I have yet to ever hear of a BoA to BoA instant transfer ever being cancelled or refunded. Seems to be one of the safest methods for trading available.

I got scammed back in October for $600 where I sent someone funds through BOA. I realized about 5 minutes after I made the transfer that I was scammed. I did everything under the sun to try and get the transfer reversed and was unable to. All Bank of America will do is contact the other party and ask them to voluntarily send the money back. In my case, obviously the scammer was unwilling to send the money back.

Thanks for all the good info regarding boa.
I went to branch, got debit card immediately and online banking setup right away deposited $25 into account and I am good to go.

MrPadawan deleted me on Skype (his name is Looon) and hasn't responded to my PM's since this afternoon (and I now see he has been banned). I wasn't getting my money ($1450 to my bank via wire for 2k Lock) so he sent me 500$ back on Lock for the time being as a gesture he was going to make sure I got my money. Kinda weird if u ask me since I already was scammed so why would he send me back any money at all on Lock? No clue but I'm at least happy to have $500 of my 2k back even though it still really blows. gg me

Scammer with a heart of gold lol

Were you able to get into contact with Lock? If nothing else, have them lock his account so he can't scam anyone else from that account. Who knows, maybe there will be money on there and you will get more back.
Good luck man

Guess this is already out there since their accounts just got banned but it looks like I have been scammed by "NLHitmanU" and "MrPadawan". I sent NLHitmanU 2250$ on stars (IGotThis521) on 11/25 and was supposed to receive $2182.5 Chase QP. I have not received any money, and he stopped responding to my PM's as of today. MrPadawan was his reference and backed him up. I was supposed to send MrPadawan 2250$ on stars (Diamondique) as well but his account was not allowed to receive transfers so that was unable to be completed. I will post anymore information I come across and if I am able to get in contact with them.

also scammed. sent "bogoline" money on FTP for his lock (mrpadawan was his account, holliholli84 on skype) curious enough, my LOCK account has been frozen. I imagine money I recieved from him originally on lock was scammed money, but he still owes me money on lock which ive paid for so its messed up.

edit: I sent him first 1540 on FTP, took him awhile to send me 2k on lock. I then sent 2nd cause I didnt wanna deal with it, 1500$ for 1155 MB (we both sent those right away) Then he tells me to send 1st, asking for 2k on FTP, i said I would send another 1155 for 1500$ on lock, and imagine everything was good I said "lets jsut both send at same time" he agreed, i sent, he claims he did, then never recieved. when I come home later account frozen

edit: his name on MB he asked me to send too was Vanny Boges

Am I reading this right? Did this guy end up scamming 10k+?

Yeah - gotta be wary of these guys with the credibility of having four posts of high quality, who joined the site on Nov 19: http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/members/346944/

FFS, what is wrong with people? The reason we have so many scammers is because people keep giving them money. Obv I don't know all the details here and I certainly hope you all somehow get your money back, but it's so frustrating to so often see people skip by some of the most obvious steps people like Mike and Rainbow have gone to great lengths to spell out for everyone.

Don't want to be too harsh as it's best to encourage everyone to post when they've been scammed rather than have them hold back for fear of getting ripped on.

Just, please, everyone, be careful!

Did you contact Lock support? This guy is currently playing.

Gotta agree with Mike and Bobo here, especially when you're talking about transferring 4-figures. Even guys I trusted, I would often send in multiple parts to cut down on risk. I will accept trades with a slightly worse offer from guys I have traded with before and trust than get a better offer from someone who joined a month ago...

Nov 27, 2012
Scammers can arrogantly use the same Skype addy for years and still get paid.
Save a few bucks, search holliholli84 and get

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I wish I came across this thread sooner. I also sent mrpadawan (loon) on skype nearly 4k on lock about 2-3 days ago and yesterday he unshared his skype info with me. He had me send it to this email dannlon@hotmail.de. I'm sick about the whole thing... what a piece of ****

He PM'd me 3 times about my post trying to sell 2k and even upped his offer from .8 to .85 but I was still doing my due diligence on him and then saw all these posts this morning.

Sorry all you guys got scammed by him

+1
very smart Ben
a lot of guys get scammed by going for the deal that is usually too good to be true.
When someone offers me something that sounds like that it ALWAYS IS TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE.

taking a slightly worse rate from a reputable trader is a no brainer IMO

+1
My dad used to always tell me growig up "If it seems to good to be true, it probably is."

i wish you'd stop posting stuff like this.

the important thing is dealing with a reputable trader using a reputable trading method (i still see chase quickpay offers all the time lol), not looking for/taking a bad rate. it sounds like you are trying to link the two when they are not necessarily linked. not all scammers offer amazing rates and not all reputable traders offer bad rates.

for every1 involved w this NLHitmanU/MrPadawan mess, i suggest a post summarizing all his IDs from the poker sites, any IM/email/names used for contact or ewallets/bank xfers

be detailed in the info u provide (ie. some1 posted the name he sent to on skrill, but didnt give the email) and a mod can later add it into a summary post

the only good thing about this situation is most of the $ is on lock which is currently having cashout problems, so his only way to get $ out is to do additional p2p xfers to other poker sites or ewallets/bank xfers. if his lock acc is frozen as i suspect it already is, then hopefully most of the $ r still there

due to the blatant nature of the scam attempts and the sheer volume of them, he cant pass this off as a "simple misunderstanding". i hope lock/ftp/stars is sympathetic in returning players funds, gl to all

hey guys, dont post often and in process of actually doing my first trade with depechbnkn (dan). but i received an email this morning of someone with the name of cwinder13 who looks like they joined yesterday and has no posts. he asked me if i was still looking for 5dimes funds and he actually sent 2 more emails asking if i had skype or aim and if amazon was all i had to trade.

anybody heard of this cwinder13 before? im already doing the transaction with dan so it doesnt matter but i was curious if anyone else got an email from him.

unsolicited emails from people with few posts/new join dates are often scams

Thank you for this report. We wish more people would do the same thing when they receive e-mails or Skype calls instead of PMs from people who have posted in the transfers thread.

He is a well known alleged small time sneak-thief and has been banned.

Did he give you his Skype address or any of his current SNs?

no he didnt. it sounded kind of fishy when he didnt respond to my questions about join date and lack of posts. also the first email i got from him via 2+2 had a link to send him a message and when i clicked on it it said he couldnt receive messages, and he didnt respond to my question about that either....glad i didnt do anything with him!

i hope that link you clicked on wasn't anything nefarious