[AUCTION] CASASCIUS 25 BTC, no hologram, excellent condition

[Gatorelf]

Ill bid 0.4 BTC for it 

Thank you.

If you happen to win, I'm actually flying to US next week. It should be much easier to ship the coin within US, I guess?

for sure no customs plus FedEx priority overnight 

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[MXRider]

I've received couple of PM's regarding the coin. I've replied to everyone but it seems that some did not get my reply. So if you are waiting for an reply from me, please send another PM and I'll reply again 

[IOTA Support]

I'll bid 0.45 

[Gatorelf]

there ya go seems pretty fair

[MXRider]

https://imgur.com/a/1Dwm9
Picture of four empty 1btc casascius coins from 2012.

I'll include one of those with the 25btc coin.

[mindtrip]

0.5 BTC

[MXRider]

If it's ok for everyone, I'll change the min bid increment to 0.01 btc.

[IOTA Support]

0.52 BTC

[schumacher800]

0.52 BTC

Congrats! to IOTA Support
Just an advice always use escrow from the list below like (Mj):
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2439910.0

And if you are given any email to deal outside the forum DON'T and ignore it cause you will get scammed and no one will help you USE ONLY PM on this forum and lets us know if the deal was smooth, Congrats both!  

[mindtrip]

nice grab 

[IOTA Support]

nice grab 

Haha, sorry mate 

[mindtrip]

its all good enjoy that beauty

[MXRider]

The coin has been shipped and delivered. I'm currently waiting monkeynuts to release the funds from escrow.

[MXRider]

It seems that my forum account has been compromised.

Someone sent a PM from my account to monkeynuts saying that release address for the funds would need to be changed. I checked my PM outbox but the hacker must have deleted all the relevant sent PMs. The hacker then created a new account mxrider1 to handle all the future communications and claimed that my original account (the one I’m posting from at the moment) has been locked.

I’ll publish all the PMs from the hacker later. One can clearly see that the language used is different from my  previous messages  and communications.

At this point it’s still a bit unclear how this happened. I’ll post more info when and if I get any.

Thank you monkeynuts for escrowing the deal and not releasing the funds to other than the original address that I gave with the tracking code.

[monkeynuts]

Escrowed funds released

[MXRider]

Funds received, thank you.

I'm guessing the hacker lost the access to my forum account at some point. He then created user 'mxrider1' and tried to convince monkeynuts that the original account was hacked/locked.

Some PMs from the hacker 'mxrider1' to monkeynuts:

Hello monkeynuts
Im MXRider i 've lost my account password due to a fucking virus that crypted all my files including my wallets please dont release any bitcoins until i get back to my account.
This is urgent please reply to me.
Thank you.

and another one:

Np you can verify that im MXRider:
1) I've asked you to change my btc address to an offline address cause online wallets are not safe and it was ending (as i remember) with: Muu
2) You told me in your last msg : Confirming address ....
3) I've sent you a msg asking you if IOTA Support really used you as an escrow and than you replied to me with an apologize cause you didn't include me in your escrow msg.
4) IOTA Support made a wrong calculation of the escrow amount and than after my correction he said i agree to the price.
Lets me know if this is enough lol
Also please accept my apologies monkeynuts i will make sure to send u a tip after all this ends.
Cheers

Info on the second message actually checks out. He has read my PM's and apparently had access to my account at some point around April 3rd.

If you received a message from me just asking for a payment (no other info on the message), do not make the payment. I always send the tracking code/info about shipping on the same message with my btc address.

Anyway, the redeemed 25btc coin has been sold and all ended well. The scams have come quite a long way from 2012-2013, when I was active at the forum. Big thanks to monkeynuts for professional escrow services. I would definitely recommend!