Predicting Vendor Exit Scams

I'm doing a machine learning project on predicting vendor exit scams. We have crawls of the Agora forums and marketplace, but we need names and dates of confirmed scammers. If you know of a seller who exit scammed while on Agora, please post their seller name and a rough date in the comments. Dates don't have to be exact, but the closer to the day they stopped shipping orders, the better. All code/data will be open source and posted on github, so hopefully this can be used to help protect everyone!


Comments


[2 Points] whiteandstrunk:

DonPablo exit scammed from Abraxas around Nov. 1st, I lost a big in that unfortunately. Did a "24 BLOWOUT SALE" FE only with amazing discounts after three months of 5-star service. Many people fell for it, such shameless douchebaggery.


[2 Points] elpacko_elpacko:

elPacko exit scammed (probably) from Abraxas around Nov 3

Maybe he got busted, but he wrote a lot of people that packages went out, but they never received anything.


[2 Points] None:

Alexsosa1k exit scammed on abraxas around oct 22-23 or so.


[2 Points] Devoid_:

If you ever do a project on determining markets likelyhood to exit scam you could analyze the wallets of the markets on the weeks leading up to the scam and identify suspicious movements


[1 Points] trynakick:

Just agora? Can you get more scrapes? Not saying this isn't helpful at all, but I can only help with abraxas and evo. Thanks! Looking forward to seeing the results of this project.


[1 Points] obfsproxied:

Sounds pretty neat. Maybe you can develop some type of algorithm to analyze suspicious market activity as a whole too.