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This website was on the official BTG page until a few hours ago.
Between 20-40 BTC were stolen by this website from the users trying to claim BTG for the BTC they had before the fork.
The users imput their mnemonics from BTC wallets in order to get the BTG wallet and private key.
This website used this menmonic to get access to the specified BTC account and empty it in a second.
After getting the BTC from those accounts the strange thing is that not for all the BTC account stolen, the scammer did not claim BTG although he had all info.

I built a community (https://join.slack.com/t/stolenbtc/shared_invite/enQtMjczNzMxOTM5MjIyLTNhZWRlNjNmMGUwOGJlYzFlMGZhNTIxMjA1ZWJhZmU1YTJjOTY3NTQ3Y2Q2YWE5NTc5NzAxZTRlYzAzYmEzMzA) with all the people that I could find that were ripped by this scammer and I helped a few of them to claim their btg. Feel free to join.

Some of the users claim that they lost up to 43 BTC.


Keep in touch.

Since it is in btg official webpage maybe developer of BTG is in cahoots with the one who stole btc, and they both have agreed to not claim btg's. It won't be listed on bitcoin gold official page unless my speculation is true. The fact that it got listed on their official page means that the developer might have had something to do with them or knows the scammer really well. For now wait for official announcement from btg dev, you can also go to services section and try to hire a skilled tracker to track the thief.

We are also waiting for an official announcement.The devs from BTG told us that they've got access to the hosting server of the website and are investigating.
The developer of the website said he is investigating this too but the community acuses him for now until further proof.

Satoshi Nakamoto ripped me 10,000 BTC when I have wanted to buy a pizza from him. Some of the users claim that they lost up to 30,000 BTC (3 x pizza).
Watch out guys. But unfortunately there is no real evidence.

Common, this is nothing but FUD. It is really interesting how hard some people try to defame BTG in any possible way.

The site is 1000% scam. You (all) should learn once at for all - never put your private keys on unknowns and suspicious sites.

My guess is that somebody hacked BTG site and put the phishing link there. It's pointless to steal some merely 40-50BTC and ruin a billions dollar cap project.

I do agree with this guy. Many hackers nowadays scamming in ICOs as well. Won't be surprised if BTG site was hacked.

I think because of this, this really proves that the BTG is really a scam after all, If BTG is not a scam, why do they put a scam site on their official website that they say is trusted. I hope that this thread became threading so that many people here can no longer get scam by them.

I agree with you.
In my opinion neither the Owner of mybtgwallet or BTG devs are responsible for this.
First responsability was for the users that input priv keys or mnemonics to the website ( I've been talking to a few of them, they weren't new in crypto (holding 4-6-7-12 BTC each) but kindda noobs with the blockchain technology)
Second responsability is for the mybtgwallet dev that put the product online before taking all measures (although he said he takes no responsability of the product).

PS: Never put your private keys anywhere on the web.

This topic is not fo defaming BTG.
BTG has nothing to do with this.Even more, the devs from BTG interacted with this scam by agreeing to take a look on this websites source and try to track the scammer.

everything that related somehow to Bitcoin Gold is a scam...

Need to be careful. There are so many people cheating at these times.
And also bitcoin gold is scam :) :D

Ok, you can say something is a scam but you must also proove it.

I asked for addreses to check on the blockchain, the guys gave me everything, screenshots of transactions, TX, addreses..everything.
They said that they are willing to give the private keys to the BTG devs to further investigate this.
I was sceptic at the beginning regarding this and thought it was a marketing method to undermine the trust of John Dass (developer of mybtgwallet.com) but at the end, when the users provided proof I started to believe them.
I asked them to also sign messages from the BTC addreses thei claim to be ripped but they didn't know yet how to do it. Will kepp in touch anyway.

PS: This thread is not for saying that BTG is a scam (which in my opinion is not). IT is for people that claimed that got scammed by mybtgwallet.com

BTG is a cryotocoin not a scam. It works as many other cryptocoins.

hmm i'll tell you why it is a scam
first of all they are doing it mostly for money - its obvious with this big premine
and yesterday someone found a hidden code inside bitcoin gold that takes fee's ..
search "bitcoin gold found hidden code" in google

Everybody is doing things online for the money, why else should they do it?

