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've been mulling it over and I'm having issue with the events of this alleged scam attempt.
1. After the buyer "
rushed into which escrow" you were going to use, what was the issue? You didn't want to use escrow?
2. What was the purpose of you persisting with the question of "
Can you give me your bitcoin address so I know you actually have the money?"
This is an odd request at any time but especially after he had already left it up to you to choose the escrow agent. Nobody asks to see my wallet when I make a purchase without escrow let alone with.
3. You attribute the Bitcoin address to the wrong entity after searching it! WTF? How is this possible; in fact wikileaks doesn't even come up in a search of that address.
This address -
1F1tAaz5x1HUXrCNLbtMDqcw6o5GNn4xqX - is a silk road seized coins address if you do a search at all.
4. If you search "Bitcoin address" this does in fact appear -
1HB5XMLmzFVj8ALj6mfBsbifRoD4miY36v (wikileaks) which is not
1F1tAaz5x1HUXrCNLbtMDqcw6o5GNn4xqX (silk road) the one you were given.
5. What purpose would it serve to give you an address, especially one they didn't own, showing a balance if you were using your choice of escrow anyway?
It's always better to have screen caps or PMs or like... anything to back up your claims. We don't have a name and apparently the "scammer" doesn't have an account here either but yeah... what a joke.
These are rhetorical questions, feel free not to respond. Maybe I'm too cynical after having been scammed myself.