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

[Gleb Gamow]

January 05, 2016, 04:37:58 AM - master-P - password changed

I guess he has plans

"My name is Baba Lou. I am the proud new owner of the master-P account. I live in Canada. My hobbies include buying and selling domains, buying and selling silver tokens and other other collectibles, including items related to cryptocurrency, playing on Steam, buying and selling BitcoinTalk user accounts, among other things that the original master-P owner is into."

Interesting, Please go on...

And, I'll be filing defamation lawsuits against all those who quote me.

[kingaltcoins]

Where are the victims now? Have they started suing him already? 

If not please start now. Already 48 hours is gone and he has not updated his returns! Very bad sign.

[The Sceptical Chymist]

I'm glad to see Master-P is paying back at least some of what he scammed.  I'm not sure what his plan was from the get go, but this looks like a longish-term no-interest loan which he had no business making.

[notaek]

I'm glad to see Master-P is paying back at least some of what he scammed.  I'm not sure what his plan was from the get go, but this looks like a longish-term no-interest loan which he had no business making.

He actually refunded the ones who exhorted him for filing a case if he doesn't pay back within 24 hours.

As for Tabata11, his family stayed near master-p's residence so he had no way but to refund his coins for getting rid of his consequences.

But what about yahoo62278, grtthegreat and others? They are still struggling.

That's where long term exit scam policy intervenes.

[Tabata11]

Looks like he is paying everyone back...still in progressed

How Eric stole people's Christmas
1. Eric builds reputation since 2013 in order to set up the escrow scam
2. Eric buys multiple accounts to set up phony escrows with people and steals bitcoins
3. Eric claims he was hacked and wasn't him when people start finding out
4. Eric moves funds to attempt to exit scam
5. But oh shit, Eric forgot to hide his identity and people knew who he was

Seems right?

[bitcoin1992]

Looks like he is paying everyone back...still in progressed

How Eric stole people's Christmas
1. Eric builds reputation since 2013 in order to set up the escrow scam
2. Eric buys multiple accounts to set up phony escrows with people and steals bitcoins
3. Eric claims he was hacked and wasn't him when people start finding out
4. Eric moves funds to attempt to exit scam
5. But oh shit, Eric forgot to hide his identity and people knew who he was

Seems right?

right, couple of years to steal 24 bitcoin.

It was not his idea from the beginning , IMHO. He started to think to scam maybe due some his personal economic problem.

[kingaltcoins]

Looks like he is paying everyone back...still in progressed

How Eric stole people's Christmas
1. Eric builds reputation since 2013 in order to set up the escrow scam
2. Eric buys multiple accounts to set up phony escrows with people and steals bitcoins
3. Eric claims he was hacked and wasn't him when people start finding out
4. Eric moves funds to attempt to exit scam
5. But oh shit, Eric forgot to hide his identity and people knew who he was

Seems right?

I have one question here. How did TECSHARE know his true identity when he had only bought cs:go skins with his steam wallet balance from him?

Edit: Sorry I got the answer myself after searching deeply. master-p purchased 2x collectible silver coins from TECSHARE.

Good job TECHSHARE for not deleting his address and phone numbers after that deal

[mexxer-2]

Looks like he is paying everyone back...still in progressed

How Eric stole people's Christmas
1. Eric builds reputation since 2013 in order to set up the escrow scam
2. Eric buys multiple accounts to set up phony escrows with people and steals bitcoins
3. Eric claims he was hacked and wasn't him when people start finding out
4. Eric moves funds to attempt to exit scam
5. But oh shit, Eric forgot to hide his identity and people knew who he was

Seems right?

Not likely he would spend over 2 years to scam that amount, here's what I think did happen(nearly the same as yours)
1. Eric builds reputation since 2013
2. During the last couple of months , he either gets in a economic problem, or starts noticing how easy it would be to scam a huge amount
3. Eric buys multiple accounts to set up phony escrows with people and steals bitcoins
4. Eric claims he was hacked and wasn't him when people start finding out
4. Eric moves funds to attempt to exit scam
5. But oh shit, Eric forgot to hide his identity and people knew who he was

[allyouracid]

Makes sense, imho.

Also, let's not forget that he had Alt accounts which were involved in scams/shady activity. Whatever the reasons were for him to go full retard, it's not like he was not into any shady activity, before.