Almost 90% of the new coins are premined by their developers. (more than that, ICOs take between 10-20% out of the total supply by default for "marketing" purposes).

The code was inserted from one of the developers (the Bulgarian one) into the MINING POOL CODE the btgmine pool used. If you read on github about this code, you will see that the developer put this fee into the code with a comment ("to the devs" or something like that) stating that he made the code and gave it to the online community.If it was not for him, even now we should be waiting for a pool script to mine the damn coin.
Anyone who wanted to install the MINING POOL code, if they have taken a look into the code and understood it (which they should- to run a pool you must know code) they could have commented the fee line and there you go.......so, who is responsable for this? The guy who made the code or the admins of the pool by being superficial and only into it for the money?
After the community asked the bulgarian about this line, he modified the comment on the line (not removing it) and updated sources on github. The total fee was 1.5% which is fair taking into account that many pools charge more than that.

To sum it up : NONE of your proofs work til now.

Inform yourself more before saying that this or that are scams.

No offence.

Everything that BTG touches turns to Shit

BTG*.* all websites on earth were operational scams for a month

Pool.Gold was redirection 1Mega Sol/Sec for a month

Nobody cared, then or now

BTG sites were turning good BTC into BTG shit,

Especially the YOBIT.NET site ( russian ), very much involved in scam of turn BTC into BTG.

I confirm, the site in question is a scam, fortunately I moved almost all the funds in time,
but the scammer managed to get 0.13 BTCs left for my distraction and stupidity , a few hours ago.
For the reader I say "Never put seed or private wallet keys in any way on the internet, "I hope to avoid big tears.

The BTG site managers are in any case responsible if not complicit, I hope they will investigate to find the guilty ,
if they care about their integrity,
certainly their story does not start well.

if 90% of the coins are doing premine, it does not make it right ... + the other coins that make premine dont do it with the knowledge that the coin will cost 100$(minimum) in the lunch .. so BTG premine is quite big money grab for nothing ...
BTG wants to be the decentralized part of bitcoin, but we all see how bullshit it is.. decentralized coins most of the time that come from fork + premine, cant be really decentralized
who owns most of the BTG? people who own Bitcoins and the devs..
normal people that want to be a part of this bullshit decentralization, only feed the coin owners pockets since the beginning

and watch the message above..
i bring only 1 red flag, there are so many..

Here a thread https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2393967.0 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2393967.0) with other victims of MyBTGWallet.

What do you mean by " Pool.Gold was redirection 1Mega Sol/Sec for a month" ?
didn't know about the YOBIT...maybe they were using it to dump their BTG or to bump the BTG.....
I am not so much into trades, know a little about it.

This is a real shame if true, and I lay the blame solely at the BTG developers. In ANY new cryptocurrency project it's necessary to consider the roll-out, communication and user experience not just writing code. Failure to do so results in user frustration, scams and an unsuccessful project (usually). This isn't even new information, we've seen it happen time and time again with projects that implode from lack of timely updates or not communicating with their userbase well enough.

Finally, NEVER trust your private keys to an online service ever , unless you're willing to lose them.

I don’t know how many times I’ve read on this site to move you bitcoins away from the private keys you are using to claim forks, before claiming.  Would have saved these people a small fortune....

and one more victim here - heho... :(

seems like all stolen funds came here
1JZqYFqzxLN4w4uPuLbMHXbDPTDKvaBKoS

may be somebody help to find out more info about this wallet?

Another victim here. I visited mybtgwallet site through the OFFICIAL link posted on OFFICIAL bitcoin gold website and ofcourse used my private keys because i believed it was a trustworthy website - turns out it was a scam. Ofcourse link disappeared last night from bitcoin gold website. Crazy irresponsible shit from BTG devs. BTW i didn't have any BTC, but all my BTG were stolen.

I agree with you, the possibility of advertising related to the developer or team of btg. this is very unfortunate once the cheating happens again.

Just a simple rule of thumb is to transfer the bitcoins to some other wallets from the wallet which you want to extract the fork coins whether it be Bitcoin cash or Bitcoin Cold. In this way, even if your private key is comprised, there is no risk that you lose bitcoin because you already moved the bitcoins but the bad thing is most people dont do this precautionary step.

