Quote from: Rawted on February 17, 2015, 02:47:48 PM

Ignorance of the law is no excuse. This guy knew what he was doing all along, and he needs to serve time. Regrets is either in on the scam now or just a gullible idiot.

By no means am I defending his actions to the fullest. All was mentioned was leave his family members out of it. As for his actions, I am basing my findings on 5 days worth [and counting] of full time linguistic analysis directly from the primary source . You seem to be basing your theories on the rage built up inside from when you got scammed and combined that rage with the rage from other victims. I don't see where you have concrete evidence or anything factual to backup your bizarre and preposterous speculations. Now, this guy is a full time worker at a rehab center where he helps people that can't walk for what ever reason, get back to their feet and used to scam part time. He was aware that scamming and doing check fraud was bad, but not to the extent it drew out to be. No prior arrests, BA college degree, 6 months away from completing his masters. Not a bad guy prior to October 2014 [that's when the PayPal scamming started].

Quote from: haploid23 on February 17, 2015, 07:03:01 AM

Quote from: Regrets on February 16, 2015, 03:42:19 PM

I have been in touch with Marc who is trying to fix his silly mistakes. He was not aware of the serious implications of check fraud and was new into this territory of scamming.

You're partially misjudging the situation. He has scammed more people than you think, and I know some of his aliases. He is not paying you back because realizing it was a "silly mistake", but because he's about to get caught and the rest of his life was about be fuked. Do you realize he has known the severity of this, yet continues to do it because he got away with it for a while?

He missed going to jail by a thread several weeks ago, which I was directly involved in. Let's just say he deposited the check in the wrong bank account at the wrong time.

PS - do not PM me for details. And Marc, there are more people that want your head than you think. There is a hefty bounty for you.

I don't know the total number of victims scammed. All I know is that with the check fraud scam, he only got away with three victims' btc. Numerous check fraud attempts in the amounts exceeding $75,000+ have been surpassed but he only got away with ~$20K of those attempted.
And yes he was aware that his actions were wrong but not to the extent where it's a felony and all his life would be tossed out due to one month's error. He has since repaid $4.5K to one victim, and I am paid a fourth of my debt so far [to be completed by next Wednesday] and one other member on queue. I am not aware of your dealings with him, I only based my replies based on my observations and complaints from LocalBitcoins and part of what was on this thread. He is willing to repay anyone he has damaged except segvec.

Quote from: 98problems on February 17, 2015, 07:19:24 AM

I would say it really does not matter that he is repaying a small number of victims. He has scammed for tens of thousands of dollars (and for some reason consolidated all his 'take' into one address).

I would speculate that he is paying a few of his victims back either because he is actually in control of accounts who are claiming to be his victims in order to pull off some kind of social engineering scam to delay people from filing police reports, or he is only paying back a select few of his victims in order to make people think they will be repaid so they drop charges against him.

I am fairly certain that he has scammed people that do not even know they were scammed by him specifically which means that they are not going to attempt to collect from him specifically. Additionally these people may file police reports about them being scammed but there may not be evidence that marc was the culpert

And once again, nothing but speculation drawn from the built up anger towards him. If anything, champ, I and the third victim that lost thousands should be infuriated but yet, we are the calm and understanding ones while the spectators rage on.

He is re-paying due to fear of the law, the fear of his separation from his family [the wife read this thread by the way and was certainly not happy by his actions and heavily non-supportive], and the fear of losing his income stream [his job].

"I am fairly certain that he has scammed people that do not even know they were scammed by him." < How does that happen?
"Additionally these people may file police reports about them being scammed but there may not be evidence that marc was the culpert." < What types of victims are these?