I GOT SCAMMED FOR 12k IN POINTS!!!!!

Hey Everybody,
Its TheCol here. I just got scammed out of 12k in points from a guy name JohnLLB.
He was looking for points and wanted to trade me Carbon for points.
I told him I do 400 points per $1. He said he wants $30 worth so I told him I would give him 12k in points for the $30.
JohnLLB set it up in the market and I was chatting with him while we were going to make the deal.
I told him I have the points in escroll and he needs to send me the $30 Carbon and I would release the points.
He said that he never traded with me before and said that he has been scammed before. So I told him while talking in private chat that I would release the points to him as being trustworthy. He goes ok. So I release the points and I sit and wait for the transfer to show up on Carbon. I wait like 3 min and then I ask him in chat if he sent the $30 to my account.
He logs out of chat and I cant get in touch with him. So im getting pissed and start sending Zab 2 PM's concerning this situation and try to explain what happened.
During that time the same guy that took my 12k points (JohnLLB) was working a deal with UGOTMERGED for $15 for 10k in points. UGOTMERGED didnt know that I just got scammed.
So I got in the main chat and told everyone that I got scammed out of 12k in points on a bad Market deal.
So this guy(JohnLLB) ends up selling the points he scammed from me to UGOTMERGED for $15 paypal.
I talked with UGOTMERGED and he said he had no idea that I just got scammed my this guy(JohnLLB).
UGOTMERGED offered me back the points but I, said no. I didnt want anyone to lose there money for the points.
Winnachip and Sharking also witnessed all this happening at once.
Zab I guess you can look into banning this guy. Im pretty sure I wont get any points back. But to all that do deals in the market place. Make sure you put what ever your trading in escroll and never release till you have a good trade.
Zab this is as close as I remember what happen at around 11:40pm Central.

So sad to see a nice guy like theCol get scammed like this. If it is thru paypal maybe Ugotmerged can have it canceled. And if so you could get your points back. If not, I hope zab is able to refund you. Sorry man

yea no matter what the guy says if youre points are in escrow youre fine. DO NOT RELEASE til he sends EVER

Thats just so sad. Who even does that kind of stuff for 15$?! Guy needs to get a job instead of scammin people...

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Originally Posted by Sharking

So sad to see a nice guy like theCol get scammed like this. If it is thru paypal maybe Ugotmerged can have it canceled. And if so you could get your points back. If not, I hope zab is able to refund you. Sorry man

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i doubt zab will refund him. market deals are at users risk. if he had not realesed til he got money hed have been fine

damn, that sux, sorry to hear TheCol. Didnt realize u could buy crack w/paypal tho.

i friggin knew something waz up.. i tried sooooo hard but he waz already outta chat :( :( .. thiz drove me absolutely bananaz.. sharking .. lol u know .. hehehe

soooory to hear u got scammed col:( sadly, that was tooo tr usting of u , here at PO,,, to send first, especially with someone u didnt really know well... that sucks tho:( and that name JohnLLB,!!, sounds like such a joke made up name, too. prolly some one with another acct too,,, well anyways,,, hope u get this resolved somehow too.

im so sorry to hear abt this sir $ 30 is not small amounts its like mine lifetime earnings on PO took me 1 yrs time. i am upset for this loss for u it happend to me also i got scammed and was on chat and pm to this guy who just took the points and after that cant even find him in PO he must hav register new id lesson to be learnt dont trade big with someone u dont trust (hav not traded with before) if its small amount like less than $ 5 its ok to trade with new unknown player but at ur own risk and better to trade in parts not big amount at one time.

Bad enough that we have people who cheat in this game and the other corrupt

scammers make me sick, what a pos..i bet this guy has another acct here too..ask zab to check his ip address if he can to see if he can match it to another acct..

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Originally Posted by TheCol

I told him I have the points in escroll and he needs to send me the $30 Carbon and I would release the points.
He said that he never traded with me before and said that he has been scammed before. So I told him while talking in private chat that I would release the points to him as being trustworthy. He goes ok. So I release the points and I sit and wait for the transfer to show up on Carbon. I wait like 3 min and then I ask him in chat if he sent the $30 to my account.
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omg once the points are in escrow it is impossible for you to scam him, you should have explained that to him.
Never realease all the way untill you receive the funds, especially to a noob with llb in his name, should be a dead givaway they are not who they seem.

I am sorry this happened to you.

Who is man ? ? ? This ! ! ! ? ? ?

yea basically nothing can be done...its bullshit that they can get banned and just go on and make a new name without anything being done....but you being an active member you shoulda picked up on the tell of him trying to scamm...you know he is knew and u still sent the points...yes i understand u were tryin to show trust.. but he sensed you wanted the money more and would send the pts before he sent the cash......sick fuck but he had nothing to lose to sit there n make u feel like he was a good person....DONNNNT SEND FIRST TO KNEW PEOPLE BOTTTOM LINE!!! SRY bout wat happen but pos are pos and should be fuckin shot

thing is i heard some1 talking about u can reverse the money back from paypal....which i never knew u could...so i would do that...as long as u didnt send as a gift...something like that....

I recovered 1006 points so far. The escrow is there to protect you 100% :(

Uh, Zab comes and saves 1/12 of the day! Keep working.

Buyer / Seller always beware.

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Originally Posted by tommy62278

yea no matter what the guy says if youre points are in escrow youre fine. DO NOT RELEASE til he sends EVER

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That's so messed up i hate to see scammers doin this to ppl

Hope u gets the money or points back cole

dam players getting scamed bs

paypal does have a reverse dispute you should win if you dont buse that privalage

lol said 100x before if 1 thing i didt do so far it was scammin ... dont know how people do this and sleep proberly like for real^^
i know jus bout no1 trusts me here and all ya think im wierd but im trustworthy AND HAVE NEVER scammed and will never

also yep dont release points till u got what u want^^

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Originally Posted by potfan42o

paypal does have a reverse dispute you should win if you dont buse that privalage

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yess hope this is gona work for ya althou i mean ugotmerged since he sent the paypal

wrong info.. yougotmerged knew it.. 110%.. and B4 the trade.. .. i know .. cuz I TOLD HIM
i know its not hiz fault cuz mayb he DIDNT know HOW col was scammed
but he knew that he had john had jus scammed col moments b4 completing the trade newayz
not that this is really bout him, cuz he didnrealy do nething wrong, & the last thing i'd chooz 2 do
make an enemy outa some1 that may sware up n down he didnt know.. but i have no reason to lie
and i waz goin nutz in chat while this was all happening doin everything i cud to >> warn, .. protect, ..
and even tried to talk to johnllb to get colz points back :( :(

Can you edit the title to include the name of the scammer?