Topic: Help Sold account and got scammed (Read 496 times)

entrepreneurship means starting your own business, not working for someone else, Being a paid poster for a signature campaign is just a wage slave, he is not some type of entrepreneur.

Here's what you do.

Give them their money back.

Accept that the account will have neg trust because who knows when it may switch hands again.

Explain to this poor young soul that this isn't a Full-time job.

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You may think that you were helping out. Have you considered that this user may use your profile and rank to cheat or swindle someone? Would you repay them if that happened?

Maybe think about how someone who is only on this forum to earn a paycheck with this "entrepreneurial" dream is bad for the community as they bring nothing of value to the space and will dilute it with garbage spam posts.

No you didn't think about that did you. Not to mention anyone you have seen sell an account and that it could be proven will have been tagged the same way, and those tags are not going anywhere.

Dear The Pharmacist,

I need your help to make a decision about the right thing to do.  I also may have some intelligence for you about how a certain scam is working here.

I am referring to this thread:  https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/help-sold-account-and-got-scammed-4850954

I made this new account today to help shed light upon what I think actually happened there, because I am the previous owner of Gekko463.

My name is Nick.

The poor kid who bought it I only know as John Doe from the BitDice Telegram.  I transferred him the account because I really wasn’t using it anymore and he asked about it on the BitDice Telegram.  He duly paid me 6000 CSNO for it, which was on that day worth about $340, or the price of one ETH that day, which is what we settled on.

He is really upset that you marked my former account as a “scam” account. 

He is just a poor 3rd world kid trying to feed his family with entrepreneurship.  Being an old guy, I had no idea this was wrong.  I see the kids doing it all the time.  But your discretion and limitless power over him has now rendered the account worthless.  I don’t want to see him ripped off, but I also now would have a damaged account if I took it back by invoking the change of password email.  We will both be left with nothing, and it is the fault of a genuine scammer and...you.

Marketing on Bitcointalk is a "thing".  The whole place is set up for that.  Even you seem to have advertisements in your own signature here for "Chipmixer".  Why deny this ability to kids just starting out, willing to pay market price for prime real-estate?

So here is the olive branch I am offering you.  I think “Gekko Star”, the account that made the accusation runs this website:  https://pricecalculator.win

I went to that site the night we were discussing this, entered the web address for my account, and it returned an value of 0.115941375 BTC.  This is all documented on the BitDice Telegram.  That is where we began negotiations.

That is the only way anyone outside of your Mod staff could have known that the Gekko463 (my birthday is April 1963) may have been up for sale.

So I am asking you what YOU think is the moral thing to do here.

1.  Do you think I should give him back the 6000 CSNO and invoke the email to get the account back?  The account has “SCAMMER” plastered all over it now.

2.  Do you think you could find it in your heart to remove that red badge of shame and let the kid get on with his entrepreneurial dreams?

I hope you can use the information I have given you to easily recognize the next 100 times that the person behind “Gekko Star” uses his “valuation” website to try to scam YOU and your mod team into turning great accounts over to him.

My gift to you.

Please be kind and make the kid whole.  Don’t know that I have ever posted a wallet address on that account that I still use, so getting it back to me might be a big ask.

If you are not willing to help, what do YOU think I should do?  Give his CSNO back?  Give him part back? 

The only person intending to “scam” here was this Gekko Star guy.  Your rigidity serves his nefarious purposes.

Willing to sent you hashes of the transaction, a copy of the password change email, screenshots of the telegram conversations...anything you like.

I hope you can help.

Cheers,

Nick (formerly the owner of Gekko463)

That actually sounds reasonable to me, although I don't exactly have my finger on the pulse of the account sales market.  The reason why it'd cost so much for a Sr. Member account is that it now takes forever for someone--and usually an illiterate, spamming account farmer--to rank up that far.  For most morons who sell accounts chronically, I don't think they'd even be able to nowadays without resorting to merit-dealing, and they'd risk getting tagged for that.

250 USD for Sr.Member? Seems a fake to me. Why would anyone sell their only account for such a cheap price? Maybe you have like dozens of them and not value it. Anyway, honest members will stay away from deals like that and you'll only attract scammers. You deserve that.

