Quote from: COOLCRYPTOVATOR on March 29, 2022, 05:47:04 PM

Tagged. I know it's not worthy to tag a newbie account offering Bitcointalk account sales, but there should be a warning that would be read by others. Likely he will create another account to advertise his account sales. We can't prevent them from actually creating multiple accounts. Most likely he is a scammer, asking for upfront payment. And other accounts would be hacked or botted. Everyone should avoid dealing with that guy.

For sure members can be awared if they see the negative trust ratings for these account sellers and don't involve in any business with them.This is the step we can take in the interest of forum members but have seen that sometimes newbies in hope of getting bounties and signature campaign on the forum might get attracted to these scams without giving notice to these tags and get scammed.So they need to be extra cautious with them and work on their own without involving in any shortcut.

Quote from: 1miau on March 30, 2022, 11:38:20 PM

Considering how unlikely it would be in my opinion, that o_solo_miner is for sale, you might be correct.

Yeah if you are saying you know the local board member then it could be the perfect scam case.This is the only way to attract some newbies by directing them towards such accounts mostly from local boards.Like this account is 2014 registered with 1346 merit and positive trust rating also.Once he got the payment he will not respond at all to the PM and scam will be executed.

Quote from: KingsDen on March 29, 2022, 07:57:13 PM

My concern

You did well by identifying this unethical business in the forum but I have these two concerns;
1. You have indirectly advertised the supposed account sellers business. Especially with links to it, he can possibly have more customers or victims.

You can say he has also warned members to stay away from him and see he also got tagged by some members which would hinder his scam business.

Do you think he would not have reached others through the PM service as they message almost members to catch any one victim.There are some similar ways by which they approach you like this one in the past :

This is just one of those reference of these scams they want to conduct and will try to ask you to join them through PM also but if exposed the way @OP has then negative and red flags on their profile could surely put hit to their scam business.So this is not indirect advertising but exposing them to protect the newbie users from losing their money.

Quote from: The Pharmacist on March 30, 2022, 06:58:54 PM

Assholes like this one who's selling a whole bunch of different accounts couldn't give a crap about this forum and probably not any forum or platform. I tagged him, but it's unlikely to do any good since he's a newbie with only 13 posts. Thanks to OP for pointing this out, however--it's better that members like him get painted red as fast as possible no matter what effect it may have.

Before the implementation of merit system there were many who were into this account selling business even the legendary rank and you could easily join the campaigns as post could be reported to moderators but controlling spam at this level was not so effective.But after merit system we have seen less of these account selling as if you don't have knowledge then it's no fun of having account on forum.But yes they should be immediately tagged so that others take it as warning not to do any scam selling although it's allowed but it's still discouraged.