So I was scammed.. Any Help?

[cr4sh0verride]

Hi All,

Being new to Bitcoin still I made a mistake and put my trust in a group buy that I shouldn't have
The thread is in the Hardware/Mining/Groupbuy forums if you want to look it up

I was an honest and civil as I could be and despite a few people being the opposite of that I have resigned to the fact that he isn't coming back

In lieu of that and still being new I wanted to track down what actually happened with the Bitcoins that were transferred to him

This was the address I transferred a total of 1.8BTC to https://blockchain.info/address/17pjDTzcLzMbsvFHD5yHSJvpSVMuMxnomm
And it shows 1 of those BTCs being spent. Does that mean he transferred it to another account?

This is also the account he is still using his miners on 14An2Q3wUtzcpCAD3Qt4AzUyLPGcdqiyrN on Eligius
Is there anything that can be done with that?

What has everyone that's gone through something like this done?
I'm going to assume though its a live and learn situation

Thanks in advance

[enrapha]

Hey,

Im an agent at www.btcpd.com

Help us help you. Send a report to investigations@btcpd.com we will try but we most likely wont be able to get your money back due to the irreversible nature of bitcoin but you can help keep others from making the same mistakes.

Truely sorry for your loss
Christian

[DiamondCardz]

Hi All,

Being new to Bitcoin still I made a mistake and put my trust in a group buy that I shouldn't have
The thread is in the Hardware/Mining/Groupbuy forums if you want to look it up

I was an honest and civil as I could be and despite a few people being the opposite of that I have resigned to the fact that he isn't coming back

In lieu of that and still being new I wanted to track down what actually happened with the Bitcoins that were transferred to him

This was the address I transferred a total of 1.8BTC to https://blockchain.info/address/17pjDTzcLzMbsvFHD5yHSJvpSVMuMxnomm
And it shows 1 of those BTCs being spent. Does that mean he transferred it to another account?

This is also the account he is still using his miners on 14An2Q3wUtzcpCAD3Qt4AzUyLPGcdqiyrN on Eligius
Is there anything that can be done with that?

What has everyone that's gone through something like this done?
I'm going to assume though its a live and learn situation

Thanks in advance

In general we can't do much without personal information, however even a full name is a lead. The BTC address is probably useless as BTC can be transferred to un-related people or even put through a mixer.

[cr4sh0verride]

This is all the information I have..

His forum name is btcminor01

Email was btcminor01@outlook.com

His Skype name was Yannik Bindo
He said he worked for a large Power company in Belgium

If you look at his previous posts on the forums he was using his Bitcoins to gamble and if you google his name these sites come up

http://www.esportsearnings.com/players/5465-luce-yannik-milembo/comparisons

and it looks like he plays Counter-Strike as well http://www.sk-gaming.com/player/523-Luce

All these confirm that there is almost definitely someone in Belgium with this name

Oh and here is a lovely picture of him!

http://blackmonstercup.com/eu/lol/bmc/spring/pl_qualifier/player/1068670/

[BayAreaCoins]

chances are you're pretty f***** . Sorry welcome to bitcoin!

[dr.octopus]

1.8 btc is already a big amount...

[cr4sh0verride]

Gaming communities can be pretty close knit

I used to play CS competitively here in Australia a long time ago

If it really is the same guy I'm going to post in a few forums to see if I can get any hits

[DiamondCardz]

It's a start. Usually you'll want to dig as far into google as possible until you can find a hit (or two) that confirm that name with a phone number.

[cr4sh0verride]

He came back and deleted every single one of his posts

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=522761.msg6132073#msg6132073

Surely the moderators log the IP addresses of people posting
This is clearly a scam now... I could get in touch with his ISP if we can get the IP address?

[Tomatocage]

It's 2014 and people are still sending first without using escrow? Wow.

[cr4sh0verride]

The service was active for a few weeks before he ran off on a 6 month contract

If it was escrowed to him it would of been released after the service was active for a little while
Not held for 6 months.. How exactly would that have helped?

[Tomatocage]

Sorry, I misread the OP then.