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

[notaek]

----- SNIP -----

(I guess you came back after reading my email )

You sent him an email? Wasn't that probably hacked/sold as a bundled kit with the account?

I don't think so afterall.

Sorry guys, I wish I could do more but I don't even come on here anymore nowadays. Some people here still have me on steam. I did some deals where the new owner of the account forwarded to me simply to keep the persona without it having it figured out by the community that the account was sold.

-snip-

Sure, I suppose people here can blame me, believe me or not believe me, at this point I can't do much. I knew showing up here would probably only make things worse for myself but I can't really care too much right now. Think and believe what you will. My apologies again everyone, I won't be back.

Then why did he bother to reply here again? Somewhere he also posted that he doesn't care about being DOX-ed.... all are lies my friend

BTW, somebody should try PMing him on Steam. Maybe that would be helpful, since he already claimed, Steam accounts can't be hacked!

[HITTI2]

Very interesting. Makes me wanna pull my FS thread and avoid bitcointalk.org .

Wonder how deep this goes.

[subSTRATA]

Then why did he bother to reply here again? Somewhere he also posted that he doesn't care about being DOX-ed.... all are lies my friend

BTW, somebody should try PMing him on Steam. Maybe that would be helpful, since he already claimed, Steam accounts can't be hacked!

i was the one who originally messaged him about the issue, and he has removed me since this blew up. i also recall EAL (the mod) was on his friends list too under the steam ign EAL F. Skillz (profile home page, saw it by chance), but i dont see him on there anymore either. pretty likely he (master-p) has already purged his steam to completely cut off ties from the forum.

[unamis76]

Then why did he bother to reply here again? Somewhere he also posted that he doesn't care about being DOX-ed.... all are lies my friend

BTW, somebody should try PMing him on Steam. Maybe that would be helpful, since he already claimed, Steam accounts can't be hacked!

i was the one who originally messaged him about the issue, and he has removed me since this blew up. i also recall EAL (the mod) was on his friends list too under the steam ign EAL F. Skillz (profile home page, saw it by chance), but i dont see him on there anymore either. pretty likely he (master-p) has already purged his steam to completely cut off ties from the forum.

If master-P has been hacked and the original owner of master-P is in control of his steam account, then cutting communication is irrelevant as he doesn't have any of the escrowed funds and supposedly some forum members have the original owners' personal information.

[hedgy73]

Its wierd that he apparently created a new account with a signed message saying he'd sold his master-p bitcointalk account and associated accounts for 2BTC back in August. He also went on to say he's sorry but cant help and wont be coming back.

Then another couple of accounts were created again saying they were him but that his accounts have been hacked and not sold and he'll do his best to repay the money (which now stands at over 25BTC I believe).

The funds are still in the addresses they were sent to.

So my thoughts are that either this was an exit scam attempt from master-p but he's got cold feet after being threatened with a dox or that his accounts have really been hacked but they cant get access to his private keys to steal the coins.

Whats worrying is that one of the latter accounts created when he said he'd only just found out about this is that he said he was 'going to get some sleep'. Surely anyone with his high standing in the community and wanting to try and keep some dignity and respect would have got a couple of matchsticks if they were tired and stuck them between their eyelids and worked tirelessly to prove they had in fact been hacked and tried to clear their name.

The worrying thing is there seems to be no attempt from master-p to prove his innocence

But after all is said this still doesn't add up, is it an attempted master-p exit scam or has he been hacked?

I'm afraid to say my money is still on an exit scam but I hope to be proved wrong.

[peonminer]

Buncha fuckboys in crypto lately. Ruining it for the Bitcoin community. Such a shame.

[SebastianJu]

That proves absolutely nothing. Everything was transferred in the sale, meaning that the escrow could have been completed seamlessly.

That's a point i can't believe again. Who in their right mind would sell a forum account including wallet that maybe contains 10 bitcoins for 1 or 2 bitcoins? It's pathetic to believe that this could have happened. So stupid can nobody be. Especially not an escrow who is trained to sniff out potential scams.

No, beyond possible.

What training? I remember thinking back when he started escrowing people were putting a lot of trust in him very quickly, and it was concerning to me. I think this was partially a result of the difficulties surrounding other leading providers at the time, then after he did a few transactions he started farming trust ratings and then appeared to be very trusted by gaming the trust system (who knew that was possible amiright?). After that he was free to run his long cons. This is what you get when you have a trust system based on politics and associations rather than the actual number of successful trades, amounts, period of service, etc. We all know which ostrich with their head in the sand we have to thank for that.

