Topic: Stack's Scammer List (SSL) - Who to avoid in the bitcoin gambling world (Read 308 times)

I agree with your thoughts on lending to gamblers. I wish the lending policies of bitcointalk (no collateral, no loan) were followed universally online, but alas, that's just a fantasy. Sadly, most gamblers fake promises of collateral, but their real plan is just to gamble the money in the hopes of repayment. I, too, often ask for loans, but it's usually because I have a payment from my freelance job coming in in a few days and I feel like gambling.

The main problem when it comes to keeping track of scammers isn't really the number of them. The niche is quite small, so believe it or not, there's actually very few scammers out there. The problem is, they are able to create infinite aliases (be it a new Discord account or a new bustabit account) and can prey on unsuspecting users undetected, even if they've been previously caught. This is why, as a rule of thumb, people should never give collateral-free loans, and they should also never trade without a middleman.

Yes, most of these scammers are from bustabit. I spend most of my time on bustabit and in the Discord server for bustabit. It is, after all, the biggest crypto gambling community, except for Bitcoin Gamble Talk, which congregates all websites. Most people who visit other gambling sites also visit bustabit, so it's sort of a gigantic community comprising of smaller circles.

Yes, absolutely this.

There are many, many scammers on the various gambling sites, probably so many that keeping track of them all would require the effort of multiple full time jobs.

Often times, anyone who wants to take out a "gambling loan" is either a scammer, a degenerate gambler, or both. If they were good enough at gambling, to repay the loan plus interest, they would not need the loan in the first place.

I've learned a valuable lesson early on that you should never loan to gamblers.

The fact is that they generally don't follow what they promise, and since you're contacting them over an anonymous gambling site in the first place, you simply have no leverage when it comes to asking for repayment. If you are going to loan them, make sure that you do it with some form of collateral, which is extremely unlikely.

Just regarding one of the people on your list, Bitk0ynR2 (https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/bitk0ynr2s-loaning-discord-server-5103322), I certainly think that this whole "down payment before you can get a loan" is bogus. The fact that you have to somehow pay upfront for a loan is utterly ridiculous, and it seems like that he's literally just trying to scam a large upfront deposit when it comes by.

Good job and make sure you keep this list updated. Though I doubt you'll ever be able to refresh it as quickly as new scammers come into the scene. Also, this list seems to be solely based off people that play on BaB?

NAME/ALIAS: MarkyMark/Baidan/Milkywayz
PROFILE: http://bustabit.com/user/MarkyMark
AMOUNT: 0.07 BTC
STATUS: REPAYING
EVIDENCE: https://gyazo.com/49f34b93567eefebdb0c2ddef4adceea
SUMMARY: This user takes loans from people and takes a shit ton of time to repay (we're talking almost a year overdue). Not sure if his initial intention was to scam. Some people on the group found out his name and address, and since then, he's been slowly repaying people in chunks.

NAME/ALIAS: needcomeback
PROFILE: N/A
AMOUNT: 1 BTC
STATUS: MISSING IN ACTION
EVIDENCE: N/A
SUMMARY: This user takes loans, promises large interest, and does not repay. He is a close friend to the user AppleGuy, who initially vouched for him. His name and location is known.

NAME/ALIAS: Sav Pitbull/Husky
PROFILE: N/A
AMOUNT: 0.5 BTC
STATUS: MISSING IN ACTION
EVIDENCE: N/A
SUMMARY: This user took loans from several people and did not repay. He used to run a Discord server where he was the admin, and he garnered trust before ultimately exit scamming. He has currently blocked all of his victims, which confirms that he scammed. Also, he seems to have resurfaced under the nickname "Husky". An update will be added if the matter develops further.

NAME/ALIAS: thebbbplayer
PROFILE: N/A
AMOUNT: 8 BTC
STATUS: MISSING IN ACTION
EVIDENCE: N/A
SUMMARY: This user has an admittedly ingenious scam. He contacts people saying he needs help making money gambling, and shows off his 2 BTC balance. He asks to view your script via AnyDesk, and he hijacks your bustabit account. If you happen to have money, he steals it. He wasted 2 hours of my time, but I was careful in not showing him my details, and I did not get scammed. However, another user ("uru" on bustabit) was scammed 8 BTC. This user still prowls around on alt accounts, so make it a point never to use AnyDesk while logged into gambling websites.

NAME/ALIAS: str9/NightWanderer
PROFILE: https://www.bustabit.com/user/on247
AMOUNT: 2 BTC
STATUS: REPAYING
EVIDENCE: https://gyazo.com/665389fa8a6cf6e3cb232652bb2eb2f8
SUMMARY: This user is a competent developer, but unfortunately a scammer to some degree. He committed loan fraud (knowingly giving his ID to a scammer to commit fraud and scam people), and owes people quite a bit of money, including myself. He is also on the team of a few scam projects (for example, he is the lead developer of the fraudulent site CrashDoge and works for known scammer HERPES).

