Hi, I understand it is kind of frowned upon to buy an account but I have a question about the process. Is there a safe way to finish a transaction? I have read something about a signed message. I'm not sure what this is or how this could help me secure a newly bought account. I understand escrow is a must. Someone with experience buying/selling accounts, could you give me a quick run through of what you would do? Thanks for any information that you can give me, sorry I'm pretty new to this.
To verify that seller actually owns the account, you should ask for him to sign a message with an address that was posted in either a post that was unedited or was quoted by another person. The post should be old, at least a two months. The signed message indicates that the seller owns the private key to that account and thus reliably proves that he is the owner of that account. To verify a signed message, you can use websites like
https://coinb.in/#verify or through Bitcoin Core. If the message does not verify to be the address it was supposedly signed with, do not buy the account as that seller could have hacked that account.
If you use an escrow, then the escrow will typically verify all of this for you. If you do use an escrow, make sure that he is trusted. I recommend that you use any escrow from this list:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/bitcointalk-escrows-trade-safely-855778You have one already, why do you need another one? You're not one of those scammer people are you?
Usually people buy for sig campaigns, not scamming.
