Topic: Master-P SCAMMER. I lost complete faith in this forum now. - page 49. (Read 80701 times)

Maybe you could prove that you are the real master-p by posting something in your dox, like your street address number or something small so those with your dox could confirm that it is the correct information..

Or maybe PM the dude with your dox and tell him so he can confirm it is correct..

It may not remove all doubt but may help.. IDK, just a suggestion..

Obviously he's coming back home early to refund the coins. It seems some sig posters are just posting shit to bump up their post count.

I'd be surprised if you can actually provide a signed message. But I'll still be waiting.

Great. I will be monitoring. Hopefully we are on the road to getting this sorted out.



As far as we know absolutely everything every "Master-P" said was a lie. Nothing about this adds up. If however he can sign the message it is a good indicator we at least have one of the directly involved parties engaged in a dialog. Time will tell if he follows thru on this. I for one am glad there is a possibility of the victims being compensated this way regardless of his current lack of credibility.

How? A couple of posts ago you said you would be home in 2 days. And some time before that you said you would be home in about a week. This just doesn't add up.

I will be able to sign a message in about 10 hours time.

^^^^^^^^^ I hope you're right.

I want to give you the benefit of the doubt in case you are telling the truth, but none of these various stories add up. The only way you are getting more time is if you start refunding coins or you sign a message before the 1st. What you have stated so far is not convincing.

P.S. I don't care what you use to sign, as long as it has connection to the Master-P account at some time. I realize this means you could also be the purported hacker, but this would rule out third parties trolling, in addition the hacker would have little to no incentive to stop your doxing. Of course signing an uncompromised address would help you establish your identity later, but time is of the essence here, and we need some sign of life from you before I consider delaying the release of your info. I prefer that you start refunding coins, but either will do.

I'm not going to bother with sifting through all the trash here.

So the person who posted with the account "jonesz" posted the following transaction claiming that it is the tx where the sale of my account took place:
https://blockchain.info/tx/61c3471d66a8b5f1cc61ede17545c14951ce96e5731f5c17846be175c11879aa

I was able to finally log in to my Bitstamp account today. This transaction matches one of my withdrawals from bitstamp to my wallet. There is a good chance that the wallet that contains this particular address has not yet been compromised. With that  I can definitely sign an address to prove that this is me.

The hacker signed a message using my "Bitcoin Stake Your Address Here" address. This address is in a separate wallet with zero funds which he has apparently taken control of, seeing as he signed a message with the address that has been validated by you guys.

The address in the above posted transaction is not in the same wallet. If I am right then the hacker should not have access to this wallet as it would not have been able to log my keys for that password, as I haven't used it at all in the weeks prior to my vacation. When I get back I will be able to check which addresses I can use to sign to prove my identity over whoever is on my account and whoever else posting here is claiming to be me.

Regardless, someone here is fucking with me and trying to screw me over. For those who keep asking why I couldn't post any announcement here that I'm going away, etc. is because I did not intend to have to be away from the forums for this long. My plans was to be able to log in remotely to complete escrow tasks once or twice a week. As that is usually the frequency of when I need to manually send out payments for sig campaigns and what not. I don't feel like I'm obligated to announce myself to everyone when I need to take time off, or just be a little less active than usual because of me having a life outside of this place.

Right now I am NOT turning on my computer remotely in the case that I am right about the hacker not having control over the escrow wallet yet. This is the best case scenario for everyone, because if that is true then I will have a better chance at reclaiming full control and be able to refund everyone's coins before the thief gets a hold of it.

I read those exchanges and I cannot imagine any of those excuses are true.  It looked like he was stonewalling whilst thinking of whatever it is scammers think of while they're running away with the money.  Crazy how this is developing.

If he really did that trip, why didn't he tell people?

Though only one thing can be possible. Either the private keys are compromised and the "hacker" can sign message AND withdraw the funds or the funds are out of reach for the hacker and the private keys are NOT compromised.

I think the only storyline without inconsistencies is that master-P made an exit scam and wrote all of this himself or he lost the private keys and can't reclaim the bitcoins and he had the stupid idea to try getting out of this.

He might have thought he might be able to avoid paying back of the escrowed funds. Maybe now, when he slowly realizes his stories have too many holes, he gives in and claims he will pay back slowly.

All speculation at this point unfortunately.

as long as there is serious intent, like 20% returned immediately and the rest via 4-5 weekly payments

not sure what the total is but assuming $10k or so this shouldn't be a problem if he can afford a 3 week vacation who knows where

can put it on a credit card LOL


whatever the excuse it's not ok for an escrow to go on an extended trip with no way to access accounts and wallets

besides there are many other tools like trezor etc

it also appears (if we believe the "hack" story) that master-p may have been delinquent with backups and/or not have a good disaster recover plan... makes you think how other escrows on this forum would deal with a situation like this, or a "hit by a bus" scenario etc.

I have already requested he sign a message for me. This was my plan all along. If he can provide any evidence he was hacked I will give him the benefit of the doubt for the sake of all parties involved. I don't take this lightly, but some times it is necessary to remind people that its not always so easy to get away with robbing people of their Bitcoin.

Well if this story is true then the money is gone, and master-p owes all of his customers his escrow funds. I used him as an escrow for a tranasction once. It makes me think twice about finding work here on this forum.

I would want to believe you but there is no way i can imagine you sitting around 14 days without the need of logging into bitcointalk. If you would have tried to do so then you would have warned everyone 2 weeks ago. You have a convincing explaination for that?

I was also on his steam friends list. He also removed me. Clearly he is trying to cut off ties from the forum.

Cell reception != wifi

Before you say "we'll he could tether his computer through his phone" many people don't have that because it's an additional $30/mo for minimal benefit

I would have thought so too but the real master-P would have come with a convincing explaination long ago. He didn't. the explainations that came in make no sense on every edge of story.