Thanks for the heads up man ! There are too many scam right now in the cryptoworld, ICO scam, Bitcoin gold scam, aidrop scam...etc

Stay safe fam

Ladies and gentlemen, I am with you. Luckily 60% of my btc were transferred to kraken.
I suppose BTG officials should know the identities of people behind mybtgwallet, same implies for DNS registars, etc.
The total amount stolen is 70.5 BTC so far and, IMO, the best thing to do is to get this as much publicity as possible.

same here. Followed the link from the BTG official website. Got my BTC both BTG stolen. Don't know what to do now. The whole idea with this fork proved to be just another terrible scam, that's all. That was my fault i know this.

same here.


my funds (around ~0.04 btc)were sent to following address:
1NJv7juV8LcLBo4egLvarkEVWskgjhY6NQ
1DVhaBdbp5mx5Y8zR1qR9NBiQtrgL9ZNQs

my post about it:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2414314.msg24695285#msg24695285


I highly (!) doubt that anyone can help us.

there are a lot of thread who are reporting this scam.
here below another thread reporting the same problem.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2414759.0
syncing the wallet is boring, but more secure than use online wallet.

Need on chain second layer of protection of private key transfer online, like 2FA authentication whenever private key is pass over for authentication, only owner be able to let private key to unlock anything

There is no chance it is put up there by hacker, it is offered by the website owner (btg official) as means to check your BTG availability right on the front page

If you have a 2FA then they will ask that too on the bogus website and you will give it to them.The script will do the job as easy as this time.

Anyway,I think something is not clear here:

Giving away one Private Address from one of your Addresses from your wallet, gives the hacker/scammer etc access only to that specific address.
Giving away the Secure Passphrase (MNEMONIC/SEED etc) gives FULL ACCESS to the WHOLE wallet!!!!!

The guys from mybtgwallet didn't steal only BTC. They did steal also ETH/LTC/ZEC and other coins from the users that were using multicoin wallets. So the access was to the whole wallet not just one address.
Mind the difference between Priv Key and Seed....

The damage is much bigger than we expect, multi coins are involved.

2FA is not like private key/seed word which is one time authentication pairing at creation time only, there is 2 way interactive response challenge in 2FA, the scammer have to contact all the victim on time to complete the transaction because 2FA is time sensitive, if he failed to give the code within the time given the transaction will be cancelled

A lot of people lost their bitcoins, plus their bitcoin gold because of this.
I dont know why you all are still giving your private keys to another people, doesnt matter how good and temptative looks the other project.
It was free money, and you all felt tempted to export your private key into there in order to receive those free tokens for free. And the price went up by a lot of money, so it increased the anxiety to get those coins for free ASAP, because they were increasing so quickly.
Maybe all this thing was just a setup, we dont know yet.

All wars, color revolutions - printed dollars. There are 2 concepts. Strength in money and power in truth. Mankind is entering a new era of virtual technologies, where truth and money lose all meaning. We all need a free economy. The failed projects are the discrediting of the crypto currency. A familiar handwriting!

Just move your BTC before trying to redeem your BTG.

Everyone should understand this.

Join the community of people that got scammed.
Only toghether we can get over this.
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Also please comment on this post:

http://bitcoinwhoswho.com/blog/2017/11/16/million-dollar-mybtgwallet-scam/

There is a new clone of Mybtgwallet.com online. It is https://mybitgoldwallet.com/...BEWARE: it is a scam too, has transmit script inside, do not use!

Also there is another fishy wallet on the official Bitcoin gold website : Freewallet and as according to this topic is fraud too :

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1964190.0


Holders, BEWARE

*Note: Crosspost from another thread day before yesterday; posted before I knew there was a dedicated thread about this*

Yup. For my first post, I was just about to sound off about this. Same exact thing.

I thought it was safe, because it had been (previously) listed in the "Ecosystem" at the official BTGold site, and was actually one of the first ones available. Otherwise, I would never have entered my private keys there, or the private keys to my girlfriend's wallet. She had about $2000 in BTC in her Jaxx wallet, and we were getting the BTG.

