Lets also be clear here - to the best of my knowledge those negative ratings are handed out if you do not have nickserv ENFORCE set on your freenode nick.

its not just about gribble and having an authentic nick, its about protecting your own reputation by not allowing scammers to USE your nick at all.

hope that clarifies things
Cheers
T

BOING!

BitcoinPolice once performed security auditing of the CX web interface in its early days. This came about through through the #bitcoin-aus channel where i met Ken, the owner of CX.
Other than that, there is no association between CX and BP.


I must say it is sad to see the exchange shutdown, i still regard ken as a trustworthy member of the bitcoin community and wish him and all the staff at CX all the best of luck in any future endeavours.

sadly... *another one bites the dust*

Cheers
MrTiggr

Rapid Response and Engine Shutdown, Bug Identification and Remedy, Full Public Disclosure and future fail-safes.

For ONE BRIEF MOMENT i put down my popcoin.... am I in on the right forum!?

I all seriousness, well Done MagicalTux A+ work, thankyou.

T.

GAVIN FTW   .. Outstanding work *bump* this.

#bitcoin-police

**BUMP gratuitous plug**

AUSSIE! AUSSIE! AUSSIE!

/me *giggles*

wow - such a nifty trick to delete all his posts....

Daniel, Daniel, Daniel .... on the internetz, you cannot un-ring a bell:

https://i.imgur.com/7zBVa.jpg

THAT is a screenshot of your complete PRE-deleted thread - and i am sure webarchive.org and wayback machines of all kinds will regurgitate this thread happily unredacted... not to mention the sheer fact that this thread will now appear in the Google searches of all your future employers (yes, during recruitment - companies use Google!)

Chalk it up as a black mark on your permanent internet record, bro - "this is one doodle that cant be un-did; home-skillet!"

Cheers
T

Thanks for the bumps all!

i notice we haven't heard from daniel ... sorry dmetcalfe92 since i posted this, i wonder why..

?? did anyone ever call that partyvan ?

DMetcalfe92:

Can i first say that, as a seasoned IT worker i personally find this kind of behaviour and blatant admission of criminal activity to be abhorrent.

I can only hope that karma sees it fit your employer catches wind of this and takes some instant action - in the industry, we call this kind of forum posting a CLM (Career Limiting Move); criminal charges against you by an employer are generally the kind of thing that follows you for the rest of your career.

Ill content with waiting for karma, i began to wonder what D Metcalfe 92 might be a contraction of.... and armed with your self-confessed skills portfolio
(from here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?&topic=61890.msg722090#msg722090 )
we found a little something you might find interesting..

IF your name just happened to be Daniel Metcalfe then this link with a very similar set of skills might worry you:

http://uk.linkedin.com/pub/daniel-metcalfe/45/824/a76

Especially because it lists the lovely services of [Weston EU Ltd August 2008 – Present (3 years 8 months)] as this this persons current employer...

http://www.westoneu.net/westoneu.html

Sounds like a lovely family operation - it would be terrible to hear that the Sutton's had gotten wind of an employee behaving like this.

I REALLY hope you werent that silly bro

Someone call the partyvan.

Cheers
MrTiggr

CanaryInTheMine,

Interesting - the administrative contact given for the site is listed as Darrell  Duane who would seem to operate a Drupal Specialist internet company MemePod.

His other contact details would appear to be found at :

http://www.linkedin.com/in/dduane
http://thecore.pathable.com/user_profiles/darrell-duane
http://www.facebook.com/darrell.duane

http://whois.domaintools.com/memepod.com
Registrant:
   c/o MEMEPOD.COM
   P.O. Box 821650
   Vancouver, WA  98682
   US

   Registrar: DOTSTER
   Domain Name: MEMEPOD.COM
      Created on: 21-AUG-03
      Expires on: 21-AUG-12
      Last Updated on: 01-AUG-11

   Administrative Contact:
     
      c/o MEMEPOD.COM
      P.O. Box 821650
      Vancouver, WA  98682
      US
      +1.360-449-5933


I hope that assists your endeavours to contact the operator regarding your claim.

Cheers
MrTiggr
Bitcoin Police (#bitcoin-police on freenode)

Hi there CanaryInTheMine,

That operator is not known to Bitcoin Police as a scammer.

If it is of any assistance, the domain has been registered for at least a year to :

Registrant:
   MemePod
   3110 13th Street NW
   Washington, DC  20010-2408
   US

   Registrar: DOTSTER
   Domain Name: BITCOINBONUS.COM
      Created on: 15-DEC-10
      Expires on: 16-DEC-11
      Last Updated on: 16-DEC-10

   Administrative, Technical Contact:
      Duane, Darrell 
      MemePod
      3110 13th Street NW
      Washington, DC  20010-2408
      US
      202 667 8728
      202 667 5392

Note that the domain registration expires in December of this year, in my experience it is remiss of a diligent site operator to let domains near less than 6 months from registration expiry to ensure consumer confidence.

This is of course no smoking gun and i recommend you contact the above registrant and attempt further communications with the operator through your existing means. If no response is obtained in a reasonabke time, please feel free to contact the Bitcoin Police in our freenode irc channel #bitcoin-police or via email at reports@bitcoinpolice.org. our website http://bitcoin.crimeunit.com has information on known scammers and scams as well as other info you may find useful.

Cheers
MrTiggr

I Don't care much about any of the personal crapflinging that will abviously go on around this thread....Instead i draw your collective attention to the following excerpt from "The Mad Hatter"s email:


All that Bruce did, as far as I am aware was to report the details of the suspects related to the MyBitcoin scam to the appropriate authorities.

The above statement by TheMadHatter only further implicates his own personal involvement in MyBitcoin by confirming that he is (one of) or knows the identities of the perpetrators of a suspected scam.

?? did i just miss something ??

MrTiggr
#bitcoin-police

I can only agree with SomeoneWeird.

The emails in Bruce's post appear to come from the real Mad Hatter as far as we can accurately say.

Cheers

MrTiggr
#bitcoin-police

Well ..for an idea born only an hour ago i am impressed !

Count me in - in fact; anything i can do to help coordinate this is available.

In order to make it happen we DO NEED IDEAS AND INPUT ..what should be there? What is our purpose (except good booze and Bitcoin Chicks )

I personally would love to see Bitcoin in Australia promoted throughout the entire process - We all know how much Australian Media love to cover a "Good Old-Fashioned Convoy" so am happy to spearhead the Canberra/Sydney contingent.

"How To Build A Rig"

"Bitcoin2Web Hackathon"

"Mine-A-Thon"

Just ideas

Great work BitcoinAustralia!

TTFN - TaTa For now!

MrTiggr