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Jun 16 04:04

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#1408

I need my refund

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https://xmrbazaar.com/user/WorldCup2026XMR_Bets/
scammer. he will send you a voice message on simplex if you make a new listing or recently boost a listing. remember to never do anything with 0 rating accounts without using escrow!

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I already communicated to primocay

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#1414

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I was contacted by the seller, who told me they received the transfer but that the funds went into review and now the bank could not process the deposit and they will have to refund it to my account in 2-4 business days.
I think this is a correct response; also from my experience it's something that banks and payment processors sometimes do.
I wait for the next days.
Thank you for the assistance

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https://xmrbazaar.com/user/CerezoOsaka talked me into not using escrow because they had previously done work for another trusted member of the community, which was verified. They then ran and scammed me.
#BfRd was the initial deposit. The rest was paid off platform.

The "voucher" (AshleyJones) in hindsight realized their previous account was https://xmrbazaar.com/user/TokyoDream which has a scam warning.

Edit: typo

Edited: Jun 18 22:08

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Jun 18 21:54

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https://xmrbazaar.com/user/CezeroOsaka - Profile not found

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Jun 18 22:07

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Sorry, typo. It's https://xmrbazaar.com/user/CerezoOsaka

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Jun 18 22:10

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#1435

Added warning to CerezoOsaka’s profile.

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Jun 19 07:26

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User: virtualp2p

Looks like attempt at platform manipulation.

Go to user page:
https://xmrbazaar.com/user/virtualp2p/

Go to review page four:
User InvisibleRabbit71 11 trades Jan 25, 2026 all same day.
InvisibleRabbit71 Last online: Over 1 month ago

Go to review page three:
User purrfect 11 trades all same day Jan 28, 2026 same pattern
purrfect Last online: Over 1 month ago

Go to review page two:
User RareAnt35 8 trades all same day Mar 16, 2026
RareAnt35 online: Over 1 month ago

Go to review page one:
User WorldwideLaker 12 trades all same day Jun 16, 2026

Last review from CerezoOsaka Warning Rating 5 (1)
Coordinated fake review again w/ a (apparently known?) scammer.
What's the statistical likelihood of a scammer casually doing 1 single good honest trade w/ a (currently allegedly) platform manipulator, vs that account being perhaps yet another one of virtualp2p's sock puppet accs?
The scammer comment (Safe Handling Via Mail):
"The XMR community is so much better with people like virtualp2p, I made an error on my end, which I was responsible for and without his honesty, I would have lost $100, however, he was very honest, and communicated clearly. 100 stars for this guy, just 5 wont do justice"
Why did the scammer bother w/ a mail order? Scammer sent him a mail order w/ $100 extra? The scammer? Math ain't mathing...
I'm aware this last paragraph has it's speculative side, but we also might be facing a potential danger here.

I've looked at other reviews on his acc, most again look like sock puppet accounts that showed up out of nowhere, allegedly did 1-2 trades w/ this guy, and disappeared, never to be seen again. I understand some people use throwaway accs, however the level of this 1-2 time accs clustering under his reviews look sus in context of overall other sus reviews. Albeit there are some among them look legit w/ established platform accounts. Lots of overhyped, inflated, fake language in the sus reviews. User has legitimate trades, but legitimate trade count looks like a fraction of total trade/review count.

Yes, I've not done some stylometric analysis to match the fake review barrages with each other. But there're some patterns:
The reviews are not just clustered, they read as one hand. Within each burst, a single account cycles minor variations on the same template, interchangeable, content-free, transaction-detail-free praise: "Smooth transaction, great communication," "Quick and easy transaction, thanks again," "Highly recommend, fast payment," "AAA+++," "A nice service." The same compressed-praise register, same length, same generic enthusiasm, same absence of any specific trade detail recurs across InvisibleRabbit71, purrfect, RareAnt35 and WorldwideLaker alike. Genuine reviews usually vary in voice, length, and concrete detail; these vary only in surface wording around an identical skeleton, the signature of mass-generated text from a single source.
The launch cluster (Sep 11 to 15, 2025) shows the same: a flood of same month created accounts leaving the identical short five star filler, the fake trust seeded from early on.

This looks a lot like coordinated sock puppet account review manipulation at a massive scale and trade count inflation.
Do I know %100 there's bad faith, no, but too many suspicious patterns stacking on top of each other here, thus, the report for potential investigation...
Up to investigator if this's enough lead to warrant an investigation.

Edited: Jun 19 11:41

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Jun 19 08:23

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SoulReaver User virtualp2p have some discount program for swaps up to 100$. If you wanna swap more you can still do, but in multiple orders. So the multiple reviews comes most likely from this. I traded this way with him once as newbie on platform, because I anyway wanted to split trade into 10 * 100$, so I don't risk sending all at once. Later I understood that it is not too honest strategy for gaining popularity and removed duplicated reviews leaving one.

