Resolving between persons

[EvanR]

I thought I had it!

Continuing to think it through to see if anymore water leaks out.

Be careful when scammers propose a wild possibility that would explain their innocence. Occams razor!

And do not trade with people that are not registered.

[1714816697]

1714816697

[JackH]

Both me and tiner messed up, and all this happened. I guess this has to be delt with between me and tiner now. Thank you all for helping collecting IP's and identifying my super bad memory in the h___ = hondura so that we could identify with him pork_

tiner, please contact me on IRC and we can talk about what we should do about all the money between us.

[kgo]

More specificially:

;;ident username

If gribble tells you the person can't be identified, they could be anyone.  A username means nothing.

And then

;;getrating username

Or even better:

;;gettrust username

if you have some ratings of your own.

[0x6763]

If the theory is correct, the scammer is pork_, aka hondura, aka honduras, aka pork_honduras.

pork_ = buyer - http://paste.pocoo.org/show/403595/
hondura(s) = seller - http://paste.pocoo.org/show/403594/

IP addresses: 65.49.14.*

Here's a log of a conversation with the scammer and KCanini that just happened moments before I'm posting this: http://pastebin.com/RhSdEmxJ

Unfortunately I don't see anything where JackH (jacker224) directly communicated with any of them in my logs.  Obviously at least part of it would have been PM, if not entirely PM.

EDIT: Other nicks in my logs (which don't go back very far at this point) using IP addresses in that same range are:
titi
Miner-TE
guest1234
bridgehead
mazik

grepped log showing those nicks: http://paste.pocoo.org/show/403613/

[Fiyasko]

Ho
Ly

Fuck.....
Run noobs run, Your all in danger, and now im probly a target.

[JusticeForYou]

As was noted in the #bitcoin-court (hehe).

Jacker224 sent money to an unregistered, unidentified Nick. Not that would have prevented this scam, but that i could have been slowed down.

I just recently moderated an escrow between 2 nicks for a pretty substantial amount. After both identifying, we went to PM mode. One of the participants lost connection and came back online. And then asked for the BTC, I had made him re-authenticate. Before releasing the BTC.

This isn't a place for the faint hearted. Buyer beware, Seller beware. If something goes wrong or you are worried, back out, there is no harm.

This an semi-advanced scam. And am glad it was brought out.

However, buying using trusted escrow, the BTC would have been protected. A resolution could have been accomplished.

In this case, Jacker224's BTC would have been safe. Jacker224 would have know the BTC was there and his upon the OK to release from the Buyer.

[BitcoinCyberStore.com]

Seems this could have easily been avoided if people used their PGP keys and signed contracts that detailed the scope of the transaction.

[Fiyasko]

Seems this could have easily been avoided if people used their PGP keys and signed contracts that detailed the scope of the transaction.

Well. Thats what it's there for, If you dont use it you get fucked and all i can say is "you kinda fucked yourself yo"

[greatscott]

Seems this could have easily been avoided if people used their PGP keys and signed contracts that detailed the scope of the transaction.

Even GPG aside (or with GPG), a simple way to detect this would be to have the buyer/seller verify their agreement over a simple email exchange.

The (real) buyer should send an email to the (real) seller's paypal payment address, including their receiving bitcoin address as a confirmation before actually sending the funds to the seller's paypal. The (real) seller would then see that the bitcoin receiving addresses don't match. Actually, email aside, I think you can send notes along with your paypal payment to the seller.