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ILPT: How to scam pedos for easy money: A comprehensive guide
1: Set up a fake profile. Set up a few at a time, start them off as normal accounts with what looks like a normal person, act on it for a while, 5-6 posts a week minimum for at least a month or two. Then, once you have some history on it, change it to your pedo-bait. Make the age between 12-16. Try to create your own photos, photoshopping one face onto another, reversing the image, and making sure that they cant just do a reverse image search and find the original. This is the hardest and longest part.Make sure that the account looks like someone that they can take advantage of. Act meek at times, and place fake events such as family members or a pet dying. 2: Now you need proof they are a pedo. The best thing to do here is bait them into asking for nudes or sexual acts. At this point you have 2 options, If they ask for nudes, send an IP logger a link which you put through a link shortener to disguise it. While I prefer to not give pedos more wank material, I don't want to show my hand to early, so just find some porn actor who looks underaged, and use that, make sure to photoshop the right face and find the right body type as your previous posts. 3a: If they fell for the link, you now have their IP address, which can give you their general location. Make sure to put it through a program to detect if it is a VPN before you confront them. Most of the time you only get the city, if you are extremely lucky, the neighborhood. But this is enough to get the more easily scared pedos. Proceed to step 4. 3b: They fell for the link, but you have too broad an area to confirm anything. Continue gathering misc bits of info, since you have a general area, you can narrow down things a lot. If they sent photos (yuck), check for things in the background that might give anything away. Once you have more solid bits of info, confront them, and proceed to step 4. 3c: If they don't fall for the link then you continue and try to get any other personal info from them. Ask them a place to meet up. This is where you can go to the option of many other pedo hunters. Get a buddy, bring a gun or bat, confront them, and tell them to either pay in cash or crypto, and make sure you film their face and take screenshots for blackmail. If this works, great, proceed to step 4. If it doesn't you are shit out of luck on getting money, and turn them over to police. If you haven't noticed, I prefer to do as much as possible online. I do this because its easier to get caught IRL. 4: Finally.... the cashout. Have them send it online as a cryptocurrency. DO NOT HAVE THEM PAYPAL YOU, they can call a chargeback and get you arrested on blackmail, and they can get away scott free if they can hide evidence fast enough. The crypto they send you does not matter. Just make sure it is the right amount. Once you have that in a online wallet. Exchange it to private coin, and move it to a hardware wallet. Do not use bitcoin or any other coin that has public transactions. In fact go as far as possible on security. Use Monero or Dash's private send feature. While it does increase the price by sending it again, hey.... its someone else's money. How much money you demand is up to you. Often I try to gauge how much money the pedo has look at the photo background, look for windows, . The largest I have ever gotten away with was 12k from a pedo, though most end up around 2-3k. Now its up to you to launder it to look legit. TF2 hat trading (and other games) are surprisingly good money laundering techniques if you go from crypto hats/game items. Lurk on some discord servers, engage, don't look too sketchy. Find a trusted broker, then sell the crypto for hats/items and cash out with paypal after a few weeks. If you play the ingame market right, you can sometimes not make a loss on laundering it.
Oh yea, I almost forgot. Report them anyway, child molesters all deserve to rot in jail.
Edit: Due to a LOT of people asking me about specifics, this will have a part 2 with that info.
ILPT - HERE ARE A FEW WAYS TO MAKE MONEY EFFICIENTLY IN A SHORT TIME PERIOD.
NOTE* You'll need money to invest with cuz you'll be using to it to buy some tools and/or and info to even be able to use these methods 1 - BANK LOGS This can be risky if you have absolutely no clue what you're doing but there's no risks at all as long as you do everything correctly. Essentially you're taking money from the bank, not people. You'll be using profiles also known as fullz to open bank accounts. These bank accounts will be your drops. The drop accounts are basically accounts that can receive the money you'll be sending. You can either go and open the accounts yourself with fake documentation, send people to open the accounts for you with fake documentation or you can buy drops. Now the most important part is the bank logins. You basically setup your computer accordingly to make it seem like you're the original cardholder on their computer. This allows you to get through all the security features with no problem. Once you're in their account all you have to do is send the money to your drops. Sometimes there'll be SMS verifications depending on the bank you hit but you can easily bypass that with the right tools. The next step is to withdraw the money from there ASAP as the banks take it back from you to give back to the rightful owner. If done successfully, you'll have your money and the drop account will go into the negatives. If you're scared, don't worry. As long as you do everything correctly, you won't get caught and you won't go to jail. They won't be able to link anything to you because basically what you're doing is spoofing your location to the cardholder's location with SOCKS5 to make it seem like it's them. That's why the feds never catch anyone doing this. Also, if you're still confused, yes it's the banks that are losing the money. So basically what happens when you take the money from the original cardholder is that they call the bank once they notice some funds have been taken out of their account. The bank then puts a chargeback on the account that you send the money to, which is why you need to either withdraw the money right away or transfer it to another account so it can't be traced. What happens after is that the account that received the funds goes into the negatives and the original cardholder gets their money back from the bank. And that's why you're taking money from the bank and not from the people. The original cardholders get their money back, you walk away with the stolen funds and the bank has to pay for what's happened. You can make anywhere between $2k-$50k+ if you know what you're doing. 2 - CARDING (2 WAYS) There are 2 ways of carding. Online and Physical. For the online method you'll need a good CC with a good balance & fullz attached, a list of sites that you can card (always updated), a list of good BINs to use so you can have a higher chance of successfully carding the store you want, good SOCKS5 (I recommend 911.re but VIP72 works fine) & a drop addy that can be used to receive everything you card. The only thing I don't like about this in terms of making money is that you have to find people who are gonna buy the stuff you card such as clothes or electronics. I only use this method when I wanna get clothes for myself or shoes or recently I got myself a new condo so I needed furniture/new TVs and lights for the crib. Now for the physical method. You're basically cloning CCs and using them to either withdraw money at an ATM or buy items in stores but you need to be extra careful with both of these. I personally send strikers (people who do the work for me) with a bunch of cards to do this. I also give them a cut upfront to make it more convincing. For this you'll need some equipment and software such as a reader, blank cards, dumps (info you use for the cards) & the software to load all the info into the cards. If you wanna avoid trouble I suggest getting a card embosser to make the cards look real. If not, then you can just use the blank cards but if you get caught with those then...SAY GOODBYE TO YOUR LIFE lol. 3 - GETTING iPHONES & MACBOOKS All you need for this method are good profiles and good IDs (preferably scannable). The in-store method is the easiest way to get these but if you're too scared/lazy to go in person then you can also do this online/over the phone but you'll need a few more things such as SIM cards for the company you're getting them from and a drop addy to receive the items. If you have someone who buys iPhones in bulk like I do then you can easily make over $10k off of 6 phones but if that's not the case then you can just sell them on eBay/any craigslist platform. Same thing for the Macbooks. If you want me to get more into detail and explain everything step by step, PM me! I'm not charging anyone for info. Just passing on info that helped me stack up my bread in the past few years. All I'm looking for is people who are just as hungry as I am.
1)It is possible to change the code through a miner vote or a fork and change the total supply or anything. DASH did it : they reduced the total supply from 84M to 18.9M a few years ago. They could also increase it to 999 Trillions if they wanted to so that millions of DASH are mined every week. 2)You can also fork bitcoin anytime , start over from 0 and claim it's the real bitcoin. (BCH , BSV , BTG , LTC , BCD etc) 3)Why would you pay $10,000 for a digital collectible unit called BTC when you can use BCH or TRX or LTC .. you name it. They work just as fine and cost less. There is no rarity like in gold. 4)Think of any amount you hold in ethereum as a gift card to use smart contracts on the ETH blockchain. Ridiculous. You’d rather hold a wal mart gift card or even simply cash. 5)Private keys may be bruteforced as we speak. Quintillions entries a second. When they’ll have enough bitcoins under control , they could move them all at once instantly.(At least 45,000 ETH have been stolen this way for now through ethereum bandit)SHA 256 is too old , bitcoin is 10 years old , it is not secure enough , quantum computing could potentially break it. 6)And that’s if people don’t find a way to create an infinite amount of coins to sell on exchanges.. it happened with monero , stellar , bitcoin , zcash , zcoin , eos , etc.. proofs : “Bitcoin , Coindesk : “The Latest Bitcoin Bug Was So Bad, Developers Kept Its Full Details a Secret”an attacker could have actually used it to create new Bitcoin — above the 21 million hard-cap of coin creation — thereby inflating the supply and devaluing current bitcoins.” Stellar : “Stellar Inflation: Glitch Leads to 2.25 Billion Extra XLM Printed” Monero : “A bug in the Monero (XMR) wallet software that could enable fake deposits to exchanges has been recently brought to public attention through a Medium post” Zcoin : Forged coins were created, but not exceeding 1% of the circulating supply. We will release further details on exact numbers when Sigma is released. EOS : “Hackers Forge Billion EOS Coins to Steal Real Crypto From DEX “ Zcash : “Zcash Team Reveals It Fixed a Catastrophic Coin Counterfeiting Bug” etc.. 7)Segwit , and especially Lightning network is a very complex technology and it will inevitably have flaws , bugs , it will be exploited and people will lose money. That alone can cause bitcoin to drop very low levels. 8)Then miners may be losing millions so they will stop mining , blocks may be so slow , almost no transaction will come though , and bitcoin may not have enough time to reach the next difficulty adjustement. This is reffered to as a death spiral. Then every crypto even those with no mining involved may crash hard. 9)Many crypto wallets are unsafe and have already caused people to lose all their investment , including the infamous “parity wallet”. 10)It is NOT trustless. you have to trust the wallet you’re using is not just generating an address controlled by the developper , you have to trust the node the wallet connects to is an honest node , you have to trust a Rogue state or organization with enough computing power will not 51% attack the network. etc.. 11)Bitcoin is NOT deflationary. Bitcoins are created every blocks (roughly every 10 minutes) and you wil be dead by the time we reach the 21 million current hard cap. 12)Bitcoin price may artificially be inflated by Tether. 13)It’s an energy waste , an environmental catastrophy. 14)The only usecases are money laundering , tax evasion , gambling , buying on the dark net , evading sanctions and speculation. 15)Governments will ban it if it gets too big , and they have a big incentive to do so , not only for the obscure usecases but also because it threatens the stability of sovereign currencies. Trump could kill bitcoin with one tweet , force fiat exchanges to cease activity. 16)Most cryptos are scams , the rest are just crazy speculative casino investments. 