Topic: Scammer: SynOps - page 3. (Read 9193 times)

Email updates:

I sold all my stakes in synops back to him at the original BTC rate of $15 which means I got my USD value back plus the interest I and alot sooner. Alot of people took out bitcoin loans and were naive .. this also goes for the lenders who funded those .. at the current price some of these loans which were for simple purposes like buying lasers or paying off $500 to paypal become nightmares .. BTCjam did not have the mtgoxusd currency option at the time. I don't think any of us though we were shorting BTC but $100 at the time sounded like pure fiction. I have made it more affordable for synops to make his payments and maybe other's should try to go after the usd value also. I think the rate at the time of some of his later listing was $25..

I have contacted everyone who has emailed me! I dont skip over any emails.

I have not been giving negative feedback back...i did out of haste one past week, but reverted it because morally it was wrong and stupid.

JUST SOLD SOME NOTES TO WEENFAN WHOM HELD INVESTMENTS IN MY LOANS, ALSO MADE A PAYMENT ON INVENTORY 4.

I keep my word and am working with BTCjam users to get payments fixed...

As for OTC'ers your being handled too.

Ive posted my business info here before, and I filed my taxes in January, no issues and even got a refund!

As for the those phone numbers, one 1 is mine..the first one. Google Voice.

Addresses and my phsyical appearance,  cool...guess its easy to get when i gave you my ID, KelticFox, doesnt take much to get info off of my ID!

Crimes, PSH, I was 18 and 19 (almost 10 years ago), stupid young kid straight out of high school doing stupid kid shit...those are all petty shit...and that Cap 1, that was written off and took 3 years to get off because of Identity Theft.

Family...yea wifes name is half wrong, sons name is surely wrong.

I didnt know I had a myspace, lol, guess 3-4 years can make you forget about old social media sites.

But non of that matters...what will that info do for any of you? Come and threaten me? Try to make me paranoid like Aethero (thinking he is being followed everywhere he goes and people running him off the road....).

As I told Keltic, I dont middle man ANYTHING. You can easily see my ratings on bitmit are almost all amazon codes...which I PURCHASED...everything on BitMit i purchase with my own funds to accumulate btc to pay loans and have a small income to keep this business going.

If this business fails or im banned, nobody ends up happy....except those who dont have a stake in my loans...


....as for anything else, Sales of items, and Exchanges...Flawless...(I did read 1 person claims I owe them btc---once I saw Skype---I remembered whom it was---ill take care of them asap).

Yea its all in the logs, I had no problem with him selling it to a friend like he said he was going to do...but he never mentioned bitmit, and I never agreed to wait for him to sell it -- line 356 says it all.

Again - all this is just more noise, the thing I care about is the fact he got an Operating System loaded on the machine (and yes selling it on bitmit behind my back pissed me off too), which is the basis for this whole situation.  There are too many storylines and lies, I just want the laptop back and move on.

I have an email in with him asking about the tracking number result so we'll see...

Some updates...

Email from SynOps:



My reply:


His reply back:


The tracking number gives me the following result when entered:


So still just waiting for something to happen -- and as I stated multiple times to him, I really need tracking so I can plan my pick-up.

I confirm everything Kelticfox has posted about my situation.

Basically there was an initial misunderstanding about no operating system being loaded on the laptop so I decided to discount the price and help him get one loaded successfully (which excuse after excuse consumed much time - in the logs).  Fast forward to a couple days ago and I discovered that was all bullshit and he had successfully loaded Windows 8 on the Toughbook and was trying to sell it on bitmit.

I am sure its the same Toughbook because the picture he used to list it is from and ebay auction I linked him to (in the logs), it states there is no usb door cover (in the logs), and there is no optical drive (in the logs).

He has again today (2013.04.12) said he's shipping the package back, I'm just waiting on the tracking number.  But this is 3 days past the time he last said he was shipping it out, so we'll see.

I'll keep this thread updated with progress.

If you have the time here are the logs: http://pastebin.com/SyL0FMnS - god this has been a waste of my time.

witnessed

Who is "we"

There is no plural people that owe refunds buddy, only YOU.

I think you mean whoever BORROWS bitcoins and doesn't tie repayment to a "normal" currency is just asking for trouble. This guy owes some serious money to some serious people using a currency that is exploding in value (at least until a few hours ago) at a fairly large interest rate.

If i were him I'd either get out of debt as soon as possible, or get out of town as soon as possible. I personally know one of the people he borrowed from, and they don't fuck around. They intentionally loaned bitcoin while the price was low, expecting people to default. Assuming that the value of bitcoin would go way up later.


a 25$ loan with interest is now a 2500$ loan with interest.

