Quote from: hilariousandco on February 28, 2017, 09:30:20 AM

Quote from: hexpay on February 26, 2017, 11:25:10 PM

Quote from: hilariousandco on February 26, 2017, 01:55:17 PM

Quote from: hexpay on February 26, 2017, 11:13:35 AM

Hi.
I'm one of the staff members at HexPay.org, and we have recently been notified about a scammer who has scammed a lot of users from this forum.

It's not just this guy. It's many. In fact, I'd say the overwhelming majority of users on this forum who use such autobuy link sites as yours are selling either hacked or non-existent stuff. It's become rife in the Digital Goods/Invites sections.

Unfortunately it's hard to police since when we receive reports of a scammer, they just create a new account and recreate the scam products.

I'm well aware of that. The same things happen here. Maybe you should consider holding the funds until the buyer has confirmed receipt. That would significantly deter scammers. If these scammers get the funds instantly then it's prime for abuse.

Quote from: Lauda on February 27, 2017, 06:36:53 AM

Okay I've tagged all of them. I'm sure that he/she will be back with more accounts though.

They were all already banned apart from splitups.

Quote from: hilariousandco on February 28, 2017, 09:30:20 AM

Quote from: hexpay on February 26, 2017, 11:25:10 PM

Quote from: hilariousandco on February 26, 2017, 01:55:17 PM

Quote from: hexpay on February 26, 2017, 11:13:35 AM

Hi.
I'm one of the staff members at HexPay.org, and we have recently been notified about a scammer who has scammed a lot of users from this forum.

It's not just this guy. It's many. In fact, I'd say the overwhelming majority of users on this forum who use such autobuy link sites as yours are selling either hacked or non-existent stuff. It's become rife in the Digital Goods/Invites sections.

Unfortunately it's hard to police since when we receive reports of a scammer, they just create a new account and recreate the scam products.

I'm well aware of that. The same things happen here. Maybe you should consider holding the funds until the buyer has confirmed receipt. That would significantly deter scammers. If these scammers get the funds instantly then it's prime for abuse.

Quote from: Lauda on February 27, 2017, 06:36:53 AM

Okay I've tagged all of them. I'm sure that he/she will be back with more accounts though.

They were all already banned apart from splitups.

It's a free service, we don't have the resources to escrow payments, nor the time. It works fine on other forums.

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Correct - It's up to the buyer to make sure the seller is legit, and sadly due to the poor moderation and terrible features of the BTCtalk marketplace (who thought it was a good idea to let noobs self moderate sales threads!?) scammers will try to get your money.
Many others use our site with no problems, and on forums where scam reports are not ignored and the marketplace is moderated it works a lot better.
Lately, we have written some code that finds a lot of these GC scams and hopefully deletes them before users purchase them.

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