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Yesterday, I did a deal with a member in exchange for my BTC for his Venmo. I thought the deal would be great since he agreed to go first. When the Venmo hit my account, I got an alert saying how this transaction would be reviewed because of their policy, and I was having a lot of trouble transferring it over to my bank. This really worried me because I've used this Venmo account for more than a year now, and I've never had this issue, even when dealing larger amounts. I sent the BTC anyway and thought time would solve everything. Today, I got an email saying that my account has been closed and that I can't get my balance out of my account.

It wasn't even the $226 amount that was in there, also a total of about $100 from smaller exchanges.

My best guess is that this user was carding, and I have this opinion for three different reasons.

1. This user changed his name on Venmo to a completely different name. He switched the profile name from one name to another. I have the old transaction in my email and the new one that's updated on Venmo

Yesterday:
Today:

2. Some users were messaging me because they were suspicious this user was carding too. We found out that there were multiple Venmo accounts this user was using (all of them looking like legitimate accounts of people ex. having pictures, lots of friends, and transactions) Here are some PMs. Not sure if this will be useful (he has more rep than me)




3. This user has been unactive for the last six months, and comes back posting on lots of threads trying to buy as many things for Venmo. If you look at it, it's very suspicious he wants to buy a whole bunch of things and the only thing he offers is Venmo in return. Not to mention. he's offering large amounts. I am wondering if he scammed anyone else besides me.




If you think my pictures are doctored in any way, here is a live feed of the user's most recent posts:
https://hackforums.net/search.php?action=results&sid=c6d5b92ef652c878d2c3a277caecea67

Really sad about losing this $200 BTC...

If you wanted more proof of the payments, they were all completed:
https://www.blockchain.com/btc/tx/ba3025b5f6ad4715b708ca13313fe9d04acb5bedc96a1a2a65a120162fba16cd

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(Jan 31, 2019 01:50 PM)xNightSkill Wrote:  Profile link: https://hackforums.net/member.php?action=profile&uid=1004046


Thread: https://hackforums.net/showthread.php?tid=5935695


Contract: https://hackforums.net/contracts.php?action=view&cid=24162


Description:

Yesterday, I did a deal with a member in exchange for my BTC for his Venmo. I thought the deal would be great since he agreed to go first. When the Venmo hit my account, I got an alert saying how this transaction would be reviewed because of their policy, and I was having a lot of trouble transferring it over to my bank. This really worried me because I've used this Venmo account for more than a year now, and I've never had this issue, even when dealing larger amounts. I sent the BTC anyway and thought time would solve everything. Today, I got an email saying that my account has been closed and that I can't get my balance out of my account.

It wasn't even the $226 amount that was in there, also a total of about $100 from smaller exchanges.

My best guess is that this user was carding, and I have this opinion for three different reasons.

1. This user changed his name on Venmo to a completely different name. He switched the profile name from a girl's to a boy's. I have the old transaction in my email and the new one that's updated on Venmo

Yesterday:
Today:

2. Some users were messaging me because they were suspicious this user was carding too. We found out that there were multiple Venmo accounts this user was using (all of them looking like legitimate accounts of people ex. having pictures, lots of friends, and transactions) Here are some PMs. Not sure if this will be useful (he has more rep than me)




3. This user has been unactive for the last six months, and comes back posting on lots of threads trying to buy as many things for Venmo. If you look at it, it's very suspicious he wants to buy a whole bunch of things and the only thing he offers is Venmo in return. Not to mention. he's offering large amounts. I am wondering if he scammed anyone else besides me.




If you think my pictures are doctored in any way, here is a live feed of the user's most recent posts:
https://hackforums.net/search.php?action=results&sid=c6d5b92ef652c878d2c3a277caecea67

Really sad about losing this $200 BTC...

If you wanted more proof of the payments, they were all completed:
https://www.blockchain.com/btc/tx/ba3025b5f6ad4715b708ca13313fe9d04acb5bedc96a1a2a65a120162fba16cd

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Incase you guys wanted to see some of our discussion (mostly irrelevant to the scam):

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Incase you wanted to visit his other scams (couple years ago)

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https://hackforums.net/search.php?action=results&sid=2f9f6e933833461d0c3f7f0a6ca0e12e&sortby=&order=desc

(Jan 31, 2019 02:26 PM)Lavish Living Wrote:  Yeah Venmo is complete ass, and who woulda thought lmao as it is owned by PayPal after all...

another reason you may have been closed was simply because of the caption "BTC exchange" - as it's against venmo's policy to use their platform to exchange cryptocurrencies.

Sorry for your loss though, I was in the same boat, my venmo account got closed but atleast I had already gotten all my funds out and into my bank before closure. I used my venmo everyday though :(

(Jan 31, 2019 02:27 PM)xNightSkill Wrote:  Is this considered a scam? Will his account be closed for this?

What am I going to do with $350 in my Venmo account?

(Jan 31, 2019 02:29 PM)Lavish Living Wrote:  Well if you still have the $225 in your venmo account... I'm not sure if it is a scam?

If it's still there in 180 days, I'm pretty sure you can just withdraw it. You should have received the final closure email from Venmo with steps on how to get the funds.

(Jan 31, 2019 02:42 PM)EpicB3ard Wrote:  Did an exchange yesterday with Night. Everything went well. Sorry to see this happen mate.

(Jan 31, 2019 03:03 PM)sonex Wrote:  Next to so many legit exchangers around here you went for the guy who wasnt active, doesnt have activated Gauth and has all around fishy profile with past scams. You basically asked for it though, this just goes to prove whatever tools HF provide members will still be dumb as fuck. Sorry for your loss but this one is entirely your fault.