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Jun 19 09:52

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#1438

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Bro, I'll be straight with you too.
PaySafeCard is a more niche rail for buying XMR than the common methods, yet you've allegedly(?) got a shit ton of trades on it in a few months. For comparison, EuroNOVA started even earlier, offers the mainstream rails (SEPA, Wise, Revolut, PayPal), and sits at 40 trades. A vendor on the more popular methods has perhaps a quarter of your volume. Common rails do pull more trades than a niche one, not the other way around. Combined with the wording on a lot of the reviews, yours just doesn't read as fully organic to me either.

The reviews keep pushing the exact same "skip escrow, skip fees, he's trustworthy" line that's in your own listing.
Two of them even tell other buyers to forgo escrow to save fees, why would a regular happy customer all singing the same tiresome refrain from your listing about whether I use the platform's protection?

YardConjure98 (May 18): "I got the xmr immediately after the order was accepted. No scam, even without escrow. Very trustworthy!"
zeronoir (Jun 8): "rock solid seller. I keep trading, no fuss. no escrow, no delays."
MissingPeanut33 (Apr 28): "Trustworthy seller even without escrow"
SumsumJay (Jun 10): "100% and fast as always - guys safe the escrow fees, nobswebdev is just the best." (note: actively telling other buyers to skip escrow to save fees)
mordelkoisel (May 6): "btw I didn't use the inscurance and it worked fine for me, so I'm pretty confident you can save yourself that money" (again, advising other readers to skip the protection)
livestockmultiply (Mar 28, on a different listing): "Direct payment with no escrow." (stated as a feature)

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Jun 19, 2026 (Member since Jun 2026)
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love ddiiiis guy haha
Seller | Reviewed listing: BUY XMR WITH PAYSAFECARD!
Guy has 0 trades but loves you somehow for some reason, LMAO...

Makes you really wonder how much manufactured volume is floating around here in general...

Edited: Jun 19 21:07

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Jun 19 10:16

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#1439

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I can prove every of my trades with anonymized chat history and Paysafecard redeem history. But I won't share such data to anyone who asks for it. You can make petition to admin to verify me and I will prove any sale I will be asked for. You don’t understand the phenomenon of my listing. My exchange combines anonymity and convenience. These both don't go together in crypto purchases. With my exchange users from supported countries just have to go to the shop on the corner with cash, get Paysafecard and drop code on the chat to get XMR. I knew it will be hit even before I started it.

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Jun 19 14:04

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#1440

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Yesterday I also noticed multiple reviews from a single account for virtualp2p. At first I suspected possible impersonation (similar to the scammer who previously impersonated me by using a capital i “I” instead of a lowercase L “l”), but it is a legitimate account https://xmrbazaar.com/user/virtualp2p/ .

The recent cluster of trades is most likely due to RetoSwap being offline: virtualp2p had promoted their services in the RetoSwap SimpleX group the day before.

virtualp2p is an established trader who also has been active on XmrBazaar for over a year. He has also donated 10+ XMR to the platform (not typical scammer behavior) and has completed trades with multiple well-known community members, not only one-time accounts. While I don’t know exactly why the recent trader chose to do multiple trades, I assume the trader chose multiple smaller amounts for safety rather than one large transfer.

So far, virtualp2p maintains a very clean reputation within the community.

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Jun 19 18:04

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Oh didn't I know the donation amount would come up to shield him ))))
A user donating certain amount doesn't necessarily absolve them of potential platform manipulation, some might argue might even make it more likely they would try to make their donation's worth w/ the "goodwill" shield they bought on one hand ))))))

Someone showing up and immediately doing that # of rapid trades was dead giveaway for platform manipulation on LocalMonero, speaking from experience, this is irregular behavior. I talked with an other trader here w/ p2p trade experience I won't name in public w/o their permission, they suspect similarly as well. This is not one time event after retoswap problem either as my post outlined, but string of many...

I just received a DM tip from user Holoh:
"Hey. For a $10 tip, I will send you all screenshots of Virtualp2p buying likes to manipulate the system, I literally did some of the work for for him"
I'm not sending $10 to find out, sure might be another scammer, lol.

You think colluding w/ the user CerezoOsaka w/ scam label is merely a coincidence as well? A scammer showed up and said "Hey, you know what? Let me do an elaborate and effortful mail oder trade and make a $100 mistake on top of it before going and scamming someone!“
As you wish, I guess...

