Bitcoin Forum

I experienced something during the weekend and it was actually disappointing. I often use express mode during p2p on bitget but this time the rate was as low as 1337 and I was in a rush and thought maybe it was the naira valuation, spoke about it later and when I visited the p2p section at bitget and not the express mode I discovered it was still in 1470, was really angry. Thank God the amount was small but doing another one some days later I think, I was much more cautious and this was what I discovered.

https://www.talkimg.com/images/2025/10/08/UG5Aa2.jpeg https://www.talkimg.com/images/2025/10/08/UG5HTc.jpeg

The price changed when I clicked the ad to something smaller, I don't really know if this is a scam attempt from buyers themselves but I blame bitget creating such flaw system for them to act like this.

There are many things to be careful of and we shouldn't rely or trust these p2p platforms anything is possible just be careful.

This is from me last year:
Scam ads on Bitget (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5497217.msg64105326#msg64105326)

This one from CryptoHeadlineNews recently:

Now this from you. We are now getting what is going on.

I blame Bitget.

Yes it is a scam attempt but it doesn't only happen in bitget, even Bybit too. When Binance was still performing p2p for Nigerians it also happened so it's not something new. I just wonder why these exchanges do not review the activities of vendors in p2p platforms. Some vendors will place high rates but immediately you want to perform a p2p with them you will notice that there is a reduction in the price rate different from the one they advertised initially which is not good because some persons will definitely fall for such deceptive move. Whenever you are initiating a p2p transaction make sure you are in your right frame of mind because there are numerous scam methods happening in exchange p2p platforms now so if you are not observant you will just fall.

Why are people posting what is not right? It was not happening on Binance and it is not happening on Bybit. The only exchange people are complaining this is happening is Bitget.

The scam that is common on Bybit are the people that will send lower amount of money to your bank account and those that will beg you for them to send you lower amount of money.

This is not about the exchange to review the activities of the sellers but about the algorithm the exchange is using which is doing something wrong.

There are many exchanges, people should stay away from Bitget.

Well I don't make use of bitget .Now looking at the dollar to naira rate from the screen shot the op dropped seems to be low when compared to what am seeing in bybit. One advice I would always give people is not initiate P2P transaction when they are busy to avoid making unnecessary mistakes. From what the OP actually narrated the mistake is actually coming from him. He initiated a P2P transaction without confirming the actual dollar to naira rate. So I don't see where bitget should be blame here, it is the duty of the buy to check the rate at which the vendor is selling before initiating P2P transaction.

Bitget should be blamed

Express should have similar rate with the recent rate. That is how express should be as it is on other exchanges.

Di op summed it from where the flaw is generating from, the P2P exchanges platform are the people that have created this flaw in their platform and the scammers addressed as traders are using it to attempt scamming traders at the slight distraction on commencing a P2P trade.

The awareness the local board users are creating in the Naija community has been helpful in enlightening, alerting and updating those of us that have not witnessed some of this scam attitudes.

Same awareness was raised on this thread https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5561206.0 by one of our members, I would expect everyone to cease using Biget Market Place until the bug is fixed because it is clearly a bug - allowing rate alterations in-between trades is a scam.

There is a lot of dishonest vendors on Bybit p2p but they're still better than other options.

I so much have issues with this CEX maybe because of all my past experiences and how well their customer protection is poor, including they charging much for fee.

The scam attempts at Binance was different and I think they had a fewer scam like Bybit and neither taking charges as bitget and with an annoying system which scammers can find a way to get the better of customers. Now, between bitget and bybit we have to be cautious of two different kind of scams, these platforms does little to protect against scam especially bitget which is directly coming from their negligence.


I just discovered this through Charles-Tim reply here. I saw the thread but it seems as something different till I saw the quoted text by Charles, will lock this now.

PS: After going through the thread again, I think I will leave mine open because both threads are still different, although I'm not disrupting the awareness there especially by CryptoHeadlineNews .

Many of the exchanges do not have fee for P2P, unlike Bitget.

No need to lock the thread. I only posted them for people to know that you are not the only one that has suffered the scam on Bitget. If something similar has happened to three members among us on this forum, there will be many people that are scammed this way daily.

I have never used Bitget for p2p before and informations like this makes it even more difficult for me to want to use it for that services. I have the application on my phone and verified but I haven’t even explored to the p2p section to really know how things are done there.

