Quote from: mjglqw on October 14, 2019, 09:51:07 AM

Quote from: LoyceV on October 14, 2019, 08:35:53 AM

Quote from: mjglqw on October 14, 2019, 06:51:32 AM

Just comes to show how careless people are in general. It only takes like what? less than 5 seconds to double check the address you're sending the funds to?

There's more to it than that: when I receive a PM with a payment address, I first have to make absolutely sure it came from the real account. With email, most people don't use encryption. That makes it even more difficult to be absolutely sure the sender is who he says he is.

..aaaaand not only that! Personally, even though I'm already certain that the bitcoin address came from the legitimate person, I always ask the person to verify the pasted address! Like so:

Tradee: my address is bc1jf5jxxxxxxxxxxxx
Me: bc1jf5jxxxxxxxxxxxx
Me: ?
Tradee: bc1jf5jxxxxxxxxxxxx

And I even do that even with transactions as low as $20. You can never be so sure.

I don't understand you're doing trades by phone? The vendors spell their adresses letter by letter?
If I'm right. Why not using emails instead? If your sender use URIs you just need to click on the link, you don't even need to do a copy/paste manipulation, like bitcoin:bc1jf5jxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx