(No Proof, but clues) Buyers, exercise caution with Mr. Greene

I have clearly placed in the title, that at this stage my post is speculation, so I don't want to hear any bullshit, thanks.

I have some suspicions about Mr. Greene. I can not prove he is a scammer, however I can list the things that raise my suspicions and advise people to stay in escrow and exercise caution before purchase. I'm doing this for YOUR benefit.

  1. He has been on AlphaBay 3-4 weeks and already has 111 sales. All his items are at least $200+ and up to $2,450 (aside from 14 samples) so that is comparatively a lot of volume for a new vendor.

  2. Considering he has sold at a minimum of 100+ ounces (most of his listings are for more than that HP's etc) it is unusual that no-one of these 100 bulk buyers has said a single word about it on AB forum or here on reddit.

  3. He has a sticky listing (promoted, front-page) that is 100% FE. That specific item has about 10 positive feedbacks. Here's the problem, he's exploited a flaw in AB which allows vendors to edit listings to anything they want after customers have left feedback for that specific listing. AB does not include the item title in the feedback. The FE listing he has with feedback used to be the sample, so now it looks like the feedback from the samples is for the 100%FE ounce. You follow me? Bit shady at the least.

  4. His writing style and MO are very similar to a scammer that hit the SR2 forums way back then. His name was OTBS (on the ball sales) Perfect English and grammar, very good social engineering skills, well above average, big long speeches waxing lyrical about his product and service. He did a similar scam, advertising FE Ounces and a mix of escrow samples and lower amounts. He also blamed the Canadian post service which gave him plenty of time to pull off over 20k. Being Christmas it's the perfect storm with post delays etc.

These are the clues that raise my suspicion, we will see how it pans out but at this time I advise being careful and checking the auto-finalize time if you are in escrow.


Comments


[1 Points] dn2016:

Good call. Yeah seen this guy before. Feedback too good, full of hyperbole, loads of exclamation marks. Trying to remember his old username as he's gone by other names since the notorious OTBS.

Another thing how the fuck does a level one vendor with neutral trust, same as me with no buys on AB, and only on the market for a month get FE allowed?!...