17)It is pyramidal : early adopters intend to profit massively while last comers get crushed. That's not how money works. The overwhelming majority of crypto holders are buying it because they think they will be able to sell it to a higher price later. Money is supposed to be rather stable. That's why the best cryptocurrencies are USDT USDC etc.. 18)The very few stores accepting bitcoin always have the real price in the local currency , not in bitcoin. And prices like 0.00456329 BTC are ridiculous ! 19)About famous brokers listing bitcoin : they have to meet the demand in order to make money , it doesn't mean they approve it , some even short it (see interactive broker's CEO opinion on bitcoin) 20)People say cash is backed by nothing and losing value slowly , and yes it is very flawed , but there is a whole nation behind it , it's accepted everywhere , you can buy more things with it. 21)Everybody in crypto thinks that there will be a new bullrun and that then , they will sell. But because everybody thinks it will happen , it might not happen. The truth is past performance doesn’t indicate future performance and it is absolutely not guaranteed that there will ever be another bullrun. The markets are unpredictable. 22)Also BTC went from about $0.003 to the price it is today , so don’t think it’s cheap now. 23)There is no recourse if you’re scammed/hacked/made a mistake in the address etc. No chargebacks. But it might be possible to do a rollback (blockchain reorganization) to reverse some transactions. BSV did it. 24)In case of a financial crisis , the speculative assets would crash the most and bitcoin is far from being a non speculative safe heaven ; and governments might ban it to prevent fiat inflation to worsen. 25) Having to write down the private key somewhere or memorize it is a security flaw ! It’s insane to think a system like this will gain mass adoption. 26) The argument saying governments can not ban it because it is decentralized (like they banned drugs) doesn’t work for cryptos. First , drugs are much harder to find and much more expensive and unsafe because of the ban , and people are willing to take the risk because they like it. But if crypto is banned , value will drop too much , and if you can’t sell it for fiat without risking jail , goodluck to find a buyer. Fiat exchanges could close. Banks could terminate every crypto related bank account. And maybe then the mining death spiral would happen and kill all cryptos. 27) Crypto doesn’t exist. It’s like buying air. It’s just virtual collectibles generated by a code. Faguzzi, fugazzi, it’s a whazzie, it’s a whoozie.. it’s a.. fairy dust. It doesn’t exist. It’s never landed. It’s no matter, it’s not on the elemental chart. It… it’s not fucking real! 28) Most brilliant guys have come out and said Bitcoin was a scam or worthless. Including Bill Gates , Warren Buffet , The Wolf Of Wall Street… 29) Inflation is necessary for POW , BTC code will have to be changed to bypass the 21M cap or mining will die ! If BTC code is not changed to allow for miners to be paid reasonably , they will cease mining when the bitcoin block reward gets too low.Even monero understood it ,the code will have to be changed to allow for an infinite bitcoin supply (devaluating all current bitcoins) or the hash will decrease and the security of bitcoin will decrease dramatically and be 51% attacked 30) Don’t mix up blockchain and cryptos. Even blockchain is overrated. But when you hear this or that company is going blockchain , it doesn’t mean they support cryptocurrencies. 31) Craig Wright had a bitcoin mining company with Dave Kleinman (he died) and on january 1 2020 he claims he will be able to access the 1.1M BTC/BCH/BTG from the mining trust. He may or may not dump them on the market , he also said BTC had a fatal flaw and that by 2019 there will be no more BTC. 32) Hacks in cryptos are very common and usually massive. Billions of dollars in crypto have been stolen in the last 6 years. In may 2019 Binance was hacked and lost 7,000 BTC (and it’s far from being the biggest crypto hack). 33) Bitcoin was first. It's an ancient technology. Newer blockchains have privacy, smart contracts, distributed apps and more.Bitcoin is our future? Was the Model T the future of the automobile? (John Mc Afee) 34) IOTA investiguating stolen funds on mainnet. IOTA shuts down the whole network to deal with trinity wallet attack. 35) Compared to bitcoin other cryptos work just as fine and don't waste so much energy. 36 ) Everytime miners disagree on the updates it will create another version of bitcoin : problem of governance and legitimacy. 37) Cryptos are only legitimate if they act as a credit for a redeemable asset like USDT or gold backed coins. While the native language of the writter is not english , I think you get the point and it doesn't make it any less relevant.
Absolutely insane experience with the Seattle PD last night. Thought Seattle Redditors would enjoy some justice porn
UPDATE 3 I'll have some time to go through my dashcam footage on Sunday. For now, here's my favorite report on this story. Listen for when I say "I hope I have my wallet". Mitch had asked me if he could see the wallet. Editing makes it look different, but I was actually almost upstairs saying that to myself without realizing I was still mic'd up. Awesome report KOMO! Thanks for the gold! You are the first person in 9 years on Reddit to gift me gold. Woohoo! UPDATE 2 Thanks everyone for reading and upvoting my rambling story. After KING 5 aired their piece, both KOMO and KIRO came and I did interviews from my basement/bar. It was a whirlwind day. Lots of attention at my place and lots of random people stopping by. It was cool to have a podium for a day to give an alternative perspective that's usually shouted down as against the "narrative". /seattle faith restored! It was awesome to have my bias proven wrong when reading all of the supportive and positive comments on here. You guys rock. UPDATE!! It's been a crazy day with work, but I was able to respond to one of the interview requests I got after posting the story here. I don't know for sure if it will make it on the news, but King 5 picked up my story in their planning meeting this morning (thanks to reddit) and they asked for an interview. I changed the location last-minute to Anita's Mexican Food (the taco stand) in order to give them some well-deserved publicity. I met with a reporter and video guy at 11 this morning and I told the whole story while they tried to find the WORST angle possible to videotape me. Afterwards I went to the taco stand and ordered, giving a big ass tip to Ana, who refused multiple times until I told her coworker she had no choice but to accept my money as gratitude. I REALLY hope I just made the web version so I can relax this weekend before my knee surgery next week, but you might see me on the news today. ORIGINAL POST So I couldn't find my wallet this evening. Having used it last night picking up my dog from daycare, it was either in my bag where it usually is or for some reason still in my car. After searching for 30 minutes I realized I had somehow lost it. I checked my Mint app to see if any of the cards had been used. Nope. JUST as I was putting my phone away, I saw a notification from my Capital One app saying that my card had just been approved at "Coca Cola in Bellevue, WA", and then another at "Coca Cola"... I was pretty confused until I saw a third transaction just a minute later from "Anitas Mexican Food"... with this app you can click on a little location icon that shows the location.. IT WAS IN MY ZIPCODE! That's when I realized my wallet had somehow been stolen and I was watching someone using it live. I ran to my computer and googled Anitas Mexican Food and after a few frantic minutes of searching I found a Yelp profile for a freakin' TACO TRUCK. I looked at the address and HOLY JESUS it was just a mile up the road. I grabbed my bag and ran out the door as my fiancé was looking at me very confused. As I was racing up Aurora Ave I called the food truck and this lady answered, speaking mostly spanish. In my best (read: terrible) spanish I asked her if someone had just purchased $5.48 at her truck and she said yes. I explained that the credit card was stolen and asked if they were still there. She says YES. After a few frustrating u-turns I finally find this taco truck tucked away in a parking lot. As i'm walking up to the taco truck lady I realized that NO ONE IS THERE. I call 911 and try to explain that my wallet was somehow stolen while I walked up to the truck. After a few frustrating minutes between the dispatcher and the lady, I gather that they just walked down the street. I finally got a description of a white guy with a black t-shirt and no jacket.. skinny and my height. I hang up with the dispatcher as he said he's sending the police. Not wanting to wait, I get back in my car and start driving up the road to see if I can spot him. TWO BLOCKS AWAY I see this guy fitting the description perfectly, sitting near the bus stop and eating. I get back on the phone with 911 and told the dispatcher that I'm pulling into Krispy Kreme parking lot behind him and for the police to meet me there... LET'S FLANK HIM! Seattle PD shows up less than 3 min later and WHOA.. it's the two female officers that responded when someone tried to steal my 200lb rolled up chainlink fence from the front of my house a month ago. I explained the situation as yet another officer shows up and the three of them finally go over there to talk to him. As they continue to talk with him for nearly 10 minutes, I called my little brother to tell him the story... I'm explaining things to him and his wife on speaker and one of the officers tells me they're going to get the taco truck lady to ID him. After she leaves things are starting to get a little more intense with the male and female officer grilling this guy. I go back into my car and am telling the story when this guy freaking BOLTS DIRECTLY INTO TRAFFIC ON AURORA. He runs full speed across the street with the other two cops running after him weaving through cars. I couldn't believe what I was seeing... I'm stunned sitting there with a running cop car next to me.. and the guy and cops had disappeared down a DARK side street and down a hill in an instant. I then realized that this dude was pretty big, and was concerned. So I put my car in gear and take off after them, realizing that they're on foot FAR away from their car and I'm IN a car so maybe I could help. I turn down this side street and notice just how dark it is.. barbed wire along the right and stone a wall along the left. Out of the corner of my eye I see a struggle in the grass.. the cops have this guy pinned on the ground with his head at an odd angle against the wall. I get out and try and help them without punching this guy (way harder than I thought it would be). Since the guy cops mic fell off in the chase he asked me to get the other girl cop at the taco truck. She had the lady from the taco truck in her police car. With nothing more useful to do I went back to babysitting the running cop car back at krispy kreme. The officer with with the taco lady comes back and tells me he tried to toss my credit card during the chase. They recovered it and said they'll let me know if they find anything else. So I head back to look through the bushes for my wallet. Not 5 minutes later dispatch calls me back to the scene. They had ALL of my cards and my wallet, but not my ID.. funny thing is, that my wallet had all of his stuff in it by this point, and he was holding it the whole time they were talking to him. They didn't know what my wallet looked like and just assumed it was his. After about 15 minutes of bullshitting with them (EVERYONE was excited) I head home, looking for my ID along the way on the road. As I was telling this story to a friend on the phone at home, I get a call from one of the female officers, saying that they found my ID hidden "on his person" when they were booking him. They offered to drop it off at my house, but I decided to go pick it up from the station as they said they had tons of paperwork to do. I'm not kidding, the three officers were some of the coolest, most friendly and professional cops I've ever met. Aaaaand I think I'm out of luck for the year. I'm not going to contest the charges at the taco truck as I know how difficult it is to get chargebacks. I'm going to buy some tacos tomorrow and give a fat tip to her for helping me catch this shitbag. Edit: The best part I left out. I realized I had my dashcam running the entire time. I'll post it! TL;DR: Found lost wallet and dude goes to jail. Seattle PD didn't call me a racial slur. Edit: Learned from a 2 very vocal people that using the term "girl" in any context, or being concerned when a criminal could overpower a female officer is sexist. (guess I missed that class!) I edited that out because I like talking with people on here that understand context and real life situations as humorous as those comments are. Unreal, but I expected more of them so I'm happy regardless. My opinion: Boys and girls, dudes and chicks are just alternate words. Context defines the intent. Don't let people that don't yet know that, or are just sexist themselves, ruin your stories. But I could be wrong.
