Hope you are giving review to the recent P2P scammers

[Charles-Tim]

This is common on an exchange which I am not interested to mentioned on this forum but you can see it on the thread that I will include its link here. There have been several complaints on the this about this P2P scam:

This is an example of the scam:
Alert: Latest P2P Scam

Someone told me it happened to him 4 times out of 5 times he exchanged bitcoin to naira this month alone.

You may want to exchange ₦68900, the scammer will send ₦60900 thinking you will not know. That is how the scam is. If you send the scammer message, he will do as if he did not know that it is a mistake and send the remaining amount.

This is becoming common on the exchange. Is it because people are not reporting it or the exchange negligence. I will advice people to start to report the scam and also give the scammers negative review.

You can give anonymous review on P2P exchanges. Also you can wait for some days before given the scammer a negative review if you want to avoid negative review from the scammer. I hope this may change their intentions later if people start giving them negative reviews.

Advice:
Make sure you check the amount sent to your account before releasing the coin. But not only that, make sure it is the right amount because the scammers are sending an amount similar to (but lesser than) the amount that you are expecting to receive.

[Nwada001]

Indeed it has turned out to be an intentional habit for them now, a means to make extra money for their daily trading, and those who are not vigilant enough will fall victim to that.

Just a few days ago this happened. I use two mobile devices. When I received the payment notification, I quickly checked why. I noticed the amount was because I usually make use of the name of the sender if it's the same as what they answered on Bybit. Upon checking that, I noticed my money had been slashed by this scammer. I had to send him/her a message, which he responded to quickly because I threatened to take action against him.

[Lida93]

Indeed it has turned out to be an intentional habit for them now, a means to make extra money for their daily trading, and those who are not vigilant enough will fall victim to that.

I had a similar ugly incident, although I wasn't quick to notice the slash in payment from the actual amount the scammer supposed to pay me in the P2P trade and this was as a result of the urgency of the matter that I was to attend to with money at the time. All I want was just to get the money to save myself from the mess I was Una t the time.

After I was able to sort things out something prompt me to check the amount the scammer sent and compare it what i is in the exchange rate. Behold I discovered I have been dubbed. Sent a threatening message to the scammer but never replied and I even went on appealing to Bybit with screenshots of the entire case but nothing came up till date.

I urge anyone to be very careful when doing a P2P on any exchanges especially bybit no matter how distracted you may be don't get to trust anyone, verify before releasing funds. I am saying this from experience I had put of discomfort situation.

[Coyster]

It is sad that this has become so popular in our p2p trades, if you be buyer on these platform and you feel say you no dey make enough money from the commission wey you dey earn, then stop the business and go look for something else to do, which one you wan try scam person wey wan sell their coins, it is very unfair.

This thing never happen to me yet, i dey always verify wella because i know say this kind thing fit happen, if it ever happens to me, i am definitely going to leave a negative review for the seller and block him too, so i wouldn't see his ads anymore.

[Tmoonz]

Indeed it has turned out to be an intentional habit for them now, a means to make extra money for their daily trading, and those who are not vigilant enough will fall victim to that.

Just a few days ago this happened. I use two mobile devices. When I received the payment notification, I quickly checked why. I noticed the amount was because I usually make use of the name of the sender if it's the same as what they answered on Bybit. Upon checking that, I noticed my money had been slashed by this scammer. I had to send him/her a message, which he responded to quickly because I threatened to take action against him.

This issues about those frusters is really becoming alarming and when you talk being vigilant yeah no one should be too comfortable to think or feel that they have being using p2p for long, whether old or new users every one is vulnerable to become a victim to those frusters, now regarding to what the op said about giving a negative review whenever we find any of them guilty of this act yes of course it is another way of reducing the rate at which this things are getting out of hand even though it not be completely eradicated and the reason why everyone need to be extremely careful and watchful at any given time we making use of the p2p trading features, we don't need to be too busy to give our maximum attention, if you are too busy you can suspend it and continue at a better convenient time to avoid if I had known.
 

[CryptSafe]

I had a similar experience a few days ago where a vendor put in his terms and conditions that he does round up to zero before making payment, which I read very well before initiating the transaction. When it was time for payment, the gut did not payme complete reasosna being that it was the last cash in his account and that is should bare with him that he has nothing left forpayment I did not reply him for over 3 hours till he finally made payment of the remaining balance and he said "you na wa o" meaning they are intentionally doing all these waiting to see who would fall for this scam of theirs but I was very alert because I am current and updated with their dirty deeds via p2p platforms.

