I see that it appears minerjones really did send you the PM, however the signed message doesn't verify with the PGP key in his keybase.
Did you attempt to verify the signature against keybase before sending the funds?
Hard to know exactly what happened without input from MJ. Right now I have to assume yours is a faked screenshot.
I’m not sure what’s going on here or why my name is mentioned - but I have nothing to do with whatever is going on here nor have I sold anything or requested or sent any money or whatever is being discussed in this chat to or from anyone here.
Please keep me out of this drama and whatever scam your are trying to pull.
Thanks!
I found this in my messages from august 31st:
https://i.imgur.com/rGsvgtb.png
I can only assume that raj dude scammed you, and used my name for that purpose somehow.
I AM NOT INVLVED AT ALL HERE!
https://bitcointalksearch.org/user/rajubhusal-2300231let the detectives here go to work!
***shady - reviewing his lasts posts, changed names and emails a lot, lots of scam like history, sorry for that guys loss, but he didn't do his due diligence with a simple search , not sure what the "escrow-man" thinks?
Maybe it is true.
Let me tell you how it happened to me.
After I posted thread to buy physical coins on August 20, and buckrogers contacted me for this on August 23. On August 25 Rajubhusal
(first time to send me a massage) sent me a massage, and told me that Rajubhusal is buckrogers. Even this massage quoted the massage that buckrogers sent to me on August 23(At that time I did not understand how Rajubhusal got the buckrogers's massage if this is not the same man). At that time I suspected this may be scam. But I like monero physical coins and I wanna buy it. I thought that I can use escrow service , my money will be safe even if I don't receive the physical coins. So I contact MJ for escrow.
At that time I did not understand how Rajubhusal got the buckrogers's massage if this is not the same man
You said your account was hacked right? it doesnt take a genius to figure out it was this Raj guy who did it and took a DM and used it against you.
You should have checked with Escrow, me or anyone else on the forum, or posted in your thread at least that "something" was off or different. Kind of basic knowledge in life before sending a random stranger a few hundered XMR!
Instead you assumed and took his word for it, and in turn accused me of stealing your coins.
SMH
*** oh and id never say "Cheers"
I see that it appears minerjones really did send you the PM, however the signed message doesn't verify with the PGP key in his keybase.
Did you attempt to verify the signature against keybase before sending the funds?
Hard to know exactly what happened without input from MJ. Right now I have to assume yours is a faked screenshot.
He was scammed - most likely buy that Raj guy.
This is why escrows put in the PGP message - SO YOU CAN VERIFY IT!
OP:
Honestly I know it sucks, but you should have done your due diligence with all the tools that were freely provided to you by the escrow. Especially with that amount of coin.
Sad to see, but you aren't the first and you wont be the last to get scammed, hopefully someone besides the OP ofc can learn from this terrible mistake and scam, and triple check everything before sending out funds to anyone.
you should have done your due diligence with all the tools that were freely provided to you by the escrow. Especially with that amount of coin.
Yes, I made a big mistake. I will learn from that.
MJ is a good man. I have used MJ's escrow service many times, and it works well. I trust him, so I always send coins to escrow address without verifying PGP. But it failed this time.
Can help me to verify how the scammer fake the massage that MJ sent to me? Is the XMR address under control of the scammer? Thanks.
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