Throwaway for obvious reasons A while ago I charged back something from a small company that refused to refund me. These items were brand new, unused items that I purchased, and I intended to return them brand new, unused. The company had 3 refund policies that were all different: one on the receipt said 7 days, one on the website said 30 days online with store credit, and one at the store stated 3 days with store credit I believe. I asked if I can get a full refund within the 30 day limit and they refused to on the sole basis of "we don't feel like it." They would honor the store credit idea but I told him I do not want that because his refund-for-store-credit proposition was "you need to come before the store closes today" and I would simply like a refund because these are unused items. Mind you the store is fairly far from me, so it was insanely inconvenient for me to just get up within 40 minutes of the store's closing to get store credit for a store I do not think I would shop at again in the first place. He called me an asshole and refused to even honor store credit at that point. I charged back and explained to my bank that the store refused to refund me, and they granted it to me without any issue. Here is the kicker, I sold the items online, but they are easily retrievable. A long time has passed and I was never penalized for the chargeback – would the store owner pursue any legal action of me? Would I go to jail / prison for selling the items? Would it be best to just re-buy the items as a "just in case"? The purchase was $300 and I did not want to lose $300 for something brand-new. This keeps me up at night, and I do not want to lose my livelihood over something so small and something I did when I was a poor college student.
I hope this belongs here, but here it goes. Basically, around 6 months ago I was approached by a friend of a friend who had a business proposition for me. TBH I don't exactly know how it works but it goes something like this, I open an LLC in my name, and chargebacks of credit cards go through the business bank account, and he pays me $500 a month to let him do this. The LLC is in my name only, as is the bank account. However, this gentleman only gave me a $500 advance, and failed to actually start running funds through the account, thus never paying me anything else. I now realize this is obviously some sort of pyramid scheme(my friends are in on it too). BUT, the point of this post is, with an LLC formed in Delaware, you have to pay a Franchise Tax Fee every year of $300, and it is due June 1st. This guy said he was going to pay by June 1st, and I checked online and not only did he NOT pay it, but there is now a penalty fee among other things and the fee totals around $600. My question is, what happens if I don't pay this? Can I go to jail? Will it hurt my credit? I'm quite nervous and would like to do something about it ASAP. Thank you for any help! Edit: The LLC was formed in Delaware, and I am in Rhode Island
A funny story to help make your day better. A couple years back a customer comes in to my desk. He's concerned because there's some charges on his account that he didn't authorize. I look over his activity and find a couple $60ish charges that say they're from Xbox. I explain what Xbox is to him and calmly asks if anyone else in his family might have had access to the card? Does he have kids or grandkids, etc. I make sure to phrase it so he understands Im not accusing his family members, just questioning the possibility. He says yes and tells me he is going to go have a word with his grandson. I make sure to in inform him we can fill out chargeback paperwork whenever he is ready and to let me know what he wants to do. He calls me back later that day and the conversation goes something like this. Me: _______ Bank, this is _____. Customer: Hi this is Enraged Customer. I talked to my grandson. That little shit did those charges on my card. ('Little shit' being his exact words) Me (paraphrasing): Oook. So, we can still do chargeback papers for you if you would like, but before we do, I want to let you know that in situations like this, where you know who it was who used your card without authorization, we will need you to file a police report and press charges against him. Enraged Customer: I'll think about it and let you know. hangs up He comes back in a couple days later and comes up to me. "I just want to thank you. I didnt mention it at the time, but when you were telling me about needing to file a police report, I had you on speakerphone the whole time and my grandson was in the room with me. When I hung up with you he asked me if he was going to go to jail. I think he's learned his lesson." So yea, I unknowingly scared a kid with jail time, right after his grandfather called him a little shit to his face. :P
Sanders: Want to win over 66% of the voters, add these policy reforms to your platform
NOTE: I'm not saying these policies alone will cause a switch. I'm simply saying these will help convince some voters to make the switch (And every voter counts). Furthermore, these are not replacements to the "big issues". These would take little time and no money to implement so there is simply no reason not to. Are you all ready to get mad? Because these are all real things happening now all over the country. They are all highly unethical cash grabs we shouldn't be allowing in a civilized country. Of course no politician owned by banks and airlines will stand up to them. So we need Sanders to be our man. Point out these corporate atrocities and demand change. A) Unfair fees which need to be banned now: 1) Airlines charging for seating. It literally costs nothing to put a family together but they'd rather split them up so they can charge $100 to put them back together. Seats should be strictly first come first serve with no additional fees. 2) The charge for adding money to a kid's school lunch account. Like seriously, what the fuck? The school forces them to buy a monopolies food while requiring a single form of payment and they even charge you to put money in so your kid can eat. Fuck off 3) Fee to pay fines you are legally required to pay. Not the fine. The fee to pay the fine. And if you don't pay it, you end up in jail. Love America yet? 4) While we're on corrupt local politic practices, **Why do some places charge you a "case dismissal fee". You were literally just found to be not guilty and don't deserve punishment but in order to have the case dropped, you need to hand them $50. 5) A fee to prevent the solicitation of private info. Looking at you AT&T. That's some scum ass shit and you need to stop. 6) Extravagant "convenience fees". Look I'm a businessman and I know that these fees are important to cover cc fees etc. But they need to be capped (as the greater of a percent or a fixed amount) or we'll keep hearing stories about $50+ fees on water bills. 7) Application fees. These should be added to the final cost. There's no reason to demand payment when there's no guarantee you'll get the service or position in the first place. B) It sure is expensive being poor: Remember when the banks were bailed out by taxpayers? Cause they sure don't. Look at the way banks are scamming the lenders who finance all of their activities. 1) Overdraft fees. You're telling me you can't simply decline a purchase? Of course you can't. Because then you'll miss out on the lucrative $35 a pop banking fees. And that's not the stupidest part. These guys make their living lending money. If anything, they should just make the account go red, and charge a high interest rate while declining all transactions until it's paid off. But that's way less profitable that simply robbing your customers blind so why do it? 2) Minimum balances. I get it that it takes money to maintain accounts and keep records and people aren't profiting off of $50 balances. But if you are a publicly supported (you get insurance from the fed) bank, you shouldn't be taxing the poor after taking their tax money. 3) Inactivity fee. So let me get this straight: You're telling me because I'm letting you use my money to make profit, without claiming any of the services I am entitled to, you are going to charge me more. For what? How do you justify this? There is no added labor. No added data storage. You are literally the cheapest customer and yet you still have to pay fees. (Hint: It's cause they assume you won't notice your balance declining) C) Extortionate practices which need to be illegal 1) The posting of mug shots and other incriminating information in regards to crimes that are cleared from someone's record. Let's say you were accused of dealing drugs and found guilty. The prosecution realizes 2 weeks later that they fucked up and free you, clear your record, and pay you for the trouble. No problem, time to continue life right? Well now there's websites circulating your mugshot and demanding $100s to take it down. This needs to stop now. 2) While we're on this topic, the same should be true for naked or revealing photos that you did not sell. It's honestly sad how many people had their photos leaked and can't take them down because they can't pay the $1000 bribe. 3) Chargeback fees. There's no reason Paypal or any other service should charge you a high amount for money you never received, especially when it can be given without consent and the charger has no penalties. Hey kids want to fuck up someone's day? Donate $5 via paypall 20 times and chargeback it all. They'll have to pay $320 of their own money and you get your $100 back. Fucked up right? 4) Multiple overdrafts. Let's say I'm a really shady bank (cough Bank of America cough cough) and I think "hey these overdraft fees are making me bank". Next thing you know, I'm processing payments in such a way to ensure people who overdraft hit that charge as many times as possible. Paid $1 on Monday, $2 on Tuesday, and $100 on wed with only $95 in the bank. We could process them in order and overdraft once or we could process Wednesday's first and earn $35 on all 3 transactions. Spoiler alert: your bank is already trying this. 5) When your insurance goes up after you use it. Like what. The. Fuck. (this one's personal btw) I paid you literally $1000 every fucking year and you're telling me I don't have the right to use my insurance when someone hits me? Fuck off. I get raising rates for tickets. I get raising rates for accidents. I get raising rates for unsafe driving. But that's where the list should end. I am not a risk on the road cause some dumbass took out my mirror while I was parked on the street. No you're just a cheap fucking insurance and you want to discourage everyone from using your service so you can just collect money and never pay. D) Finally, when searching online for prices, prices should include Everything so customers can shop smartly. For example, some common hidden fees include: 1) Baggage fee 2) Printing fee (because fuck the customer right) 3) CC fees (when booking online) 4) Resort fees 5) Any and all local taxes 6) Local fees 7) Modem fees In short if the fee is required to buy or use the service (effectively), it should be listed clearly in the price tag. Sanders 2016
What is up ladies and gentlemen, i am just. i-i-i'm completely fucking pissed. I was going to write a script for this video, and i just figured that i just need to talk. I just need to FUCKING talk. I don't understand WHY AM I STILL GETTING HATE. I have debunked all this fucking bullshit slanderous claims that have been made about me. whether it be, uhh. Pyrocynical. Purposefully MANIPULATING CLIPS, taking clips out of context to make it say. something that i'm not saying, alright? whether. w-whether it be him, fucking claiming that I've released his PICTURE to the world, which is not true. That i went on his private facebook which is NOT TRUE. He fucking lied. He lied to send hate to my channel, and he succeeded in doing so. and I PROVED that he's a fucking liar, and I'm still GETTING HATE. Leafy, fucking took clips c-completely out of context, trolling clips where i'm saying i hate my fans which is part of a fucking act. which was part of a 2010 livestream which was called "Fuck the Fans" I PROVED this as well, and I'm still getting hate. Grade A Under A claims that I’m beating my girlfriend (which isn’t true), i even had my girlfriend TESTIFY that that’s not true. He makes claims that I’m a fucking pedophile, that I have 15 year old girls getting naked, which is NOT TRUE, there’s literally no fucking evidence to prove that this is fucking real, let alone this girl was never on my stream. Alright? I proved these people to be, Fucking. Liars. WHY AM I STILL GETTING HATE?!. Yesterday, I uploaded a video about Josh A lying about me, getting his fucking real legal name out to the whole world, when it’s the FUCKING URL OF HIS GODDAMN CHANNEL. These people have all lied about me, but not just lied about me, but lied to their viewers. Subscriber trust is everything. Alright? WHY AM I, STILL, GETTING, HATE?. I PROVED them to be fucking liars. Every single one of them. WHY AM I STILL GETTING HATE? Over the weekend, a guy who has harassed me, a guy who has doxed me, DDOSed my streams multiple times, had me swatted, uploaded a video claiming I was swatting him. And the video goes viral. It is on the front page of fucking reddit. And now people are accusing me of swatting people. That is fucking ridiculous. Smile4Youtube has harassed me for over a year nonstop, and if you are a viewer on my streams, you can testify to this, and I would appreciate a comment from you on this video testify that this dude has literally spread my dox in almost every stream for months on end. This dude has sent multiple donations just to charge back, and I am going to show some of these donations, like literally 40 to 50 donations a night, for the soul purpose to charge back, to close down my account. This dude has literally tweeted out my dox, this dude has literally claimed he was ddosing me, and knocking my stream offline. This dude has literally swatted and harassed bashur. Bashur even says, on march 25th, after I did an interview with scarce, “Good interview. Smile has been doxing us, swatting my mother multiple times, trying to trick us into large sums of money so he can chargeback and screw us, and so much more for months and months” He didn’t just do this to bashur, he did it to me. So he plays a clip where I am saying that “I can’t wait until he’s in jail.” The reason why I can’t wait until he’s in jail is because he’s a fucking criminal. Because it’s against the law to DDOS people. It’s against the law to swat people. It’s against the law to send payments to people for the soul purpose to charge back. That’s fucking fraud. This is a fucking criminal who has harassed me for months. Why do people believe this. Why am I still getting hate. Why. I have debunked all this shit. Why am I still getting hate. Do you care about the fucking truth? Or do you care about just hating on someone. I do not deserve this hate. Starting back tomorrow, I am returning to Drama Alert and I am doing the fucking news, alright? I have proved these people to be fucking liars, and again not just lying about me, but lying to their viewers. sigh thank you for listening.
