Hello,
Many of you know me as a php programmer selling scripts.
I made good money off of that, and aim to do so in the future.
I had great products that people liked, and people trusted.
I participated on these forums for almost 2 years, and am almost a hero account. Built my trust up, and am hoping to increase doing so.
About half a year to a year ago my friend wanted to participate in some sig campaigns to make some money so he made an account for it, and he asked me to make some posts every so often (he got bored after about 28 activity) to increase the activity to full or senior.
Friend hasn't been on since then, dont blame him.
Anyways, only campaign that I could join was 777coin, he lost his address so I temporarily just changed it to my own.
Made a tiny amount of btc, doesn't really have any significance.
Continued selling dice scripts, doing coding (all code is fine, nothing malicious, my trust and feedback can back me up on that), made some money.
First time I discovered ponzis I was skeptical, but eventually I trusted them more in that they are honest and transparent. This was in the last ponzi boom about a year ago during march.
Ponzi ended, and then about 2 weeks ago ponzis started up again, but first let me tell you how I met my scammer partner.
About a month ago I met my partner (moreia) over email. He offered me 1.7 btc for a reselling license for my dice scripts. If anyone is inquiring about this partnership with dice scripts you can ask in this thread (looking to keep this as public as possible)
Good partner, he got lots of sales and I made good comission, this guy knows how to sell stuff. We had a good partnership going on, made some profit, people liked our scripts, everything was going good.
Leading up to about 2 weeks ago when weeklyponzi.com started. I was the 4th investor in that, I was excited that ponzis came up again, they were a lot of fun. reinvested 4 times, total volume was about 700 btc or something in the first week, the owner made 40 btc in fees (about 10,000$ usd). I thought in my head that it would be cool to run one of these, but its a big project and I didn't want to have to deal with it myself, I never though that I would be running one.
Moreia sent me an email the next day asking if we wanted to partner up (skype message here:
http://gyazo.com/e79cb94eacbcda9611ae3284f790c055) on something like this!
I never scammed anyone before (and I never planned on it) because I spent SO many hours on this account and work. I built my reputation up and I figured running a large trustworthy site would make me even more trustworthy, earning me profits in the ponzi fees and from my dice scripts.
I agreed, this would be a lot of fun, and now I have a partner who is great at selling things (he has a bunch of alts and people he knows that could pump this up).
We first set up nextponzi.com, worked out well, people liked our site, we made almost a btc in fees (split 50/50 between us) and we both thanked eachother for having this great idea.
Nextponzi weekly died down and we wanted to set up some more sites to keep the excitement of fees coming in (we reinvested in our own websites to help keep it going)
We set up 48 hour, that worked out greatly as well.
We made fake accounts to avoid getting our accounts trashed which all the ponzi accounts did.
Nextponzi was good, but 48 hour died again and we made 1 more site, autoponzi. Nextponzi had some problems with the api (blockchain was terrible and this ended in skipped transactions), and in the thread there was lots of bugs shown, which were all fixed. We started up autoponzi (kerimk2 account was used), hoping to make that bigger without some bugs holding it down, it worked great but blockchain banned our ips and resulted in long response times. It had a bad start due to the IP being banned the first hour in.
Since autoponzi had lots of time put into it and we were going to advertise/give the most care to it, we were going to use the kerimk2 account. Having a full member running this would result in more trust at the default, people trust full members more than newbies. I gave him ownership of the kerimk2 account, password and username, and he took over bumping it and posting elsewhere (I think he tried to make a ban appeal and tried to evade being banned, this was not the doing of me)
We sorted out the IP, but we were sitll having problems with connecting to blockchain.info API, so we scratched blockchain and created our final site bitcoinponzi.io. We then converted all our old sites to the chain.com api which was amazing and allowed us to process thousands of TXs per second. bitcoinponzi.io worked out great, we had no problems and everything was working good.
Some rounds were restarting, our first restart went well on the 48 hour, and then I think auto was restarted, these all went well, moreia did a good job in restarting these rounds.
Finally came the nextponzi.com round change (weekly) which was this morning. He generated new addresses, we were all ready.
Didn't pay much attention to it. saw the deposits on the site, but noticed they were confirmed and not paid (13 btc total). Saw the message at the top saying problem with the API so he manually sent them. Seemed a bit fishy, but I trusted him with loads of btc before so I thought he was being truthful. He wasn't responding to skype messages about this, but he lives in australia, on opposite time zones and he usually took a while to respond to my messages.
He sent the 13 btc to here
https://blockchain.info/address/1EJFxW8DV9m5gUnN84z1KPMrDeCYAVAhoWAnd at around 3 or 4 confirmations, I checked the thread first to see what people were thinking, i then checked the address, and then I realised it. He used shared sent to get his bitcoins away from that address (if anyone can trace it or something that would be great, but that probably wouldn't help us resolved it).
Messaged him a couple more times on skype before he blocked me and then I got EXTREMELY mad. I had some investors lose 13 btc, more than a thousand dollars worth of btc to this guy.
He then replied to me about an hour later using a hushmail address
Email screenshot here
http://gyazo.com/6f388cd46fc48c18fef80fcb287d7b66I formatted it a bit (A lot) in the thread to show people he ran away with the money. I wanted to distance myself from this, since I was not the one who stole the money, and am not responsible for that money. I figured running a new ponzi site honestly would be the only way to recover some money through fees, and eventually I could repay my investors.
Leading me up to an hour ago, I made a post (you all quoted this, this was my writing and I know what I said) saying he replied to me giving the option of "transferring ownership" to me.
I messaged quickseller, shorena, and redsn0w about running an honest ponzi, and proving that I was legit (instead of instantly neg bombing me).
And then due to quicksellers excellent detective skills, saw how kerimk2 posted a while ago how he wanted to change the payout address to mine, and then I knew I was found out. People know that the 3 sites were connected, and now they knew I was a part of them. No sense in defending myself, and the only way to recover that 13 btc is to come out honestly and explain my situation.
For the people skeptical about my "partner" being the ones stealing the funds, and maybe they think it was me, you can look at his posts (he was banned for ban evasion on the alt accounts) and how closely he was related to ponzis, trying to justify them and all that. You can see the trust he left on how we were partnered up, and I can show you the skype messages, PMs, emails, if you are doubting me telling the truth.
My solution to this, is continuing to run ponzi sites, under this account, and giving FTP access to a reputable escrow (redsn0w is sort of involved in this, I sent him a PM about the legitimacy of running an escrow) who would be there to verify my scripts, maybe giving him the email access to the blockchain wallet, maybe fully restricting me from touching the wallet or the files).
And the fees being linked to an address held by redsn0w. We would pay out all 13 btc over time (starting from the bottom), and hopefully resolve this situation.
Doing some quick math, if we charged 5% fees on this, we would have to reach 260 btc volume to be able to earn 13 btc in fees.
This is reachable in under a month, nextponzi raised over 100 volume in about a week, and if ran by a trusted (now untrusted, im referring to this account) account and having the fees going to an address owned by redsn0w, we could easily reach this volume in a month, and to pay back each 0.5 btc investment we would have to raise 10 btc in volume, which auto reached 40. I beleive that we can recover these funds, and I will volunteer to help recover this money to regain my trust.
I am deeply sorry in partnering, lesson learned the only one you can trust is yourself.
If anyone has any questions about this post, or wants further proof (email thread of partnership, full skype log), please post here.
I reach out to the escrows, whoever wants to help me with recovering this 13 btc.
