Pankaj 'escrow.ms' Bhardwaj was arrested by police for participating in a fraud ring that used cloned debit cards to withdraw money from other people's accounts at automated teller machines (archived). Under his forum username escrow.ms, Bhardwaj was a member of the "Default Trust" list used to seed the reputation ratings system on Theymos's Bitcointalk forum. He enjoyed a stellar reputation on that forum as evidenced by a thread on that forum discussing recent developments in the life and times of escrow.ms forum escrow, default trust member, and apparent fiat payment card cloner. Escrow.ms is not the first member of Bitcointalk's default trust list to undergo a sudden transition from trustiness to ignominy. Shortly after the creation of the default trust list, inaugural member member TradeFortress operated node.js based webwallet service Inputs.io for only a few short months before 4,100 Bitcoins disappeared from the service on November 7th, 2013.
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"Default trust" is mostly scammers.
And Theymos tried to make a run at being the Biggest scammer involved in the GLBSE collapse by falsely offering for sale 23% of GLBSE, which he knew would soon be worthless. History is a sticky thing.
He "didn't know", because it was not yet public knowledge. He only knew because he was participating in secret meetings with the co-conspirators. So it shouldn't count, right ?
Of course