Do not release. A screenshot is an image; it can be edited in a minute and most fake-payment scams against crypto sellers are exactly this: a convincing receipt, a "pending" transfer that never clears, or an order marked as paid with nothing behind it. The rule that keeps sellers safe is simple: only money that is already in your account counts, for the exact amount, sent by the person you are trading with.
What a real payment looks like
- It is in your account, not "sent", "processing" or "on hold" on the buyer’s side.
- It is for the exact amount of the trade. On iEscrow each open trade has a unique amount, so the figure itself tells you which trade it belongs to.
- It comes from the buyer’s own name. On iEscrow the holder of every payment account is set by the platform as the account owner, never typed in, and it is the document-verified name once that user passes identity verification.
How iEscrow turns this rule into a mechanism
The buyer's declaration does not move anything. The crypto stays in escrow until you confirm you received the money, or an arbiter decides. If the money is not there, you simply do not confirm. If the buyer insists, pressures you, or the 30-minute confirmation window is running out, open a dispute: the trade freezes and an arbiter decides with evidence from both sides. An edited screenshot does not survive that review; a real transfer does.
If you connected your receiving account (read-only, where open banking is available), iEscrow checks the credit in the bank itself and does not depend on anybody's screenshot.