ED TRICE advertises custom cases and fast computers for the website he operates called LIQUID NITROGEN OVERCLOCKING. Recently he has gotten into bitcoin and decided to create custom hardware for bitcoiners, promising fast returns on their hardware investment (80 BTC a day!).  He showcases his designs on his facebook page as well as boasts his personal possessions purchased with money earned from his business. He calls himself the BILL GATES OF PENNSYLVANIA and pays for advertisements that look like articles to be run in papers to garner attention for his business.

The problem?

• None of the designs on his facebook were ED TRICE's, just the designs of an ex-employee who left out of disgust after witnessing embezzlement and fraud by ED TRICE last year
• ED TRICE doesn't know how to design an overclocked computer and his promises of bitcoin returns are most obviously false.
• His sports car was purchased with money embezzled from orders that he instructed his employees not to send out.
• His photos of personal belongings are stolen from random websites and simply used to boost his personal appearance to sucker in marks
• He has a long history in the chess community for scamming people and lost a related $2million dollar lawsuit
• He has screwed over everyone he brings in as a "partner" or "employee" by involving them into the scam and asking them to handle financials and shipping for him so that he has a patsy
• He creates faux personalities online to refute claims against him

ED TRICE labels himself the "STEVE JOBS OF PENNSYLVANIA". He is more like the STEVE JOBS OF FRAUD.

Watch out for this sociopath. He has recently scammed a forum member living in China of $47,000 USD on hardware he failed to deliver or provide evidence of.

Delaware county detectives are currently looking for ED TRICE. If you have any information on his whereabouts or have been scammed by him, please contact Delaware County (PA) Lt. Detective Charles List, 610-891-4700 and let him know.


EDWARD A TRICE
337 FARM LN, NORTH WALES, PA 19454 (Not his current address, confirmed by Upper Gweynedd detectives and ED TRICE's mother)
(215) 661-0276

LIQUID NITRGEN OVERCLOCKING INC
2711 CENTERVILLE RD, WILMINGTON, DE 19808 (New Castle COUNTY)
(610) 818-5063


ADDRESS HISTORY: (dates are approximate)
337 FARM LN, NORTH WALES, PA 19454-2349 (MONTGOMERY COUNTY) (02/1998 to 04/22/2013)
Owners: EDWARD J TRICE   &  PATRICIA R TRICE

164 ERVIN AVE, MARCUS HOOK, PA 19061-4314 (DELAWARE COUNTY) (04/2006 to 01/2013)
Owner: ELISA SLAUGHTERBECK

151 FRONEFIELD AVE, MARCUS HOOK, PA 19061-4317 (DELAWARE COUNTY) (08/17/2005 to 10/18/2012)
Owners: JOHN WOODALL  &  HEATHER WOODALL

804 VASSAR DR, HATFIELD, PA 19440-3472 (MONTGOMERY COUNTY) (12/13/2001 to 05/31/2011)
Owners: VENKATA BALACHANDRAN  &  RADHIKA RAGHURAMAN


CRIMINAL RECORD
Crime Details - 01/16/2007 - DELAWARE, PA
HARASSMENT - SUBJECT OTHER TO PHYSICAL CONTACT (2 counts)

Crime Details - 01/05/2007 - DELAWARE, PA
DISORDER CONDUCT HAZARDOUS/PHYSI OFF  (dismissed)

JUDGMENTS (5 FOUND)

Address: 804 VASSAR DR, HATFIELD, PA 19440-3472 (Montgomery COUNTY)
Filing Type: CIVIL NEW FILING
Plaintiff: JANSON D/B/A HOUSEINSPECT
Court Case Number: CV000030705
Total Judgment Amount: $505
Filing Date: 09/12/2005

