Scammers on the forum.

[Awaklara]

I was not a member of the forum so I was unaware of this secure payment method offered here.

OP, sorry about your loss. but how can you do online transactions with only a search on the internet? yes I know it is very possible nowadays. but why don't you see the reputation of the business he's doing? I mean, if you want to transact online, even when using a certain platform. we can first check how the reviews from the seller or even the rettings are given.

it is very possible that he is still running his illegal business. but still difficult to detect. this is a bad experience for you. I hope you get a meaningful lesson from this all.

[uchegod-21]

I was not a member of the forum so I was unaware of this secure payment method offered here.

OP, sorry about your loss. but how can you do online transactions with only a search on the internet? yes I know it is very possible nowadays. but why don't you see the reputation of the business he's doing? I mean, if you want to transact online, even when using a certain platform. we can first check how the reviews from the seller or even the rettings are given.

it is very possible that he is still running his illegal business. but still difficult to detect. this is a bad experience for you. I hope you get a meaningful lesson from this all.

These are the exact questions running in my mind but on the second thought, I do not blame the victim. When I newly joined this forum and discovered that Satoshi used to be here. I had some kind of comfort and trust in everything happening in this place until I saw somewhere that scam is not moderated and before moving with red tags. It was then I became skeptical and started treating this forum like any other Internet in terms of scam.

[acroman08]

I was not a member of the forum so I was unaware of this secure payment method offered here.
I think that many people who come from google and do not know the forum must fall into this type of scam.
He even deleted his Telegram account.
today doing a better research I saw that he has other accounts here that were also reported as a scam in the forum and linked to him.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5424667.0

sorry for your loss and I do hope this incident will be a lesson. the internet is riddled with scammers waiting for victims. when making transactions online always be cautious about who you deal with.

Strangely the scammer did offer such option, but either the victim couldn't wait any longer or got baited with a fake one.

I saw that too but looks like OP went ahead without an escrow, anyway, pretty sure if OP asked for an escrow the scammer will recommend either an accomplice pretending to be an escrow or the scammer himself pretending to be an escrow.

[suzanne5223]

I was not a member of the forum so I was unaware of this secure payment method offered here.
I think that many people who come from google and do not know the forum must fall into this type of scam.
He even deleted his Telegram account.
today doing a better research I saw that he has other accounts here that were also reported as a scam in the forum and linked to him.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5424667.0

It looks like the user in the subject has Ph.D. is scamming people but I will advise you to always do some background checks on people you wanted to do business especially if the means of communication is Telegram which is lately the paradise of crypto scammers.
There's nothing we can do about what happened to you since the accused user account is a throwaway.

[UserU]

I was not a member of the forum so I was unaware of this secure payment method offered here.
I think that many people who come from google and do not know the forum must fall into this type of scam.
He even deleted his Telegram account.
today doing a better research I saw that he has other accounts here that were also reported as a scam in the forum and linked to him.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5424667.0

Alright, so by the time you found out about this forum, it's too late.

Unfortunately such scammers use throwaway accounts, so the best thing the community could do is to red-tag and name and shame them.

The only takeaway is that you are now more cautious of strangers when it comes to dealing. Only look for reputable traders, including escrows

[Helena Yu]

Make no mistake, not everyone has experience in trading on the forum, this was my first and it was very bad by the way, with a loss of 350.00 USDT.
With regard to evidence of conversations, how am I going to have something since the scammer deleted all messages and blocked me? (then search how this works on telegram).

The reason I created this topic is to help other people who may suffer the same financial loss that I suffered because of this scammer.

That's why telegram is a very bad choice to make a deal because either one can delete all the messages without need to ask another person permission. When someone want to make a deal in telegram, usually they will capture all the conversations, when something bad happen, they can report it.

But yeah nothing you can do here and if it's true, all you can do is move on.

Still, I can't say @Smith_94 is a scammer due to lack of evidence.

[olympick]

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Thanks for taking your time to provide more details. $350 is quite an amount, and once again sorry for your loss. I am going to create a flag against his profile and also leave him negative feedback.

