Scammer who turned out to be Entrepreneur

[safal]

November 22, 2023
Recently me and friend got scammed by a entrepreneur guy Adil Rehman. This all started on @bptrades, a crypto buy/sell group managed by Irfan and Albon. Me and my friend had ETNY token which needs to be swapped and we both failed to do verification of  proof of address. As Escrow service cannot be done in such condition, so we ask one of the active member of the @bptrades who was Kiran at the time. He told us that he would help us out of humanity to swap from ETNY to ECLD.
His message saying help and humanity: https://imgur.com/a/ZXL5gn3

We first didn't believe him so we asked to do transaction in batches, first 2010 ETNY and second 3000.72 ETNY, a total of 5010.72 ETNY.

We risked the first 2010 ETNY because we were skeptical and sent 2010 ETNY to account he mentioned.
His message of sending address: https://imgur.com/a/Nzw1uO3

Transaction hash of us sending him 2010 ETNY in bloxbergnetwork: https://blockexplorer.bloxberg.org/tx/0x240abde0dc76858f2ea43b0fafa6cbf777d6287e146ee8560f49037ed7c15867

But surprisingly he really swapped and sent the 2010 ECLD back to our wallet address.
Transaction hash of sending back: https://polygonscan.com/tx/0x049bdddc458ee3c2fb80e8a62559d47cda2132676e5e02a78e831d1aa19ee2a7

Now as we saw he really helped and were satisfied to see there are still people who help other out of humanity and sent him 3000.72 ETNY, he said he had to go for Namaz reading.
Transaction hash of us sending him 3000.72 ETNY in bloxbergnetwork: https://blockexplorer.bloxberg.org/tx/0xa4f32052039db89c66d99852d97f3d9342fa7dd54a5a51518349b49abf6c6123

His message of saying: https://imgur.com/a/QMWZov6


Yeah we respected his culture and beliefs and waited for him to come online. He came online and yeah, He blocked us. He kept our 3000.72 ETNY which is still in his bloxberg network. Proof: https://imgur.com/a/N1nBY3Q


Now we were very skeptical about him and requested him to return the token through alternative telegram account but he blocked us. He was using the telegram account Kiran at the time. As of now its @Albert20235 (and he keeps changing username of the account). We searched his wallet address and found his Bitcointalk account named Shahangull. After discovering his BTT account, we searched all his bounty works and boy did we found his real Telegram account.

Since he can alter this I have archived all important details.
His Proof of Authentication in one of bounty with the wallet address
Archive.
[Since most of the bounties are locked I couldn't quote]


In one of the bounty he has used his Real Telegram Account
The task he did: https://web.archive.org/web/20231125121241/https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5377092.msg58794840#msg58794840
His Telegram tasks: https://imgur.com/a/5KNlL5d
His Main Telegram ID: https://imgur.com/a/IDaMXFL
Video proof: https://imgur.com/a/hovUoL6

Through that we were able to see his real face and real name and after a simple search we were able to locate his real FaceBook, Twitter, YouTube.
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/adilrehman.best/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/MrAdilRehman
Youtube 1: https://www.youtube.com/@AdilRehmanVideo
Youtube 2: https://www.youtube.com/@TechWithAdil

He might delete or change this account so I also have archived this.
Youtube: https://imgur.com/a/2VPwFjs
Twitter: https://imgur.com/a/FO0uSHv
Facebook:   https://imgur.com/a/jViYpf0

His other telegram accounts:
@exmossd
Work Archive

@Albert20235
Block Proof Work Archive

Yes of course it was our fault to trust stranger blindly, but we should expose the despicable and scammer people. That's all.
If you're reading this, Hi Adil or, should I say Kiran.

[Odohu]

November 22, 2023
Recently me and friend got scammed by a entrepreneur guy Adil Rehman. This all started on @bptrades, a crypto buy/sell group managed by Irfan and Albon. Me and my friend had ETNY token which needs to be swapped and we both failed to do verification of  proof of address. As Escrow service cannot be done in such condition, so we ask one of the active member of the @bptrades who was Kiran at the time. He told us that he would help us out of humanity to swap from ETNY to ECLD.
His message saying help and humanity: https://imgur.com/a/ZXL5gn3

We first didn't believe him so we asked to do transaction in batches, first 2010 ETNY and second 3000.72 ETNY, a total of 5010.72 ETNY.

