Topic: Instawallet claim process (Read 79281 times)

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Ironic, how only 4 days later InstaWallet was "hacked" while davout/DAVID FRANCOIS was on holiday for 4 weeks.

https://www.facebook.com/BitcoinMagazine/posts/463029867101607

I started a thread in the scam section of this forum calling out Paymium, et al.: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/paymium-bitcoin-centralinstawallet-principals-stole-over-a-million-dollars-586194

davout is considered staff on BitcoinTalk, and I don't think you need to be reminded that former staff/mods are no longer around due to their thieving practice.

https://bitcointalksearch.org/user/davout-1929


David François (davout) is not to be trusted!

~Bruno Kucinskas

Here's my first post on this thread, as you can clearly see, it's never been edited (a lot of my posts are edited, but 99% of the time it's due to grammar, and I'm surprised to see I didn't have to edit this post at the time).


Note the text in red. Mt Gox and Bets of Bitcoin are gone, and the third claim turned out to be true.

I've already shown that InstaWallet funneled bitcoins in and out of Bitcoin-Central, and davout, a mod on this forum who owns bitcoin-central.com (.net) washed bitcoins through Satoshi Dice, and now has my 1,132 BTC residing in one of his personal wallets.

Since I haven't been refunded my bitcoins, I will now go into full-dox mode for every person associated prior and now with Paymium, et al. Also, I will notify each and every investor that has associated with said entity and its principals, along with notify the banking regulators overseeing Lemon Way that's acting as Bitcoin-Central's bank.

If you haven't figured it out, I'm one pissed off motherfucker right now.

~Bruno Kucinskas

It seems perfectly possible that Francois and Noizant had their eye on whatever funds were potentially unclaimed when they acquired Instawallet and it's fund pool from Jav.

When the 'hack' happened Boussac stated several times that they did not know if they'd 'be able' to pay off the larger wallets.  The inference which was probably supposed to be drawn was that some funds had been stolen by some party external to their group of organizations (bitcoin-central, paymium, etc.)  Another possibility is that they simply did not know what their take would be in the unclaimed wallet windfall and if they would be happy with it.

The possibility looks pretty strong that ~davout (with or without the knowledge of ~boussac who seems technically incompetent) decided to do his 'civic duty' and teach the community a lesson by appropriating at least one large wallet.

~jav's approach to trying to communicate the lesson was to warn in no uncertain terms on the front page of the website that Instawallet was to be considered to have limited security and was for small amounts of BTC only.  Somehow along the line that warning got misplaced in a re-design after ~davout/~boussac got a hold of the service.

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.1173977

Before the Trust system was started, theymos used to go through some peoples' PMs to ensure they deserved to be scammer-tagged, nowadays (AFAIK) he only goes through peoples' PMs if he needs to do so for administration purposes, he informed me once of going though 20 most recent subjects of PMs sent to me, to fix a problem with PMs not loading after grue and me informed him of this issue.

Of course if you have some sensitive info to communicate, you should GPG-encrypt your message, or communicate off-site. The note "Note: PM privacy is not guaranteed. Encrypt sensitive messages." was added two years ago: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.1147985

Global moderators can only see those PMs that the recipient reports by clicking "Report To Admin".

https://blockchain.info/address/16d1yGrEDqSY1xhCnAUWrkahGY2mkWdAYk



Amazingly, David François a.k.a. davout, a moderator on BitcoinTalk forum, was able to amass 1,384.35491053 BTC during the same exact time frame I was trying to get my 1,132 BTC returned to me. What are the odds?

Also, what are the odds of him being able to do such when he claimed that InstaWallet didn't have any customers, all the while David and Boussac were whining about having to do all the refunds/research/etc. for free on this very thread?

Prior to the "hack", I chimed in with other concerns made because of my 1,000+ were entrusted with InstaWallet, but was rest assured by a well-respected mod (in fact, two) that all was well and I need not worry. It wasn't till on the third day after the "hack" I was made aware that it had occurred, whereupon I expressed my outrage, in turn Boussac put me on his ignore list and David was nowhere to me found.

After ~100+ requests to see the police report, Boussac was finally kind enough to post in the...wait for it...French section of this forum oppose to the official InstaWallet claim thread, the one you're reading now. It was thanks to another Bitcoiner who discovered it and migrated the post to this thread.

Since day one, 100s of requests have been made as to who conducted the audit they claimed to have done. To date, crickets on that subject. Boussac claimed there is more than one auditor, whereupon David (davout) only claims there's one. One of them is lying.

David/davout registered Bitcoin-Central.com, of which was a separate entity from all other concerns under Paymium's umbrella, and was deem secured and safe, and had to abide by rules that govern banks because it was/is backed by a bank, yet bitcoins flowed in and out of Bitcoin-Central via InstaWallet prior to the "hack". Somehow, I'm pretty sure that that could be construed as some form of money laundering.

