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anti-scam
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Re: Theymos: What the fuck is up with BFL and TradeFortress?
May 20, 2013, 12:05:44 AM
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Quote from: themusicgod1 on May 19, 2013, 11:58:10 PM
Quote from: anti-scam on May 19, 2013, 11:40:47 PM
How is TradeFortress a scammer? You Ripple shills deserve the tag.

He is signing up newbies to Ripple with the false expectation that they will get 1BTC from him when in fact he purposefully leads them into signing him up with a 100BTC trust limit to himself.  I personally do not think this is worthy of a 'scammer' tag but others have certainly suggested that this straddles the line on the wrong side.

Link? I thought TradeFortress was against Ripple. Did he get paid off?

Quote from: oakpacific on May 19, 2013, 11:59:15 PM
How can the mods decide if TF defaults or not? Even if we assume that he did agree to redeem all his IOUs in real BTCs, did he specify any repayment date? He didn't, he can always say he will repay, but probably after a thousand years? I see absolutely no resaon why a scammer tag should be applied, the mods are powerless against him.

This is a good point. There is no penalty in Ripple for defaulting. Why should TradeFortress get a scammer tag for pointing out a flaw in the system? I think that's his aim.
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Re: Theymos: What the fuck is up with BFL and TradeFortress?
May 19, 2013, 11:59:15 PM
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How can the mods decide if TF defaults or not? Even if we assume that he did agree to redeem all his IOUs in real BTCs, did he specify any repayment date? He didn't, he can always say he will repay, but probably after a thousand years? I see absolutely no resaon why a scammer tag should be applied, the mods are powerless against him.
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Re: Theymos: What the fuck is up with BFL and TradeFortress?
May 19, 2013, 11:58:10 PM
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Quote from: anti-scam on May 19, 2013, 11:40:47 PM
How is TradeFortress a scammer? You Ripple shills deserve the tag.

He is signing up newbies to Ripple with the false expectation that they will get 1BTC from him when in fact he purposefully leads them into signing him up with a 100BTC trust limit to himself.  I personally do not think this is worthy of a 'scammer' tag but others have certainly suggested that this straddles the line on the wrong side.
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Re: Theymos: What the fuck is up with BFL and TradeFortress?
May 19, 2013, 11:55:18 PM
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Quote from: misterbigg on May 19, 2013, 11:38:25 PM
Two scammers and we aren't seeing any scammer or untrustworthy tag.

TradeFortress is a little controversial (although I believe he is firmly in the scammer camp for deliberately misleading newbies).

But there can be absolutely no question that BFL is a bad actor and needs the label right away.

Why are you abdicating your responsibilities?

+1 Agree.  BFL for sure and to think I almost sent them money.  Now all these TradeFortress posts should at minimum, be moved to the speculation forum because, at best, that's all it is. Speculation.  

Now there is justifcation for scammer tags for Tradefortress when we have noobs clearly getting scammed. One individual trying to unload what Tradefortress scammed him for, was busted in the currency section just yesterday.  Even John K. came into add to the thread and called it a "sick trick".  When it blew up in his face, we had PM dialog that included this:

Quote from: ironcross360 on May 17, 2013, 10:34:34 PM
Your right. Tradefortress scammed me greatly. And what should I Do to protect my account? The person was just making post but no PM's

So, what are you going to do?

EDIT:  Look how fast this thread made it to the scam accusation forum.  Shouldn't the Tradeforest threads be here as well?  Really speaks volumes.
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Re: Theymos: What the fuck is up with BFL and TradeFortress?
May 19, 2013, 11:51:17 PM
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Quote from: solex on May 19, 2013, 11:40:57 PM
I forget. How much are we paying to use this forum?

I haven't paid anything but I'm more than willing to do so if it will expedite this process!
SGExodus
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Re: Theymos: What the fuck is up with BFL and TradeFortress?
May 19, 2013, 11:50:50 PM
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Quote from: misterbigg on May 19, 2013, 11:38:25 PM
Two scammers and we aren't seeing any scammer or untrustworthy tag.

TradeFortress is a little controversial (although I believe he is firmly in the scammer camp for deliberately misleading newbies).

But there can be absolutely no question that BFL is a bad actor and needs the label right away.

Why are you abdicating your responsibilities?



Anyone selling XRP at the current stage of Ripple development should be tagged as a scammer. Yes, that means you.
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Re: Theymos: What the fuck is up with BFL and TradeFortress?
May 19, 2013, 11:44:32 PM
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Quote from: solex on May 19, 2013, 11:40:57 PM
I forget. How much are we paying to use this forum?

I think theymos has a few hundred thousand USD-worth from the community, actually....  Tongue
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Re: Theymos: What the fuck is up with BFL and TradeFortress?
May 19, 2013, 11:40:57 PM
#3
I forget. How much are we paying to use this forum?
anti-scam
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Re: Theymos: What the fuck is up with BFL and TradeFortress?
May 19, 2013, 11:40:47 PM
#2
How is TradeFortress a scammer? You Ripple shills deserve the tag.
misterbigg
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Re: Theymos: What the fuck is up with BFL and TradeFortress?
May 19, 2013, 11:38:25 PM
#1
Two scammers and we aren't seeing any scammer or untrustworthy tag.

TradeFortress is a little controversial (although I believe he is firmly in the scammer camp for deliberately misleading newbies).

But there can be absolutely no question that BFL is a bad actor and needs the label right away.

Why are you abdicating your responsibilities?

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