[click-bait] Should I start escrowing accounts? - page 2.

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LoyceV, selling / buying accounts using escrow, no one forbids, but that is not good.
and;

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18. Having multiple accounts and account sales are allowed, but account sales are discouraged.

and;

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25. Ban evasion (using or creating accounts while one of your accounts is banned) is not allowed.[e]

If this is done, these two rules must be deleted, that rule, it cannot be in the Bitcointalk forum, but it cannot be deleted, it has been running from time to time.

Should; Every member who comes to this Bitcointalk Forum must be like you and me too, starting from the small ones, so that they become adults. of them did not know would be smart.

The bad side of the account at buy there certainly.
1. If the account is bought by newcomers in this forum, who are not familiar with the forum & crypto, will be flooded by spamer.
2. It's easy for people who have a banned main account to buy it.
3. Various frauds will occur,
Example;
Loans, buy one or two accounts to register in the campaign, and many other cases can occur to the detriment of other members.

@LoyceV, it should (escrow), not recommended.

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Theorically, it sounds like a good idea but parctically, it won't work. These kind of deals can't be made publically.
No one will buy an account knowing upfront that it will be negged and become worthless.
They prefer to take the risk of getting scammed than buying a worthless account.
Edit: most bought accounts are used to join and earn from bounty/sig campaigns, do you think reputable/professional managers will ever consider an application from a bought account!

There is another problem which is when the seller tries to recover the sold account. As an escrow, you should have guarantees that the seller will not be able to recover the account. This needs cooperation with Cryptios (accounts recovery team).

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No please don't, we're trying the discourage account farming as a thing on the forum and you coming to offer an escrow service for that same purpose just goes against achieving the said agenda. The only way we can make account farming a thing of the past is to abstain from trying to encourage it. You're a very reputed member of the forum (one of the highest up there) so you, operating this service gives others a chances to think others wise before red tagging account farming which might open doors to more scams as impersonator will be all over the web trying to scams more newbies with your service.

It'll also bring a lot of controversial argument which might soil your reputation on the forum as you're likely going to get attacked by others both dt and non members since you're also an accomplice to account farming. Rethink this decision of yours, lets not create room for account farmers on the forum, it only portray this forum as a money making platform because that's what all account farmers are affected.

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Quote from: pokeronlinestatus on August 01, 2020, 06:45:54 AM

But I love seeing future scammers and spammers getting screwed on their first step itself.

I don't. Even if the victim deserves it, the scammer doesn't deserve the profit.

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Already some reputed managers accepts people with NEG tag into their campaigns.

For reputed campaign managers, that could depend on the reason of the negative feedback. With 500+ DT-members, there are 500+ opinions leaving feedback that's visible by default.

Quote from: Coin_trader on August 01, 2020, 06:53:33 AM

Spam is another subject matter. The main objective of OP on creating this thread is to stop scam possibility. We should focus on that matter. Wink

Accounts get banned for spam all the time. That's indeed not my main concern.

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Quote from: pokeronlinestatus on August 01, 2020, 06:45:54 AM

Already some reputed managers accepts people with NEG tag into their campaigns. We do see many owners themselves manage campaigns and definitely they will not bother neutral trust. Neutral trust may help you not to deal with a bought account but in the vision of preventing spam, neutral trust definitely will not help.

IMHO, the tag is definitely not for campaign purposes but for the future transaction of the sold account that might encounter in the future. To notify other people to deal with extreme caution and also indicate that its not the original owner anymore.

IIRC, Only red trust account that have some questionable red trust is the one who are being accepted. Trust system is decentralized so there is a possibility that the red trust is not fair which you can see on some DT trust profile.

Spam is another subject matter. The main objective of OP on creating this thread is to stop scam possibility. We should focus on that matter. Wink

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Quote from: LoyceV on August 01, 2020, 06:29:03 AM

Yes I want to stop scammers

But I love seeing future scammers and spammers getting screwed on their first step itself.

Quote from: LoyceV on August 01, 2020, 06:29:03 AM

no I don't want to escrow accounts to potential bad guys.

What are your plans to filter bad guys from rest?