I have lyed on my resume, scammed people on ebay and extortioned.
2 of 3 things i done in the past year are ofc illegal worldwide, but as we all know the net anonimacy and following this subreddit purpose i want to spit off this. Lying on my resume was something actually positive, i got attention and even a temporal job, the job was not of my kind but it worked to get a fresh start. Actually i lyed that i have worked for 2 years on a private company and some months to other 2 companies, including a turk one and a russian one. Got a simple job in a gas station, was something not for me ofc so i left it in 2 months, was my first job 1200 EURO/Month when people that are honest in their resume are getting nothing better than a waiter job in low end pubs. Now i am waiting for another job, i have been pre-hired by the company and now waiting for a call to let me know for a free place, probably for January. Not much to talk about, i made a pro photoshopped resume with clear text and structured content, i put some SEO skills on it, ya know... Optimization is a priority, how can you bring attention to an employer with a junk paper and some text, it's like hidding links from google or bombarding a site with useless text and spam links without nofollow. Now to the crimes, i haven't been caught of course because i am not a total idiot who go fap on CP with public IP open (Relax it was an example, or actually a joke). I have used virtual windows 10, vpn and some basic security stuff for the ebay scams, sold iphones and S7 galaxies, and sent shitty cheap phones to the poor souls haha, no i didn't laugh, okey yes i laughed i am just mentally unstable. I have used the local post office to send this junk internationally, made use of my social engeneering skills to calm buyers before the withdraw day, also i used stolen or pre-made ebay accounts with +50 positive feedback, you won't believe how much cheesy stuff there are in the black market. I calculated the delivery times and before the victims get their fake phones i have time to send that money from the fake paypal account to mine official, ofc the buyers are refunded or they make a chargeback, so tecnically i was stealing from paypal all this time, they deserve this very bad, i was somehow feeling good by seeing all that negative balances in the fake accounts. The real victim was paypal, and i have laughed so hard when the buyers were complaining about the troll shitty phones they got. Now, before i mention the next unethical behavior, i want to say there were days i had nothing to eat, i had extorted online rich people, made them fill CC details, and sold this info to the fraudsters in bulk, i know i can get 15 years in jail and even get shot for resisting but i had nothing to lose, i still have nothing to lose by now, somehow i consider that i made it for good by teaching this rich guys a life lesson not to be that stupid. Also i sleep well at nights, nothing bother me at the momment, i didn't kill anyone so nothing to be worried about, it's all good. Why didn't i get a loan to eat? Because i am on Equifax for not paying debts, debts are there like decoration for me.
So you want to buy or sell an item for cash! Here's a guide!
Congratulations! You have gained enough experience to begin buying and selling virtual items for real money! Here's an entirely too long guide I tossed up to help you on your way. If you're confused, just PM me!
Where to start: appraise your item! Please note: we will be using USD as the base currency.
Whether you're hoping to sell a single refined metal or a handful of top-tier unusual hats, your item has a couple of different values to keep in mind: item value and cash value. Item value is determined by using certain key components of the TF2 item universe as units of currency. The units of currency and their relative values is as follows:
Refined metal -- one refined, 3 reclaimed metal, 9 scrap metal
Mann Co Supply Crate Key -- 2.44 - 2.55 refined
Bill's Hat -- 20 - 25 refined, or 9 - 11 keys
Mac OSX Earbuds -- ~52 - 55 refined or ~24 keys
Unusual hats -- At worst, one earbud or 22 keys or 55 refined or LESS. At most, 97+ earbuds.
These item prices are fluid, and change almost daily. You have to keep an eye on market trends! Places like /tf2trade, TF2 Trading Post, TF2 Outpost, and trade servers (RUGC trade, anyone?) are great places to keep up on the average item price of other items. Cash value, however, is not a direct translation of item value, but it's a close approximation. We use the value of the smaller forms of currency to help us price the value of larger forms. A lot of times, you will see earbuds going for $32, but 60 (refined) x $0.6 = $36. You can usually buy items from the cash market for less than in-game because you cut out the work involved with converting (buds, in this example) items into smaller forms of currency to sell. It is best to visit SourceOP.com's item buying/selling subforum in order to stay on top of current market price.
Refined metal -- $0.40 - $0.50
Mann Co Supply Crate Key -- $1.15 - 1.35
Bill's Hat -- $11 - $13
Mac OSX Earbuds -- $30 - $35
Unusual hats -- Anywhere from ~$15 to $1500 (maybe even more!) (a burning Team Captain sold for what amounts to $1500 cash + 2500 in unusuals, and again later for $2500+ in cash)
Appraising an unusual hat is a sometimes confusing task, because there are seemingly arbitrary rules regarding hierarchy of classes, hats, and particle effects. The following is a rough look at how each class and effect falls, from least-desired to most-desired. For brevity's sake, we will leave out the complete list of hats. This is not a catch-all! There are plenty of instances in which these hierarchies will fail! When in doubt, ask an admin, and then ask a few more! Least-desirable -- Heavy Spy Engineer Sniper Pyro Demoman Medic Scout Soldier -- most-desirable Least-valuable -- Logo Confetti Peace Nutz and Bolts Flies Bubbles Searing Plasma Orbiting Planets Orbiting Fire Steaming Smoking Vivid Plasma Cauldron Bubbles Blizzardy Storm Flaming Lantern Haunted Ghosts Eerie Orbiting Fire Circling Heart Stormy Storms Energy Scorching Flames Sunbeams Cloudy Moon Burning Flames -- most-valuable Please note that this effect tier is basically meaningless because there are so many exceptions. The main thing I want you to take away from the tier system is that there are low, mid, high, and top-tier effects. On average, Soldier hats will be the most expensive, but the hat is really the main determinant of value! The Exquisite Rack is the lowest Soldier hat, and in confetti or nutz, can be acquired for 1 buds or even less! As each slider moves further and further to the right, hats get vastly more expensive per tier. Google is your friend here. Here's what I type in when I want a very specific unusual hat price checked
I get lots of results of people trading and/or selling their Madame Dixies with burning flames, so I have a good reference point for
PHASE TWO: Listing your item!
We will cover what the two types of threads should look like, buying and selling.
Buying, or want threads, are relatively straightforward. Here is a good example of a clean, simple buying thread. The only thing I could think to criticize would be his profile link, which goes to his /id/xxxxx page, and not his /profiles/###### page, which is much preferred.
A "rep thread" is used to list your former transactions and how you are trustworthy not to perform any funny business over Paypal or in game. Creating a rep thread on SourceOP by following the instructions listed there will allow you to keep track of purchases. Always make sure to ask people to leave you feedback when you buy an item! Here's mine!
Selling threads are not too complicated either. Register for SourceOP.com, SPUF, UTC, MannCoTrading, and whatever other sites you find will allow you to list. Your thread should look like this.
Hat or item Nice screenshot Current offers Buyout price Contact info and rep thread
Clean, concise, attractive. Best way to sell items.
So someone made you an offer you like! Time to buy or make a sale.
There are a couple of things you should do before going any further.
Set up a Paypal account to be able to send and receive money. Verify it, if need be. I have not recently set up a new account, but the steps are easy to follow.
