user brayktcristal abusing trust system and spamming all over the forum

[Varpenter]

At first please forgive me if this is not the right section. Mods please move it to the correct section if its so.

brayktcristal profile link - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2752522

Story - I have advertised my ses accounts in this forum. I have already had couple of trades in here with escrow involved.
This is my thread https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5242611.msg54381052#msg54381052 where this guy posted "scam warning" and some kind of reference that I have connection with +100000000000 accounts. I want to be clear that Varpenter is my only account in this forum and I joined this forum because I started selling SES accounts and friend of mine suggested me to post a thread here.

In my thread I wrote clearly that I always trade via escrow and there is no other way. I have made trades with escrow from this forum, even posted reference and tx id-s. What else could I do to prove my legitimacy?
Please also take a quick look into this guy previous posts - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2752522;sa=showPosts
He is doing that constantly.

Is it normal that in this forum someone can post negative feedback in my thread, accuse me of having +100000000000 accounts, post negative feedback on my profile, creat a flag and all this without any evidence.
I couldnt care less about this guy post, but his post in my thread is scaring away potential customers.

Is there anything that will be done with this guy or I just have to suck it up and move on?

edit: PM-ed him also to see what he has to say.

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[bL4nkcode]

This thread belong to Reputation board, please move it there instead.

Control in the lower left of the thread.

[NotATether]

First of all, how does one even sell SES accounts? That is something tied to an Amazon Web Services account.

[LoyceV]

You can use "Report to moderator" for any posts that violate the unofficial forum rules. "Off-topic" might be a valid reason.
If the moderator agrees, his post will be trashed.

[mocacinno]

It hurts to get negative trust, and i can only imagine it must hurt even more to have somebody open a flag against you. However, the trust system is unmoderated, so odds are that rating and flag will stay on your account forever.

Like LoyceV already said: you do have a small chance a moderator will remove posts from your thread if they've broken one of the rules.

Last thing: i wouldn't worry about the rating or the flag to much tough: brayktcristal is not in DT, his ratings are only shown as untrusted, and his flag is inactive. When i look at someone's trust page, i always read the untrusted feedback, but i take it with a big grain of salt. If there are dozens of feedbacks from different people that look credible and have a clear reference, i do check things out for myself, but i never take untrusted feedback at face value.

Sometimes red, untrusted, feedback is a badge of honour. For example: i have 3 red feedbacks from a known scammer. If i see the same untrusted feedback from the same scammer on an other user's trust page, i know this other user actually stood up against the same scammer, and said red trust actually makes me trust the person in question more.

[LoyceV]

Looking a bit deeper, it turns out brayktcristal created many Flags. I didn't check all of them, but the ones I've seen don't have a proper Reference link. He just posts "scammer" without evidence. He's not on DT, so there's not really a point in Opposing those Flags, but if he would reach DT, I'd probably exclude him.

@brayktcristal: if you want your accusations to be taken seriously, you'll have to provide evidence. Please create a solid Reference thread in Reputation before creating a Flag. I also suggest to withdraw all Flags created without evidence. If your Flags mean something, they're much more likely to be supported.
I appreciate what you're trying to do (hunt scammers), but your method is wrong.

[DireWolfM14]

A month ago someone contacted me for escrow on Telegram; it turned out the "seller" was just stringing the buyer along.  Once I received funds from the buyer, the seller accused the buyer of being a scammer and encouraged me to keep the buyer's funds to punish him for his scamming activities.  The accusation had no merit, the "seller" merely provided a link to the buyer's post on this forum asking for AWS or SES accounts.

Around the same time brayktcristal PM'd me here with an accusation against another user, but the accusations were very much the same.  Merely a link to a post where the other user was requesting to trade Amazon accounts.  I don't have any proof that the Telegram user was brayktcristal, but the similar style of the two made me suspect they are the same person.

I suspect that brayktcristal was scammed during Amazon account trade, and has taken it upon himself to instill vigilante justice against anyone who buys or sells these accounts.  I believe it's true that there are many scammers involved in these activities, but not all of them.

I agree with LoyceV; if brayktcristal ever finds his way to DT, I would feel compelled to exclude him.

[Harlot]

A month ago someone contacted me for escrow on Telegram; it turned out the "seller" was just stringing the buyer along.  Once I received funds from the buyer, the seller accused the buyer of being a scammer and encouraged me to keep the buyer's funds to punish him for his scamming activities.  The accusation had no merit, the "seller" merely provided a link to the buyer's post on this forum asking for AWS or SES accounts.

Around the same time brayktcristal PM'd me here with an accusation against another user, but the accusations were very much the same.  Merely a link to a post where the other user was requesting to trade Amazon accounts.  I don't have any proof that the Telegram user was brayktcristal, but the similar style of the two made me suspect they are the same person.

I suspect that brayktcristal was scammed during Amazon account trade, and has taken it upon himself to instill vigilante justice against anyone who buys or sells these accounts.  I believe it's true that there are many scammers involved in these activities, but not all of them.

I've look into his trust page and I think you are right, he is targeting AWS and Google Cloud Account sellers here in the forum and connecting them of being alts of one another just because they are selling the same product. On how he have establish this connections that the accounts are related? He didn't provide anything in this case but with just the similarities of the product they are selling. braykycristal might be under the impression that selling AWS SES accounts is something illegal that's why he automatically tag people offering it. For a member with a tagline "I catch scammers, i never sell anything!" he is doing a pretty bad job on giving judgement on who he catches.

[ABCantiscam]

Lmao, Varpenter himself is Walmart34 known as Naober. Last times biggest exit scammer. Now he is back under new name and trying to start it all over again. Shame.