All these info. can help the OP and other users to contact the scammer.... I was lucky because I have lent him only 0.035 btc :/ .... very lucky.
She was building up trust across multiple accounts, mostly in the lending section. That was probably the intention with the loan from Neotox however those plans were probably put on hold once people started asking her to sign a message from an old address.
I think both the OP and Neotox are at fault for getting scammed as this was easily preventable simply by using escrow and by asking for valid collateral (or a signed message)
Signed message mean very little. I'm sure some account sellers have no problem handing over private keys to no longer used addresses when they sell their account. False sense of security IMO.
You guys put way to much faith in forum rankings here. Hero or not, unless they have great rep you shouldn't send first or provide no collateral loans. I'm sure this is a lesson well learnt and hopefully won't happen again zazarb.
Most scams are done privately here and a lot fail to report them for several reasons. Those small amounts add up so don't think they won't scam because it's less then the value of their account.
Sure account sells can (and sometimes do) provide private keys to addresses associated with an account, however the presence of a signed message when giving a
loan will at least prove ownership of the account and will give you a reasonable assurance that the account is not hacked. The reason why Operatr is not going to repay the loan is because there were rumors that the account was hacked, so he instead went on a scamming spree.
I noticed that puzzel.me has a history of farming trust so he will appear to be trustworthy to be able to scam for large amounts, however likely did not this time around because he knew he couldn't sign a message so people would know not to lend to him in the future.
In my experience people who turn out to be scammer often get scammed themselves because they are so willing to trade without escrow in order to build up a reputation around having a lot of successful no-escrow trades. IMO someone who has a long history of doing no escrow trades and a lot of feedback from untrusted members is likely planning a long con, and there is a good chance that a good amount of them are from his alts. The same is true for people who give out loans with no collateral.
This is not the first time that zazarb has been scammed while not using escrow and his trust history does not reflect him ever using escrow despite
being aware of the concept of using escrow.
The suggestion of getting a signed message was in reference to the loan, not the trade - there is no reason for anyone to send first with Operatr