Self bouncing currency exchange scammer.

[The Cryptovator]

User: ashwin171 has open a currency exchange thread , (archived). When he made the post, it drew my attention due to the very good exchange rate (10% extra BTC for PayPal) and the user even ready to charge back. So the thread was quite suspicious.

My suspension become true when I noticed OP has been trying to bump the thread with alt accounts. These accounts leave positive comments for OP. However, anyone could leave a positive reply if they have traded with alt. It doesn't matter. But just see the activity of these two users.

1. Chebur80, last post he made on August 15, 2019. So after more than 2 years, he woke up just to leave positive feedback and reply in the exchange thread.

2. jessdeclercq, the last post he made on August 12, 2020. He woke up after more than a year just to leave positive feedback and reply to OP.

Both users left positive feedback to OP,




I believe the users mentioned above trying to scam forum users. As a reference, he used a Paxful account. Though the username is similar to his forum username, I don't believe the Paxful account belongs to him.

However, eventually, I try to contact the person in telegram, then he refused to use any kind of escrow service from the forum. Even he doesn't trust me, it does not matter he doesn't trust me but suddenly he clear all the chat history of the telegram. I am not getting what is the problem if he is trusted on the other platform why he can't trust in the forum escrow. So most probably I think he is just attempting to scam users.


Flag type -1 : https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=trust;flag=2848

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[SFR10]

very good exchange rate (10% extra BTC for PayPal) and the user even ready to charge back.

Just checked each of the categories and it's quite clear that he/she randomly came up with numbers ^{[no basis]}:
^{- Most legit sellers, would normally lower the percentage as the trade value goes up, but that's not the case here!}

• $250 Paypal to $290 BTC
  

  13.8%
  
  

  $500 PayPal to $550 BTC
  

  9.1%
  
  

  $1000 Paypal to $1120 BTC
  

  10.7%
  
  

  $5000 Paypal to $5700 BTC
  

  12.3%

I noticed OP has been trying to bump the thread with alt accounts. These accounts leave positive comments for OP.

I don't think his/her main intention was to bump a thread, since it was already at the top ^{[it's probably just the latter part]}.

I believe the users mentioned above trying to scam forum users. As a reference, he used a Paxful account. Though the username is similar to his forum username, I don't believe the Paxful account belongs to him.

Even if that Paxful account turns out to be his/her account, I still strongly believe that the seller in question created that thread to farm trust ^{[thankfully, such actions have no influence on the ashwin171's "real" trust rating]}.

Flag type -1 : https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=trust;flag=2848

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[Igebotz]

Both users awoke the same day and the first thing they did was to start bumping the thread with positive feedback a few minutes apart, and they also left him positive trust the same day. Coincident? Also, both accounts had the same writing style and were interested in enticing people to telegram, both are alt accounts for sure.

However, eventually, I try to contact the person in telegram, then he refused to use any kind of escrow service from the forum. Even he doesn't trust me, it does not matter he doesn't trust me but suddenly he clear all the chat history of the telegram. I am not getting what is the problem if he is trusted on the other platform why he can't trust in the forum escrow. So most probably I think he is just attempting to scam users.

His ability to change telegram usernames (not saying it's wrong to always change usernames, but in this case it's something else) looks suspicious to me, and all of his posts are about someone buying bitcoin and always telling the seller to send first. As an experienced Paxful trader, he should know that sellers will always receive money before releasing coin, and that's the standard of p2p everywhere.

Flag type -1 : https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=trust;flag=2848

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[JollyGood]

Thank you COOLCRYPTOVATOR for posting about this scam and the accounts involved.

We all have a responsibility to try to keep this forum clean from scammers and to try to protect those that could fall victim to scams. I have supported the flag and left appropriate red tags for all 3 accounts and I hope other members will add their names too.

[Fivestar4everMVP]

"If it's too good to be true, then it's probably not true", it's an old saying that's been on for centuries, and as simple as it goes, it has saved alot of people who care to believe, from different type of scams including ones like this which emanates from nothing but greed, greed on the part of the scammer and greed on the part of the victim.
What am I saying ?, it only takes greed on the part of whoever the victim was going to be, to fall for a scam like this cus any reasonable person(like the op is) knows that 10 percent extra btc for PayPal is too good to be true.

And kudos to you @COOLCRYPTOVATOR for catching this one extra quick, no one knows who, (out of greed) would have been a victim to this.

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