Localbitcoins.com Scammer Alert: user Hess

[geofflosophy]

Edit: Got another chargeback a couple of days ago. I've contacted him again, and he's said he'll resend my money, but has failed to do so to this point.

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Edit: user got in contact with me and sent another payment, again from yet another Paypal address. He said that he will always make good on payments, and to just contact him if there are problems. Super sketchy, but for the moment I'm unscathed.

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The user Hess on Localbitcoins scammed me, reversing payment on a transaction done via Paypal. Prior to my transaction he had 6 transactions, all positive feedback, including one smaller transaction I had done before. It looks like Paypal is not going to protect me because the payment was sent as a friends and family transaction, lesson learned there. The fact that he used a different Paypal address for the second transaction than the first should have been enough for me to be weary, and certainly I am done with Paypal transactions on localbitcoins.

Hoping that they will be able to pull back the funds from him before he transfers them out.

[whizz94]

Confirmed: Hess is a scammer.
He buys bitcoins and pays via paypal.
When the real owner of the paypal account says to paypal that they never bought anything, a chargeback goes through leaving the paypal of a bitcoin seller out of pocket according to paypal.
Hess might have sometimes repayed sellers from the next paypal account, in order to keep his ratings up but never pay for the "25 to 150" bitcoins which he got.
IF you detect this individual, collect any of the following information and report those to localbitcoins.com
- other online names
- real name (please say clearly whether "suspected" or "verified")
- real address
- previous real addresses
- apparent IP address
- real verified IP address & MAC address
- financial details
- passport & identity

And if that gets us nowhere then perhaps a mugshot of the perpetrator might be worth having too.

I'm presently showing more than $300 loss on my paypal account due to multiple chargebacks from multiple paypal accounts by which Hess bought a bitcoin or two, so announce my contribution to bounty of 0.1 BTC for any information posted here which results in a conviction of Hess, payable on the day of his sentencing.

[millsdmb]

change the title then. I would usually skim over *possible* scammer threads.

[geofflosophy]

change the title then. I would usually skim over *possible* scammer threads.

Will do. Updating top post now.