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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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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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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...

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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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What you say about paysafe card being niche and less mainstream is completely correct.

However, paysafe card vouchers are easily brokered and used in scams. These need to then be cashed out, which is why a vendor that doesn’t ask questions and sits on an annon platform can score a large bundle of trades.

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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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How can you compare my account and reviews to a bunch of misleading goofy-ass no-job miscreants looking for victims to scam on.

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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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Added warning to WorldwideLaker’s profile.

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He got me too (WorldwideLaker), though I should have used better judgement. I sent $10 in XMR to him as a gesture of goodwill for a cash by mail deal. And then excuses, near gibberish messages, and then "Sending your 10 back". Guess what? He never did.

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aah sorry to hear man, well we live and learn.

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This is terrible. His identity or account was under early suspicion in this forum. Please be sure to check this forum from time to time.

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As an admin, I’ve received multiple complaints from honest XmrBazaar sellers about scammers inflating review counts with alt accounts. Of course, it’s possible that even some honest traders might try to “level the playing field” through questionable means. That said, the screenshots shared by a brand-new account could also easily be fabricated (especially with today’s AI tools). The key point remains: virtualp2p has a consistent track record of completing trades as promised including with well-known, established community members who have personally and publicly confirmed it.

On a personal note, with the experience I have, this situation smells like an amateur attempt to frame an established trader. Even the shared (potentially fabricated) screenshots seem to show a deliberate setup: an attempt to manufacture the narrative that someone contacted virtualp2p asking for a job, and that virtualp2p allegedly asked for reviews. (Note that with the same amount of typing and messages, virtualp2p could have simply created accounts and left reviews for free with virtually identical effort.)
Then two accounts (likely controlled by the same person) completing multiple trades with virtualp2p -> leaving positive reviews -> then immediately scamming other users -> getting warnings, conveniently makes it look like virtualp2p's positive feedback comes from scammer accounts. This feels more like a manufactured smear than organic evidence.
In the end, the whole situation: whether virtualp2p did it or not, and the person I now suspect is behind framing him, makes me kinda sad.

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Interesting take.
When I talked w/ him, Holoh claimed he controls both of the accs, yes.
Who do you exactly suspect is trying to frame the guy?

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I do not share personal suspicions on a public forum... or anywhere else, for that matter.

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Not that shaving off couple of reviews from the front of the row resolves the whole fake review suspicion entirely, but I feel your point about unreliability of evidence stuff. Now the guy says he's working for the enemy, perhaps the one you had in mind, lol.
Not to mention that AFAIK we don't even have definitive evidence this guy controls the two accs in question, might just be a troll even.

https://drive.proton.me/urls/J5M68NFQNC#1XrU11IHlHAZ

I have this sudden sympathy towards the firing squad solution.

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Or he was paid to deflect the situation once again. This guy has proven he will do or say anything for money, you can't trust his word. Hence, why my suggestion of checking out when those reviews were posted would validate his original claims or not. If made within those 23 minutes he claims in the DMs, then it was orchestrated.

The Holoh guy in these screenshots is the one making the rounds scamming everyone currently. Each one of his accounts links to another. I knew him as TokyoDream, where he messaged me asking for work and I provided him with work. He later messages me as Ozaka asking if I can be a reference since he I gave him legit work. The new Holoh account mentions his other Ozaka account in the virtualp2p screenshots, being fake or real doesn't change that he is talking about his other account.

Therefore, we can see these accounts spamming good reviews on virtualp2p's account all link back to the same scammer taking the same actions on the same day, lending more credence to what he originally claimed, to spam good reviews for money. So if anyone is looking for good reviews, you know who to contact. He messages everyone asking for work, that part of the conversation reflects what happened with me and him too.

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If all these sock puppet accounts are Tokyodream, then I can weight in here a bit.

Tokyodream contacted me. I have absolutely no idea who he is. Having said that, he knows exactly who I am. He knows my name.

He also divulged the information that he had just been released from jail a few months ago, most likely for some scamming tactics, cause he acknowledged I had warned him.

