Broadly speaking, it is not illegal to demand (or ask for) money that you are duly owed. TMAN might have violated debt collection laws in his posts depending on where both he and BetKing are located, and other factors; if this is the case, I would consider it to be a process crime.
I don't condone how TMAN went about trying to collect the debt he purchased, and above all I think it was immature and intended to create drama, but I don't think it would meet the legal threshold of being blackmail or extortion.
Elsewhere in the thread you are
quoting, TMAN had purchased alleged debt owed by the person he was asking to pay. Even if the debt was invalid, I believe in this case that TMAN believed in good faith the debt to be valid, and BetKing did not dispute the debt to TMAN prior to TMAN making any of those statements.
Some other relevant facts:
- Betking owes a shitload to a lot of people and it's been almost a year now since the money went missing.
- He's been trying to convince people to stop calling him a scammer so that he can start a new project and pay everyone back...lol
- It's basically devolved into a bunch of shit talking, TMAN wasn't even trying to make any money he even said if he got paid he'd just give it to LoyceV in exchange for the one satoshi. He's just trying to get a piece of shit to pay his debts or fuck off instead of trying to run another scam.
(check out his
trust, if you know RHaver, and you see his feedback, you will understand)
From same thread:
Dean,
You are responsible for the situation you're in right now. Not JollyGood or TMAN or RHaver or the "hackers" or anyone else. Just you.
If your goal is to make everyone whole, I suggest putting more time into that instead of trying to play the victim while being a dick all the time. It's just not working.
Yes... 1000% start making a concerted effort to not be a cunt, start making payments or build a small fund with a trusted escrow and Ill leave you be. If not the TMAN will do all. In my power to make you unhappy