Dream Market and DutchMagic

I would like to share a story of mine lurking the DNM world.

Coming from the Middle Earth scam, and having lost a considerable amount of money for my standards, I sought to make up for my loss, finding and ordering from a trusted vendor like DutchMagic. I searched several markets and saw him vending on Dream, so I decided to make an order from him there. For my bad luck, I found out that the vendor named DutchMagic on Dream, wasn't really DutchMagic himself, but a pretender, a scammer. Site staff, for some weird reason, had given him "verified" and "FE approved" status. He used however a different PGP key than the original vendor, so there was a way for me to know what was going on. But I didn't check it. Because I trusted the "verified" status that the market had given him. So, again I lost more money from a scam.

The scammer was only unmasked accidentally when I made contact with the real DutchMagic on Nucleus. He found out, and immediately posted about this on Dream forums. For some weird reason again, staff were taking several days to confirm this fact. When DutchMagic eventually got hold of the account, and the scammer was kicked, he promised to refund all scammed buyers 100%, without being the one who made any mistake. The scammed buyers were about 25, including me, with total money lost around 5.000€.

Admin, and Dream market staff, made no official announcement that would acknowledge their terrible mistake. They relied on DutchMagic's good faith and honesty to refund the scammed buyers. Of course I am not in a position to know if they made any deal for the compensation process, but as far as I know, DutchMagic was the one who bared the brunt for this messed up situation.

At this point I would like to add that after continuous attempts to get a clear and decent answer from the Admin of Dream, during the wait for DutchMagic to send the reship, the Admin sent me a small portion of btc as a "partial refund" explaining nothing and making no official announcement for this. I assume he did this to shut me up and stop bothering them, I can't find any other logical explanation.

Anyway, the reason I wanted to share this was for people to know that there are some good, honest vendors too. People are already getting their reships from DutchMagic, so he sticked to his word about refunding 100% of buyers loss. I am not sure what to say for Dream Market staff though. I don't like their way of dealing with things.


Comments


[3 Points] Selectivescammer1:

That's real lazy and all round shit that Dream Market didn't even verify a top vendor like that, could also means they are as slack with their opsec.


[2 Points] young_k:

That's weird that a vendor would be verified and not have their PGP verified within the market. Seems like a huge lapse on OPSEC, hell even general operations.

I'm curious if they just slipped up or if this is a common practice....


[0 Points] None:

Fuck! I was told in a perfect world shit like this doesn't happen? Was also told I lived in a "free" country! Then drugs came into my life. Can't even use those freely for yourself. Fucking "free" haha