Topic: Scam Report: Projects - page 7. (Read 25696 times)

Wow, that story does smell of either a gambling or drug problem.

Here's my experience, he agreed sell me a KNC Saturn for $2850 in mid november. At the time this was about 6.5 BTC
This was a pretty good deal based on market prices but not out of this world.
Since he had an excellent reputation I agreed to send first.
He sent me a tracking # the next day. It was supposed to be sent from the UK using the fastest shipping possible.
It took about 2 weeks for the package to arrive. When it did get there, a problem with the label almost caused it to be sent back.
By contacting the local post office I managed to arrange to pick it up. The package I received had a few children's toys in it and that's all.
I immediately contacted him assuming I had been scammed.
He told me that he had a business selling children's toys and must have made a mistake.

I told him that I was going to post a thread about the situation in case it was a scam and he told me he didn't want me to do that because it would encourage others to scam him.
I said that if he put me in touch with someone else who bought hardware from him recently then I wouldn't pursue it any further.

Around this time things got really busy in my store and I sort of lost track of the issue before Christmas. By the time I looked it up again the scams had broken.
I haven't really had time to type this out until now.

I have to say the flame neg rating cause you guys don't like each other kinda deletes the purpose of the trust system.  I've traded successfully with sublime dozens of times with no  problem.  He's fully transparent  and public about who he is.  Of course he can be a dick but can't we all.  

Your neg rating makes you look untrustworthy, which I know you are not.

You two should kiss and make up.

Ah, then that would be very unlikely.

Oh dear, projects 

Very very very unlikely. He used other means than the forum to trade with most people (including me). Only the initial contact was made on the forums a long time ago.

Wow. Just read through the whole thread.

I have sold BTC to projects several times over the last few years and the transaction were always smooth, although recently I did notice he seemed to have more and more issues with trades.

I just want to mention a possibility that hasn't come up so far - some time ago there seemed to be a lot of offers to purchase trusted accounts. Could projects have decided to sell his account to someone?

Obviously, this would be foolish as it would link him to any future scams done under his account, but it's a possibility he didn't think of that.

What would be more foolish would be to scam a community where you know a lot of people have you bank details/address.

Admin could look for an IP address change around the time he started to scam.

Yes, I hope it's clear I'm merely kidding (although in a bit cynical because I'm pissed off). Whatever you do meade16, be sure you're safe. (not that I have any indication David's violent).

There's a few things could be done but I wouldn't mention them on here lol

He must be watching this thread.

Would be nice to see if he still lives there.  Just drop by and give him a visit.  If he has moved that would be a good thing to know.

Lock 'n load

That's not far from me.

I think it would be best if the main contact person driving this has standing in the case - in other words they should be someone who was also ripped off.

His address is:

22 Broomhouse Place North
Edinburgh
EH11 3UG

No idea.  escrow.ms is collecting personal information

Is thus guy from Edinburgh? I'm from there.

+1 for Kelticfox  (dude what is up with that neg trust.  is that all from Sublime??)

who is the best guy for this?

Then we can pool some money together for him. I will put up 3btc to start with. What say you men?

I thought about this too, and I would be willing to contribute, but not being in the UK is a killer for spearheading this effort.

I have a thought. Perhaps we can put a "pool" together of money to find him. This way we can leverage the scale of all of us and get the most out of the money spent.

I am more then willing to contribute.

Info filled out on the form.

Tx IDs for my scammed amount (10btc x 2)

https://blockchain.info/tx/323641b1c5488567e50246e8e69379468b3428c6783cfe0c815bf307a66b53c3

https://blockchain.info/tx/022c70bdc8b38292daf52b3f0b4be49633d9330110787c2e9834838c80573536

My 'puppet' tracking number - he deliberately sent it to the wrong address.

https://tools.usps.com/go/TrackConfirmAction!input.action?tRef=qt&tLc=1&tLabels=RJ315893705GB

I will file a report this weekend as well.

If I spend the money to get a PI involved and I find him ... well I won't be shaking his hand let's just say. And be damned anyone who wants to preach to me about being 'professional'. This silly bastard thinks he can get away with this? Spend enough money and anybody can be found.

I could care less if he is 'watching' this forum too. The more people I see who have been scammed the more pissed off I am with this worthless scumbag piece of shit.

Apologies, rant over.

Oh BTW ... either he lied on the customs forms or he has provided his real information that can be found. If he lied then - well, it's a felony here in the US, sure it ain't that different over there.

If he is in FL now then so much the better.