Congratulations & thanks for sharing the story

I see EST as 8.44 now so guess that it's over

$500 reward for the first person to ID what the bc1qlddfc5psmhfp4z6ckzwp7nhxrwsa7dfp8gz383 addie is,

bounty paid to Lafu

https://intel.arkm.com/explorer/tx/d19bf5a98e7baf847e656d356ce7eb14c3b785a5149ccfcde5b087f8e0a92571

Many thanks Lafu, I've PM-ed you, much appreciated!

Many thanks Lafu, much appreciated, yes I feel that these particular scammers are probably better organised than many, unfortunately, especially as in that they haven't rushed to cash out into fiat and blow the loot ASAP without case to traceability

My friend has written it off as to needing to learn a lesson the hard way, and doesn't expect that they'll see any of the coins back again, but we would still like to track what has happened as much as possible, and how it all progresses when the coins move again

The first addie that they sent a test transfer (I guess) to, may be a complete red herring, as surely they're smart enough to know that once the funds landed in their scammer receiving addie then they were in the bag and there was no need to check that by moving any, perhaps they wanted to show and prove to a third party that they really had landed that catch, who knows?

Could even be kidnapped forced scammer from Myanmar, in which case I wish them well, maybe they get to eat steak for one week and not lose their kidneys to harvesting gangs ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Though I doubt that...

Many thanks cygan & to Lafu as well, much appreciated!

0.0025 BTC

I've been asked to report the scamming theft of 3 BTC from someone that I know well, they slipped up badly and sent them to someone who was impersonating a friend of theirs, and so on their behalf I'm offering a reward of 10% on any of the coins that are retrieved or returned, plus a reward of up to $1,000 (my judgement upon the info's worth) for the first person who reports any movement of them to a crypto exchange, or somewhere where they may be able to be frozen, or better yet where the perp/s may be traced and prosecuted, hopefully.

No rewards offered for info of any moves to mixers, or dark web sites, except at my discretion and likely to be around $100 for the first report of that.

$500 reward for the first person to ID what the bc1qlddfc5psmhfp4z6ckzwp7nhxrwsa7dfp8gz383 addie is, where they sent a token amount just after the scam, and then withdrew it back again.

So far they haven't moved very far:

Receiving addie = Scammers first addie: bc1qun3ue8c5j4qgs72qefs9szsngs6ledu83f048z

26.02.25 = 3 BTC that were scammed and sent to: https://bitinfocharts.com/bitcoin/address/bc1qun3ue8c5j4qgs72qefs9szsngs6ledu83f048z

27.02.25 = 0.00301269 BTC that the scammers sent to: https://bitinfocharts.com/bitcoin/address/bc1qlddfc5psmhfp4z6ckzwp7nhxrwsa7dfp8gz383 <--- (740 BTC received & sent from this addie over a few days, by others than the scammer I assume)

bc1qlddfc5psmhfp4z6ckzwp7nhxrwsa7dfp8gz383

27.02.25 = 0.0029739 BTC Returned from the same addie to the scammers: https://bitinfocharts.com/bitcoin/address/bc1qlddfc5psmhfp4z6ckzwp7nhxrwsa7dfp8gz383 <--- (740 BTC received & sent from this addie over a few days, by others than the scammer I assume)

bc1qun3ue8c5j4qgs72qefs9szsngs6ledu83f048z

03.03.25 = 1.5000564 BTC that the scammers sent to: https://bitinfocharts.com/bitcoin/address/bc1qkwmp6tsjhfsykzelxrfd4cksvd8efgk8zfce9l <--- Half of the stolen funds remain here for now

bc1qkwmp6tsjhfsykzelxrfd4cksvd8efgk8zfce9l

03.03.25 = 1.49995557 BTC that the scammers sent to: https://bitinfocharts.com/bitcoin/address/bc1qt5jmqzneu07mguuzmcq96gtldzt9p8aqdd7qc2 <--- Half of the stolen funds remain here for now

bc1qt5jmqzneu07mguuzmcq96gtldzt9p8aqdd7qc2

The theft has been reported to the police, and a crime reference number has been issued

1 BTC, no questions asked, reward if the scammer/s, or their associates, return the coins to the same addie that they were originally sent from

I consigned them in person direct with ANACS's stand at the Long Beach, CA. coin show that I came over to the States for, and I stayed until they returned them to me.

Hi stacking

Well they were shipped from ANACS which are now based at Englewood, CO 80155, I don't know if this is where they were, and sent from, ten years ago or not, at the time I was visiting a friend in Sierra Madre, CA 91024 & used a P.O. Box there at Sierra Madre, CA 91025 to receive these back from ANACS, separately I also had an eBay package stolen which I'd had sent there, that time it was also cut open but all the contents were taken, so as sent from different locations the rat in question could have been based in Sierra Madre, or more likely the main PO in Arcadia I guess, but it could also have been someone working in the PO which ANACS used, I haven't checked if that has been a regular occurrence but someone did tell me that they though this happened quite a lot, in the past anyway, I don't know about now, probably would have been better to have used FedEx or something.

