A similar incident happened to my card a few months ago. I used the MyChoice card to withdraw cash but an error flashed on the screen and the card was returned to me. Within seconds I got an email alert from MyChoice about $990 deducted from my balance. I thought nothing about it first and assumed it would be reversed when they discover the error. This didn't happen so I contacted them on their support page:

https://mychoicecorporate.com/contact-us/#support

Within a day, someone from their fraud team emailed me and informed me that they do see the error but that it would take time for them to process the reversal. That's because they need to wait for Visa's reversal advice. To expedite the reversal, I went to the acquiring bank (the bank which owns and operates the ATM) and they did a trace of the transaction. They prepared a letter certifying that the transaction was not successful and no funds were disbursed. I then scanned this and sent it to MyChoice.

The funds were eventually reversed but it took a month. Yes, you read that right. A month.

Selling something works best when you try to be as transparent and informative and descriptive about what you're selling. Not that I would be interested but this is just good advice if you want to attract potential buyers.

1. Pictures always help. The more pictures, the more details, the better the chances of attracting interest in the property.
2. Fair pricing. Unfair fees or commissions will raise red flags.
3. Where is it? Providing the property's location will help buyers decide if they want to live there or not.
4. Transaction procedure and more info about the seller and property. Clean title? No liens? OP is seller or agent?

Provide this information and see how it makes a difference. Even if nobody buys here, it's always good practice to be as informative and descriptive as possible.

If you have the brainwallet, you can go to bitaddress.org and derive the private keys. Then you can import them to your existing wallet. On that page (preferably done offline) select brainwallet and on the enter-passphrase box paste your brainwallet. Select "show" and click on "view". You should now see the public address and private keys. If you do this correctly, it should show the same public address on your Rushwallet account. Click on "print" and you should now have a way to import it to your other wallet.

If you have a blockchain wallet, you can import the contents of your Rushwallet without actually transferring them. This will spare you the burden of paying a network fee. Within the blockchain wallet itself, look for the addresses menu and select the prompt for adding addresses. Decline the offer to transfer them. As soon as you add the private key, the exact same bitcoin amount are on your wallet.

44 characters. That's heavy work there. The more characters, the longer it will take. And if you no longer remember even part of the password's composition, it's probably almost impossible to brute force it. Since you have no idea how many characters exactly were in that password, this further complicates an already complicated situation.

Assuming 44, the permutations are staggering. With a super computer working on it nonstop, 50 years later there is still no end in sight.

If there were no symbols and numbers and if you used dictionary words alone, you might stand a chance. A remote chance but a small flicker of hope.

 

Always check and double check by sending an email to the address linked to the PayPal address the scammer claims to be his.

This is a classic MITM scam. This scammer convinces someone else to pay for the coins under false pretences. It was a heavily used scam tactic back in the early days of bitcoin but I see it still works. Some people still haven't learned how to avoid this trap.

When escrow is refused, being suspicious is a natural and healthy reaction. As soon as escrow is declined, treat everything and every word with suspicion. Verify, verify and verify again.

You should have emailed the PayPal email given to you and asked in that email if the payment was meant for this user name and which address the coins were being sent to. This would have killed the scam.

I hope it's not too late. You haven't paid then anything yet, have you? Don't. Here's a story which explains why:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2610422.0

If they refuse escrow or LOC (Letter of Credit), they are scammers. Legitimate commercial transactions are settled with the appropriate and correct protection systems and legitimate Chinese shippers are aware of this practice.

Be especially wary of requests to settle by bitcoin alone. Refusing PayPal or a bank transfer is a red flag. This signals a risk of paying and later having no recourse in the event of non delivery or default by the shipper. So just don't do it. Don't give in to the attractiveness of the offer, however tempting the price and discount offered.

Aliexpress has an escrow element integrated within the trade platform so there is no reason for not using it.

Shills are everywhere and will say anything for a fast buck. Ignore nerve-struck butt-hurt Chinese scammers who might be reading this thread and urge you to go ahead and do it. Don't send coins upfront.

This is yet another sad tale of scammers scoring a win. When dealing with strangers, no matter who they represent or work for or claim to be, escrow is indisputably a must. Never rely on instinct or gut feeling which can be erroneous and prone to being manipulated by the scammer.

