The PM embedded:
If this PM is real, the following post (2 days earlier) is not (or no longer) true:
im not using telegram
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archived)
Note: In general, I don't trust screenshots, and I'm ignoring the Telegram screenshots because anyone can say they're someone else on there.
As I said in another topic: by using Telegram, you make it very easy for scammers and very difficult for anyone to ever find out who's trying to cheat. Most of this stuff can be discussed in a public topic on the
Currency exchange board.
The "evidence" in this topic is terrible to review. It's a mess! Now compare that to
http://loyce.club/archive/details/topic_5252054.html and
please just keep deals in the open when possible!
The impersonator offered to use his friend as "escrow".
Apart from who's trying to impersonate who, I don't think DireWolfM14 gets any blame here. He's not even the one calling someone their "friend".
I don't know what's going on here, or why I'm being dragged into this, but no one contacted me for escrow. If elmanchez had contacted me for escrow for a currency exchange, I would have happily obliged. Yeah, I said I like him, and I still do, so why wouldn't I help him trade safely?
He gets entangled in an extraordinary number of shady deals though. That's either very bad luck or perhaps some actual correlation.
I've seen him do quite a lot of deals, which increases the chance of hitting a scammer.
This thread, together with the
other thread is more than just suspicious.
After reading the first 30 posts in this topic (while ignoring Telegram screenshots), I still haven't seen any convincing evidence.
I believe there is nothing wrong with telegram because 99% of people using it here for fast communication.
Telegram is a scammer's paradise because it allows to delete the other user's conversation, you can change your nickname, and I've seen people get tricked by hiding the nickname and using someone else's nickname as "bio". Telegram is great if you know who you're dealing with, but anyone can claim they own a certain Bitcointalk account. If someone for instance claims he's me, it's pretty likely it's someone else.
If you think telegram is just as good of a place to do business then why aren't you taking this to the telegram scam accusations board but instead are bringing it here?
That's a very good point, and it would solve the problem of very large and unclear accusation threads on Bitcointalk.
Can hardly feel sorry for someone who refuses to listen to advice about the dangers of doing business on telegram..
Go on ahead and get scammed again..
For all I know you are both/all parties trying to scam elmanchez out of a guilt trip refund..
Another good point! Since he said
he would refund this user (even though it hasn't happened yet), he might have painted mark on his account for other scammers to target.
All this is of course speculation. But I agree with you: I can hardly feel sorry for someone who ignores and even denies the many scams on Telegram.
I did this post to warm the community about those scammers and give them information what they are doing.
The main warning should be: don't use Telegram for users you don't know!