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681  Economy / Lending / Re: [EDU] How to spot a scammer on: November 06, 2012, 07:02:56 PM
Alright, so I've been PM'd by a few people what red-flags to look out for since I have a pretty good track record of spotting scammers.  Sometimes I get it wrong, but better safe than sorry.  Anyway, watch out for the typical behavior from scammers who will usually fit at least two of the following characteristics:

1. Account created within the last 3 months.
2. Low-medium message count with vapid posts
3. Use of a seemingly realistic first/last name as their forum account name
4. Signs posts with full name
5. Straight out of Newbie mode right into Lending (requesting a loan of course)
6. Straight out of Newbie mode right into Currency Exchange (PayPal, Liberty Reserve, Western Union)
7. Straight out of Newbie mode and selling gift cards of any kind

8. Any user blatantly claiming to be female
9. New user trying to sell an Apple iAnything
10. Sob stories asking for handouts

There.  Pretty much in a nutshell how to spot a scammer.  There's still some finesse to spotting a scammer, but these rules will separate most of the wheat from the chaff, so to speak.  Oh, and I guess there's one more rule:

11. Never trust ANYBODY.  Except people who like big butts.  Because they can not lie.

Examples of posts that fit the pattern:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=121136.0 pat231
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=119831.0 jackdavis1983
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=122082.0 hobo66.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=121998.0 Ssoftware
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=120233.0 Bitcoinscene
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=119871.0 ChrisNelson
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=119384.0 CoinCleaner
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=119824.0 LionHeart
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=118514.0 Gretchen

Current trend of the week:

Watch out for loan requests from accounts that "fit the description" that are ostensibly for some Bitcoin-related project.  I'm guessing they think that since it's supposedly going toward development it carries more weight than a loan request for a SR order.

That might be a broad way to indentify a scammer since I fit all 10 and I am looking for investosr to invest real money (not btc) and sign up a contract with me.
682  Economy / Lending / Re: 200 BTC @ 10% For 1 Month , Invest In Binary Trading , Video Proof Attached on: November 06, 2012, 07:00:07 PM
Sounds like a pyramid scheme
683  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Technical Support / Re: Get the address sent from on: November 06, 2012, 09:52:29 AM
Anyone? I am still looking for how to do it
684  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Technical Support / Re: Get the address sent from on: November 05, 2012, 09:24:01 PM
Look at the transaction that you got.  The input part of that transaction will have a list of transaction outputs redeemed.  For each of them, look up the transaction and check the scriptpubkey part of that output.

But you really should figure out a way to do whatever you are doing that doesn't require that, because no matter how much you think you need it, the system totally doesn't work that way.  Transactions do not have From: addresses.

Is there any way to do it with Bitcoin .NET C#? I have been trying but can't seem to figure it out
685  Economy / Lending / Re: Looking for investors on: November 05, 2012, 01:13:23 PM
Still looking for investments, in my job I see a lot of requests to poker/blackjack/slots scripts, if you are interested in purchasing them I can provide.
686  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Technical Support / Re: Get the address sent from on: November 03, 2012, 10:01:57 PM
If you want to distinguish separate incoming payments, the advised way is creating a separate receive address for each.

Bitcoin transactions do not really have 'from' addresses. All transactions do is consume coins, merge and split them, and produce new coins, potentially assigned to new address(es). It is indeed possible to retrieve where the input coins for your transaction were previously sent to, but in the general case this is not very useful information, as it only tells you which address previously controlled the coin, which is not necessarily the one who sent it. In the case of e-wallets with shared wallets, for example, it only tells you an address that belongs to the provider's wallet, and sending something to it will not necessary mean it ends up on the account of the one who sent it. If you want to do return payments, ask for a return address.

This is what I do at the moment, how can I check from which address was the payment sent to mine?

How is this possible then:http://blockchain.info/address/37muSN5ZrukVTvyVh3mT5Zc5ew9L9CBare    ?

I understand that the last address received from may not be the correct one and if you send there they might be lost but I still need it.
687  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Technical Support / Re: Get the address sent from on: November 03, 2012, 09:41:29 PM
If you want to distinguish separate incoming payments, the advised way is creating a separate receive address for each.

Bitcoin transactions do not really have 'from' addresses. All transactions do is consume coins, merge and split them, and produce new coins, potentially assigned to new address(es). It is indeed possible to retrieve where the input coins for your transaction were previously sent to, but in the general case this is not very useful information, as it only tells you which address previously controlled the coin, which is not necessarily the one who sent it. In the case of e-wallets with shared wallets, for example, it only tells you an address that belongs to the provider's wallet, and sending something to it will not necessary mean it ends up on the account of the one who sent it. If you want to do return payments, ask for a return address.

This is what I do at the moment, how can I check from which address was the payment sent to mine?
688  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Technical Support / Get the address sent from on: November 03, 2012, 02:56:41 PM
I have an address in bitcoind and I would like to receive the first address that bitcoins were sent from in Bitcoin.net.

For example if I have an address 37muSN5ZrukVTvyVh3mT5Zc5ew9L9CBare with a balance of 9.5 coins, I would like to receive the address those coins were sent from. This is a problem since I will have multiple addresses each with a couple of coins and I want to get the addresses the coins were sent from for each address.
689  Economy / Lending / Re: Looking for investors on: November 01, 2012, 06:03:03 PM
Paypal at first, maybe more options will be available for various amounts of bitcoins later.