We risked the first 2010 ETNY because we were skeptical and sent 2010 ETNY to account he mentioned.
His message of sending address: https://imgur.com/a/Nzw1uO3

Transaction hash of us sending him 2010 ETNY in bloxbergnetwork: https://blockexplorer.bloxberg.org/tx/0x240abde0dc76858f2ea43b0fafa6cbf777d6287e146ee8560f49037ed7c15867

But surprisingly he really swapped and sent the 2010 ECLD back to our wallet address.
Transaction hash of sending back: https://polygonscan.com/tx/0x049bdddc458ee3c2fb80e8a62559d47cda2132676e5e02a78e831d1aa19ee2a7

Now as we saw he really helped and were satisfied to see there are still people who help other out of humanity and sent him 3000.72 ETNY, he said he had to go for Namaz reading.
Transaction hash of us sending him 3000.72 ETNY in bloxbergnetwork: https://blockexplorer.bloxberg.org/tx/0xa4f32052039db89c66d99852d97f3d9342fa7dd54a5a51518349b49abf6c6123

His message of saying: https://imgur.com/a/QMWZov6


Yeah we respected his culture and beliefs and waited for him to come online. He came online and yeah, He blocked us. He kept our 3000.72 ETNY which is still in his bloxberg network. Proof: https://imgur.com/a/N1nBY3Q

He was a pretty smart scammer and played so well on your psychology, knowing you will first send a lower amount before sending the bigger portion after establishing the trust. Scammers use this format a lot and it usually work for them. Well, you were actually helpless in this situation because the team at Ethernity Cloud did not do well requesting for KYC long after their token sale and bounty conclusion and payment made.  Besides, they are building cloud base computing with privacy as a key word,  what then is the need for KYC?

Yes of course it was our fault to trust stranger blindly, but we should expose the despicable and scammer people. That's all.
If you're reading this, Hi Adil or, should I say Kiran.

Like I said before, it is never your fault but that if Ethernity team that changed the goal post at the dying minute. I read somewhere that their adopted KYC system banned some countries who they allowed to buy their token during their ICO years ago.

[AB de Royse777]

Now we were very skeptical about him and requested him to return the token through alternative telegram account but he blocked us. He was using the telegram account Kiran at the time. As of now its @Albert20235 (and he keeps changing username of the account). We searched his wallet address and found his Bitcointalk account named Shahangull. After discovering his BTT account, we searched all his bounty works and boy did we found his real Telegram account.

Since he can alter this I have archived all important details.
His Proof of Authentication in one of bounty with the wallet address
Archive.
[Since most of the bounties are locked I couldn't quote]


In one of the bounty he has used his Real Telegram Account
The task he did: https://web.archive.org/web/20231125121241/https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5377092.msg58794840#msg58794840
His Telegram tasks: https://imgur.com/a/5KNlL5d
His Main Telegram ID: https://imgur.com/a/IDaMXFL
Video proof: https://imgur.com/a/hovUoL6

Through that we were able to see his real face and real name and after a simple search we were able to locate his real FaceBook, Twitter, YouTube.
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/adilrehman.best/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/MrAdilRehman
Youtube 1: https://www.youtube.com/@AdilRehmanVideo
Youtube 2: https://www.youtube.com/@TechWithAdil

He might delete or change this account so I also have archived this.
Youtube: https://imgur.com/a/2VPwFjs
Twitter: https://imgur.com/a/FO0uSHv
Facebook:   https://imgur.com/a/jViYpf0

His other telegram accounts:
@exmossd
Work Archive

@Albert20235
Block Proof Work Archive

Yes of course it was our fault to trust stranger blindly, but we should expose the despicable and scammer people. That's all.
If you're reading this, Hi Adil or, should I say Kiran.

