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Re: My account masterzino is hacked
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Crypto Junkie
on 01/07/2015, 05:53:33 UTC

If you're going to escrow account sales, especially for new users who don't know any better, you should help them do it properly.

Agreed, I could have handled this better to possibly prevent the account from being sold by the hacker. I'll no longer escrow account sales where I do not first secure and inspect the account first. My previous view on the matter was that I know some (albiet few) people, especially when it comes to account trading, are paranoid about having the identity of the account released to escrow. So based on that I assume the lack of details provided to me were because they rather not disclose the identity to me, and I respected that.

I believe I am definitely at some fault here for not offering/insisting on securing the account from the buyer. The PMs exchanged between the buyer,seller, and myself were very brief only describing the account rank and activity level as well as trust ratings. I'll definitely do things more securely in the future to help better protect both parties of the transaction since there is such a huge influx of hacked accounts being sold as of late.

I apologize to OP for not being able to catch this at the time of the transaction. Having escrowed so many account sales in the recent months since I started my service, I definitely should have known better. If the account bought by the user "Crypto Junkie" is revoked and given back the it's original owner then I'll be happy to compensate the 0.071 BTC back to him out of my own wallet since this is something I possibly could've prevented as escrow.

no worries about compensating the .071 btc, it's a very small hit to take and at the end of the day it was my fault. If the account was sold to me by a hacker i'm glad the original owner got access back. I appreciate the time everyone has spent on this ordeal.