So after my recent brush with the 2FA business which saved my neck, coupled with the use of trezors and multisig vaults etc etc there has been a second attempt at my precious coins. This is yet again the usual scam attempt of
1) I post a wanted ad for a titan (now maxing out my house's breaker)
2) I get a message from just.asic saying he will sell one.
3) I ask to use escrow with ognasty and contact him myself, he insists on contacting ognasty himself
4) He goes silent
5) He then gives me a link to the escrow topic, obviously a fake hyperlink to a fake bitcointalk with a fake address for ognasty which doesn't match the one saved from his sig in my QT wallet. Some of these scams can sometimes go one step further and create a vanity address with the first part of his address matching; didn't happen here.
6) Another user had already emailed me without even being aware just asic had contacted me, pre emptively warning me the titan images he would send are NOT from him, by this point I had already felt uneasy about him trying to arrange escrow himself so contacted ognasty myself, although have had to pull out as it is a clear scam. An example of decent members of the community of which there are many having your back.
7) Wished I was rich so I could send the guy an unspendable output just to piss him off. But still wouldn't waste good coins
The amount in question was around £2000.
Hunted for another titan
9) Made a cuppa, and relax knowing my bitcoins are safe in my wallets (I was going to buy some coins for my titan purchase)
And so foils a second scam attempt, this time psychological.
(If someone here is a billionaire, send one of these clowns an unspendable output, just to piss them off)
EDIT: Can we move this, this was meant for the bitcoin discussion section!
