Phinnaeus Gage account just posted.

[AB de Royse777]

My guess? The person could have been accessing Phinnaeus Gage's account or for a while.

And did you see how well known the person is about the old users in the forum? : https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5251074.msg54500785#msg54500785
Also in the pledge topic where he was asking it for his funeral, it seems it was him.

And then he died and according to all those obituaries he died on April 8, 2020 which was after he made this post to ask for his funeral cost.

All these are still too much for me to have a conclusion.

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[Pffrt]

It's the same image Bruno (Bruno?) posted earlier on his plea thread. The image was from 12.04.19 which seems to be very old but no one questioned at that time? No one wanted to verify that it was Bruno or not? Someone had credentials of his account long ago?
I'm not sure, can a death be faked?
Anyone tried to contact the Spring Valley Hospital? Their "Contact Us" doesn't work. I tried to contact with them but failed. That would bring some proof.

[The Sceptical Chymist]

Nursing homes/hospices have banned all visitors, so it is just patients and nurses. When a patient dies, someone will clean his room of the deceased's personal belongings. My guess is someone from the hospice stole Bruno's phone when cleaning his room. 

I seriously doubt this is what happened--starting back up with a post like the one that was made is a lot different than some random person finding a phone and, say, stealing bitcoin from a wallet or using the phone to pay for things via an app or something similar.

All these are still too much for me to have a conclusion.

I don't know, man.  This is definitely another high-popcorn-usage event, so just watch your sodium intake if this and/or the Lauda thing is giving you high blood pressure.

[AB de Royse777]

No one wanted to verify that it was Bruno or not?

+10 merit for that point but this is too late now.
That was a blunder mistake from the community. One could just ask for his username + current date on a piece of paper before sending any donations.

I found an archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20200502091546/https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5236380.0

And it's the same image from 2019.

I don't know, man.  This is definitely another high-popcorn-usage event, so just watch your sodium intake if this and/or the Lauda thing is giving you high blood pressure.

It's already giving me a high blood pressure. People now can speculate that the COVID-19 project could be an exit scam from me and Lauda :-P

[Timelord2o67]

Can the FBI or similar law enforcement investigate if hospital staff have accessed/stolen Bruno's personal effects?

[PrimeNumber7]

Nursing homes/hospices have banned all visitors, so it is just patients and nurses. When a patient dies, someone will clean his room of the deceased's personal belongings. My guess is someone from the hospice stole Bruno's phone when cleaning his room.  

I seriously doubt this is what happened--starting back up with a post like the one that was made is a lot different than some random person finding a phone and, say, stealing bitcoin from a wallet or using the phone to pay for things via an app or something similar.

His password has not changed recently, which means someone either knows his password or has physical possession of a device he was logged into the forum with when he passed.

When he created a thread asking for donations, he asked that donations be sent to 1FkHCFv8PN1kerJct3RsQQpMcRoTnx2vWe, and the coin in this address moved yesterday. The address the coin was sent to, 1MZh187t7Lkz3Zn5cpWFmQbqowfL6ReP29 received other transactions, presumably from various services that Bruno had coin on deposit with.

The transfer of coin means whoever has his phone at least knows what bitcoin is (many people do). I am pretty sure there are some people who work at nursing homes also have forum accounts at bitcointalk, and some others probably know what bitcointalk is. Even if whoever stole Brunos' phone hadn't heard of bitcointalk previously, s/he could have done some research.

Nursing homes/hospices have banned all visitors, so it is just patients and nurses. When a patient dies, someone will clean his room of the deceased's personal belongings. My guess is someone from the hospice stole Bruno's phone when cleaning his room. 

But how did that person exactly know that Bruno was a bitcointalk forum member and immediately got to his browser and logged in?
How did they know that once they log into bitcointalk,  will first have to delete the last OP made by Bruno's account?
How did they know about changing the custom VIP title from "In Memoriam" to "Back to End CO-VID Struggles"?

My guess? The person could have been accessing Phinnaeus Gage's account or for a while.

It is probably a fair assumption that someone didn't start using a random noise generator to start using his account. Whoever has Bruno's phone likely did some research prior to posting. Based on my above blockchain analysis, they have had his phone for at least a day prior to posting.

[TECSHARE]

Nursing homes/hospices have banned all visitors, so it is just patients and nurses. When a patient dies, someone will clean his room of the deceased's personal belongings. My guess is someone from the hospice stole Bruno's phone when cleaning his room.  