Check your buyer or seller's SteamID on the SteamRep.com database. If they have been discovered as a scammer or otherwise unsavory individual, they will have either a "Caution" tag or a "Scammer" tag. I do not recommend dealing with either, as you are taking a big risk, and if you knowingly deal with a scammer, there is a chance that you will get a scammer tag yourself!
Verify that the person who has expressed interest is who they say they are. Ask for a PM from the user's rep thread, probably on SourceOP. Copy and paste the Steam ID from the rep thread back into your browser and compare the hours of TF2 played. If there is a discrepancy, cancel the deal and walk away!
If you end up using one, check the middleman's SteamID on SteamRep to make sure they are who they say they are! Plenty of users have gotten "team scammed" by people posing as reputable buyers, sellers, and middlemen. Ask for proof via forum PM, if need be.
Buying an item when you have little to no rep means you will likely need a middleman, which is never a bad practice. Finding a middleman is easy. SteamRep has a list of trusted middlemen, some mods of this subreddit (myself included) are fair game, and members of invite-only Steam groups, like UTC Admins are good to use. Some may charge a nominal fee for their services, while most do not ask for anything. Once you and your business partner have agreed upon a middleman, the seller gives the MM the item(s) to hold until you have sent money over Paypal or Moneypak. When sending money over Paypal, make sure to send the money as a "gift," so that it is non-refundable on your end. Unless you have a ton of rep, sellers will require this step anyway. If they receive money as anything but a gift, they will refund it and ask for gift payment. Once the money has been sent and confirmed by the seller, the middleman sends you your item(s) and you either tip or not, depending on how generous you feel. Exchange rep threads, leave positive feedback, and you're done! However, do not mess around with Paypal chargebacks. You will get caught, and it is a form of fraud. It is exceedingly stupid to risk jail over virtual items, and yes, people have gone to jail for it.
Selling an item means you don't have to have as much rep, but buyers will more often seek you out if you have a lot of transactions in your history because you can be trusted to send the item over without the introduction of a middleman. It is still always GOOD PRACTICE to use a middleman for any cash deal, however. The two most common ways to receive money as a seller are Paypal and Moneypak, and only one is completely safe for you. Paypal is quicker and easier, and most people will prefer it, especially for transactions under $100. However, if you are unsure about a buyer's reputation (not many forum posts, only a little feedback, etc), request that the buyer (USA only, I think) use a MoneyPak card. Moneypak cards can be "charged up," like a pre-paid credit card, by going to a vendor, such as Wal-Mart, CVS, Walgreens, or others, finding the card near the checkout, telling the cashier how much you want on it, then paying for it. On the back of the card is a code which must be scratched off to be revealed. The buyer will give you the code, which can be input on Moneypak's website using the "Add funds to Paypal" button. Once you have input the code and sent the money from the card to your account (you will receive a confirmation e-mail and money in your account), it is now time to send the item over to the buyer, and the transaction is complete. It is customary to knock off a portion of the price for the inconvenience of this method, but you are guaranteed safety, as the buyer cannot charge that money back on you! Leave your buyer some good feedback, as this is an annoying process for most buyers, and they deserve a pat on the back for giving you not only money, but peace of mind.
At this point, you are finished! You have bought or sold an item for real dollars, and it feels good. Congratulate yourself, because you just beat one of the harder stages of the Internet. High five!
Don't pay your court fines with stolen credit cards...Part 4
You can see the other cases here: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 As mentioned in my previous posts, my company handles credit card payments for the courts. My job is to keep an eye on things and help the courts when needed. Names, genders, and well everything about this, might be slightly modified to protect people involved Case 4: So this is less of a stolen credit card story, and more of someone trying to scam the court. Now that it has finally settled out, I can relate the story. But first a little boring background on this case.
Several years ago, the defendant in this case was found guilty of felony theft charges (as well as felony DUI in related case) and was subsequently incarcerated, and ordered to pay restitution. Since release, the defendant has appeared several times in contempt hearings for non-payment of restitution, and usually pays up to purge the contempt.
This time however, the defendant thinks they are going to be smart about it, and made the payment by credit card the morning they were supposed to report to the county jail for contempt. That's all well and good, as many people wait until the last minute to make payments. But that's where this twist begins.
About 15 days later, a fraud dispute is filed on that particular charge. My company fought and won the dispute, but it was then dragged into what is known as pre-arbitration status when the cardholder insists or provides additional evidence supporting the chargeback reason. We are not given any other information other than it has entered pre-arbitration state. We attempt to challenge it once again, and this drags on over the course of five months. My company finally ends up losing the challenge; of course, by this time, the amount that had been paid by credit card has been issued out as a restitution check by the court, and that check has long since been cashed.
So now, we have no option except to invoice the court for just the principal amount, and hand over the records to the court for pursual by the State's Attorneys office. Since this was specifically handled as a fraud action on the chargeback, there is a whole host of charges that can be brought.
The SA does his legwork. The IP address used to make the payment was assigned to the cell phone in the defendant's name. The card used to make the payment was issued in the defendant's name. Pretty much anything and everything tying this payment to this particular person comes up in what should be a slam dunk case.
The word I got is that the SA is having fun deciding which of the several fraud and theft statues to pursue. Most likely it will fall under both wire fraud and our state's credit/debit card act. Both of which bring with it class 3 felony charges, with a sentence multiplier for the previous theft conviction. So for the amount the defendant thought they could scam the court with (less than $500), they are now facing potentially 10 years in prison and upwards of a $10,000 fine.
The takeaway from this story, as always, is don't try credit card scams on the court people. Addendum: Fortunately, this has never been a big problem - less than .01% of total payments made - and I guess word is getting out that this kind of thing will be prosecuted by the courts. I have no complaints on that; these situations create a nice chunk of workload for me on top of everything else. While it might be slightly unprofessional of me, I have to say I may have laughed with a fair amount of schadenfreude at this case because of the extra work.
Still though, I will never understand the complete stupidity of some people...
PSA: Scammers committing credit card fraud can rip you off for Steam games
http://i.imgur.com/Imp6p.png The above message is what you will get if you buy a gift copy of a game from somebody who has either purchased the game with a stolen credit card, or issued a chargeback through PayPal (if they bought the game from Steam with PayPal). What does this mean for you? It means you no longer own the game you just traded for. You can't get it back, either. Whatever items you traded away are likely to be gone forever. But, if this happens to you, I strongly suggest that you open up a Steam Support ticket. Steam Support can easily look up the trade where you bought the gifted game, and they may be able to return your items back into your Steam inventory for you. Then report the person to the admins of whatever network you met them from, and hope that you can get them flagged on SteamRep as a scammer. While this particular person hasn't been flagged on SteamRep yet, I'd suggest being on watch for this particular trader. Judging by the comments on his profile, he's been doing this a lot. His inventory is full of keys, hats, and other items, so he's been ripping a lot of people off. Also keep in mind that you can't scam an honest man. If they're offering you a game for only a few TF2 items, it probably is too good to be true. And a note to anybody thinking of trying this: Credit card fraud is a crime. The kind of crime you can go to jail for. Don't be stupid.
What is up ladies and gentlemen, i am just. i-i-i'm completely fucking pissed. I was going to write a script for this video, and i just figured that i just need to talk. I just need to FUCKING talk. I don't understand WHY AM I STILL GETTING HATE. I have debunked all this fucking bullshit slanderous claims that have been made about me. whether it be, uhh. Pyrocynical. Purposefully MANIPULATING CLIPS, taking clips out of context to make it say. something that i'm not saying, alright? whether. w-whether it be him, fucking claiming that I've released his PICTURE to the world, which is not true. That i went on his private facebook which is NOT TRUE. He fucking lied. He lied to send hate to my channel, and he succeeded in doing so. and I PROVED that he's a fucking liar, and I'm still GETTING HATE. Leafy, fucking took clips c-completely out of context, trolling clips where i'm saying i hate my fans which is part of a fucking act. which was part of a 2010 livestream which was called "Fuck the Fans" I PROVED this as well, and I'm still getting hate. Grade A Under A claims that I’m beating my girlfriend (which isn’t true), i even had my girlfriend TESTIFY that that’s not true. He makes claims that I’m a fucking pedophile, that I have 15 year old girls getting naked, which is NOT TRUE, there’s literally no fucking evidence to prove that this is fucking real, let alone this girl was never on my stream. Alright? I proved these people to be, Fucking. Liars. WHY AM I STILL GETTING HATE?!. Yesterday, I uploaded a video about Josh A lying about me, getting his fucking real legal name out to the whole world, when it’s the FUCKING URL OF HIS GODDAMN CHANNEL. These people have all lied about me, but not just lied about me, but lied to their viewers. Subscriber trust is everything. Alright? WHY AM I, STILL, GETTING, HATE?. I PROVED them to be fucking liars. Every single one of them. WHY AM I STILL GETTING HATE? Over the weekend, a guy who has harassed me, a guy who has doxed me, DDOSed my streams multiple times, had me swatted, uploaded a video claiming I was swatting him. And the video goes viral. It is on the front page of fucking reddit. And now people are accusing me of swatting people. That is fucking ridiculous. Smile4Youtube has harassed me for over a year nonstop, and if you are a viewer on my streams, you can testify to this, and I would appreciate a comment from you on this video testify that this dude has literally spread my dox in almost every stream for months on end. This dude has sent multiple donations just to charge back, and I am going to show some of these donations, like literally 40 to 50 donations a night, for the soul purpose to charge back, to close down my account. This dude has literally tweeted out my dox, this dude has literally claimed he was ddosing me, and knocking my stream offline. This dude has literally swatted and harassed bashur. Bashur even says, on march 25th, after I did an interview with scarce, “Good interview. Smile has been doxing us, swatting my mother multiple times, trying to trick us into large sums of money so he can chargeback and screw us, and so much more for months and months” He didn’t just do this to bashur, he did it to me. So he plays a clip where I am saying that “I can’t wait until he’s in jail.” The reason why I can’t wait until he’s in jail is because he’s a fucking criminal. Because it’s against the law to DDOS people. It’s against the law to swat people. It’s against the law to send payments to people for the soul purpose to charge back. That’s fucking fraud. This is a fucking criminal who has harassed me for months. Why do people believe this. Why am I still getting hate. Why. I have debunked all this shit. Why am I still getting hate. Do you care about the fucking truth? Or do you care about just hating on someone. I do not deserve this hate. Starting back tomorrow, I am returning to Drama Alert and I am doing the fucking news, alright? I have proved these people to be fucking liars, and again not just lying about me, but lying to their viewers. sigh thank you for listening.
