You claim to have extensive feedback on Silk Road
We have extensive feedback in the Money categories on SR under the username "freemoney". SR provides a morally responsible way to provide goods/services for BTC without funding violent and repressive regimes through coerced taxation or bribes. We endorse SR 100% despite only using them for escrowing our transactions of USD-BTC with customers who still want escrow.
Claimed and proven:
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http://s7.postimage.org/frk56keu3/SRName.gifWe encourage people to look at our profile and feedback on SR to get an idea of how users feel about our services. Of course there is clear evidence of our mutual ownership of moneypaktrader.com in the profile and listings. So, we're saying it here, we're saying it there, encrypting the messages will not change the sources or reliability. It would only add complexity and potential confusion.
Any reputation you've accumulated via the #bitcoin-otc WoT is useless in this situation if you're not willing to cryptographically prove that you're the person you claim to be.
True, we're not using any cred from OTC, that's just somewhere for future reviews ATM. We've found the ops on otc to be bigoted against friends of sinners such as us, while they lack any ability to rationally discuss our business and how it would enhance the otc community. We have no plans to expand into the otc market atm due to these bigots that control the market there.
If/when Greg Maxwell and/or other responsible bigots that are entrenched there die or otherwise change their oppressive actions, we may reevaluate this position.
In summary, there are plenty of reviews on here, SR, and OTC that confirm we're a legitimate trading enterprise that allows easily and quickly trading BTC and USD/MPs.
We've held hundreds of btc at once in trust for customers, but the best policy for anyone is to only trust others (banks/exchanges/friends/websites) with the amount of value you can reasonably afford to lose.
So, in summary, the best bet is probably just do a week at a time with trades of lower values (~$500), rather than putting in $5000 of btc all at once as some of our customers do.
You indicated that there was a high risk of fraud with $200 moneypaks. How is this fraud perpetrated?
google search $200 MP
You now know as much as we do.