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Topic: PirateAt40 / Trendon Shavers - page 2. (Read 5116 times)

legendary
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March 28, 2013, 05:31:11 AM
#11
The SEC is moving forward with the case, albeit slowly. Pirate will be going to prison. But these things take time.

Enjoy,

How sure are you about that?
 I haven't lost money to him (refrained myself from sending money to him despite the temptations Tongue) but I'd love to see a bitcoin scammer finally go to prison.
donator
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Merit: 1000
March 28, 2013, 05:29:37 AM
#10
The SEC is moving forward with the case, albeit slowly. Pirate will be going to prison. But these things take time.

Enjoy,
legendary
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RUM AND CARROTS: A PIRATE LIFE FOR ME
March 28, 2013, 05:27:42 AM
#9
It is insane how much Pirate's scam is worth at this point.
hero member
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Merit: 514
March 28, 2013, 04:53:09 AM
#8
nope. from what has been read. alot of people invested at the time on avage $1000 each. so then wasting another $1k on flights or a couple $k on investigators, court fee's etc is not in their interest.
Yeah, but since that time, the value has increased by how much? Seven times? Eight times? Your $1000 loss is suddenly a $8000 loss, and it's increasing.

Those who invested directly with Trendon could go after him, but others (hello BitcoinMax) don't have much of a chance when the PPT operators protect Pirate.

I'm sure that someone who would visit Trendon (with a wet fish maybe?) could earn quite an amount. Most here would agree to pay a percentage of any retrieved coins. Rumors talk about around 500,000 coins that were invested. If investors offer to pay "only" 10% that would be 50,000 coins. With the current exchange rate of ~$90, a person could earn $4,500,000 for a face-to-face visit.
legendary
Activity: 4410
Merit: 4766
March 27, 2013, 08:57:35 PM
#7
He was logged into bitcointalk March 23rd.
Now we could ask theymos about the IP, but I guess he wouldn't tell us...

you could ask for his IP, but in the end everyone knows his address, name, family, how much the mortgage of his house is, his previous court appearances. so knowing his IP is meaningless now.

what needed are those that actually got defrauded by him to pull their finger out and use the information legally. else there's no point going on about it and just leave it as a lesson learnt.
full member
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March 27, 2013, 07:29:47 PM
#6
He was logged into bitcointalk March 23rd.
Now we could ask theymos about the IP, but I guess he wouldn't tell us...
full member
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Merit: 100
mistaken for gribble since 2011
March 27, 2013, 06:55:00 PM
#5
He was logged into bitcointalk March 23rd.
legendary
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Merit: 1000
March 27, 2013, 06:10:58 PM
#4
I would probably just spam his doing around his community, exposing him for the scum bag he is.
hero member
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Merit: 500
March 27, 2013, 06:01:45 PM
#3
basically learned that you can still get away with murder in the btc community and no one is going to do anything about it.  the same thing is going on with mt. gox and them holding the bitcoinica funds hostage (from the sounds of it).  the only lesson you need to know about bitcoin is always keep it in your own wallet.
legendary
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Merit: 4766
March 27, 2013, 05:37:51 PM
#2
nope. from what has been read. alot of people invested at the time on avage $1000 each. so then wasting another $1k on flights or a couple $k on investigators, court fee's etc is not in their interest.

some people were not socially outbound enough to want their names made public or form a class action suit.

then came whispers of the SEC being interested already, made those few people that would have put money into a court case, decide that it was no longer required to spend their own cash and leave it in the hopes the SEC will do something.

the short of it..

no one bothered. alot of doxing and remote harassment with trendon and his family. but no one went to him to slap him across the face with a wet fish face to face.

lesson to learn. if its gonna cost you alot of money slap the person you are dealing with, with a wet fish face to face if they break the deals contract. then think hard and deeply about doing the deal.
hero member
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March 27, 2013, 04:55:43 PM
#1
Since it has been rather quiet around this whole mess for some time now I would like to take the chance and ask what the current status is.

Are/Were there any lawsuits? Or other attempts to get something back?
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