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

[Tabata11]

Resolved,  Master- P has paid me back. But he is a bigtime scammer. If anyone else was scammed by him and have evidence, let me know as I have every information to track him down to where he lives, works, what kind of car his family drives, and etc. a

Master-P might be possibly scamming....

I used him as escrow for around ~4.3 btc for a trade few days ago. The trade fell through because the seller stopped communicating as soon as I sent the coins to the escrow which I find it funny. Nothing happened for two days so I told Master-P to refund my coins back when he comes back home because he is boarding a "plane" and might take additional 12 hours due to a delay... Now I see him online throughout the day and I sent him multiple messages to return my coins back and no response from him.

I posted my messages onto his escrow post so everything is transparent to everyone.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=932294.msg13376874#msg13376874

I have lost complete faith in this forum. Master-P

This thread is a list containing current users who showed the proof of their contact with master-p, and the amount of btc they have lost.

If "Master-P" decides to repay me back please send it to 19nbMVsnnzzbHtkx2Y1AzVCqeApkyUv4RQ  

Quoting for future reference

I think that master-P's account never changed ownership.

His password was changed four times:
2016-01-05 11:37:58
2015-12-17 13:55:10
2015-05-25 15:26:43
2014-10-19 04:07:48
No resets. All of the above changes were done by IPs which geolocate to the same general area. Also, his very first post and his very last post geolocate to the same general area. And for the last several months he's been using mainly the same IP.

Based on IP evidence, these users are possible (not certain) alts of master-p:
REAL-master-p
jeffersonairplane
kooke
MrBig
sifter
iflewtoday32
antonioserrano72
newflesh
AccTraderALT
ShameOnYou
berserkerbarrage
malaimult
protocol332
komodovpn
#yolo
IronMarvel
djshshajtm

Use this list as a starting point to see if you can find other links between them. Do not use my list as absolute proof. It is very common for two users to use the same IP at one point or another; 364 users have used the same IP as master-p, and the vast majority of them are not the same person.

Quick overview at this moment:

Use this list as a starting point to see if you can find other links between them. Do not use my list as absolute proof. It is very common for two users to use the same IP at one point or another; 364 users have used the same IP as master-p, and the vast majority of them are not the same person.

Username	Scam accusations	Amount scammed	Other connection/link
[T] master-P	Obv.	BTC24
[T] komodovpn	Yes, on another forum.	$2.5k+	None at this moment.
[T] #yolo	Yes, defaulted loan	BTC0.01	None at this moment.
[T] sifter	Yes, ran ponzi.	BTC2-20 (estimates)	master-P account gave positive trust + bumping qDice topic
[T] iflewtoday32	Yes + Part of escrow-scam.	BTC1	Started "fake trades" with master-P as escrow
[T] antonioserrano72	Part of escrow-scam.	0	Started "fake trades" with master-P as escrow
[T] newflesh	Part of escrow-scam.	0	Started "fake trades" with master-P as escrow
[T] ShameOnYou	Yes, scamcoin.	?	None at this moment.
[T] AccTraderALT	No.	0	Linked by Quickseller
[T] berserkerbarrage	No.	0	Linked by Quickseller
[T] IronMarvel	No.	0	Linked by Quickseller
[T] MrBig	No.	0	MrBig sold master-P account to Quickseller in 2014
[T] malaimult	No.	0	None at this moment.
[T] protocol332	No.	0	None at this moment.
[T] djshshajtm	No.	0	None at this moment.
[T] jeffersonairplane	No.	0	None at this moment.
[T] kooke	No.	0	None at this moment.

Some of them seem to trade in the same goods (CS:GO skins, steam stuff, bitcointalk/reddit/etc accounts) and frequently trust "each other" - so I am sure there are much more "links" then the above listed ones. Obviously not every "link" is proof though.


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[QQ88]

This is only like the 2nd or 3rd complete escrow fraud(not including bogus escrowing) in the existence of the forum... That's not a high occurrence at all.

Apart from that we still need to give Master-P a chance before accusing him of scamming... His reputation is probably worth more than whats at stake here.

[Tabata11]

can you stop spamming and go raise your count level elsewhere?

[bitcoinelectronics.net]

That's why even with Escrow, on this forum, you can be scammed.

[Vasu]

This is only like the 2nd or 3rd complete escrow fraud(not including bogus escrowing) in the existence of the forum... That's not a high occurrence at all.

Apart from that we still need to give Master-P a chance before accusing him of scamming... His reputation is probably worth more than whats at stake here.

The man master-p has nothing to loose if he defaults the escrow. He has lot of funds in escrow damn.
I see his profile and conclude this man had been in the forum for couple of years and now the man wants to leave.
Thats the reason this man wants to R.I.P people before leaving.

[Lionidas]

He does hold funds for multiple signature campaigns. Might want to notify those campaign mangers pronto  

[Winalunt]

This is only like the 2nd or 3rd complete escrow fraud(not including bogus escrowing) in the existence of the forum... That's not a high occurrence at all.

Apart from that we still need to give Master-P a chance before accusing him of scamming... His reputation is probably worth more than whats at stake here.

