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Originally Posted by Bobo Fett
What if tmckendry's password was "password"? What if he was terribly negligent with his security?
If that can be established that would make him liable for a small part of the damage imo. I say small part because however negligent with his forum account he may have been he reasonably didn't have to expect that someone would send a 5-figure sum to an anonymous address based on acces to his forum account alone, but he should have foreseen that someone might be duped for a small amount that wouldn't normally trigger the demand of additional verification.
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What if he wasn't hacked at all, but is the scammer himself?
Then he obviously is a scumbag and should cover all + compensation for emotional distress, mental anguish and time spend dealing with the issue.
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I'm not saying any of those things are true, and I have no reason to believe things didn't happen exactly as he described. But I also have no reason to believe things did happen exactly as he described.
Two things in specific give me reason to believe he didn't do this himself.
- At the same time the one communicating with OP was looking to
buy bitcoin Tmckendry made a
post about
selling bitcoin in the transfer thread. That could cause suspicion with OP and the scam failing while not achieving anything for Tmckendry if he was behind the scam himself.
- The fake Skype account would have had no purpose for Tmckendry. He could have either used his real Skype account if he was OK with having his reputation tarnished for $2K or could have communicated via PM not using Skype at all as using a fake account should have been an easy indication for OP that something was wrong and thus caused a large risk of the scam to fail.
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- The only regret expressed by tmckendry is that "It's unfortunate that my rep is going to be tarnished from this."
- tmckendry doesn't appear to have done much to determine what happened with his account.
- It's been 6 days since I banned tmckendry, and I haven't heard a word from him.
He came off a bit cold indeed. I suspect he's still having hallucinations after a weird fasting diet with watermelons he just did.
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Originally Posted by Tmckendry
"I'm receiving a lesson of sorts-- although a painful lesson.. 1-~2hours of sleep in the last two nights. I also believe I will be capable of using the "W(M?)ILD" lucid dreaming technique this may even be able to lead to alternate sorts of dimensions? I have guides and helpers."
"If there is a next time I work with ayahuasca, I will have to fast before. Water fast. 7-21 days."
Question for OP: did you send him a PM in reply? He would have received an email of that and it would be a bit suspicious if he didn't act on that.