On IRC again a few minutes ago. Still no 1.4BTC that he owes me (almost a week now).

Why are you asking people to contact you when you refuse to respond to them when they do SynOps? I emailed you 4 days ago, saying that I would be willing to write off part of the loan, and would accept payment in either USD or BTC. You chose not to answer that email.

Anyone can go through a rough patch in business, but there's 2 things SynOps is doing that make me think he is a scammer:

1. He doesn't keep in contact (He keeps inviting people to email him, and talk to him on IRC, but when I tried contacting him he just ignored me).

2. Others are reporting that he gives out negative feedback towards people just because they are asking for what he already owes them. If someone gives SynOps bad feedback for a justifiable reason i.e late payment, not keeping people updated, etc, he gives them negative feedback out of revenge. Would an honest business try to discourage people giving honest feedback by threatening a "tit for tat" negative feedback, or would they take the feedback on board, and improve their service?

Although would it have been that bad for you to have simply said "Oh yea, it was an OTC Loan (or other)" then you guys could have proceeded to the next step.

FOR BTCJAM USERS:

Email me at [email protected]

My idea of creating an IRC chat room , basically failed, only a handful showed up, happily that many ideas were exchanged though.

FOR USERS CLAIMING WE OWE YOU BTC OR A REFUND:

Email me at [email protected]

Im also available on IRC on #bitcoin-otc.

My website will be back up within a day or two.

I tried to contact SynOps multiple times, by PM on here and by email asking for an update, and he has refused to reply. I offered to take payment in BTC or USD, and even offered to accept part-payment instead of the full amount.

And a message for SynOps if you read this - When other people were calling you a scammer because you were late in paying, I decided to give you the benefit of the doubt and asked you to give me an update on when I would receive my money. But as you refused to reply to that email, and appear to be giving negative feedback towards people who just ask you for their money back, you have now lost that.

And a few e-mail just incase anybody actually thinks I didn't do a transaction with SynOps as he claims (see his rating on bitcoin-ots-ratings of me as well as his PM to me today that I posted earlier, where he c laims we've never done business, he gets to chose who he does business with and didn't chose me....


I was going to attach them here but it won't let me attach PDF's. If anybody would like a copy of the multiple e-mails between SynOps and I confirming that we would be doing business, what exact time we would be meeting, etc (and that he was late) just PM me and i'll send them over.

Bad Rating from him, given today:

[04:59] <+gribble>    New rating | SynOps > -1 > joesmoe | never have done business with, most likely turned you down, as I am allowed to chose whom I do business with. I am sorry you have a grudge.

No transaction took place today (or ever according to him).

Logs....

Here is the PM where we do the transaction and he fails to provide the full payment: http://pastebin.ca/2353712

Another PM, where he claims he'll soon have the coins he owes me from the 1st card and will be ready to process more soon: http://pastebin.ca/2353713


Message From Him just now:

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[09:13]     i exchange moneypaks!
[09:18]     yes i know
[09:18] SynOps is away (SLEEPING: Open at 7am til 9pm Tuesday. www.bitfiservices.com)
[09:18]     i sent you the code for one and you sent me half the BTC.
[09:18] SynOps is away (SLEEPING: Open at 7am til 9pm Tuesday. www.bitfiservices.com)
[09:20]     When?
[09:21]     let me check my logs
[09:22]     only reviews say you never dealt with me and I never dealth with you.
[09:22]     Id be happy to fix something if there was an issue, [email protected]

Just received a message from him on IRC, so it looks like he's around right now.

can't believe you let him leave..
if it was me.... he woulda been staying at my house for a few days/weeks till mtgox was 'back up' again

kinda sucks what happened to you

User SynOps claims no transaction between the two of us.

A few day ago I made arrangements with him for the sale of $5k+ of greendot for his BTC.

After accepting showing up late to our designated meeting time, he took the first card number, unloaded it, and then claimed that mtgox was down so he couldn't send my btc right now.

After bugging him for a few hours, he finally sent half of the BTC he owed me.

Its now been days, multiple messages, and he has not sent the remainder. He owes me around 2BTC.

I recently rated him -1 on OTC-ratings to request that he get in touch with me to finish processing the greendots he'd arranged to process. He failed to contact me and rated me negative in return, claiming no transaction had ever taken place.

So his rating of -1 is false under his own account as according to him there was no transaction.

At this point i have given him a -10, full scammer status. He is not replying to PMs, has not made any attempt to rectify the situation, and overall should not (cannot) be trusted or depended upon as a reliable member of this community.