Quote from: pakhitheboss on August 30, 2021, 12:24:04 PM

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Quote from: shahid7221 on August 29, 2021, 07:28:41 AM

Myself shahid from mumbai. I had an old stash of btc with me which i wanted to cash out. I choose to deal from localbitcoins. Since i did not have a verfied account there, i decided to contact a trader and execute a deal outside of localbitcoins.

I first contacted "Abidhussainf" but our times did not match so i went ahead and contacted another trader who goes by the id "Prateeketc". I contacted him on his whatsapp number 8217331774. He replied quickly and we dealt without escrow for Rs. 20000. Since the deal was successful, i decided to proceed with another deal of 50000 INR to which i sent him around 0.015 btc. He assured me that he will send me the funds in 10 minutes after which he went offline from whatsapp and even blocked me on calls now.

I got in touch with the local police station today who refereed me to cyber crime bran to register a case of fraud. They have asked me to submit his details asap. If anybody here has any details about this person kindly let me know.

Also it would be great if you guys please suggest me what other option i have to recover my amount

Unfortunately, there is absolutely no chance that you would be able to recover your money, if you have whatsapp chat and some details of that person you can lodge an FIR against the person in both civil as well as criminal law. But I am not too hopeful that they will help you in tracing that person, try contacting local bitcoin support if you can get any identity details of that person, also try to request police officers or even offer kickbacks to get the details attached with the phone number he is using because if you can find him chances are you will be able to recover the money

Every seller or buyer on local bitcoin nowadays has to go through KYC. I do not think the OP is telling the complete truth. He himself might be a scammer trying to find out loopholes by posting this topic.

Op did not use local bitcoins escrow service, therefore he is responsible for his loss. Local bitcoin will not provide any information to him as he never used their platform. Op cannot do anything here and do not believe in what he is saying as he might be either a competitor or a fraudster. Did he provide on this forum any link where we can see the FIR he raised?

Another thing is his first post and he came to Bitcointalk asking for a solution. Where there are many forums to do the same, he also did not mention it in his post.

I would recommend everyone here to ignore his post as he might be a scammer.

I agree with you and also how does the OP now knows Indian section in bitcointalk forums? This is something fishy or he already had more deals like this and went into lost at this point.

OP
you need to go through the local police only and their is no help online also the moderators will edit your post to remove his phone number.

Good luck for you and i am hoping that you get your money back.