I bumped into a thread opened by epiclux and the user is into selling social media accounts, but not just that, the user is into selling bitcointalk accounts.
I read and quote from mrprep rules about selling of accounts, I think those in charge should check.

As I recall selling accounts is not frowned upon and will only invite DT for negative tags so mentioning the special features of the accounts being sold is no longer done by them. I might agree that this is a scammer's attempt to convince potential buyers, but sadly it's nothing out of the ordinary.

He could be selling fake accounts that might not be his, so I don't think it's not true to tag the accounts that closely match the traits listed unless there is suspicious activity on the account.

Yes, now the account has got tag 2 from DT and it seems meaningful enough to make people think before making a transaction. In addition to asking for an upfront payment, I think without escrow it will also be very dangerous if someone is interested in buying Twitter or other accounts.

But I was totally shocked by the price of the Legendary, $1500 would someone really want to buy from it and entrust it with that kind of money?

I was asking the seller for a link to a twitter account, maybe it could be of use to me for certain things. I honestly didn't even pay attention to his selling Bitcointalk accounts, among other things. I believe these are hacked accounts. hardly anyone would sell their personal account with 1300 merits, and it is even harder for farmers to collect that much merit.
however, he did not want to share the link, so I'm sure the accounts were hacked or stolen. there is no other reason to hide them.

Your concerns are invalid -

1. No - Not really, people will find what they want to find if they search.


2. Yes. This is WHY I have tagged the account. I Will be watching, no worries


To your 3 points above:

1. Probably not - Thats why its a likely scam.
2. Agreed, it's why it's another sign of a scam.
3. Of course, and it's why the account must be tagged, IMO.


  - Your google translate is failing you, ffs man...

Since o_solo_miner is from our German local board, very trusted and I would not expect from him that he would sell his account, I'm in doubt if it's really the account in question.
I'll watch this account of course but keep in mind that the provided stats by the account seller might not be that accurate. Most likely, account sellers are not that dumb to get their accounts damaged before they are sold.
In addition: dt changes frequently and with it some trust scores. Year of registration seems to be inaccurate, too. There is no account from 2012 with matching Trust and Merit stats.

Similar accounts:

https://bpip.org/Profile?p=KTChampions 6 positive Trust, 1311 Merit, 7885 posts
https://bpip.org/Profile?p=Darker45, 5 positive Trust, 1366 Merit, 5529 posts
https://bpip.org/Profile?p=Piggy, 5 positive Trust, 1414 Merit (it's not Legendary yet but might be sold as such), 4618 posts
https://bpip.org/Profile?p=NLNico, 5 positive Trust, 1368 Merit, 1946 posts

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Account seller tagged.

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Considering how unlikely it would be in my opinion, that o_solo_miner is for sale, you might be correct.

For sure members can be awared if they see the negative trust ratings for these account sellers and don't involve in any business with them.This is the step we can take in the interest of forum members but have seen that sometimes newbies in hope of getting bounties and signature campaign on the forum might get attracted to these scams without giving notice to these tags and get scammed.So they need to be extra cautious with them and work on their own without involving in any shortcut.

Yeah if you are saying you know the local board member then it could be the perfect scam case.This is the only way to attract some newbies by directing them towards such accounts mostly from local boards.Like this account is 2014 registered with 1346 merit and positive trust rating also.Once he got the payment he will not respond at all to the PM and scam will be executed.

You can say he has also warned members to stay away from him and see he also got tagged by some members which would hinder his scam business.

Do you think he would not have reached others through the PM service as they message almost members to catch any one victim.There are some similar ways by which they approach you like this one in the past :



This is just one of those reference of these scams they want to conduct and will try to ask you to join them through PM also but if exposed the way @OP has then negative and red flags on their profile could surely put hit to their scam business.So this is not indirect advertising but exposing them to protect the newbie users from losing their money.

Before the implementation of merit system there were many who were into this account selling business even the legendary rank and you could easily join the campaigns as post could be reported to moderators but controlling spam at this level was not so effective.But after merit system we have seen less of these account selling as if you don't have knowledge then it's no fun of having account on forum.But yes they should be immediately tagged so that others take it as warning not to do any scam selling although it's allowed but it's still discouraged.

You underestimate how dumb scammers are sometimes. 
At least for scams happening on Telegram, it's incredible how bad their scam attempts are.
And still people are sending them money...

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Yes, he was active yesterday and o_solo_miner's posting style hasn't changed at all, one more sign, that the account seller is a scammer and o_solo_miner is not for sale.

The seller made it clear that he would disclose the account details only after payment. It is obvious that everything he wrote in the offer is made up and these accounts do not exist.
I am sure that even if someone offers him a trusted escrow, or even if someone let him choose an escrow himself, he will refuse.
Just don't waste your time looking for accounts as there is only air behind this offer.

You can also ask him to choose trusted escrow. I'm pretty sure he won't want any escrow.
Of course, as long as someone does not send him money, we will not find out who have right. However, I am almost sure that if someone sends him any money, he will simply disappear and a new offer will appear from another user with different accounts. In fact, we'll never find it out, so it's a waste of time.