This type of scam has been around for a while now, but not so many people get affected by it and that’s why we hardly see complains from people in that regards. When you come across such merchant, it is better you report them to the exchange. I don’t know how they do it and allow them to change prices after clicking on the ads, but that’s a mischievous and criminal act from this merchants.

Same complain coming from the same exchange over and over again is just a strong indication to boycott that exchange for such services. I love Bitget for its low transaction fees on some popular blockchains, but won’t explore to likened it for p2p exchange services because of this. Let’s be more vigilant and cross check prices well, and report such scammers when we come across them on any platform to the exchange. It will save the next person from falling trap.

I got Bitget on my phone but I barely use it, I mean I can count just how many times I’ve made use of that exchange, even though people do complain quite a lot about Bybit, although I’ve also had my own complaints too, but I still feel, even with all the complaints, Bybit is still very much far better than Bitget. This isn’t the first time I’m hearing such a complaint about Bitget, which has also contributed to why I always feel sceptical about using that app to trade my coins.
People should just and stay away from Bitget.

I have been using both but I prefer Bybit because Bybit is absolutely much better. Just make sure that you look at the amount the seller sent to your bank very well before you release the coin. There was a day that I made a mistake but I later contacted the seller on the exchange and also reported him, he later said he is sorry and sent the remaining amount. I am not saying people should make the mistake that I made, but I was very happy when he sent the remaining money to my account after I reported him.

This is a scam which is very bad this alone has destroyed the reputation of the exchange it is very bad for this kind of scamming to be happening in that exchange before now I was hearing that paying people complete was a huge problem for there traders and now this is now the new tactics the traders are using to scam people, well anyone who is trading over there should be very careful and pay attention to all details so as not to be scammed by any of the traders, thank you OP for bringing this up I usually use them sometimes and I don't even pay attention to this you have said and I know they may have scam me through this strategy without me knowing but seeing this information now when next I will be trading over there I will make sure I pay attention to every details especially to this that you have disclosed.
A lot of exchange we have now the traders there are full of scam and it will be best to start reporting them so they can get corrected or punished for their crimes.

It is not a duplicate topic, the link I provided was just another complaint buried in another thread, so this thread will serve as  the main Biget p2p awareness thread for further related discussions.

I may split that post into this topic but that's something I'll decide later.

There is no need to split the post into this topic because all necessary posts have been provided on my first post which is the first comment on this thread (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5561714.msg65896841#msg65896841).

I decided not to quote you yesterday because of how you behaved strangely to me on the thread that I quoted you like you were angry.

I have my account verified but I have ever deposited a single coin on that exchange because there volume suck. Their volume is wash trading using bots that's why I don't trust their p2p market. I know that Bybit is full of scammers and beggers that make one uncomfortable to do transaction but I used it every day for my transaction and I don't see this kind of things OP is complaining about, stop using exchanges like Bitget you will see they will work on their services.

I still blame the Nigerian government for making this harder for crypto traders, when there was Binance this activities were less, the good and the ugly were all in Binance but now that they don't provide the service anymore, they have disintegrated to other exchanges using tricks to cheat the market. I'm actually waiting for the useless government that want to take tax from people by the coming of next year January, I want to see how they want to take my tax from me.

I already decided against splitting it before your quote

I have every right to act the way I did yesterday because it was the second time you quoted my posts out of context this week to troll me or to make me look stupid I don't know.


They will not do it directly , your exchange will and take it back to them.

It was not out of context at all. The first thread which was different led to a meaningful conversation and I accepted I quoted you out of context but you were not angry about it.

But the second thread which you were angry about was not out of context. You posted bitcoin like it is like altcoins, gambling and trying to let OP think that it is risky. If you see me started posting first in a thread, I am reading almost what everyone is posting. I read all what everyone was posting there.

I thought you accepted when you did not quote me there again because you posted that I did not understand English but I quoted where you posted it. Or maybe you can read what the OP posted again if you do not really understood it. Maybe that is what you did not get right. Although, it was like you understood the OP but you posted something that will make newbies to be afraid of bitcoin and also different from what I have read from reputed members on this forum. I am not saying you are not reputed, but that I did not expected such reply from you.

Yes, but the exchange will make it clear to everyone that they are deducting it.

Just when I taught Bitget was doing great in terms of the scam issues among merchants when compared to Bybit, they've began to show some obvious flaws that they are not attending to. From the image of ads that you shared, if you noticed, there is a time that is far lesser/smaller than the actual time. When I noticed the update, I assumed it was the average time, but the truth is, it still doesn't show the exact completion time except you click the ads. I reported the issue, but I guess they were fine with their implementation.