People are getting far too lax and demand everything be easy, and they want someone to promise them everything will be ok and to tuck them in. These things happen and instantly people demand more centralization and some overseer to fix the problem, but you are too blinded by your own compulsion for security to see that centralization is exactly what put you at risk in the first place. Take responsibility for your own trades and researching your trading partners. Build your own REAL trust lists, not based on +1's and -1's but on your knowledge of your trading partner and building your own real networks of trust, not just username profiles.

Well, you know i don't think the trust system is perfect, i only think that a trust system built only on the work of their members will lead to more scams than now because users will safe the work to create their trust list way too often.

With training i meant more that escrows have to be very cautious. If it isn't for their clients it is for themselves since it might very well be possible to scam an escrow directly. For fear of reputation loss or similar things. Because of that you need to find out the possible risks. And since he was an escrow for a longer time he NEEDS to know what would happen. In my eyes it's not possible that he did not know.

[notaek]

i was the one who originally messaged him about the issue, and he has removed me since this blew up. i also recall EAL (the mod) was on his friends list too under the steam ign EAL F. Skillz (profile home page, saw it by chance), but i dont see him on there anymore either. pretty likely he (master-p) has already purged his steam to completely cut off ties from the forum.

Do you have any screenshots of your claims? Probably it would be best if you had showed them here. This might instigate him to think deeply about the situation.


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BTW, have anyone bothered to verify his signed messages from his Keybase account? He din't even know how to sign a message, instead he just encrypted them! I was trying to verify all his signed messages and got the same error as follows:

Error: you cannot process a message that was encrypted for someone else.

This is how a signed messaging via PGP key is done:

Code:

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA512

This is an example of how a signed message from PGP key should look like. 
P.S. This message is signed by  notaek from bitcointalk.org on December 29, 2015 at 08:48:21 PM Forum Time.

You can verify this message and all other PGP signed messages here => https://keybase.io/verify
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: Keybase OpenPGP v2.0.49
Comment: https://keybase.io/crypto

wsBcBAABCgAGBQJWgvHLAAoJEBI9bCdjrvBErdkH/38QQDk7YXZeZrSfLwCz5gZM
4nQUd8A7IiLQUSba9GZCgjq24hRIbLr7n+uRfWg7OS3ZWlG00cseTj5vtN001+DO
zFZYSXWM69Ot5nXHFf8WVaQ1Z+GKVZ5Fzw+Hcyy5YteBmjC4sASxO48yoCwMdqS/
PVVwxPm/LsOeV9Zop+o01ktyF9261fJpe5I63UooUHy0hpzA//d7k+qiNc1kEogy
SVNlK0j4IE0Nu+/72ujH4uQiIWVmOcSArLN/QhxRG8ZknzsbxFfs/dtn6W4yhrwS
Ib9L7fA4DuEa2Mka9fI02FzLrBQeXqo0WnDfxT73Qw6SJVB7jgdoQyXqhcEL7Uo=
=b2iZ
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

And for everyone's kind information, this error is also found in his signed message that was done first on January 29, 2015, 03:34:40 PM . So you all can conclude the rest!

Anyways, since that was his first signed message, can anyone freely reveal here, who sent him an invite for registering on www.keybase.io? (I guess they weren't just accepting random users as of today).

Moreover, by looking through his past post history, he was an "altcoin buff" and was 95% active on the altcoin sections until he slowly abandoned the altcoin section and started his escrow service from Jan. I felt to revel this information in case someone can link any conclusion as to when actually the account was sold! Or it might be a hoax overall.

That's all for today. I wonder, what's Gleb Gamow doing at the moment.

[GSpgh]

I'm afraid to say my money is still on an exit scam but I hope to be proved wrong.

yeah your odds are good here I think

how many of these suspected exit scams have ever turned good? can't remember any although I haven't been on here that much...

[SebastianJu]

That proves absolutely nothing. Everything was transferred in the sale, meaning that the escrow could have been completed seamlessly.

That's a point i can't believe again. Who in their right mind would sell a forum account including wallet that maybe contains 10 bitcoins for 1 or 2 bitcoins? It's pathetic to believe that this could have happened. So stupid can nobody be. Especially not an escrow who is trained to sniff out potential scams.

No, beyond possible.

