Quote from: Tomatocage on January 11, 2014, 06:32:03 PM

Theymos has confirmed via IP that lucky7slick and gonefishing510 are the same user.

This may actually be very helpful in proving a fraudulent intent! Thanks!

Quote from: nmat on January 11, 2014, 06:19:00 PM

Quote from: lucky7slick on January 09, 2014, 08:35:59 PM

We continue to talk for about 2-3 minutes. To sum up what he said, he basically doesn't want to do any more trades on this forum anymore because he thinks everyone is a scammer. I ask about "nmat" and he said that he never got anything from him after the first trade.

That doesn't make any sense. I have plenty of evidence that I owned the coins and that they were delivered to his door. I also have a long list of traded messages with him regarding this trade.

As do I - there is absolutly no doubt this guy is trying to get away with this. He might, but I don't believe so. I haven't had much work with law enforcement, but I have a very large network of people that, while in no way will we threaten the man physically are going to potentially make his life very annoying. I haven't decided to take those actions yet.

Also I am working with nmat to decide if we want to hire a private investigator/security firm to peruse him. While I did get screwed out of a collectible coin that had a lot of value to me, it pales in comparison to the loss incurred by nmat.

In the mean time, I have decided to try and turn my negative feelings into energy to do some positive things in the world of bitcoins. To start with there was a family in New York who had a tragic fire new years day, losing their 7 year old and home, and having their 12 year old badly burned. I am working with a very trusted core dev to setup a donation wallet for the family... and already have commitments for up to 10 bitcoins in matching funds. After, and assuming this is successful I am planning to work with a friend to set up more charitable efforts in bitcoin.

I would like to take the feelings of being burnt and loss of trust and try to turn them into something positive that will help restore for myself, and hopefully others who have been scammed that there are good bitcoin people out there who want to help. I've started another thread here...

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=411183.0

If anyone has any suggestions, I would be grateful to hear them!