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BITCOIN4X

legendary

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Quote from: holydarkness on October 12, 2023, 07:05:50 AM

Quote from: JeromeTash on October 11, 2023, 05:58:24 PM

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Because I don't think he has any intention to sell it at all. This thread kinda prove it, he offered the account, then faked an escrow to steal the fund. He'll gain extra fund and never have to part with the hero account. Maybe it's not the first time he's done this, given the screenshot was made in April, never have guessed someone will sacrifice their account to be tagged as account buyer to report his scam attempt.

I think it's always easy to speculate about what other people might be doing wrong, but it's still hard to verify the truth. I'm not sure how real the screenshot of the account being sold to the OP is without being faked, did anyone notice this in the first place?

I noticed something strange in the picture the OP posted that the scammer sent him, I mean look at the authenticity of those screenshots carefully. The scammer seems to have succeeded in deceiving the OP by falsifying the account identity by editing the image without paying attention to small things such as the vertical layout of profile information. If you are confused about what I mean, then look at the image once again. So I think it's possible that OP was scammed by someone who didn't actually have an account to sell. Fraudsters get another user's account at random and fake their image. I'm not completely sure about that, but it's a possibility when I noticed the screenshot of the account the scammer offered him.

Here's the comparison:

Lucius

legendary

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Blackjack.fun-Free Raffle-Join&Win $50🎲

I will just say that those who sell and those who buy BTT accounts are equally guilty, especially when someone buys such an account and has a clear warning of what can happen to him. I tagged that account at the beginning of the year, like many others who still sell BTT accounts on this forum.

holydarkness

legendary

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Yes, I'm an asshole

Quote from: JeromeTash on October 11, 2023, 05:58:24 PM

OP, I guess now you understand why account sellers can never be trusted, and my DT members tag them at first sight. Big lesson learned and at a cost.
I am interested in seeing why Google+ has to say here. If all is true, I don't think Google+ can be trusted at all. Why would someone want to sell such an old Hero member account for such an amount?
Stupid move in my opinion.

Because I don't think he has any intention to sell it at all. This thread kinda prove it, he offered the account, then faked an escrow to steal the fund. He'll gain extra fund and never have to part with the hero account. Maybe it's not the first time he's done this, given the screenshot was made in April, never have guessed someone will sacrifice their account to be tagged as account buyer to report his scam attempt.

brace the mace

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Quote from: acroman08 on October 11, 2023, 11:22:23 AM

Quote from: holydarkness on October 11, 2023, 09:18:40 AM

Aside from the perfect match of date of registration down to the minute,
1. We can see the ghost of a "G" under the censored username
2. He made 717 forum-counted posts since he made the screenshot on 16 April, 2023 [36 pages of 20 posts each, minus three posts made before the screenshot], which matched his current post count.
3. His merit count matched the profile [549 up to April, given his 550th merit happened on 09 June]

I just want to add, just in case Google+ might counter that someone just took a screenshot of his profile info. if you check the "additional information" at the bottom of the profile, you won't see the "Send this member a personal message." which tells you that the screenshot was made by whoever logged in to that account. the "Send this member a personal message." is only shown if you are visiting someone else's profile account(at least as far as I know).

This is a good observation. Thanks everyone for looking into this further.
With your help at least it's possible to taint the scammer's image.

JeromeTash

legendary

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Heisenberg

OP, I guess now you understand why account sellers can never be trusted, and my DT members tag them at first sight. Big lesson learned and at a cost.
I am interested in seeing why Google+ has to say here. If all is true, I don't think Google+ can be trusted at all. Why would someone want to sell such an old Hero member account for such an amount?
Stupid move in my opinion.

acroman08

legendary

Activity: 2352

Merit: 1085

Quote from: holydarkness on October 11, 2023, 09:18:40 AM

Aside from the perfect match of date of registration down to the minute,
1. We can see the ghost of a "G" under the censored username
2. He made 717 forum-counted posts since he made the screenshot on 16 April, 2023 [36 pages of 20 posts each, minus three posts made before the screenshot], which matched his current post count.
3. His merit count matched the profile [549 up to April, given his 550th merit happened on 09 June]

I just want to add, just in case Google+ might counter that someone just took a screenshot of his profile info. if you check the "additional information" at the bottom of the profile, you won't see the "Send this member a personal message." which tells you that the screenshot was made by whoever logged in to that account. the "Send this member a personal message." is only shown if you are visiting someone else's profile account(at least as far as I know).

Eternad

hero member

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When life gets hard BUY Bitcoin!

Removing the first mistake that you committed which is to trust someone that is account seller here. I believe the most valuable lesson on your experience here is don’t deal outside the forum especially telegram. No trusted Bitcointalk escrow will deal outside the forum since their reputation was built here not on telegram. Dealing someone on the telegram including escrows is equivalent to trusting new set of user especially if they don’t acknowledgment the telegram account through the use of their Bitcointalk account.

This scam scheme is not knew either and there’s a lot of scammer keeps impersonating trusted user telegram here by changing some letters to make it looks like identical so it’s better to deal only inside the forum rather than the telegram.

Poker Player

legendary

Activity: 1372

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Well, I have supported both flags but I have also left negative feedback to the OP for confessing that I had bought an account. With the profile he has and on top of that wanting to buy accounts, it's hard to trust him. The bad thing is that he will end up buying an account in the end.

holydarkness

legendary

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Yes, I'm an asshole

And this entire conversation happened today? Which means he recovered his password only today? Hmm... something that might be interesting and worth to point out is that the seller probably planned to scam you from the beginning. He claimed he reset the password once he noticed the "scammer" changed his credential? Seclog didn't show any hero member with above criteria resetting their password.

