I am sorry to people with bad feedback that is not deserved - I will fix these all very soon.
I have information and a big problem.
Information is that his BTC-E account never had much BTC in it. I have logged in as him and looked through all history. Screenshots from Frozen were fake.
Problem is big though. The scammer has been scammed. I told him to take BTC out of his account before I log in to be safe. This was the last of the scam money. He moved it to LTC and sent it to an online wallet instant-e.com. The online wallet looks real but it is a scam and there are posts on it. I see the transfer in BTC-E and he also gave me login info for instant-e.com that shows the same transaction. This is about 3 BTC that I do not think we can recover. This is my fault too because I made him move the money so I could audit.
I will get another person to confirm all of this because you might not believe it.
He has been very good at cooperating, and I believe he has been honest. I looked into his other scams and they were all very very small. He has made a big mistake and I think this experience has shown him that scamming is not the right path.
Please tell me how you think we should proceed.
I can verify that what Scambuster is saying here is correct, that Block_Erupter sent 118.47 LTC to instant-e.com on the 14th, where it is now stuck in "processing". I also can confirm that the screenshot of his BTC-E account was fake. Here is the wallet on instant-e.I have information and a big problem.
Information is that his BTC-E account never had much BTC in it. I have logged in as him and looked through all history. Screenshots from Frozen were fake.
Problem is big though. The scammer has been scammed. I told him to take BTC out of his account before I log in to be safe. This was the last of the scam money. He moved it to LTC and sent it to an online wallet instant-e.com. The online wallet looks real but it is a scam and there are posts on it. I see the transfer in BTC-E and he also gave me login info for instant-e.com that shows the same transaction. This is about 3 BTC that I do not think we can recover. This is my fault too because I made him move the money so I could audit.
I will get another person to confirm all of this because you might not believe it.
He has been very good at cooperating, and I believe he has been honest. I looked into his other scams and they were all very very small. He has made a big mistake and I think this experience has shown him that scamming is not the right path.
Please tell me how you think we should proceed.
The scammer appears to have indeed been scammed. I wouldn't hold out too much hope in getting those funds back, but for those of you so inclined, instant-e.com appears to be registered with namecheap.com and their abuse email is [email protected]. You may not be able to get your money back, but you can probably get the domain taken down, given how many reports there are of it being a fraud. It's may also be worth noting that the address LcUMfEyrdQ44JmLdmnBwEdMGNG2xF5zdPK is affiliated with instant-e.com (in the image on the homepage) if you want investigate from that angle.
On the off chance those "processing" LTC transactions complete, there will be three transactions consisting of 105.47, 8 and 5 LTC sent to LUoDtKnNLu7oK1PGUnRpYxLaQD8oTNJFi1.
