I was trying to sell my knife (Karambit UV MW), and someone added me straight away. He said he wanted to pay on real money. I said I only accepted bitcoin, and he said okay. He quickly rushed into which escrow I was going to use. But I kept persisting with the question of "Can you give me your bitcoin address so I know you actually have the money?"
He finally listened to me, and said he had exactly $20 in good wallet, and have me the address 1F1tAaz5x1HUXrCNLbtMDqcw6o5GNn4xqX.
I checked it straight away, and found out the address was a wikileaks address
It turns out when you search up "bitcoin address", the wikileaks donation address is the first thing that comes up. What a joke.
First I would like to thank you for never trying to scam people but your post dredges up old questions in my mind that have never been resolved.
How are you going to be trapped by using an escrow of your choice?
IS google the address checker to which you are referring? It's really a bad one if so because 1F1tAaz5x1HUXrCNLbtMDqcw6o5GNn4xqX is NOT a wikileaks address.
If OP had been fooled by this superlative scam, how would it have taken place? Would the escrow of his choice actually somehow be in on the ruse? Is google also in on it? I don't get it.