Topic: Scam Report: Projects - page 5. (Read 25786 times)

Who is the one who is filing the official complaint?

Any news here?

I'm still trying to work out if it's a man thinking or a oriental guy with a long mustache and short arms?

your avatar is very, very fitting!

Ya know whats strange..... alot of the tard business owners (you know, the ones with a diff idea each week) and long time members seem to have vanished in nov/dec...

not going to name people... but have a think which ppls you havnt heard from in a while, who would often have some tard scheme on the go.

tis the holiday season.. so maybe just a coincidence.. but hmmm

What's going on?

well looks like I'n a bit late, he scammed me for 3.2 bitcoins, sent to him on December 3rd.
https://blockchain.info/tx/0d4fbb6c20e47d6672aae1eb1c3499f559469e4817c664ca72656bd5c5fda095

Let's keep this thread at the top so other Projects victims can find it

The last time he came begging me for a loan I told him that my wife had told me NO MORE BTC LOANS because I was getting scammed more than any profit I ever made on interest - and I had agreed with her.

Same

Just discovered this whole saga with Projects.

I have traded with him in the past, he was always trustworthy and reliable. At one point however, over 6 months ago, I sent incorrect bank details to him, and the payment he sent to me went to a non existent bank account. In this situation, the money is supposed to be returned to the sender, however Projects claimed to have never had the money returned. I was dubious, as I had no way of knowing if he was telling the truth, but he had always been reliable, so I gave him the benefit of the doubt.

We came to an agreement to resolve the situation - he would trade with me at 0% fee until the £1000 was effectively payed back, and then he would keep the money once it was returned to him (Santander are notorious for this exact thing happening, and I've read stories of money going missing for over a year before turning up).

We cleared £300 of debt, and then last month he asked me for a loan, which I declined because I had a bad feeling about it. I obviously dodged a bullet - last time I traded with him, I sent BTC and he payed into my bank the next day. This must have been just before all of this mess unfolded, and I'm sure if I had lent him the money, there would be another 3.5 BTC to add to the total.

This is very sad that a trusted member of the community would decide to pull this scam. I am very sorry for everyone who lost money. I'm glad that he has been tracked down.* At this point I believe that the money was indeed returned to him by the bank, and he decided to keep it instead of resending it to me.

*EDIT: Didn't read the whole thread from end to end, has he been tracked down? Is the guy in the newspaper article Projects?

He's the laughing stock of Edinburgh, a complete muppet.

Concur on this - he always communicated in a sensible and literate manner.

I looked through the 12 people tagged in the pic, but couldn't find too much. This guy looks like and talks like the dirtbag that took us all.

http://metro.co.uk/2011/10/12/drug-user-david-williamson-jailed-after-calling-police-over-theft-of-his-own-cannabis-181981/

same guy



edit: sorry should have continued reading before posting.


going by the guys facebook posts he is a degenerate Scottish NED who cannot string a real sentence together in English.
I only had a few PM's with projects, but from what i remember he could string a sentence just fine?

He didn't sound too excited about taking a pic with a shoe on his head when asked to do so after requesting his first 100 BTC loan.  He may have known that his pictures were published online by the press and would make it easier to identify him.

maybe the brother story is true, and projects was using his brothers name here on the forums for shipping ?? not like his bro would know if he's locked up.

name and surname is pretty common though... but yeah the fact someone mentioned something about him paying for his brother, and then that article is interesting..

Perhaps he was released early or put on probation.  I wonder if his release date is a matter of public record.

If that is him, it looks like we have a genius criminal mastermind on our hands... he was in the news for calling the cops on himself:

http://metro.co.uk/2011/10/12/drug-user-david-williamson-jailed-after-calling-police-over-theft-of-his-own-cannabis-181981/ (same person in photo)

http://www.deadlinenews.co.uk/2011/08/31/cannabis-grower-goes-to-pot-as-he-reports-crop-stolen/ (same person in photo)

http://www.heraldscotland.com/sport/spl/aberdeen/two-charged-over-drugs-haul-1.198301 (no picture on that one but the name, city and year of birth matches)

Update #1: that news article was posted as early as August 2011 and mentioned him going to jail for 10 months, but he registered an account here and began posting in February 2012.

Update #2: very strange how that FB profile is full of nothing but cannabis-related photos, but none of his posts here even mention it (there is some talk of Diablo 3 in the early posts), and that profile has not "liked" anything Bitcoin related... not too sure it's him.

Update #3: Just found a 2nd FB profile of "David John Williamson" (https://www.facebook.com/davidjohn.williamson.3) looks to also be his account based on the pictures. 2 more photos of him there, nothing found on Google Image reverse search and no GPS coordinates given in embedded EXIF data.

Can someone do a "catfish" and message some of his more active Facebook friends, get them on the phone to verify this is the guy we want?

Add me: he took 3 btc from me with the promise to pay and never paid. I've been following this thread, just haven't posted til now.

Look at the "It's a trap" picture on this guy's facebook page (David Williamson from Edinburgh) posted on December 28th:
https://www.facebook.com/david.williamson.1610?fref=browse_search

I looked through the 12 people tagged in the pic, but couldn't find too much. This guy looks like and talks like the dirtbag that took us all.