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so I was one of  the ones who lost their investments from Hashocean, and today I got an email from someone claiming that they are from hashocean and it states the following :


"Hello, unfortunately these days our website hashocean.com, was hacked. Hackers took our domain and we have no control over anything. For our stupidity, we do not have the backup of the database. We will do the refund for you, but as we have not saved history, we will refund you your mining purchase under the following conditions. "Take the following actions properly, we have more than 700,000 users, and if we are looking for 1 by 1, would take years." To receive your purchases refund please visit: hashocean-refunds.com"

A link to a screenshot is here

http://imgur.com/36M4pzx (http://imgur.com/36M4pzx)


If anyone who gets one of these emails sees this do not send any money to them,

Chances are they are just trying to take your bitcoin and run

May they´ve sold the database already?  ::)
May they scam twice with the project ?  ::)
Enought naive people out there

Interesting, not every scam tries to pull a double like this. First luring people in with phantom riches is common, running off with a poor excuse like "we've been hacked" is common as well, but this adds plain old abuse of desperation. Obvious advice; take your loss. If you invested, your money is gone. Stop hoping.

Exactly that is why I am warning people about the email. I literally got 7 emails from the same account stating the same thing so to me that raises a red flag. as for me, I may buy an antminer or look into other mining alternatives. The funny thing is I hummed and hawed for close to a year about hashocean then did research on it using cmmonitor to see if they were paying until i got into it.

Oh then you finally found the headquarters hashocean? good job! now disclose that image to the 700,000 people who have invested in this firm claim their bitcoins, has a guy who did loan of $ 65.000 and invested in hashocean and all his family invested in hashocean, I do not know if that hole (hashocean headquarters) will have space for 700,000 members who wish to complain.

I don't know neither if it has enough space for the stolen coins (converted to USD) and for the ongoing scammed bitcoins by hashocean refund ponzi mail
Shame for the ones falling in this obvious scam
From 0.1 to 1 BTC to ''recover'' your money... What a shame... DOUBLE SCAM!

Shit!!!!!! this scammer is attacking again, 0,1 0,5 1 BTC is a big amount. This scammer having a lot of ways to plunge their members into the hole, hit and run.

Well just checked the website is down so hopefully they didn't snatch anyone's bitcoin up

What it's not only down they have a new site and a new method to snatch their member's bitcoin you can checking another topic discusses about this. I will not believe hashocean.com will alive again.

Well the only thing close to hash ocean is bitsrapid but i wouldn't recommend them. Website expires in a year but it shows a company name on its whois so maybe they are legit who knows I just don't want to see anyone get burned twice

Website experience date don't give any guarantees if they will scam you or not. The payment for extending  such date is a little fraction of what they earn with such scams. Just don't invest in cloudmining anymore the chance is way to big that they stop paying before your contract ends.

@OnlineDragon I thank you for the advice, what about genesis mining or hash flare? They charge daily maintenance fees of 0.008 per 10 ghs? The roi is about 6 months. Or no to any cloud mining companies?

I lost already with gaw mining, so decided never to use any other cloud mining. But let's be honest this was too clear a scam if you now how cloud mining scam operates.
Their tactic is the same as Chris did with LTCgear, just stall or give people hope it will be good.

My advice is.. don't trust hem.

this website's creator just trying to take advantage of hashocean's victim,but i guess the owner is a different person,very basic skill on coding because only use html and basic css,just wonder if people still get trapped into this old method

The maker of that site has riding the bad incident happen to hashocean he makes hashocean like site and attemp investors to scam again thats why we should avoid nor try to open up that site,hashocean is officially runs theres no turning back for them because they get already the big money they want,

I would raise 2 questions about that email that you claim that you received
1. The person who sent you that email of course knows your email address, that's elementary  ;D
2. That person who knows your email address knows that you invested in HashOcean

So who knows your email and knows that you are an investor of HashOcean?
HasOcean? or a good friend of yours who knows about your investment unless you only use 1 email for HashOcean and your personal mail and you posted it somewhere.

Its funny that people come here after they where scammed.
Not a single bell in their mind rung when they where "investing" for impossible profits.
How hard it was to check this site before? It was known allover the place about that
company.
I'm not even sorry for those who got cheated. Its your own greed, its your fault.
Such scam's will flourish until people understand that just like ordinary money, bitcoin don't grow on trees.
Use google before investing! Use your head as well.
Hundreds of willing to advise lads on this forum could save you the nerves and money...
but you just dint care.
     

Only fools of those fools will believe and send money to that refund email that they received. It should already be obvious that they have no plan on returning your peoples money and they are trying to get more by asking fools to send them more.

That address doesn't exist in San Francisco is just some random meme generator that has been put online during the time Hashocean was still paying users, some kind of warnings to all of them using and believing that website. I still think that enough has been said about this scam ponzi, lets forget it and move on, and more of it to be careful to not fall for this kind of websites.

