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@some138, please respond to these allegations. 

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@some138, please respond to these allegations. 

What happened::

I noticed three newbies complaining that some138 has not delivered on paid orders, and is not responding to the claims by these newbies that they have been scammed.

Scammers Profile Link: some138

Scammer Flag: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=trust;flag=241

Reference Link:

Here he is agreeing to a sale in his AWS sales thread:


Then the buyer replying days later:


Other complaints:


http://archive.fo/zbp6b


http://archive.fo/lbB5b



Additional Notes:

Some138 has been online today, and has yet to respond to these allegations.

This could be someone using fake newbie accounts to attempt to tarnish Some138's reputation, but looks more like Some138 is taking advantage of newbies status and preying on those who not likely to get heard when they accuse an established member of a scam.  There are also older claims that some138 has scammed them, he could be scamming users selectively.  

I'd like to see those who are claiming to have been scammed respond here with signed messages and TxIds.

Suchmoon is not a myth, she's a legend.

This is true, and would be a pain in the ass in my opinion.   I don't need a notification sent to my email whenever I send a PM.  I'm already getting notifications for received PMs, and I hate to say it but the Maggiordomo bot has been getting a bit irritating in that regard.  Removing the option to not save outgoing PM in the outbox isn't going to do much, because the hacker can just delete the message after it's sent.  

The situation that spurred bones to create this topic is a bit concerning, but I would like to think it's an isolated case.  I don't recall learning about any other situation with a similar account breach.  

Since most of us are into cryptocurrency we should all understand the importance of self reliance and accountability when it comes to our own security.  Maybe some people don't take the security of their forum account as seriously as their bitcoin wallet, but maybe that's what needs to change.  This is especially true for those of us who've developed a trusted reputation here, it's not only our account and reputation that are on the line, but someone may get scammed.   Continuing to ask theymos to implement troublesome features to compensate for a few members' lack of accountability and responsibility isn't a great solution.

No, I'll only judge you by the words you post onto this forum.  But rest assured, judge you I will.

Pure gold.  The great grandfather must have been the oldest Hitler Youth, and the youngest of "Hitlers top soldiers in the SS."  

Just a few plot holes to patch up before Hollywood buys the movie rights.

I'm also curious to know how kenzawak's account was breached. 

@kenzawak, did you use a laptop or a public computer to access your account while you were traveling?  Did you connect to an unsecured public wifi?  Did you download and install any software during that trip or just before?  Sorry if I'm being a bit nosy, but it's important to know how the account was compromised if you are to be certain it's now secure.



If it were me swimming in a sea of uncertainty I would eliminate any potential for doubt.  I'd boot that betty from a USB, shred the hard drive, nuke the partitions, low level format, and start with a fresh OS install.

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@iChanger,
You'll be able to get your money back from PayPal.  Friends and family payments make it a bit harder, but not impossible.  Be the squeaky wheel.

Well, you are several orders of magnitude out his league, there nutildah.  His aunt who taught ballroom dancing to kings and queens said so.

Hitler's signature, holocaust denial, "space" rocks, war criminals, and ballroom dancing?

This thread is awesome.  

Just out curiosity, can you tell when the breach started?  You can copy the code into a text editor and redact your IP address with a search and replace, then post the code here.

Hi Spazzer,
Payment has been sent per our agreement in PM.  I sent the payment to the address in your profile as you've instructed.  Thanks again.

TxId: 192dff3f8e6b26c0dca48d93a3041887f6150eb0409e06cf0fae3f533a5e123f

Can you sign a message with the address quoted below from December 2017?

http://archive.fo/iypg5#selection-2942.1-2951.56


Looks like you used it January of this year.

http://archive.fo/5e0ge#selection-8575.0-8575.67

I would take it easy on the guy until you have the full story.

There are scammers contacting people on Telegram impersonating trusted members of Bitcointalk.org.  Many of these are trying to scam people for bitcoin to payal trades.  That may be what this newbie is talking about.  Maybe someone on Telegram is impersonating you luring unsuspecting newbies into sending them PayPal, or worse, bitcoin.

A guy could drive himself crazy looking for logic, reason, and deeper meaning every time a shit-post gets a merit or three.  There really isn't anything in this thread that convinces me that Jimmy Crypto, MicroGuy, or PoolMinor deserve a negative rating, and there're bigger fish.

It's definitely worth keeping an eye on these accounts in case a pattern develops or something worthy of labeling "concrete evidence" turns up.  Until then, I wouldn't waste a ton of time on these situations.

The official bip39 word list can be found here: https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0039/bip-0039-wordlists.md

Scan the word on in your seed, and compare to the words on the bip39 list.  Try any words from the bip39 list that are close to the words you suspect have errors.

It's about time.  Google has been a dominant force in internet search and is very likely manipulating result to promote businesses with which they contract and for which they advertise. 

The other issue I would like to see investigated is if Google is skewing search results to promote or subvert certain political points of view.  I don't know how the DOJ will approach the probe, and whether manipulations of political stories within Googles news services are part of the probe.

The internet is still relatively new and forging new territories within our culture.  As a society we've been keeping a fairly hands off approach to tech companies' growth and business practices.  As a result these companies have plundered our personal information for their own financial domination.  I'm optimistic the DOJ probe will expose some of the more dangerous aspects of these tech companies' business practices.


https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/31/doj-preparing-antitrust-probe-of-google---dow-jones.html

This is a very suspicious set of circumstances.  Just a couple days ago Jimmy Crypto had only three merit, and created this thread in Meta, asking about avatars.  Now, just a few days later he's half way to his goal, with 50 merit from another Bitcoin FS shill? 

Nice project, much lightning.

I have a little learning curve to overcome, but I'll request a loan from you just for fun once I've learned how to generate a pay request. 

@theymos you make a lot of good points, but you seem to paint a picture of all business and empirical capitalism.  I'm sure that's the motivation behind many, but that's not the whole story.  Before I get into that, if I may retort to your points:


This is beneficial to all parties, and I don't think that's a point of contention. 


Sure, but we trade with plenty of countries with high wage employees, too.  There's plenty of trade with EU countries, Britain, and Japan.  Not too long ago Japan may have fit your description, but they no longer do.  In large part that can be attributed to trading with the US.


Nation building is a losing proposition statistically speaking.  When it works it's nice but Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Iraq kind of proved that when you lose you lose big, and people die.


This.  World domination through economics.  That's the new form of warfare, and really the only acceptable type for a super power that wants to maintain a moral high-ground.


The only thing I would add to this list as a caveat to your first point is the influence of the tech industry.  I think they are more powerful and influential than the MIC in this day and age.

Back to my original claim that it's not all business and becoming the worlds economic overlords:  As I was countering your points, I too was trying to paint a picture.  The American people don't want to take over other nations.  They don't want their young adults fighting in some foreign land for someone else's benefit.  We are flush with our own natural resources, and we recognize the blessing¹.  We're mostly, as a nation, proud of what we've achieved, and we still have plenty of issues to solve here at home.

We also understand as a culture that we are not always compatible with other cultures.  We also have a cultural bias towards self-reliance and independence.  This is something that dates back to the founding of the nation and why many supported Isolationism.  Maybe a lot less so today, but in the past this was a demonstrably significant factor in American culture. 


¹For lack of a better term.