You mentioned you contacted the company through Alibaba and found out you were conned. Why didn’t you take precautions and do this while communicating with the scammer? You should have verified and double checked everything before sending your coins, knowing bitcoin’s irreversible character.

This proves there is room for scams even in the least visited corners of the World Wide Web. Scammers simply post their ads and wait for victims to bite the bait. Astounding that Alibaba won’t actively police their site by enforcing some kind of verification method but that’s China. Full of surprises and a totally different dog-eat-dog world.

The coins are gone and if it’s of any comfort, you deserve this community’s thanks for reporting them here so others might read this and heed your warning.

Sounds like a bunch of paid shills and advertisers for this ponzi scheme. There is no such thing as a legitimate wealth doubler or tripler. Assuming hypothetically that the above guys received returns of twice their coins, why would they waste their time discussing it here when there are friends and family members to reel in, bank loans to apply for to double them in six hours and repay the bank in full the following day or even continue doubling these already doubled coins exponentially?

The answer is the above transactions were either random blockchain records or they sent themselves their own coins.

So you double your coins, then double those previously doubled coins... busy work. Why open this thread and show your proof of transactions on the blockchain?

Maybe I already know why but can’t believe people are falling for it. It’s a ponzi scam.

When you're desperate that you would consider taking half of $100, then this looks more like an account being sold and not one intended as security for the loan.

Even if it's a genuine collateral, not all accounts enjoy the privilege of being accepted by a signature campaign for $100 a week. So the true value of the account is not assessed on that basis but rather on factors such as age, post quality and trust.

An account's value is not calculated by only looking at rank and post or activity count. In fact I shouldn't even be talking about an account's monetary value because selling or pledging them is simply wrong.

Red paint for selling accounts is a well deserved hit on one's reputation indeed. The sale of accounts undermines the effort and time other members have genuinely invested in building their own identity in this community.



 

This is basically lending money rephrased and replaced with the more innocuous "investing money" which would be a safe way to avoid risking a splash of red paint.

What kind of collateral do you have in mind? Investing in an ICO is akin to lending you money. It's basically borrowing money while dressed in a business suit and discussing roadmaps and whitepapers rather than repayment terms and interest.

When boiled down to the last drop, it still has all the colors of a loan. And loans are supposed to be secured with ample and valid collateral.

The collateral is there in the event of a "what if this project fails" scenario and also to guarantee the return of the investment.

Or is this an invitation to gamble funds in this ICO?

$17 is tolerable. I transferred some coins last week and I didn’t pay much attention to the fiat value of those fees. My wallet’s fee system is set at “fastest”. It was only later while checking for confirmations that I saw it and was shocked. $68!

I checked how and why I was charged that much. My transaction had a size of more than a thousand bytes.

When I sent more coins a few days later I noticed it was suggesting that I pay about $50. When I adjusted it manually to $17 I was getting an alert that it was too low and might lead to a longer confirmation time lol!

Sending bits and pieces of coins can be very expensive.

There is something just not right about this selling of accounts, whether on this site or on any exchange. Firstly, there are risks and your own FAQs above is no assurance that the account might later be compromised. Just the selling of this enhanced verification is enough reason for the exchange to lock the account and block any money or coins on it. Scammers always find ways to make a fast buck so it is difficult to simply brush off the potential risks here and blindly send you 0.15 eth.

Assuming someone does buy, he will probably feel uneasy when putting large amount of coins on the account, knowing it was once owned by someone and there might be a backdoor somewhere.

If you are giving a "tester" account, would it be right to assume that you have multiple accounts for sale? You mentioned that these accounts come with enhanced verification which would mean they contain names and credentials of strangers. This is risky as heck. I wouldn't trade any coins on such an account.

That's a nice story about mining and mining equipment and being broke etc but the main issue here is collateral. Lenders want to see valid and solid assurances before they send you coins. Your good intentions aside, however genuine and serious they may be, there is just no other way to get a loan here apart from the tried and tested procedure: provide valid collateral worth 120% of the loan amount.

I don't think you stand a chance. Lenders here lend conservatively to avoid losses. Scammers create new accounts daily, concoct elaborate stories, pretend they're sick and dying, disown their parents... just about anything, to get coins.

