It's highly common for eastern Eurpoean organized crime to employ, or use the pictures of, models to perpetrate scams against single men.
Why would anyone think that a scam run to bilk traders out of their money would operate much differently.
Please understand, I haven't said that ZT isn't real - just that I'm starting to have serious doubts that he can be.
But - wait.....we have pics!!! And no one has ever used a pic to suggest something be true when in fact it is not. Never. And no one ever got a fake credit or debit card.
It truly shocks me how people can simply accept whatever bullshit they read on the internet as truth. You'd think they'd learn.
Zhou had an internet presence prior to Bitcoinica. According to Zhou, the hand-off of Bitcoinica to Tihan took place in person. As Tihan would obviously have noticed if the person who turned up to hand Bitcoinica off didn't look like "Zhou", I'm willing to presume that they did. So "Zhou" exists. The question you're really raising is whether he's actually the person who created Bitcoinica or he was just a frontman. I guess that's a question you could put to those who've Skyped with him - it's harder to maintain a bluff in real time than it is when you can carefully prepare written responses.
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Before reading any further, I believe I may have to back-pedal and retract my statement thanks to being enlightened by both of you.
It's cool. It's sometimes easy to forget that things which seem suspicious or unlikely to us can be normal and commonplace in other cultures. Every now and then I read about something happening in the US and I'm convinced that I'm being fed bullshit when I'm not.