Though... I am quite sure the account being offered is this one.

Aside from the perfect match of date of registration down to the minute,
1. We can see the ghost of a "G" under the censored username
2. He made 717 forum-counted posts since he made the screenshot on 16 April, 2023 [36 pages of 20 posts each, minus three posts made before the screenshot], which matched his current post count.
3. His merit count matched the profile [549 up to April, given his 550th merit happened on 09 June]

edit: Got a PM from Google+, verifying his account's email address, and it's different from the one above. The scammers stole his identity without his knowledge.

nutildah

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Just for future reference, I found one of his alt accounts, who uses the same Telegram:

Quote from: KycGuru on October 02, 2023, 03:51:54 AM

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Telegram me on ~ @Markdoy6

Quote from: LegendaryAccss on February 12, 2023, 07:00:17 PM

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Telegram ~ @Markdoy6

Archives (does not show up on Ninjastic Space b/c he added them later):

https://archive.ph/IytZT
https://archive.ph/PL4ZQ

This is a rare instance where the forum search actually works better than Google or Ninjastic Space.

acroman08

legendary

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this is why never trust someone who is selling an account and never really understand why people want to buy an account from someone, it is just too risky. also, if you ask me, $105 for a hero member account is too good to be true.

just so you know, it is possible to pinpoint who is the account on the screenshot.

Quote from: brace the mace on October 10, 2023, 11:22:09 PM

To the scammer, please return my money...

I doubt that'll happen, from the looks of it, the whole purpose for "selling" accounts is most likely just to scam people.

yahoo62278

legendary

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Quote from: brace the mace on October 10, 2023, 11:22:09 PM

What happened::
I saw this thread https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/bitcointalk-accounts-for-sale-clean-5439652 and thought I'd buy a bitcointalk account.

I contacted them on Telegram and suggested using escrow...

Scammers Profile Link: https://bitcointalksearch.org/user/legendaryaccss-3534609

Reference Link:
Amount Scammed: 105 USD in BTC
Payment Method: BTC
Proof of Payment: https://www.blockchain.com/explorer/transactions/btc/6044896d116b6f23ad218ceac7b2333728b148d6e64f149ddbf00f05bcad7742
PM/Chat Logs:

As you can see I picked a trusted bitcointalk profile as escrow but he invited his own scammy lookalike account into the escrow group chat.
I'm an idiot for sending him 105$ in BTC like this... His fraud is revealed now I hope more is found out and he's fully exposed.
Greatful for any help.

To the scammer, please return my money...

Quoting so images appear, also supporting your flag. If choosing an escrow, always choose 1 from the forum if they will do account sales. Only other advice I can give is do not buy an account.

Charles-Tim

legendary

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This is one of the disadvantages of buying Bitcointalk account.

Another disadvantage is if the person that was controlling the account before has used it to plagiarized before but not known to moderators but later known or reported, the account will be banned.

The seller can still deny after it after you bought it, that it is an hack.

Another thing is that you can buy an account but plagiarized mistakenly or thinking no one will know and your account can be banned. It is better to start new than to be a newbie legendary. Start from group up than to be disappointed.

My advice is that you should register a new account and use it instead.

brace the mace

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Posted a flag here:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=trust;flag=3225

Dunno what's gonna happen, probably not much. But worth a shot.

nutildah

legendary

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Quote from: brace the mace on October 10, 2023, 11:22:09 PM

I'm an idiot for sending him 105$ in BTC like this...

The only verifiably true part of this accusation. You learned a lesson the hard way. As for your screenshot evidence, everything can be fabricated, so it doesn't really do any good, even if I am inclined to believe you are honest about being scammed.

Quote from: brace the mace on October 10, 2023, 11:22:09 PM

His fraud is revealed now I hope more is found out and he's fully exposed.

I have added a Type 1 flag to his account; feel free to open a Type 3 flag against him if you want, but I don't think it will matter so much.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=trust;flag=3224

brace the mace

newbie

Activity: 37

Merit: 0

What happened::
I saw this thread https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/bitcointalk-accounts-for-sale-clean-5439652 and thought I'd buy a bitcointalk account.

I contacted them on Telegram and suggested using escrow...

Scammers Profile Link: https://bitcointalksearch.org/user/legendaryaccss-3534609

Reference Link:
Amount Scammed: 105 USD in BTC
Payment Method: BTC
Proof of Payment: https://www.blockchain.com/explorer/transactions/btc/6044896d116b6f23ad218ceac7b2333728b148d6e64f149ddbf00f05bcad7742
PM/Chat Logs:
https://www.talkimg.com/images/2023/10/11/R6SOJ.png
https://www.talkimg.com/images/2023/10/11/R6nCC.png
https://www.talkimg.com/images/2023/10/11/R6Cvb.png
https://www.talkimg.com/images/2023/10/11/R6MwH.png
https://www.talkimg.com/images/2023/10/11/R6mNg.png

As you can see I picked a trusted bitcointalk profile as escrow but he invited his own scammy lookalike account into the escrow group chat.
I'm an idiot for sending him 105$ in BTC like this... His fraud is revealed now I hope more is found out and he's fully exposed.
Greatful for any help.

To the scammer, please return my money...

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