What a stupid scammer.

[Straux]

Just wanted to share a funny scam attempt.

I was trying to sell my knife (Karambit UV MW), and someone added me straight away. He said he wanted to pay on real money. I said I only accepted bitcoin, and he said okay. He quickly rushed into which escrow I was going to use. But I kept persisting with the question of "Can you give me your bitcoin address so I know you actually have the money?"

He finally listened to me, and said he had exactly $20 in good wallet, and have me the address 1F1tAaz5x1HUXrCNLbtMDqcw6o5GNn4xqX.

I checked it straight away, and found out the address was a wikileaks address

It turns out when you search up "bitcoin address", the wikileaks donation address is the first thing that comes up. What a joke.

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that's funny. 

so... you have profile link or anything like that?

[Herbert2020]

scammers are getting lazier.
you should ask for a signed message from bitcoin address, he was a lazy scammer otherwise he could have just opened blockchain.info and copied one of the addresses from live feed and say this is mine.

[expert4knowledge]

scammers are getting lazier.
you should ask for a signed message from bitcoin address, he was a lazy scammer otherwise he could have just opened blockchain.info and copied one of the addresses from live feed and say this is mine.

Lazy and with low IQ scammer or he thinks that others are silly. I wish I can see the link of profile of this scammer guy.

[Amph]

who is this guy so we can tag his account, scammer should not be left to go around undisturbed

be aware because some scammer buy a trusted account and use it as escrow, they control both account the escrow and the account for trading

[khalized]

Just wanted to share a funny scam attempt.

I was trying to sell my knife (Karambit UV MW), and someone added me straight away. He said he wanted to pay on real money. I said I only accepted bitcoin, and he said okay. He quickly rushed into which escrow I was going to use. But I kept persisting with the question of "Can you give me your bitcoin address so I know you actually have the money?"

He finally listened to me, and said he had exactly $20 in good wallet, and have me the address 1F1tAaz5x1HUXrCNLbtMDqcw6o5GNn4xqX.

I checked it straight away, and found out the address was a wikileaks address

It turns out when you search up "bitcoin address", the wikileaks donation address is the first thing that comes up. What a joke.

Ahahhahaha he send an address already posted really stupid scammer and you got a good idea: search address on the net.
It's the only solutions to avoid scammers.

who is this guy so we can tag his account, scammer should not be left to go around undisturbed

be aware because some scammer buy a trusted account and use it as escrow, they control both account the escrow and the account for trading

Yes I agree... post public such username/user .... when there is a scam we need to know and "red tag" !

[YoonYeonghwa]

Wow. This guy was so smart lol, even if he didn't know then he should have just made a new coinbase account, it isn't that hard.
Goes to show that scammers aren't that smart, and not really that hard to prevent.

[Olaf]

You know despite on the scenario you described, if he did provide another btc address from a public ledger and shown proof of other peoples btc.

The escrow would be obviously the safety catch here since he/she isnt going to be paying from the same address.

But, yeah scammers are sometimes not on the brightest thinkers lol.

[iv4n]

If he is a scammer he is very bad in that, he didn't even bother to prepare everything for good scam.
But if he isn't a scammer he is for sure dumb and lazy.
I don't see any other explanation, good thing he is busted in any case.
Your story is good example for people who trade, always infor yourself about people u trade with.

[Straux]

that's funny. 

so... you have profile link or anything like that?

Nah, didn't quite catch his name, but im sure I can find it if I fish through my activity. But what use is it anyway? He was negged on steamrep already.

Ahahhahaha he send an address already posted really stupid scammer and you got a good idea: search address on the net.
It's the only solutions to avoid scammers.

who is this guy so we can tag his account, scammer should not be left to go around undisturbed

be aware because some scammer buy a trusted account and use it as escrow, they control both account the escrow and the account for trading

Yes I agree... post public such username/user .... when there is a scam we need to know and "red tag" !

He didn't give me a bitcontalk account. He probably didn't even know what bitcoin was, judging by his "bitcoin address"

[xhomerx10]

Just wanted to share a funny scam attempt.

I was trying to sell my knife (Karambit UV MW), and someone added me straight away. He said he wanted to pay on real money. I said I only accepted bitcoin, and he said okay. He quickly rushed into which escrow I was going to use. But I kept persisting with the question of "Can you give me your bitcoin address so I know you actually have the money?"

He finally listened to me, and said he had exactly $20 in good wallet, and have me the address 1F1tAaz5x1HUXrCNLbtMDqcw6o5GNn4xqX.

I checked it straight away, and found out the address was a wikileaks address

It turns out when you search up "bitcoin address", the wikileaks donation address is the first thing that comes up. What a joke.

 That address is not for wikileaks.  I would imagine you're seeing the bitcoin wiki link that comes up when you search for "bitcoin address" and getting confused.  1F1tAaz5x1HUXrCNLbtMDqcw6o5GNn4xqX is silk road siezed coins which has nothing to do with wikileaks.

 This is wikileaks address - 1HB5XMLmzFVj8ALj6mfBsbifRoD4miY36v

Are you really sure this guy was trying to scam you?!  Maybe you got the address wrong?

[makingwin1]

Just wanted to share a funny scam attempt.

I was trying to sell my knife (Karambit UV MW), and someone added me straight away. He said he wanted to pay on real money. I said I only accepted bitcoin, and he said okay. He quickly rushed into which escrow I was going to use. But I kept persisting with the question of "Can you give me your bitcoin address so I know you actually have the money?"

He finally listened to me, and said he had exactly $20 in good wallet, and have me the address 1F1tAaz5x1HUXrCNLbtMDqcw6o5GNn4xqX.

