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0 sats \ 6 replies \ @Signal312 14 Apr \ on: 🚨 Someone Tried To Scam Me On RoboSats bitcoin
Have you reported this on the Telegram group or Simplex group?
No, I don’t think it’s really that important.
I highly doubt I am the first person to have ever experienced this before.
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I actually posted it in the Simplex chat. And the response from a coordinator was..."at this stage, there is no evidence of a scam"
And...thinking about it, what is, actually, the evidence that it was a scam? Because at the point where you where, the seller of the BTC would have already posted a bond of the entire btc amount, no?
So if you were to send the fiat (via gift card), then at the most, the seller could just say they never got it. And then it would go into a dispute status. They still wouldn't have their bitcoin.
Am I missing something?
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- I make buy offer
- Scammer takes my offer and we enter the chat.
- I send multiple messages without response.
- I request a collab cancel due to no response.
- Seller then responds in chat AFTER I click collab cancel saying “Please send the code”.
- If I send the code, the scammer only has to click “Collab Cancel” and then the order is canceled and we both receive our sats back.
- He still has the Amazon code and I have nothing.
The crux of the scam is that they wait for me to initiate a collab cancel and then they try to get me to send the code after I have initiated a collab cancel.
Make sense?
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I see.
So you're saying that as soon as BOTH parties have hit collab cancel, the btc seller would immediately get his bitcoin back (the entire sales amount) and you would receive your bitcoin back (but just the bond, your fiat is gone)
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🎯
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There would be no dispute.
It would be a collaborative cancel.
As soon as the seller clicks the collab cancel button, we would both get our bonds back, and the scammer would have $100 to spend on Amazon with 0 risk.
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