How can you not believe that people are that stupid? People overpay for coins on purse.io and others think that the super big discounts are legitimate. People buy miners for an amount of money that could buy more btc on the market than the miners could ever hope to mine before becoming obsolete. People think they can outsmart everyone in the entire section of the forum dedicated to ponzi schemes. There is a 92 page thread in the gambling section debating the merits of something that you learn doesn't work in the first day of statistics class. there are people who think that moving a miner across a warehouse and changing the address that the coins go to counts as shipping a product.

You can find someone stupider than someone who thinks they aren't a scammer or are somehow legitimate by selling those escrow coins to someone else to steal instead of stealing them himself on the 1st page of every subsection of this forum.

The errors you describe are mostly done by newbies. They never heard of rising difficulty, only that there are magic money machines that print money. And so on. But master-p was an escrow for a long time. He wouldn't have survived when he would be so stupid that he could be easily scammed. He would have learned to identify the possible risks. Because of that i can't imagine that he sold the account without knowing very well what will happen.

In fact i doubt he sold at all. I tend to believe the recent problems with "reindexing" the blockchain on his wallet might be in fact a loss of his wallet and he had no backup. No the easiest way out might have been this story.

Well this is completely an idea to make sense out of this only. He scammed regardless of how you look at it.

[achow101]

BTW, have anyone bothered to verify his signed messages from his Keybase account? He din't even know how to sign a message, instead he just encrypted them! I was trying to verify all his signed messages and got the same error as follows:

Error: you cannot process a message that was encrypted for someone else.

This is how a signed messaging via PGP key is done:

Code:

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA512

This is an example of how a signed message from PGP key should look like. 
P.S. This message is signed by  notaek from bitcointalk.org on December 29, 2015 at 08:48:21 PM Forum Time.

You can verify this message and all other PGP signed messages here => https://keybase.io/verify
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: Keybase OpenPGP v2.0.49
Comment: https://keybase.io/crypto

wsBcBAABCgAGBQJWgvHLAAoJEBI9bCdjrvBErdkH/38QQDk7YXZeZrSfLwCz5gZM
4nQUd8A7IiLQUSba9GZCgjq24hRIbLr7n+uRfWg7OS3ZWlG00cseTj5vtN001+DO
zFZYSXWM69Ot5nXHFf8WVaQ1Z+GKVZ5Fzw+Hcyy5YteBmjC4sASxO48yoCwMdqS/
PVVwxPm/LsOeV9Zop+o01ktyF9261fJpe5I63UooUHy0hpzA//d7k+qiNc1kEogy
SVNlK0j4IE0Nu+/72ujH4uQiIWVmOcSArLN/QhxRG8ZknzsbxFfs/dtn6W4yhrwS
Ib9L7fA4DuEa2Mka9fI02FzLrBQeXqo0WnDfxT73Qw6SJVB7jgdoQyXqhcEL7Uo=
=b2iZ
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

And for everyone's kind information, this error is also found in his signed message that was done first on January 29, 2015, 03:34:40 PM . So you all can conclude the rest!

I have verified his signed messages before, and they always came out correctly. But now they aren't.

BTW, this is not encrypting messages. It is signed. If the message was encrypted, it wouldn't have anything like PGP signature. It would be just a block of random characters. I think that is just Keybase giving a bad error message.

Edit: I think he changed his PGP key in Keybase. I verified the message on my computer and it was signed by a key with the id 0x138D7CA49E301A44. However the id of the one on Keybase is 0xDF139C3C23784CED.
Edit2: This is interesting, the email of the PGP key now on Keybase is zinoxenxe.reddit@gmail.com.

[subSTRATA]

i was the one who originally messaged him about the issue, and he has removed me since this blew up. i also recall EAL (the mod) was on his friends list too under the steam ign EAL F. Skillz (profile home page, saw it by chance), but i dont see him on there anymore either. pretty likely he (master-p) has already purged his steam to completely cut off ties from the forum.

Do you have any screenshots of your claims? Probably it would be best if you had showed them here. This might instigate him to think deeply about the situation.

ive already stated multiple times im not posting them publicly, theres no need for everyone to see this, just the right people. ive sent it to escrow.ms, shorena, mitchell (bitcoininformation), and quickseller. i dont care what anyone says about QS, fact remains hes absolutely great at detective work, and hes found numerous bits of info that points to an exit scam rather than an account sale and the new owner scamming. the only other non DT member id probably show this to is TECSHARE, as he currently claims to hold master-p's dox, and i would like him to be fully aware that this is an exit scam rather than a sold account before he decides to release the dox should it come to that.

[papadrams]

i was the one who originally messaged him about the issue, and he has removed me since this blew up. i also recall EAL (the mod) was on his friends list too under the steam ign EAL F. Skillz (profile home page, saw it by chance), but i dont see him on there anymore either. pretty likely he (master-p) has already purged his steam to completely cut off ties from the forum.

