On Dec 30th, 2019,
protrader786 started
a merit and BTC giveaway (contest), where participants were supposed only to state a prediction about BTC value on Jan 31st, 2020, 12:00pm GMT.
The prize was 1 merit and 0.001BTC for the closest prediction.
Curiously, at some point, OP locked the thread.
The winner should have been
Bazlu (who has the latest post inside the topic), who predicted a value of 9690$ for 1BTC. But he never received his prize. I asked him if he received the BTC, as I could see myself he didn't get the merit.
He didn't contact with me. Didn't give me merit or BTC.
Even more curiously, protrader786 was never online since Jan 23rd, thus it was impossible to send the merit or the BTC. Bazlu didn't even have the chance to tell him the BTC address.
Besides, Bazlu himself wasn't online anymore since Feb 3rd, thus even if protrader786 would have wanted to send him the BTC, he would have been unable to. But that's another story. He could send the merit though.
What stopped me from opening a flag on protrader786's profile is the fact that he was not online anymore, thus he may not be a scammer. Maybe something happened to him and he couldn't get online (illness etc.). Of course, locking his topic
might be a sign of scam, but maybe he did it to avoid the spam after registration part was finished.
What do you think about this curious case, where both the winner and the organizer suddenly disappeared?