Guys, just a heads up regarding Trichoma. I got ripped off yesterday.
Long story short, heard great things about Trichoma, and decided to reach out on telegram yesterday. Found user TRICHOMA and messaged him (Alex was his name). Guy sends me a menu (see attached), takes my order, and asks me to settle using Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash or Ether. Everything checks out and seems legit, even the file name of the menu had yesterday's date.
He explains I have to make payment to secure delivery. I transfer R1600 to him after getting onto Luno, and he gives me a 'reference number'. He tells me to send my location, and that delivery will happen at 20:45 last night. I am in Gauteng and he explained to me that "for this month only" deliveries would happen on the weekend. I had suggested waiting for a weekday, and the guy assured me delivery would happen on Sunday.
At about 18:00 I opened Telegram, and the guy had deleted my whole chat. He has also blocked me on Telegram (when I check from my phone it says "last seen a long time ago" and his Profile Pic is gone - if I check his username from the other half's phone he was seen "not long ago" and the profile pic is still there.)
Obviously no delivery arrived last night, and my messages to him are going undelivered
I have the wallet address, which he claimed was the "Trichoma store wallet" address. I have checked the transactions (only once I realised I got ripped off) and the previous deposit to that address took place over a month ago (2019-05-06)
Address:
https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/13RGYKTJe3HKXfysKvvQ2kuVxvwi5JYC1i
The money I sent to the address has been moved (no real surprise there).
So basically one of two things happened:
1) Someone has taken over the Trichoma account and is committing fraud with no intention of making deliveries; or
2)Trichoma and/or Alex has gone rogue and is stealing money by pretending to take orders
Be careful with your money, there are a ton of f$%#wits out there! It's not my first time getting burnt by shady players in this market (it comes with the turf unfortunately) but it still leaves one feeling pissed off.
Also, if doing business on Telegram, screenshot everything - I knew chats could be deleted by the person on the other side, but I didn't expect this guy to do this.
Would love to hear your experiences, or if anyone has any updates on Trichoma - I did try searching this thread for any bad stories, but couldn't find anything.
TL;DR: Don't buy from Trichoma, you will lose your money. If using Telegram for business, screenshot EVERYTHING!
EDIT & UPDATE: Guys the REAL Trichoma are still around - I got burnt by a conman. Please don't boycott the real Trichoma, but make DAMN SURE you are dealing with the correct entity on Telegram. If you are in doubt, check with people on the forum first!