So with that being said, he probably has a lot of experience in this scamming business, a lot more than I think you guys would be able to catch him out.

He is most likely therefore related to Australia in some way. Could be Africa, there is a few students in Africa I know of scamming in Australia before.

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Virtualp2p does seem to fulfill trades, otherwise we would see complaints here. But, there does seem to be evidence of review manipulation. You could check in the back-end when those 7 reviews were left and see if they align with those 23 minutes the screenshot claims to have positively review bombed.

Though, as the system currently is, there is no point in removing those disingenuous reviews. Anyone can spin up tons of accounts and review oneself, or incentivize others to do so for payment. That is the trade-off of not requiring KYC, and people simply need to use escrow for elimination of scams, you can't really trust reviews on here. You may see a few real accounts, but scammers know to: verify an account, donate for a badge, buy a few small things from reputable sellers so the scammers' reviews look legit, and review himself with fake accounts. Then an account looks real.

I forgot what the current warning is in the checkout process for users that choose not to use escrow, but if there is not already a note about being cautious when a seller/buyer suddenly reneges on escrow and tells their trade partner to not use escrow anymore, it's probably a scam. That's ultimately the only issue on this platform, faked reviews or not.

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

I'll hint just like Mr_Monero_Man has pointed out.
This small penny 'scammer' also took off with my Euros although not alot but enough for him.

"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/nYH4/

Edited: Jun 20 08:51

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#1458

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you make an interesting point; "enough for him", makes me wonder where in the world this person would have to be, that these scams are actually worth the time. Unless they are constantly hustling via multiple acc on this website , and the number of scammers is actually physically less than one thinks, as it is multiple acc for only a few individuals.

this might sound obvious, but what I'm saying is, do they scam enough to make a reasonable profit, or is it just a hobby, in the same way it is a hobby for most of us doing honest trades. I just kinda told the guy, you must be poor for this to be worth your time.

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We should really only use direct evidence of scamming in administrative decisions, and in a timely and verifiable manner so no party can fabricate evidence long after a reasonable transaction. I am so thankful escrow exists. In the case of virtualp2p I made a big sale and he did indeed deposit his total amount in the multisig wallet, so with an honest mediator and my right steps I was covered. The only issue really lies with the people not choosing escrow and the occasional technical issues that escrow multisig presents. Sometimes you will indeed need a mediator to assist when the other party can't fix issues on their end, which is what happened in my trade with virtualp2p. I needed Aillia's troubleshooting and mediator signature for payout. I cannot say anymore without speculation. Speculation usually aids in malicious parties anyway and it is not the philosophy and behavior we should encourage.

I could suggest that URLs should contain a special ID like a UUID or similar before the specific username. This is so that users might be more aware of homoglyph attack on the website in addition to relying on the Web of Trust PGP ecosystem we are trying to foster. Either in the URL or somewhere on the account website page as a unique identifier, and where the user cannot change it and is always observable to other users. I think an unchangeable and high entropy mnemonic at the header of an account is probably the best compromise to alert users aside from after a scam has been identified by staff.

Example:
https://anonbazaar.com/user/WorldwideLaker/
https://anonbazaar.com/user/fe8c54f4fb63b23fc51c45e66a36b85d/WorldwideLaker/

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This was a very long read. This is my opinion:

[ b ]Niche is Monero.[ /b ] Monero is not what is nowadays called Bitcoin (BTC) , with all the popularity and the Traditional Finances behind it. So, for Monero to grow and stand out of the crowd is a long a difficult road, but not impossible. That being said, I think that for XmrBazaar and us, the users, is a very hard job.

There is no magic pill, magic listing, one size fits all kind of business or listing that grows exceptionally rapid. It takes time, especially for a new P2P market like the ones (listings and accounts) being debated here.

From my own experience, I have noticed that when price of XMR pumps the business increases and vice versa. My business has been growing steadily and I do not always receive orders (registered ones) nor reviews. I have, thank God, hundreds of trades from other sources like SimpleX, goxmr.click, regular PGP messages and some from Session, not even counting those from MoneroMarket.io (now extinct) . That's reason why, I do not have an excessive amount of daily reviews.

