgiving after a day or two of waiting. This kind of service is laughable and bad form. It would release the Kraken in me!

60 XMR coins may not be much but don't allow them to simply archive your 9th August ticket. Be pushy and relentless in getting it resolved.

Be careful of both Venmo and GW. They are just as highly reversible as PayPal. Venmo is even more aggressive in executing reversals, often siding with the scammers regardless of proof and transaction evidences you give them. They are anti-bitcoin.

2k is a lot of money and yes, you could try to do it incrementally in small amounts but that's another risky way of doing it because multiple small amounts being moved successively to the same recipient might trigger a flag. It's called structuring and is usually a solid reason for flagging and locking accounts. The risks remain high even days or weeks after sending the bitcoins. A reversal can happen anytime.

Be careful.

Resolved or not, be careful of any fly-by-night offers you might receive by pm or offers to help resolve it via Skype.

When so many bitcoins are mentioned, you will attract just as many (if not more) unwanted attention from dishonest people on this platform. Some are calculating and manipulative fraudsters so be careful.

Some of these fraudsters think we were all born yesterday and even if they know you are intelligent enough to be doing margin trades, they will still try find ways to scam you, probably hoping you might fall for it.

This is just a friendly advisory and reminder to stay safe at all times.

There was another person here who had a similar experience:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2079512.0

His case was resolved in his favour.

If Bitstamp closed your account but are withholding your funds, then I suggest you be persistent and stubborn in your efforts to contact them. If you don't, the silent treatment might extend to weeks, months of even longer. Or even indefinitely. Proactive efforts on your part is a must if you want to achieve results. Read the above person's Bitstamp saga. He contacted their support staff, reached out on twitter and even Bitstamp's investment partner, Pantera Capital. They finally replied and apologised but this was a case of misidentification.

As for your case, if they closed your account, there must have been some kind of investigation. They only close accounts for a reason and I suggest you stubbornly try to contact them to get the answers you need.

Sending your entire life savings to an exchange without carefully thinking about the risks was a foolish thing to do. Now they have your money and coins and the silent treatment begins. If those coins were legally acquired and if the fiat you deposited was clean money, be persistent (well, I would if they had my entire money).

How do you intend to ship this caviar? Apart from the safety issue (being very expensive) it is a biological substance and therefore requires time-critical delivery. I also found this on the FedEx site:

Export Prohibitions and Restrictions
There are some items that are forbidden for export by Customs from Russia. These items are in addition to items prohibited by IATA.
Forbidden for Export from Russia
Birth certificates
Cash and cash equivalents
Dangerous Goods as defined by FedEx IATA
Food, perishable
ID cards, including military IDs
IOUs and cancelled checks
Liquor
Lottery tickets
Minerals, ores, semi-precious stones such as amber,
or the goods bearing them
Narcotics
Paleontological samples
Passports
Printed or audio materials potentially harmful to Russia or its citizens
Russian Federation workbooks
Salmon or sturgeon caviar, crabs or crab meat
Soil
Stocks and bonds
Weapons such as knives, ammunition, and military equipment

Are these canned or sealed in special containers to prolong shelf life? How will you ship them? Customs authorities might want to see some paperwork such as a valid CITES export permit as mentioned on page 12 here:

https://www.cbp.gov/sites/default/files/assets/documents/2016-Apr/icp011_3.pdf

And of course it goes without saying that escrow is a must for this kind of transactions. I hope you agree with this basic rule, OP.

Yes, there are fees here and there but I don't mind. The convenience I enjoy in return for those fees is beyond amazing. The card has never failed me. I used it all over Asia.. Thailand, Singapore, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea etc. I'm going to Dubai next month and I expect to use the card there for dining and shopping. It's amazing how these cards can transform your coins to pure convenience. I booked my airline ticket and hotel room with the card. Their iOS app is a work of art.

If you are fully verified with their partner bank, the card will open doors to limitless purchasing opportunities.

Don't delay. Someone should report the transaction to Bitfinex immediately so the coins and the hacker's exchange account can be blocked before he attempts to move those coins outside the Bitfinex system.

This is a good opportunity for the hacker's credentials to be exposed. Bitfinex should do the right thing. Block the coins and disclose this criminal's credentials to the authorities. Looks like he was too relaxed and forgot about the vigilant eyes of the crypto community. Justice is about to be served.