I checked it straight away, and found out the address was a wikileaks address

It turns out when you search up "bitcoin address", the wikileaks donation address is the first thing that comes up. What a joke.

yeah that is very funny,  and he is really rally stupid, he could create atleast his own address, now it's just dumb

do you have his steam account? if yes you could report him, and share it here so others will report him too and i hope that he will get trade ban

[rekinthis]

Just wanted to share a funny scam attempt.

I was trying to sell my knife (Karambit UV MW), and someone added me straight away. He said he wanted to pay on real money. I said I only accepted bitcoin, and he said okay. He quickly rushed into which escrow I was going to use. But I kept persisting with the question of "Can you give me your bitcoin address so I know you actually have the money?"

He finally listened to me, and said he had exactly $20 in good wallet, and have me the address 1F1tAaz5x1HUXrCNLbtMDqcw6o5GNn4xqX.

I checked it straight away, and found out the address was a wikileaks address

It turns out when you search up "bitcoin address", the wikileaks donation address is the first thing that comes up. What a joke.

yeah he is really really dumb, if he wanted to scam you he could think something better like creating his own bitcoin address atleast, because now it is just dumb, i hope you reported him so he will get ban on steam or share his name here yeah so everyone could avoid him

[Decoded]

Just wanted to share a funny scam attempt.

I was trying to sell my knife (Karambit UV MW), and someone added me straight away. He said he wanted to pay on real money. I said I only accepted bitcoin, and he said okay. He quickly rushed into which escrow I was going to use. But I kept persisting with the question of "Can you give me your bitcoin address so I know you actually have the money?"

He finally listened to me, and said he had exactly $20 in good wallet, and have me the address 1F1tAaz5x1HUXrCNLbtMDqcw6o5GNn4xqX.

I checked it straight away, and found out the address was a wikileaks address

It turns out when you search up "bitcoin address", the wikileaks donation address is the first thing that comes up. What a joke.

yeah he is really really dumb, if he wanted to scam you he could think something better like creating his own bitcoin address atleast, because now it is just dumb, i hope you reported him so he will get ban on steam or share his name here yeah so everyone could avoid him

Yeah, reporting would be good, although there's the fact that steam will simply let him make another account.

I was recently added by a guy called Shiro who tried the exact same scam on me but for my Bayonet, so I told my group (That I am Co-owner of) to report him, and he's now trade banned. Looks like steam does listen to reports after all.

[bitkilo]

Yep i have come  across a lot of dumb scammers in my time here.

Somebody should create a thread just dedicated to stupid scam attempts they come across,  it would soon become a popular thread here there is somany scams going on.

Edit: Done, I created a thread for everyone to post the stupidest and lame scam attempts they come across.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1411801.0

[erikalui]

Scamming for $20 is a lame attempt. Users here keep insisting on LBC escrows and claim to have over 4-10 BTC to sell and when users trust them, they fake the escrow and scam users. One user tried to scam me for just $5 by saying he has given a loan of $3 and hence I should trust him. The lending section also is being abused a lot and it leads to more scammers getting benefit by paying loans in time.

[Straux]

Scamming for $20 is a lame attempt. Users here keep insisting on LBC escrows and claim to have over 4-10 BTC to sell and when users trust them, they fake the escrow and scam users. One user tried to scam me for just $5 by saying he has given a loan of $3 and hence I should trust him. The lending section also is being abused a lot and it leads to more scammers getting benefit by paying loans in time.

I've seen someone scam for twenty cents sometime last year. It was an obvious scam attempt for dust, and some guy felt pity for the scammer and sent him the money. Straight after, the guy stopped posting.

[talkbitcoin]

Scamming for $20 is a lame attempt. Users here keep insisting on LBC escrows and claim to have over 4-10 BTC to sell and when users trust them, they fake the escrow and scam users. One user tried to scam me for just $5 by saying he has given a loan of $3 and hence I should trust him. The lending section also is being abused a lot and it leads to more scammers getting benefit by paying loans in time.

haha, dude you should check out the lending section of the forum to really feel how lame some of them are.
many will ask for tiny amount of loan with a brand new account and claim they don't know what is what every day.

[RealPhotoshoper]

Just wanted to share a funny scam attempt.

I was trying to sell my knife (Karambit UV MW), and someone added me straight away. He said he wanted to pay on real money. I said I only accepted bitcoin, and he said okay. He quickly rushed into which escrow I was going to use. But I kept persisting with the question of "Can you give me your bitcoin address so I know you actually have the money?"

He finally listened to me, and said he had exactly $20 in good wallet, and have me the address 1F1tAaz5x1HUXrCNLbtMDqcw6o5GNn4xqX.

I checked it straight away, and found out the address was a wikileaks address

It turns out when you search up "bitcoin address", the wikileaks donation address is the first thing that comes up. What a joke.

i guess that was child try to scamming you,he dont think that you will search that address on address checker.
you can put that scammer on scam acusition,and let him know that he trying to scamming wrong person.

[bitkilo]

Scamming for $20 is a lame attempt. Users here keep insisting on LBC escrows and claim to have over 4-10 BTC to sell and when users trust them, they fake the escrow and scam users. One user tried to scam me for just $5 by saying he has given a loan of $3 and hence I should trust him. The lending section also is being abused a lot and it leads to more scammers getting benefit by paying loans in time.

haha, dude you should check out the lending section of the forum to really feel how lame some of them are.
many will ask for tiny amount of loan with a brand new account and claim they don't know what is what every day.

Add them here when you come across any stupid scam/lending attempts:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1411801.0