Hi.
I've been scammed to by a French guy, lucky me that I had withdraw all my money before the scammer claim it, so I'm in red now haha.
Never understood why bitcoin users use paypal when the entire e-currency world of Pecunix/LR/Webmoney/HDmoney/GDP/Cgold/EGold hasn't touched Paypal for trading since the 1990s heyday of scamming.
I use PayPal and got really unhappy with how BCM went (and I expected it, when BCM stopped being invite only... In fact, I invited ever only one person, and I encouraged others to check #otc web of trust to see if a person was to be invited...)
The reason is simply: It is the ONLY option available on my country.
Here there are no dwolla, no LR, no Pecunix, no Webmoney... It is ONLY paypal. (well, we have Western Union too, but they charge 25% O.o)
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The only reason that I use PAYPAL is because theres no other way in my country. In most South America countries PAYPAL is used for Ebay buying, and credit cards are not very abundant. People sometime have fear to link their CC to PAYPAL, so they buy credit to a trader. Thats how I get the money in my local currency. I can make that trade because PAYPAL is POPULAR, Ebay is POPULAR, and the demand of PAYPAL credit is hight.
I'm sure that we can think a way to make scamming harder to be accomplish.