Topic: [ANN] LocalBitcoins.com - a location-based bitcoin to cash marketplace - page 19. (Read 126108 times)

Cart before the horse. Why link your account before you have anything to show?

Yep!
But even when they linked their existing OTC handle to their LB profile, I believe it's not displayed until the OTC has a rating. Then you see the OTC handle and, well, the rating..

Maybe I'm doing it wrong and simply never stumbled upon a LB profile with OTC, but no OTC rating yet?

I dunno here.. Does anyone have such an account?

Ente

People who have OTC IDs like me ( https://localbitcoins.com/accounts/profile/TheButterZone/ ) have to link them to LB via signing a one time pass with their OTC BTC address. There are some scammer bastards pretending to be in OTC like randomcat (fake) is to random_cat (real).

Any way to see someone's OTC ID, even when that person doesn't have any OTC ratings yet?
It's hard to give someone the first rating that way ;-)
(Or did I really not find a *single* person with OTC and no rating yet? Come on, nerd community!)

Ente

Edit:  Just came across this page that was a huge help:  http://localbitcoins.com/guides/equation-howto

Ah, that's the one I was looking for, thanks.

Comparing with bitcoincharts, seems to be what you are looking for. USD_24h is from here: http://bitcoincharts.com/markets/currencies/

In the "Price equation" field in your advertisement, can you not write an equation that pulls up the 24hr avg. price for a certain exchange?  Does the USD_24hr command only pull up the average USD price across all exchanges?

The reason I ask is because I noticed it didn't matter whether I tried to pull up cbxUSD or bitstampUSD while using the USD_24hr command.  It didn't change the price when I switched between the two.

This is a Google Plus community that LocalBitcoins users might find interesting. Please join if you trade there, and feel free to let us know what we could do to improve it.

https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/109964337170548855114

Edit: Fixed

check the google cache

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:acQ5zISMrzYJ:forums.kcdrift.com/viewtopic.php%3Ff%3D27%26t%3D8866+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=nl




information might be available via his licence plates in the pictures?

the same number is featured somewhere on this page - http://forums.kcdrift.com/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=8866

This is the same user that got away with the same scam yesterday a few times.  He tried me (and failed) as well.  Yesterday he was using the ID sucraM, but he's still using the same phone number (bold and underlined in the quote).  Here are the posts discussing it:

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.2966477

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/localbitcoins-sucram-scammer-277744

If you block that user, add negative feedback describing the scam, and then report the buyer as fraudulent through the support and contact form it will minimize the risk that someone gets scammed.

The localbitcoins user kagomeluvsu2 tried to scam me and wasted a bunch of my time.  He wanted me to send him a screenshot of our transaction "for security reasons".  Playing along I sent him the screen shot.  Then he had the balls to ask me to "click on the show button" and resend the picture.

His phone numbers are 281-891-3127, 913-200-1331 and 913-210-0571 in case anyone is interested.

One must admit this message (intended recipient is the buyer of bitcoins) can be very confusing for the seller. Maybe it should not be displayed to the seller at all, instead it should read: "wait for buyer to transfer fiat currency, only then release the escrow"

Anything over $1000 and I use a few safety precautions.

I require that we meet somewhere with a security presence (typically in a Casino bar although a bank lobby or police station lobby are acceptable as well), and I bring a second person with me to help keep an eye out for anything suspicious.

I guess it depends on your personal safety preferences.

I don't want to exchange more than $1000 in cash with someone I've never met before. Higher limits are reserved for people on my Trusted list.

If they'll bring the cash and meet face-to-face, why not?

Sure, I wasted an hour of my time, but I've had many successful transactions in excess of 20 bitcoins with individuals that were making their first ever purchase through localbitcoins and had no history.

I don't see how it's any different than selling my used car for $6000 to someone who sees my ad in a paper or calls the phone number from the window of my car.  Such an individual wouldn't have any "trade history" either.  I'm not sure I understand your surprise?

Why would you try to sell 55 BTC to someone with no trade history?

Had someone try to scam me out of 55 bitcoins today at localbitcoins.  They claimed to be buying bitcoins, and wanted to use the "transaction service".  Once the transaction was funded they tried to convince me to "send a picture of our contact/trade page for verification purposes".

When I ignored that request, they followed up with a phone call and played dumb about the "release code".  They just wanted me to send a picture of the page so they could verify.  They didn't think having a picture of a green release button would be a problem.

I explained why I couldn't.  Then I sent them a carefully framed image that had the release code cropped out.

They claimed they were on there way and would be at the meeting place soon.

After a half hour of waiting I sent a txt asking if they were still planning on showing up, and they txt back "yes".

After another half hour of waiting, they still hadn't arrived and they stopped responding to txt messages.

I'm guessing that their account at localbitcoins is a throw away fake account, and that the phone they were calling and txting from was a "burner", but for what it's worth here's the info so others can avoid being caught in this scam attempt:

localbitcoins ID: sucraM
phone: 913-200-1331

If anyone can identify this person, I'd love to file interstate fraud charges against them.

Ahhh, ok. I get it now. Thank You very much for your help and clearing up how this works for me.