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So, I am new to Bitcoins(relatively, been almost 2 months).  I managed to get up to about $70 dollars worth of coin at the current market value.  The current signature I am using I signed up for to make some coins for posting, I thought it was great.  Well this is where I made my mistake.    I decided to deposit $50 dollars to try and earn a little more coin.  I then saw a post by Grappa_Barricata indicating this was a ponzi, I would like to thank him for bringing this term to my attention.  I started researching what a Ponzi is, and I immediately tried to withdraw my money.  I was a little too late I guess.  I just wanted to thank Grappa for posting about that and informing everyone.

I know ponzi is not a bitcoin term but I was still unfamiliar with the scam they ran.  Anyway, just wanted to post this and let everyone know that Cryptcominer is indeed a scam, and hopefully you do not invest. Big thanks to grappa for bringing this to my attention.

Wow. totally unexpected... You lost your money in an HYIP/ponzi/scam ?

It is simple
How do u expect someone to give you 3% a day?
From other investor's money.
and when admin makes a good profit, withdrawals are not granted and the site disappears in a few days.
Don't invest in HYIPs. it is worse than gambling.

Any program offering this much interest, is obviously false. If you invested 1 btc in a year, you would have 12 btc, they simply can't sustain that.

Be happy that it was only 50 dollars. Learn from your losses and thanks for the advise, I know I have.

Some people had more than a thousand dollars on this, I really hope and pray that they got out before this crashed.

You shouldn't keep advertising them in your signature then ;)

Learn from the mistake. The knowledge is worth more than 1000$. So you made a net profit.  :D

Yes, Thank you for the nice response, as I stated in my post I was not aware of what a Ponzi was.  I was just writing it to warn other people and thank the people that warned me albeit I didn't know till it was too late.

Why would a random new account give you free money? Sorry, but you fully deserved to lose it.

By the way, if you send me 1 BTC I send 2 back because I'm a nice guy.

I told everyone this was luminine and no one had listened, but who cares right hes paying u Daily so lets help the scammer make alot of money.

I did get out way before :D

I really didn't think I would receive such backlash for posting this, I am really sorry I guess.  I am new and learning about everything as much as I can

Sorry to hear that man, a lot of gambling websites are scamming now.

If an investment seems to good to be true, it usually is.

Not a lot of people understand that. Cryptos is still the heaven for scammers. What is really sad is that the number of members falling for those scheme doesn't seem to fall  :-\

people still advertise them, they should be punished for their stupid mistake I guess

but that follows the signature is still paid. hmm

Well, writing was on the wall from day one, and it was obvious it was a scam, and people warned of it being so on nearly every page of their thread.

yes they even sent an email there is a new plan 1-day gain of 130% if you invest $ 1,000 and $ 1,300 you can in one day, and I suspect they gather investors plainly

Just AFTER i got email for this "vip" plan they stoped to pay me out as well so imo this was the last big strike to get cash and now they stop to pay out

People have to learn that every single one of these will crash eventually. Its kinda fun to go in for a couple days, make an easy couple percent, but theres always the chance that it will crash.

I feel sorry for your loss. You are not alone, however!  Most of us are still learning, often the hard way!

Nevermind the losses, it's time to move on, and you know what you just upped your experience level, can't buy that but you learned...

Makes me sad that these dumbass ponzi operators are able to make a quick buck off people who are new to Bitcoin. Although, you should be familiar with things that are too good to be true which is what hyip/ponzis fall under.

Hopefully people will see this thread and it can prevent others from making the same mistake.

These things are actually quite fun and profitable, if you get in quickly and get out quickly. Easy 3% in 24 hours, no chance of shutting down in 24 hours

I'm a lucky ass for withdrawing right after they scammed :( fuck.

I only put in my own money, 20$ for 2 days. Rest was sig campaign earnings. Made a total of 8$

You realize you contribute to other people losing money? If you are ok with that, you are just as much a piece of shit as the ponzi operators.

I just chalk it up to a lesson learned.  Hopefully other newbie's see this and learn from my mistake!  I'll get the bitcoins back slowly hopefully!

Have they actually crashed and burned as of yet? Link?

In theory the OP can still get something back via investment returns if they are still paying out (aka conning people into giving them money)

It's over.

Being it so fast I doubt most (all?) took the initial funds soon enough.

Sorry to the people who deposited but lucky that I only enrolled on the signature campaign.

Read :

Congrats!

You did a great job helping a scammer! And for what? 50 cent/day? A total of 5 bucks?

Geez, people are cheap nowadays!

i got 1.50$ per day for the signature campain (different account) but since 3 days they stop to pay