Got scammed RIP

[tacobelly]

I usually never fall for those lousy scammers, but this guy was pretty smart, i'll give him that much. anyway, lost 277m.

Unfortunately i don't have his Sythe accounts, as he contacted me first. But i do have his Skype names. He was very clever using 2 different Skype accounts to trick me.

Imposter of Bert from this forum:
https://gyazo.com/515cdb15605856720173a325cbd4adab

Imposter of Gracious from this forum:
https://gyazo.com/015ea07a3899c0a7be53fe1f26e90541

I know you admins can't do a lot without their Sythe accounts, but if you have some sort of list, you should add those Skype names from the screenshots.

Cheers.

 

[Superfluous]

we need proof of a scam - what happened?

www.sythe.org/report-scammer/1644044-how-report-scammer-report-templates.html

 

[tacobelly]

Well it's a bit hard to explain, but I'll try anyway:

So, i commented on the real Bert's thread with maxed 07 melees, saying that i might be interested if the price was right or something. Then shortly after, i was contacted by an imposter of Bert on skype (i thought he was the real deal ofc). He told me that he wanted about 350$ for a maxed melee. I then asked him if he had something in the 80-100$ price range. He then sent me the skype of Gracious from this forum (also an imposter, probably the same guy using 2 skype accounts), saying that he might have something for me. After chatting with the fake Gracious, things started to get suspicious, and i then checked if the skype account matched Gracious on the forum, which it didn't. I then confronted him with the usual curse words that you use when you encounter an imposter. He then told me that he was trying to scam Bert (the imposter which i thought was real). And if i helped him he would split 50/50 with me. Since i'm not a scammer, i obviously told Bert about it (the fake one). And after chatting with Bert for a while now, he told me that he actually had an account, not maxed, but pretty good. He wanted 150$ for the account. And since i was almost out of money this month, we agreed on 75$ in EOC gold now, and the remaining 75$ in EOC gold when i got paid in the end of this month. I asked the fake Bert to PM me on sythe to verify that he was real. And since i'm a bit new on sythe, i didn't notice that all he did, was forwarding an old message from the real Bert to me. I obviously fell for the trick, and didn't think about it. But as soon as i had bought the 277m EOC gold (75$), and traded it to him, i immediately thought to myself, "SHIT i forgot to check if the skype accounts match". and BOOM, the bastard was gone. And now I'm broke lol.

 

[tacobelly]

we need proof of a scam - what happened?

www.sythe.org/report-scammer/1644044-how-report-scammer-report-templates.html

https://gyazo.com/652aafad31774124262297d9c8a4debf

https://gyazo.com/bb2609712501950d01feda88513194a0

Also i forgot to mention. The fake Gracious told me that we could use the fake Bert as a Middleman. And after i busted the Gracious imposter, he told me that he was just trying to scam Bert. I suspect that it was the same guy controlling both skype accounts, I'm probably not the first he scammed, i normally NEVER fall for this shizzle, but this guy was very, very smart.

 

[tacobelly]

Also if you check my "Tacobelly's Vouchers" thread, you can see that i bought the 277M from partypeteshop

 

[Superfluous]

wait, so if he forwarded a message to you (over sythe pm, i assume?) you should have his sythe account, no?

and i couldnt get any ips from those skypes - bummer :/

 

[tacobelly]

wait, so if he forwarded a message to you (over sythe pm, i assume?) you should have his sythe account, no?

and i couldnt get any ips from those skypes - bummer :/

looks like this https://gyazo.com/f70587edbfcb945b8c072b14e493b352

which on the first glance, looks legit to me. But since i didn't know that it's standard routine to copy/paste the chat log from Skype in the message, i literally had no chance against this guy lol.

When you forward a message, you can't even see who forwarded it, it just says, "From Bert" or "Sent by Bert" or something, which only makes it look even more legit.

Screenshot of that: https://gyazo.com/24a8e14b1d37b1d51abe791bb27b8139

So, to shoot some constructive criticism at you Sythe mods/admins, PLEASE add the feature to see who forwards random shit at you. PLEASE.

 

[Superfluous]

ahhh, damn. nothing we can do here unless someone pulls an ip from those skypes.

and definitely feel free to make that suggestion here: http://www.sythe.org/suggestions/ it's a good one