Out of the three claims I filed over a year ago, the lesser one, 0.835 BTC, was finally returned to me this past February, 2014, in spite of it being denied for lack of proof, but eventually approved upon resubmitting the same proof. David claimed that it wasn't found in their records, probably because if they would have found it, they would have found the other two claims, assuming all three would have been lumped close together. I'm guessing the records on their servers were expunged, thus allowing Paymium a windfall to go along with the 20K micro InstaWallet wallets, for only less than 1,000 outta 21K funded wallets (their numbers, not mine) have been returned to their non-customers to date.

Looking further into Paymium, you find the following: https://angel.co/paymium



Note the date: Dec. 21, 2011.

Ready for another date or two and another image? Thought so, for that's how I roll.

https://angel.co/galitt/activity



https://angel.co/galitt/activity

Dec. 11, 2012: Gonzague Grandval invested in Galitt
Founder @PAYMIUM Payment Specialist

Jan. 18, 2013: Galitt invested in PAYMIUM
Money Over IP - First European Bitcoin-Compliant Payment Scheme

Note, if it looks like a scheme, acts like a scheme, and feels like a scheme, it must me a scheme, as in work out a deal.

Looking at http://www.galitt.us/:


Their Atlanta office is just down the road and literally on the same street as BitPay, of which I surely hope they're not involved, for such would sadden me deeply because I love them guys.

https://angel.co/gonzague-grandval



In 2011, Gilitt invested in Paymium to a tune of $400K USD. What kind of investment would Gonza have to contribute to Gilitt to help them with their endeavor when you consider the following: https://www.linkedin.com/company/galitt



Galitt is not a small outfit if you consider 201-500 employees not small.

I bet you're curious as to where Gilitt's office is located in conjunction to Paymium's office, aren't you? So was I, so I mapped it for both our pleasures.



I bet I know what the Honorable Judge Kays would say: Something doesn't smell right.

That said, I'll echo what I've already stated: If anybody has any funds in Bitcoin-Central, I advise you to get them out ASAP because I have a very funny feeling that the banking regulators in France will be auditing these bastards, and they won't be using the same auditor(s) that was supposedly used with InstaWallet, of which I have strong reason to believe was a lie.

paymium.com was registered on 2010-06-03 but didn't have the site live until Oct. 20, 2011: http://web.archive.org/web/20111020202119/http://www.paymium.com/

But, Gilitt was kind enough to invest $400K USD in their venture. Before InstaWallet failed, InstaWire failed, Paytunia failed, and Bitcoin-Central went dark for a period, Gonzague Grandval was able to invest in Gilitt, then a year later Gilitt re-invests in Paymium.

As I mentioned before, Gonza was nowhere around during the aftermath of the "hack" in spite of him having a user account on this very forum: https://bitcointalksearch.org/user/cugnac-56121

In closing, all I'm asking for is what's rightfully mine - 1,132 BTC. It already been proven that the funds are still in InstaWallet or its principal's control and I want my bitcoins returned to me.

At this speaking, I consider everybody associated with Paymium thieves and will do everything in my power to see that an audit is conducted in all its concerns, especially Bitcoin-Central since it's backed by a bank and MUST abide by federal regulations.

"Now" implies it was not happening before...
I only joined in 2012 but I rekon the scummyness has been happening since day 1.
How many years did the forum mgmt own secret shares in GLBSE before it was revealed... Would that be a good start date ?? or maybe we could use the date when theymos tried to sell the shares off after learning some disturbing information at a shareholder meeting... 2-3 days before it shut down for good...  =)

Love how the mods/staff who were arguing with me, saying mods/staff never scam aren't giving there 2cents worth now....

It could have gone either way.  That is why I asked.  Though I often make typo's I did not in this case when I relayed the information I receive.  That is, that garden variety mods do NOT necessarily have access to everyone's PMs.

Of course I only have the word of another mod, and I didn't ask if, say, a 'global moderator' does.  (I figure they probably do.)  Themos does not run an open-source service here so the logical posture is to be defensive and assume the worst.  In this case that PM's are not private (and the unending stream of hacks that this forum has experienced make that even more the case.)

wait, do you mean Mods gets to access all our PMs?
no shiieeettt 

Yo, Themos:

We who've been around for a while understand that in true Libertarian form this forum may be leveraged as a vehicle by the strong (scammers) to separate wealth from the weak (users) for personal gain, and special access to do so can be obtained.  I personally even have some respect for this in that it is a pure...if somewhat brutal...embodiment of Libertarian principles.  (I don't personally hold these principles, but that does not stop me from appreciate them at some level.)

But when a guy gets caught red-handed leveraging his moderator privileges like our friend ~davout here, he's doing unacceptable damage to the platform, and by extension you, and it's time for him to go.  That also is brutal common sense.  We see it in politics all the time.

That said, I'd rather see ~davout stick around.  The more material he produces here, the better the possibility that those who he might have victimized may realize some recompense.

