Scammed by PurplePandaLabs for $900 - GG gaslighting

Gdawg

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My original post outlining what I was planning on buying: PurplePandaLabs Raw source

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Well my order with purplepandslabs ended up in me being scammed out of $900 - it's always a risk buying random shit over the internet so be warned. Below is the story:


During the 30% discount panda5 code last week I decided to put in my first order with PPL (i've ordered from other sources before without issue).

The plan was to get a bunch of raws for my future cycles, have them tested and claim store credit and then order HGH in a few months and get that tested, end result being a bunch of gear that's tested - great.

I went onto their purplepandalabs website, made an account, added my raws to the basket, added my discount code and then placed the order.

For those that have ordered via their website you'll know that it directs you to a page on the PPL website containing the BTC address and price in BTC as well as mentioning you have 2 hours to make the payment.

The BTC price was 0.02284566 BTC to be sent to [redacted] within 2 hours.



Bitcoin Address | Wallet Lookup - Blockonomics

You can see my transfer (~$900) that is sent to the address along with a bunch of others within a few day period for a total of ~$5,800. I wonder if the other deposits are more PPL scamming victims - maybe people from this forum will post in a few weeks time when they wonder why their order hasn't turned up.

This is my PPL order confirmation email from [email address redacted]



The link in the PPL order confirmation email leads to:

[url redacted]

That is different to the one that PPL website forwarded me to (in the first screenshot):

[url redacted]

No idea if that matters or not.

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Anyway, after placing the order and paying, within minutes I receive an email from [email address redacted] that said:

Hello <name on delivery address>,

Your payment of 0.02284566 BTC for Order # 210729020421630 has been received and is being processed. Thank you for your business!




I didn't think much of the email - 3 days later there hasn't been any update with my order so I sent an email to Melody on the main PPL email asking:

Hi

Just wondering if my Order # 210729020421630 has been accepted - thanks.

She replies:

Hello Sir,

The order has been closed as the payment was not received within two hours.

Best regards
Melody
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Purple Panda Labs Service Team

Sent with ProtonMail Secure Email.

I mention the email confirmation I received from the dodgy protonmail account, she asked which email address it was from, she then said that protonmail email is not their email address. She has ignored any further emails I have sent her since then. Check screenshots for the full email text.









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So after no replies or help from Melody I contact PPL rep ollie that is on these forums via his protonmail - He asks a few questions and then begins to gaslight and call me a scammer as well as claiming that I sent an email to Melody earlier than I did.


Firstly, incorrect.

Secondly, why would it matter what date I sent an email?

Thirdly he sent a screenshot of his protonmail inbox proving that the dates are as I said.



Anyway, here are the emails from ollie (i've ctrl+- to make the text smaller to fit more into the screenshots):




And finally the screenshot that ollie sent that proves the dates that I said, and him trying to gaslight.



Speaking with PPL owner soflakidinchina on wickr he claims it's impossible for his website to be breached or have someone intercepting orders/btc addresses whether they are employees or randoms. Again, gaslighting and claiming that I have edited screenshots.


Screenshots will be attached in the next post as there's a 25 limit per post.
 
So to roundup for anyone that cba to read the wall of text/screens:

Ordered on purplepandalabs website, paid via BTC to the address shown in first screenshot

Received an email from a protonmail account that does not belong to PPL that confirmed my BTC payment and order number, BTC amount and my delivery address first name

Melody is ignoring my emails

Ollie tried to gaslight and can't count how many days are in a month

PPL owner is convinced that i'm a scammer and that his website is impossible to hack and his employees are loyal by blood (just like that one that was sending scam emails out to PPLs previous customers some months ago huh?)

So that's the story of losing $900 - lesson learnt, only do small orders with sources and do not trust purplepandalabs.
 
Scammer history

A lowlife scumbag (yeah, that’s you), created several accounts on the same time period on the website, after creating the orders he sent his money to his own account, he approached with the different accounts to me, Melody and Panda asking about his order, obviously the order was not processed because we didn’t receive any payment to our addresses (addresses that are generated by a second website and we can’t manipulate), then this guy, with every account answered super surprised “how’s that, I sent my money to the address that was given on the website, maybe you guys have been hacked as in the past or you have scammed me” (more or less this were the guy’s messages with every account).

