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Re: Doing some work for Saxydev, Earned $90 but Never received the Payment.
by
FatFork
on 15/02/2023, 07:51:51 UTC
One question for you c0ldbrewz, since you said that you don't know much about monero, who exactly asked for payment for your work to be sent in XMR instead of BTC or some other coin?

I have to confess that this question also popped into my mind.

Based on the chat logs, it was saxydev who decided to make the XMR payment, as expected.

01/23/2023 2:14 PM
and one more thing, i will pay in XMR
send your address also

I actually made some digging on this matter. And the results are... how to say... fascinating. Apparently, saxydev made another "Houdini move" when he sent the payment to c0ldbrewz, as he managed to pay without having a XMR wallet At least this is what I can understand from this sentence, which I found in the other topic:

I am not going to pay you anything more. What I am going to is next 48 hours [...] to install a monero wallet and share the secret key with the txd.

Since the active businessman scammer said he will install a XMR wallet, this means he did not have one, right? Then taking into consideration that there are infinitesimal chances for him to delete a XMR wallet just after paying to c0ldbrewz (as he would not have any reason to do that), we conclude that he made the payment on Monero network without having a wallet, which is, again, pure magic. Fabulous! Am I missing something here?

Even if he did send the payment (that's a big IF) and then deleted the wallet or lost access to it for whatever reason, and he later restores the wallet from the mnemonic seed, he will no longer have access to the secret TX key of the transaction. This is because the key can only be obtained from the local wallet used to create the transaction. But I bet he didn't know that, as he repeated the same lie in the Discord chat:

what wallet are you using?
do rescan
you should have the function
i am installing a monero wallet and i will give the secret key to check it on blockchain

Kind of ironic considering this is the same guy who was offering his blockchain forensics services to the community.  Cheesy