[Charles-Tim]

Indeed it has turned out to be an intentional habit for them now, a means to make extra money for their daily trading, and those who are not vigilant enough will fall victim to that.

Yes, we are very certain that it is intentional. And if something like that is happening frequently, it means one thing, they are scamming some people like that. And they think the exchange can not know and Bybit did not disappoint them.

This thing never happen to me yet, i dey always verify wella because i know say this kind thing fit happen, if it ever happens to me, i am definitely going to leave a negative review for the seller and block him too, so i wouldn't see his ads anymore.

People are only having this report on Bybit. Maybe you are using another P2P exchange. No report yet from exchanges like Bitget and others. But we need to be very careful because this can happen on any P2P exchange.

[Curious T]

At this point, I believe it's negligence from the exchange because people have been making these complaints for a while, and they've done nothing about it. They have not paid any interest to the complaints. I believe if they start banning accounts of culprits as example the rest will take note and stop.
There's nothings others can do aside reporting the accounts that do that, but if after reporting and the exchange doesn't do anything about it, the best advice is to look for another exchange.

[Mia Chloe]

Behold I discovered I have been dubbed. Sent a threatening message to the scammer but never replied and I even went on appealing to Bybit with screenshots of the entire case but nothing came up till date.

Sorry for your loss. However always make sure to verify the funds received before releasing the coins because most times once an order is closed you would only be wasting your time making reports to bybit. It's the reason you have to check a box confirming you received the right ammo before you can hit the release button.

This thing never happen to me yet, i dey always verify wella because i know say this kind thing fit happen, if it ever happens to me, i am definitely going to leave a negative review for the seller and block him too, so i wouldn't see his ads anymore.

Not tryna tarnish a particular CEX against another since they are basically almost the same but I still see binance as a better exchange compared to bybit but too bad the government decided to take them off the picture.

[Africolo]

I had a similar experience a few days ago where a vendor put in his terms and conditions that he does round up to zero before making payment, which I read very well before initiating the transaction. When it was time for payment, the gut did not payme complete reasosna being that it was the last cash in his account and that is should bare with him that he has nothing left forpayment I did not reply him for over 3 hours till he finally made payment of the remaining balance and he said "you na wa o" meaning they are intentionally doing all these waiting to see who would fall for this scam of theirs but I was very alert because I am current and updated with their dirty deeds via p2p platforms.

P2P scamming is now common nowadays. We screams for those of us that have fallen victims, but we always been persistent and exert our actions against this vice. Scamming is never a good thing to get indulge with or fall victim for. One of the good reasons I've decided to learn and step up my game, I know exactly what I'm doing and will always come back stronger in the system. Scamming is so frustrating, for christ sake they should look for something meaningful and do other than sitting home all day and looking for someone to dupe of their hard earn stipend. They should work for their own money other than scouting outside to scam.

[Charles-Tim]

There's nothings others can do aside reporting the accounts that do that, but if after reporting and the exchange doesn't do anything about it, the best advice is to look for another exchange.

Once you know the scam, you may not want to leave to other exchange. Also you can give the account a negative review:

You can give anonymous review on P2P exchanges. Also you can wait for some days before given the scammer a negative review if you want to avoid negative review from the scammer. I hope this may change their intentions later if people start giving them negative reviews.

Not tryna tarnish a particular CEX against another since they are basically almost the same but I still see binance as a better exchange compared to bybit but too bad the government decided to take them off the picture.

I do not miss Binance as long as there are other exchanges with P2P. It is us that should be wise. Before someone should go for P2P trading, the person needs to know some certain things which will be helpful in avoiding scam.

[Yucky]

I've seen a thread like this, and I've had a friend who has experienced it too. When I want to make exchanges, I tend to use a really trusted friend, someone very close to me whom I can comfortably hold accountable if anything goes wrong.

These scam schemes are getting rampant, and you know the psychological effect of these figures, they make you overlook details, and eventually, you might not remember, allowing the scammers to get your money. It's really hard to find an honest person these days.

It's unfortunate that some Nigerians would try to rip others off, knowing that things are tough and we're all trying to survive. Let's be careful because these scammers are still out there. If you report this particular P2P scam scheme, they'll develop another one, so you must be alert not to fall victim to any of their schemes.