NAME/ALIAS: Bitk0ynR2
PROFILE: https://bustadice.com/player/BitK0ynR2
AMOUNT: 400,000 GMCN
STATUS: MISSING IN ACTION
EVIDENCE: https://web.archive.org/web/20190313045637/https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5103322.0
SUMMARY: This user is a high-roller who is unfortunately a scammer. As per an agreed deal, he defaulted on an owed amount to myself and a friend of mine. To be fair, he made an investment in one of my old projects which is frozen until he repays his victims, so that sort of cancels out. Additionally, he runs a "loaning server", where he requires people to give a down payment before they can take a loan (which sort of defeats the purpose if the down payment and loan are in the same currency). I suspect that this server is a ponzi scheme, but that can't be conclusively said until it collapses.

NAME/ALIAS: Rem
PROFILE: http://bustabit.com/user/Remyto
AMOUNT: ~0.1 BTC
STATUS: MISSING IN ACTION
EVIDENCE: N/A
SUMMARY: This user is a rather brazen scammer. His methods range from taking loans, to begging, to playing rock-paper-scissors games where he never pays. His name and location is known. He has been missing for quite some time.

NAME/ALIAS: drbanner/sunu
PROFILE: https://www.bustabit.com/user/drbanner
AMOUNT: 0.006 BTC
STATUS: MISSING IN ACTION
EVIDENCE: N/A
SUMMARY: This user takes loans and fails to repay. He has defaulted on several low-value loans.

NAME/ALIAS: blessmebabe/Mason
PROFILE: https://www.bustabit.com/user/blessmebabe
AMOUNT: 0.01 BTC
STATUS: MISSING IN ACTION
EVIDENCE: N/A
SUMMARY: This user sold me an Instagram account and later recovered it via his phone number. He has yet to pay me back. He has resold it several times to other people in the meantime.

NAME/ALIAS: Rascal/iHicham
PROFILE: https://www.bustabit.com/user/hyperhecku
AMOUNT: 0.005 BTC
STATUS: MISSING IN ACTION
EVIDENCE: N/A
SUMMARY: This user is a bit retarded. He takes loans, scams, and plays rock-paper-scissors games he can't honour. The whole package, basically. Also, he's a chronic beggar.

NAME/ALIAS: Stoned
PROFILE: https://www.bustabit.com/user/Stoned
AMOUNT: 0.13 BTC
STATUS: REPAYING
EVIDENCE: https://gyazo.com/b4ab8b95b7ab833ca7af06e0333d7956
SUMMARY: This user takes loans and takes months to repay. I believe he is overall trustworthy, but it's sad that his loans are always 6 months late, if not more...

NAME/ALIAS: poweredge
PROFILE: N/A
AMOUNT: 0.005 BTC
STATUS: ATTEMPTED SCAM
EVIDENCE: https://gyazo.com/fc706ac5bc360c9f0248a3a7804d8937
SUMMARY: This user made a trade with someone else, paying PayPal for bitcoin. He photoshopped a payment screen in the hopes that the other party in the trade would send the bitcoins without checking their PayPal account. During the dispute, I mediated both sides. I wouldn't have found out that this user was an attempted scammer... if he hadn't misspelled the other party's PayPal name (he wrote "Caption" instead of "Ception"). A valiant effort, though.

NAME/ALIAS: rez
PROFILE: N/A
AMOUNT: 0.02 BTC
STATUS: MISSING IN ACTION
EVIDENCE: https://gyazo.com/4688e8e1e351c337eeb731f5597b3524
SUMMARY: This user joined my Discord group and began making people some too good to be true offers, which I suspected to be scams, but couldn't say for sure. He then began telling people that he needs to make a 0.02 BTC deposit on an exchange to unlock his balance of 0.8 BTC, and he'd share the profit. I tagged him as a scammer in my group (it was the first time I had tagged someone for being a suspected scammer instead of an actual scammer, but my scammer-sense was tingling). Later, I got news that he had scammed someone from another group of the 0.02 BTC, and the "0.8 BTC" never unlocked. The user claims that he himself had no idea it was a scam (despite everyone in my group warning him, and him being tagged). Whether idiocy or malice, it's smart to stay away from this user.

NAME/ALIAS: HERPES/FeelTheBurn
PROFILE: https://www.bustabit.com/user/HERPES
AMOUNT: 4 BTC
STATUS: MISSING IN ACTION
EVIDENCE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8t-6YgHdgk
SUMMARY: This user has been scamming on gambling sites long before I even found out about them. He's done scams in the fast (I hear from trusted sources), but in my experience, he opens fraudulent websites and steals balances without prior warning or proper reason. He also runs illegal, unregulated casinos, which isn't exactly a scam but adds to the whole persona. Also, he's an overall dickhead.