Bad bad idea.  People will buy bitcoins with paypal - you will transfer the coins - and then people will dispute the transaction on paypal and get their money back, leaving with you nothing.

Paypal always sides against bitcoin.

We charge for casino tokens.
690  Economy / Lending / Re: Looking for investors on: November 01, 2012, 05:30:40 PM
Would you donate to a bitcoin casino/currency exchange? (you will be able to buy bitcoins almost instantly)

Please explain.  Buy instantly using what form(s) of fiat money?
Paypal at first, maybe more options will be available for various amounts of bitcoins later.

The website look I am aiming for is pretty much "for dummies", anyone should be able to purchase coins and play, Poker will be free or almost free, I want to aim for 100% return rate and only charge on exchanges. As anonymity is also a priority I want to aim for 1-2 investors max, people shouldn't know how much coins are exchanged or how many people visit our site.
691  Economy / Lending / Re: Looking for investors on: November 01, 2012, 04:16:02 PM

I must admit it did get my interest but it isn't really meant for this project.

Would you donate to a bitcoin casino/currency exchange? (you will be able to buy bitcoins almost instantly)
692  Economy / Lending / Re: Looking for investors on: November 01, 2012, 03:20:47 PM
Crowd funding is for disaster relief not investing into a casino, I wouldn't like all out company secrets to be handed out to the masses.

Plus it's thousands of dollars and not HUGE amount and seems like a lot wiser investment than opening a clothing store or something, of course mutual trust is very important so all the personal information is exchanged.
693  Economy / Lending / Looking for investors on: November 01, 2012, 12:39:29 PM
Hello,
I am currently working as a freelancer and project manager on other projects and making some money but I have my own bitcoin casino and the skills to finish it, I am looking for people who are ready to collaborate or invest in my project as I believe it has great potential, PM me your Skype so we can discuss this more in depth.
Regards, Max.
694  Economy / Services / Re: Looking to buy 1.8 coins on: September 11, 2012, 07:37:34 PM
Use an exchange and avoid being scammed.

I don't think unclescrooge will scam me, seems if I deal with high rep users I won't get scammed.

Plus it's just 1.8 coins.

Plus if you go with paypal, you risk nothing Wink

Yes except a chargeback and PayPal pretty much don't give a shit about the seller.
695  Economy / Services / Re: Looking to buy 1.8 coins on: September 10, 2012, 09:23:00 PM
Use an exchange and avoid being scammed.

I don't think unclescrooge will scam me, seems if I deal with high rep users I won't get scammed.

Plus it's just 1.8 coins.
696  Economy / Services / Looking to buy 1.8 coins on: September 10, 2012, 01:25:13 PM
Hey I am looking to buy 1.8 coins.
697  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Technical Support / Re: Just sent 1BTC and charged .001 fee, why? on: August 06, 2012, 09:12:47 AM
Hmm.. What is exactly the point of paying fees for transactions? Your transactions doesn't get a higher priority or will appear faster
698  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Technical Support / Re: Delete the wallet balances on: August 06, 2012, 09:11:21 AM
I have used Bitcoin-QT to send all my bitcoins to a different address thinking I would send it back and everything will be normal but when I sent them back bitcoind shows twice the original balance. Is there a way to just delete all the balances in all my wallets without changing the private/public keys so they are still usable?

Free monies!

That is odd though.  Can you try launching your bitcoin client using -rescan and see if the problem goes away?

As far as "all the balances" I'm not sure what you are referring to.  Bitcoin calculates the balance based on the transactions in the blockchain for the addresses that you have in your wallet.  So there's no "balances" stored by the client -- it is a calculated number.

Ok I will try that thanks.

List all the accounts and one or more will be in negative numbers
There isn't one with negative balance.
699  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Technical Support / Delete the wallet balances on: August 05, 2012, 09:50:14 PM
I have used Bitcoin-QT to send all my bitcoins to a different address thinking I would send it back and everything will be normal but when I sent them back bitcoind shows twice the original balance. Is there a way to just delete all the balances in all my wallets without changing the private/public keys so they are still usable?
700  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Technical Support / Re: Currently have 825 coins on: July 31, 2012, 03:35:01 PM
Ok I have updated to the newest version:
{
  "version": 60300,
  "protocolversion": 60001,
  "walletversion": 60000,
  "balance": 0.22,
  "blocks": 189965,
  "connections": 7,
  "proxy": "",
  "difficulty": 1866391.30500321,
  "testnet": false,
  "keypoololdest": 1337701139,
  "keypoolsize": 101,
  "paytxfee": 0.0,
  "errors": ""
}
It seems that some coins have been lost I still get 825 coins in my account, can anyone give me directions how to get rid of that?
Great, now "sendtoaddress" those 0.22 then "backupwallet .bitcoin/wallet.bak" Smiley

You will have to "listaccounts" and see if any other account has the same 800+ amount, but negative, and "move" bitcoins from yours to that one, or if they are really faked with a bitcoind bug or something move them to a new account that the server would not touch at all.

Ok, I am going to try to send them out to a temporary address and create a new account move the exact same amount of bitcoins but negative and send there those 825 bitcoins.
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