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Hi,
Last day http://bitcoinvanitygen.com/ scammed me, he stolen from me 10000$ from a wallet that i generated from this service !

I contacted the owner and when he replied to me i got this infos from the sender:
http://darkwarez.pl/ - He used this website to contact me with this IP Address: http://37.59.115.11/

TAKE A CARE FROM THEM

Can you show any proof that you have really lost your $1200 from them.?

Why did you use an address created by someone else and that too by an anonymous person? Lesson learned.

Yes really ! Lesson learned !

Post your evidence or transactions.

It doesn't matter if he posts evidence or not but its really a risky deal because you're entrusting money to an unknown person which knows the private keys of your wallet..

TXID? But nevertheless, no one should use a vanity generator that is
1) Online
2) Allows the owner to know the private key.
You could have downloaded a vanity generator (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=25804.0) or use a site with split key generation feature.

I've use that site before but only for small amounts. maximum was $50. Nothing happens to my funds.

Bro, $1200 is much more than $50. Seems that site owner have stole selected btc wallets in which there is a lots of funds are present.

better to be scammed now, than after you will store something on web generated address...generate it on your PC, if you want vanity one.

its 2015 - people were talking down on vanity addresses back in 2011....why on earth would you ever want one?  IDK you gave no details on the vanity address nor the transaction which took the funds, nor the address where the funds ended up...that's not reasonable to throw a scam claim out there like that without ALSO providing evidence as well.  I'm not saying it didn't happen, I'm saying prove it happened.


Also, don't use Vanity Gen, vanity addresses of any kind nor mini addresses/mini private keys - those are uncommon formats that are not normally supported in the reference core client.

It is supported. Looking at your post, it seems to me that you don't know about vanitygen. Please do your research before posting. Thank you! :)

OP used a vanity address which was *generated* by an anonymous person. That is, that person most probably has control over private keys of all the addresses generated through BitcoinVanitygen.com. To avoid this, you can either generate one yourself(in a secure computer) or use split-key generation.

Fair enough - but my feelings still remain about generating a vanity address to hold and share with others for bitcoin payments.  I hastily put vanity generated addresses in there but you're right they're fully compatible as it's just a private key.

@OP: Please post proof. You can't just come here and accuse someone without any proof.


Why are you hesitated to use a vanity address? What security does vanity address lacks?

This is OLD problem
why you use service vanitygen to create special adress ?
you must know basic about address

If vanitygen create new address for you, "NOT ONLY YOU WHO KNOWS YOUR PRIVATE KEY"
my friend lost 1.2BTC than i suggest to create new spesial address with vanitygen offline

so many tutorial like this
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=25804.0

also some people get stolen from vanitygen https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=445764.0

You may want to phrase this a bit better. Now, your post tells others can see private keys of addresses you generate through vanitygen which is not true.

OP and the person in the thread you mentioned used a website controlled by someone anonymous. They can easily store private keys of your addresses and redeem coins from it. If you use vanitygen locally, this won't happen.

I mean is if he use https://bitcoinvanitygen.com/ that not only he who knows private keys
vanitygen send your email and he can read send email too, and he can import your address to blockchain

MY solution if he want to get spesial address he can create with her computer with vanitygen offline

( sorry for my bad english, i use google translate to some paragraph )

I did generate a few addresses using this service. However, I never used those addressees as I know they have my private key. I just use those service for fun. If I really want a vanity address, I will not ask a trusted user to generate for me. I will generate it myself. Also remember to use the original version of vanitygen - or maybe some popular one.

I used one adress and funds gone since yesterday.

Lucky only 0.025BTC

You can ask someone to generate it for you if you don't have the computing power to do it but ONLY do it with split key vanity generation (https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Split-key_vanity_address) that way you can get be sure that only you would know it's private key and the not the vanity address generator. I had couple of addresses made by someone through that but I lost em in a HD crash.

What we need to do is: Get the word out that this service is 100% Scam.

Easy money for them. They waited 2 months to take my btc , lucky not much!

Should be taken offline this website.

lessons to be learned here

you must always keep control of your private keys 

Corrected for you.

Another victim of this scammer here.  >:(


2 lessons learned:

1st lesson:


2nd lesson:

Always search bitcointalk before using any service!

Found this:

Vanity Generation - Up to 9 digits long! (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=552395.0)

Considering they don't have a referral program it's at least a bit strange that this guy has 2 links pointing to the scam site in his signature.

Take your own conclusions.

Scammer hunters please look into this.

Huh? http://bitcoinvanitygen.com/ and Bitcoinvanitygen.com is the same website. And it's a scam site as stated in this thread. Even if you find a site which do vanity address search for free, it cannot be trusted. The best and secure way to get a vanity address is to generate from your own uninfected computer.

I was scammed by this m'fucker too!!   >:(

i dont get this story
some forum, some IP, some vanity adress. and no proofs on blockchain

next time do your reasearch, this has been done many times before

Why would so many people suddenly start shouting scam?

Besides blockchain only proves that transactions were made not who ordered them or the owners of the wallets.

Someone please dox this guy (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=303026).

Velkro is a scammer!

Another victim here.

i wont say im a victim yet but i have  been getting some emails from them about some  addresses i ordered months ago

Not necessary true if you use the split key generation feature

NEVER use those addresses! Delete them!

lol this piece of shit https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=303026 Velkro is posting around the forum smalltalk so his signature pointing t this scam site gets seen . Please everyone give this lowlife negative trust so people dont keep falling for this!!! This forum should instaban scum like this!!

Yes that site is scam, do not use!!

use these if on windows

https://github.com/samr7/vanitygen/downloads