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Support => Customer support => Topic started by: jmaneatsdatazz on April 05, 2013, 11:22 pm
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i gave 112Crew a $600 moneypak card. He said he would process my order in less than a day. I waited 2 days and still nothing. Then i asked him to cancel my order to use my money with a different vendor. But when i went to another vendor they said there was no money on the card. I sent 112 Crew multiple messages and he has not answered to any of the. What can i do to get my money back?
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I'm sorry you lost your money :( You need to contact SR Support through SR. They're really the only ones who can help. You can try messaging the vendor to say you've contacted SR Support and are now posting about it in the forums, this may be the incentive they need to refund your money. Try not to call vendors scammers until you're absolutely sure. They may be incredibly busy, or away, have made a mistake etc.,. I hope you get your money back, AB.
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First off THANK YOU for posting this cause i was about to place an order with him even tho i just lost 500$ the other day to BANKOFBTC who robbed me of my money pak its bullshit dude straight up but thanks again for this
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What sort of transaction were you trying to conduct via moneypak with this vendor?
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yes it was via moneypak
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You misunderstood my question, when I asked what sort of transaction I mean what were you trying to buy with a moneypak?
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i was buying bitcoins via moneypak
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Sounds like you got scammed mate, sorry to say :(
Report the vendor and post on the forums to alert others to the situation, as you probably already know though SR support cannot help you in these situations as you are out of escrow.
I've seen a few people get ripped this week over BTC orders with MP, I'd really suggest looking into other options for btc purchase as MP scams are rife.
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I also got burned by 112crew for $500. Sorry to say it, but misery loves company and I'm glad to hear of others getting taken here.
I've since actually found methods for getting a good number of bitcoins (at market price) and was considering becoming a source of bitcoin's myself for buyers.
Any thoughts about how one would go about ensuring trust on both ends of the transaction? Obviously moneypak is easy to scam on, but also the easiest for buyers to get a whole of -- they just go to a store and use cash. I want to be the vendor that can be trusted from day one because I want the process of getting BC to easy (and minorly profitable for me).
What would be ideal is to somehow escrow the process of transferring funds. SR has escrow for real product purchases, but not of money exchanging. It would be a huge plus to SR if they could figure out a way to manage these money transfers in an escrow system.
In the mean time, we (the community) might try to figure out something ourselves.
Thoughts?
P.S. another barrier to being a BC trader on SR is this silly $500 "bond" fee. The bond itself is not silly but to get a refund you have to do $,1500 in transactions. If you cannot officially do BC transactions then how would I go about doing $1,500 worth?
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Damn, I hate to read about people being scammed. Sucks that some assholes are always out taking advantage of the situation.
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I wonder if SR could set up something a little different for bitcoin vendors. Like say a buyer places an order for $500 worth and the vendor then puts that amount in escrow which he will release once he gets his payment (mp, western union, whatever,). Really its the same just the vendor becomes the buyer as far as escrow is concerned. The vendor could cancel the order after several days just like a buyer could and after he has his payment he hits finalize and buyer gets their coin. I know it still requires some trust but at least the buyer could see his coin sitting in escrow.
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The $500 is there to discourage scammers from opening vendor accounts. It's not a perfect system but its a hell of a lot better than having no bond at all.
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112 is the telephone number of the police officers in Italy :D
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I lost the URL n the exact words escape me but I like the guy who was like, "This is not fair!!! If this not Internet I get my gun an I take my drugs back!" True that homie
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another scam on Sr
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The scammers will always be here joolz, make your peace with that because it will not change. It is for this reason we all need to work together as a community to watch out for each other and help each other avoid issues where we can. Getting angry and pissed off with SR, the staff or anyone else for that matter will not change things, we are operating in an imperfect system, we are breaking new ground here and challenging the very paradigms of the free market economy with an anonymous cyrpto currency ordering illegal substances online. If it's not for you feel free to exercise your right to buy from another dark-net website.
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Hi,
I want to add my voice to those saying 112crew is a scammer and a thief. He stole bitcoins from me too. He should be banned by SR. He's nothing but a thief.
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I will be making sure DPR is personally informed of all these BTC scams but in the mean time please keep hitting the report vendor button!
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Add me to the list of those scammed.
I sent 112Crew a $490 MP on April 1, and after seeing this thread, I suppose now I know why it's been so long.
;D ::)
>:(
Edit:
I also think it's ridiculous that I had to spend an hour getting to 50 posts, just so that I could confirm that I got scammed. May I suggest lowering or completely eliminating that threshold?
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add me to the list sacmmed by him
435 bucks unfortunately, had a feeling something was up when he was ignoring messages
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Got me for $500
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II wonder if SR could set up something a little different for bitcoin vendors. Like say a buyer places an order for $500 worth and the vendor then puts that amount in escrow which he will release once he gets his payment (mp, western union, whatever,). Really its the same just the vendor becomes the buyer as far as escrow is concerned. The vendor could cancel the order after several days just like a buyer could and after he has his payment he hits finalize and buyer gets their coin. I know it still requires some trust but at least the buyer could see his coin sitting in escrow.
I have had similar thoughts, cuz we no it can go fine with the BC end being put in escrow until they get moneypak and then finalize coin, but the other way with moneypak first is when they get screwed. The best thing is to do some research on the vendors and make sure they have a good reputation. We work hard to mantain them on here becuz of all the rip-offs and scams on here. I would recommend Sugar Mama to anyone who needs those services. She is the only one I trust selling my coin to.
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i think 112 is he nr to the police in all eroupe:)