Beware: Bleedingfinger

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Zeus2101

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Hi All,
I believe that I was recently scammed by the user Bleedingfinger via PM, not email.. I recently sent funds to a long time member here, Bleedingfinger, who after giving some excuses to me, has stopped responding and has failed to send the knife and/or tracking info. It has been 7 plus days that I have yet to hear back and wanted to know what to do as this is my first time dealing with this on BF. This person has logged in in very recently, and still no answer. Thankfully, it was not a large sum of money (and yes I paid F&F, despite policy) but I wanted to warn others as well.

Thanks in advance!
Mike
 
Contact PayPal, your bank / credit card company. There's always a chance, especially if you refer to a case of another member getting reimbursed for wrongdoing by the very same scammer.
 
Strange that the user wasn’t active for 3 years then held a big knife sale. Makes me think it was most likely a hacked account that purchased “gold”, for the DM access and false sense of security it provides perspective buyers. A lot of the discussions had here(GB&U) about being scammed, just educates the scammers.

Bleedingfinger had previously posted his email address and the scammers most likely cross-referenced it with info obtained from major hacks.
 
Jdottinger said:
Strange that the user wasn’t active for 3 years then held a big knife sale. Makes me think it was most likely a hacked account that purchased “gold”, for the DM access and false sense of security it provides perspective buyers. A lot of the discussions had here(GB&U) about being scammed, just educates the scammers.

Bleedingfinger had previously posted his email address and the scammers most likely cross-referenced it with info obtained from major hacks.
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I was thinking the same thing.

If the guy hasn't logged in in 3 yrs then I don't know that it matters but still
 
Jdottinger said:
Strange that the user wasn’t active for 3 years then held a big knife sale. Makes me think it was most likely a hacked account that purchased “gold”, for the DM access and false sense of security it provides perspective buyers. A lot of the discussions had here(GB&U) about being scammed, just educates the scammers.

Bleedingfinger had previously posted his email address and the scammers most likely cross-referenced it with info obtained from major hacks.
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The problem is, as I shared with Boru13 Boru13 yesterday, is that though I suspected a hacked account, (although some folks actually do go rogue, occasionally), our ability to compare IPs from several years back is lacking...so it's one piece of the puzzle we have to make do without.

In any case, we work as fast as we can to keep the fire from spreading further.
 
Update: my credit union refunded these funds. It took 7 weeks of persistence. Thanks BF for the support!
 
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