I seriously doubt this is what happened--starting back up with a post like the one that was made is a lot different than some random person finding a phone and, say, stealing bitcoin from a wallet or using the phone to pay for things via an app or something similar.

His password has not changed recently, which means someone either knows his password or has physical possession of a device he was logged into the forum with when he passed.

When he created a thread asking for donations, he asked that donations be sent to 1FkHCFv8PN1kerJct3RsQQpMcRoTnx2vWe, and the coin in this address moved yesterday. The address the coin was sent to, 1MZh187t7Lkz3Zn5cpWFmQbqowfL6ReP29 received other transactions, presumably from various services that Bruno had coin on deposit with.

The transfer of coin means whoever has his phone at least knows what bitcoin is (many people do). I am pretty sure there are some people who work at nursing homes also have forum accounts at bitcointalk, and some others probably know what bitcointalk is. Even if whoever stole Brunos' phone hadn't heard of bitcointalk previously, s/he could have done some research.

Nursing homes/hospices have banned all visitors, so it is just patients and nurses. When a patient dies, someone will clean his room of the deceased's personal belongings. My guess is someone from the hospice stole Bruno's phone when cleaning his room. 

But how did that person exactly know that Bruno was a bitcointalk forum member and immediately got to his browser and logged in?
How did they know that once they log into bitcointalk,  will first have to delete the last OP made by Bruno's account?
How did they know about changing the custom VIP title from "In Memoriam" to "Back to End CO-VID Struggles"?

My guess? The person could have been accessing Phinnaeus Gage's account or for a while.

It is probably a fair assumption that someone didn't start using a random noise generator to start using his account. Whoever has Bruno's phone likely did some research prior to posting. Based on my above blockchain analysis, they have had his phone for at least a day prior to posting.

He did state he was getting help posting, and was dictating his last posts didn't he? Isn't it possible whoever was assisting him simply used this knowledge to take the money and try for more?

[PrimeNumber7]

He did state he was getting help posting, and was dictating his last posts didn't he? Isn't it possible whoever was assisting him simply used this knowledge to take the money and try for more?

He said he was using google voice:

thank you, guys

(I don't have use of my right hand, hence sentences not grammatically correct. I use Google Voice to copy and paste.)

[nutildah]

Very sad.

I see that the "new" Bruno's donation address has already received 5 BTC. I hope nobody actually sent him BTC already. But if not, it means this is some sort of experienced bitcoiner who had access to 5 BTC, to move it to the donation address to make it look like he was already receiving donations.

I was really hoping his account wouldn't end up this way.

[Timelord2067]

Can anyone provide information on other alts of Bruno?

I've been told by Lafu there was a connection between the Phinnaeus Gage UID and a banned account Bitcoin 100 with proof of the connection in this thread.

*IF* Bruno is alive, then this is an elaborate exit scam and all alts possible need to be identified to shut down the scamming.

If Bruno is indeed dead, then the hacker needs to be identified and the funds donated tracked.

[xxjumperxx]

Wow.

Thats all I can say after reading though all of this.

I read through Phinnaeus Gage Thread when it all happened.

Now this surfaces, his old Thread was edited and is asking for donations in another thread.

I mean if he has access to a device he was logged into, he/she probably has access to all of the accounts he was using.
In the worst case, access to his email (thats why email change is not required).

This is not good.

[nutildah]

I have opened a Type 1 flag on PG's account based on this thread, please support:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=trust;flag=1916

[Fishmooney]

Can anyone provide information on other alts of Bruno?

I've been told by Lafu there was a connection between the Phinnaeus Gage UID and a banned account Bitcoin 100 with proof of the connection in this thread.

*IF* Bruno is alive, then this is an elaborate exit scam and all alts possible need to be identified to shut down the scamming.

If Bruno is indeed dead, then the hacker needs to be identified and the funds donated tracked.

About the connection with 100bitcoin accoun't I've found this on what is probably his sister's facebook account

https://i.ibb.co/7kLSdvc/firefox-Cgx-UYb-Ff-KA.png

This is has been found on the link on her post, if you open the picture on the https://www.boersmafuneralhome.com/obituary/Bruno-KucinskasJr?fbclid=IwAR3httyY8-EfTjlJmxhCAxS-Y7OOhz88kgowT8hpbulE7UVMBhxebfNYZJA you can see the 100bitcoin thing.