[Obim34]

I had a similar experience a few days ago where a vendor put in his terms and conditions that he does round up to zero before making payment, which I read very well before initiating the transaction. When it was time for payment, the gut did not payme complete reasosna being that it was the last cash in his account and that is should bare with him that he has nothing left forpayment I did not reply him for over 3 hours till he finally made payment of the remaining balance and he said "you na wa o" meaning they are intentionally doing all these waiting to see who would fall for this scam of theirs but I was very alert because I am current and updated with their dirty deeds via p2p platforms.

Ah... This is new let's call it a pity scam 

I haven't witness similar attacks i use the same exchange as in the topic but i can sense scams during some of my transactions. More than once initiating transactions the vendor marks paid that he has sent my money in order for me to release his USDT, to him i should have been ignorant to check my balance  confirming payment, unfortunately for him i know how to stay alert because of risk dealing with online transfers from sending fake transfers that only gives notification but no real balance. The vendor kept disturbing me to release till i tagged him scammer so he should pay first before i release, at the end all went well but i never thought about reporting him to the exchange, if it was now i think i would who knows how others might have fallen for same tactics.

[Joy_learns_crypto]

This has happened to me but I did not fall victim of it, I wanted to do a good some of money p2p transactions and the buyer purposely sent lower than they were to send pretending that it was a mistake.
And what's funny is that they would ask you to release quickly so at to make way with the scam.
What I do when using exchange p2p is first I check my account balance then add it to the expected money coming into my account from the transaction. So after a transaction I don't just go with alert I actually check my account balance to see if it correspond with what I am expecting.

It's a big mistake basing your judgement on just alert you leave you self very exposed to fake alert and scams just like this one. Always see that the exert money has reflected on your account balance.

[sokani]

People are only having this report on Bybit. Maybe you are using another P2P exchange. No report yet from exchanges like Bitget and others. But we need to be very careful because this can happen on any P2P exchange.

The painful thing is that almost all the cases of p2p scams are from one particular exchange. If you do a Google search, you'd be surprised at the results you'd get. I don't know if they don't really care about their reputation anymore to actually do something about it because the scams on the exchange is becoming something else. This is the reason I don't use it and I'm okay trading elsewhere.

[Y3shot]

It is because nobody reports them that is why they continue with it, I have experienced something like this different times and it is becoming obvious.  I think it is time people needs to report users like this because if only ou complain and the balance is sent they won't learn from the evil they are ploting. If there are several reports against all these scammers their account will be restricted to make any trade.

[Frankolala]

Thank you for sharing all your experiences on this p2p local scammers. I don't know why they want  to run down their reputations. I hope that people who have experienced this, are taking note of the p2p trader name and avoid trading with that person. So that if people no longer trade with them or their trade volume reduces, they will know what they have done to themselves. Funny enough, I haven't experienced such.

[Wiwo]

I have not experienced this before may be because I make use if selected crypto p2p vendors that already have onnmy fav list, this may be the reason why I have not noticed this petty form of scamming from p2p from few vendors, just as you said in the ops, the best form of ways to deal with those scammers is to make negative reports against them so as to have them exposed.

As we all know that p2p platform is one of the most anonymous cryptocurrency activities and at that, we should know how to deal with them based on high intelligence, since any little mistakes, you lose your money without any possible recovery, the exchange always encourages you to check your bank account before releasing coins.

[Cryptoprincess101]

You don't play cool with scammers, if you notice anything unusual on p2p platforms the best will be to report them immediately without even trying to talk to them calmly. When something happens once, it can be considered as a mistake but when it becomes a reoccurrence, then it is a deliberate act especially when you experience it consecutively. Though i have never experienced any challenges since i started using exchange p2p platforms and i don't even want to have such experience because am strict, p2p platforms are very sensitive because if you make any mistakes, your coins are gone so i see every vendor or merchant as a professional in the business so if you make any mistakes, i won't take it lightly so that when the exchange restricts their account for some time, they won't allow such scamming mistakes again in the future. Imagine having same experience out of 5 trades you experience same thing in 4 of your trades, some people play with their funds. If you don't report such act, how will they stop. Any misbehavior from a p2p merchant should be reported and the trade feedback should be marked as bad, if not very bad.

[Rruchi man]

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The reviews some people are giving are offline, unfortunately, and not online. They are telling more of their friends about the scams that they encountered, but they are forgetting to leave reviews online for others who did not know not to fall into the same trap that they fell into.

As soon as people start realizing that it is important to notify the online community just as you do offline to friends and family, the better progress that will make against such scammers.