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Quote from: Trêvoid on Today at 05:13:38 AM

Because he had worked with exch and even received donations from him, I trusted him. But apparently, that wasn’t enough. He turned out to be a real scammer who was just looking to take advantage of someone before disappearing.

You seem to have misinterpreted his relationship with eXch.
He only developed the SimpleX bot on his initiative, probably with the idea of creating a universal solution, and at the same time, he would have a certain profit through the eXch affiliate partner program.
At the same time, eXch also voluntarily sent donations (not only for this project) as part of their initiative to support promising ideas.
Somehow, you connected that he enjoys the trust of eXch, which was wrong.

I don't know what amount it is, but it doesn't seem logical to me that someone who received 0.3 BTC as a gift cheats someone else for an amount significantly smaller than that.

Also, I would not immediately accuse paid2 of complicity here, he already launched affiliate signature campaigns to promote his referral link from eXch and Orangefren.

According to him, the exch still owes him 0.8 BTC for the work he did for them. As I mentioned before, his initial approach was likely with scam just intention since the exch has disappeared, he also believes there’s no reason to continue here, so he deleted all his threads and left. He clearly had a scammer mindset, and using tools or projects from someone with that kind of personality is was always risky.

I’m not accusing @Paid2 . He claims to have a good relationship with @Paid2, but I was a bit suspicious.

The reason I’m making this post isn’t to try and recover my money (which isn’t possible), but simply to warn everyone. Even people who seem trustworthy, or looks like be legitimate, can turn out to be scammers.

Scammer words (could be a lie but just sharing)

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He still ove me pay 0.8 BTC for work we are done.. but now he is gone forver i guess

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I still have server that eXch gave me, it's paid for next few years

Quote from: JeromeTash on Today at 03:16:36 PM

Despite the number of merits it had accumulated, the account is barely 2 months in this forum and yes they probably tried to make some valuable contribution, but you don't just give away your trust just like that. There are some people who just sign up in the forum to farm merits and trust so they can make an exit scam later.

Most members have also refused to adopt the culture of asking for signed Bitcoin messages especially when dealing with old accounts, even if they received a PM from an account. Just imagine someone accesses my account, doesn't change my password, creates a simplex account, sends you a message for a deal. Then gets back through my account and sends you a PM as well, confirming that it's indeed JeromeTash. You send him money, and he disappears, meanwhile, me as the real owner of the account, I have no idea what happened.

Thank you for taking the time to reply. Your answers are correct and make sense, I just couldn’t imagine it myself, which was my mistake.

Regarding your second point: while it’s true that this can happen to anyone, we still need to keep our accounts secure. That’s not an excuse, but I still don’t believe the person was an impersonator. I believe it was really him.

Quote from: apogio on Today at 06:04:58 AM

Hi, sorry for the loss.

Looking at it, I agree it looks suspicious and, potentially (most likely) your allegation is correct.

What amount are we talking about?

I remember @bchannel being a member of the Bisq Lightning Client Initiative Project simpleX group and they developed a bot for simpleX, to use eXch through simpleX.

@Paid2 is a reputable forum member. I 'd accept the escrow with him. But more importantly, I wouldn't send first to a member with bchannel's forum history. Not because it's bad, but because it's very limited to 3 months of activity, with only 39 posts.

Suggested steps (some of them you 've already taken):
1. Leave negative feedback and remove if they reach back to you and give you the amount owed.
2. Try to find paid2. Although it seems unlikely that they had anything to do with it.

Friendly advice:
Even though simpleX is easy to use and I 've used it with you in the past with very smooth results, I 'd limit my interaction within the forum.
Of course, if you 're serious with what you do, you 'd prefer to broaden your customers base and it's normal, but in the beginning perhaps you should take smaller steps and learn from mistakes like this.
I am saying this was a mistake from your part, because it's important to be careful and don't take risks to increase your potential customers.
And, a rule of thumb, that has been broken in the past but will save you from many issues in the future: if you have 1% doubt, use a trusted escrow or ask to receive first.

Do we have a trusted escrows summary topic? Like a full list of the escrows that are available within the forum (as services)
I am only aware of my friend's GazetaBitcoin escrow service
I 'd like to not have to search in the Service section to gather this info from various topics. Perhaps the info exists, so please enlighten me.

Thank you, dear @Apogio, for your thoughtful comments and suggestions. Regarding the amount, I would prefer to keep that information private. I have joined the group you posted and have also shared the thread, thank you for that.
All you are saying is correct, further I am always learning, and I strive to improve myself every day so I can be better than I was yesterday.