I am mining with raistlinthewiz for some weeks now, and I have to say that I earned more money with his EAC pool than with Poolerino and other well known EAC mining pools. I even spoke with him on IRC about pool support.
Do you really think a big pool owner would put his reputation on the line to scam someone for 0.4 BTC?
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His livelihood hangs on that username.
I believe him when he says that someone hacked his bitcointalk username and tried to scam people. That's one of the best ways to scam somebody by using a username with high reputation. That just shows us never to do a trade without escrow as you never know if the account was not hacked.
It sucks for you to have lost your money, but I don't think it was raistlinthewiz who did it. I hope you make it back quickly, and learn from it of never to do a trade without escrow.
thanks for your remind of using escrow service, I have paid for not using it this time,I would not forget next time.
and for "a big pool owner would put his reputation on the line to scam someone for 0.4 BTC?
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" Logically "NO". but there are reports of millionaire stolen things from grocery stores and been caught...
no matter who was behind the symbol "raistlinthewiz" scammed victims, the accoount's behaviors still set a good "hacker trick" sample for all scammers. Victims have to bear loss to responsible for not using a escrow sevice, and the symbol "raistlinthewiz" also should be responsible for its behaviors on this forum but not blocked my pm and ask victims keep silent and wish.