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AilliA

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#1835

re: "talks people into trading outside escrow"
just don't.
I am and always have been against treating adult people as babies: they have free will and want a free market, so they must accept full p2p responsibility if they want a circular economy without daddy government, corporations, and surveillance/IP logging. You behave as if you want decentralized treatment... but with a central point of reimbursement for other people's failures.
I'm starting to feel that my free-will / free-market mindset is not (or soon won't be) a good fit for this platform. People like me are good for starting things, but (from organizational life-cycle theory) often bad for the maturing stage. I always knew it...

re: source code
tmbk the source code will be published, that part never changed. I'm not the one who makes that decision and/or gatekeeps it in any way: I myself was ready two years ago (even though I really didn't want to deal with the headache, I know exactly what kind of pain it is to manage it, still I created a Librejo account exactly 2 years ago to manage commits back then: "I've just created an account and have already offered Doug my help with the transition to Git, if needed. I'm hopeful that I'll have more time to contribute in August, once my workload from my fiat contract eases up a bit. If the platform uses Tor, I don’t think it will be an issue for Anarkio—Tor is his main requirement.” src: https://matrix.to/#/!sNrxfoVvIjswyJhtXE:monero.social/$o02nH5UWkU0vXe7_IYJsZMkA02Km4cO1mpmi-T6oraY?via=matrix.org&via=monero.social&via=unredacted.org ).
rn I don't have the capacity. SlowBearDigger will prob help with it. Foreseeing the next question: I don't know the timeline, mobile apps are likely his priority atm.

re: "my mind is pushing me towards a money under the table scheme"
lol, I don't need / accept bribes: fiat-wise I'm more than set. Everyone has a price, ofc )) but Monero itself simply doesn't have enough liquidity for me to even consider selling my soul.

...
yeah, I wanted a free market dream...
...but maybe this world and humanity are already too fucked up, with far too many bad actors, past the point of no return for that...

Edited: Jul 31 16:40

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Jul 31 16:21

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#1836

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Thanks AilliA for the response, and pardon my aggressiveness, at the end of the day, you are in this position because you responded to a listing by Doug, who is the ultimate decision maker, and yeah things will always be hectic considering how scammers are rampant etc, I personally do appreciate your work, but at the same time, I'm positive if Doug gets the message from you he will take the community more seriously

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#1841

As far as I know, the claim that the source code only had to be published after a donation goal was reached doesn’t hold up here—it wasn’t published then.

The way some people argue that you “need the right license first” feels like an excuse to delay. In my view, you don’t even need to spend time on licensing details right now because the project is already established in the Monero community, and any attempt to clone it would get boycotted.

Also, publishing the source code is basically quick: you can make it public in about ten minutes by pushing it to a repo and setting that repo to public. You don’t even need a programmer to do that.

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Aug 1 20:08

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#1843

Xstro, ScammedByAnonFirm and GotScammedByAnonFirm: Provide proper proof of your claims here in the official Scam Reports thread: https://xmrbazaar.com/forum/topic/51/
Failure to do so will result in a ban for false accusations / libel.

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Aug 1 21:31

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#1844

Appeal — VPSO.CC listing
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Our listing for VPSO.CC was reported and hidden. We believe this was a false report as the listing follows all marketplace rules — legitimate service, accurately described, no ToS violations.

Requesting admin review and reactivation.
xmrbazaar.com/listing/xTWo/

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#1850

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i did send him the xmr
he said transaction is done, and asked me if i received (15.07)
then he said "my client told me the account got restricted while sending"
then i said, whatever just send to a bank account

"Check your account please. Sent" (16.07)
i did checked .. nothing, then he wanted date of birth ? i didnt send this data.. he said its important to make bank transaction ..whatever ..
so i told him if he is not able to send either paypal or bank, he should refund me on XMR

then i told me he just send 200€ (instead of 275€ to the bank account) i told him i send 340 minus fee is 275 instead of 200€, he excused himself
i should check the bank account and "let him know when u receive)
i told him i did not receive anything, so he replied that his IBAN account got restricted too.

i told him again to refund to XMR
he said he dont have the funds rn, the bank verification need like 10 days (21.07)

as i already thought, its kinda a scam and its not much money, i waited again.
he told me last week
"Give me a week, I'll get you a refund if i wont have bought another paypal, ..." (27.07)
So finally i did asked him today again about the status, as like 10 days are over but i left read on SimpleX

+ as the deadline (today) nothing received .. i finally post a report here

Edited: Aug 3 23:38

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Aug 4 02:39

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#1851

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EuroNOVA, please reply / confirm the status of the TX within 24 hrs.

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Aug 4 10:02

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#1855

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Ethereum wallet (15+ ETH) with lost password - 8-12 chars
https://xmrbazaar.com/listing/RVgT/

https://xmrbazaar.com/user/treadinG

Referencing earlier scams of this kind, these listings are 99% likely to be scams, as are most "free money" schemes.

