Suspicious Account Activity of user TOTO6131

[memehunter]

TOTO6131 posted after 5yrs on this forum. He was asking for some currency exchange and never replied there;

Have Cash App $20 Need any crypto. Can send first to trusted members. DM me with your offer. If anyone knows a trusted exchange which does Cash App please let me know

After that, he asked for a loan;

Loan Amount: 20 USDT (TRC20)
Loan Purpose : power cable for laptop
Loan Repay Amount: 25 USDT
Loan Repay Date: up to 1 week
Type of Collateral: None
USDT Address: TV8de8AX7zj13nDDVyfZf4qmvg6FdTiojf
I use binance so other currencies are accepted

After that, he opened a new topic asking for $500 worth of crypto (he never replied there to anyone). 

Hi, I have $500 USDT on Atomic wallet I need BTC/LTC/ETH. Open to negotiate Please DM

What is funny to me is that even after spending so many years here he did not know how to lock a topic (or someone who bought/hacked this account).

Moderator please lock thread

I suspect that this account has been sold/hacked and is now looking for an exit scam.   

[Jawhead999]

I think if someone want to lend him, they're stupid.

It's either they treat it as a donation (because the account has zero reputation, so chance to scam is high) or not at all.

As for trade worth of $500, as long as they didn't go first, they don't have to worry.

There was no email or password change with the account https://bpip.org/Profile?id=984937

So, I think the evidence is weak, moreover the account isn't something that can harm other people if it was changed hands, like high trusted account. I would leave it until there's something more suspicious...

[yahoo62278]

The user has 20 posts in the last 6 years, Posted a lot in Arabic prior to 2019 and then all the sudden only posting in English when waking back up this year. Likely changed hands, but you would need more proof. I don't think there is any worry of the user scamming much as noone has been silly enough to loan him so far and he has no trust ratings. You can watch him if you want, but seems like a waste of time.

[Wiwo]

The user has 20 posts in the last 6 years, Posted a lot in Arabic prior to 2019 and then all the sudden only posting in English when waking back up this year. Likely changed hands, but you would need more proof. I don't think there is any worry of the user scamming much as noone has been silly enough to loan him so far and he has no trust ratings. You can watch him if you want, but seems like a waste of time.

Action like this is why forum members fail to account for sales Because in most often cases like this one, the accounts are used to carry out scams in this case, the guy in charge of the accounts now is trying to take a loan and make an exit scam on the lender.

This is a regular occurrence in this kind of case and most high-rank forum members know about this scheme and we avoid interacting or lending to such suspicious accounts no matter their rank.

[Charles-Tim]

I suspect that this account has been sold/hacked and is now looking for an exit scam.

Definitely. You are absolutely right. I can not agree more. He has many scam attempts but all failed. Anyone that just come to this forum after long period of activity that wants to have financial dealing with people is likely a scammer. I do not care if the account changed hands or not but what I know about is that he is here to scam now.

[Free Market Capitalist]

Well, I have left a red tag on his profile. I know that for some more evidence or proof would be needed but not for me. I would not say 100% that it has changed hands but I do see a very strong possibility and returning to the forum after so much inactivity to ask for loans is almost like when a newbie asks for a loan without offering collateral (which is usually red tagged even if everyone does not agree either).

[Alone055]

He is harmless. He doesn't qualify to get a non-collateral loan (unless someone is foolish enough to lend him one despite him being at Member rank and coming back after 5 years, and having no positive reputation), he can't join signature campaigns, and his joining bounty campaigns wouldn't do anything negative for the forum.

Exit scams are possible only when an account qualifies to get a non-collateral loan and then disappears with it, and I don't see any possibility for this user to pull something like that off.

When we suspect an account has changed hands, we often do that because either the account has a high rank, at least above Member, or has a positive reputation that can be misused. I don't see any reason for anyone to buy or hack an account that isn't even a Full member or has a good reputation so that they can benefit from it. You can't even join a signature campaign with a Member account because more than 98% of signature campaigns only accept Full members and above. The remaining 2% are campaigns run once in a while, managed mainly by projects themselves or users with no prior managing history or experience, making them less trustworthy.

[lovesmayfamilis]

His nickname telegram is on another forum, where he could, as it seems, buy this account. I will not name the forum, but anyone can find it. The forum has a rather murky reputation, and I know you can buy something there that would be considered not quite right on our forum.

[KingsDen]

The user has 20 posts in the last 6 years, Posted a lot in Arabic prior to 2019 and then all the sudden only posting in English when waking back up this year. Likely changed hands, but you would need more proof. I don't think there is any worry of the user scamming much as noone has been silly enough to loan him so far and he has no trust ratings. You can watch him if you want, but seems like a waste of time.

It's a waste of time. I read someone said the user has been in the forum for over 6years and yet doesn't know how to lock threads. The age of the account doesn't necessarily denote how long the account owner has been active with the account. So many persons created accounts, abandoned them for a very long time. On returning to the forum, the still try to follow the archaic method they knew, not knowing that things are changed.

From simple $25 loan to $500. No serious business person will offer them a non collateral loan.