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1  Economy / Trading Discussion / Re: Be careful-Attempting mugging at in person trade on: June 06, 2014, 04:15:31 PM
This is someone plagerising. My pseudo on reddit is LeBitco1n

I went to the police today but there was a 2 hour wait so will go back tomorrow.
2  Economy / Trading Discussion / Re: Be careful-Attempting mugging at in person trade on: June 06, 2014, 01:53:03 AM
Thanks for the messages.
Just happy that they got away with nothing and if they did get my phone it had double protection and a limited number of bitcoins. Just posted this to warn others that you should never let your guard down when dealing in person. Any transaction involving money will atract the worst kind of people.
I will update tomorrow when I file the police report.
3  Economy / Trading Discussion / Be careful-Attempting mugging at in person trade on: June 06, 2014, 12:47:38 AM
Be careful out there if trading in person. Somebody just attempted to rob me of my phone after setting up a local trade.

I'm in a French city (not Paris) and somebody contacted me over localbitcoins for an in person trade.
He wanted to buy 500 euros worth of BTC.
We agreed to meet at a big open public square where there is a bar and lots of people milling around.
When we met up two people arrived and we started to talk about how the site works and how he can verify the transaction BTC.
I then whip out my phone and log in to my account stressing the whole time that I need extra passwords to release the funds. Then when I ask him for the moeny, one guy grabbed the phone while the other pulled out a tear gas canister and sprayed me. Luckily I had managed to grab back my phone and started to shout and swing a few punches and they ran off. I was glad that the place was quite full and people quickly helped me. I will be filing a police report but I'm not sure that it will do any good.

TLDR- Be careful when trading in person, criminals are starting to realise what bitcoin is about.
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