Got scammed for 22.5mil gold ($40.75 worth) - scammer ownedcore ID: Pantera84

[ChiChi1857]

Just got scammed about 6 hours ago.

The scammer's ownedcore ID is Pantera84, his skype is: jon.ampvin. Lost: $40+

It went like this. I was a new seller on ownedcore so I'm willing to sell a bit lower and ask for reps. There is this guy adding me on skype but didn't show up on the contact windows so I had to add him instead. He immediately proceeded to request to buy all my available gold. He added my BattleTag rightaway and immediately invite me in game and open up the trade window. I didn't feel safe so I told him I couldn't go first like that. He behaved very haughtily asking why my friends were in game (I have quick join enabled) and they it was my reputation that is doubleful. I proposed to trade a small amount first the increased incrementally in 3-4 trades, but he flatly refused and ask for 50% in 2 times, gold first, money afterwards. Then he started calling me a scammer and behaved like a distressed customer and told me that I am wasting his time.

Then he said he's a reputable long time member of ownedcore, so I checked his profile and saw that he was a so called "donator" and his membership is from 2009, but with very low post and a few reps. But of course it looked more impressive than my account, so I decided to went out on a limb and agreed to trade 50% each in 2 times with him, so long as he gave me a rep and vouches on ownedcore.

After I gave him 22.5mil, he started acting like he didn't trust my gold, so I told him is ok to give me my gold back.He even claimed that I insulted him by asking to trade for a small amount at first. He went out to ask me to give him the other 50%, without having paid even a single dime. So I told him to keep his word or otherwise I will report him on ownedcore. He challenged me to "report him on a completed transaction" but if you check the screenshots below, you will see that our agreed price was 22.5 mil x $1.79 = $40.27. There is no such transaction on my paypal history until now. He then said he sent the money already, and logged off Skype and disappeared until now.

I checked the fee for being a donator on ownedcore and saw that it was only $15 for 3 month. Our transaction value was almost tripple that. So learn from my lesson and be careful if those claimed donators with a superficially higher status when you do high value transactions.

I am giving him a chance to defend himself by sending him a link of this thread on Skype. Let's all see how this plays out. We all know we have a great actor (pretender) to entertain us, that is, if he dares show his face.

The whole scam conversation and my paypal account with no $40 transaction from him:

[t2beatme]

Never let someone pressure you into trading. If you are not comfortable with the conditions just say "no" and delete the guy from your skype. Rep and membership status on this board don't mean everything. This is obviously a scam. Report it in the scam thread.

[firstpage1123]

I just got scammed the same way this morning for 20M. The person should be banned from here. The same person.

[diablo3goldz]

The same guy scam me 18m yesterday, I posted in the scam thread..

[Stige]

What a douche, I would refuse trading with a guy like him in the first place, scammer or not.

[Firga]

http://www.ownedcore.com/forums/diab...rading-50.html (SCAMMER INFORMATION- check this first BEFORE trading)

Report here if you didnt

[somaliasky]

I actually think you should be more careful with new donator or donator with low post. Why would you donate $15 immediately if you just join this forum.

[Devon9099]

*Sigh* Another useless scammer running rampant around our site.

Scamming is an unfortunate answer for those not associating towards a"successful" long term goal and have little to no morals in respect.

Devon's Guide to the typical Scammer:

1: Notice them scammers sucky grammer and illiteracy! like "u sell gold?"

2: All scammers follow the codeline of faulty excuses like "computer problems wait!" or "i send you already"
(When clearly you can just check and see theres no statement for it)

3: All scammers have the natural ability to act "stange and suspiciously"

4: All scammers know how to use extremely fishy lines! like "I sell 600 million already!"
(When clearly your the onnnnly person posting on their thread, and they have 1 rep.)

5: All scammers know of the value of giving people too good to be true deals

6: All scammers make us non scammers cry.