IMO (and only my opinion, NOT a recommendation or guarantee or anything like that) the only cloud mining service that I'm confident is legit is HashNest.com. Its owned and run by Bitmain, who make the very popular and awesome Antminer ASIC arrays. So it stands to reason that they actually have the hardware to back their system. They also have paid me steadily. That's all I will say. Caveat Emptor.

I also lost some "hashpower" (lulz) that I invested in HashOcean. Luckily thats all I lost, I had them set to pay out (vs. accumulate and reinvest) from day one pretty much.

someone just uses situation for scam those naive people and they believe its real refund lol how stupid they are

They cannot fool the investors anymore and i dont think people will follow on what is saying in the note because its clearly scam theyre making no sense site and try to fool people again and thats very sad cause still many people are trying anything just to get money even if their doing it in bad way.

the "refund" guys are just some guys trying to get some free btc, they have nothing to do with hashocean. they just try to take advantage of the situation. sad thing is many people will actually send BTC.

That's just it I traced the bitcoin address and it came up with already having upwards of $20,000 worth of btc already in it when i got the email.

It's quite simple for anyone to get an email address chances are someone from hashocean gave a database that had everyone's email from hashocean.

what the hell they are still requesting for an activation fee just to give the refund to their users ? they are a son of a bitch  ;D ;D in able to receive your refund you must still pay for that so for all the members of HO you have no choice but to let it go ;D

Pretty much what i am doing, i am cutting my losses I am just glad i didn't put 100s of thousands in.

yeah i am glad too that i didn't tried to put my money in this fake cloud mining , but it is very sad to those people who have lost a huge money maybe some of them have invested more that a 100s of thousands to that ponzi what the f*ck . and now they are trying to get another money from their investors  ;D ;D

it was good that you spoke name this site:

bitsrapid

I had asked before if anyone knows the headquarters of this site bitsrapid in china?

I heard that bitsrapid hired a Chinese engineer to keep the alleged mining machines of the site has in China.

They want to trap their users again and snatch all bitcoin of users, they have some method to make they victims believe with them.
this only HO traps not to try if you don't want to lose your money again.  ;D

i lost 0.12 btc there,just invested 1 month ago..i think i was very unlucky

yeah i think so that it is just a trap , but it is not our fault if those people fell to this trap again after losing their money from purchasing any contract to hashocean .

I mentioned before I did a lot of research on hashocean for about a year before I signed up with them. I actually thought they were mining feather coin because the daily income matched the calculator plus the price of feather coin. So i thought they were mining using neoscrypt boy was I wrong lol

Cloud mining is dubious at best. Be careful, not only is the idea in principle risky; you have to deal with services that might actually have bad intentions.

Also, I feel like that refund mess is some third party ass hats

Anyone have the ability to trace this address back?

https://live.blockcypher.com/btc/address/1GLTdr9fahdDsdLHNpGQbKyprex6DmLYkZ/

kkkk that people try to deceive people in all possible ways I huh ... What's worse still people falling into these traps ... The fact is hashocean was pure ponzi ... They will not reimburse anyone. Eventually they applied a blow to more than 700 thousand users ... Now we can only regret ... I'm glad I did not invest in this farçante ... When I would invest it fell to my lot =)

Bitsrapid headquarters in China and they hired a Chinese engineer to keep all the mining machines of the site in China ? Only a fool can believe this, this website is a copy cat of Hashocean and I like many other persons here have warned against these sites almost everyday and we are also sure bitsrapid is so badly done as a website that is being run from some kid in his mom's home basement.

Apparently, there's a lot of people in here who are posting about HashOcean offering refunds but you would have to send the exact amount of BTC to a certain BTC address. If you are planning to get scammed twice, then do it. HashOcean is a big HYIP site and has a lot of investors (700,000 people according to them). If someone has an access to all these 700,000 email addresses, then he can surely make money by sending these people an email to trick them.

Just like other HYIP sites, HashOcean might officially send a message saying that they will refund you but they will never refund you. I hope people would learn their lesson and won't invest to any HYIP sites in the future. HashOcean will surely go back into life with another name and another domain.

http://i67.tinypic.com/n525bs.jpg

ponzi scheme, people who say they have a company, when they are only children with a computer and a website.

This is amazing. The amount of idiocy mixed with impudence is over the limit here.
I don't know if this is doing of original Hashocean owners or this site is created by some random scammers who want to profit on this situation but nonetheless it is ridiculous.
And the worst part of this - PEOPLE ARE PAYING THEM this 'refund' address 18jEEyG9DTj6VsLfTscGkQS77G8FMK514t received over 20 BTC alredy! THIS IS MADNESS!

well that's normal for them to believe that they will have a refund from that sort of scam because they have invested their money especially to those who have invested so much but yes it is stupid .

Haha. Well, to ever invest into Hashocean, you need to be naive big time.

To send them money after they run with your money, u ve gotta be a TOTAL IDIOT.

yeah . hahaha you have to be a totally and completely idiot before you risk a big amount of money to this kind of ponzi  ;D ;D and also you need to be very greedy before you desire more .