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Re: Anatomy of an BitcoinTalk.org account purchase SCAM.
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rickC137
on 21/03/2018, 23:34:44 UTC
You are lucky you didn't get tagged for trying to buy an account by actmyname, but I guess this shows you have redeemed yourself for now.... Tongue

Anyhow, good write up, but the TL;DR should just be :

DON'T BUY ACCOUNTS HERE, UNLESS YOU WANT TO BE TAGGED RED AND HAVE TO START OVER. Grin

Cheers

Yes, I've learned my lesson and will earn my status the old fashioned way.

I think a lot of Newbies don't speak out after being scammed because they are afraid of MOD retribution or getting turned Red.  I wanted to make sure that other Newbies didn't get hurt and lose hard earned BTC to these losers.

Just a question, why wouldn't MODS take a zero tolerance policy to posts that list accounts for sale?  Perhaps if every account that posted an account for sale were banned, there would be no accounts for sale soon.  Smiley