In some cases, the sellers are too stupid and make outlandish claims that you can disprove with chain analysis to show they're 100% scammers. But this listing type already has a 99% chance of being a scam.

My question is, is that 1% worth going through these on a case-by-case basis for that final %1? Or would it be safe and prudent to simply purge ALL of them, except those from reputable sellers that might potentially have some merit? I would argue the statistical enforcement is on our side, as the difference between "probably a scam" and "certainly a scam" here is negligible.

Or at the very least, setting them escrow/bond only so people don't get scammed.

Edited: Aug 4 10:26

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Aug 4 11:59

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#1856

I second that, since you cannot police the site 24/7, I believe you must make it a privilege to be able to make direct trades, new accounts with 0 trades are an obvious must. That way even if the scammer is going to try and do trades by themselves, they will lose escrow money etc, which they are unlikely to do, set it at maybe 20 trades, before an account can set up direct trades

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Aug 4 17:39

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#1858

https://xmrbazaar.com/user/Douglas___Tuman/

Impersonator scammer trying to get people.

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Aug 4 20:39

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#1859

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Banned, thank you!

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Aug 5 20:40

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#1862

https://xmrbazaar.com/user/AdminTest

Allegedly pretending to be Doug.

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Aug 5 21:27

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#1863

https://xmrbazaar.com/user/Dennis_the_Guy

I do not understand how you got him as a mediator ? I sware the guy had like 175 good review so I let my guard down. And now just after sending the money to the escrow, the profil is now reset.

I thought mediators was being selected but apparently the escrow system is still not worth it.

EDIT: actually he was just impersonating https://xmrbazaar.com/user/Denis_the_Guy
And we didn't complete the escrow since it was not working (neither the real mediator was online and the scammer didn't ever connected to it). He just blame it on escrow technical difficulties, send me a fake screenshot of his escrow showing the address to sent to. I tried to restore the escrow myself to see if the address was correct but couldn't, so thinking of all his reviews just trusted him.
I just had to click on the user icon in chat to see it was a scam. About 3xmr lost. Anyway...

Edited: Aug 5 22:05

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#1864

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24h passed 1 day ago, why he is still not banned?

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#1866

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I’ve been through something similar myself; someone had impersonated AilliA. Of course, back then there weren’t any verification icons anything like that on Messenger or banning profiles. It’s not so much the loss that surprises you, but how you fell into this trap. What’s more, he later said he’d changed his mind and, talking about karma, said he wanted to return the money and asked for 3–4 dollars. What sort of scammer would go after 3–4 dollars when they’ve already made off with hundreds of dollars? I wonder if it’s the same people scamming people? Is it just one person, or is it an organisation?

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#1867

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Hello everyone,
I want to address this matter openly and honestly.
I am aware of the dispute and take full responsibility for communicating my situation. I made two separate attempts to send the refund to the client, but unfortunately both of the accounts I tried to use were restricted before the transactions could be completed.
I spoke directly with the client, explained everything transparently, and we reached an understanding. I committed to refunding the full amount as soon as I have sufficient funds available and I fully intend to honor that commitment.
This situation has genuinely been heartbreaking for me. My reputation on XmrBazaar means a great deal and I've always tried to be a trustworthy and reliable trader. The trust of this community is something I value deeply and it pains me that this incident has affected that trust.
I sincerely ask the admins and the community to consider my history and give me the opportunity to make this right. I understand that any decision made is ultimately at the discretion of the administration and I will respect whatever decision is reached.

Thank you for taking the time to read my statement.

Edited: Aug 6 13:54

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#1868

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Sometimes things like this happen, but the fact that your accounts were blocked is not the customer’s problem—it’s your problem. The customer fulfilled their part of the obligation: they sent you the money. Even so, I think there is still a way out of this situation. In my opinion, appropriate compensation would be a refund of XMR to the customer with a 10% extra amount for the delay. I’m completely disregarding the fact that your profile is entirely falsified using fake reviews and an unnatural amount of upvotes on your offers, and in my view you’re a scammer who will do an exit scam the next time the customer sends you 1000 Euros via direct transfer mode. In my opinion, EuroNova should have bond insurance and refund XMR with 10% extra amount to cyborgx1337 to justify this.

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Aug 6 15:19

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#1870

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If you do not have sufficient funds to conduct your operations, a bond or escrow-only requirement is warranted in your case. Please refer to: https://xmrbazaar.com/forum/topic/294/

A warning placeholder will be added to your account until you refund your customer and fulfil one of the following two options: either obtain a bond, or change ALL your offers to multisig escrow only.

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#1873

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User has made no contact regarding shipment for several days despite multiple messages asking for any form of update https://xmrbazaar.com/user/Bunki/

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#1874

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But are you in open trade with Bunki? Did you pay and he ghosted?

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