Reporting montecito

[Studio]

Scammer's profile link: http://www.sythe.org/members/367849-montecito.html
Explanation of the trade: My Gaia Gold for his $700
How they scammed:


PM'd me regarding Gaia Online gold sale thread http://www.sythe.org/mmo-item-gold-trading/1677532-selling-gaia-online-gold.html

Through PM, user montecito agreed to pay $700 for the lot and to use a middle man. In the end, we chose to not use the middle man, he paid $25 upfront, took info, and ran.

Do I have to post screenshot of PM convo or can that information be accessed by those who need it? It was very long and there are many parts as we discussed back and forth. During the convo he did confirm his Skype name.


Here are the relevant Skype screenshots.

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"Ok thanks" line refers to his upfront $25 payment.
Mosaic'd out username and password was given.

Here he begins to lie about not being able to access Gaia, I call him on his bluff by noting that I can see him changing the email and username and whatnot. I note that he has gained full control of the account. He lied about there being only 2mil left. As you can see, he simply left and went offline.

 

Skype proof:

Full conversation on Skype: http://i.imgur.com/eULGxwF.png

Spoiler: The PM conversation

Hi there! I was wondering if you would be willing to middle-man for a Gaia Online-related account transfer. I will be trading a Gaia account for PayPal payment. And a $20 tip for you? Thanks for your time!

Sure, I can do the trade, but I will need help from you verifying the account information is correct, I have never played that game.

Ok! Fantastic, thank you! The trade is between the user montecito and me. I will be trading a Gaia Online account, with 488,361,402 gold. montecito will be paying $700 through PayPal. The account gold will be as pictured here:

-in the top right corner of the screen. I will provide details in a second message. Thank you!

Let's get a user who is familiar with gaia. There should be someone there who knows how gaia works.

Wouldn't asking them to log in and send you a screenshot suffice? Otherwise, I can continue to search around.

Idk. Ideally you'd send the middleman the gold then give me access to the account then I'd pay then they would send me the gold. But it requires a middleman who has an account and knows the game. That's how we always do neopets middleman trades.

Ah I see. Ok, I was imagining that I would give the middle man the account info, they would log in, verify the gold amount, then change the password or something. You would pay, then they'd give you the account info. ?? Does that work or does that have flaws in the plan? lol

That sounds like it might work. Idk, I'm just really nervous. This is a lot of money, you know. I'm going to the store now, I'll think about it while I'm gone.

I completely understand, I would be too. We can talk to TJOC over Skype, which might help. To be very clear: 1. I send TJOC the account name/password. 2. TJOC verifies the correct gold amount, changes the password on the account. 3. You send payment to me. 4. TJOC sends you the new password to access the account. I think ultimately it works out the same! If you are really absolutely certain that you want someone else, then I will put a request in the Request Middleman sticky with a special note for people with Gaia experience. Though I wonder how long that would take to find someone?

If I sent $25 first would you trust to give me the info? If not, we can use TJOC and do the trade as described.

I would much rather just have TJOC mediate the whole trade, which I think is the best scenario for both of us. Thanks for understanding. I'll be sending this to TJOC and will discuss the transfer, ok? For this to work, we will both add TJOC (Live:TJOC.Sythe) on Skype. http://www.sythe.org/middleman-foru...-free-middleman-services-most-all-trades.html Buyer's Sythe: montecito Seller's Sythe: Studio Buyer's Skype: mont.ecito Seller's Skype: studio.kk Description of trade: montecito $700 Paypal for Studio Gaia online account with 488,361,000g Have you added my Skype?: Yes Do you agree to my Terms of Service?: Yes

can you add me to skype and have him add me too

Banned.