Master-P SCAMMER. I lost complete faith in this forum now.

[hedgy73]

Somebody should get Gleb on this thread and get this case straightened out. He is good at this exposing the real imposters.
He outed someone in a giveaway with nothing more then a name and a link. He is like the forum Batman.

He's like a dog with a bone when he gets on a case. Hopefully he's working on it already.

[hedgy73]

For the record if this does turn out to be a case of stolen / hacked identity and is proven beyond doubt then I will obviously apologise and remove my comments suggesting this was a scam by master-p.

I still have a small hope that people will get their coins returned but there have already been so many twists in this drama I'm not sure what to think anymore....

I think the most likely scenarios are (in order of possibility):

1). Original master-p exit scam.
2). master-p sold the account and its an exit scam from the new owner.
3). The account was hacked.
4). This has all been a bad dream and I'll wake up soon....

[Redrose]

For the record if this does turn out to be a case of stolen / hacked identity and is proven beyond doubt then I will obviously apologise and remove my comments suggesting this was a scam by master-p.

I still have a small hope that people will get their coins returned but there have already been so many twists in this drama I'm not sure what to think anymore....

I think the most likely scenarios are (in order of possibility):

1). Original master-p exit scam.
2). master-p sold the account and its an exit scam from the new owner.
3). The account was hacked.
4). This has all been a bad dream and I'll wake up soon....

Definitely 1. Who wouldnt change their password after buying an account? Also, why would he trust a random, anonymous guy with 1 BTC in after-sale payment?

Lol, the 4th option. Seems legit 

[tmfp]

I've been watching this car crash develop with morbid interest (and popcorn).
I know Caveat Emptor and blahblah is the watchword of this forum, but it would be nice if Theymos and his inner circle would realize the threat to the basic credibility of the system by which BCT trading operates and swing into action in any way that they can, and share with us all some basic facts about the various master-p accounts from their analysis and data.

Like it or not, the ad hoc escrow system here is broken, despite the protestations of OgNasty and others who, although well intentioned, are defending the indefensible. There is no way, with account and key sales common and 'acceptable', that a long con escrow scam can ever be discounted.
What to replace it with?

Something along these lines deserves further thought

Is there any kind of service offering automated 2-of-3 multisig? That seems like the obvious way forward here. The company wanting to pay for forum signatures creates a campaign on the site, the forum users each sign up for that campaign. Everyone provides an address. The site makes a 2-of-3 address for each campaign participant, holds funds in escrow, but can't steal them.

[lemipawa]

Is there a need to look at the negative feedback that he sent to other's when is still in DT and account is still with right owner?
Since he will be removed from DT red flags will turn to neutral again right?

[GannickusX]

if it was a hack as the third account claims, then the hypothetical hacker would likely have taken the money already, assuming this hack even exists, the private keys are already compromised given the signed message: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1306301.msg13378692#msg13378692

really find it hard to believe this claim is true.

it was not a hack and his account wasn't stolen, otherwise we would see a password change in the last few days, weeks? And the last password change is 6 months ago when people say he sold his account. So he either sold his account, which makes him a scammer or he is the one scamming directly which makes him a scammer.

[ranochigo]

if it was a hack as the third account claims, then the hypothetical hacker would likely have taken the money already, assuming this hack even exists, the private keys are already compromised given the signed message: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1306301.msg13378692#msg13378692

really find it hard to believe this claim is true.

it was not a hack and his account wasn't stolen, otherwise we would see a password change in the last few days, weeks? And the last password change is 6 months ago when people say he sold his account. So he either sold his account, which makes him a scammer or he is the one scamming directly which makes him a scammer.

It did change on 17 December.

December 17, 2015, 09:55:10 PM - master-P - password changed

There was no password change from 14 August 2015 till that date.

[Vasu]

if it was a hack as the third account claims, then the hypothetical hacker would likely have taken the money already, assuming this hack even exists, the private keys are already compromised given the signed message: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1306301.msg13378692#msg13378692

really find it hard to believe this claim is true.

it was not a hack and his account wasn't stolen, otherwise we would see a password change in the last few days, weeks? And the last password change is 6 months ago when people say he sold his account. So he either sold his account, which makes him a scammer or he is the one scamming directly which makes him a scammer.

It did change on 17 December.

December 17, 2015, 09:55:10 PM - master-P - password changed

There was no password change from 14 August 2015 till that date.

