Quote from: buy-black on October 07, 2014, 12:59:46 PM

Quote from: synechist on October 06, 2014, 07:57:13 PM

Quote from: akula999 on October 06, 2014, 07:38:46 PM

Hey Everyone!

I have sad news. I was scammed. And being naive and not knowing enough played a role at this. Also greed was in this.
There is a user named BobbyL and he also goes by Michail1. He was looking to buy a large quantity of XC. We talked and he agreed to buy everything I had because he was offering me 3.5BTC for 1500 XC. 1500XC was my total amount I had been saving since June. I've been buying a few here and there every week (especially when it was cheap back in June).

He setup a wallet on blockchain.info with a username and password with 3.5 BTC in it. When I logged into the wallet to check, I saw the BTC. I didn't get the private key to transfer funds out. He told me to send him the XC and I will get the private key. Well, I sent the XC, but he never sent anything and changed the password very quickly. This person wont return my emails. His email is passat.ltc@gmail.com - He goes by Michail Hoffman.

I lost my life savings. 4 months of saving XC and it's all gone due to greed for some quick turn around cash. I feel bad. If anyone knows how to get my XC back, please help.

Argh. That's awful. So sorry to hear that.

What a bastard.

Next time use an escrow service you trust (localbitcoins.com?) or make the other party take the risk.

or... next time use BlackHalo (Trustless Escrow) it if fantastic and free. I have used it.
http://blackhalo.info/

And if the other party doesn't want to use it, the reason is likely that you're dealing with a scammer.