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Topic: Did TradeFortress every pay back all the money after that inputs.io scandal (Read 1196 times)

legendary
Activity: 1512
Merit: 1000
The Dude Of DopeCoin
I see that when you go to inputs.io, it instead takes you to eff.org! Comical!  Cheesy

wow, had no idea haha...
hero member
Activity: 686
Merit: 500
I see that when you go to inputs.io, it instead takes you to eff.org! Comical!  Cheesy
legendary
Activity: 1456
Merit: 1081
I may write code in exchange for bitcoins.
No he didn't pay back.

Yes he may still be active in this community, so be careful.

Whoa, I'll be careful then!

So from this small and unscientific sample, there seems to be strong consensus that he just took the money and ran.  I guess that's probably the case because if he was interested in rebuilding his reputation (and had legitimately been hacked) then he would probably still be posting on here and slowly paying people back.

Anywhoo, luckily I only used inputs to withdrawl from coinchat and never kept the money in there so I was lucky on this one.
full member
Activity: 124
Merit: 100
He gave small amounts back to look legit and took millions of Bitcoin with on his holidays.
full member
Activity: 237
Merit: 101
Although it was less discussed, his other service coinlenders.com also went down with a lot lot lot of customer coins. He disappeared with many thousands of coins, scattering a few crumbs to people on his back to sow confusion and buy time for his escape.
A long con well executed.
newbie
Activity: 19
Merit: 0
He offered me a fraction of the worth using wonky fantasy math, and then disappeared.
hero member
Activity: 686
Merit: 500
No, I didn't get anything back. I didn't fall in the group with over 1 BTC in my account so I was basically screwed. I never quite understood that logic. Probably most people had less than 1 BTC in there, so he figured he wouldn't pay that group back!  Roll Eyes
hero member
Activity: 742
Merit: 502
Circa 2010
Nope, not even close to all that he owed after inputs.io went down. I'd be extremely surprised if he even paid back half of what he stole and even then he probably made a killing off of it back when BTC was much higher.
legendary
Activity: 1022
Merit: 1000
I am reasonably confident that he no longer posts under the name "TradeFortress" but would be surprised if he is gone.

I don't think everyone got all their coins back.  I think many, maybe even most, got some coins back.  There is still an active scammer thread.
full member
Activity: 154
Merit: 100
No he didn't pay back.

Yes he may still be active in this community, so be careful.
legendary
Activity: 1456
Merit: 1081
I may write code in exchange for bitcoins.
As the topic suggests, I was just thinking about all that hoopla surrounding the TradeFortress empire that went down at the end of last year.  There were many thread of accusations and tabulations about what was owed and to whom.  Now that the topic is not so hot, I'm just wondering how everything ended up shaking out.  Did he ever pay back his customers?  Is he still active in the community?
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