Quote from: dioscuri on June 18, 2014, 03:21:39 AM

Hi all, I am totally new to this so bear with me.

My overseas friend's facebook account got hacked and the hacker used her account to communicate with me, pretending to be her and asked for my help to purchase bitcoin as the seller located in my country does not accept foreign currency. To cut a long story short, I believed that it was really my friend as we had always been communicating via FB (since sh'e based overseas) and our last conversation was just a week ago. So I agreed to do her this 'favor'. I purchased 5 bitcoins, which was sent into the hacker's address instead.

I've made a police report, but I would like to know if there is anywhere that I can make a report to 'bitcoin' organisations about this fraud?

Thank you!

obviously you have no known username this hacker ses in the community, no real name, no bank details.. so there is not really anything that you can report, which would help prevent other users from being scammed in the future.

however, if you do find something valuable info, post it here:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=83.0

one thing you can do is post the bitcoin address of the scammer so that people can watch out for th scammer and maybe an exchange could freeze an account of anyone depositing using that address.. but the scammer can simply move funds through a few addresses, so a slim chance.

i would however ask some questions.
how did this scammer get access to your friends facebook.
how did the scammer think that out of 1 billion FB users, that you knew about bitcoin, to even attempt this extortion on you specifically
how did the scammer know your location to have come up with the story that involved using your location to extort you
how did the scammer know that you had enough FIAT to do such a transaction EG that you were not a student with only $100 to your name.
how did the scammer know you had enough trust with your friend to even attempt such a conversation, and that you were not just some random FB friend add request
did the scammer ask you to deal with a certain person to give your FIAT to

usually stuff like this works out if it was just luck or that you were well researched into your wealth and relationships and that you were targeted. usually meaning someone in your friends list or someone that personally knows your friend done it.
my 2 cents are on a targetted attack on you by your friend or someone that knows your friends maiden name, favourite pets name and date of birth....