BitcoinTalk history, who where the biggest scammers?

[Third Way]

I see every now and again a post by someone a year or months ago and these people have thousands of posts on here with scammer tags.

Th eone I noticed most recently was Nefario, since I wasn't on the forums to see what went on I want to know more about the big scandals/scams that this forum has gone through.

Who where these people? What where there scams? Ponzis? hyips? Outright theft?

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[kokojie]

The biggest scammer is no doubt "pirateat40" with his BTCST investment scam. He made off with about 500k BTC (though much of it were unrealistic due payments, realistically
he made off with about 150k-200k in profit).

[DannyHamilton]

You can find some good information here:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=83794.0

Last updated: December 26, 2012.

Following is the result of some research on prior Bitcoin large thefts (as of now, defined as over one thousand bitcoins) . . .

Pirate40 (also known as Trendon Shavers) is not included in the "lists", but is discussed a bit later in the same post.  Other than that, this seems to be a pretty complete list of all known large scale scams/thefts.

[Phinnaeus Gage]

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A fellow not from Des Moines,
Nor bought or sold pork loins.
  Used to troll here a lot,
  Then a scammer tag he got:
For crazy betting, owing 100,000+ coins.

I will pay BTC100 per week for each winning limerick, provided it's in the same format as above, with the results voted on by Amish Elders from a community in Indiana.

[Third Way]

You can find some good information here:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=83794.0

Last updated: December 26, 2012.

Following is the result of some research on prior Bitcoin large thefts (as of now, defined as over one thousand bitcoins) . . .

Pirate40 (also known as Trendon Shavers) is not included in the "lists", but is discussed a bit later in the same post.  Other than that, this seems to be a pretty complete list of all known large scale scams/thefts.

Cool thanks.

[edd]

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A fellow not from Des Moines,
Nor bought or sold pork loins.
  Used to troll here a lot,
  Then a scammer tag he got:
For crazy betting, owing 100,000+ coins.

I will pay BTC100 per week for each winning limerick, provided it's in the same format as above, with the results voted on by Amish Elders from a community in Indiana.

I enjoy a good limerick.

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The bitcoiner known as Gage,
Continuously revealing his age,
  Records transactions on papyrus,
  Does accounting by abacus,
And uses a flywheel to scroll down this page!

[Phinnaeus Gage]

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A fellow not from Des Moines,
Nor bought or sold pork loins.
  Used to troll here a lot,
  Then a scammer tag he got:
For crazy betting, owing 100,000+ coins.

I will pay BTC100 per week for each winning limerick, provided it's in the same format as above, with the results voted on by Amish Elders from a community in Indiana.

I enjoy a good limerick.

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The bitcoiner known as Gage,
Continuously revealing his age,
  Records transactions on papyrus,
  Does accounting by abacus,
And uses a flywheel to scroll down this page!

The Amish Elders just informed me via smoke signals that they're not connected to the internet yet, but once they do, they will surely look at all the entries and pronounce a winner. That said, it's a little too early to consider giving them a scammer tag.