Mind you, this particular flaws that you reported in the OP can't be noticed except you click the ads and try to observe the real price. The displayed ads are now proven to be manipulated. The best thing for everyone is to stay vigilant, and use the next information that comes after clicking any ads. Reading the merchant's terms is also vital, because a lot of them usually specify certain charges for certain reasons that are personal to them.

See this is the thing, they're doing no good. I guess they're too greedy to realise that we Nigerians are at risk now, getting kyc in so many platforms just because we need to trade and make a living for ourselves and this annoys me more thinking of the risks we find ourselves currently.


When i had issue one time that I had to contact them through their customer service at Telegram which is actually the said functioning one since the bot on the app doesn't do anything. 

It turns out poor and I almost fell for a scammer, Thank God. I became more watchful and had more scammers on me after. What I'm trying to say with this which likely is different from yours, they don't take much to consideration rather opt as it pleases to them, lying to act as good and feeling among the top whereas looking into their system you realize they are actually false or not a decent exchange.

You are absolutely correct, because I just discovered this trick yesterday after going back to the p2p section on Bitget and just uncovered this trick p2p vendors are now using to cut-short people's money, which is absolutely unfair. Because I really think this might be a conspiracy between Bitget and these scammers. Because until now I'm still trying to understand how will Bitget allow such flaws on its crypto exchange. Because with this recent act by vendors, I'm 100% sure this act is likely to drive many people away from this crypto exchange. Because is this definitely an act of fraud. 

If I could have enough money, I will sue Bitget Crypto Exchange and it's p2p vendors for conspiracy.

Our current regulations put us in a disadvantage states here more likely. It will be more stressful and I won't be surprised if they will want to pay something ridiculous before and maybe after everything.

They spoke/flagged Binance exchange which was much better than what we're passing through.  The real thief is still doing business while Nigerians continue to suffer from it and still being sceptical to even report such out sadly.

I understand that @Igebotz was pained when he thought that your quoted him out of context yesterday. I know sometimes it could happen, even though I would not love to take sides because I can remember at least the second thread cryptoheadlines created where you reacted to his reply.

I would only ask you guys to understand that we're one here and pls @Igebotz soften your mind. We the lower members of this LB look up to you both in addition to other of our oga them here.  I'm sorry on behalf of you both please let this not escalate more.
I didn't expect anyone else to fall to this bitget scam after the last encounter Crypto headlines had with them. I can still remember I advised that it's better everyone shuns P2P on bitget because they have too much issues to face. This can not happen in Bybit a d even when it happens they will insist you try another buyer. Price can change, but not when you have placed order already.

Another reason I don't like bitget P2P is that their customer care services is very poor. They don't care about your losses and won't treat your complaints. So I would advise anyone to send your funds to Bybit when you want to go for P2P.

Yeah, I also miss the good Ol’ days when Binance still supported p2p for Nigerians, I don’t think if I’ve ever used any other p2p service that is as swift and reliable as Binance. You don’t see traders indulging in much of these malicious activities because Binance p2p team would always have a good way of making sure they discipline defaulters. I don’t know if I’ll say these other exchanges are pampering their traders, and even if they do things that demand penalizing, the literally just overlooked.

Wow. This is like saying that history repeats itself at least from Charles-Tim's post of last year and CryptoHeadlineNews's post of this year. It is safe to say that whoever still uses bitget should now be able to read the handwriting on the wall. And had better stopped using them before we read their compliant here. Thankfully, I do not use them. I know that not all of the centralized exchanges are perfect but we should stick with the most recommended the ones that many people are using. One thing I know is that everyone cannot be wrong.

I thought Bybit was actually the worst exchange to trade USDT but with all this discredit about bitget, I think i will be avoiding them for now. Better still, I will avoid trading with both Bybit and bitget temporarily to avoid  some this dishonest vendors, I no get strength a beg.

For the meantime,I will start trading my USDT on Bingx Exchange. I think Bingx have better customers service than Bybit and Bitget and their rates is also good. I have traded USDT on their P2P platform for few times in the past and their services and rates was good.

I haven't used Bingx before and this is the first time I'm hearing about them having Naira p2p marketplace - they must be really terrible at marketing. Do they have good trade volumes?

For the record; there is no free-scam zone P2p marketplace, you just know the basics on how to spot and how to avoid them that's all.