It could even have happened in the ANACS mail room, or in transit to their PO, all speculation anyway.

Good luck and many thanks for taking an interest, one day I may make a return visit there and file a police report on it locally, but I'm not sure that would really help much now, but if they resurfaced it could do no harm I expect.



 

Sure, I'm happy to call it 0.05 BTC whatever the price jumps around to & I'll cover MJ's escrow fees, many thanks

Sorry, I'd of course be happy with Mopar, but have always used minerjones so far.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=346731

For a cold wallet, personally I'd very highly recommend https://www.ballet.com/

Missing item, my post 

https://tinyurl.com/2xltesze 

jk  & many thanks for those who've PM-ed me with support, and kind wishes in general

Happy to offer you $5k for it in BTC or fiat, escrow via MJ

I am not promoting my own sales in your thread, that listing had ended and someone was inquiring about the current prices for the St Pete coins so I gave them the most up to date result of price discovery at auction, I hadn't realised that this would in some way offend you, I think perhaps that you're just bitter for not having played your hand as well.

What I do with my money is up to me, and if I see fit to not peel and instead to sell via an Auction house then, as you say, I'm free to do that of course, so tough titties if it gets under your skin, please try not to get your nickers in a twist about something which is absolutely none of your business.

I strongly disagree that everyone in the Casascius community and myself would have benefited from my having peeled them instead, perhaps you'd like to explain why you believe this because it's a total mystery to me and for sure those who bought at my first auction for around $30,000/BTC, and the one who flipped a couple of months later when we hit $60k, would surely refute this I expect.

Obviously with a 130% increase in the bitcoin price over the last year the peel value now is much higher, just as the auction value is as well where I'm guaranteed the current spot price plus half of the buyer's premium, but what matters is that I used a good portion of the proceeds to buy the Blackrock's iShares BTC ETF https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/IBIT/ which is up by about the same amount, and my prime motive was to preserve those coins, and to get them listed in nice catalogues for posterity where I can still enjoy them, but without the needs and risks of physically holding such a large stash, plus to help to kick start the nascent main stream physicals crypto auctions market, Heritage reported to me this about my latest sale:

"As per the last sale we’ve just had on Monday, it was definitely our smoothest and most profitable crypto sale we’ve ever had, so I consider it a great success."

I had other uses for the proceeds as well last year which were more important to me than maximising the amount that I, or my estate, may get at some point in the future, I've waited well over a decade before selling and this is now an opportune time as far as I'm concerned.

I have taken on some costly philanthropic commitments which are making a huge difference to some people's lives and have being doing this for some time now, I've also diversified into many non crypto fields and after having all of my eggs in one basket for so long this gives me more security and some very nice places to live in around the world, this is the stuff that I enjoy spending my good fortune on now rather than trying to maximise my net worth beyond my needs.

You've stated that you don't care for auction house sales and that is your prerogative and choice, but it isn't mine obviously and I have no regrets about my auction sales to date.

Probably you're not planning on selling these as you didn't mention that you were, but if anytime you did wish to then you could always submit them to Heritage Auctions, who'd either pick them up from you, or you could drop them into one of their offices, and then they'd be insured at their BTC spot price with HA handling the grading at PCSG for you with no risk to yourself, if you subsequently sold with them it's likely that you could negotiate to not be charged any seller's premium and to be guaranteed the spot price at least on the day (set half an hour before the auction approx.) plus 50% of the 20% buyer's premium.

So if say the bitcoin price was $100,000/BTC and they sold for $100,000 + $20,000 BP = $120,000 then you'd get $110,000 (less the grading/slabbing costs, and possibly some fees towards photography and catalogue printing)

If they sold for $85,000 + $17,000 BP = $102,000 then you'd get $101,000 (less possible costs)

If the bidding didn't reach $84,000 then HA would buy them in and depending upon what you arranged with them, either pay you the $100,000 spot price, or retain them on your behalf for submission into one of their future sales, this has been my experience anyway and the feedback which they gave me on my latest sale with them was that:

"it was definitely our smoothest and most profitable crypto sale we’ve ever had, so I consider it a great success"

If you wished to sell some with them, but also to have some of them returned to you after they'd been graded/slabbed then they may be amenable to that I expect, though you'd need to check with them about it first.

Yes, all of the poker chips did very well, maybe they're tapping into a new collectors market amongst the poker aficionados, Etc.

Latest one to sell, an Otoh Collection NGC PR67 went for $2,280 including the 20% buyer's premium today

https://coins.ha.com/itm/cryptocurrency/cryptocurrency-casascius-silver-unloaded-unfunded-st-petersburg-bitcoin-bowl-medal-2014-pr67-ultra-cameo-ngc-/a/3128-36049.s?ic4=GalleryView-ShortDescription-071515

Inauguration day and also happened to be an ATH day, makes for quite exciting auctions