The original title of this post was
Scammer user 'Sword' - impersenating LightingASIC/Lketc vendors
But after updates id like to call out who is really behind it all
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There is some fraudster lurking around skype impersonating some reputable hardware asic vendors around
Notably he is impersonating user asicbtc on this forum, or JackASIC/Jack depending on how you know him, he is also impersonating iketc.com via skype as well. He is also putting fronts up on alibaba, aliexpress, dhgate pretending to be these guys and forwarding them to his fake skype.
The two fake IDS i know are
"altcoin," impersonating the real "altcoin" who is asicbtc
"live:nancy_business" impersonating "nancy_business" who is iketc.com
I also belive he is impersonating semtong and gridseed vendors from looking through fake profiles on the mentioned Chinese trading sites
I was unfortunately burned by this prick a few weeks ago as i copied jacks skype name from his signature that had " , " separating his skype and icq name a little carelessness cost me coins.
after following where the coins went a few hops the landed in this address
16R14EH4v8A9GPXkAAP8gcMFBA8oxA8nbY
This address looks like it's known to be used by some big time scammer, using blockchain tree visualise tool i spent hours following how these coins were split and mixed around to clean the inputs, along the way i started to see connections to another recent hack
http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/21foj9/funds_currently_being_stolen_from_vanity/there seemed to be lots of vanity address inputs, and also coins going around this mixer into what looked like vanity created bitcoin address
while trying to find more details on this address 16R14EH4v8A9GPXkAAP8gcMFBA8oxA8nbY as the reddit post mentioned it was related to mtgox and possible Andreas, but what i stumbled upon was this
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.6185654the same address linking to bitcointalk user "sword" linking to vanity address payments and hardware scam/fraud
this bitcoin talk post naming the user sword is in the german sub forums, which also coincides with his skype local time and online habits.
If any one has any information to add on any of the cases mentioned above please pm me, and proceed with cation when adding skype contacts, as he is abusing the way contact results are being returned using names that are alphabetically higher than the genuine ones.