Quoted as reference in case someone can use it in the future.

Sad to hear the scam event and sorry for your loss.

[Gladitorcomeback]

OP, sorry to hear about your loss. You should blame yourself. I am active user of BPtrades and indeed the first member who start buying selling of Etny tokens. As a reputed member I never trade without an escrow. I don't know why you believe any member without researching about his reputation. Albon is the man who deal as a third party to secure payment and the good thing is that he doing all those without charging any penny. You should have to wait until he back online. If you read pinned post(rules of trading) ,I hope it wouldn't happen.

You did a well job by making this thread. You did most of research already and some experience member will expose him. He will not able to join bounty after tagged. Next time kindly deal through escrow service regardless of number of tokens.

[rat03gopoh]

It's no surprise that scammers usually use photos of public figures. So I'd not conclude too quickly that this scammer is an entrepreneur, unless in one of the details of this entrepreneur's profile below

He might delete or change this account so I also have archived this.
Youtube: https://imgur.com/a/2VPwFjs
Twitter: https://imgur.com/a/FO0uSHv
Facebook:   https://imgur.com/a/jViYpf0

he write a link to one of the scammer's profile address on this pos.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5377092.msg58794840#msg58794840

My quick search, it doesn't exist.

[coupable]

November 22, 2023
Recently me and friend got scammed by a entrepreneur guy Adil Rehman. This all started on @bptrades, a crypto buy/sell group managed by Irfan and Albon. Me and my friend had ETNY token which needs to be swapped and we both failed to do verification of  proof of address. As Escrow service cannot be done in such condition, so we ask one of the active member of the @bptrades who was Kiran at the time. He told us that he would help us out of humanity to swap from ETNY to ECLD.
His message saying help and humanity: https://imgur.com/a/ZXL5gn3

We first didn't believe him so we asked to do transaction in batches, first 2010 ETNY and second 3000.72 ETNY, a total of 5010.72 ETNY.

I am very sorry for your loss and I never hope for this to happen to other people. I also thank you for your effort in publishing this topic to alert everyone that this classic method of colds is still effective.
I find it strange how you (and your friend) had a common belief that an active Telegram user would help you out of a humanitarian motive without even asking for a fee or a gift in return. At least you could ask the group admins for advice. I do not think that Albon or Irfan would encourage you to trust any member of their group, no matter how active he is.

[safal]

I find it strange how you (and your friend) had a common belief that an active Telegram user would help you out of a humanitarian motive without even asking for a fee or a gift in return. At least you could ask the group admins for advice. I do not think that Albon or Irfan would encourage you to trust any member of their group, no matter how active he is.

I think we trusted too much to an stranger and got the punishment too. Yes, Albon did messaged for only escrowed method but it was our mistake at first. I just wanted to expose the scammer and share how we should not believe anyone blindly through this thread.

[KingsDen]

We first didn't believe him so we asked to do transaction in batches, first 2010 ETNY and second 3000.72 ETNY, a total of 5010.72 ETNY.

I always read carefully to discover new scamming methods.  I know scammers are smart and dynamic,  they always tend to be ahead of the game and that is why I like reading scam stories to be ahead of them.

The method he used to scam you is an old method.  At first,  you mentioned to him the total amount of transactions you wanted to do, divided it into two. So, he decided to use the first transaction as a bait to get the second which was higher.

. We searched his wallet address and found his Bitcointalk account named Shahangull.

I had thought that his account is somewhat established but it's not. Losing it will not be a big deal for him.

What is the dollar equivalent 3000 ETNY?

[safal]

I always read carefully to discover new scamming methods.  I know scammers are smart and dynamic,  they always tend to be ahead of the game and that is why I like reading scam stories to be ahead of them.

The method he used to scam you is an old method.  At first,  you mentioned to him the total amount of transactions you wanted to do, divided it into two. So, he decided to use the first transaction as a bait to get the second which was higher.

Yeah I guess this will be a life long lesson for me and my friend, he got us good.

I had thought that his account is somewhat established but it's not. Losing it will not be a big deal for him.