If his account was hacked , the man didnot bothered to tell publicly he was hacked. It makes sense the man's account was not hacked. It was a pre-planned scam (directed by an impersonator from August 2015 or the real man himself)

[GannickusX]

if it was a hack as the third account claims, then the hypothetical hacker would likely have taken the money already, assuming this hack even exists, the private keys are already compromised given the signed message: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1306301.msg13378692#msg13378692

really find it hard to believe this claim is true.

it was not a hack and his account wasn't stolen, otherwise we would see a password change in the last few days, weeks? And the last password change is 6 months ago when people say he sold his account. So he either sold his account, which makes him a scammer or he is the one scamming directly which makes him a scammer.

It did change on 17 December.

December 17, 2015, 09:55:10 PM - master-P - password changed

There was no password change from 14 August 2015 till that date.

If his account was hacked , the man didnot bothered to tell publicly he was hacked. It makes sense the man's account was not hacked. It was a pre-planned scam (directed by an impersonator from August 2015 or the real man himself)

Yep If it was changed on the 17, he had plenty of time to notice.

[sillug]

This sums it up:

[redsn0w]

18 pages in less than 48 hours, amazing  .


I didn't read all the post(s) but did Master-P signed something with his pgp private key or a well know btc address during the deal ?

[Vasu]

18 pages in less than 48 hours, amazing  .


I didn't read all the post(s) but did Master-P signed something with his pgp private key or a well know btc address during the deal ?

Man you think others were dumb enough to deal with "master-P" without his PGP signed message ?
If the man wouldn't give his PGP signature he wouldn't be able to scam half of the forum members.

[favdesu]

18 pages in less than 48 hours, amazing  .


I didn't read all the post(s) but did Master-P signed something with his pgp private key or a well know btc address during the deal ?

Man you think others were dumb enough to deal with "master-P" without his PGP signed message ?
If the man wouldn't give his PGP signature he wouldn't be able to scam half of the forum members.

he posted somewhere here that he was keylogged (lol) and apparently lost all his accounts and passwords. so a PGP signed message from master-p is worthless at this point

[kingaltcoins]

18 pages in less than 48 hours, amazing  .


I didn't read all the post(s) but did Master-P signed something with his pgp private key or a well know btc address during the deal ?

Did you see this? https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1306301.msg13378692#msg13378692

I think you missed his signed message posted on 3rd page .

[grtthegreat]

Not sure how far this is feasible. But I got an idea.

How about us all contacting all the mining pools and ask them not to confirm the transactions that spend coins from the escrow addresses unless the coins are sent to the real owners.

For example, we ask them to confirm the transaction which spends the coins from 18PJHZTTPvcWrpBMnFStgyuphpvuwTgT3k to 1QF1Eo1mXv7M93FuntAHuiSGx2wkpxqJem. This is so because that address was given to me via master-P to me for escrow for a trade. Only such transaction will be confirmed.

This will at least temporarily force him to refund the money.

[kingaltcoins]

Not sure how far this is feasible. But I got an idea.

How about us all contacting all the mining pools and ask them not to confirm the transactions that spend coins from the escrow addresses unless the coins are sent to the real owners.

For example, we ask them to confirm the transaction which spends the coins from 18PJHZTTPvcWrpBMnFStgyuphpvuwTgT3k to 1QF1Eo1mXv7M93FuntAHuiSGx2wkpxqJem. This is so because that address was given to me via master-P to me for escrow for a trade. Only such transaction will be confirmed.

This will at least temporarily force him to refund the money.

Not the pools, you have to tell all exchange service where BTC-USD is done. For example, coinbase, localbitcoins etc.

[second owner master-p]

Hello everyone ,
I'm the second owner of master-p account, my account was hacked by the original owner and now he is trying to find an excuse not to be doxxed.

[grtthegreat]

Not the pools, you have to tell all exchange service where BTC-USD is done. For example, coinbase, localbitcoins etc.

Shouldn't we cut the source of the problem instead?

[redsn0w]

18 pages in less than 48 hours, amazing  .


I didn't read all the post(s) but did Master-P signed something with his pgp private key or a well know btc address during the deal ?

Did you see this? https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1306301.msg13378692#msg13378692

I think you missed his signed message posted on 3rd page .

Thanks, so he sold the account .. lol.



The amount of money I was offered for my "bitcointalk identity" was enough to help get me through a couple of really rough months.


Really Master-P   ?

[mexxer-2]

If its any better, I've asked philipma to "distrust" master-p and exclude him from his trust list. Doog already seems to have done so. Two such exclusions and master-p(account) is out of DT.

I meant adding a "~" in front of his name and then adding him to your list will mean you "untrust" him, two such "untrust" additions by DT 1 members means he is excluded from the DT network, until escrow.ms comes back and deleted him from the trust list.

I will do that.