The man master-p has nothing to loose if he defaults the escrow. He has lot of funds in escrow damn.
I see his profile and conclude this man had been in the forum for couple of years and now the man wants to leave.
Thats the reason this man wants to R.I.P people before leaving.

I think he makes significant amount of coins by just escrowing for campaigns and as well as forum trades.There is nothing like he wants to RIP people and all that,i won't believe it .He could have ripped in the last years if he wanted to.

[sillug]

This is only like the 2nd or 3rd complete escrow fraud(not including bogus escrowing) in the existence of the forum... That's not a high occurrence at all.

Apart from that we still need to give Master-P a chance before accusing him of scamming... His reputation is probably worth more than whats at stake here.

The man master-p has nothing to loose if he defaults the escrow. He has lot of funds in escrow damn.
I see his profile and conclude this man had been in the forum for couple of years and now the man wants to leave.
Thats the reason this man wants to R.I.P people before leaving.

He's got a lot to lose.

a) His account - say it's worth 5~ BTC as he's got so much reputation and he's on DT.
b) His reputation - That's priceless IMO
c) His ability to earn from escrowing - He gets tipped and fees for escrowing constantly.

So that's a bad deal IMO if he wants to scam someone. Unless his account was hacked...

[Blazed]

It is too early to tell, but the situation is bad. We need to give him a little time to respond for sure.

[paka]

It is too early to tell, but the situation is bad. We need to give him a little time to respond for sure.

So, he has time to post to buy 300 key games but wont send the payments for a sig campaign? Woops its been past 48 hrs due to his incompetence the sig managers are also taking the heat.

[Blazed]

It is too early to tell, but the situation is bad. We need to give him a little time to respond for sure.

So, he has time to post to buy 300 key games but wont send the payments for a sig campaign? Woops its been past 48 hrs due to his incompetence the sig managers are also taking the heat.

Yeah, just noticed that part of it No matter what this is a bad situation and I hope it works out alright for all parties involved.

[RayBrady]

Hey. I would just like to mention, Master-P owes many other users including:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=355846

[Tabata11]

Hey. I would just like to mention, Master-P owes many other users including:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=355846

Master has been holding his coins for 8 days now.

[jeffersonairplane]

I am shocked  . REALLY REALLY HOPE he is not doing a runner here.

Did his account get hacked or sold these past weeks?

[Quickseller]

I would personally believe that master-p is not a scammer, and if he is saying that he needs 12 hours to release escrow because he is on a plane, then I would suggest that you wait half a day for your money, especially if it is because the other person is no longer responding (these situations take longer to release anyway because the escrow wants to be sure that the other person has not sent you the fiat).

I know that he was previously needing to download the blockchain so that may also contribute to delays in releasing escrows.

I have sent master-P a PM offering my assistance in creating transactions for him to sign/broadcast (and otherwise) so he can deal with his escrows in an orderly fashion.

With the above being said, it would probably be best to avoid using master-p as escrow until he can get his existing escrows resolved.  


edit: it appears that I am unfortunately incorrect in making the above statement.

[mexxer-2]

Repeating what I said in his escrow thread:
Make what you guys can of my last PM conv. with him. For someone who risked his own money just to make the payments for sig campaign faster, I believe master-p is quite trusted.

Hey there. Sorry again for the delay. I know it took a lot longer for me to get to these payments this time. For some reason I kept getting the "high S value" error when trying to send payments to the addresses you provided me. Tried installing different versions of bitcoin core but no luck. So I went ahead and bought some BTC from circle to fill the payments without holding you back any further. I will deduct the appropriate amount from the escrow address later once I figure out this issue that's preventing me from send some payments.

tx: https://blockchain.info/tx/1f52573c1cc11338cefbebac6a13da4fd3e979a5505f1321e71a83f4bf0cbf0d

Also, I'll be away this weekend for family gathering but should be back by Monday so there shouldn't be any further delays in payments as I've already moved my wallet to a new stable PC.. My apologies in advance for any delayed responses since my internet access will be quite limited while I'm out of town.

Happy holidays!

I believe he may just be AFK due to the holidays. And if any trusted member(Sho or any DT 2 member) wants to have a look at my PMs , they can.
Edit: He is still holding the 2.8BTC at the escrow address

[Xian01]

I have lost complete faith in this forum.

Your problem was having faith in this forum to begin with 

Can't really trust anyone here, unfortunately.

[subSTRATA]

master-p was sold sometime in august, ill show proof to DT2+ members who want the proof to tag the account. ive already pmed it to escrow.ms to get the account removed from dt.
edit: doesnt seem that way anymore, it seems more likely that its an exit scam.

[shorena]

master-p was sold sometime in august, ill show proof to DT2+ members who want the proof to tag the account. ive already pmed it to escrow.ms to get the account removed from dt.

Why wait for this?

[subSTRATA]

master-p was sold sometime in august, ill show proof to DT2+ members who want the proof to tag the account. ive already pmed it to escrow.ms to get the account removed from dt.

Why wait for this?

i literally just found out. like, 5 minutes ago. maybe 10.