And regarding your last question "How would I proceed from here?"
First and foremost, obviously try to get Burky155 to refund the funds or ACTUALLY send the miner (this won't happen though, we all know that). Second, course of action will be to ask my lawyer to file subpoena requests through the courts to obtain the information I need to proceed with either prosecution, or the file a lawsuit if it is deemed against regulations and/or illegal to facilitate such services without proper security systems in place.
That's where I'm at with this, and I have the resources to go as far as I want with it... and given enough subpoena's to exchanges, this website, etc to find out the true identities of these people... I will eventually get at minimum a lawsuit filed.
While I know ultimately the scammer is "at fault"... I also believe that btctalk may have a legal obligation to have some bare minimum security features if they wish to continue to facilitate marketplace services... I don't know though until I ask my lawyer tomorrow to begin investigating the laws and what I can and cannot go after.
I sure as hell am going to try.
Funny, the seller was only okay with using OgNasty or minerjones.
ONLY THEM.
Doesn’t that imply some sort of coordination?
Probably because they're two of the most established and trusted escrows here? That's what you requested, right?
Sending you a DM, interested. Must use trusted escrower here, or Bitrated.
Didn't you make a little research as to the two options provided? How did you come up with Og and not minerjones?
Also, did you not also check the background of the user you're about to do transaction with? I'm asking because burky155 was inactive for more than 3 years before suddenly coming out of nowhere selling something.
How can I properly secure my account when this platform doesn’t even have basic (and FREE) services to do so? Like google 2fa.
A 2FA could indeed be of help. But knowing that it doesn't have this feature, why did you proceed with the transaction? Also, what happened to you could be considered isolated. I mean, it's not everyday that an account involved in a transaction got hacked in the middle of it.
And the reason the escrower should also have had a red flag was that there’s no physical way the package could have arrived to me that quickly. Not just the fact that he hadn’t given tracking info yet.
What was the agreement, by the way? When could the escrow release the fund? Is it when the item has already arrived? Or is it enough that a tracking number is provided? Or could he release the funds upon instruction of the buyer?
1) does OgNasty have any access to any backend systems that allows him to reset a password for a user? Like a support feature.
I don't think so.
Have the three of you been communicating until now? How would you proceed from here? Do you believe that user burky155 really sent the item that you bought? I guess you should communicate with him/her. If he/she indeed sent it, then no problem. If he/she didn't, then it is obvious he/she is scamming you.