Scammers are often not the sharpest pencils in the box. Often they are drug addicts who go on a binge and disappear. Often they are convicted criminals who get incarcerated again and often they are legitimate borrowers who don't have the ability or don't want to repay and decide the easiest person to skip out on is the guy on the internet they never met face to face. But what bitcoin scammers ALWAYS underestimate is the lengths to which bitcoiners will go to track a scammer down and recover funds.

We should all post to his twitter and Facebook account asking when he is going to pay. Also friend his friends and follow his followers and post about his fraudulent activities. That has been effective in the past.

ATC777
I certainty appreciate your energy and eagerness and enthusiasm however you should spend a little more time reading the forums and getting to know the community before you start making grand plans and claims. And while you have to take some comments with a grain of salt many members mean well and actually know what they are talking about when they contribute to the dialogue. You don't have to agree with all of it but  I do think that as part of a community that highly values freedom of speech you have to try to understand their points.  

Read the scam accusation threads to learn what types of fraud and scams exist and to see what community members are already doing to combat fraud and scams. Join #bitcoin-otc and become a known and trusted member of that community.  And while bitcoin-otc and bitcointalk often act like a bunch of nervous nellies an pounce on noobs who ask uninformed questions and first accuse them all of scamming most of them do mean well.

While is applys more to lending and is not always accurate you should read the "how to spot a scammer" thread. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=119896.0


Again bitcoin always welcomes new and enthusiastic members. Just try to get to know and understand the community before you try to naively change or improve it.

Usagi

WHY is it so hard for you to answer a simple question unless you are hiding something and are attempting to continue to perpetuate your duplicity.

In what country are you located?

Stochastic

Good points.

The moral of the story is that if you want to operate long term in bitcoin-land you MUST establish TRUST and continue to show that you have INTEGRITY and this can only be demonstrated by you actions and community members response to you actions.

Gavin Andreessen shows this.
Tangible cryptology show this.
Piuk continues to show this.

Roger Veer is on the fence due to some unfortunate missteps
MOE-PR/MP is on the fence due to unfortunate trolling
Usagi is on the ropes due to many bad (and possibly fraudulent) decisions

Trendon Shavers failed to show this
Nefario fails to show this
Patrick Harnett, once well respected, failed to maintain his integrity

If m4v3R had admitted his lapse in judgement and had not lost user funds he could increased his integrity.  However he was forced to admit his lapse in judgement because he could no longer hide the fact he lost user funds.

Bitcoin leaders and business operators must understand that the only way to maintain their credibility is to maintain their TRUST and INTEGRITY in the community. And bitcoin business users and investors MUST evaluate the risk, based on this perceived trust and integrity anytime they entrust their coins with others.

And finally what others my question the value of the scammer threads I for one strongly believe that community must hold other community members accountable for any misdeeds for the good of the community as a whole and to protect the many new users who join bitcoin every day.

I for one prefer to be a part of a vibrant, growing community made up of incredibly smart and talented and passionate members who are together learning to harness the power of an incredible, emerging technology and not part of a community that allows scammers and hackers and duplicitous and fraudulent business operators to run rampant and without check.

Many want freedom, anonymity and no regulation. But we do need self-regulation and right now the only place we can attempt to achieve that are these scammer threads   

We do have proof that Trendon shavers has very actively monitored and I believe continues to moniter these threads.

Does anyone else find it highly unusual that none of usagi's shareholders have bothered to weigh in here?

Usgai

Why is it that you can sperg pages and pages of useless nonsense but you can not answer a simple question? 

Is that in the same time zone as JST?

Usagi

Could you please confirm that you live in Japan. 

I just received information that pirate did express an fondness for palladium at the PPT meeting in Las Vegas.  So the info from the skype chat about the hooker and the blow was true or one of the other Vegas participants was trolling me.

When did that happen??

Updated with some deleted posts.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=133823.msg1429761#msg1429761

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It's 2:44am in Japan now. All the NYAN and BMF spreadsheets were shown with last update times in JST. I've mentioned dozens of times I live in asia.
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usagi,  you state the time in Japan.  Then you say that you live in Asia.

Could you please confirm that you are currently locate in Japan, please.

Thank you.

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Thanks.

absolutely

+1 Polymorphous

Multiple MP=>BTC trades

Always Smooth.

Isn't that our end game?