Quote from: sionsandman on September 20, 2014, 02:53:57 PM

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Quote from: sanos51ck on September 20, 2014, 01:39:07 AM

There's a thread somewhere saying most donators ended up scamming people on the forum.

Unless you can link to the thread, I would say it does not exist.

I think he/she was referring to this

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The list of VIP's that donated 50BTC to this forum reads almost like a "who's who" of bitcoin scammers. zhoutong, pirateat40, Graet, imsaguy, TradeFortress, cryptoxchange.. Why dont you do your part, and refund Goat's 50BTC to Gurrty, and strip Goat of his VIP privileges? At least it would be some small restitution to Gurrty, it would show you do not want to be paid with stolen money and scammers can not buy protection from you with their stolen money, and if Goat wants to regain his VIP status, let him cough up the coins himself.

Do you have a link to this quote?

The link is there. Click on "this".

Oh, it looks like I missed the fact that there was a link there.

Regardless, the quote was what one person wrote, and does not appear to be the overall discussion of the thread. The post itself is not even factually accurate, it lists 6 people that have allegedly scammed out of 30 VIPs (I am not sure that all of them are even VIPs) and many more donators.

I would say the reason there are so many VIP/Donator scams is because they are people who had a lot a bitcoin so they donated a little bit (<$100 worth at the time) to the forum and went into what turned into a failed business. I would dispute the fact that they being a VIP made it easier for them to scam.

As I stated before I am looking for a VIP/donator account to get the perks of a VIP/Donator account and do not intend to engage in any kind of trading with it. Therefore any "trust" that would be gained because it is a donator/VIP would not apply to my situation.