vdragon Erupter-Groupbuy-Scam : Task Force - page 10.

qurashee

newbie

Activity: 27

Merit: 0

Quote from: escrow.ms on July 25, 2013, 05:40:34 PM

Damn, I knew something is wrong. Try to contact peoples who paid him cash and bank transfer.
You can get more details easily.

We did but it is a possibility that all these (four) people are the scammer himself pretending to be a customer. We'll see.

escrow.ms

legendary

Activity: 1274

Merit: 1004

Damn, I knew something is wrong. Try to contact peoples who paid him cash and bank transfer.
You can get more details easily.

qurashee

newbie

Activity: 27

Merit: 0

For people based in the UK there is a site called actionfraud where you can report online fraud. I'm not sure btc scams are recognised as a form of electronic fraud but we can give it a go.

nottm28

hero member

Activity: 574

Merit: 500

Sorry for your loss - interested party - watching

Xer0

hero member

Activity: 826

Merit: 1000

°^°

so far:

- archived gb thread and all his posts as .maff files, could not do screenshots though
- archived some images he posted in the post-your-mining-rig thread
- nomnomnom contacted possible real-life contact on hungarian bitcoin meetup
- albon found out the name asociated to a paypal account on his email address
- escrow.ms and green65 maybe found addresses related to his bitstamp account

Xer0

hero member

Activity: 826

Merit: 1000

°^°

ToDo:

- REPORT TO YOUR LOCAL POLICE

- Moderators: please provide all logged IPs and avaiable personal information of user "vdragon"

- fully archive the group buy thread, vdragon's all posts and you pm conversations with him
we could need copies from multiple users to be on the forensically safe side

- he joined some altcoin pools, tested some stuff. we need his ips from the operators

- he posted images of "his" rigs in the rig-image-section, especially interesting is this shot:
https://i.imgur.com/Kq6kuEq.jpg
there is a logo and text on the window - we need to find out what and where! (or if the images are just stolen)

- examine every single post he made and look for useful information, expecially personal information

Xer0

hero member

Activity: 826

Merit: 1000

°^°

So, we got scammed and lost ~300 BTC. what now?

First, most important thing: reference
- reference thread: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/group-buy-please-read-1000-pcs-usb-erupters-euint-price-089btc-252180
- reference user: https://bitcointalksearch.org/user/vdragon-79855

Log:
[08 July 2013] user opens group buy and starts collecting funds
[19 July 2013] group buy closed, user says he will drive to yxt personally on 23.07
[2013-07-23 06:46:16] payment wallet gets cleared and funds going washed through a mixer
[23 July 2013, 8:08] he tells having his wallet not synced and moving his drive to next day
[23 July 2013, 11:01] last post, no communication after that point, not even a "heading out now"
[24 July 2013, 03:19:33] last seen online

There are some possibilities:
A: he is clean. still on the drive way or pausing in a motel without internet. and has a fucking reason pushing all our 300 btc through a mixer
B: was a legit member before and decided to do this scam shortly
C: scam was planned long before and so are all old posts fake and just part of a story (=we are screwed)

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