I held the funds for 3 days. That's plenty of time for shipping to have occurred, especially considering they were discussing this deal for days before BTC was sent. When they asked me to release funds I even made the buyer double confirm that everything was ok and to release funds. It's not my place to hold onto someone's funds when they tell me twice to release them to the seller. The release approval was from the right account. It was being released to the prior agreed upon address.
Keeping your account secure is important.
Yeah, and I still don't even know how my account was hacked.
I also would love to know how to keep any account secure when there is no 2FA option available.
Yes, you had the funds for nearly 3 full days... but he specifically stated it would take him UP TO 3 days just to SHIP IT... and he would LET US KNOW once shipped...
Which he never did...
I get it, you can't hold funds ransom, but you have to know that something could have gone wrong... the fact that it never appeared to have even been shipped yet...
and to release the funds to him within 40 mins of him requesting it from MY account... so fast... like cmon...
In the future, I would recommend REQUIRING a tracking # be confirmed to be provided... AND at least 2 days thereafter before any release can happen.
Because I am obviously not the only person who has had their account broken into.
And additionally, use whatever pull you have if you have any, and get the btctalk devs to add fkn 2fa... its 2022 for Christ's sake.