How we framed you
1)You are so stupid that you edited the pic wrong, every QR code generated by our website has a white design and fits inside the square, yours is black and doesn’t fit inside the square, congrats, you are smart enough to breathe and not shit on yourself.

2)Our website and the system it automatically uses, uses old addresses, you address is one of the new BTC addresses, and the guys from here that have ordered trough me they always know I give new addresses and not older ones as the website does, i even posted a guide here.

3)This message that you sent: “ the BTC address that was provided has received multiple deposits within a few day range of when i was given it, maybe others that placed an order on your website will get into contact in the coming weeks but either way i'm out of $900”
Wow, not suspicious at all, not suspicious at all that all the accounts created at the same time, that were not already customers, and that didn’t fullfill their orders were messaging us about this.

4)And wow you have a freshly new created account! @Millard if you have some free time i can send you all the prove needed to prove that this guy is a scammer and to see if you can ban him.

Honestly you are a sad person that took some of my precious free time off after having some of the worst months of my life, you also took my time to get attention to other members, since the security of the website will always be a priority for me since the previous problems.
 
i have been working with BTC in real life for a long time, you just faked the invoice with an address type that the website is not even capable to create, you just put a segwit address lol they never use segwit

+10 points to Slytherin for the effort
Was just gonna point out I have to yet to see a service that'd automatically offer bc1 addys, when half of the wallets still can't process them, lol.
 
Panda really owned this guy Lol. See, even the Bitcoin mavens can see the fakery. Very good catch on the type of address shown in the “fake” pic. But is it possible for Panda to use rotating Bitcoin addresses for each distinct order?

Oh and not to mention the OP just joined several days ago so he came here to make this thread only to get owned!
 
Will someone boil this thread down for the technically challenged like me? Thanks.
Looks like OP made a number of accounts on PPL's website + also made some fake emails. He made purplepandalab@proton, placed a $900 order on the site but never paid it. Instead he transferred $900 from his own wallet to another one of his wallets so that he had 'proof of payment'. After doing this he wrote himself an email from his fake ppl@proton address saying "payment received!". He's trying to frame it as if a 'hacker' intercepted the payment on PPL's website. He sets the scene for this by 'photoshopping' a different QR code on the order payment page for the original $900 order. You can see that the QR code has a black background, though, and the address is a bc1 address (segwit) which is recently released and only compatible with some newer wallets. No payment gateways use bc1 addresses yet, and the black background leads us to believe that this was crudely cropped and pasted by OP as part of the scam.

Basically he, apparently, faked this big charade in which PPLs website was producing QR codes for a 'hacker's' wallet, when in reality he was just moving money between his own wallets to try to make it look like he paid someone that he didn't. And he would've gotten away with it too if it weren't for you meddling kids!
 
Looks like OP made a number of accounts on PPL's website + also made some fake emails. He made purplepandalab@proton, placed a $900 order on the site but never paid it. Instead he transferred $900 from his own wallet to another one of his wallets so that he had 'proof of payment'. After doing this he wrote himself an email from his fake ppl@proton address saying "payment received!". He's trying to frame it as if a 'hacker' intercepted the payment on PPL's website. He sets the scene for this by 'photoshopping' a different QR code on the order payment page for the original $900 order. You can see that the QR code has a black background, though, and the address is a bc1 address (segwit) which is recently released and only compatible with some newer wallets. No payment gateways use bc1 addresses yet, and the black background leads us to believe that this was crudely cropped and pasted by OP as part of the scam.

Basically he, apparently, faked this big charade in which PPLs website was producing QR codes for a 'hacker's' wallet, when in reality he was just moving money between his own wallets to try to make it look like he paid someone that he didn't. And he would've gotten away with it too if it weren't for you meddling kids!
Sounds like one very clever reverse scam attempt but the OP slipped up big time with the edited screenshots and even the Panda owner called it. Even the bitcoin addy was not even the right type in the edited screenshot and Panda does not even use those new addies. Upon closer look at the QR it looks pixelated. Strong graphics skillz LOL.
 
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Hey @Gdawg do you realize you are nothing but a 2-bit reverse scammer? You must have a tiny brain to even do this sort of thing. Since you joined up here a few days ago did you try pulling this scam on Panda on another forum? If so hope you get your ass banned everywhere!

Even Millard here takes a very dim view of scammers and reverse scammers.
 
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