Topic: Master-P SCAMMER. I lost complete faith in this forum now. - page 51. (Read 80747 times)

The errors you describe are mostly done by newbies. They never heard of rising difficulty, only that there are magic money machines that print money. And so on. But master-p was an escrow for a long time. He wouldn't have survived when he would be so stupid that he could be easily scammed. He would have learned to identify the possible risks. Because of that i can't imagine that he sold the account without knowing very well what will happen.

In fact i doubt he sold at all. I tend to believe the recent problems with "reindexing" the blockchain on his wallet might be in fact a loss of his wallet and he had no backup. No the easiest way out might have been this story.

Well this is completely an idea to make sense out of this only. He scammed regardless of how you look at it.

yeah your odds are good here I think

how many of these suspected exit scams have ever turned good? can't remember any although I haven't been on here that much...

Do you have any screenshots of your claims? Probably it would be best if you had showed them here. This might instigate him to think deeply about the situation.


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BTW, have anyone bothered to verify his signed messages from his Keybase account? He din't even know how to sign a message, instead he just encrypted them! I was trying to verify all his signed messages and got the same error as follows:


This is how a signed messaging via PGP key is done:


And for everyone's kind information, this error is also found in his signed message that was done first on January 29, 2015, 03:34:40 PM . So you all can conclude the rest!

Anyways, since that was his first signed message, can anyone freely reveal here, who sent him an invite for registering on www.keybase.io? (I guess they weren't just accepting random users as of today).

Moreover, by looking through his past post history, he was an "altcoin buff" and was 95% active on the altcoin sections until he slowly abandoned the altcoin section and started his escrow service from Jan. I felt to revel this information in case someone can link any conclusion as to when actually the account was sold! Or it might be a hoax overall.

That's all for today. I wonder, what's Gleb Gamow doing at the moment.

Well, you know i don't think the trust system is perfect, i only think that a trust system built only on the work of their members will lead to more scams than now because users will safe the work to create their trust list way too often.

With training i meant more that escrows have to be very cautious. If it isn't for their clients it is for themselves since it might very well be possible to scam an escrow directly. For fear of reputation loss or similar things. Because of that you need to find out the possible risks. And since he was an escrow for a longer time he NEEDS to know what would happen. In my eyes it's not possible that he did not know.

Buncha fuckboys in crypto lately. Ruining it for the Bitcoin community. Such a shame.

Its wierd that he apparently created a new account with a signed message saying he'd sold his master-p bitcointalk account and associated accounts for 2BTC back in August. He also went on to say he's sorry but cant help and wont be coming back.

Then another couple of accounts were created again saying they were him but that his accounts have been hacked and not sold and he'll do his best to repay the money (which now stands at over 25BTC I believe).

The funds are still in the addresses they were sent to.

So my thoughts are that either this was an exit scam attempt from master-p but he's got cold feet after being threatened with a dox or that his accounts have really been hacked but they cant get access to his private keys to steal the coins.

Whats worrying is that one of the latter accounts created when he said he'd only just found out about this is that he said he was 'going to get some sleep'. Surely anyone with his high standing in the community and wanting to try and keep some dignity and respect would have got a couple of matchsticks if they were tired and stuck them between their eyelids and worked tirelessly to prove they had in fact been hacked and tried to clear their name.

The worrying thing is there seems to be no attempt from master-p to prove his innocence

But after all is said this still doesn't add up, is it an attempted master-p exit scam or has he been hacked?

I'm afraid to say my money is still on an exit scam but I hope to be proved wrong.

If master-P has been hacked and the original owner of master-P is in control of his steam account, then cutting communication is irrelevant as he doesn't have any of the escrowed funds and supposedly some forum members have the original owners' personal information.

i was the one who originally messaged him about the issue, and he has removed me since this blew up. i also recall EAL (the mod) was on his friends list too under the steam ign EAL F. Skillz (profile home page, saw it by chance), but i dont see him on there anymore either. pretty likely he (master-p) has already purged his steam to completely cut off ties from the forum.

Very interesting. Makes me wanna pull my FS thread and avoid bitcointalk.org .

Wonder how deep this goes.

I don't think so afterall.


Then why did he bother to reply here again? Somewhere he also posted that he doesn't care about being DOX-ed.... all are lies my friend

BTW, somebody should try PMing him on Steam. Maybe that would be helpful, since he already claimed, Steam accounts can't be hacked!

That's not definitive proof the account was sold, as was already discussed in this thread.


If the account+email was hacked/sold it makes sense trying the email route, because the email is in the possession of the person who probably has the escrowed funds, and that's what everyone is after. Might as well forget the "real" master-P in this scenario, because he won't be able to do anything for anyone; he may be dealt with later, the important thing now is getting funds back to people.

You sent him an email? Wasn't that probably hacked/sold as a bundled kit with the account?

Someone already did that for him: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/master-ps-scammed-funds-summary-post-your-case-here-if-you-were-scammed-1307926

For God's sake, do not sleep in this situation. How can you think of sleeping peacefully?! If you are the real master-p, I'll advice you to:

• Create a list of every members, you had escrowed the funds and immediately contact them either via pm or ask them in a new thread (recommended, for transparency) for getting their refund addresses. (I would like to prefer any responsible one involved here, to create a new thread with the list and a link to your proof that you have used master-p as the escrow provider and have already sent the funds The listing is done here. Thanks knightdk)

• Start refunding them (alongwith a signed message from each of the addresses you are using for initiating the refund) immediately after converting your Fiat to BTC, wherever you are residing at present. (You can ask here for the monetary conversion obviously using any escrow among  the aforementioned "The Big 5" list)

• Download a new wallet on your mobile/laptop for the purpose. (I don't think your laptop is compromised the same way your PC did)

• You may not refund everyone but at least start from small contracts you escrowed.

• In the meantime, don't try to turn on your PC remotely (until all refunds are processed from a new wallet), as this might worsen the situation further.

• After you have refunded everyone (I think you'll come back home by the time you have initiated the last refund), then you may try to turn on your PC (make sure your internet connection is turned off) and backup your wallet.dat file from your wallet. (you can only skip this step if you already have a backup on a pendrive which isn't inserted after your PC got compromised)

• Lastly, download the wallet anew on your laptop or reset your PC (not recommended) and after re-indexing the Blockchain, restore your wallet.dat file.

Well, you are solely responsible for everything happened so far and now you will have to clear the inevitable mess. Why are you to blaming us loudly for not believing in you after so much happened?


(I guess you came back after reading my email )

i knew it.. before i read any of this.. "I wuz hacked" 

gimme a fucking break.

and how exactly did this happen ?

i should hope someone on the default trust list possessed the basic ability to create a password.

what a piece of shit.

The question is not to find the real master -P but to get the funds restored to the community.

What about showing the transaction from the online banking for this transaction?  I don't imagine his banking account would be compromised and the real masterp should only have access to it.

have you noticed how conveniently "real master p" changed their travel plans to match your doxing ultimatum?

i think he/she is hoping for you to extend the deadline perhaps will even send some funds out before the 1st...

If his computer was in fact compromised, this wont tell us anything.

This might help matters a bit.

*The real master P*, if you are the real masterp can you please PM me the email account that is connected to your bank account that I sent money to for the transaction that took place here (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1180592)?

Edit; An email from that address might actually be better sent to [email protected] as I don't believe masterp's email address has been compromised.