[HERO] 0.8 BTC loan to complete freelance project

[peligro]

Do you think that the (supposedly) bought account came along wit the twitter one? Sounds unlikely to me, not impossible though.

I think so, see my speculation above. The seller probably was in short of money, otherwise selling a green account like this which was in signature campaigns didn't make much sense. He probably sold whatever he could.

There were two password changes on 23 and 28 April. There is a gap in posting from 21 to 29 April so it looks like the account was sold through an escrow which for some reason took 5 days. The post style changed to one of poor English.

If it was hacked, we would've seen some complaint by now. It is clearly a bought account and it wouldn't have come cheap considering the trust rating. Makes it even more surprising that such a huge risk was taken for a small profit.

The recent reset may mean that the loan has been given and the account transferred. This thread was started at 7:43am, the edit was done at 9:57am and the password reset at 11:05am. In that case someone bought an Hero account without any ownership proof for 0.8 BTC.

[alani123]

Do you think that the (supposedly) bought account came along wit the twitter one? Sounds unlikely to me, not impossible though.

I think so, see my speculation above. The seller probably was in short of money, otherwise selling a green account like this which was in signature campaigns didn't make much sense. He probably sold whatever he could.

There were two password changes on 23 and 28 April. There is a gap in posting from 21 to 29 April so it looks like the account was sold through an escrow which for some reason took 5 days. The post style changed to one of poor English.

If it was hacked, we would've seen some complaint by now. It is clearly a bought account and it wouldn't have come cheap considering the trust rating. Makes it even more surprising that such a huge risk was taken for a small profit.

The recent reset may mean that the loan has been given and the account transferred. This thread was started at 7:43am, the edit was done at 9:57am and the password reset at 11:05am. In that case someone bought an Hero account without any ownership proof for 0.8 BTC.

Your speculation above leaves out the piece about the twitter account. I think that this is taken a bit too far by speculating about what the supposed seller had in mind when selling. But the times do seem to match what you say according to the seclog so yeah, Vod's suspiciousness is justified to a great extent. It's up to him to decide about the twitter account since he's the one that ahs left the rating. 

[Vod]

Disk failure isn't unlikely, especially with older drives and operating systems. But it could very well be an excuse, there's no proper way to prove that this is true. I'll have to admit though, Vod's rating on you is rather aggressive, giving the same rating to a lower ranked member would have been more reasonable, aside of that your password wasn't changed for a month's time (else it would be showing on your profile).

And according to that, I pose the following question to Vod:

Would a post from his twitter account verifying that he still owns it serve as appropriate proof that the account wasn't hacked?

It would provide proof that the account isn't hacked - but it could still be sold, which would mean a fraudulent purchase of trust...

The reason I left the negative feedback was for two reasons:

1) User knowingly edited an old message to appear he owned it
2) User claimed his wallet containing an address was lost when it reality the address wasn't even his.

Now #2 I could pass off as ignorant, but #1 is a clear sign of an attempted scam.   

If he can prove he is the original owner of the account, I will have no problem removing the negative trust.  But by viewing his PMs (which are completely different in language and grammar than his past posts), I seriously doubt it is the same person.

[redsn0w]

If I can say also my opinion, I do not think it is the real amacar (the real person who created that account). The [HERO] tag is a strong suggestion to us, why an Hero member should have written also that tag ? Also the post edited is another 'red warning', I suggest to wait a reply from 'him' or who is managing this account (it could also have been sold to someone else - but also the hacked account is a good possibility but amacar does not seem a newbie and he knows how to protect 'his account').

[Muhammed Zakir]

If I can say also my opinion, I do not think it is the real amacar (the real person who created that account). The [HERO] tag is a strong suggestion to us, why an Hero member should have written also that tag ? Also the post edited is another 'red warning', I suggest to wait a reply from 'him' or who is managing this account (it could also have been sold to someone else - but also the hacked account is a good possibility but amacar does not seem a newbie and he knows how to protect 'his account').

I agree with bolded part. This tells me the account is sold.

"[HERO]" can be written so that people will be interested to lend him. The post editing is not the only one which triggers the alarm but this too

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2) User claimed his wallet containing an address was lost when it reality the address wasn't even his.
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