Locking this topic, OP can PM me if he wants to reopen it.

Możliwe, że masz/miałeś jakiś malware, który podmienił Ci adres.

Alessia Tatti's (Alberto Armandi's wife) or Homeless Jackie's (a.k.a. "wong RAP") victims would disagree with you.

You forgot about Bitcoin to Cash:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=344143

100 BTC @ 800 USD/BTC =~~ $80k.

I think Labcoin could also be added (another scam by Alberto Armandi), but I haven't followed it closely, so have no idea how much money is missing (7500 BTC?).

Also, ActiveMining (10k BTC?) and maybe COG could be on the list.

I don't think theymos will let you take over a thread without the OP's consent.

Thanks, banned.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=107085.msg1173977#msg1173977

Before the Trust system was started, theymos used to go through some peoples' PMs to ensure they deserved to be scammer-tagged, nowadays (AFAIK) he only goes through peoples' PMs if he needs to do so for administration purposes, he informed me once of going though 20 most recent subjects of PMs sent to me, to fix a problem with PMs not loading after grue and me informed him of this issue.

Of course if you have some sensitive info to communicate, you should GPG-encrypt your message, or communicate off-site. The note "Note: PM privacy is not guaranteed. Encrypt sensitive messages." was added two years ago: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=104261.msg1147985#msg1147985

Global moderators can only see those PMs that the recipient reports by clicking "Report To Admin".

People did spam with insubstantial posts because you (even if indirectly) incentivized them to do so.

Just a few examples:









Not to mention that a third (~80) of the posts in that thread were "thank yous", most of them made by you.

I usually ban people who start such threads (i.e. threads were OP incentivizes people to post insubstantial posts), but in your case you offered to pay people to post their opinions about the coin, which in itself and of itself doesn't necessarily have to translate into insubstantial posts and low-value content, but altcoin board being altcoin board, this is what occurred.

Are you getting no results at all, or a lot of results that you're not interested in?

Try here: https://www.google.com/cse?cx=016660200577587308545%3Aesf40ml9aag&ie=UTF-8&q=&sa=Google+search#gsc.tab=0

or using the regular forum search, but try to be more specific if you're getting too many results (complete the "by user:", "Options", "Message age:" fields, and choose the boards where you think it's most likely the post was made), or less specific if you're getting no results at all.

You can also try using search operators, quotation marks generally speed up the search for me.

It's also possible that it the poster deleted his own post.

They are allowed, so long as people don't spam them with their addresses or tx ids, or other insubstantial posts.

You can create one, just remember that:


and don't start one just to place your referral links.

I think I banned him yesterday, there's very little you can do at this point, and it looks like you weren't the only person to get scammed (his other accounts were also banned, but only those that were reported to me by PM).

I would have thought people would at least glance at the rank and activity of the impersonator...

No, you can't.

Just removed my negative feedback that I left you and good to know that you're alive, but WTF, were you in a coma or something?

OP has last logged in 7 days ago, and this topic is inundated with replies from people who get paid to post so I'll lock this topic. OP can PM when (if) he gets back, but I suspect he owns his share of accounts that posted here, so I'm not sure I'll want to unlock it.

Then you should remember that even when it was easier to keep track of all the scams, unless they were repeatedly disrupting discussion (MNW), scammers' accounts were only scammer tagged, because there is always a slim possibility for the scammer to repent and make some (sometimes successful) efforts to repay their victims (e.g. terrytibbs). With their accounts banned, it's even less likely the victims will get anything back. TF could have been banned as soon as he announced he was "hacked" but how would that help his victims? At least some of them got 20-30% their BTC back.

Even if we had a rule that scamming ends up in a ban... we would never be able to catch up with even a quarter of the scams. Someone would have to hire a dozen people to work full time, those people would need read access to peoples' PMs, there should be a rule against GPG or otherwise encrypting of PMs (to see what you're up to), and a rule against off-site communication, but even then not all scams could be prevented (especially long cons). The solution is not restricting freedom in the name of security, but education. I know some people are suffering from an overabundance of bitcoins in their wallets, so they're eager to part with them, but then they shouldn't cry if they failed to do their due diligence. Trust no one, assume everyone's out to scam you, and you'll be much less likely to get scammed.


Which mods have turned out to be scammers? I can only recall one, maybe two, mods that have scammed someone, and neither of them had their scamming facilitated due to how the Trust system and DefaultTrust works.
I'll agree that relaxing the newbie restrictions for the 2nd time might not have been the best decision, though I can see how it could have served as a deterrent both to spammers and valuable contributors.


Again, if you assume everyone's out to scam you, you won't send them any BTC unless you're really certain of their trustworthiness.

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Do you mean in regards to newbie spam, or in regards to scamming?
The former would be easier to deal with (e.g increase waiting time between posts to half an hour for newbies and jr. members, or autoban or auto-tempban accounts if they have more than a dozen posts deleted in a 24 hour period), but I don't really see a solution to the latter without us having much more work, getting more mods, and severely limiting other users' freedom.

Insubstantial posts like your "lol" add zero value to the discussion, and are frequently deleted.

Then start a thread in Services, if you have any qualifications maybe someone will hire you.

Also, stop begging in the Slovenian and Croatian threads.

So more like 3000*0.0011 = 3.3 BTC per month, a magnitude less than your calculations suggest.

And Phinn's account is almost 3 years old, whereas Ritz's been offering this "deal" for only a few weeks, you have no guarantee he will be able to continue paying so much.