Topic: WARNING FOR INDIVIDUALS WHOM RECEIVE INTERAC-ETRANSFERS (Read 532 times)
Thanks for the heads-up. Be careful out there!
recently sold 200 cad worth of bitcoins, was my first sell on local bitcoins. The guy offered interac-etransfers which after some research seemed like it would be 100% safe as they said its non-refundable transfers and he also had 30+ trades with 100% rating. He sent the money to my acc which i received almost instantly and then I released the btc. Everything was fine, untill i tried to take money out of my card later that night. Card declined, online web acc disabled, and when I called in i was informed all my bank accounts are frozen and being investigated by the fraud department. Its been approximately 5 days now and Im still locked out of my account but I was just informed that the funds are being returned to the sender.
Interac-etransfers are NOT safe and if the card used to send you a payment was stolen they will remove the funds after a few business days. Also, you will be screwed over trying to reach any funds for the next week and waste hours of your time in the branch and on the phone (required to come to the branch multiple times to confirm identity).
hate to be that guy, but donations are welcome, i am a broke university student and I wanted to do some btc trading (more for fun rather than profit), and now lost the funds from this trade my dreams are crushed.
Interac-etransfers are NOT safe and if the card used to send you a payment was stolen they will remove the funds after a few business days. Also, you will be screwed over trying to reach any funds for the next week and waste hours of your time in the branch and on the phone (required to come to the branch multiple times to confirm identity).
hate to be that guy, but donations are welcome, i am a broke university student and I wanted to do some btc trading (more for fun rather than profit), and now lost the funds from this trade my dreams are crushed.
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