Same thing happening with OgNasty and other escrows.


@monbux: Could you provide a list of addresses used in those scam attempts, so I (and others) can have a look into them?

I'd encourage everyone receiving faked messages like that to report the users who send you those asap via a scam accusation.

Before my hiatus here, I spent a LOT of time in the Altcoin Announcement sections (in the IPO scam "hay day") and would point out obvious scam after obvious scam.  Didn't matter how big, bold, and/or red you made the text, nor how blunt you were in your "this guy is obviously scamming people" posts, people would still happily send bitcoin after bitcoin to these douche canoes.

You gotta admit, there is some (albeit woefully misplaced) creativity in this. Fake quote, fake link, fake website, it's not your average penny scammer.

Always check for the "This user is new and may not be who you think they are warning" above as I imagine most of these accounts are newish.

I've been contacted multiple times by people who actually got scammed.  The thing is, they didn't try to impersonate me... They claimed that they got a PM from me and forwards it to the buyer/seller.  I've got to admit, it would seem pretty legit to a person who is new to the concept of escrow.

And yes, be SURE to actually verify the quote, guys.  Report any users that seem suspicious.

@Lutpin I'll have to do some research.  Some of the PMs I got, the link has been taken down by the scammer, and some I didn't receive the link.  In the end I might be able to only get 1 address.

Seems its usually users who are trading with a currency, a trade which seems too good to be true - Escrow available, around 0.5 BTC being traded, which usually scam. Think its time to ask for signed messages from the address they claim holds the amount, and posting a warning that they should get a PGP signed message before sending BTCs to addresses claimed by the other person to be from the escrow

This forum's escrow services are really that much better than not using an escrow at all. First master-p and now this. The forum is seriously going down fast.

I request all escrow providers not to send same type of messages for every escrow deal. Change the pattern of writing on every escrow. By same type I meant pms with same template because a scammer can easily fake that just by copying the template and sometimes many users including me skip to verify the trust rating when viewing on my mobile screen.

Similarly signing the message with pgp is the most secure way too.

See this thread: https://bt.irlbtc.com/view/1374283.0

I recently got scammed by this user without escrow, but he offered to use Ognasty as escrow as well. I believe he is an alt of https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=159338(same 0.5 BTC, same escrow etc.)

Can someone confirm my suspicions?