[Tabata11]

Looks like he is paying everyone back...still in progressed

How Eric stole people's Christmas
1. Eric builds reputation since 2013 in order to set up the escrow scam
2. Eric buys multiple accounts to set up phony escrows with people and steals bitcoins
3. Eric claims he was hacked and wasn't him when people start finding out
4. Eric moves funds to attempt to exit scam
5. But oh shit, Eric forgot to hide his identity and people knew who he was

Seems right?

right, couple of years to steal 24 bitcoin.

It was not his idea from the beginning , IMHO. He started to think to scam maybe due some his personal economic problem.

I think he was always a scammer in the past. If you dig into hos alts, there's a few scams dating back two years ago.

[suchmoon]

Not likely he would spend over 2 years to scam that amount

Looks like he scammed more than just that. You have his dox, so you probably googled around.

It would be really bizarre if he ran scams AND a 100%-honest-intent escrow at the same time.

Even though he does not appear to be patient and intelligent enough for a smart long con I can still picture him starting the whole escrow/trust thingy with a hope that a big deal would come his way and finally deciding "fuck this shit, gotta take what I can".

[The Sceptical Chymist]

Some people are on the fence morally, and it's possible some external circumstances prompted him to scam.  Gambling problem?  This is just my speculation of course, but some people...snap.  And do things they've never done before, like shooting up a day care, robbing a bank, or abusing bitcointalk's trust to pull a long scam.  Don't know about this, but is he still paying back?

[icem3lter]

Some people are on the fence morally, and it's possible some external circumstances prompted him to scam.  Gambling problem?  This is just my speculation of course, but some people...snap.  And do things they've never done before, like shooting up a day care, robbing a bank, or abusing bitcointalk's trust to pull a long scam.  Don't know about this, but is he still paying back?

I don't agree with you on the some people snap part, if people were like that...we would have way more of these scams pulled. Good people tend to be good, very few turn bad.

[The Sceptical Chymist]

Some people are on the fence morally, and it's possible some external circumstances prompted him to scam.  Gambling problem?  This is just my speculation of course, but some people...snap.  And do things they've never done before, like shooting up a day care, robbing a bank, or abusing bitcointalk's trust to pull a long scam.  Don't know about this, but is he still paying back?

I don't agree with you on the some people snap part, if people were like that...we would have way more of these scams pulled. Good people tend to be good, very few turn bad.

Well if we all agreed with each other, it'd be a very boring world.

I was just thinking out loud.  But people lose it all the time, especially if intoxicating substances or some other midbrain addiction is involved, like gambling.  You know, gamblers tend to do depraved things with money.

[Tabata11]

Some people are on the fence morally, and it's possible some external circumstances prompted him to scam.  Gambling problem?  This is just my speculation of course, but some people...snap.  And do things they've never done before, like shooting up a day care, robbing a bank, or abusing bitcointalk's trust to pull a long scam.  Don't know about this, but is he still paying back?

I don't think he snapped one day and decided to pull an exit scam. I think he's been planning this for a while and waited for the right time to scam. He was a scammer before this happened so

[SebastianJu]

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.

Oh well, that sounds amateurish. Really might happen out of a sudden that he decided to scam now.

[SebastianJu]

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.


Be free to quote/update/etc.

I took a moment to check my escrow labels with this list of usernames. Since i noticed before that i had a trade with master-P involved and me as escrow where he bought a steam acc on 20150627. I asked the seller about it but did not receive an answer in many days now. The seller was iflewtoday32.

iflewtoday sold an amazon account on 20150415.

IronMarvel bought something and the seller might know his address in case it turns out he is really master-P.

I don't have details about the other users i think.

[SebastianJu]

I sold QuantumDice to iron marvel.   Would it help anything if I dug through PM's and found information or not really?

My assumption was wrong it seems so i will take out what i wrote in here.

[pjsonowal]

I just got over a way to finish this kind of things . please read it full: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1326409.new#new

[Dogedigital]

I sold QuantumDice to iron marvel.   Would it help anything if I dug through PM's and found information or not really?

And he did own MoneyPot too or how should the picture be seen posted one or two pages before your post?

If that is true and he really was master-P then... well... he was probably a really big scammer then. Dice Sites are pretty expensive websites. Profits are high. Strange though that he could get through with that with the amateurish scamming style he is showing.

Edit: Oh, i see, it probably was only the url or was quantumdice so unsuccessfull as a business that the price could be 0.4bitcoin only?

Could you please rephrase this to a more accurate statement?  Though he may anonymously have an app hosted with moneypot, he has absolutely no connections with or to it.