Sent you a PM.

Online buying coins.

Online buying coins.

Selling coins is a very risky proposition whatever the payment method. I've been trading for quite some time and have seen my fair share of scam attempts. I think that your mistake was to put an inexperienced person to manage such a risky operation. This type of banking fraud is particularly vicious. You not only end up losing your coins but also your bank accounts get frozen and you find yourself having to demonstrate that you're not a criminal. Really sorry about your situation. Good luck.

Thanks for the idea but is not worth the efforts. I nuked both accounts and I'm certainly not
planning to go back to trading via these insecure channels. Time for a review of communications strategy.

Update:
With 2 accounts blown over 2 different networks both set with very hard to break passwords
the hypothesis of a compromised component is now very realistic. After some review the
most probable attack vector is Pidgin
a universal chat client that has not seen a release in almost a year. If there is somebody out there using
this client be mindful of the risk.

I have just lost access to my XMPP/Jabber account cryptology@jabb3r.org
Assume hacked as with ICQ.

Jabber XMPP account cryptology@jabb3r.org was just hacked too.

What do criminals do after stealing and extortion have failed?
Try to fake a scam to damage your reputation.

I would definitively recommend not using ICQ.
As to how the hack was done I don't know. Password was sufficiently strong to rule out
a brute force attack. I guess that they either used an exploit at icq.com or maybe
somebody from the inside just sold the account for a bunch of coins.

I could not log in back again nor recover the account. As part of the hack the account's phone
number was linked to a different account so every recovery attempt led to this alt account. The hack
was proficiently done.

I managed to recover the contact list because I run all messaging apps on virtual machines
which are backed up frequently.

The whole thing went into extortion mode.

I guess that the funniest part of this sad story is the "I am an honest man" piece.

From a backup I was able to recover the ICQ contact list and from a fresh account I was able to send an alert to all of them.
Hopefully nobody will get scammed.

Were is step 1?

My ICQ account 671760262 was just hacked.
Avoid using it to contact me. It's certainly not me.

EDIT:
My XMPP/Jabber account cryptology@jabb3r.org is gone too. Assume also hacked.

Thanks for the vouch!

Online buying coins.

Cool.

Online buying coins.

Online buying coins.

That's not a good idea due to the risk of being scammed by an impersonator. (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=871340.0)
If you really want to use skype send me a PM and I'll add you.

Online buying coins.

Blockchain is showing a backlog of 55MB right now so I guess that it is still on.
Good to hear that normal transactions are getting through. I read somewhere that
some miners are ignoring the dust spam.