Silk Road forums
Discussion => Newbie discussion => Topic started by: Bullfrogblues on July 12, 2013, 12:35 am
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What's with this guy spamming selling bitcoins?? Would anyone trust this crap.
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Makes sense why they want a 50 post minimum when we have guys like this spamming the forums. But holy hell that is a cheap price, I highly doubt it's legit though.
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Hard to say, but I think we'd be hard-pressed to find sympathy for such persons.
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I'm on it! :)
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No, it's not legit. He keeps making sites with new URL's after the old ones get too well known as being a scam. He might fill the orders on 1 or 2BTC I don't know. The 10 BTC special, always below the market rate, is the one I think he scams on.
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Sure enough the posts are gone. Thank god, now I can actually read the forums.
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Its just a fake AND A SCAM
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Is there going to be a functoin to report PMs? I get PMs every day offering me cheap bitcoins and to go to sites. I never click on them but it's really annoying, would like to report these accounts.
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Is there going to be a functoin to report PMs? I get PMs every day offering me cheap bitcoins and to go to sites. I never click on them but it's really annoying, would like to report these accounts.
The difficult part is that as soon as the spammer's account is deleted, they immediately recreate their account and continue on their merry spamming way.
If you want to stop getting private messages from the spammers, you can go into your forum profile settings and make sure that it is set not to show your online status. The spammers only PM users that are shown as being online.
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Always refreshing when a solution to a problem is clean and simple. Elegance is rare.
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Is there going to be a functoin to report PMs? I get PMs every day offering me cheap bitcoins and to go to sites. I never click on them but it's really annoying, would like to report these accounts.
The spammers only PM users that are shown as being online.
Why is that?
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Sure enough the posts are gone. Thank god, now I can actually read the forums.
not gone just on other pages
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Yeah i get pm's too from them plus from people trying to sell me product outside of the escrow system because they don't have a vendor account and i am sure want to scam me. Was funny i got one the other day from a guy who had a user name and guest status so i could not even respond to tell him to fuck off. user name is high_benzos
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Say no to scams
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Yeah i get pm's too from them plus from people trying to sell me product outside of the escrow system because they don't have a vendor account and i am sure want to scam me. Was funny i got one the other day from a guy who had a user name and guest status so i could not even respond to tell him to fuck off. user name is high_benzos
The reason he only had guest status, is that he had already been banned, or deleted the account himself.
I am wondering if the reason they keep spamming, is that a few people actually fall for it.?
I mean, if no-one falls for it, would they bother to keep trying.?
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Oh yah I'm sure people fall for it, enough to make it profitable to keep setting up new scam sites regularly.
Ok we'll see if this does anything. I asked a friend to report this scammer just to PayPal for violating the PayPal Acceptable Use Policy, which says you cannot use it to 'involve currency exchanges or check cashing businesses'. Cat's paypal account is bbbfunding@live.com. So not sure if that will do anything but it's worth a try.
This scammer's sites never support HTTPS:// which should be a big alarm to anyone using such a service.