If you haven't seen what this is an update to, check this out. So Sunday afternoon (Yeah, sorry for the slow update. I've been working on taxes ever since, and while we're at it, sorry for the grammar. I've been celebrating with some homebrew since finishing my taxes a few hours ago.), I go to the car with the intention of paying by credit card and doing a chargeback. My dad gives me a lift, we get over there, and while we're staring at it, I have a bit more clarity since the shock has worn off. It's this type of boot, so I start tugging at the leading edge of the round part. I manage to pivot it towards the back side of the tire enough to get a folding lug wrench underneath it. Take the wheel, with boot still attached, off the jeep, and put the spare tire on. Call up the guy (I know his name and where he lives at this point thanks to his LLC filing. Nothing like that to give you confidence.). "IMPOUND (this honestly made me chuckle/WTF? on the inside)" "Hi, my name is Daniel. You left something on my green jeep that I don't really have any use for, and I thought you'd like it back." At the point, he starts going off and acting all tough about how he's already called the cops for theft, how there's going to be an arrest warrant out for me, and how I'm going to jail for this. (I think one of the neighbors had called him after he came out to bitch at me for a few minutes for being in their parking lot.) "Look man, I'm offering to deliver your equipment back in one piece that you left on my car. That's not theft by anybody's standards. (This whole time I was shocked how calm I was because I knew his name and home address. I used to get flustered over simple confrontations. I recommend The 50th Law if you haven't read it. It's a great book on fearlessness, but that's a different post.)" "Ok, look, I just want my equipment back. If you'll meet me, we'll call it even." We decide where/when to meet. Him by the end of the phone call - "I've got to admit, I've got tons of respect for you having the ability and balls to pull this off. Nobody ever gets these things off around here without cutting them. How'd you do it? Did you deflate the tire?" "No. I'll show you when I get there." So I meet him, and he's EXACTLY like I pictured. Stereotypes FTW! Twenty-something unkempt redneck in a old dodge durango complete with magnetic sign on the door and a 9mm on his hip. Thankfully because of years of directing, I can pretty much make instant friends with anyone. We struck up a conversation and talked for 10 minutes or so after he removed the boot for FREE, and this is what I learned...
He "doesn't like getting the cops involved." and "Cost of doing business. (when they get cut/disappear)" Basically he virtually never calls the cops. I'm guessing he got tired of being laughed at by the Atlanta PD. (I can't promise others don't have a friend in the PD, so caveat emptor.)
His mind was this really twisted blend of the Yuppie Nuremberg Defense, mixed with a "cleaning up the place" mentality. I can't quite describe it, but let's just say it didn't make me feel any better about the guy.
If the boot is like the one pictured above and doesn't have a cable going through the wheel and around the axle, you can probably get the hub/wheel off, especially if you deflate the tire.
Don't listen to your friends, even at their own home. If it says they'll tow/boot, chances are good they will.
I'm happy to feel better educated regarding boots and have a cool story to tell. I will say, please do what you can to get these things outlawed or at least regulated on a state level. It's already happened lots of other places (like the entire countries of France and Scotland) where they're willing to call a spade a spade and prosecute the booter for extortion. I highly recommend this website (thanks to r0swell in the other thread). TL;DR Everything went better than expected. Bypassed the boot and gained some insight into this shitty practice.
[Remorse] I had everything in life and stole over 50.000U$ I didn't need from my beloved ones. Parallelly I also lost my girlfriend. I don't think I can handle life anymore.
[Remorse] Im sorry if this text isn't clear, English isn't my first language and my thoughts are really messy right now. I will try to explain everything really detailed so you guys don't miss any information. I will follow a chronological order to organize the story a bit. Intro: I'm 21 today, i live in Brazil, I came from a wealthy family that always worried a lot about my well being, its a relatively large family (about 20 people because my grandmother had 2 sons and 2 daughters) and they were all raised with christian values (i think I'm the only atheist in the family). My mom separated from my father when i was about 2 years old and married my today stepfather about 1/2 years later. we never had any big family problem and i never had any problem with my mothestepfather. They are the basically the stereotype of a rich large family, with the exception of my father. My father is very important to me because he is the "black sheep", he is emotionally unstable (i think i am as well) and he is the kind of person that just won't let go the past (i'm afraid i have this problem as well). He lives far away from my hometown in the middle of a forest, he is a really nice person but he just doesn't get well with "capitalism and bad people". My mom in the other hand is a workaholic, she works a lot everyday to be able to give me the best i can have (i also have a small brother from mom+stepfather and a small sister from dad+another woman but they wont add anything to the story) and today she owns some restaurants + a fancy party house (not a night club, its a place where people have bat-mitsvas and after-weddings) and she is really wealthy. 2010 end / 2011: I'll start my story back in 2010 to 2011 new year's Holiday. 2011 would be my last year in school, in Brazil the school/university system is kinda different from the US. To get in a university here you have to make a huge exam along with everyone else annually, they don't look at your school history, it really doesn't matter, it's all about this exam and Each university has it's own exam. I was along with my family in my aunt's beach house, this aunt of mine married with a REALLY wealthy man, i mean astronomically wealthy and they are probably the richest people in the family. I am the "tech guy" and my aunt is completely beginner when it comes to technology, so she asked me if i could make an Appstore account for her, and i said yes. She gave me her credit card number in a paper and said "i'll leave now to run some errands, just make the account when you can" and left me with a paper with her CC number written on it. I created the account but something inside me made me keep that paper, i gave her the Acc info i created and called it a day. Next mourning i was browsing the appstore on my iphone when suddenly i came across a really cool game. "OMG i must buy this but i have no funds in my acc" and then came me the thought "duuuude i'll just use the acc i created for my aunt, she won't notice a dollar over millions!". This was the start of everything, from this day on i started using her acc for a lot of stuff, like APPs IAPs and anything else in appstore but that's just the beginning. 2011: By now i had already made an account exclusively for me where i also used her card. "Yeah she really won't notice, its just a bunch of small transactions she is so fking rich lololo" and i bought everything i wanted, my iphone had like 20 pages of paid apps (some i never used) and that was awesome. I lent my acc to all my friends to download all the games (they can't really buy anything uless they confirm the card security code, so i didn't risk anything i just wanted to share the apps with them). Then something struck me "dude what if i use this on paypal? Like, she is soooo rish, she will never notice this 10~20u$d transactions" and from here on things got only worse. I'm an addictive gamer and i bought EVERYTHING i could. I had every champion in League of Legends with at least 1 skin for each one (that is super expensive if you don't know the game), i had a shitload of steam sames, heck i even bought 2 ocarinas from the internet, a expensive gaming mouse, literally enything i wanted. Oh, i also bought tons of pizza because the delivery accepted paypal. This was a fountain of infinite money, i was just swimming on it and living life like there was no tomorrow buying tons of crap everyday. 2012: I didn't get in university right after school (that's common in Brazil) and started what we call here "Cursinho" (literal translation would be Little Course), it's a place where you go everyday like school to study for the big exam in the end of the year to get in the university of your choice, Public universities are the hardest one to get in but they are free, Private ones are easy but they are paid. Well, the difference between the "Cursinho" and the school is that in Cursinho they don't care about your presence, you don't have to attend to anything if you don't want to. Well, this yeas was the most useless year in my life, i smoked weed all-day (started smoking here as well) playing games and slept in the car in the class times. I didn't give a fuck about getting in public university (another big mistake), my family has money so i would get in anyways, private uni's exam are easy and the only reason i didn't get in after school is because i only tried the public ones. 2013: Well, i didn't get in any public university like I predicted but i got in a private one and started Computer Science. I really like programming and math, what can go wrong? First semester started and everything was really easy, so i thought "man this shit's so easy, i wont attend some classes, i can just pass the final exams." So again, i was playing and spending and not attending classes. in march i found a really cool job thanks to my mom working as IT support (i REALLY love support jobs) so my routine was: go to job, get back home, smoke weed all night and play games and spend a lot, skip classes because i could. When i did attend to classes, there was this girl in my class. She was beautiful, dyed hair (You know Scot Pilgrim? She was Ramona Flowers without evil ex boyfriends, she dyed her hair in different colors every month or so) but she was dating a guy from outside the university. I always liked her, she was really shy but she is that kind of person that when you sit besides her your day gets instantly better. Ony day at Algorithm class we sat together and talked about stuff, laughed a lot, drew some stuff on the table (DJ's logos like Skrillex Nero KTN Knife Party etc etc). I was in love. For the first time in my life i felt like i met the right person, she loved computers and gaming, the only problem was that she was compromised. I continued with my addicted gamespender (remember that i spent my aunts money)/working/smoking life until August. So, we are in August, i was at a friend's house and his father told me "Yo come work for me, we need someone with your skill at my company you could help use and learn about database" and i said yes. I left my job to work for him, but i had a week without job between leaving one and starting another. In that week i learned that A (when i use "A" i refer to the girl) ended her relationship, and i told myself "this is my chance. I have one week off, i'll go for it". Monday came, we had launch after classes (the only reason i went to classes was to see her), we talked a lot and laughed a lot and on the end of the day we kissed. I was 20 years old and that was my first real love kiss, my world became awesome. The whole week we went to a random place just to kiss each other, i was so in love, she was the best thing that ever happened to me. After i started my new job, everything was stable. i started going to class again, smoked less (still played/spent a lot), and had A to help me with anything emotional. I learned she was that type of person that is always in a bad mood, but i always tried to make her happy and most of the times it worked. Life was fully stable, i had a job, university, someone I love, what could go wrong? 2013 was the best year of my life. 2014 This year, i fucking hate this year. I wish i could go back to January and fix all the shit i did. I got tired of my job AND quit in April, i was also tired of Computer Science, i wanted to make games. I literally gave up on computer science and didn't attend any class/exam at all because i would switch courses anyways, so i got back into playing and smoking all night. I started giving less attention to A, and more attention to games and smoking. I didn't love her any less than our first day, but i was loosing her because whe was in a bad mood and i didn't give her the attention she wanted. In August she left me, at first i was like "ok" but then after 1/2 weeks my world felt apart, I didn't think she would really let me go but she was with another guy already and that fucking broke me. I Switched courses in university, i'm in game design, i attended all the classes now but i was diving in games/weed to forget her, i still loved A and lost her and of all the shit i made this is the one i regret the most. It was easier for her to let go from me, she had other boyfriends before and she is good looking it's easy to find another cool guy to stay with. I was/am devastated, i never had any girl in my life and this loss was the worst thing in my life. I didn't sleep because i would dream and think of her so i dived in games and spending and weed even more, until last week. Last week my aunts card got cancelled. "ooooh shit, this was supposed to expire in November, i am fucked." opened my e-mail "paypal notice: you have over 10 chargebacks due to CC company denying your payment". "Fuck fuck fuck what do i do? Do i run? Do ignore? No, i will go to my aunt and tell everything, i fucked everything already this way i am the one to tell her the news". So i want to her house and told her everything about the card. She was devastated and told me that the bill is over 50.000U$D and that there were 3 lawyers in BR and a hacker in USA tracking the person who spent all that money, "well you need to look no further, here i am, the guy that stole you is your cousin, and i will work to pay you.". After that we called my mom and i told her everything, she was 2 times more devastated than my aunt, i ruined my life, i ruined the life she worked so hard to give me. We went to a therapist, he said this is my chance to show if I'm a bad person or not, if i compromise with the cause of paying everything back that would refresh my life. Now I am studying in the mourning, working in the afternoon, and in the weekends i am helping my mom's party house in stock, i am here now sitting by this computer we have here (my computer got taken for undetermined time) writing this long story because i don't think i can handle this. I know i could have gone to jail, i know my aunt was an angle by letting me pay her in times, but I'm working over 24h in the weekends to get 100 dolars each weekend so maybe one day i am able to pay the bill. I don't know what to do now, I have no games, no freedom, no friends, the only good friend i had was my girlfriend, i cry to her every night on texts and i feel really bad for that, she doesn't deserve a shitty fucked ex boyfriend bothering her, i need to pay this huge bill that i will have to work more than 2 years to make for it, and I'm broken inside. I will do therapy 2 times a week in a expensive guy (each session costs over 200 dolars) and i feel bad that my mom pays for this. I am only trouble for the people i love, what i really wanna do is end this suffer. I am lost and i need help, if anyone here on reddit lost time to read this long story and have a hint for me, please shoot it because i am really lonely and emotionally unstable right now. Thank you for reading, i know this is really long but i felt like i need to write all that so you guys understand the whole context, and if you wanna know what i learned from this: Don't put your addictions before your loved ones, if you feel you are addicted to anything SEEK FOR HELP ASAP. Thanks.
