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Topic: Be safe: READ THIS BEFORE TRADING/BUYING/USING YOUR MONEY - page 20. (Read 366228 times)

legendary
Activity: 1455
Merit: 1033
Nothing like healthy scepticism and hard evidence
Thanks for the information
what is escrow

Escrow is using a trustworthy middle man, that will receive the thing for sale and the payment and send them to the other party, in order to avoid scams.
member
Activity: 60
Merit: 10
there are some people who are using your name with [email protected] and saying this email id is escrow, please tell people what's your actual email to use you as escrow
newbie
Activity: 36
Merit: 0
legendary
Activity: 1455
Merit: 1033
Nothing like healthy scepticism and hard evidence
It makes more sense to create a scammers list on a new thread here https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=83.0

But, probably, you should wait until you have some more activity.
newbie
Activity: 56
Merit: 0
Another sign: when you are a reputable member like me, and when you ask the noob to send first and suddenly they stop replying to your PM. Scammer! Maybe I should start a list in the public interest?

Latest possible scammer(s):

- penetration -> confirmed scammer has scammed multiple people



EDIT: I have decided I will keep this list updated and maintained. (and of course remove people who later turn out not to be scammers - but if they are genuinely looking for a trade and have only about 100 posts why would they not send first to someone like me? Hopefully I can help everyone here)
newbie
Activity: 33
Merit: 0
so you mean any newbie person make deal with newbies it must be scam?
legendary
Activity: 1455
Merit: 1033
Nothing like healthy scepticism and hard evidence
Check this thread: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/list-of-honest-traders-484

However, usually, you can check the reputation of the member by clicking the link trust, under his avatar.
member
Activity: 70
Merit: 10
Is there a list of the highest ranking trusted members to trade with?
member
Activity: 108
Merit: 10
Thank you very much for sharing this information. Thanks for the concern. This is certainly true and everyone should be more aware.
newbie
Activity: 42
Merit: 0
We should be more aware when dealing with  sellers,products.There are plendy of malpractices on different products in the society !! Grin
legendary
Activity: 1455
Merit: 1033
Nothing like healthy scepticism and hard evidence
You will have to trust SOME of the older members with good reputation and go first. They will give you positive trust and eventually you will become a trusted member.
hero member
Activity: 756
Merit: 503
Crypto.games
hi im just a newbie too... how can i have business with other hero member or higher rank if almost all of them are ignoring us NEWBIES. accusing scammer or whatever.. isnt its just discriminating us?  Sad
member
Activity: 84
Merit: 10
۩۞۩ secondstrade.com ★
Thanks for the info, it's really good to get up those as quick as possible for newcomers here, so all those newbies post about being scammed can be over.. Anyway better safe than sorry
sr. member
Activity: 267
Merit: 252
Squirtle squirt.
member
Activity: 66
Merit: 10
ngo kiem tuan
 I agree that an escrow is always to be used.thank for imformation
full member
Activity: 183
Merit: 100
Just got scammed by YeeYay of 0.15 btc.

I have posted proof here:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=430648.460

and here:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=430648.480

He is still denying it and lying but I have brought all the messages and transaction.

Please help me ban this scammer no other person needs to be left without money.


that's such a shame, i feel sorry for you mate, as a bitcointalk.org n00b i look foward to earning my 1st +trust point!
sr. member
Activity: 294
Merit: 250
Good advice. Sometimes newbies are old wolves!  Shocked
sr. member
Activity: 266
Merit: 250
1) Don't just trust the status of a member, anyone can be a hero member. This just means that he invested some time on his membership. He can always decide that a profitable scam will be a good payment for his time.
2) If he has no reputation (specially if he is a newbie or Jr.), even small tranches are very risky. Better use an escrow system, like the one of http://www.bitmit.net, www.btcrow.com, or a trusted member, or you might need to send more than 10 very small tranches. Think well before sending more than 0.2 btcs (it's considerable money in some countries) and only after successful payments of 0.1 and 0.15 btcs.


Since this thread is a sticky, I decided to post this here. Any moderator or member feel free to move, copy or improve these rules at will.
What an evil world. I hate the scam. And thank U of your information to a noob like me.
legendary
Activity: 1455
Merit: 1033
Nothing like healthy scepticism and hard evidence
If you think you were scammed, just open a thread about the issue on https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=83.0
If you are not shore if that was a scam, open a thread on https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=85.0
But you can always talk first with the exchange and threat to post about the issue if not solved.
legendary
Activity: 3164
Merit: 1003
And another thing to watch out for is, any exchange can lock your account at anytime they feel!  Richie Lai of Bittex or one of the staff,to the best of my knowledge, locked my account today. With a flip of a switch, so think about it ppl.
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