Topic: SCAMMER: hatshepsut - Failed attempt at bank fraud. (Read 1003 times)

On 09/06 hatshepsut reported he deposited funds into our deposit account under the terms of our Bitcoins Direct program.  He provided what he claimed was a copy of the deposit receipt.  We independently verify all deposits and there was no deposit matching his receipt.  There were also certain aspects of the deposit receipt provided that were suspicious.  Obviously we did not complete the transaction pending further investigation.


When I made our daily bank run I brought a copy of the receipt to the attention of our Bank Manager.  I would point out that Tangible Cryptography is on good terms with our local bank manager and we make a large number of visits to the bank each month.  The branch knows all the partners very well, and given the fees we generate in a month are always happy to help (strange how that works).  The bank manager could not reach the depositing branch and indicated it is possible that branch was delayed or was having computer issues but we should not act upon the deposit until confirmed.   Good advice but there was no risk of that happening.  This morning our company received a call from the local branch manager indicating the deposit receipt was clearly a forgery.  The fraud team from the bank also called, requesting any information regarding the origins of the forged deposit receipt.  I provided the bank with information pertaining to hatshepsut and the attempted forgery.


Tangible Cryptography takes financial security seriously.  Both FastCash4Bitcoin & Bitcoins Direct use 100% cold wallets and encrypted customer databases.   We employ two factor authentication on all financial and exchange accounts and use GPG to secure sensitive client communication.  We have invested heavily in services like Positive Pay (making check forgery/duplication impossible) and ActiveScan (real-time anti-counterfeiting validation on all deposited cash).  To protect the company assets, we will actively aid law enforcement to prevent, arrest, and convict the person or persons who engage in fraud, forgery or counterfeiting.


On the small chance that someone on the forum knows hatshepsut personally, Tangible Cryptography LLC is offering a reward of $1,000 for information which leads to his arrest (payable in BTC or USD).  Please don't fill our inbox with worthless info.  The reward will only be paid out on credible leads which result in an arrest of the person or persons involved in the attempted bank fraud on 09/06/2012.


A personal message to Hatshepsut, the teller # and transaction # on the ticket are valid.  It is unlikely they would be fake and correspond to a real deposit so I can only theorize you were lazy and photoshopped an existing ticket changing only the information you needed.  At this point I can sincerely hope you were foolish enough to modify a receipt from your own account (or maybe a family member or roommates).  The fraud team seemed very interested that some of the information on the ticket corresponded to an actual deposit (just not to our account).  Also I got to ask, are you an idiot?  Did you really think we were going to just transfer over hundreds of Bitcoins based solely on your photoshopped deposit ticket?  I mean how did you think this was going to end?  The fact that you were dumb enough to think this would work gives me hope you were dumb enough to use a ticket which can be lead law enforcement to your real world location.