Coinbase would be the only way I suppose. Another way would be to link your debit card to PayPal and buy coins from those who foolishly ignore the risks when accepting reversible payment methods.

There is no other way. People are too scared and paranoid of what you might do after getting the coins. After all, the two major card brands (Visa and MasterCard) allow cardholders to do chargebacks up to 90 days from payment date.

Plus one can never tell if the card information was phished or hacked. Too risky.

Bitcoin debit card providers should not exclude markets which have a traditionally solid record of spending power. Penetrating those markets and establishing a strong user base is crucial for the success of these card programs. That’s because generating revenue invariably depends on the volume of transactional fees incurred as a result of card usage. The more cardholders loading and using the cards, the more profitable these cards will be for these card providers.

Survival will be difficult in this intensely competitive prepaid card environment if the cards are restricted to a very small segment of users such as the EU alone. To be successful, Wirex, Cryptopay etc should expand their operations worldwide.

Be very careful when taking PayPal from untrusted sources. The risks are not just very real but also unpredictable. That’s because PayPal allows disputes to be opened up to a ridiculous 180 days from the day of payment. On top of that, if a credit card was used as funding source, the sender can also file a chargeback with their card issuer. Very generous terms all in favor of the scammer which is why you are bound to have a very busy thread when you accept PayPal for your coins.


No, that’s nonsense. There are alternatives but you’re either too lazy to consider them or you don’t want to use them because they can’t be reversed.

Well it seems someone just reported that link as a potential malware or virus. I'm reporting this to the section moderator to have think suspicious link (or maybe even the thread) removed. There are some here who just click and click without reading warnings and caveats from other members.

Even if you were to remove the link and sell the account here instead, it's still suspicious. There is no mention about escrow. Nothing about trusted feedback on your newbie account apart from that lonely disgraceful red trust.

Stop selling and buying scam accounts. It promotes scams and empowers scammers.

Why can't you source money from traditional banks or local investors? Sourcing funds by selling tokens is very risky. There have been a series of scams in the past which were extremely sophisticated and elaborate in their sales approach. What's scary and concerning is that some of them did manage to rake in tens of millions of USD before the people behind those token projects disappeared in thin air.

What assurances and guarantees can you provide to your target investors? Whitepapers and roadmaps are not sufficient indicators of credibility. Creating them takes minimal effort when team effort is involved. Sophisticated minds can create these token projects if there are adequate financial incentives in sight. Scammers do brainstorm and some of them are really good at it if they know there is something to be gained from it.

It's basically a charity exchange. An old but still effective concept. Just sign up and send coins to your new wallet. That's how you donate coins. I use the word donate because any coins you put on this exchange are coins which forever stay with them. Deposits allowed. Withdrawals prohibited.

Same thing with all these other exchanges which give their users the runaround. Depositing coins has never been easier and faster. No KYC procedures and no identity verification required to deposit coins. But if you want to withdraw those very same coins and any profits you might have made on their trade platforms, that's when you realize you signed up with a charity exchange. Charities take donations. It's a one way transaction. They take and you give. No reciprocity.

In OP's case, this is a classic example of a charity exchange. Sign up and send coins to your new Letsdocoinz wallet. Then try withdrawing them. You can't. Congratulations, you just donated your coins to them.

The developer has other wallets which have had their fair share of warnings about vulnerabilities. Their Rushwallet will soon be disabled

https://rushwallet.com

KryptoKit is their Chrome extension wallet. What's bad about it is the mining fee. It's a static 0.0002 BTC and you can't adjust or change it based on network congestion levels.

A shame their wallets are riddled with vulnerabilities and security issues. I like Jaxx's Shapeshift exchange feature incorporated within the wallet. Allows one to seamlessly convert cryptos. Haven't tried it yet but I wish other wallets had the same feature.

Hey,

So happy I found your post! I have friends who need passports and selfie pics of them holding those passports. They just wanna frame those ID and hang them on their living room. Nothing more. That's all they want the IDs for.

Would be nice if you could give a sample of yourself holding your own passport. Can you do that?

Here's my friend's business website:

Wholesale ID and Passport Buyers

You can send him a message on this contact form:

We want your high quality docs today!

Below the contact form is the attachment link. Don't forget to attach that sample pic of yourself holding your own passport! My friend will buy your entire stock of docs if you send him that sample pic.

I love it when forum members band together to render hacked accounts useless. This was a nice catch. Left undetected, whoever took over that account would have had a window of opportunity to wreak havoc on the community by scamming unsuspecting members. Given the account's age and rank, it puts the hacker in full control of negotiations and terms while trading with lower tiered users here or any member for that matter. Yes, this was definitely a good catch. Thank you Welsh. And thanks to those who quickly tagged the account too.

That's a subtle way of reviving the account. A couple of single-sentence lines. Probably testing the waters to see if the long hibernation and change of access credentials will pass undetected. Good thing they weren't overlooked.

Well done.

I see. I apologize for my earlier comment. It did look like 20 to 50 bitcoins which probably explains the quiet thread  

I should learn to read between the lines. Not so good at it but I’m getting there.