I call it "Instant Karma". You don`t care about the forum, but about getting your money. Well, maybe you should think about before selling your account in here, and give up your name for a couple of hundred bucks.

Anyway, both deserve being red-tagged: the OP for being an idiot and coming here to complain about being scammed while doing something that is already discouraged; the second for an account buyer, whose only goal is to earn here by spamming the forum.
I just can`t understand how people can be so stupid to come here and ask for help after doing such a kind of activity.

Applause for both.

Besides, probably the Forum is a better place without you being around:

My facepalm convulsive disorder is getting worst

You have registered her since 2015 and you don't know that account selling is illegal or frowned upon??

Anyway, good to know that the account has red tag already making it useless at least.

And for you, its good that you got scammed since you are doing an illegal thing here.

In other words, you sent your proof to me via PM.  Looking at it, it definitely does look like both sides held up their end of the bargain.  That doesn't change the fact that you bought the account, so my feedback is going to stay.  I don't support account buyers or sellers here, which is something everyone here should know.  I've been tagging account buyers & sellers since 2016, which tells me that you don't do any reading here and only want to earn money. 

I don't know why the account seller decided to make this claim, but it doesn't really change much.  I'd love to know if he's got any alt accounts here, though.

Looks like gekko463 already admitted he is not the original owner of the account.  So the red tag will stay on that account rendering it useless.

How it came to light that the account has changed hands will not matter .

To the community this is equivalent to identity theft/fraudulent representation. Regardless of the outcome the account will remain tagged in red to warn others it has changed hands.

I sent in my proof. If anyone else is interested PM me and I will send it to you as well. The person who created this thread doesn't even know what he is talking about. He is a fraud.

this is fucking funny...

like the drug dealer who got robbed and wanted to go to  the police..

how about fuck off for being an account selling cunt?

glad you got scammed

I hope all persons selling accounts get scammed

Foul practise ruining the board.

The owner and I are close friends. This person who started this thread wants to get in the way of t. I can easily return the account back to the original owner if this is going to become a problem. Anyway I’ll send the pictures over so I’m covered on my side of the story.

Lol.. account sale is not a good practice. Are you account farmer ? Why you sold your account ? Why you handover your accout without payment ? There is no chance to recover account if you can't show solid proof. Account has  changed email & password recently but it doesn't mean you are the owner of account. Did you signed msg with btc address? If yes prove that account is your.


That means you bought account. Now your account is useless. More DT will tag you sure. Who is  the orginal owner it's not important. It's true that you bought account.  If you proved OP is wrong it dose'nt mean you will not taged.



Gekko463 have argument about ownership of account. Already he have given his own statement. It's well proven that he bought account from some one. So no question  to remove tag. More DT should be tag him for bought account. I have archived as a proof of his statement.

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Archived thread for future proof: http://archive.is/ZMyoG

I sent you a pm. My argument is pretty solid and the degrading of this account shouldn’t have taken place in the beginning. I will send over the pictures of proof via pm or here in a few hours. It appears to me that the person who started this thread doesn’t like the original owner of the account. I will speak with the original owner and send pictures of our conversation  after I send my proof I also want vit05 to be accountable for all the FUD he created in regards to this account.

Nuke the account, and mark the IP as toxic.

The buyer is already trying to participate in a campaign. I hope that, if it is true, he receive red tagbefore being accepted.


But what I found curious, is the amount of swearing in the posts to other users. It will not be missed if the account is deleted by mods.'

Honestly, other than the account getting tagged so members here know I could care less that you receive assistance.

I believe an Admin maybe a MOD, can review the messages on the account, even if they were deleted to validate the claim.

Seeing as there are many honest members on the Forum waiting to recover their hacked accounts, you have 0 chance of getting it back anytime soon.


Funny you came asking for help from a community, you obviously care to little about to just crash the account or walk away.

Account selling is not prohibited but it's discouraged. I don't think this thread also belongs to Meta since you're already posted "Scam accusation" board too.

Why are you sold your reputation in the forum for just 250$ in the first place? I also Agreed with "Pharmacist" there's nothing to this matter with other members.

I think seller also to be tagged. Why only buyers?