Address: 151 FRONEFIELD AVE, MARCUS HOOK, PA 19061-4317 (Delaware COUNTY)
Filing County: DELAW
Filing Type: SMALL CLAIMS JUDGMENT
Plaintiff: LERMA C WOLFE
Court Case Number: LT000024105
Total Judgment Amount: $1,312
Filing Date: 06/30/2005

Address: 151 FRONEFIELD AVE, MARCUS HOOK, PA 19061-4317 (Delaware COUNTY)
Filing County: DELAW
Filing Type: CIVIL NEW FILING
Plaintiff: LERMA C WOLFE
Court Case Number: LT000024105
Total Judgment Amount: $0
Filing Date: 06/15/2005

Address: 2190 SUNRISE WAY, JAMISON, PA 18929-1347 (Bucks COUNTY)
Filing County: BUCKS
Filing Type: SMALL CLAIMS JUDGMENT
Plaintiff: ERIC PELLEGRINO
Court Case Number: LT000053104
Total Judgment Amount: $5,532
Filing Date: 01/18/2005

Address: 2190 SUNRISE WAY, JAMISON, PA 18929-1347 (Bucks COUNTY)
Filing County: BUCKS
Filing Type: CIVIL NEW FILING
Plaintiff: ERIC PELLEGRINO
Court Case Number: LT000053104
Total Judgment Amount: $5,400



For more information on ED TRICE and who he has scammed, see this thread https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=179747

Just got off the phone with the guy (on the right in that picture). The guy on the left is someone completely unrelated, the guy on the right is also completely unrelated and is just being used by ED to make himself look better (both have seriously unflattering things to say about ED, mostly about their lawsuits or restraining orders against him)

What I've found out is this:

• ED TRICE has a history of scamming people in the chess community
• According to the guy in the photo on the right, ED has a history of scamming large trading companies with hardware orders (he has evidence of this), including the guy on the left who he owes an expensive server to. Neither of these people are ED and neither are affiliated with him any longer, both having been burned by his scams.
  
  
  
  
• ED TRICE has embezzled company funds on numerous occasions (including to purchase that red convertible) and has screwed over everyone he worked with, setting up fall guys for a living basically

With this new information I'm absolutely certain that he's a serial scammer / sociopath preying on ignorant suckers. Matt Reynolds is just one of many people who have been suckered into affiliating themselves with him.

I'll keep talking to detectives and see how far down the rabbit hole this goes, but it's looking like a serious conman to me.

Since this is a serious scammer, I've created a new scam accusation thread here for the whole community to see: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=185565

This. Did they downvote your cat photos?

Detective Kelcy has confirmed the business and identity, but that the real ED TRICE does not live there in that county and is therefor out of his jurisdiction (emailing him will do no good). I'm now contacting Delaware County detectives to see what I can find.

I'd think it's the opposite. I'd think with a million bucks, Bitcoin would look like a liability of loonitarians, and would *only* be due to pure unadulterated curiosity and boredom from being too wealthy that any investment into it would be made. There are of course people with lots of money who would believe in the tenants of Bitcoin, but bitcoin itself...hmm..that's a tough one.

Sit up properly in your computer chairs with your back straight you hunchbacked freaks!

(No really, you're going to regret it when you get old)

This has been a public service announcement sponsored by free time.

OP: Do the internet a favor and uploading it to IMGUR's "user submitted" section for upvotes, as well as reddit. This is a slap in the face to anyone already serving in uniform.

I'd like to find out who the person in those photos really is, because Ed Trice's birth year is 1936.

Yep, I've been on the phone now with Matt Reynolds a lot. Have all his background info too. I don't think they're related other than this dude trying to use him, but I haven't ruled it out.