SoulReaver had a very strong point with all the analysis and proof that they have provided.
It is sad to see those images that SoulReaver had posted.

I feel that the case is obviously suspicious and unfortunate. There will always be scammers around (I was a victim of one, and several attempts here).

I will never never lose my integrity here and I believe that most users are on the page.

Thank you for reading my comments about this topic.

Please be careful and only do business with reputable users and use escrow if needed.

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#1471

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"There is no magic pill, ... ... or listing that grows exceptionally rapid". I think this part is about my listing. I understand community suspicions about my listing, because it is probably fastest growing business in XMR Bazaar history.

However in my case I can easily prove every of my sales, because I have full redemption history. I think the best way to prove that is to make live meet with admin, because images and video can be easily fabricated nowadays. I can share my screen and prove everything. Admin will just have to pledge not to record nor share with anyone my confidential business data and use it only for verification purpose.

I play fair until competition do the same. I have no mean of scamming or manipulating XMR community, because once I discovered it I fell in love and wanna stay here forever. I was here from early 2025, initially just buying stuff then in early 2026 I decided to offer my web development service as "nobswebdev". Meanwhile I was craving the idea of this exchange, because I knew it will be successful, but costly and super tricky to do.

In the future, I’ll offer you more outstanding solutions. You’ll get to know me more as a web developer. I have a few ideas that will be implemented—for example, a certain SaaS that I’m currently working on will be published within the next 2 months.

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Fake screenshots or not, that blatant feedback farming is sleazy, and virtualp2p bloody well knows it.
As a by product, virtualp2p acts as an exp totem pole for fresh scammer accounts setting up quickly,
with positive feedback. Who then setup crypto/FIAT listings, with the only intent to scam the first one that bites.
As is the case of: https://xmrbazaar.com/user/WorldwideLaker/
Which then leaves a row of... on virtualp2p's lawn. All working as intended?

Also, puzzling, why https://xmrbazaar.com/user/EuroNOVA/ with over 40 feedback goes first on a trade with https://xmrbazaar.com/user/WorldwideLaker/ who has 3 feedback. And without escrow, when escrow was available...
and then get's scammed...

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#1480

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FYI.
We had agreed to do a €20,00 trade via escrow or I send him first so as to orove my legitimacy..
He then proceeded to promise when it's successful he'll transact larger amounts later.
I didn't give a damn about the promise, just went on and checked their* profile.
He had a number of reviews from a specific reputable merchant here.
I had a 2nd thought on why do an slow escrow while I can risk €20,00 for future reward.

That's how I got scammed!!

I've evidence if required..!

Thanks for the observation though..

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From my brief observation, the exchange section has a recurring theme. One account gets called out as scam, and a day or two goes by, for another to come around. If left alone, they steadily feed it with fake feedback, till somebody falls for it, or it gets called out.

These two seem like lazy scams at an early stage, where they are more vulnerable. The other two, which I wont name, look more like a diversified long con. Somebody better at this, might take a peek in the exchange section.
If they interested in playing these puzzles.

https://xmrbazaar.com/user/RationaleFire49 < Pops out of nowhere and seemingly instantly obtains three positive feedback.

https://xmrbazaar.com/user/Ghostswapper/ < Follows a similar pattern: activates & advertises swap services and starts feeding it with fake feedback, till somebody called them out, early on.

https://xmrbazaar.com/user/ghostlink/ < Already flagged scammer, possibly an alt of Ghostswapper and some other with the word ghost in their name.

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Thank you EasternCapybara03! Added warnings to RationaleFire49, Ghostswapper and all their fake reviewers' profiles.

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https://xmrbazaar.com/user/virtuaIp2p/

Changed username to..

https://xmrbazaar.com/user/Diamonde/

From my perspective, this user seems like a scammer.

This is not real @virtual2p , note that the 'scammer used capital 'i' for it to look like small 'l' .

The user tried to borrow me $13 saying he's short $13 on a trade and his funds are currently in cold wallet.

Then changed username to https://xmrbazaar.com/user/Diamonde/

This is suspicious to me.

