Split: Scammed by popter5874

[Cronn]

What happened::

Hello,

I have a problem with a seller. I wanted to buy an account from him. Emporium torrent Account. He took my money. First $60. Then it cost 25 more. Always another excuse. Now he wanted $30 more. I told him I want my money back. He talks his way out. The money is probably gone. No Account. No Money. Paid with bitcoin $85.

Scammers Profile Link:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=3506981

Reference Link:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5415247.0

Amount Scammed:

0,00365407 BTC $ 60
0,00155367 BTC $ 25

Payment Method:

BitCoin

Proof of Payment:

https://www.blockchain.com/btc/tx/35f8b503806176f98da74eedd89b670248232aca8624ad8c7e271f902e567b9e
https://www.blockchain.com/btc/tx/78e617639c871354085e02c5a3201ac105ab3c46e46e99ad881de9770767cb9f



PM/Chat Logs:

https://imgur.com/QMjlSLB
https://imgur.com/23VW8Of
https://imgur.com/FzYmwa9
https://imgur.com/VoFDva2
https://imgur.com/2ZPjnnX

A few screenshots as an example.


Additional Notes:


*If it is in the wrong thread, please move.

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[Getmon]

Yesterday someone created a topic reporting he was scammed $450 in BTC by a newbie here in bitcointalk. And today, here comes another report being scammed $85 by another newbie again. Tagging these newbies will not stop them from scamming again because they can easily create another accounts.

Do not trust anyone in the marketplace, mainly the newbies. If you explore the marketplace, there exist high-ranked profiles that are selling goods and supplied services for a length of time already. But typical trades here involve the use of escrow services.

Recommended bitcointalk escrow services.

[Eternad]

Can you please provide the whole conversation including the part after he offer the refund? He confirmed already that he received the money base on the screenshot and also the email address that he used on his sales thread match on the screenshot that you provided that means he is the person that you are dealing. He is  not honoring your transaction to him based on his last post which means you are already scammed.

You should use escrow if you want to deal with newbie here especially purchasing digital items. 99.99% of the newbie seller without a legit vouch from trusted higher rank is scam. The only thing we can do for now is red tag the user and flag for a confirmed scam.

Consider your money as loss already.

Edit:

I already create an active flag for this issue https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=trust;flag=3061

[Cronn]

Hello,

Yes was my mistake, shouldn't have bought from a newbie. Here is the email traffic.

I have brought several emails together in one picture. Scrolling please.

https://imgur.com/QMjlSLB
https://imgur.com/ZPQloKE
https://imgur.com/YxL55oA
https://imgur.com/2EJCitK
https://imgur.com/U08366N
https://imgur.com/nMRMLAD
https://imgur.com/gda9dHy

[ScamViruS]

I wonder why you don't want to use an escrow service before making any transactions. You are also at fault. You take such steps in the hope of a little more profit and scammers take advantage of this to scam you. This seller is a reseller and he will keep charging you with various excuses but will not deliver the goods. Newbie account doesn't care if the reputation of this account goes down, he will create a new account and come back again for the purpose of scamming.

Tagged.

[Cronn]

I wonder why you don't want to use an escrow service before making any transactions. You are also at fault. You take such steps in the hope of a little more profit and scammers take advantage of this to scam you. This seller is a reseller and he will keep charging you with various excuses but will not deliver the goods. Newbie account doesn't care if the reputation of this account goes down, he will create a new account and come back again for the purpose of scamming.

Tagged.

I agree 100%. My mistake, I read too little. I didn't even know that there was an ESCROW service.

[bitbollo]

Do not trust him

I wanted to buy an account from him (Empornium), first he wanted $ 60, then $ 25 more. Finally, $ 30 more for taxes. I didn't want to pay that. No account. No refund. My money is gone, probably my mistake.

@Mods, email traffic is available as evidence.

You did not buy anything from me and i do not know you
i have my vouches and feedbacks here also i provide proof before payment so dont lie

sorry you have been scammed.
 unfortunately you should never trust a newbie account for transactions where there is no history of transactions or he Is trusted here.
another negative signal in this sales topic is given by all vouch left by newbies with very few messages on the forum.
It Is a clear sign of a user trying to credit himself as legit…

[ScamViruS]

I wonder why you don't want to use an escrow service before making any transactions. You are also at fault. You take such steps in the hope of a little more profit and scammers take advantage of this to scam you. This seller is a reseller and he will keep charging you with various excuses but will not deliver the goods. Newbie account doesn't care if the reputation of this account goes down, he will create a new account and come back again for the purpose of scamming.

Tagged.

I agree 100%. My mistake, I read too little. I didn't even know that there was an ESCROW service.

Learn from this mistake so that you don't make the same mistake a second time. If you are not careful and don't try to read too much in the crypto market, you will fall into the trap of many scammers. This is common sense, you have sent funds to an unknown newbie member without any security and you may have realized how bad the results can be.

Because they make many promises before taking the money but when they get the money their true colors can be seen.

[JollyGood]

I know hindsight is one thing (people can learn from events after they took place) but the last time I looked there were many newbies offering to sell various things. I have no doubt a large number of those threads were designed scam newbies and those members not familiar with escrows or those members new to trading.

As horrible the experience has been for you, please do not let this instance detract you from posting in the forum. We have a wonderful ecosystem here, there are many different boards you can post in related to all sorts of things. I hope you put this incident down to lack of experience and you decide to stay around and become an active member in the community.

I wonder why you don't want to use an escrow service before making any transactions. You are also at fault. You take such steps in the hope of a little more profit and scammers take advantage of this to scam you. This seller is a reseller and he will keep charging you with various excuses but will not deliver the goods. Newbie account doesn't care if the reputation of this account goes down, he will create a new account and come back again for the purpose of scamming.

Tagged.

I agree 100%. My mistake, I read too little. I didn't even know that there was an ESCROW service.

[Mpamaegbu]

As horrible the experience has been for you, please do not let this instance detract you from posting in the forum.

Sorry to differ on that. There's something not adding up as I discovered that OP was registered in this forum in 2018 and has just 3 posts to their name. It's absurd. There must be something also fishing with OP. They aren't without experience. We can't say lack of experience caused an account as old as OP that, can we?