Topic: A scammer selling Bitcoin for $1000 - page 2. (Read 294 times)
Whoever gets scammed by this scammer definitely deserves it, because what else can you say about someone who decides to buy 1 BTC for $1000 that is worth $30k+ on the market? Some advertise Bitcoin as magic money, but only the most naive can believe that it can produce so much magic
Even if the thread is indexed by Google I don't think he will find a buyer, this is what's the purpose of Bitcointalk's trust rating and flag creation for people to be aware of the character of the behavior, and what he is selling or offering is dubious.
And it's plain commonsense why will you sell Bitcoin for $1000 when it's worth $38k in the market?
And there's no escrow and even if he offers escrow I'm sure that whoever he will recommend is part of the scammer's team.
By creating this thread he is taking a chance since there is no cost and little effort, he is an idiot to think that he can find somebody here with all the warnings on his profile.
And it's plain commonsense why will you sell Bitcoin for $1000 when it's worth $38k in the market?
And there's no escrow and even if he offers escrow I'm sure that whoever he will recommend is part of the scammer's team.
By creating this thread he is taking a chance since there is no cost and little effort, he is an idiot to think that he can find somebody here with all the warnings on his profile.
Even people who aren't logged into the forum will see the big banner that reads "Warning: One or more bitcointalk.org users have reported that they strongly believe that the creator of this topic is a scammer.... etc." Not much you can do for people who read that and still choose to interact with the OP.
Funniest I've read so far today, it seems that those people that still fall for this is definitely deserving of what's coming to them because they're gullible and they don't have the survival instinct that should've been innate in our DNA as a human being, how are you those people not able to read those warnings with the red being such a contrasting color to the color of the forum which makes it easily spotted, I don't know how they'll be able to miss that, or they're so desperate about this crypto thing and they want to get rich so quickly that they're going to bite this obvious scam.The guy is a notorious, long-time scammer that has gone by several other names like humbertin, humberroll, etc. He appears to be a professional scammer although he certainly isn't the brightest.
I wouldn't classify that person as a professional scammer with the way that he didn't even bother to change the names that he's using to scam people and to evade the people who guards against him and his scheme, I'd say that he's more of a dumbass lazy but patient scammer because no way that anyone will take the bait of this kind of scam everyday, it might take time before even one gullible user would even take this stupid bait or maybe not at all, that's why I added the patience virtue to the way that he scams. 
No surprise coming from humerh3. He has a lot of alt accounts, most of which have been tagged before. He has this habit of selling accounts, selling fake wallets etc. If you look at the positive feedback on his trust wall, It's mostly done from his alt accounts, which are easy to identify. He even has no idea how the trust system works 
Possible, there could still be some gullible individuals who think that this offer is once in a lifetime to they just simply can contact the scammer and bought those bitcoin at a discount.
And then once they've been scammed, for sure they will come back and bitch around here. That's usually what happens to newbies who think that they can outsmart or take advantage of this kind of opportunity without any strings attached.
This is a big and expensive lessons to learned.
And then once they've been scammed, for sure they will come back and bitch around here. That's usually what happens to newbies who think that they can outsmart or take advantage of this kind of opportunity without any strings attached.
This is a big and expensive lessons to learned.
Should anyone see this kind of post then the next thing to have come in mind is that it's a scam, but if you're too eager to make money through an illegitimate means, what such person will first think about is an opportunity to buy that cheap, that is the beginning of how scam is, if one btc is worth thirty eight thousands, three hundred dollars and you're seing an offer of one hundred dollars, a reasonable person should know that is purely a scam, but the moreone is greedy the vulnerable he becomes for this kind of attack.
Even people who aren't logged into the forum will see the big banner that reads "Warning: One or more bitcointalk.org users have reported that they strongly believe that the creator of this topic is a scammer.... etc." Not much you can do for people who read that and still choose to interact with the OP.
The guy is a notorious, long-time scammer that has gone by several other names like humbertin, humberroll, etc. He appears to be a professional scammer although he certainly isn't the brightest.
The guy is a notorious, long-time scammer that has gone by several other names like humbertin, humberroll, etc. He appears to be a professional scammer although he certainly isn't the brightest.
have found that some users have left negative tags on profile of that scammer but still he posted that update on 30th of November which lead me to think that do people still get scammed by such scammers? If yes then how could we better guide them to be aware of such scammers? I know that awareness and education will work but it's going to be a hard thing to educate everyone.
I don't think we can say much from that. It is possible that OP is just doing that because he doesn't care about his tags, and hopes that a newbie falls for their trick, just like I did when I was a newbie. After all, he doesn't need a lot of time to log in and post.I think the tags are good enough to deter newbies or someone to make a deal with him. Nothing we can do further if people deliberately ignore it for some reason since it was not hidden on that board or his profile. I don't think you need to overstress yourself with your goal of educating people. I'm sure most of them will at least get curious about what the negative tag means and then search for a bit. There are tons of threads related to P2P scams too.
Today, I was scrolling the digital goods board I found something strange. A scammer who was promising to sell 1 Bitcoin for $1000 and when I opened that thread I have found that the scammer is also running a promotion where he claimed to sell a whooping 12000 BTC for just $8000 USD.
I think that I have found the world's stupidest scammer and I believe that the ones who get scammed by this scammer will have no brain in their head. The guy says that he's selling Bitcoin at old price of $1000 and the worst thing I found is that the guy posted a promotion on 30th of November where he offered that 12000 Bitcoin for $8000.
Here's the profile of the scammer:
humerh3
I have found that some users have left negative tags on profile of that scammer but still he posted that update on 30th of November which lead me to think that do people still get scammed by such scammers? If yes then how could we better guide them to be aware of such scammers? I know that awareness and education will work but it's going to be a hard thing to educate everyone.
I think that I have found the world's stupidest scammer and I believe that the ones who get scammed by this scammer will have no brain in their head. The guy says that he's selling Bitcoin at old price of $1000 and the worst thing I found is that the guy posted a promotion on 30th of November where he offered that 12000 Bitcoin for $8000.
Here's the profile of the scammer:
humerh3
I have found that some users have left negative tags on profile of that scammer but still he posted that update on 30th of November which lead me to think that do people still get scammed by such scammers? If yes then how could we better guide them to be aware of such scammers? I know that awareness and education will work but it's going to be a hard thing to educate everyone.
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