0.25BTC for unblocking btctalk account

[jseppelin]

Hello,
My friend got banned from bitcointalk.org for about a year ago and he had only browsed and read the forum for over a month before the ban.
He did not get any reason for the ban.

He sent mail to a e-mailadress that was mentioned when he tried to get he's account unlocked. Did not receive a reply

Here is a conversation that he has had with bitcointalk on facebook

Chat conversation start

Friend:
14/08/2015 06:44
Hello, it says on bitcointalk.org that I have gotten banned. I was on my vacation and logged in quite rarely during that time and did not do anything else than read posts. How is it possible that I get banned for no reason? And no answers from the mail adress is says that I should mail to

Bitcointailk
10 JULY 01:37
We have recently unemployed a number of moderators who were randomly banning certain people as an attack on the forum. Now we can recover the account if it is still of any use to you...

Friend:
10 JULY 08:31
Hello!
Well certainly a very long time ago I used the account but if possible it would be nice to get it recovered

Bitcointalk:
01:00
Sure, that is no problem. We do chare a small recovery fee though because of the large number of requests.

Friend:
07:41
And how much would that be?

Bitcointalk
14:12
0.25

Friend
$?

Bitcointalk:
btc



Is bitcointalk really charging 0.25BTC for unlocking account! That's approx $140 according to today's exchange ratio!

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[jacee]

You don't need to pay for an account to get unbanned. It depends on the moderator if you get the account back or not. Might want to tell us which is the account you are referring to? It's hard to guess what the problem might be.

[jseppelin]

You don't need to pay for an account to get unbanned. It depends on the moderator if you get the account back or not. Might want to tell us which is the account you are referring to? It's hard to guess what the problem might be.

Why are they then trying to charge me 0.25BTC for unbanning?
The fee was lowered to 0.1BTC because he's from Finnland, I could say that this is ridiculous.

[jacee]

You don't need to pay for an account to get unbanned. It depends on the moderator if you get the account back or not. Might want to tell us which is the account you are referring to? It's hard to guess what the problem might be.

Why are they then trying to charge me 0.25BTC for unbanning?
The fee was lowered to 0.1BTC because he's from Finnland, I could say that this is ridiculous.

Seriously? I never heard bitcointalk charge anything for a recovery. Can you show the exact message you received?

[Traderbtcc]

Please move your thread to this bored

Meta > https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=24.0

I don't think they're charging to withdraw ban your account.It will permanent banned or will withdraw ban automatically after few days.

What the message showing in your account?

[mishra1994u]

Can u please show the screenshot of the all the conversation that you had with them because i dont think that they would need such an amount just to unban an account. Also do u remember the username of that account so that i can look and see why you was banned.But if that wasn't much useful then i would suggest you use this new account now.

[European Central Bank]

That sounds like your pal is about to be scammed.

They do charge to register from a blacklisted ip but it's nothing like that much as far as i know.

And why would bitcointalk be talking through facebook.

The mods are carefully selected. All sounds very fishy.

[diegz]

That's weird, will you please elucidate your statement? what email address did you email? a screenshot of all the conversation you've made with that email could do..

Talking about facebook, last time when we are getting a bad gateway error, I once talk to a page (BitcoinTalk.org) that's the exact page, and the page reply later on that "The forum is always down right now." I really find it weird and I think that's grammatically wrong, So I think it's not really a bitcointalk page...

[Mike8]

You don't need to pay for an account to get unbanned. It depends on the moderator if you get the account back or not. Might want to tell us which is the account you are referring to? It's hard to guess what the problem might be.

Why are they then trying to charge me 0.25BTC for unbanning?
The fee was lowered to 0.1BTC because he's from Finnland, I could say that this is ridiculous.

Where did this discussion happen? Who is that Bitcointalk you are referring to?
From what I see you are accusing a mod for trying to scam you for some BTC for a free service...

[Mitchell]

Here is a conversation that he has had with bitcointalk on facebook

We are not on Facebook, you are talking with a scammer.

Please tell us your username so that we can look into it. What exactly does the message tell you when you logged in?

[Xenophoto]

Something isn't right here. I've never heard of a mod that has the ability to ban and banned people randomly. Also, August 2015 and then he gets a reply on July 2016. Well, no reason to believe OP yet because there's no screenshot or any other proof that this is for real. If it's for real though, it's likely that the person he was talking to was just a person pretending to be an admin of this forum to scam OP's friend.

[Lauda]

Meta > https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=24.0

Done.
Bitcointalk does not have a Facebook account.

Is bitcointalk really charging 0.25BTC for unlocking account! That's approx $140 according to today's exchange ratio!

No, it isn't. Please give us the link to the Facebook account and the username of the account that is locked so that we can investigate what actually happened. There are multiple reasons for which an account could end up locked.

[ndnh]

Bitcointailk
10 JULY 01:37
We have recently unemployed a number of moderators who were randomly banning certain people as an attack on the forum. Now we can recover the account if it is still of any use to you...

The fee was lowered to 0.1BTC because he's from Finnland, I could say that this is ridiculous.

LOL!   This scammer is creative  




Edit:
https://facebook.com/bitcointalkorgofficial/
https://facebook.com/bitcointalk
Could be anything. @OP can you give us the link?

[krunox123]

The fee was lowered to 0.1BTC because he's from Finnland

Lol, this screams scam. Why would that 'bitcointalk' guy lowered the fee? This is a typical hit-and-run scam.

theymos didn't even charge a penny for account recovery. :O

I could say that this is ridiculous.

Definitely.

[Quickseller]

https://facebook.com/bitcointalkorgofficial/

There is actually a possibility that this one was created by sirus as it has a single post from 2012.

It would still be unwise to do any kind of business with it though.

[ndnh]

https://facebook.com/bitcointalkorgofficial/

There is actually a possibility that this one was created by sirus as it has a single post from 2012.

It would still be unwise to do any kind of business with it though.

Right.
AFAIK facebook has a real name policy, so I don't know if that account can be used anyway.

[jseppelin]

Hello,

Here is the one I have been in contact with
https://www.facebook.com/bitcointalkorgofficial/

Here is the screenshots of the conversation
http://imgur.com/a/BO72x

username that is affected is: jseppeli

[Lauda]

username that is affected is: jseppeli

Here's a link to make it easier for everyone that is lazy. Do you (by any chance) know the reason behind this ban? I've failed to find information regarding that ban. Keep in mind that sending any money to that Facebook account is not going to do anything.

[jseppelin]

username that is affected is: jseppeli

Here's a link to make it easier for everyone that is lazy. Do you (by any chance) know the reason behind this ban? I've failed to find information regarding that ban. Keep in mind that sending any money to that Facebook account is not going to do anything.

Have not gotten any reason as answer from anywhere.
He will not send any money. He immediately suspected a scam

[minifrij]

Have not gotten any reason as answer from anywhere.
He will not send any money. He immediately suspected a scam

Good. What message does he get when he tries logging in?
Is it possible for him to sign the address posted here? If so, has he tried following this guide anbd contacting theymos?

The only forms of contact you should trust is through a PM directly to theymos on this forum; any others have a fair chance of being bogus.