Quote from: LoyceV on August 01, 2020, 06:29:03 AM

There are currently still some good users around, who initially bought their account.

That can be the 1% of positive consequence of account trading but I am bothering about the rest of 99%

Quote from: LoyceV on August 01, 2020, 06:29:03 AM

Did you read my entire post?

Yes, I read thrice still I could not get why you do not bother about future problems.

Quote from: Coin_trader on August 01, 2020, 06:23:27 AM

He made additional note to leave neutral feedback regarding user change hand. I believe this is sufficient tag to notify user that the account was not the original owner already.

Already some reputed managers accepts people with NEG tag into their campaigns. We do see many owners themselves manage campaigns and definitely they will not bother neutral trust. Neutral trust may help you not to deal with a bought account but in the vision of preventing spam, neutral trust definitely will not help.

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Quote from: marlboroza on August 01, 2020, 06:06:24 AM

I am little confused here, you want to stop scammers by escrowing accounts to potential scammers and abusers? Undecided

Yes I want to stop scammers, no I don't want to escrow accounts to potential bad guys.

Quote from: pokeronlinestatus on August 01, 2020, 06:14:06 AM

In my eyes, the future scammer is getting scammed before they plan up (as per old saying scammer gets scammed).

I don't think all account buyers will be future scammers (although we can't know upfront which path they'll take). There are currently still some good users around, who initially bought their account.
Each time a scamming account seller gets away with a profit, he'll be motivated to continue.

Quote from: Coin_trader on August 01, 2020, 06:23:27 AM

I disagree on interfering transaction of BTT accounts. We are just encouraging hackers to hack more dormant account and sell it here.

Encouraging hackers to steal accounts would indeed be a very bad consequence.

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Quote from: LoyceV on August 01, 2020, 03:16:39 AM

How can we stop scammers from making a profit by pretending to sell accounts they don't have?

I am little confused here, you want to stop scammers by escrowing accounts to potential scammers and abusers? Undecided

He made additional note to leave neutral feedback regarding user change hand. I believe this is sufficient tag to notify user that the account was not the original owner already. No one can stop this kind of scheme and some them are using shopify and playerup as safe platform for selling account.

I believe campaign abused is not a problem anymore because of the merit system and the competition in participating campaigns. Most of the bounty campaigns too are not paying anymore so buying account is not that profitable for abuser.

I disagree on interfering transaction of BTT accounts. We are just encouraging hackers to hack more dormant account and sell it here. Many buyer will be tempted to buy it since there will be a reliable escrow available in the forum. I saw many high rank account that being sold on some escrow platform in bundle and this transaction might move here once DT escrow step in.

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Quote from: LoyceV on August 01, 2020, 03:16:39 AM

I hate seeing people get scammed by fake account sellers.

Why you are worrying for the actual cancer cells of this forum like you mentioned:

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I also know sold accounts have been used to spam and/or scam.

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How can we stop scammers from making a profit by pretending to sell accounts they don't have?

Why should we stop?

In my eyes, the future scammer is getting scammed before they plan up (as per old saying scammer gets scammed).

If people come to know like there is no legit BTT account seller then they may not plan up ever for buying accounts to scam/spam.

Finally you sound like supporting future scammers and spammers by encouraging account buyers by escrowing through your well established account. Definitely NOT good for this community.

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Quote from: LoyceV on August 01, 2020, 03:16:39 AM

How can we stop scammers from making a profit by pretending to sell accounts they don't have?

I am little confused here, you want to stop scammers by escrowing accounts to potential scammers and abusers? Undecided

Quote from: LoyceV on August 01, 2020, 03:16:39 AM

A neutral tag "account changed hands at this date" would be great for transparency

Probably no one will buy account knowing it will be marked as sold and even if they do:

Quote from: LoyceV on August 01, 2020, 03:16:39 AM

but would instantly be followed by more red tags too.

...and maybe some flags too.

Quote from: Coyster on August 01, 2020, 04:35:22 AM

Okay, the first step imo, is to have a consensus on what should happen to an account that was sold, a negative or a neutral tag, if that is not addressed

What consensus? According to lauda, theymos said it is ok to flag sold accounts https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/type-1-flag-account-sales-5197446.