You need to open it, the picture is zoomed.
As you can see is a little different it's called 1btc100, very similar, very strange.

[Timelord2067]

This is has been found on the link on her post, if you open the picture on the https://www.boersmafuneralhome.com/obituary/Bruno-KucinskasJr?fbclid=IwAR3httyY8-EfTjlJmxhCAxS-Y7OOhz88kgowT8hpbulE7UVMBhxebfNYZJA you can see the 100bitcoin thing.

Confirmed - I've clicked on the image: https://s3.amazonaws.com/CFSV2/obituaries/photos/8673/734840/5e90987319ceb.jpg

<--- Lower right of image 1BTC100 (presumably it's meant to read 1BTC1oo ...)


I've created a flag and would appreciate it if people could support it.  I will also post some information from the known alts thread once we've managed to have a look at the details.

[tyKiwanuka]

Not sure, if it was posted before, if it was, just disregard.

What caught my attention at the time he supposedly died was this:


Source: https://www.boersmafuneralhome.com/obituary/Bruno-KucinskasJr

I donated some funds to that address that he posted, but didn't follow what was the total amount collected in the end. So I just thought that maybe the funds weren't enough to cover all the costs he had calculated. Still I found it a bit weird, that it says "per his wishes", because you don't just change your mind (in a probably vegetative state) when some funds are missing. There is always a way to make it happen, when it's just lacking money.

So maybe someone just wanted to take the money, and didn't bother about giving Bruno a proper service/cremation.

[TalkStar]

It's the same image Bruno (Bruno?) posted earlier on his plea thread. The image was from 12.04.19 which seems to be very old but no one questioned at that time? No one wanted to verify that it was Bruno or not? Someone had credentials of his account long ago?
I'm not sure, can a death be faked?

After seeing all the recent incidents its really hard to get on a final decision for anyone. I can't say exactly what happened with bruno & his account but something is not right for sure. In a situation like this you can't take any possibilities slightly.    

I have opened a Type 1 flag on PG's account based on this thread, please support:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=trust;flag=1916

Supported from my end and we can't do nothing more than that now.  

[logfiles]

The person who took over the account just couldn't even wait for a couple of months after the guy's death... Could he?

[suzanne5223]

Can the FBI or similar law enforcement investigate if hospital staff have accessed/stolen Bruno's personal effects?

It cant be hospital staff and it can only be someone within his family who somehow have access to Bruno's private information.

Not sure, if it was posted before, if it was, just disregard.

What caught my attention at the time he supposedly died was this:

[snip] Source: https://www.boersmafuneralhome.com/obituary/Bruno-KucinskasJr[/size]

I donated some funds to that address that he posted, but didn't follow what was the total amount collected in the end. So I just thought that maybe the funds weren't enough to cover all the costs he had calculated. Still I found it a bit weird, that it says "per his wishes", because you don't just change your mind (in a probably vegetative state) when some funds are missing. There is always a way to make it happen, when it's just lacking money.

So maybe someone just wanted to take the money, and didn't bother about giving Bruno a proper service/cremation.

I understand you're helping the investigation of the suddenly thread created by the person impersonating Bruno's identity but the information you provided is somehow against the doxxing rules said by theymos and i think it will be better if you provide the link.

[TalkStar]

The person who took over the account just couldn't even wait for a couple of months after the guy's death... Could he?

Greediness usually drives people to break their patience and specially when its a matter of money then its really hard to control for them who always lookng for make some easy money.

[hulla]

Nursing homes/hospices have banned all visitors, so it is just patients and nurses. When a patient dies, someone will clean his room of the deceased's personal belongings. My guess is someone from the hospice stole Bruno's phone when cleaning his room.  

But how did that person exactly know that Bruno was a bitcointalk forum member and immediately got to his browser and logged in?
How did they know that once they log into bitcointalk,  will first have to delete the last OP made by Bruno's account?
How did they know about changing the custom VIP title from "In Memoriam" to "Back to End CO-VID Struggles"?

My guess? The person could have been accessing Phinnaeus Gage's account or for a while.

With Bruno generous in nature and helping people. Bruno might have teach him all his knowledge about crypto and this forum.

The person who took over the account just couldn't even wait for a couple of months after the guy's death... Could he?

The person could only be someone Bruno teach about crypto and have confidence in the most within his family/friend after he left when understand perfectly well the chance of his surgery and here we see the person abusing Bruno's trust.