I made a post on the Bitcointalk forums mentioning that I would like to buy some gift cards with my bitcoins. I wrote down my Skype information on the posting. To my surprise, I got absolutely no replies on this forum but my Skype account was absolutely blown up with offers and what not. I found a person that seemed to be legit enough and I checked his reputation on the forum, everything seemed alright.
We spoke on Skype and he presented me with the gift cards, I got all of the transfer information from him and sent him the BTC.
The guy reports not receiving the funds. But, when I look at the information behind the transaction I can clearly see that the guy received my BTC and even forwarded it to another account.
But the gift card information I got wasn’t even authentic either.
We did the transfer through Coinbase, and, they have been a little funky recently and take a while sometimes. But to be honest, I think he used the recent events as a way to confuse me, buy time for himself and eventually stopped answering to me.