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Quote from: LoyceV on August 01, 2020, 03:16:39 AM

Meanwhile, the account seller can use the risk of a red tag to make a potential buyer send him funds without escrow:

What's the buyer's motive of wanting to get a ranked account? And how does a tag limit them from achieving their objective? Shouldn't the risk of getting red tagged and potentially getting scammed discourage one from actually trying to buy an account?

Account sales is similar to a can of worms and any user willing to still jump through the hoops to buy one is probably trying to do something unethical with it. I highly doubt any trusted escrow provider would be willing to facilitate such a deal.
Imo there are two potential options;
• The admins outrightly banning account sales, so there's no ambiguity to the rules, or
• DTs reaching a consensus on the response to such cases.
With the diversity in the DT group, a consensus is unlikely. That leaves the first option. But that's up to the admins.

Quote from: LoyceV on August 01, 2020, 03:16:39 AM

Is this something we (as a community) can improve?

It's not much, but tagging account sellers should serve as enough deterrent for those conscious of the forum to avoid trying to purchase one. However, not all sales can be accounted for however as some happen in private and off the forum.

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IMO there's no problem if you want to escrowing account sales since you only want to make sure both of buyers and sellers is safe.

But, I don't think people will buy account with negative tagged from DT members... the purpose of buy account is to joining signature campaign or scamming. Or is there any other purpose?

Since using escrow will make his account get tagged, I think they will trade without using escrow... even it's not safe.

Quote from: Coyster on August 01, 2020, 04:35:22 AM

or we could just tell users not to buy accounts.

That will never stop, I believe we will see another victim got scammed

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Quote from: Coyster on August 01, 2020, 04:35:22 AM

Okay, the first step imo, is to have a consensus

With more than 500 DT-members, that's not going to happen. And even if all 500 would agree, new users are added to DT all the time.

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Okay, the first step imo, is to have a consensus on what should happen to an account that was sold, a negative or a neutral tag, if that is not addressed, then account buyers will continue to be scammed, and no reputable escrow will want to get involved, to provide transparency. If one is to escrow in the transfer of accounts for money, there is the risk of all parties, including the escrow himself getting tagged for aiding account sales. Is account sales against the rules, prolly no, will the buyer and seller get tagged, yes, 99% of the time.

It'll only be possible to escrow in account sales if it's no longer considered as red tag worthy, and then the buyers can obviously always openly seek for reputable escrows, as they and the account their planning on selling won't be tagged.

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Quote from: LoyceV on August 01, 2020, 04:40:43 AM

Quote from: Coyster on August 01, 2020, 04:35:22 AM

Okay, the first step imo, is to have a consensus

With more than 500 DT-members, that's not going to happen. And even if all 500 would agree, new users are added to DT all the time.

If it's not, then all the escrow will be ensuring is that the account gets to the hands of the buyer, but when the community gets to know the account changed hands, it will face multiple tags, and the buyer I'm sure is obviously interested in joining bounties, which defeats that instantly. Another thing is if it can be escrowed in secret, without the community being aware, or we could just tell users not to buy accounts.

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First: This user was scammed by bitcointalk account seller (Deserve Tag?)

It's a bit of a click-bait title, but it's something that has been on my mind for a very long time.
I know account sales are heavily frowned upon, and buyers and sellers usually get tagged by one or more DT-members. I also know account sales still happen, and (at least 2 years ago) there was someone escrowing them.
I also know sold accounts have been used to spam and/or scam.

There are of course complications: the original owner can recover his lost accounts, or the seller might be selling a hacked account. All in all there are far too many risks involved for me to dare escrow accounts, but I hate seeing people get scammed by fake account sellers. Meanwhile, the account seller can use the risk of a red tag to make a potential buyer send him funds without escrow:

Quote from: marianaa on August 01, 2020, 02:39:21 AM

There's no one who escrows bitcointalk accounts without tagging them.. there is no security between myself and the buyer that my account won't be tagged...

Is this something we (as a community) can improve? A neutral tag "account changed hands at this date" would be great for transparency, but would instantly be followed by more red tags too.
How can we stop scammers from making a profit by pretending to sell accounts they don't have?

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