💩💩Currency Exchange Blacklist - Check Before Making a Deal💩💩

[nutildah]

Update Nov. 3: I am seeking to exchange currencies with well-reputed members (only). Contact me via PM please if you need something.


If you do not have an account on this forum or are logged out, pay attention to the list shown below as you will not see the trust ratings of known scammers.

Do not trade with the following members as they have been caught scamming multiple times and often use multiple accounts.

This thread is self-moderated to limit OT discussion but I will give the accused a chance to defend themselves.

Bitcointalk Currency Exchange Blacklist
- DO NOT TRADE -

1. vareole (profile)

2. Mr.VCC (profile)

3. ArcusIsdar (profile)

4. Pbacala (profile)

5. colires (profile)




The above-listed accounts belong to confirmed scammers. Don't be stupid, don't do deals with them.

[nutildah]

Page for vareole.

This is a good example of how to tell you are dealing with a scammer:


- big scam Warning in red at the top of the thread
- selling paypal (a reversible tx method, even F&F) for crypto (non-reversible)
- notice he also accepts payoneer, which is non-reversible
- self-moderated thread
- -8 trust rating
- thread is also locked, but you can't see that from here

Let's take a look at his Trusted feedback:



It's terrible, about the worst you can get. If you were logged in, you'd see this.

[nutildah]

Page for Mr.VCC

This user was banned last year after spreading malware links. They keep coming back with new scams but were dumb enough not to change their Telegram name this time around.

Contact: t.me/acidpy

You've already been banned from the forum.

joelitoup was part of a huge collection used to spread malware links for something called Ethpill, but its hard to say if the old account was hacked or they were in on it.

In any case, absolutely nobody should be trading with this member.

[enzogla]

If you do not have an account on this forum or are logged out, pay attention to the list shown below as you will not see the trust ratings of known scammers.

Why can logged out not see the trust ratings? What's the point in hiding them?

[nutildah]

Why can logged out not see the trust ratings? What's the point in hiding them?

I really don't know. But its an example of why its a good idea to have an account and be logged in to the forum before making a deal.

Vareole actually managed to scam somebody the other day, even with the red flag warning. Some people just can't be helped.

whoop!

[nutildah]

#3. ArcusIsdar

This is definitely rambotnic, a sleazebag scammer that's been around for a long time, and like a serious VD, refuses to go away.

He is a fraud and I have explained why here:

So can you tell us a little bit of the story of how you came about purchasing BoglaGold? What was the reason you decided to step down from your company and sell it to someone else? What have you been up to since you stopped selling Runescape Gold?

Boglagold bough our business after having law problems with Runescape.

Errrnt. Sorry, that's incorrect. YOUR company, Arcus Gold, purchased BoglaGold in 2017 -- not the other way around. This is well-known and easily verifiable information, and certainly something that Arcus Gold founder Matthew Gillingham, who you claim to be, would know.

https://crazy.gold/boglagold-arcusgold/

Who is ArcusGold & BoglaGold ?

As you know BoglaGold & ArcusGold were OSRS gold selling websites. The two sites were managed by two different owners but in 2017 Arcus bought Bogla so both sites became the property of Arcus.

It’s speculated that Arcus paid somewhere between two and five million dollars for the BoglaGold website. And so these two sites are becoming a very lucrative business that is growing in popularity and has been used by many OSRS players.

You lose, thanks for playing.

Type I Flag on ArcusIsdar here.

[nutildah]

#4. Page for Pbacala.

Thought this guy was a scammer from the get-go because he's a newbie opening a self-moderated thread, which is one of the #1 signs of a scammer (in this section anyway).

Yesterday he was flagged as a scammer after running away with $35 -- hope burning his account was worth it.

This is what a scammer's thread looks like, take note:



The final nail in his scammer coffin was the fact that he never bothered to respond to the scam accusation against him. Total worm. Stay away.

[Jawadu]

If you do not have an account on this forum or are logged out, pay attention to the list shown below as you will not see the trust ratings of known scammers.

Do not trade with the following members as they have been caught scamming multiple times and often use multiple accounts.

This thread is self-moderated to limit OT discussion but I will give the accused a chance to defend themselves.

Bitcointalk Currency Exchange Blacklist - DO NOT TRADE

1. vareole (profile)

2. Mr.VCC (profile)

3. ArcusIsdar (profile)

4. Pbacala (profile)

Thanks for pointing this out! We, beginners of this amazing forum are the ones who get affected regularly by such people, but I feel lucky because it's like I'm learning new things almost every day here! But sorry, I want to understand one thing if it's okay... I've seen a lot of threads discussing exchanging Crypto to PayPal, is there any escrow software they use or it's done manually by trust only?!

