There's much more than that going on in this case. Say for example, how high are the chances that someone will pay a 5% fee for a crypto <-> crypto exchange when they can use KuCoin to do that for a much lower fee? There's just too many things going on with this one. I am still verifying the transactions tho and I am going somewhere with it, like the scammers address being connected with the second persons address. Still needs much work but will post results when I'm done.

Oh yeah, will definitely keep my eyes open for this type of scam.

That is exactly what happened, because I delayed the transactions for multiple hours I decided to do it fee free and as fast as I could when I had access to my wallets, that is why I did not wait for it to be confirmed. I got good news tho, please read the section at the bottom of the original post.



Thank you. After doing some more investigating this seems to be the case, I wasn't sure at first but your reply confirmed it for me.

I'm not sure what's going on here so I am posting this topic. I lost some money but as long as we can save someone else from falling for the same scam it's all good.

Yesterday I had someone hit me up on Discord asking to have their Bitcoin exchanged for any other token. I agree even tho the amount was below my minimum. After waiting for a while for the other party to send the Bitcoin I get a phone call and need to go out. About 30 minutes later I get sent this screenshot:



At this point I'm out and can't send what we agreed on back for 1 reason:

1. I have no access to my wallets so I can't see if the other party has really sent the coins.


After getting spammed for hours with infinite messages and missed calls which were mostly made of threats about bad reviews I go back home and open my wallet to see that there is nothing in there.

I let the other party know about it and I get sent the following link: https://mempool.space/tx/c306113746b9cf78d6823ee75260ad311d612f0ae3c145207bccf71b2fdb5e44

At the time the transactions was visible at the page, it later changed to: "This transaction has been replaced by:
e5e783122e3c2dcd3b4ec3b1ed5533fe3b0438512c5597625351d0f108737c7f"

Meanwhile this shows up in my wallet:


Luckily the scammer wasn't smart enough to gain my trust and make 100x that amount.

At this point I'm confused and the most I can make out of this is that this is a double spending attack of some sort.

Now what I'm left with is the following: https://www.blockchain.com/btc/tx/c306113746b9cf78d6823ee75260ad311d612f0ae3c145207bccf71b2fdb5e44

Any suggestion as to what happened is welcome, the amount wasn't huge and I've already made that back twice so fuck the scammers but let's save someone else from falling for the same thing.



Last night I got contacted by a second Discord account under the name of Deon. Offering to exchange their Bitcoin for Litecoin. Below I have attached 2 images, 1 which contains messages from the account that scammed 170 USD out of me and another one which contains messages from the second account aka Deon.





I called out dsadsa on his scam and 2 minutes later Deon hits me up asking for an exchange. Judging by the way these 2 accounts type their messages in I managed to make a connection between the 2 and arrived at one conclusion, these 2 accounts are one and the same person.

Deon has sent me 500 USD worth of Bitcoin and I believe he is trying to gain my trust with his second account so he can play in the higher leagues.

This is absolutely surprising to me.

And here we are:

And again:


Mutual characteristics between the 2 accounts.

- Time of contact.
- Sense of urgency, things like I need it fast, I need it for a friend and so on so they can get me to send before transaction is confirmed at least 1 time.
- Threats about reporting me.
- One dead giveaway was the "min" they would reply with when asked for a txID.
- Another dead giveaway is that dsadsa "tested" me with a 170 USD transfer and Deon just sent 500 USD to a random guy with no escrow (which I offer).
- Another dead giveaway is that both accounts were like "I hope you won't scam me" after allegedly sending what was agreed on.
- Both accounts start with the letter d and when I provoked dsadsa about Deon there was a dead giveaway that he did not want me to make a connection between the two.
- After I told dsadsa he is a fucking idiot for not luring me in and gaining my trust the idiot tried to do just that with a second account.

I didn't think much of it, there's plenty of people like OP, I can't filter through all of them.

What rate are you willing to pay?

There was no reason to reply to this old thread in the first place, the OP contacted me on Telegram and never replied after, just another waste of time.

Has anyone bought something from the website yet?

Update.

It's not, it's just a picture, what do I do with it? Print it?

The only one who's high here is you, high in delusions, thinking some internet stranger will send you thousands of dollars.

No, financial material. You want 5k, you leave 8k as collateral and then you get it back after you pay what you got + interest.

No collateral, no loan.

That's not collateral.

Hey, I can't help you.

Sent 378 USDT, I hope that's not a problem as the 2 USDT was the fee which I completely forgot to calculate.

txID: de89475ccda9fb462ebc2b4cfb3a835c6e2effa17fa71f8c458df67f8a3b4778

Please send back to: TPVwtc2ZEo35QE9MCUciKUqbSfCLUhWT6G

I don't understand what you mean  but glad it helped  .

Yes.

Confirmed. Said amount has been sent into my wallet.

Thank you.

Collateral?