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August 11, 2018, 03:06:21 AM
Merited by xhomerx10 (1)

Elwar, can you repeat the story here that you've told here before, about a local bitcoin sale you did long ago, that did not go well?

Boring old story that is all too common.

Boy meets eastern european LBC customer at McDonalds. Eastern european cartel coordinates to steal 85 BTC from boy.

Boy warns people on LBC forum.

German stazi reads about such a large sum being transacted by boy.

German stazi show up at boy's house a week later at 5AM and take all of his shit.

Boy hires a lawyer.

Boy gets his shit back (a year later after having replaced all of his shit so now it's useless).

This is why we carry guns in America.

The team was professional, 4-5 people. While one distracted me, another came up from behind and not only did he pick pocket the money from my pocket, he replaced it with a counterfeit stack the same size.
So while my hand was off of the stack of bills for maybe 30 seconds, it was replaced very quickly. The McDonalds was across the street from a police station, I was confident that I had the money in my pocket as I walked across the street to the police station parking lot where I parked. Then changed up my route on my drive home.
It wasn't until I was safe at home that I pulled out the money and saw that it was all fake (I had verified the money was real before putting it in my pocket and releasing the coins).