Why didny you just tell him , " i am the Bruiser, you have to send first." everyone knows who you are.

Any ways my due diligence was seeing he hadnt posted on here in for ever, and he tried over selling his identy and how trust wrthy he is.

You an idiot!!!






Hi viffer,

i can help out with $5k stars for your 5k btc@ stamp

You would have to send first. Im Joshua Beckley- finished 2nd in last yrs main.

http://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/play...?a=r&n=375301#

https://twitter.com/Joshua1Beckley

let me know if you still need it

I will say this tho, it looks like josh is active on twitter. If " hacker " messaged Timex and the other guy as they said on twitter i find it hard that the real Josh wouldnt know he got direct messaged. Its not like he doesnt check his twitter account.

Just my 2 cents.

he told me this:

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Hi KILLingIT,

im looking for 7.5k btc for my NT €

Im Joshua Beckley

http://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/player.php?a=r&n=375301

https://twitter.com/Joshua1Beckley

you would have to send first (did 14k today in same topic allready) you can check my wallet: 3H1v2BVvMbC5px7XQjdvxQ9Weg7F6BhfjL

can verify myself wherever u want (twitter/pocket5s/acr)

im fine with stamp rate, you would have to send first

let me know

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didnt do business with him though.. i was thinking like: your joshua? so what i dont know you..

Great point viffer.

After I realized I was scammed, I went onto facebook and talked to Joshua. He repeatedly messaged me doubting my story that a tweet had come from his twitter account to confirm his identity to me. He wrote "why didnt we dm? i dont understand. i would have a log of it."

So he is somehow checking his twitter messaging log to look for suspicious messages and fails to ever mention what Timex had sent him, pictured above. This makes no sense.

I don't know what happened but I consider Joshua liable for my money. I had hoped to settle this amicably but that isn't happening. In my first conversation with him on facebook he refused any responsibility for this. And he was downright evasive. We can post the facebook chat if he wants.

Since then, he has not contacted me again. And as far as I know, he has not contacted anyone on 2+2 or deigned to post here to give a coherent story of what happened or share info to "catch scammer." In fact, to date, he has provided no evidence whatsoever that he is not the scammer.

He is a scammer. Or if his convenient and self-serving story is true then he is woefully incompetent and his online person cannot be trusted. Caveat emptor as jasbral said.

At the very least, I will make a website presenting the facts of this case, and will work so that every time someone puts "Joshua Beckley" into a google search this page will be the first result. I will seriously consider suing him.

Jasbral please state your full name.

Bruiser in a perfect world you would get your money back, but in reality you are fcked. Noone really cares about yout stupid ass, Should of done trade with someone that had posted in the last 10 months.

Confirmation un-confirmed? Spicy!

Always trade in increments.

they did

Well what he meant by "confirmed" was that Joshua Beckley had told him on facebook that his 2p2 account and twitter must have been hacked. So confirmed just meant he was taking his word for it.

I lost some money in this scam transaction. I'm not even going to attempt to figure out what I would do about reimbursement if I got hacked like this because I am biased now. I will say I have a problem with some of the behavior from Joshua Beckley.

He still hasn't even come to 2p2 to post here and warn people. At least two people have been scammed out of about $15K. How would you feel if someone hacked both your 2p2 and twitter and scammed 2 people out of $15K? Would you post a warning on 2p2? Would you comment publicly? Would you try to help them out, or just clam up?

He told Dan that jasbral was previously targeted by probably the same hacker and that jasbral told him what state the hacker is from and may know more. Jasbral says in this thread he has no idea what that refers to and that he is not saying any more. Thanks guys! Appreciate the help.

Another thing is that when Joshua did get on chat with Dan he told him that he shouldn't trust a 2p2 account, that it is not secure, that he should have only used twitter cause he does do business on twitter and never 2p2. And he said his twitter was not hacked. Then he found out from his friends that his twitter had been hacked and all of a sudden twitter was also an unreliable way to deal with him, he had 0% responsibility for his twitter. Huh?

He just doesn't seem all that concerned that two different posters were scammed. At the very least he should be perma-IP banned from 2p2. I would call it dangerous negligence or callous disregard at the least.

I agree, this sounds pretty horrible. I would guess that the Joshua person has at least some knowledge about who might have hijacked his account.

I'd contact the police and file a report, the amount is enough between the two of you that the FBI might get involved, although I think the threshold is $25k.

edit: I would absolutely hold the person responsible until he can prove that he not only had nothing to do with it, but wasn't aware of someone else using his account.

He has been banned, a few days ago. There's no such thing as "perma-IP banned", at least not in any realistic sense - most posters have numerous IPs associated with their account. Even if they don't, posting from a different IP isn't rocket science.

Post,


So if you or bruiser were in a similar spot with knowledge that could help protect others doing business on 2p2, you'd feel a responsibility to comment publicly with a warning? Or would you just clam up if you felt that served your interests better?

Great, thank you. That account is dangerous.

I would expose it.

Beckley had a tweet released a few min ago looking to trade party for ps... gl

Check out @Joshua1Beckley's Tweet: https://twitter.com/Joshua1Beckley/s...549447168?s=09

He better be sending first.

lol

That's gotta be the scammer, right?

I mean, Joshua Beckley's last tweet before this one is to retweet something saying to only deal with him by text or on facebook because he's been hacked. So his very next tweet is asking for a trade without any elaboration?

This situation is so sketchy.

I don't know much at all about twitter but that account should be closed by the company.

does anyone have a non-twitter non-2+2 non-facebook way of reaching Joshua? Ideally phone I guess?

Fwiw I randomly received a Twitter DM from Joshua six days ago asking if I had 3k neteller or skrill... Now assuming it was not really him?

very likely not, def ignore it huni

Apart from having different and long/complete password for each site, what can I do to increase security so this doesn't happen to me?

Assume party trade tweet is posted by the scammer as it would be ridiculous timing for Josh to tweet that. Not sure why Josh has not closed his twitter account, or at least changed the password. Although he doesn't seem to be providing much (any?) help to the victims and the community, I think it is totally out of line to call him a 'scammer' without solid evidence.

Do not know Josh at all really, but met him in Vegas this year for the first time and booked a prop-bet (within 30mins of meeting him) with him which he lost. He paid me in full ($8k) the next day. I think I didn't have to remind him, he was the one to come and find me. Realise this is just a normal bet that should always go smoothy but I wouldn't expect such behaviour from a 'scammer'

Someone who is friends him needs to call him asap and tell him to sort it out and prevent further theft

Have a policy where you either never trade BTC, or for BTC (or even all trades) insist people do video call or similar confirmation being sending