Ethereum fails at scam

For the past few days, I’ve been actively staying in the #ethereum chatroom on Freenode, because a well known and long time scammer the community calls ‘Serbian Scammer’ has been active as well, trying to find victims for his scam.

The scam is very simple: offer to sell some ETH (maybe even post a few screenshots) and then tell anyone interested that they have to send their bitcoins first.

In these few days, me and a few other bitcoin-otc ops have tried to get #ethereum OPs to care about this sad situation, explain to them how to spot scammers but to no avail. The only time they ever cared was when their own nick was squatted on.

Today, after much drama in the main channel, finally the OP lifted a finger and banned the scammer, but still not for attempted scamming, just for wanting to trade. When I pointed out that the scammer was present with multiple nicknames (as user_234 as well as Tradres), a few minutes later I was banned from the room by the op ‘ZeroGox’.

Chatlog: http://btcfaucet.com/logs/serbian_scammer/zerogox_fail.txt

Needless to say, we are no longer planning to add Ethereum for trading on BitBargain. Let’s give some time for these guys to pull their shit together and provide a usable and safe wallet RPC and a community where a 24/7 scamming isn’t accepted.

For more funny chatlogs by the serbian scammer who is from now on allowed to take victims without any public warnings (as I will not be there to do it), see:

http://btcfaucet.com/logs/serbian_scammer/