User @Pbacala scammer

[kuznetsov.damir635]

What happened:
I create a thread for buying GPU instance, @Pbacala send me a PM said that he can help me and provide his Telegram
Then we continue chat on Telegram
Finally, I decide to buy account from him, I asked him to send me a PM with payment info
After I paid, he promise he will deliver account in 2 hours, but it's now 30+ hours passed, I still don't receive account. He is not responding on Telegram neither PM
So I think he is a scammer.

Scammers Profile Link: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=3290195

Reference Link: He is not posting public post, we only chat on Telegram or Forum PM
https://i.ibb.co/jRZjWLJ/1-pm.png
Amount Scammed: 0.00072 btc  $35
Payment Method: Bitcoin
Proof of Payment: https://blockstream.info/tx/e8a1ad4b0743c15f9416af6ab52120f45a70287353504da0806db95722e1a8d4
PM/Chat Logs:
https://i.ibb.co/vDLWvZJ/2-chat.png
https://i.ibb.co/7b9bKLk/3-chat.png
Additional Notes:

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[GbitG]

What happened:
I create a thread for buying GPU instance, @Pbacala send me a PM said that he can help me and provide his Telegram
Then we continue chat on Telegram
Finally, I decide to buy account from him, I asked him to send me a PM with payment info
After I paid, he promise he will deliver account in 2 hours, but it's now 30+ hours passed, I still don't receive account. He is not responding on Telegram neither PM
So I think he is a scammer.

Scammers Profile Link: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=3290195

Reference Link: He is not posting public post, we only chat on Telegram or Forum PM

Amount Scammed: 0.00072 btc  $35
Payment Method: Bitcoin
Proof of Payment: https://blockstream.info/tx/e8a1ad4b0743c15f9416af6ab52120f45a70287353504da0806db95722e1a8d4
PM/Chat Logs:


Additional Notes:

Post your accusation in this format and post all proofs which you can provide here for better response from community about this     https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=260073.0

[kuznetsov.damir635]

I am following the format
Or you are saying I should reply to that thread insteads of create new one?

[JeromeTash]

Sorry about the misfortune, but the user in question has been having lots of red flags like the neutral feedback left on his profile. You shouldn't have trusted him, minus using the escrow

nutildah

2021-06-25

Reference

Never trade with newbie accounts that make self-modded threads, you will get burned.

I am going to leave some negative feedback on his profile plus supporting the flag, though it won't be active unless 3 DT members support it

[Stalker22]

My negative feedback was sent to scammer's profile, as was my support of the flag, and I believe that other DT members should also do the same.
In the event that the money is refunded, I will gladly reconsider my decision.

[yahoo62278]

OP if you used an escrow you would have saved 35 bucks. I know it's a small amount, but that's  what they're there for. Anyways, I left some neg feedback as well, but I doubt this person will care since its a worthless jr member account.

[kuznetsov.damir635]

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2439910.0
I do think about escrow before, but fee is way too high, 0.0005 btc Minimum, that's 24 bucks, and this user doesn't accept digital goods, so I have to choose other user, which at least cost 50 bucks.
Buy a $35 prodcut, fee cost $50, so I gave up

[The Sceptical Chymist]

I don't usually publish PMs in threads, but in this case I don't give a shit about this guy.  Here's a recent PM exchange between the two of us, initiated by him:

Hi there mate
someone i met tonight wants to talk with you about smth in 2015/2016 is ther a way of communicating?

You're going to have to elaborate on that before I even consider talking to you.

You're going to have to elaborate on that before I even consider talking to you.

I met someone at a couchsurfing hangout in Istanbul and it seems you gave him some bad feedbacks over the years.

I have his message that he tried to send from his account but he couldn't. He texted me this message to send to you, I don't want to be linked to his story so I am going to copy paste it though...


iulianbutanu, [16.09.21 11:58]
Hi,

about this

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=834958

I am the Iulian Butanu from this topic

I left myself a log time ago the hope of the forum even tho I am still a crypto enthuziast.

About this account and many more mentions that are on my name and I hope I can get help from you with doxing.

In 2015-2016 after trying to be a student I got a really shit periode in my and I started doing randomly hitch hike arround Europe. At a moment in the 2nd main train station in budapest, my documents were stolen, romanian embassy helps you only to contact the family to help you with money bla bla, they didnt care anyway i managed it at a moment.

Fact: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1472153.msg14857412#msg14857412

When he replied to this i was actually at nyugati i suppose at mcdonalds charging my phone, a man approaches me, and after some time he says I can help you to eat and wash your clothes. He takes me home, weirdly in his up floor while I got undressed he takes my underwear and smells it.. i am totally straight and i was 19 at that time. He feeds me and while i slept he tried to fuck me, the story is even more fucked up but I don't have to bother with details.

