I have been scammed before, pennies, here and there, nothing too big, phishing blah blah etc. I found a buyer online who wanted to buy over ten thousand dollars’ worth of cryptocurrencies from me, and he wanted to do it in person. I was pretty suspicious, I think any normal person would be, and terrified!! So, I picked a place, I live in a big city by the way, I picked a place where I knew that there would be some security cameras. I came prepared for mischief, I had a full proof form that I wanted him to sign just to secure myself and protect myself from any kind of liabilities.
When I presented the guy with the document that I wanted him to sign, he kind of freaked out, he filled it out anyway with really bad handwriting and was kind of sneaky in covering his id.
His signature was also super sloppy. Everything felt off.
At one point the odd gentleman said that he needed to withdraw an extra 500 Euros because he was short. We walked together to the nearest bank. The guy was visibly nervous. At one point, we were in the bank and I had possession of all of the cash. So, while the guy was withdrawing his money, I ran up to the teller and asked her to do a check on the funds through their machine.
Long story short, all of the bills ended up being fake, security was called, and the guy was put under arrest.
I later found out that any such transactions could be taken care of at the bank and notarized for a small fee as well as with all of the legal requirements pertaining to them. This was probably the craziest situation I have ever been in. I honestly don’t know what I was thinking of doing a trade like that in broad daylight. I’m glad that everything went alright though. I could have possibly been mugged on my way home.