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Not wanting to imply that there are any scammers in the bitcoin community, but...
If you had the misfortune of losing money to a scammer, be warned that you will never get your money back by arguing with him. It doesn't matter whether you are polite, insistent, threatening, furious, logical, plaintive, sarcastic, whatever. It won't help to tell him that you need your money back because your only child is dying of cancer and you are being evicted and you have already sold a kidney to pay for food.
Words are his weapon of choice, the katana that he handles with skill. Making his victims waste time with lies and empty promises, until they get tired and give up, is not only his job but a source of professional pride. He has convinced himself that you deserve to lose your money, if nothing else "because you are a sucker". He is fully immunized against your tales of distress, which he assumes are false and therefore despises you even more "for being a liar".
The most you can get by arguing with a scammer is the occasional pithy satisfaction of catching him in contradiction -- which will make no difference, as he will not be in the least bothered by it.
(Apologies if I am repeatng myself. I have been folowing also the threads about Neo&Bee, Butterfly Labs, Intersango, Cryptorush, Bitfunder, and a few others, and they are so similar in their general tone that I often get confused about which is which.)
(By the way, when @Gleb_Gamow posted that walmart video, at first I thought that it was totally irrelevant to this therad; but now I see that it was very relevant, and substantially changes my perspective of the affair. Unfortunately I cannot explaing why and how; if you cannot see it by yourselves, well, perhaps I am allucinating, so forget it.)
If you had the misfortune of losing money to a scammer, be warned that you will never get your money back by arguing with him. It doesn't matter whether you are polite, insistent, threatening, furious, logical, plaintive, sarcastic, whatever. It won't help to tell him that you need your money back because your only child is dying of cancer and you are being evicted and you have already sold a kidney to pay for food.
Words are his weapon of choice, the katana that he handles with skill. Making his victims waste time with lies and empty promises, until they get tired and give up, is not only his job but a source of professional pride. He has convinced himself that you deserve to lose your money, if nothing else "because you are a sucker". He is fully immunized against your tales of distress, which he assumes are false and therefore despises you even more "for being a liar".
The most you can get by arguing with a scammer is the occasional pithy satisfaction of catching him in contradiction -- which will make no difference, as he will not be in the least bothered by it.
(Apologies if I am repeatng myself. I have been folowing also the threads about Neo&Bee, Butterfly Labs, Intersango, Cryptorush, Bitfunder, and a few others, and they are so similar in their general tone that I often get confused about which is which.)
(By the way, when @Gleb_Gamow posted that walmart video, at first I thought that it was totally irrelevant to this therad; but now I see that it was very relevant, and substantially changes my perspective of the affair. Unfortunately I cannot explaing why and how; if you cannot see it by yourselves, well, perhaps I am allucinating, so forget it.)
The dialog I had with Joshua Zipkin in the parking lot of his old office location mirrors what's depicted in that Walmart video. Even though he didn't mention IMET by name, he was digging them a new asshole as if it was all their fault, and how they ripped him off to the tune of a couple hundred grand and tying up AMT's shit.
