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Title: SCAM ALERT: CanadianCoins BitCoin merchant. update
Post by: Hassan I Sabbah on March 13, 2012, 10:00 pm
 I am a newby here so please bear with me. I live in the vast country known as Canada. It is very complicated and almost impossible to purchase BTC here b/c we have very limited financial institutions that will allow this activity. As I am on low-income (receiving disability)I am generally very guarded about using e-currency transactions. On Sunday night around 11 pm (Pacific time) I ordered BTC from CanadianCoins that claimed to do so via Canadian e-transfer within 2 hours. Despite sending $150. cash and 3 e-mails asking for confirmation or receipt of funds I have received no kind of acknowledgment from the vendor. The transaction indicated that my order is still being 'processed' but this is taking much longer than the 2 hours promised on their seller account and so I am getting somewhat nervous: it's not like I am ordering a pound of hashish from Pakistan. I know that 'shit happens' and that the vendor might be preoccupied by other events (personal,health,etc..) and this might account for the delay. I do not want to be malicious here or make any unfounded accusations towards anyone or taint their reputation unfairly.. but do I have reason to be concerned here? P.S. Today I noticed a sign at the bottom of the seller profile which adds to my concern: `This user has no active listings` Can anyone tell me what the hell that means? Thanks.    >:(
p.s. luckily I only sent $150. Be very careful who you deal with. This seller was a total noob (1 month). 
I should have known better. If something sounds too good to be true it usually is.
Title: Re: scammed by CanadianCoins BitCoin merchant ?
Post by: Trekz on March 14, 2012, 01:26 am
I ordered $70 worth of coins from them last Friday, and had no problems. Ended up getting them to my SR account with in 2-3 hours, they sent them to my instawallet account pretty much within 30 min of me sending them the e-transfer. Let us know how it ended, i might think twice about ordering from them again.
Title: Re: CanadianCoins: SCAM ALERT!
Post by: Hassan I Sabbah on March 14, 2012, 02:40 am
Well, the moderators of Silk Road have removed  the CanadianCoins seller account because they could smell the same bullshit  I did only hours after I was stupid enough to make that transaction. Won't do that again.I am personally gonna track this low-life bitch down. I am on a low-income disability pension and wanted BTC for pain.
It ain't the money so much as the principle.  >:(
Title: Re: SCAM ALERT: CanadianCoins BitCoin merchant. update
Post by: PBucket on March 14, 2012, 09:12 am
I'm sorry to hear about your incident  :-\, Hopefully some good luck will come out of this  ;). But canadiancoins are a clearnet site that does bitcoin exchange. I don't think they are on SR.

If they are, that is why they were banned.

But go to their regular site and email them about this since it seems they are the same people. But they might not be and that guy on SR was just a fake scammer.

Like I said though, Hopefully you find 150usd on the ground haha  ;D
Title: Re: SCAM ALERT: CanadianCoins BitCoin merchant. update
Post by: Hassan I Sabbah on March 15, 2012, 05:34 am
Ha ha... yeah.. I'll keep an eye out for those U.S. bills floating around: I did manage to find $20. bucks on Market Street around midnight across from City Hall in San Francisco about 25 years ago.. so who knows? Ha ha. Sometimes you just gotta laugh despite our occasional misfortunes. Thanks for cheering me up pal!    ;D
Title: Re: SCAM ALERT: CanadianCoins BitCoin merchant. update
Post by: alcapone on March 15, 2012, 07:07 am
https://www.canadianbitcoins.com/ ... is this the site your speaking about ?

Title: Re: SCAM ALERT: CanadianCoins BitCoin merchant. update
Post by: microRNA on March 15, 2012, 01:35 pm
no there was just vendor by a similar name... i am pretty certain they were not connected

sorry to hear about your loss bro! seems to happen to everyone at least once as a learning experience, and really sucks. just try to be careful in the future and I would recommend not using any of the exchangers on SR just because of these risks involved. also dont finalize early and then SR escrow will protect you from losing the money completely.

thanks for letting everyone know of the risks on the forum
- miR

Title: Re: SCAM ALERT: CanadianCoins BitCoin merchant. update
Post by: Oldtoker on March 15, 2012, 01:43 pm
Buying Bitcoin on SR is very, very risky.  There are only two really vendors that are currently dealing in Bitcoins on SR that appear to be on the up and up.  Do your homework and never by Bitcoin from a new Vendor.  You might as well go down to the local Casino and put your money on your favorite number of the roullette whell. 
Title: Re: SCAM ALERT: CanadianCoins BitCoin merchant. update
Post by: lvlbrained on March 15, 2012, 02:42 pm
how did you pay for the coins? if you used your bank account you may want to call your bank and let them know incase the dude can somehow fuck with your account. i think i read the dudes profile and it said bank transfers and how safe it was. obviously you cant take a scammers word on it.
Title: Re: SCAM ALERT: CanadianCoins BitCoin merchant. update
Post by: Hassan I Sabbah on March 15, 2012, 10:39 pm
not worried about it. The e-transfer was made via a Tor account... yeah.. I know...stupid. May as well tried to buy
1 gram of Afghan heroin off advertised on TradeKey or those tempting vials of K from Pakistan off of Topix. Both offers have rave reviews from seller posing as buyers. Ha ha. Live and learn...ha ha. ;)