Do you have any screenshots of your claims? Probably it would be best if you had showed them here. This might instigate him to think deeply about the situation.


_______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________


BTW, have anyone bothered to verify his signed messages from his Keybase account? He din't even know how to sign a message, instead he just encrypted them! I was trying to verify all his signed messages and got the same error as follows:

Error: you cannot process a message that was encrypted for someone else.

This is how a signed messaging via PGP key is done:

Code:

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA512

This is an example of how a signed message from PGP key should look like. 
P.S. This message is signed by  notaek from bitcointalk.org on December 29, 2015 at 08:48:21 PM Forum Time.

You can verify this message and all other PGP signed messages here => https://keybase.io/verify
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: Keybase OpenPGP v2.0.49
Comment: https://keybase.io/crypto

wsBcBAABCgAGBQJWgvHLAAoJEBI9bCdjrvBErdkH/38QQDk7YXZeZrSfLwCz5gZM
4nQUd8A7IiLQUSba9GZCgjq24hRIbLr7n+uRfWg7OS3ZWlG00cseTj5vtN001+DO
zFZYSXWM69Ot5nXHFf8WVaQ1Z+GKVZ5Fzw+Hcyy5YteBmjC4sASxO48yoCwMdqS/
PVVwxPm/LsOeV9Zop+o01ktyF9261fJpe5I63UooUHy0hpzA//d7k+qiNc1kEogy
SVNlK0j4IE0Nu+/72ujH4uQiIWVmOcSArLN/QhxRG8ZknzsbxFfs/dtn6W4yhrwS
Ib9L7fA4DuEa2Mka9fI02FzLrBQeXqo0WnDfxT73Qw6SJVB7jgdoQyXqhcEL7Uo=
=b2iZ
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

And for everyone's kind information, this error is also found in his signed message that was done first on January 29, 2015, 03:34:40 PM . So you all can conclude the rest!

Anyways, since that was his first signed message, can anyone freely reveal here, who sent him an invite for registering on www.keybase.io? (I guess they weren't just accepting random users as of today).

Moreover, by looking through his past post history, he was an "altcoin buff" and was 95% active on the altcoin sections until he slowly abandoned the altcoin section and started his escrow service from Jan. I felt to revel this information in case someone can link any conclusion as to when actually the account was sold! Or it might be a hoax overall.

That's all for today. I wonder, what's Gleb Gamow doing at the moment.

I am getting a little bit out of topic here, but i just wonder because i have seen it in 3 posts till now..
What can Gleb do?? Is he a hacker or something?

[notaek]

I have verified his signed messages before, and they always came out correctly. But now they aren't.

BTW, this is not encrypting messages. It is signed. If the message was encrypted, it wouldn't have anything like PGP signature. It would be just a block of random characters. I think that is just Keybase giving a bad error message.

Well, I might be wrong here then. I was also wondering the same when I started signing one of his messages. Well, I might contact chris tomorrow related to this issue.

_______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________

I am getting a little bit out of topic here, but i just wonder because i have seen it in 3 posts till now..
What can Gleb do?? Is he a hacker or something?

Well, if you are asking this, then you actually don't know him newbie.

_______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________

ive already stated multiple times im not posting them publicly, theres no need for everyone to see this, just the right people. ive sent it to escrow.ms, shorena, mitchell (bitcoininformation), and quickseller.

Oh well. Better then.

[SebastianJu]

---snip---

I don't see why people are believing that legal issue is going to help in any way. Account sales are allowed on the forum (they are discouraged) and if he proves it no one can do shit.This can also happen with newbie account's cause people are just trusting and no contracts are being signed and nothing legal is being done cause it again involves taxes and legal issues in order to promote the company or the signature here.

Many newbie scam's take place does it becomes a legal issue ? NO ,it's your trust which people abused.

This is global issue and none rules are applied.If a guy (like P) is managing multiple escrows and signaturing as well then he can easily make more than 6+ coins a month and 70+ coins a year but is he paying any taxes for that ? NO.There is nothing legal in the whole issue and there is no other way to get the funds back other than going to his home and kicking his ass.

Even when he really can proove he sold the account, which will be hard to prove legally when he even can't show the real details of the buyer, then he allowed others to impersonate him. I think at least on civil rights he could be made liable and he would have to pay for damages.

Though i'm no lawyer of course. And it might depend on his country.