He wants to "buy" btc. Or rather, he wants to scam people here and steal their btc.

Read my post above, especially the edit part which I added after googling his email address.

Scammers think they are immune to google's powerful indexing feature.

I emailed him to let him know I posted on his thread. He emailed me back, expressing his displeasure in exposing him. As if I care about his shattered feelings.

You can apply for a Cryptopay card. I use their USD card. You have the option of applying for their EUR or GBP card.

https://cryptopay.me/bitcoin-debit-card

Their EUR card will cost you 15 Euros. Standard delivery is free. They have an expedited service for a higher fee.

Since you have more than 30 posts, you can also request their promotional code here:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1384807.0

I'm not sure how their partner bank charges ATM fees for residents of EU countries:

Domestic ATM Transaction €2.25
International ATM Transaction €2.75

With Euro being the common currency in Europe, I'm assuming the entire Euro region would be considered a domestic withdrawal. I suggest you ask Cryptopay's support staff.

If you verify the account, the loading limits are unlimited. You can load as much bitcoins as you wish during the card's lifetime. The per day load is EUR 20k which is a generous limit. If you are verified, you can withdraw up to 2k Euros per day.  

If you are from France, there is this special rule:

Per French Decree, Residents of France must be Verified (KYC2 only) and are further restricted to ATM Cash Withdrawals of €1,000 per month and a maximum balance of €10,000.

This will be difficult. You will need solid forensic evidence supporting the theft accusation and even stronger evidence of the theft's existence. For one, to build a case, you need to know where the bitcoins are and how the theft was perpetrated. You might also need to show proof that those stolen bitcoins were yours in the first place.

And even if the matter advances to prosecution and the perpetrator ends up being found liable or guilty, the court will probably consider the value of those coins at the time the theft was committed and not on the basis of the present $4k value. The value of reparation might not be a nice if you consider the exchange rate at the time the theft was committed.

Keep in mind that certain criminal acts do have an "expiry date". If you fail to take action, they will cease to be prosecutable under the statute of limitations of the jurisdiction where the theft was committed. These statutes also apply to civil cases.

If your family member still has access to the coins, then you might have a chance to pursue the matter in civil court but this usually first requires that a criminal case be adjudged in your favour. It is a long cycle of legal disputes and appeals.. and more appeals. And there is no foolproof assurance of success in property dispute cases.

Your best chance is to negotiate this issue with your family member directly.

Interesting. I don't live in the US but interested in the concept itself. How is it that the carriers can't detect the unlimited data consumption and contain it? Each SIM card is connected to a specific billing account, whether prepaid or postpaid, and that account is of course managed and controlled by the carrier, specifying voice, sms and data usage limits so how is this system bypassed? Won't they investigate if they discovered the "misuse" and refer the matter to law enforcement? It's a loophole, yes, but it's also fraud or to be more precise, misappropriation of the carrier's resources. Then of course if they do a forensic audit of usage logs they will see who you called, sites you accessed etc.

Or is this perfectly legal? Here where I live it's not so I would probably feel paranoid when using it since phones can now be located by fairly accurate triangulation.

Would you lend money to a perfect stranger without any security or collateral? Where is the peace of mind if that borrower defaults or disappears? Frankly I find threads like this disturbing and unsettling. Granted we all live in difficult times and in a tougher economy but that is absolutely no justification for asking to borrow from strangers without offering collateral.

You can borrow from your family members or friends (some of them might even balk if they themselves are struggling) or convince your bank to arrange an overdraft or a character loan. Or you could get a credit card.

As for reputable lending sites, they will ask for collateral. Period. There are no free lunches on this planet and none of these lenders dispense free cash. You can keep insisting "it's a loan and i'm paying it back" but that doesn't hold water. Try reversing roles. If someone/anyone here sent you a pm asking to borrow money, would you blindly send him your bitcoins and hope for repayment to follow whenever?

He refuses escrow, even declining a trusted member above. This is predictably going to end bad for those who send first. He thinks he is more trusted and leaves people here with no option but to send him bitcoins first. This guy has nerves of steel and the shamelessness to demand that money be paid to him upfront. He like many here who do this is the reason for a need to impose more restrictive posting rules for new accounts.

Do not send first, guys. Insist on the transaction being escrowed. Beware of shills or fake vouches.