Edited: Jun 19 19:25

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Jun 19 19:20

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#1442

Would it not be prudent to add a disclaimer, similar to the no multisig escrow label, that all users review(s) may be completely fabricated.
Because currently the system allows anybody to high-five themselves as many times as they care to make alter accounts to do so.

To lessen scenarios where a newcomer to this site writes here, how they sent crypto/FIAT first without escrow to the same scammers scam listing number 123... just cause the scammer had a dozen or so 5 star reviews, which all turned out to be fake...

Like this bunch:

https://xmrbazaar.com/user/UnknownKong/ < alt of https://xmrbazaar.com/user/Diving_dove/

https://xmrbazaar.com/user/Swizler < likely another alt of diving_dove

https://xmrbazaar.com/user/BiggSmoke < Reeks of scam with all fake reviews

https://xmrbazaar.com/user/BigBread < I'm surprised nobody mentioned this account in this thread so far.
Looks like one big smurf family...

You think Charles is the man to talk to when looking for an obd scanner? I highly doubt that.
I don't know what happened in the comment section, but I'm guessing this trio belongs to one and same scammer.

https://xmrbazaar.com/user/Ethan_washinton < Fourth or fifth alt peddling imaginary freeze dryers here?
https://xmrbazaar.com/user/ATlascrown/
https://xmrbazaar.com/user/Charles_Dickson/

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Jun 19 19:41

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#1443

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To clarify: virtualp2p’s account was created in June 2025 and has been actively trading here for over a year (initially offered discounts) - not a new account that suddenly appeared in June 2026. The pattern you described as “immediate rapid trades” does not apply here.
The donation is only one point among several. More importantly, virtualp2p has completed trades with multiple established, well-known community members over time.
I receive similar “tips” and accusations from brand-new accounts against popular XmrBazaar traders on a daily (sometimes hourly) basis! The message from the freshly created Holoh account follows the exact same pattern. If Holoh does not provide verifiable proof of their claims within 24 hrs, they will receive a libel warning.
CerezoOsaka’s warning was issued for (mostly) off-platform activity + it was issued yesterday: like many such warnings, it could potentially be based on a false accusation and will be disputed.

Added scam warnings to alts of https://xmrbazaar.com/user/Diving_dove/: Kingjoash, UnknownKong, Jupiter1, Pusher.

Edited: Jun 19 19:53

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Jun 19 19:51

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#1444

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“immediate rapid trades” isn't for the seller acc, it's the alleged buyers.

https://xmrbazaar.com/user/InvisibleRabbit71/

https://xmrbazaar.com/user/purrfect/

https://xmrbazaar.com/user/RareAnt35/

https://xmrbazaar.com/user/worldwidelaker/

As I outlined in the first message.
I didn't make the claim seller acc has immediate rapid trades in isolation, the sock puppet looking accounts having them and showering his wall w/ same day rapid trade generic review burst was the pattern and the point. Both InvisibleRabbit71 and RareAnt35 have Sep 15, 2025 (Member since Jun 2025) 1 review that's looking like a plant, 2 accs same creation month same trade day! Going on to review shower later on at burst, bit too coincidental.

I hope you're right and all these patterns are merely an unfortunate, albeit unlikely series of coincidences.

If I somehow hear from @Holoh I'll post here.

Edited: Jun 19 20:18

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Jun 19 23:01

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Holof in his grace sent some artifacts for you:
https://drive.proton.me/urls/R0WR8BRNQR#fKGUziUlAsws

Now I obviously don't know the full validity of evidence.
Important to note I'm just the messenger for the artifacts here, haven't had the chance to examine the evidence myself.
Please let us know what you find out, should you decide to pursue the investigation.

Edited: Jun 19 23:05

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https://xmrbazaar.com/user/WorldwideLaker/

possible scammer, never paid me in my local currency.
lesson learnt in using escrow, but at the same time, not that much lost.
I will just always demand up front payment if I do it direct, without exception.
https://xmrbazaar.com/order/EbGr/

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I'd like to chime in to say I've been a happy customer of virtualp2p for quite some time, on this platform and Bisq. I think IDrive was also a happy customer going by the reviews.

Having been around earlier, the order bursts appeared to be due to a spot discount (up to 10%) virtualp2p was offering on their btc/xmr swaps. Some people repeatedly took that offer. I did not see anything wrong with that.

Although am quite sad to read that chat evidence above of fake reviews for cash, if it turns out to be true.

[edit] soulreaver immediately DM'd me to suggest that I am polluting this thread and that some kind of unified stance is to be taken against virtualp2p to cleanse this platform. I don't appreciate being dictated to like that by some newb control freak and so am not deleting this comment. FYI @AilliA 🧡

Edited: Jun 20 01:09

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