FAMESWAP ESCROW IS A SCAM

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Sam Letchford

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Mod edit: This thread has been closed because the OP has had a positive resolution to his issue. See his final response here: https://www.blackhatworld.com/seo/fameswap-escrow-is-a-scam.1063826/page-2#post-12335382

Hey guys,
Just letting you know about how I was scammed so that it hopefully doesn’t happen to anyone else on here looking at selling accounts.

I advertised my travel Instagram account on fameswap.com. A site commonly used to sell/buy Instagram accounts. I found a buyer who was keen on the account. The buyer wished to complete the transaction through fameswap escrow - which we both unfortunately assumed would be legit and trustworthy.

As per the escrow requests the buyer sent in their money to the escrow member and I sent my OG email and password to the escrow (third party) member as well as my Instagram username and password.

The escrow third party member has then changed all the passwords, recovery email and phone number and everything. They have then told the buyer that I was not a legit seller and that incorrect information was sent to them and that I was dodgy. I’ve been fighting this for the last 2 weeks with the email provider and Instagram with no luck.

The buyer has also had issues with the site also and they are now only allowing him to use his money as store credit. He is along my side and knows how dodgy they are. We are trying out best to spread the knowledge of how dodgy this website is.

Please do not buy anything from here. I’ve lost my highly active account and he’s almost lost his $1300USD.

Please spread the message about these scumbags :( if anyone has anywhere else where they think this information would be useful please let us know. We want our responses to be high up on the search engine when anyone else searches famrswap to help prevent this from happening to anyone else!

Thanks,
Sam
 
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Wow, that is crazy. I am really sorry to hear that! I have been scammed for 5800usd for a youtube channel but the seller allegedly took the account back after I got payment and keeps on denying the allegation. I am really sorry you had to lose your account. I can relate. Hopefully karma will get Fameswap right in the ass!!
 
These guys scamming people to make money online make the overall impression bad.
 
I'm not kissing fameswap's ass but I recently have sold 2 accounts on there with no issues? My main issue with fameswap is some of its teenage boy users trying to scam me by directing me to fake escrow sites such as mediumescrow.com
 
I'm sorry, mate
my experience from fameswap:
I bought 2 accounts = never received accounts
I sold 4 accounts = no problem
I sold 1 account = buyers refund the money and account stole (NOW I sell via PayPal only family and friends)
 
Wow, that is crazy. I am really sorry to hear that! I have been scammed for 5800usd for a youtube channel but the seller allegedly took the account back after I got payment and keeps on denying the allegation. I am really sorry you had to lose your account. I can relate. Hopefully karma will get Fameswap right in the ass!!
Yeah dude, literally couldn’t believe it happened. I really feel for you man! We’ve both lost quite a bit of money from such a shitty scumbag of a site.
 
These guys scamming people to make money online make the overall impression bad.
Exactly man! I wish there was a thread like this somewhere before I bought my account. Please spread the world. Seems like there isn’t a safe way to buy of sell accounts
 
Why is something telling me that the buyer IS actually part of fameswap?
I think you have been communicating with a 'double agent', lol.
Hahaha I did think that could have happened but no I really trust this guy. Even the way the other dude typed was like different if that makes sense. Like he was literally mocking me in the dms when I tried to contact him trying to sell it back to me
 
I'm sorry, mate
my experience from fameswap:
I bought 2 accounts = never received accounts
I sold 4 accounts = no problem
I sold 1 account = buyers refund the money and account stole (NOW I sell via PayPal only family and friends)
Wow! Why did you go back after buying the accounts with no return? Or did you buy and sell the accounts all at the same time? Did you use escrow for the ones where you didn’t receive the accounts?
 
I'm not kissing fameswap's ass but I recently have sold 2 accounts on there with no issues? My main issue with fameswap is some of its teenage boy users trying to scam me by directing me to fake escrow sites such as mediumescrow.com
Ohhh man tell me about it. Or like the only way they would do escrow is through someone they knew... hmmm sounds legit. They must just chose who they’re going to steal accounts from at random :(
 
This deserves more attention. Someone should take this website down in a big way.
100% couldn’t agree with you anymore man. I don’t know how you could though.. I think just more education for others about how shit these guys are is the best start
 
Hey guys,
Just letting you know about how I was scammed so that it hopefully doesn’t happen to anyone else on here looking at selling accounts.

I advertised my travel Instagram account on fameswap.com. A site commonly used to sell/buy Instagram accounts. I found a buyer who was keen on the account. The buyer wished to complete the transaction through fameswap escrow - which we both unfortunately assumed would be legit and trustworthy.

As per the escrow requests the buyer sent in their money to the escrow member and I sent my OG email and password to the escrow (third party) member as well as my Instagram username and password.

The escrow third party member has then changed all the passwords, recovery email and phone number and everything. They have then told the buyer that I was not a legit seller and that incorrect information was sent to them and that I was dodgy. I’ve been fighting this for the last 2 weeks with the email provider and Instagram with no luck.

The buyer has also had issues with the site also and they are now only allowing him to use his money as store credit. He is along my side and knows how dodgy they are. We are trying out best to spread the knowledge of how dodgy this website is.

Please do not buy anything from here. I’ve lost my highly active account and he’s almost lost his $1300USD.

Please spread the message about these scumbags :( if anyone has anywhere else where they think this information would be useful please let us know. We want our responses to be high up on the search engine when anyone else searches famrswap to help prevent this from happening to anyone else!

Thanks,
Sam

i would tro to get email back.
maybe you know the security question from this mail?
when yes, get mail account back, and then just email instagram that your account got hacked.

regards
 
i would tro to get email back.
maybe you know the security question from this mail?
when yes, get mail account back, and then just email instagram that your account got hacked.

regards
Hey thanks for the reply man! You’d assume it would be that easy. I did exactly that but once they have changed it to something else and then set up 2 factor idenfication, change the phone number and everything it’s literally impossible. Thanks for the idea though ❤️
 
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