Topic: Scam alert - bogus miner buyers on craigslist (Read 776 times)
Good looking out. People willing to pull a fast one over some bitcents. Ridiculous
thanks for let us know.
We will watch out for them.
Good luck man!
We will watch out for them.
Good luck man!
There is a ring of guys who troll every local craigslist looking for people selling miners.
I have verified this by posting in multiple different locations, specifying local buyers only. These idiots are dumb enough to respond using the same name on their email (craiglist hides their actual email but keeps their name) regardless of the location.
When they find a victim, they will ask you to have the machine mine for them on their worker for a few hours as a test. They will say they like what they see and agree to buy the machine but can't come pick it up until the next day. Of course, they will ask you to keep it mining overnight. Then the next day they will come up with some excuse like a family emergency, car break down, etc. to delay the supposed meeting, but they will want the miner to keep going on their worker. (Of course there never was and never is going to be any real meeting; they aren't even in the same city.)
Once you finally pull the plug, you will likely soon receive another such offer from a different member of the ring.
The idea of course, is to stretch out the amount of free mining they can get. Generally they only get a small fraction of a BTC from each miner, but they are running this scam all over the place, so they probably get a lot of free mining.
Watch out. Don't give free mining as a test.
I have verified this by posting in multiple different locations, specifying local buyers only. These idiots are dumb enough to respond using the same name on their email (craiglist hides their actual email but keeps their name) regardless of the location.
When they find a victim, they will ask you to have the machine mine for them on their worker for a few hours as a test. They will say they like what they see and agree to buy the machine but can't come pick it up until the next day. Of course, they will ask you to keep it mining overnight. Then the next day they will come up with some excuse like a family emergency, car break down, etc. to delay the supposed meeting, but they will want the miner to keep going on their worker. (Of course there never was and never is going to be any real meeting; they aren't even in the same city.)
Once you finally pull the plug, you will likely soon receive another such offer from a different member of the ring.
The idea of course, is to stretch out the amount of free mining they can get. Generally they only get a small fraction of a BTC from each miner, but they are running this scam all over the place, so they probably get a lot of free mining.
Watch out. Don't give free mining as a test.
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