What is up ladies and gentlemen, i am just. i-i-i'm completely fucking pissed. I was going to write a script for this video, and i just figured that i just need to talk. I just need to FUCKING talk. I don't understand WHY AM I STILL GETTING HATE. I have debunked all this fucking bullshit slanderous claims that have been made about me. whether it be, uhh. Cummybot2000. Purposefully MANIPULATING CLIPS, taking clips out of context to make it say. something that i'm not saying, alright? whether. w-whether it be him, fucking claiming that I've released his PICTURE to the world, which is not true. That i went on his private facebook which is NOT TRUE. He fucking lied. He lied to send hate to my channel, and he succeeded in doing so. and I PROVED that he's a fucking liar, and I'm still GETTING HATE. Oriolebird9, fucking took clips c-completely out of context, trolling clips where i'm saying i hate my fans which is part of a fucking act. which was part of a 2010 livestream which was called "Fuck the Fans" I PROVED this as well, and I'm still getting hate. lets_get_hyyerr claims that I’m beating my girlfriend (which isn’t true), i even had my girlfriend TESTIFY that that’s not true. He makes claims that I’m a fucking pedophile, that I have 15 year old girls getting naked, which is NOT TRUE, there’s literally no fucking evidence to prove that this is fucking real, let alone this girl was never on my stream. Alright? I proved these people to be, Fucking. Liars. WHY AM I STILL GETTING HATE?!. Yesterday, I uploaded a video about Fresh_Grapefruit lying about me, getting his fucking real legal name out to the whole world, when it’s the FUCKING URL OF HIS GODDAMN CHANNEL. These people have all lied about me, but not just lied about me, but lied to their viewers. Subscriber trust is everything. Alright? WHY AM I, STILL, GETTING, HATE?. I PROVED them to be fucking liars. Every single one of them. WHY AM I STILL GETTING HATE? Over the weekend, a guy who has harassed me, a guy who has doxed me, DDOSed my streams multiple times, had me swatted, uploaded a video claiming I was swatting him. And the video goes viral. It is on the front page of fucking reddit. And now people are accusing me of swatting people. That is fucking ridiculous. /AutoModerator has harassed me for over a year nonstop, and if you are a viewer on my streams, you can testify to this, and I would appreciate a comment from you on this video testify that this dude has literally spread my dox in almost every stream for months on end. This dude has sent multiple donations just to charge back, and I am going to show some of these donations, like literally 40 to 50 donations a night, for the soul purpose to charge back, to close down my account. This dude has literally tweeted out my dox, this dude has literally claimed he was ddosing me, and knocking my stream offline. This dude has literally swatted and harassed ThunderpupperIII. ThunderpupperIII even says, on march 25th, after I did an interview with SMUT_ADDICT, “Good interview. AutoModerator has been doxing us, swatting my mother multiple times, trying to trick us into large sums of money so he can chargeback and screw us, and so much more for months and months” He didn’t just do this to ThunderpupperIII, he did it to me. So he plays a clip where I am saying that “I can’t wait until he’s in jail.” The reason why I can’t wait until he’s in jail is because he’s a fucking criminal. Because it’s against the law to DDOS people. It’s against the law to swat people. It’s against the law to send payments to people for the soul purpose to charge back. That’s fucking fraud. This is a fucking criminal who has harassed me for months. Why do people believe this. Why am I still getting hate. Why. I have debunked all this shit. Why am I still getting hate. Do you care about the fucking truth? Or do you care about just hating on someone. I do not deserve this hate. Starting back tomorrow, I am returning to Drama Alert and I am doing the fucking news, alright? I have proved these people to be fucking liars, and again not just lying about me, but lying to their viewers. sigh thank you for listening.
Absolutely insane experience with the Seattle PD last night. Thought Seattle Redditors would enjoy some justice porn : /u/badandy80
So I couldn't find my wallet this evening. Having used it last night picking up my dog from daycare, it was either in my bag where it usually is or for some reason still in my car. After searching for 30 minutes I realized I had somehow lost it. I checked my Mint app to see if any of the cards had been used. Nope. JUST as I was putting my phone away, I saw a notification from my Capital One app saying that my card had just been approved at "Coca Cola in Bellevue, WA", and then another at "Coca Cola"... I was pretty confused until I saw a third transaction just a minute later from "Anitas Mexican Food"... with this app you can click on a little location icon that shows the location.. IT WAS IN MY ZIPCODE! That's when I realized my wallet had somehow been stolen and I was watching someone using it live. I ran to my computer and googled Anitas Mexican Food and after a few frantic minutes of searching I found a Yelp profile for a freakin' TACO TRUCK. I looked at the address and HOLY JESUS it was just a mile up the road. I grabbed my bag and ran out the door as my fiancé was looking at me very confused. As I was racing up Aurora Ave I called the food truck and this lady answered, speaking mostly spanish. In my best (read: terrible) spanish I asked her if someone had just purchased $5.48 at her truck and she said yes. I explained that the credit card was stolen and asked if they were still there. She says YES. After a few frustrating u-turns I finally find this taco truck tucked away in a parking lot. As i'm walking up to the taco truck lady I realized that NO ONE IS THERE. I call 911 and try to explain that my wallet was somehow stolen while I walked up to the truck. After a few frustrating minutes between the dispatcher and the lady, I gather that they just walked down the street. I finally got a description of a white guy with a black t-shirt and no jacket.. skinny and my height. I hang up with the dispatcher as he said he's sending the police. Not wanting to wait, I get back in my car and start driving up the road to see if I can spot him. TWO BLOCKS AWAY I see this guy fitting the description perfectly, sitting near the bus stop and eating. I get back on the phone with 911 and told the dispatcher that I'm pulling into Krispy Kreme parking lot behind him and for the police to meet me there... LET'S FLANK HIM! Seattle PD shows up less than 3 min later and WHOA.. it's the two female officers that responded when someone tried to steal my 200lb rolled up chainlink fence from the front of my house a month ago. I explained the situation as yet another officer shows up and the three of them finally go over there to talk to him. As they continue to talk with him for nearly 10 minutes, I called my little brother to tell him the story... I'm explaining things to him and his wife on speaker and one of the officers tells me they're going to get the taco truck lady to ID him. After she leaves things are starting to get a little more intense with the male and female officer grilling this guy. I go back into my car and am telling the story when this guy freaking BOLTS DIRECTLY INTO TRAFFIC ON AURORA. He runs full speed across the street with the other two cops running after him weaving through cars. I couldn't believe what I was seeing... I'm stunned sitting there with a running cop car next to me.. and the guy and cops had disappeared down a DARK side street and down a hill in an instant. I then realized that this dude was pretty big, and that the one girl was pretty small. Down that dark side-street things could go wrong fast. So I put my car in gear and take off after them, realizing that they're on foot FAR away from their car and I'm IN a car so maybe I could help. I turn down this side street and notice just how dark it is.. barbed wire along the right and stone a wall along the left. Out of the corner of my eye I see a struggle in the grass.. the cops have this guy pinned on the ground with his head at an odd angle against the wall. I get out and try and help them without punching this guy out (way harder than I thought it would be). Since the guy cops mic fell off in the chase he asked me to get the other girl cop at the taco truck. She had the lady from the taco truck in her police car. With nothing more useful to do I went back to babysitting the running cop car back at krispy kreme. The officer with with the taco lady comes back and tells me he tried to toss my credit card during the chase. They recovered it and said they'll let me know if they find anything else. So I head back to look through the bushes for my wallet. Not 5 minutes later dispatch calls me back to the scene. They had ALL of my cards and my wallet, but not my ID.. funny thing is, that my wallet had all of his stuff in it by this point, and he was holding it the whole time they were talking to him. After about 15 minutes of bullshitting with them (EVERYONE was excited) I head home, looking for my ID along the way on the road. As I was telling this story to Daniel on the phone at home, I get a call from one of the female officers, saying that they found my ID hidden "on his person" when they were booking him. They offered to drop it off at my house, but I decided to go pick it up from the station as they said they had tons of paperwork to do. I'm not kidding, the three officers were some of the coolest, most friendly and professional cops I've ever met. Aaaaand I think I'm out of luck for the year. I'm not going to contest the charges at the taco truck as I know how difficult it is to get chargebacks. I'm going to buy some tacos tomorrow and give a fat tip to her for helping me catch this shitbag. Edit: The best part I left out. I realized I had my dashcam running the entire time. I'll post it! TL;DR: Found lost wallet and dude goes to jail. Seattle PD didn't call me a racial slur.