One of the creepiest things (can't find it now) is that he refers to himself as the "Bill Gates of Pennsylvania". He's also deleting all my comments on his facebook now showing that his computers are all pictures from the internet, once with the excuse "this guy once worked for me, that's why" citing this photo as evidence.


https://i.imgur.com/WoBi4WY.jpg


(This photo originates from here, another post of his: http://c2cmods.com/showthread.php?143-4-8-GHz-x-18-cores-a-High-Speed-Stock-Trading-Server)

Email your claims and proof of wire and all that to jkelcy@uppergwynedd.org (Detective Kelcy). Detective Kelcy has confirmed the business and identity, but that the real ED TRICE does not live there in that county and is therefor out of his jurisdiction (emailing him will do no good). I'm now contacting Delaware County detectives to see what I can find.

I just spoke with Matt Reynolds again who claims that he had received payments through CHASE bank online banking from ED TRICE before, so I am also of the belief that this is not an international fraud, but just someone who is abusing his relationship with the real ED Trice, perhaps family, perhaps just ID theft.

I've asked him to forward proof of bank transactions to the detective as well.


EDIT: If it is just a scammer that is using random identities online to perpetrate fraud, then I would suspect the people in his facebook to also be fake identities (he has proven he creates these at will anyway). Take this guy he was talking to for example: https://www.facebook.com/jimmy.ojin That could also be a fake account.

papamoi: I just spoke with detective Kelsey of the NORTH WALES Police department and he said that EDWARD A TRICE was an elderly gentlemen and the name address given is for a retirement village. Although I didn't forward him any details just yet in regards to bank transfers and such, he says it sounds like a typical case of ID fraud and he believes that it is likely your funds were never actually sent to the person you think they were.

Time to do some research into "Ed Trice"'s photos and see who he the guy is that he is pretending to be.

Fail, I can't find the part that gives info on the free ticket (aside from the envelope).

Take a better picture of the letter where it states that and you'll have yourself an insanely popular reddit/imgur post on your hands.

"Proof the government thinks we're all fucking stupid (and that they're right)"

That's what happens when I'm not working there anymore.  

(Talking about the before-thought of article titles and such)

I seem to remember Vladimir telling someone who worked with me that he had 1,000,000 bitcoins. Where did the 2,100 figure come from?

Appreciate it! It's worth uploading on IMGUR as well.

Burn him at the stake. He's a sociopathic pariah who has done this in the past and will continue to do it in the future. We have evidence of his lies and with every further lie he seals his own case in court.

Let the judge decide how to handle him in terms of months in prison and repayment.

I don't believe in prayer, I believe in justice and contacting the appropriate law enforcement officials.

Papamoi, I'd like to repeat what I just said. Yes, we all know he's a ridiculous lying scammer now, but talking to him is not helping anything. You're just making him more confident because of your inability to speak professionally to him.

EDIT: I just got off the phone with his supposed "business partner" Matt Reynolds. He says he is not a business partner in any way shape or form, and that he collected 2 payments for referrals only from Ed regarding sending people to him to buy computers. I warned him extensively of Ed's operations and instructed him to do his own research (especially image reverse searches) and to protect his own company by not affiliating himself with sociopathic scammers. He said he has nothing to do with him already but will take the advice to heart and do a bit of research himself.

papamoi: PM me the information regarding your police report and such.

papamoi, I'd recommend not communicating with him. Your English is atrocious and makes you sound like you're incompetent (incapable of doing harm to him). If I were you, I'd stick with the following routes to seek justice:

• continue speaking with authorities and reporting him for his crimes
• continue contacting those around him to warn them of his sociopathic scamming operation
• continue to ignore his contacts until a time when he is ready to agree to pay you back in full (which will be never because he already spent it to pay his mortgage)

As with all scams, you have a choice to make. You either destroy their reputation and lose the ability to reclaim funds (court orders don't help when the person hides assets), or you avoid destroying their reputation (at least until after being paid back) in an effort to be paid back. You've taken the first step while trying to do the second. In my opinion, this will make it harder for police to do their job as you will give him ammunition to call you a stalker and counter sue etc.

As for his legal claims of suit and you owing him money for calling, it's obviously all bullshit and it's equally obvious he lies for a living.