[peonminer]

Fake account sale/hack> Mine some customers for a while> Exit with impunity> Pr0fit?

[FruitsBasket]

Can the moderators do something? Look at an IP log, confirm if he really sold the account. Did the account password recovery email changed lately? It would be so much easier if account trades are banned, to prevent such discussions.

I hope that he will return the funds to all people that have an unfinished deal with him. If he always could sign a message the good way, and now they are bad, then it is possible his account has been sold. But he also could have faked it, we only can know this if the MODS/ADMIN can help us to solve this.

Or ask some very good detective(QuickSeller???)

[papadrams]

Can the moderators do something? Look at an IP log, confirm if he really sold the account. Did the account password recovery email changed lately? It would be so much easier if account trades are banned, to prevent such discussions.

I hope that he will return the funds to all people that have an unfinished deal with him. If he always could sign a message the good way, and now they are bad, then it is possible his account has been sold. But he also could have faked it, we only can know this if the MODS/ADMIN can help us to solve this.

Or ask some very good detective(QuickSeller???)

QuickSeller is already into this.. Mods for now are behind the scenes.. I suppose they do their work in silence..

I am getting a little bit out of topic here, but i just wonder because i have seen it in 3 posts till now..
What can Gleb do?? Is he a hacker or something?

Well, if you are asking this, then you actually don't know him newbie.

_______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________

I have signed up 2 weeks ago and i have read a loooot of stuff.. Yes newbie but not ignorrant  

Also imagine how this looks to all of us (newbies)..
The only way for us to buy some stuff is through escrow (Thats normal of course).. I made today my first buy through escrow and i feel very insecure.. 3 days ago i would be very cool about escrow..

[SebastianJu]

Hi everyone, I am the REAL master-p.

MY ACCOUNT WAS NEVER SOLD.

It was hacked.

I seem to have gotten keylogged and have lost all my saved passwords including my accounts on bitcointalk, gmail, keybase, etc.

Right now I don't have access to my PGP key, my bitcointalk and gmail account, and my skype account which I seldom use.

I believe I got hacked on the 14th or 15th where I mistakenly downloaded something which may have caused the keylogger/malware to be installed.

I did not know it was a keylogger at the time and then shortly after that I went out of town. After the evenining of the 14th I no longer had constant access to the internet. When I did get wifi I tried to log in to bitcointalk but oddly found that my saved password wasn't working on my mobile. I assume that my mobile was not synced correctly to my desktop's saved password.

After getting back online and seeing all this it now makes sense. I am not currently at home, and I won't be for another week or so.

I can assume my private keys have been exposed as well since it seems like the hacker has gained control of my wallet on my desktop PC. Looks like the hacker may also have access to my steam account now but the password has not been changed as the steam guard has protected me on that front.

It is also safe to assume the hacker has been impersonating me via PMs, e-mail, and even Skype and now has pull off this terrible scam.

At this point is there anything I can do? I have remote access to my desktop. If there's any way for me to remedy this or to change my bitcoin wallet passwords please let me know.

Right now my computer is shut off, I guess a power outage happened but I can get it booted up remotely. I don't want to turn it on though as I assume the keylogger/hacker would gain immediate access to all my info again if he has not already.

Is there a way for me to safely change my wallet passwords without having to log in to my main PC where my Armory wallet is installed?

Guys I'm sorry this happened. I wish I had seen this sooner but I didn't have time to find wifi to sign on while I'm out of town.

I will check back here whenever I can for the next week or so but I can't guarantee any fast responses.

I looked up a few of the addresses and see the funds are not moved, including my tipping address where all the funds are still there. Is there a chance the hacker can't change my wallet password because my computer is turned off, thus unable to move the funds?

So you want to say that you found that you could not log in into your bitcointalk account half a month ago. And all the time up till now your escrow liabilities allowed you to NOT log in for 2 weeks? This story is simply stupid. You would have needed to try the next day because you most probably would have gotten a number of pm's because of escrow. There is no way your story could be real.

Anyway... for the nearly non existent chance you are speak the truth... you need to go home, disconnect your internet, boot up in safe mode, or no, way better, boot with a linux live DVD or CD. Then copy over your armory to a safe computer. No keylogger could hurt you that way and you would be able to access the escrow funds.

If your story is true you would be able to show the truth of your story in some days. I don't see that coming though.

[SebastianJu]

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.

He wrote something about his wallet needs a verification from his smartphone. Does Armory support 2FA maybe? It might be an explaination for why the coins didn't move. Of course only when you want to take his story.