What is the dollar equivalent 3000 ETNY?

ETNY is soon to be listed in Bitmart. Rumor says it wil be listed ~0.05-0.1$.

[coupable]

I find it strange how you (and your friend) had a common belief that an active Telegram user would help you out of a humanitarian motive without even asking for a fee or a gift in return. At least you could ask the group admins for advice. I do not think that Albon or Irfan would encourage you to trust any member of their group, no matter how active he is.

I think we trusted too much to an stranger and got the punishment too. Yes, Albon did messaged for only escrowed method but it was our mistake at first. I just wanted to expose the scammer and share how we should not believe anyone blindly through this thread.

My surprise was because you are an experienced user and the activity history on your profile confirms that you have enough skills and experience not to fall easy prey to these classic attempts. I mean, if they were new members, it wouldn't be as surprising, and we would understand that the scammer took advantage of their ignorance to gain their trust so easily.
Also, you could have sought the opinion of the channel moderator, who was unlikely to encourage you to trust one of the channel members, even if he was very active.
I later checked the value of the lost tokens and found that they were not yet listed on any of the exchanges. Does it have any value that a scammer can benefit from?

[CryptSafe]

It is unfortunate that you had to go through this experience trusting someone who you have not met before neither have you had any relationship with before. Like they say experience is a teacher, I believe you must have learnt your lessons  the hard way which is not worth it but however,  this was uncalled for you going through such experience.

This is why we are advised to always seek a reputable escrow  for transactions or deal we are not sure of the people involved. Escrow services would help reduce some stress of potential scam from both sides and gives one assurance but however the deed has been done and it is good you dig further to unravel the faces behind such heinous act. Since they have been exposed, I believe members would take caution dealing with them and having nothing to do with them in the nearest future.

[albon]

I'm sorry for your loss, @safal, and it's good that you shared your story here to warn the community about this scammer. He managed to deceive you by offering this assistance, and this is due to your inability to pass the KYC verification process on the EthernityCLOUD Swap platform and their awareness that the escrow service we provide at BPtrades does not support selling/buying KYC accounts and assistance conducted through accounts requiring KYC verification. Therefore, any member must have a verified account that has successfully passed KYC and AML procedures. We always emphasize in our official group that BPtrades is not responsible for any transactions or deals conducted outside the group without using the escrow service we offer because scammers are everywhere. Anyway, all the accounts of this scammer have been permanently banned from the group, and he has already changed his usernames on Telegram to "@Albiytg" and "@exgurl245."

I will now tag this scammer's account. I hope you've learned the lesson and won't trust strangers again.

I later checked the value of the lost tokens and found that they were not yet listed on any of the exchanges. Does it have any value that a scammer can benefit from?

After they opened the swap for the project's first ETNY token on the Bloxberg network for the ECLD coin on the Polygon network, they listed the ECLD coin two days ago on Bitmart.

Check out the following link to see the current price of the ECLD token:
https://www.bitmart.com/trade/en-US?layout=pro&symbol=ECLD_USDT

[safal]

My surprise was because you are an experienced user and the activity history on your profile confirms that you have enough skills and experience not to fall easy prey to these classic attempts. I mean, if they were new members, it wouldn't be as surprising, and we would understand that the scammer took advantage of their ignorance to gain their trust so easily.
Also, you could have sought the opinion of the channel moderator, who was unlikely to encourage you to trust one of the channel members, even if he was very active.
I later checked the value of the lost tokens and found that they were not yet listed on any of the exchanges. Does it have any value that a scammer can benefit from?

Yes, I think I was blinded by the money and got onto it. He might have made around $60-70 out of it looking at the price dump.

[safal]

It is unfortunate that you had to go through this experience trusting someone who you have not met before neither have you had any relationship with before. Like they say experience is a teacher, I believe you must have learnt your lessons  the hard way which is not worth it but however,  this was uncalled for you going through such experience.

This is why we are advised to always seek a reputable escrow  for transactions or deal we are not sure of the people involved. Escrow services would help reduce some stress of potential scam from both sides and gives one assurance but however the deed has been done and it is good you dig further to unravel the faces behind such heinous act. Since they have been exposed, I believe members would take caution dealing with them and having nothing to do with them in the nearest future.