If you can, please, you might as well edit the original post and include that you just replied here for better visibility. I am going to use the OP link as reference for the flag

Edit:
You can support the flag: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=trust;flag=3165

Thanks for the support.
Thanks to you, he deleted his telegram and at least this post won't harm anyone else.
I found other profiles he uses to pull off the same scam.
This brandon6969 profile has complaints about fraud.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=trust;u=3413799
brandon6969 gives a positive review to another profile used for scams selling the same product that uses the nickname batista6226:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=trust;u=3517109
In other words, he created a network of fake accounts to give scams selling the same product here on the forum, which makes me think that he must profit just by giving scams on here.

[albon]

Thanks to you, he deleted his telegram and at least this post won't harm anyone else.
I found other profiles he uses to pull off the same scam.
This brandon6969 profile has complaints about fraud.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=trust;u=3413799
brandon6969 gives a positive review to another profile used for scams selling the same product that uses the nickname batista6226:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=trust;u=3517109
In other words, he created a network of fake accounts to give scams selling the same product here on the forum, which makes me think that he must profit just by giving scams on here.

If we look at the accounts that have made positive feedback, we will find their rank Newbie and Brand New, which are new accounts that do not contain posts, except for one post on the topic of this scammer. This indicates a large percentage that he used his alt accounts to publish false reviews and feedback to deceive potential buyers. I feel sorry for your loss, but again, you do not conduct any transactions on Telegram. It is possible through the messages of this forum and through an escrow service carried out by trusted people to guarantee your rights completely.

[Agbe]

It is not good to buy things from a newbie account because they have not gotten the reputation and there should be suspicious that they are here to scam. Op would have carefully look at the movement of the scammer. Because if your some how delay the payment he would have been showcase some of the scam characters which you would have use to know him. Because at that time they in in hurry to get the money so they also pressurized you to pay and that is a scammer. A genuine seller would never in hurry. Me, I have known third tactics so they can scam me again, because I have been scammed enough times.

[Frankolala]

Sorry for your loss OP, the good and bad are always together in the same place. Likewise this forum,the moderators and forum members have been working tirelessly to keep this forum clean but it can't be clean completely,because every forum users has their own reasons for been here. This is the reason why you shouldn't trust anyone on the internet when dealing with them.

That account is a newbie, and I know vividly that,his motive in this forum is to scam forum members. This is the reason why he doesn't care to rank up his account,which means he can create as many account as possible to carry out his dirty works. If you are new in a place,you should take your time to study and make enquiries about whatever that you need to do with money on the platform. There are reputable members in this forum with Escrows

[olympick]

The scammer is attacked again, could someone make a tag on his profile?
Profile:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=3561796
Scammers post:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5459054.0

[Lucius]

The scammer is attacked again, could someone make a tag on his profile?
Profile:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=3561796
Scammers post:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5459054.0

I just did this but another link led me to your post, unfortunately another person lost $200 from the same scammer. I hope that more DT members will join to at least try to warn others about this serial scammer.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5424667.msg62863436#msg62863436

[Bitcoin_Arena]

The scammer is attacked again, could someone make a tag on his profile?
Profile:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=3561796
Scammers post:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5459054.0

Tagged and Guest flag supported.

Thanks for the vigilance. The truth is, the Goods board is plagued with scammers of all kinds. I remember there was a user who dedicated his time in busting their farms, and he did a pretty good job pissing them off, but then after some time he stopped. That board need proper cleaning.

[KingsDen]

The scammer is attacked again, could someone make a tag on his profile?
Profile:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=3561796
Scammers post:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5459054.0

Before now I used to blame the forum for not moderating scam, but as I grow older in the forum I discovered that it will be near impossible to effectively moderate scam in the forum. When I discovered this, I alternatively made a suggestion that any newbie that sign up to this forum should be given a bold notification in their profile that scam is not moderated in this place.
Some newbies on knowing the historical background of this forum may ignorantly think that this place is free of scam.
In the other words, it seems that newcomers are easy to give out their hard earned money without adequate research.
The profile of the scammer was tagged, how did he manage to have another victim even with negative trusts score.

[Learn Bitcoin]

It seems the thread was bumped again after four months of creation.
OP did not return to the forum from the day he created this thread. The scammer has also been inactive since June 17. The scammer was tagged already, and I guess nothing is left to do.

Available chrome Cdm 2557 with both private key &amp; chrome extension, escrow available.

I wonder why OP paid him upfront while the scammer mentioned that escrow is available. I do not trust a newbie with a minimum of $5 if they do not have any trading history. If it comes to some reputed forum members, I would pay upfront. Sorry for their loss.