Remember, PayPal is reversible. Trade as F&F and maybe spread the transactions incrementally between buyers to lessen the chance or risk of the entire 50 being disputed and reversed. It’s just much harder to prove 3 or 4 separate payments being fraudulent as opposed to a single payment of $50.

Well, in that case, how do you propose to transact with buyers here? Do you expect them to send bitcoins to you first? Should they blindly trust you and pretend you have green trust? I'm just curious about the assurances you can give to all these scammers who want to buy your second hand accounts. Not that I want to protect them. The bought accounts and their buyers deserve to be tagged. People buying accounts almost always have a motive and it's usually an ulterior one. I doubt anyone here is buying an account just so they can proudly brag about their new user names or higher ranks.

Escrows might not touch these trades. That's because most of them are established members and have DT privileges. If you ask a DT member to escrow this transaction, you can expect to see the sold account tagged faster than you can blink your eye.

Going back to my earlier question, do you seriously expect buyers to send you their coins first? On second thought, it's probably a good idea to scam the scammers buying these accounts.

Nice to see you are willing to accept crypto. But how about escrow? Your account was opened about a month ago which makes it difficult to simply send coins upfront in good faith.

Without escrow protection, buyers will feel nervous about paying you first and hoping against hope that you will do your part of the deal.

Here is a list of forum escrows:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2439910

Nobody and I repeat absolutely no one will send bitcoins or fiat to you upfront without satisfactory escrow protection. This includes incremental amounts of either fiat or BTC.

Escrows should be independent, unbiased and unrelated to the transacting parties and should have a proven and established track record of providing escrow and fiduciary services.

A “test transaction” of or from 500 BTC is not to be taken lightly. This is a seriously immense amount of money. Don’t be fooled by promises to transact larger amounts later on the condition that the “smaller” 500 BTC test transaction is first completed on riskier terms. Take precautions even with 1 BTC.

Carefully examine the escrow procedure and, where or when possible, never hesitate to seek a second opinion. Experienced forum members can help assess the risks and traps which some here might overlook. If a contract is drawn and presented for agreement, take the time to study it in its entirety.

Your own or by us recommended trustee..

Be very careful when choosing this “trustee” or escrow. Not all lawyers, attorneys, barristers, solicitors, auditors, accountants etc are legitimate and independent representatives of their trade and profession. Some are partial, biased and unfair. Some even downright dishonest and criminal so tread carefully, especially when OP insists that they use their own nominated escrow.

Always take phrases like all clean and legit with a pinch of salt.

They’re getting bolder by the day.

So basically you’re saying you want to send $160,000 to $400,000 by PayPal.

Should we all pretend that it’s not reversible?

But there is no such bank (Bank of Dubai). There is a Commercial Bank of Dubai, Emirates NBD, Dubai Islamic Bank, RAKBank etc. But no Bank of Dubai. So that's the first red flag.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_banks_in_the_United_Arab_Emirates

Nothing mentioned here about escrow and you want 5000 bitcoins  

Sellers... always use escrow. Never send anything upfront without escrow protection, even incrementally. Never send coins based on screenshots of a bank transfer or any document purporting to show payment confirmation of any kind. Please be careful.

Please send me the repayment address. I am ready to pay back the loan.

Thanks.

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Edit..

Repaid:

https://blockchain.info/tx/5bdd1c50a0c7b878a11d8952aed13436a9cf4941a81d8ef5e06090feb94ef230

Thank you.

Unhappy with my post which perhaps killed any chance of convincing him to give you sensitive access credentials for that blockchain account?

It always pleases me when they voice out their frustration and anger. It doesn’t affect me a bit. Very encouraging to read responses like yours so you can look forward to more anti-scam comments of the kind I posted above.

No free coins this time. It’s getting harder to pull off that big coup.

Use escrow:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2439910

Never send coins upfront without escrow protection. Not even incrementally. Be cautious when the price is reduced on the condition that escrow is dispensed with.

Stay safe.

Let me "blab" this too: you ignored one of the posts above about escrow and pick up.

Will you use escrow or do you refuse to use it?

Nobody should email this guy until the escrow question has been clearly addressed.

Anyone who wants the miners, here's my advice: use escrow. Never send coins to this guy upfront. Never. Not even incrementally. Here is a list of forum escrows:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2439910

If he refuses to use escrow, this is a scam.

So he wants to exchange all his worthless VEF into bitcoins, knowing there is no market for Venezuelan currency and the government imposed strict currency exchange controls so you can’t export that money. Exporting it is useless. Nobody outside Venezuela accepts VEF. He is also counting on the gullible and naive here to not do their due diligence and simply be blinded by those endless stacks of worthless Venezuelan Bolivar money.

Here is one video which shows why you should NEVER take up this offer:

https://youtu.be/fnLM2fXeXY4

To help you understand why and how this is a scam, for 1K bitcoins he will need to give you VEF which could fill an entire football stadium. Or maybe even 2 or 3. And that would be worthless bits of paper you can’t take out of Venezuela.