Congratulations! You have gained enough experience to begin buying and selling virtual items for real money! Here's an entirely too long guide I tossed up to help you on your way. If you're confused, just PM me!
Where to start: appraise your item! Please note: we will be using USD as the base currency.
Whether you're hoping to sell a single refined metal or a handful of top-tier unusual hats, your item has a couple of different values to keep in mind: item value and cash value. Item value is determined by using certain key components of the TF2 item universe as units of currency. The units of currency and their relative values is as follows:
Refined metal -- one refined
Mann Co Supply Crate Key -- 2.33 refined (not likely to change much)
Bill's Hat -- 14 - 16 refined, or 6 - 7 keys
Mac OSX Earbuds -- ~35 refined or 14 - 15 keys
Unusual hats -- At worst, one earbud or 15 keys or 35 refined. At most, 55 earbuds.
These item prices are fluid, and change almost daily. You have to keep an eye on market trends! Places like /tf2trade, TF2 Trading Post, TF2 Outpost, and trade servers (RUGC trade, anyone?) are great places to keep up on the average item price of other items. Cash value, however, is not a direct translation of item value, but it's a close approximation. We use the value of the smaller forms of currency to help us price the value of larger forms. A lot of times, you will see earbuds going for $27, but 35 (refined) x $0.8 = $28. You can usually buy items from the cash market for less than in-game because you cut out the work involved with converting (buds, in this example) items into smaller forms of currency to sell. It is best to visit SourceOP.com's item buying/selling subforum in order to stay on top of current market price.
Refined metal -- $0.80 - $0.89 on the cash market
Mann Co Supply Crate Key -- $1.85 - $2.00
Bill's Hat -- $10 - $12
Mac OSX Earbuds -- $27 - $30
Unusual hats -- Anywhere from $30 to $1500 (maybe even more!)
Appraising an unusual hat is a sometimes confusing task, because there are seemingly arbitrary rules regarding hierarchy of classes, hats, and particle effects. The following is a rough look at how each class and effect falls, from least-desired to most-desired. For brevity's sake, we will leave out the complete list of hats. This is not a catch-all! There are plenty of instances in which these hierarchies will fail! When in doubt, ask an admin, and then ask a few more! Least-desirable -- Heavy Spy Engineer Sniper Pyro Medic Scout Demoman Soldier -- most-desirable Least-valuable -- Confetti Logo Peace Nutz and Bolts Flies Searing Plasma Bubbles Orbiting Planets Steaming Vivid Plasma Haunted Ghosts Circling Heart Energy Smoking Blizzardy Storm Scorching Flames Stormy Storms Orbiting Fire Sunbeams Burning Flames -- most-valuable On average, Soldier hats will be the most expensive, but the hat is really the main determinant of value! The Exquisite Rack is the lowest Soldier hat, and in confetti or nutz, can be acquired for 2 earbuds or even less! As each slider moves further and further to the right, hats get vastly more expensive per tier. Google is your friend here. Here's what I type in when I want a very specific unusual hat price checked
I get lots of results of people trading and/or selling their Madame Dixies with burning flames, so I have a good reference point for
PHASE TWO: Listing your item!
We will cover what the two types of threads should look like, buying and selling.
Buying, or want threads, are relatively straightforward. Here is a good example of a clean, simple buying thread. The only thing I could think to criticize would be his profile link, which goes to his /id/xxxxx page, and not his /profiles/###### page, which is much preferred.
A "rep thread" is used to list your former transactions and how you are trustworthy not to perform any funny business over Paypal or in game. Creating a rep thread on SourceOP by following the instructions listed there will allow you to keep track of purchases. Always make sure to ask people to leave you feedback when you buy an item! Here's mine!
Selling threads are not too complicated either. Register for SourceOP.com, SPUF, UTC, TF2-Trader, and whatever other sites you find will allow you to list. Your thread should look like this.
Hat or item Nice screenshot Current offers Buyout price Contact info and rep thread
Clean, concise, attractive. Best way to sell items.
So someone made you an offer you like! Time to buy or make a sale.
There are a couple of things you should do before going any further.
Set up a Paypal account to be able to send and receive money. Verify it, if need be. I have not recently set up a new account, but the steps are easy to follow.
Check your buyer or seller's SteamID on the SteamRep.com database. If they have been discovered as a scammer or otherwise unsavory individual, they will have either a "Caution" tag or a "Scammer" tag. I do not recommend dealing with either, as you are taking a big risk, and if you knowingly deal with a scammer, there is a chance that you will get a scammer tag yourself!
If you end up using one, check the middleman's SteamID on SteamRep to make sure they are who they say they are! Plenty of users have gotten "team scammed" by people posing as reputable buyers, sellers, and middlemen. Ask for proof via forum PM, if need be.
Buying an item when you have little to no rep means you will likely need a middleman, which is never a bad practice. Finding a middleman is easy. SteamRep has a list of trusted middlemen, some mods of this subreddit (myself included) are fair game, and members of invite-only Steam groups, like UTC Admins are good to use. Some may charge a nominal fee for their services, while most do not ask for anything. Once you and your business partner have agreed upon a middleman, the seller gives the MM the item(s) to hold until you have sent money over Paypal or Moneypak. When sending money over Paypal, make sure to send the money as a "gift," so that it is non-refundable on your end. Unless you have a ton of rep, sellers will require this step anyway. If they receive money as anything but a gift, they will refund it and ask for gift payment. Once the money has been sent and confirmed by the seller, the middleman sends you your item(s) and you either tip or not, depending on how generous you feel. Exchange rep threads, leave positive feedback, and you're done! However, do not mess around with Paypal chargebacks. You will get caught, and it is a form of fraud. It is exceedingly stupid to risk jail over virtual items, and yes, people have gone to jail for it.
Selling an item means you don't have to have as much rep, but buyers will more often seek you out if you have a lot of transactions in your history because you can be trusted to send the item over without the introduction of a middleman. It is still always GOOD PRACTICE to use a middleman for any cash deal, however. The two most common ways to receive money as a seller are Paypal and Moneypak, and only one is completely safe for you. Paypal is quicker and easier, and most people will prefer it, especially for transactions under $100. However, if you are unsure about a buyer's reputation (not many forum posts, only a little feedback, etc), request that the buyer (USA only, I think) use a MoneyPak card. Moneypak cards can be "charged up," like a pre-paid credit card, by going to a vendor, such as Wal-Mart, CVS, Walgreens, or others, finding the card near the checkout, telling the cashier how much you want on it, then paying for it. On the back of the card is a code which must be scratched off to be revealed. The buyer will give you the code, which can be input on Moneypak's website using the "Add funds to Paypal" button. Once you have input the code and sent the money from the card to your account (you will receive a confirmation e-mail and money in your account), it is now time to send the item over to the buyer, and the transaction is complete. It is customary to knock off a portion of the price for the inconvenience of this method, but you are guaranteed safety, as the buyer cannot charge that money back on you! Leave your buyer some good feedback, as this is an annoying process for most buyers, and they deserve a pat on the back for giving you not only money, but peace of mind.
At this point, you are finished! You have bought or sold an item for real dollars, and it feels good. Congratulate yourself, because you just beat one of the harder stages of the Internet. High five!
Fraudulent chargebacks are seen as a form of fraud and have landed some unethical buyers in jail. Merchants can take customers who abuse chargebacks to court, and most jurisdictions will pursue criminal charges against those customers. Once can you go to jail for chargebacks the merchant is certainly notified with the dispute, it includes several options in which it could possibly react. It might decide to concern a refund, conflict the charge-back or bum and let the chargeback course of. We reached out to Nasir N. Pasha (Esq.), the managing attorney of Pasha Law PC to get some expert legal advice on how to take legal action against a chargeback fraudster. In this guest Q&A, Mr. Pasha explains what legal matters merchants can take if chargeback fraud either gets out of control or if it becomes something too big for the card networks to handle. Do you feel worried about whether there is a charge for cashback on a debit card, or if you can go to jail for chargebacks? DoNotPay has answers to all these questions, and it doesn’t stop there! DoNotPay’s AI assistant will help you claim Amazon refunds , PlayStation Store refunds , Amtrak and plane tickets refunds , and so much more. But ignoring fraudulent chargebacks can cause problems far beyond simple revenue loss. Failing to fight back can have severe, long-term repercussions. And it can do irreparable damage to a business' sustainability, as we'll see. How Merchants Can Prevent Chargeback Fraud. Risk mitigation is always important. However, there are consequences of chargebacks for the customer -- they can get kicked off site (who cares, there are hundreds of others), they can get blacklisted (once again, there are hundreds so you can always find one that will accept your business), or their credit card company can start getting suspicious and cancel you if you have too many chargebacks (it takes effort for them to ... I am not positive but I am fairly certain they can not put a mark on your credit because of a chargeback. You might want to call one of the credit bureaus and ask. Lastly, there is no need to call the police. If what you say is true, this is a civil issue and most police departments will not get involved or even take a report. Can you go to jail for a chargeback? Yes, absolutely you can go to jail for fraudulent chargebacks! … Merchants can (should and do) take consumers to court over fraudulent chargebacks, and many jurisdictions will pursue criminal charges for chargeback-related fraud. Can you go to jail for chargebacks? Maybe Yes, May Be No. Chargeback is a privilege that is offered to buyers. If used properly can help buyers to protect them self in case of fraudulent transactions. Watch the Video.