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Comment author: betterthanwell 21 June 2012 08:09:29PM 4 points [-]

Looks like you may be too late. The US based Bitcoin exchange Tradehill had to shut down operations earlier this year because of this exact method of fraud. Here is a description of the modus operandi. The fraud was conducted via an intermediary payment processing service.

Comment author: Dolores1984 21 June 2012 08:59:41PM 1 point [-]

Interesting. Not that I was actually planning on committing large scale identity theft, mind.