I found a guy who wanted to buy bitcoins, just like everybody else. We did two trades and I sold him about 15 coins in two trades. We decided that we could do our business via Skype. My buyer informed me that he would like to pay me for the coins using Neteller because the company that he worked for had an account set up. I checked on everything and it seemed pretty legit. I even contacted Neteller directly to make sure that everything was okay with this guy because we wanted to trade in large amounts. They weren’t able to provide me with any information because of privacy reasons, understandable. We did a trade through Neteller and everything was fine. The guy then told me that he would message me about another trade a few days later. Though when the time came to trade again, he conducted it from another company account, it was different than the first one. And when I brought this up he got kind of worried and gave me a stupid answer. I thought whatever, as long as the money comes I don’t really care.
Then something really strange happened, I withdrew a lot of money from my Neteller account and got flagged, this happens quite often as I was later explained, due to me not actively using the account, and then starting to conduct trades on it. The guy contacted me again, we did another trade. However, he accidentally sent me a little too much money.
I let him know about it and he said it wasn’t a big deal and that since I got the money, I should just send him more bitcoins for that sum instead of giving him his money back. My Neteller account was still locked. And the guy wanted to buy more bitcoins now. He came to me with a huge trade offer, and suspiciously, the merchant account was from a different company once again! Sketchy! I was freaked out and told him that I can’t do the trade for personal reasons etc. That’s when our communication stopped. My account was still locked by Neteller for a few days until I got an email stating that my account was again enabled, and that a transaction occurred pertaining to a transfer on my account, and that it was reversed. My heart dropped, I went in to look at my account statement for Neteller…
Almost $90,000 was missing.
I’m trying to work things out with Neteller right now but I don’t know if I can really do anything…
If I get my money back I will never use Neteller again.