AilliA check that out before we've confirmed scam cases.

Stay safe.

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Added warning to Diamonde’s profile.

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How exactly do I submit screenshots that I've uploaded to ImgBB? Or is there an easy way to show chat logs?

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I have found the best way to share images, is an iCloud share link.

Links expire after 30 days, or you can cancel them on your own when you wish.

If you don’t have an iPhone, you can still register an account.

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I've been scammed by aka_TheAC. Message log follows:

And this is a moderator? Please tell me I'm wrong, because if that's the case this place is just a scammer magnet and I've got no faith in anything here anymore.

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This is a fake profile
He lured you to send directly

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So 1) is there a mod named AKA_TheAC, and 2) was that not him?
That member I posted quotes of above was the one who guided me through escrow with another member.

And why did his messages disappear from my stream?

Edited: Jun 27 04:19

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The people on escrow are the real mediator and the trader you were trading with. The trader created a profile which looks the same as the real one & he messaged you outside the escrow chat. That’s how the person lured you

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OK, can you please explain to me how this happened?

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The real aka is selected as mediator, the fake one contacted you directly and you chatted with him under the assumption it’s the same person

This is why his msgs disappeared from your stream. The fake one has changed his username. And you are trying to communicate with the real one where there is no msgs

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So what about the transaction with RainyRabbit?

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I would hazard that all you have is an incomplete trade, and two private chats one with rainy rabbit and one with the fake aka.

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That’s not the escrow flow, you need to familiarize yourself with how it works. There is a section describing how it works.

The person you think is a mod is using a double underscore in their username.

I’m telling you all, this is the work of Trevor sosono. Next time you have this person on chat, call him out.

Also even if it was real, no one is trustworthy. Ever. Use escrow with a different mediator don’t assume just cause someone is an escrow agent that they are trustworthy. They are picked for mediator services in a two of three escrow. They don’t have access to funds, unless you happen to send it to them which you did here

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I do see the double underscore now, and I'm not disputing I was a sucker, but when I click that mediator link showing seller and mediator, it takes me to the real mediator's profile. So I'm still not sure what exactly happened.

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Like I said, the trade was initiated with real mediator. So you go to his real profile when clicked.

Your trade chats show that the fake one contacted you in private chat. Do you made the assumption it was same person.

Your trade chats show has no escrow flow, you all need to accept and store a private mnemonic. There is a tutorial for escrow. You were basically bypassing escrow and sending xmr via private chat.

Escrow has all three of you chatting in the trade

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Everything you said sounds exactly like what happened, and yes I got suckered by the fake profile. I did accept and store a 24 word mnemonic, but it's not showing that I accepted it.

So just to be clear (if you know): is RainyRabbit real or was he part of the scam? He's the one who picked the escrow.

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He has to 100% be part of the setup, or how else would the fake mediator known to contact you?

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Makes sense. I appreciate the help.

And the scammer changed his name to Polonium, which no doubt will change. He's also impersonating iraqlobster

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It sucks. There are always going to be scammers looking for an angle to exploit, so you can never trust anything.

I will admit that the escrow flow has too much friction and isn’t novice friendly, which is why I have opted for bond. Bond system makes way more sense if only it worked properly too.

I have had a couple trades where the purchaser has mailed me cash with no escrow funded. The non escrow is so much simpler for someone simply wanting to make a simple purchase without complications. I realise that wasn’t the plan with you, but I think people should study the guides as part of the signup process.

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The irony is that I've done two non-escrow cash-by-mail trades without escrow and one meetup, and all went smoothly with no issues. Then I try to use escrow....and I did read the guide, but apparently not nearly as thoroughly as I should have.

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So my question still stands: did I actually do a transaction with RainyRabbit?

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And yes, I did have two private chats going at once.

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I am glad I registered another AshleyJones account with an "i" as an "L" a while ago to prevent this type of duping. I think everyone else should do the same, or at least there needs to be code implemented that forces unique usernames like cytu.be does. It detects anyone using a impersonation-type username. If XmrBazaar was open source for contributions, we could get that done quickly enough.

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