Absolutely, I got my lesson and its now imprinted in me forever. Yeah, other people soon started escrowed swap, I guess god wanted me to have a lesson. I hope everyone will be safe from these scammers.

[safal]

I'm sorry for your loss, @safal, and it's good that you shared your story here to warn the community about this scammer. He managed to deceive you by offering this assistance, and this is due to your inability to pass the KYC verification process on the EthernityCLOUD Swap platform and their awareness that the escrow service we provide at BPtrades does not support selling/buying KYC accounts and assistance conducted through accounts requiring KYC verification. Therefore, any member must have a verified account that has successfully passed KYC and AML procedures. We always emphasize in our official group that BPtrades is not responsible for any transactions or deals conducted outside the group without using the escrow service we offer because scammers are everywhere. Anyway, all the accounts of this scammer have been permanently banned from the group, and he has already changed his usernames on Telegram to "@Albiytg" and "@exgurl245."

I will now tag this scammer's account. I hope you've learned the lesson and won't trust strangers again.

I later checked the value of the lost tokens and found that they were not yet listed on any of the exchanges. Does it have any value that a scammer can benefit from?

After they opened the swap for the project's first ETNY token on the Bloxberg network for the ECLD coin on the Polygon network, they listed the ECLD coin two days ago on Bitmart.

Check out the following link to see the current price of the ECLD token:
https://www.bitmart.com/trade/en-US?layout=pro&symbol=ECLD_USDT

Thank you boss, you also had pre-warned be but I think I lost my mind which made me lost my assets. Yes, I have learned my lesson sir.

[coupable]

I later checked the value of the lost tokens and found that they were not yet listed on any of the exchanges. Does it have any value that a scammer can benefit from?

After they opened the swap for the project's first ETNY token on the Bloxberg network for the ECLD coin on the Polygon network, they listed the ECLD coin two days ago on Bitmart.

Check out the following link to see the current price of the ECLD token:
https://www.bitmart.com/trade/en-US?layout=pro&symbol=ECLD_USDT

According to the price listed on BitMart, the scalper will benefit from 60 to 70 dollars at most, without taking into account the withdrawal fees.  Perhaps this explains the victim’s leniency towards him because he did not imagine that someone would steal $60 from him in order to lose his reputation, and the scammer is also very silly.
Finally, it is an opportunity to teach the victim and the moda of the Telegram channel a lesson.  I advise you, Albon, to publish a post advising users against dealing without the mediation of managers.

[CryptSafe]

It is unfortunate that you had to go through this experience trusting someone who you have not met before neither have you had any relationship with before. Like they say experience is a teacher, I believe you must have learnt your lessons  the hard way which is not worth it but however,  this was uncalled for you going through such experience.

This is why we are advised to always seek a reputable escrow  for transactions or deal we are not sure of the people involved. Escrow services would help reduce some stress of potential scam from both sides and gives one assurance but however the deed has been done and it is good you dig further to unravel the faces behind such heinous act. Since they have been exposed, I believe members would take caution dealing with them and having nothing to do with them in the nearest future.

Absolutely, I got my lesson and its now imprinted in me forever. Yeah, other people soon started escrowed swap, I guess god wanted me to have a lesson. I hope everyone will be safe from these scammers.

For sure those who have come in contact with this thread should be able to take note of those scammers and do away with them. Their details have been exposed coupled with their identity as well. So we now know who they are and can not fall for them if they do decide to come facially with their deceit.

If it is possible to go further in dragging them out together with their social media handles that would serve them better for scamming people.

[safal]

For sure those who have come in contact with this thread should be able to take note of those scammers and do away with them. Their details have been exposed coupled with their identity as well. So we now know who they are and can not fall for them if they do decide to come facially with their deceit.

If it is possible to go further in dragging them out together with their social media handles that would serve them better for scamming people.

If it is possible, we should try exposing him, I mean all the proofs are there to expose him.