It seems as though the sale of anything hacked/cracked is no longer permitted

[alani123]

I just went into the digital goods section to see a massive pruning of active topics.



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[xetsr]

didn't see that coming... wonder what finally changed things?

[bitcoin revo]

Ow. That's pretty surprising.

I feel like this could get messy because 99% of account sellers are selling cracked accounts, but only a few will admit it; and the only way to prove it is to actually buy one from them.

[alani123]

Ow. That's pretty surprising.

I feel like this could get messy because 99% of account sellers are selling cracked accounts, but only a few will admit it; and the only way to prove it is to actually buy one from them.

Today, grue deleted ~25 OPs citing hacked accounts, it seems to be up to his jurisdiction as he's the mod there. I haven't seen any rule about this but to be honest it was pretty obvious that those account were hacked/cracked.

I think it's a fair judgment but this kind of fraud had gotten out of hand in this forum, but indeed it could get messy. I wonder if more will follow. Would prepaid Visas and Mastercards also be banned under the assumption that they might be issued under someone's account unbeknownst to them? Will gift cards sold at discount rates also be banned under the fear that they might be carded? I hope this will only affect mass account sellers given that they were the most obvious case.

[Quickseller]

It never was permitted, although it seems the threshold for deleting/trash-caning topics has decreased, and the level of attention by moderators the digital goods section has increased.

As a side note, I would not be surprised if these kinds of topics were a gold mine for signature spammers because of their large numbers and it was easy to ask a lot of (pointless) questions in them

[ollierexx]

There was also a similar deletion a week or so ago in which is lost my 700 reply thread.
I have PM'ed grue multiple times asking for clarification without any response whatsoever, it seems he just randomly comes and deletes a bunch of thread from the first few pages.
There are still plenty of such threads left, so he must just be doing a quick once over.

Also, any account seller that says the accounts are not cracked is lying.
I noticed he took down quite a few legit threads as well (selling VBA verified paypal accs, not hacked) and alike.

Oh well, It was a good run, BTCtalk seemed to be a good marketplace with minimal mod interaction and loose rules but no more :/

[whywefight]

It was about time. Cleaning the digital goods section is ongoing...

[Lauda]

Nothing has changed. It was just about time to pay more attention to this. Actually the most effective method would be to ban account sales in general, albeit that would harm the 1% of the legit sellers.

17. Trading of goods that are illegal in the seller's or buyer's country is forbidden.

Unless you think that trading of hacked accounts is legal.

Oh well, It was a good run, BTCtalk seemed to be a good marketplace with minimal mod interaction and loose rules but no more :/

You should be happy that you're not going to prison.

[alani123]

Nothing has changed. It was just about time to pay more attention to this. Actually the most effective method would be to ban account sales in general, albeit that would harm the 1% of the legit sellers.

17. Trading of goods that are illegal in the seller's or buyer's country is forbidden.

Unless you think that trading of hacked accounts is legal.

Oh well, It was a good run, BTCtalk seemed to be a good marketplace with minimal mod interaction and loose rules but no more :/

You should be happy that you're not going to prison.

If staff were to report every single unlawful thing seen here you'd need a couple full time prosecutors working for the forum. lol

[The Sceptical Chymist]

Uh, I'd like to say bravo to bct staff and fuck the carders.  For real, that sort of thing shouldn't be allowed anywhere.

Who's with me?

[james.lent]

Uh, I'd like to say bravo to bct staff and fuck the carders.  For real, that sort of thing shouldn't be allowed anywhere.

Who's with me?

Im with you. It's about darn time because the digital goods section started to look like hf lol.

[xhomerx10]

Nothing has changed. It was just about time to pay more attention to this. Actually the most effective method would be to ban account sales in general, albeit that would harm the 1% of the legit sellers.

17. Trading of goods that are illegal in the seller's or buyer's country is forbidden.

Unless you think that trading of hacked accounts is legal.

Oh well, It was a good run, BTCtalk seemed to be a good marketplace with minimal mod interaction and loose rules but no more :/

You should be happy that you're not going to prison.

 Are you able to guarantee indemnity or are you talking from your hat?

[whywefight]

Its just the beginning of getting rid of all that crap. Like i said it was about time to do something.

[Lauda]

Are you able to guarantee indemnity or are you talking from your hat?

You didn't get my point though. I'm trying to say that people should not (!) be complaining about their threads being removed. They were selling illegal goods.

If staff were to report every single unlawful thing seen here you'd need a couple full time prosecutors working for the forum. lol

Most likely, yes!

Uh, I'd like to say bravo to bct staff and fuck the carders.  For real, that sort of thing shouldn't be allowed anywhere.
Who's with me?

Im with you. It's about darn time because the digital goods section started to look like hf lol.

Actually, 'whywefight' brought it up a few weeks ago in another thread. That got my attention.

[dogie]

Good, that board was almost unusable with the amount of illegal or immoral trash cluttering it.

[Jet Cash]

Good - it can't help Bitcoin to be seen as the payment method for stolen stuff.

Mind, it didn't/hasn't hurt PayPal.

[Westfiled]

Where is the forum based? Is it in the US? If the US prosecutors find there is illegal activities in this forum, will they arrest the moderators?

[Lauda]

Where is the forum based? Is it in the US? If the US prosecutors find there is illegal activities in this forum

The forum can not be held responsible for the actions of the users. It does not work that way.

will they arrest the moderators?

Even the admins don't know who Lauda is. Who are they going to arrest, my cat? 

[onlinedragon]

When no one forbid selling accounts on this forum this will going on. There will only be a market when there each day topics about accounts who can be bought. I'll never will buy an account on this forum for sure .

[whywefight]

Are you able to guarantee indemnity or are you talking from your hat?

You didn't get my point though. I'm trying to say that people should not (!) be complaining about their threads being removed. They were selling illegal goods.

If staff were to report every single unlawful thing seen here you'd need a couple full time prosecutors working for the forum. lol

Most likely, yes!

Uh, I'd like to say bravo to bct staff and fuck the carders.  For real, that sort of thing shouldn't be allowed anywhere.
Who's with me?

Im with you. It's about darn time because the digital goods section started to look like hf lol.

Actually, 'whywefight' brought it up a few weeks ago in another thread. That got my attention.

And i am about to keep on nagging on this. I am sick of this shit and also of the scam accusations that have there origin in the digital goods section. It might be a hard fight but as this wonderfull screenshot from op shows: it is possible.