Point is I had another, at a moment I sold my account to this guy: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=625996

Why? Basically, being on couchsurfing before this trip I hosted an indian guy and he basically sent me like nothing 50$, it was like 6$ a night in budapest the hostel so totally perfect for me. I exchanged paypal to btc to crypto, that was my plan as the exchange https://coinflux.com/ was almost instantly to my card so tops 10$ loss here. Anyway after more than 2 days literally on the street, he still didnt sent. I was disperate. And in a moment of naivity, he paid me 30$ on my identity card and my account.  And after one week he paid for it.

After that this guy actually used my name until even last year or someone. There is a scam accusation that actually affected my only attempt to marry, I also wrote cyrus on facebook as he is romanian also.

Ok overall, being stupid and young things happen. At a moment someone on linkendin texted me i scammed him on discord half a litecoin, i told him, look man. I never used discord yet as I don't play games but I still gave him 0.25 ltc, it was like 50-60$ (ltc was 200$+). Can show screens.

Here is my couchsurfing link to see that I am actually a nice person: https://couchsurfing.page.link/XWaUfZs3JrWraRKN7

This person, I randomly saw him at a couchsurfing hangout tonight so I asked him for a beer to let me write this message.

All I need is to help me out to get rid of all the posts about this name because these affects me so much in real life even if I have nothing to do with crypto, I own crypto but I am not in this anymore, I have my own business, I have my master degree, now on my PhD and this is disturbing my life very much.

I saw your username many times I searched myself on google so I am giving a chance.

If you care or you have a question, send me a message on instagram: @iulivirgil .

Cheers and thanks for reading.

I'm not removing that feedback.

I'm not removing that feedback.

i think he is more interested about doxxing; i'll share your message on instagram to him

Doxxing who?  I don't understand what you're talking about.

And that's where it ended, because he never responded after that.  I don't know if this guy is a scammer or what (it looks like he is based on OP's post, and I'll look into it further), but I don't doubt for a minute that he's at least an alt account of someone else here who is/was involved in something shady.  I'll probably end up leaving him a neg based on this scam accusation; I just have to review it fully.

Edit: OP, what were you trying to buy from this jackass?  In your post you said "GPU instance" and I don't know what that is.  I'm just curious--it doesn't affect the fact that I'm about to neg the guy for scamming you.

[kuznetsov.damir635]

Edit: OP, what were you trying to buy from this jackass?  In your post you said "GPU instance" and I don't know what that is.  I'm just curious--it doesn't affect the fact that I'm about to neg the guy for scamming you.

GPU instance is just a cloud server with GPU, I need it to Deep Learning, AI calculation
I got a topic for that if you interesting https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5360045

[The Sceptical Chymist]

GPU instance is just a cloud server with GPU, I need it to Deep Learning, AI calculation
I got a topic for that if you interesting https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5360045

OK, I appreciate that link although I still have no idea what it is.  I'll have to look it up on teh interwebz myself.  I don't even know what deep learning is.  Shoulda majored in computer science....<sigh>.

[Timelord2067]

I had supported the flag in this thread, then the accused spotted this comment in the other thread:

https://ninjastic.space/post/57985305

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.

I think both scam accusations need to be looked at a little more closely given the accuser has stated they faked a part of their evidence.

I am withdrawing my support of the flag.

[kuznetsov.damir635]

I had supported the flag in this thread, then the accused spotted this comment in the other thread:

https://ninjastic.space/post/57985305

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.

I think both scam accusations need to be looked at a little more closely given the accuser has stated they faked a part of their evidence.

I am withdrawing my support of the flag.

I fake that screenshot only for self defense, not for scamming or what.
I didn't fake anything in this accusation.
Of course you can have your opinion, I respect that.


@Pbacala didn't online for some days, that already means something.

[nutildah]

I fake that screenshot only for self defense, not for scamming or what.
I didn't fake anything in this accusation.
Of course you can have your opinion, I respect that.


@Pbacala didn't online for some days, that already means something.

Your methods are a little on the entrappy side but the end result is the same.

He didn't return because the flag is a death sentence for a scammer account -- well most of the time.

What's funny is hours after I posted this trust to Pbacala

nutildah

2021-09-20

Reference

scammer worm (Delete)

ArcusIsidar (alt account of scammer Rambotnic) bumped his thread where he accuses me and a lot of other accounts of all being the same person.

Bump

Of course its a locked thread so nobody can respond.

Somewhat ironically, the first account to claim Pbacala might be a scammer was colires, who was recently just outed as an alt of Vareole, Rambotnic's competition.

What about your other account/thread where you scammed many members? - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5318366.0

Tangled web of backstabbing scammer treachery.

[Timelord2067]

More reson to oppose any flags is rhetoric whereby "the end justifies the means" as in "by any means possible" which is a fundamentally flawed methodology.

Sad really.