For the record, I was assured that ~davout's level of access as a moderator is not sufficient to allow him to peruse people's PM's.  I asked about this on the 'meta' board about a year ago when it became clear that there was a very real possibility that the guy was actually a criminal and when I was using the forum PM system to solicit information I though I might need to achieve recompense for my losses here.

Interesting,

Quite a few people think its a bit strange that a THIEF can be a MODERATOR on this site!!!

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/go-out-french-moderator-548245

I am also still waiting!

35.37 BTC

After they confirmed my Payout for somewhen in June i havent heard Anything New!

Hope I get My Money back!

Have you checked these ones as well?

This is David Francois' wallet

https://blockchain.info/address/1DavouTAsveznCFHsz688xvbrRAq4u2qm8

If you look closely, before the "hack" there were mainly small transactions. Then suddenly after the "hack" on 2013-04-22 20:27:57      TXID: f08814e154dd270454ffcbe1aa97b7cf798e2fdf47cc6f1456e568b820f45016

the first of the large transactions in & out of his wallet started occurring.

QUITE A FEW High Valued transactions into/out of his account.

There's loads of other interesting transactions.
 
Here he sent 1,029 BTC to the following address on 2013-11-27 15:38:54 TXID 63718e56cfe440e3e9005379505f70790dace8b7d5151502b90c376e02b91bbb

https://blockchain.info/address/16d1yGrEDqSY1xhCnAUWrkahGY2mkWdAYk

Wallet still contains 1,384 BTC

JUST-DICE transactions to David's Wallet

2013-07-04 18:40:53        TXID:  829ee922d522ef14f23685bae9381152f2013e9617f1ee3b612835af224f37bd
2013-07-04 18:13:53        TXID:  5f801a8dc14473a9e41c1ef455fe0b14917dd4f5ac5e76a1beb112f0f00bf63b

Lets dig further!

If its true there is a link between MT.GOX/Karpeles and David Francois (DAVOUT), and possibly BITCOIN-CENTRAL, then lets find it!

Who knows what we might uncover! Its time to weed out all the SHIT from the Bitcoin Community!

If we want Bitcoin to succeed, then this needs to be done!

KARMA is gonna come get you DAVID FRANCOIS (DAVOUT)!!!!

WOW, one of my posts on the french board was deleted over the wknd! I wonder by whom???

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/bitcoin-central-discussion-questions-reponses-109271

GIVE ME BACK MY BITCOINS!

You have my BTC Address, return them!

no, he just abuses everyone who asks for a fair deal to get their bitcoins back ... and being forum moderator he got away with stealing people's bitcoins by first obfuscating, then yelling harder.

That's how it works around here now I guess (I'm looking at you theymos).

sweet jesus
this is like over a yr old.

i assumed everyone got there money back and thats why no one made a big deal about ANOTHER forum staff/mod turned scammer ?

Im still missing my 15BTC as well, as I had missed the claim process. I have mailed (seriously around a week after the claims process closed) all the proof to these guys showing that the 15 BTC are mine. I have shown every single transaction I made within Instawallet with all wallet URLS, exact amounts etc. Richard Caetano even confirmed all my data.

I was in the process of setting up a court case against these guys in my country. If enough International people join in we can make an International case of theft/fraud/money laundering and whatever else they have been involved in. If we work together and get all court documentation we can nail them.

Phinnaeus Gage lets get these THIEVES, Im willing to get the ball rolling in my country. If enough countries have arrest warrants/court orders etc against them, they will have a lot of difficulty traveling. The nice thing is that nowadays BTC are so much in the news, that our chances to get them are getting better and better.

Link with MT.GOX??? David Francois seems to know Mark Karpeles, (see link below)

You can also find their personal info in this article!!

http://thebitcoinnews.co.uk/2014/04/13/bitcoin-central-net-insolvent-the-french-bitcoin-association-and-the-relation-to-mtgox/

Here is some more info in regards to the biggest thief DAVOUT, aka David Francois.

https://www.facebook.com/hypnotowd

https://soundcloud.com/davoutplantaire

https://twitter.com/davoutplantaire

https://twitter.com/paymium

https://twitter.com/pierre_75011

https://twitter.com/ggrandval

https://github.com/davout

http://fr.linkedin.com/pub/david-francois/61/40a/473

https://i.imgur.com/pjzAuyb.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/1M1MuGE.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/SikaZyf.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/cr8FhFw.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/1cbiaSR.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/lPiPL8S.png

THIEF!!!

https://www.facebook.com/BitcoinMagazine/posts/463029867101607

Someday soon they will run into some of us at some Bitcoin conferences. They don't know what we look like, but we know what they look like!!!!

David, you piece of shit, return me my 15 BTC or face the consequences. As I said before... KARMA IS GONNA COME GET YOU!!!!!!

My response.

Hey I had less than one bitcoin at instawallet before they crashed.  i gave up on you, but are you saying I can try to get my bitcoin back?  Post the link please, i have my private key.