AT&T Accepted my BTC for a past due payment! *Read for details*
This evening, I called AT&T and I started off joking by saying I have made new year resolution to only either use cash or
BTCitcoin for ALL expenses and transactions in my life. This will not only help others see its significance but also help me in the long run to avoid debit skimmers and fraud in general!* My other exceptions are prepaid gyft cards or prepaid gift VISA!
I went on to tell the representative about
BTCitcoin and what it was, she immediately became engaged in the topic of what a
BTCitcoin was and how it worked and what purpose it has/does/will serve, she said there was nothing she can do to prevent a fee of $40 "restoration fee" if I did not make a payment immediately before 11:59 PM tonight!
Long story short I sent her the nearly $300 BTC and she either used her own card to make the payment or whatever, but immediately after I had her create a wallet via her smart phone or tablet (not sure what she was using) I sent the payment, she said the payment appeared and took care of my past due service bill! For all she knows I could have made her download a bogus fraudulent look-alike and had the
BTCitcoin seem to appear in her wallet and she would have been SOL! It basically took 45 minutes of explaining its values and so forth for someone entirely new to BTC to trust me to accept it. This is awesome but scary at the same time, people get so caught up in the moment of hype that they don't double-verify things as they should. I appreciated her help but did warn her about the massive amount of "selective" scamming going on within the
BTCitcoin industry today!
If a company scams nearly 10%+ of their 'valuable customers' and that 10% rants about how they were duped, statistics show that the other 90% generally, will never absolutely believe that the victim was knowingly scammed by such a big business within the industry, for example:
CoinBase (Conbase, back when BTC was blowing up I purchased many coins lets say at $500, after my purchase was submitted, the price went up a HUGE percentage. Knowing what I know, "ConBase" received the money, purchased the coins at $500, saw that the value jumped to $700 for example, gave me an excuse as to why they had to send my money back for security reasons (blah blah blah). In reality, they purchased the coins, profited off the $200's made between the price changes and sent me home with my $500 i initially put down for the purchase. It's a very clever, but yet archaic way of scamming. I have many more examples of this form of scamming many
BTCitcoin companies have engaged in, but unfortunately the 90% of the customers who succeed in doing business without being a randomly selected victim will never believe that its possible for this to occur to them, BTC-E Also has pulled TWO selective scams on me before. They found out I came back under a different user and started to warn my friends I met on there to be careful! This all balls down to TRUST and how TRUST is everything within the network, people want to feel trusted because they innately feel rewarded when they feel that someone has given them their trust. Be careful people, this is a volatile industry worth A LOT of money, and where there is money, there is snakes, learn all the coding/cryptography you can so no bullshit can get past you, I strongly advise! Until then..may the force be with you.
This network is more trust based than anything I can think of this moment....unfortunately I would compare it to the statistics given by ISP's, over 50% of the upstream and downstream data is
PIRACY!
Arrrrr
Trust Issues ....Anyone else have any unique stories about how they made their BTC work for them, please feel free to share with the members of this network!
Enjoi the
weeknd!
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