Yes, you are absolutely right at igebotz, because there is absolutely no exchange with zero scam zone. Because the best option is just to be fully aware of the current scamming method been used on these exchanges and then be at alert to avoid falling victim to it. Because it's just sad I fell victim to Bitget new p2p scamming trick, simply because I never knew how this recent truck operates. But now that I'm fully aware. It's just to be extremely careful this days while trading p2p on any of those crypto exchanges. Which is Bybit and Bitget.

I believe P2P price varies with quantity, you don't get same price for $20 as you'll get for $400 trade due to obvious reasons, I use P2P and hers some of the things I do to make sure I don't have issues with this, I check the merchant completion % rate, check his/her reviews before proceeding.. since I've been using Bitget P2P I haven't encountered issues like these due to these staples I take, while the echange is trying to make p2p safer by implementing user friendly policies, let's also try to do our due diligence..sorry about your experience OP.

You will have change of mind if you use gate.com

You may be using exchange like Bybit and think it is like that, no it is not like that. I do not like Bybit because of that. You will see $5  difference if you want to exchange $50 on both exchanges. You can exchange $10 with good rate on gate.com.

The fault is from Bitget, I said this because the express mode of p2p is fully controlled by the exchange, getting the best selling price by the market for you to run that transaction. Bybit has a similar issue on this same p2p, whereby the merchants are not strictly regulated when it comes to their different price display on their ads.

One platform that I have not found this flaw is Gate, their ads are closely within the range of the current exchange rate, and anyone who escalates his/her exchange/trade ads, will be suspended, and because of this, they are all cautious with what they do. If Bitget will take a bolder step in fixing this, it will help a lot of users.

I definitely understand you and the OP, and as someone who has had the experience before, I can certainly relate. Bitget's own is to make sure they prevent scammers from being a vendor through thorough review and kyc. It is left to the vendor and seller or buyer to be careful of the transaction. When I also had this same issue, I reported him immediately and action was taken and got my money back fully, not the exchange's fault, just us humans that deserve to be blamed for being a liar.

E be like this thing dey happen for almost every exchanges. I remember someone complaining the same thing about Kucoin exchange when NGN P2P was still active for their platform. This Bitget exchange don get plenty red flag wey go make people abandon them but I don't know why our people still dey use am. I get verified account with them but dem no dey allow me do P2P for the reason I don't know. Since then, I no too get confident on them like other exchange.

You know this thing is unlikely to be noticed because some people no go bother to check the amount displayed in the next page again after seeing the initial amount displayed in the ads page. I go advice make people begin dey do manual calculations to compare wetin show for the P2P and what the manual calculation give them before proceeding. If you press calculator and the money no reach wetin you suppose collect, cancel the trade sharp.

The exchange no too care about the customers. They won't get the problem of displaying ads with fake price fixed as long as e no affect them. We are our own security, we need to be vigilant when trading in any platform because no single of them can be trusted again.

I get your point. I’ve used Bitget P2P a few times, and honestly, it’s been decent once you get used to checking merchant details carefully. Prices do fluctuate with quantity, and smaller trades often get better rates. What helped me was sticking to verified merchants with high completion rates and lots of positive feedback. The first few trades were slow, but once I found consistent sellers, it became smoother. It’s not perfect, but I haven’t had major issues so far.

Comparing is important especially on the rate so that you wouldn't be selling low while the main price is high, perhaps the express do not obey the command of the market rate because on the main p2p there is no time you visit there you are going to see the current price that will be the same with every other exchange rate. As you said, you are definitely lucky because the amount you would have realized if sold in normal price will not be too high compare to when the amount you wanted to sell is up to 2k dollars because it would have make you feel bad at yourself for making that mistake, I will not say those in express should go for the main p2p but with this experience they should no the price first before anything.

I think I have started experiencing this particular issue today with bitget exchange and if wasn't vigilant enough I would made a lot of mistakes that would have cost me a whole lot of cash. What made me notice the change in price tag and amount is when  the value of the full amount fluctuated and looked very small compared to what I calculated in my head so I checked and saw that the price is different from the advert flagged on the p2p trade.

As far as I know, merchants will always be merchants, often seeking ways to out-smart the system.  And Bitget can't be blamed in this because they won't waste a single time to freeze such a merchant's account if reported and found to be fraudulent. I almost had similar experience many months back, I crossed checked and pulled back. I let it slide and when I checked later, I noticed the merchant was restricted. Obviously, another seller may have reported. I believe the system is trying it's best to sanitize their platform but some mischievous elements from time to time will try to make more profits from unsuspecting users than normal.