[nutildah]

#5. Page for colires.

I'm thinking this account is an alt of vareole due to the fact that they have many similarities.

Here's the scam accusation that supports the flag against colires:

What happened:
I need an aws 5k account, @colires willing to sell me that for $350(0.0074 btc)
I asked him to send me a PM with payment and service detail, he sent, but soon he want me to delete that PM because aws account trade is not allowed in forum.
I have looked @colires's profile before, I know he is very suspicious, so I didn't actually delete PM, instead, I fake a screenshot and sent to him.
He believed, then we continue chat about aws account trade.
Finally, we all agree on a solution: He send me a revolut business account deal through PM, I pay it, then he send me aws 5k account insteads of revolut business account.
After I paid, he sent me an account indeed, but then he clear chat history instantly, I don't even have time to save that account info, so situation now is I paid $350 and I got nothing.
I use multi TG account to contact @colires, he just keep ignoring, now it's already 24 hours passed, he still no responding, well then, I have already give him many chances, scam report here.


Scammers Profile Link: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2827158

Reference Link:


Amount Scammed: $350(0.0074 btc)

Payment Method: Bitcoin

Proof of Payment: https://blockstream.info/tx/cf7e268177dae2937d500c6bb7fb32bee24cd5e5333bc2c7863b1edf2f896bf9

PM/Chat Logs: Even though he clear chat history, since I am keeping back up, so 90% chat history still saved.
https://i.ibb.co/12XQTvM/c1.png
https://i.ibb.co/RBY4DCt/c2.png
https://i.ibb.co/txynTRH/c3.png
https://i.ibb.co/ZGcb5rB/c4.png

Long story short: do not trade with this member or you will get burned.

[JeromeTash]

Hey @nutildah

I am suggesting a small correction. There is a slight error with the profile link of ArcusIsdar. You used https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=3312530 (Mr.VCC) instead of https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=3077896

Otherwise, this thread is a great initiative.

[icopress]

I am seeking to exchange currencies with well-reputed members (only). Contact me via PM please if you need something.

You ever need any exchange of anything, just hit me up!

Guys, since you're talking about this, I'm wondering if you are in the business of exchanging Bitcoin for USDT by booking? It happens that I need to exchange some bitcoins, but I am not always in a place with a stable connection or access to my wallet, so I am looking for an option in which I could book an exchange in advance ^{[a day or two]} at a fixed rate. Is it possible? If yes, then I'll keep in mind ... By the way, this is not the first time that the moderators, without delving into the matter, moved the thread following only the letter of the forum laws (but I am sure that the appeal can be useful if you refer to a similar precedent).

A topic where you ask people to guess the price and give their reasoning would not be incentivized posting warranting movement to Games & Rounds. But because there is a prize, it is incentivized posting and should be moved to Games & Rounds according to the rules-as-written.

However: Almost all rules are subject to mod discretion. The reason for the rule against games with incentivized posting outside of "Games & Rounds" is to prevent unfair/excessive bumping and "last-posts"-filling except in "quarantine" sections which people can ignore.  In El duderino_'s games:
 - El duderino has no incentive to cause spammy replies. The prize is a true gift.
 - The game has a pretty high entry requirement which prevents the replies from actually becoming spammy.
 - El duderino_ very much prefers that the games be in Speculation rather than Games & Rounds.

Therefore, it's most appropriate in this case to apply mod discretion and make an exception to the rules as written; El duderino_'s future games of this sort can stay in Speculation.

[DireWolfM14]

Another newbie account suspected of scamming in the currency exchange board:

User: btc_wire
Thread: BTC to WIRE\SWIFT\SEPA <<! Business accounts !>>

It seems like a rather obvious scam attempt; a newbie directing people to his telegram account.  Then this post in the exchange thread:

I was careful to contact the correct Telegram account with the username "btctowire" (there are many impostors on Telegram with similar usernames).

Shortly after I sent the cryptocurrency @btctowire stopped replying to my messages and blocked me. It was several days ago.

ETA: I don't know if this coincidental or not, but but minutes after I tagged the account mentioned above, another pops up with his telegram account ready to go.  User movo_cash just posted this gem of an offer:

30% RATE

IF INTERESTED HIT ME UP ON TELEGRAM @BLACKPANTHER255

30%, what can go wrong?

Until uncle Nutildah returns to help keep that subboard clean, I'll be tagging any newbie who posts an offer and then directs members to Telegram.