I know i know, if one had collateral such as altcoins, then it could be argued that taking a loan would be unnecessary since altcoins translates to money, thus negating the need for a loan. Some people however want to hold on to their altcoins if they are bullish and confident their coins might continue to appreciate in value.

Topic in hand, there is no escaping from the collateral requirement. To finance your proposed mining equipment upgrade, this loan will need to be secured.

Good luck!

But you're selling an iPhone 7 for $500..

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2603781.0

As you probably know by now, I commented on that thread earlier today.

This further solidifies my suspicion about that iPhone deal.

Why would you borrow 0.005 BTC if you are selling an iPhone for $500? Or am I right to assume there isn't any iPhone? A figment of your imagination perhaps?

Probably selling the account itself and not doing a funds transfer to another PayPal account. I too am curious as to how money can be moved to another PayPal account if the sending account is limited.

When limited, the PayPal account is as good as dead for 180 days. Nothing can be withdrawn, sent or transferred.

Finding takers here will not be easy. The account is locked. There is also a risk of the original owner regaining ownership on the day the limitation is lifted.

Either way, I have a feeling OP won't find anyone willing to accept this offer.

Is the account permanently limited and locked for 180 days? Or is it limited pending PayPal's request for ID and other documents?


 

Is the iPhone X the CDMA type? I was just curious about the "bad esn" in your description above so I went to have a read about it.

http://ebay.to/1ohRkBy

I was just wondering if there was a way to remove the blacklisting on the phone? Is the phone's blacklisting restricted to the US only? Will it be possible to use the phone outside the US despite the blacklisting? or is this a global restriction on the device imposed by Apple?

What can a buyer do with a bad esn phone when it is obvously blacklisted and rendered unusable? Are buyers getting such phones to use their phone parts as replacements for a non-blacklisted phone?

That sounds like a reasonable and fair proposal. However I'm not familiar with Skrill's post-withdrawal chargeback policies. Some have reported seeing the withdrawal reversed days or weeks later.

But this seems like a fair suggestion. If you are willing to wait until the money is withdrawn, then this looks like a fair and safe offer.

And since you agree to escrow holding the bitcoins while the Skrill funds are transferred, paid and withdrawn, you might soon get offers here.

However I'm still not sure if anyone will accept your 1:1 Preev rate.

Good luck!

Yes there is an alternative. You can go to an ATM and withdraw the cash from that Diners card (or get a cash advance at a bank). Then with the cash in hand, you can buy the bitcoins and pay for them using a safer method. Western Union and Moneygram for example. If you use this payment method and suggest that the transaction be done with escrow, I'm sure you will get a long list of offers here.

Both PayPal and credit cards are reversible and high risk payment methods. It will be difficult to find someone wiling to take the risk. PayPal payments can be disputed and reversed up to 180 days. Imagine that. Credit cards allow you to dispute and chargeback up to 45 to 120 days. You can read all about it here: http://thechargebackcompany.com/chargeback-time-limit/

With the above post, you just killed your account. A DT member will soon read what you posted here and paint you red head to toe.

Collateral is king here and lenders don't take kindly to invalid collateral or any attempt to borrow without reading the stickies. Many have tried and all failed. Lending here is a well evolved business. You could even call it an industry in and by itself.

The 2 BTC repayment as a sweetener will only increase the suspicion of lenders. It's usually one of the most popular scam tactics tried and tested but never successfully used by cheaters.

Personal data and bank statements are invalid collateral. They have no resale value in the event you don't repay the loan.

Interesting how you give 2 unacceptable options. One of which is you either receive first (you have the nerve to demand this after signing up for this new account!) or use escrow with 0% fees (knowing fully well escrow usually requires a fee).

Before something like this can proceed, anyone interested in doing this should first think and examine if Skrill is reversible (yes it is, just giving you ideas to work on and carefully think about!). What is the source of these $3900? It's a lot of money and I'm still shaking my head as I type this after reading your "i receive first" terms.

Using escrow is very good and you should reconsider that option about making it difficult for anyone here to sell you bitcoins. The fact that you are attaching a no-fee condition to the escrow element of this transaction is an indication that you want to make it as difficult as possible for anyone taking up this offer to consider that option. It's like you want to indirectly say send me the coins FIRST or nothing's happening!

Let's see how this thread will develop.