Na dis ur second picture make me choose mouth put for dis matta. I perused d advertiser's term and I nor see d very vital term wey I dey always look out for – No 3rd Party account. Those wans wey dey out dat warning dey like straight deals. Na wetin me don observe be dat. Dem nor dey like do anyhow. Make una dey try include am for una screening criteria. Let high price offering not be una main thing to check. Betta price dey good but make e nor be d koko for us. Anoda thing be sey make we dey always take awa time during deals to slowly and carefully check every every. No hastiness while dealing wit financial issues.

I've learnt lessons and seen reasons why we go need to use the blockchain or anything related to trading, sending or receiving of any cryptocurrencies. When na the time to do any of these things make we make sure say we no dey in a hurry or say our mind no come dey for wetin we dey do, me dey like focus on wetin i dey do because any distraction fit cause me to lose everything or part of the money i dey deal on.

I get this experience for inside Bybit, i been want sell my Bitcion to USDT, normally na for spot wey i suppose place the order but unknown to me say na futures i go dey sell, at that moment i been dey very distracted and i no notice am, after some while when i check come see say e never convert and my money done already dey lose some dollars before i come see wetin dey occur, from then i just make up my mind to always focus when i dey use my wallet or exchange to avoid losses.

It's a scam attempt. I do use Bitget to trade, and I've never noticed it until recently. When I wanted to trade, I noticed some of the vendors were frequently adjusting their prices with the hope that a seller would unknowingly accept it. They would create an ad with a higher price, and before you know it, they would adjust it. They kept doing this over and over, and I got tired of watching. I don't know if this scam is only on Bitget, but we just have to be extra careful whenever we want to trade. If it can happen on Bitget, it can happen elsewhere.

At first I don't like using Bitget instead, I use others. But Biget was not like this before when I first Know am, dem dey use the accurate exchange rate like other exchanges but after when di Nigerian Government deal with di exchanges and many of the exchanges closed down, and Bitget wiith im vendors start to misbehave. Bitget has full of scammers, so di best way na to stop using am.

You're not alone buddy, I almost fell for it yesterday while selling my coins. I think  they don't set a fixed price but use a floating price with a lower price boundary of amounts much lower than the normal market price. I tried myself to create an add and saw that is the only place possible to manipulate the prices by the merchants.
https://i.ibb.co/TDVNxpdh/IMG-20251021-183826.jpg (https://ibb.co/MyYJxWQN)

https://i.ibb.co/xSpc9jv9/IMG-20251021-184237.jpg (https://ibb.co/jvcx0MK0)

One needs to be very careful because you didn't see this immediately you click the ad until about 2 seconds after, the price changes to their lower boundary. 

Again if is important we calculate the funds with our own calculator first to be sure the amount is correct, that how I caught the first person that almost scammed me using this method

All comfortability i get using exchanges is based on how they are scaled on trust and reputation, I prefer doing P2P on exchange that trades large funds with big investors. I believe it is hierarchal, we used Binance, when it got dissolved majority moved to Kucoin, on their own terms they ended P2P offer and same majority traders changed to Bybit. Using Bitget is endangering your funds, they have to be weighed on reliability, from these whole complains, they don't fit in the scale and should be avoided.

I am very reluctant in exploring multiple exchanges, I have a verified account with Bitget but haven't done a single transaction on their platform.

This really sheds light on why their prices often appear lower and shows that there's a need for more awareness among users. No one would be happy selling their coins below the actual market value, especially when the drop is due to manipulative price settings.

I'm going to just state this because of the number of scam attempts I have been able to escape after being cautious of the Bitget p2p flawed system that they still haven't fixed which shows how well they're not concerned about all of these.

To be honest one thing is that never show pity to those who wanted to scam you, take every of your money even as little as 100 naira. When is trying to out smart to scam another I hardly would show any pity.

Avoid doing p2p in a rush because this might pressure you to release your coin early and you might not have time to properly notice the difference.

If they say they don't accept refund, stand your ground of not releasing till they make full payment with the actual rate you saw at first. I will advise you screenshot it before or immediately after agreeing to sell because these scammers can quickly change the price ( this is from recent experience) but in this point one thing that gave me good ground here was that the scammer had negative reviews in his recent trades and when he threatened to report me to bitget for not releasing coin after payment, I brought that to his noticed and he started negotiating and pleading.

With the above story, let's please don't see it as a stress to give reviews of our experiences with these buyers this will really help others a lot against scammers. Thanks, God bless