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If scamming something like this is possible, the scammers have an incentive to scam as much as possible, so the "scam ratio" will tend to grow to 100% quite fast unless there's a huge amount of legitimate business.
If that would be true, then Ebay, Amazon, Etsy etc. would have no right to exist in the world.
Err.. aren't these guys going to run into regulatory problems? You need a license to sell this in the US. Not to mention selling crypto with credit cards is a great way to go broke unless you own the keys like Coinbase does. Also, why would you trust the keys they are sending you? Having someone else generate a wallet for you then sending it to you via a USB key sounds very very bad. I don't get this.
> You need a license to sell this in the US. I think Dr. McCoy said it best: “There aren't going to be any damn permits. How can you get a permit to do a damn illegal thing!”
of course they are.
I hope they change their ways before they end up in Jail.
Why is everyone assuming he is running a lottery? Where did he say he put funds in the wallets? All he said was he generated wallets, encrypted them, and put them on a usb.
If you guys are not a registered Money Service Business you should stop ASAP. What your doing sounds like a jailable offense. See the local bitcoin guy who went to prison for selling bitcoin in Florida.
Err.. aren't these guys going to run into regulatory problems? You need a license to sell this in the US. Not to mention selling crypto with credit cards is a great way to go broke unless you own the keys like Coinbase does. Also, why would you trust the keys they are sending you? Having someone else generate a wallet for you then sending it to you via a USB key sounds very very bad. I don't get this.
I'm not sure if you do. How is this any different than "buy X product for $50 and get a $5 mail-in-rebate via AMEX gift card"?
If you guys are not a registered Money Service Business you should stop ASAP. What your doing sounds like a jailable offense. See the local bitcoin guy who went to prison for selling bitcoin in Florida.
Wait, selling bitcoin in one the many bitcoin meetups around the U.S. is illegal?
[0] https://cointelegraph.com/news/life-savings-stolen-from-seco...
If this website looks blank it might be because Privacy Badger is blocking contentful.com, whatever that is. I'm not sure what to make of that really, any ideas?
# read this story as text-only, no javascript;
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id: ventana-surfboards-and-supplies
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name: David Dennis
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measurement: revenue/mo
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If scamming something like this is possible, the scammers have an incentive to scam as much as possible, so the "scam ratio" will tend to grow to 100% quite fast unless there's a huge amount of legitimate business.
I don't really think this is true in practice. There is a risk to scamming, plus even with zero risk not every customer would choose to scam them (given morals/etc).