We entered our private keys into mybtgwallet.com ... again, thinking it was safe. I had told her to move her BTC asap, but I didn't push it super hard, because I couldn't imagine an official website linking to a scam right on their website. However, at the time, the "wallet" couldn't transfer the BTG, saying that the mainnet hadn't been released yet. Once it was released, we kept refreshing the site, only to see that it still hadn't been updated since the 10th, or two days before mainnet. Eventually, we just used Coinomi to transfer the BTG and she kept her money in Jaxx. The *only* other place we exposed the private keys would have been to the Coinomi wallet. And I don't think that they're sucking money out of accounts these days.

This evening, we check in, and guess what? All of her BTC gone (except for $7). Also, all of my BTG gone. They wiped us out. She called me crying; that was a lot of money for her. I feel super guilty, because I was the one that talked her into investing during the last dip. Of course, when I check the site now, it's changed. The other two options are gone, the certificate is expired, it links to a *different* github address (it used to be this guy: https://github.com/iancoleman/), and all the credits and other info are gone. And, of course, it's disappeared from the Ecosystem section of the official site without a word from the BTG devs.

There's absolutely *no way* it wasn't mybtgwallet.com. I can post the transaction later, on. But here's the real question: how involved were they with these folks? Because the person who's currently linked to mybtgwallet.com is, at the moment, a contributor to the BTG project on Github:

https://github.com/John-Dass?tab=stars

... and the "official" wallet, as well:

https://github.com/John-Dass?tab=repositories

Did we just get scammed by the official creators of Bitcoin Gold for our Bitcoin (and our Bitcoin Gold)?

I'm sick to my stomach, here.

well, scammers will never die. Crazy how many people are scamming daily in crypto... I hope we will see some better times in the future!

What gets me the most, is this "Disclaimer" they put up on the BTGold official website, the very moment we all got our coins stolen, and they quietly removed the link from their site, all without an official announcement to save other users from the same pitfall, mysteriously. You'd think that they'd want to avoid other users getting scammed by putting out an urgent announcement, alongside the removal of the link. But nothing yet that I've seen. The lack of an official announcement plays nicely into the idea that they're very much okay with this sort of thing happening, or having happened, and have no intentions to get ahead of this like a normal group of developers would in light of this:


Putting the blame back on us. Which is fair: we share some blame. But in this case, I'm pretty sure they're the robbers telling us we should've kept our stuff locked up because it's 'a dangerous world out there'.

Moreover, for those here saying "why would they do this when they've got a coin with a billion dollar market cap?", etc:

I couldn't tell you. Greed? Because so far, we could pose that question against things we know that they already did. Like:

"Why would they need a premine when they've already got a coin with a billion dollar market cap?"

"Why did they let tens of thousands of miners premine for them, without ever saying that this is what was happening for an entire day after the launch of the official mainnet?" Hell, if it wasn't for a tweet from Suprnova, I wouldn't have known. I was sitting there watching my coins mature, and then disappear, and not a word from them about this. Not a notice on mine.pool.gold. Nothing. Others were equally surprised. I mined like $50 for those guys without knowing it. So why would they need to do that, if they've already got ... ?

... you get the point. I hope that the coin soon outgrows these devs, but the more I look into and research this, the more I genuinely believe that there's very little chance the btgold team isn't at *least* in collusion with the guy / folks that took our coin.

And bear in mind, I am not someone who's against these forks. I think they're a healthy and exciting part of the ecosystem, to be honest with you. A potential chance for us later comers to experience the same growth some of you folks did who joined up in 2011 or 2013. But now, with Bgold, I'm split. The better it does, the better I know the scammer, or scammers, are doing, too. I'm still excited about the idea, but it's hard to support them (current devs) after what very much appears to be something they're kind of a part of. I didn't want to believe it, but every reputable crypto person out there was saying that these guys were probably in this for the money; and though they got a bit more sophisticated since that accusation, it may very well have been true after all.

Note, they did come out with this yesterday:

https://bitcoingold.org/safety-is-critical/

However, I don't know that I can buy the "Man in the Middle" attack theory. How many people in crypto, having already gone to jail or going to jail for stealing people's money, have tried this explaination?

Also, the site in question has had two forms: one that was complete, and had footer credits that linked to the repositories the code came from, along with three options for creating a wallet, transferring BTC to BTG (which was disabled until the mainnet launched), and a tab for checking your BTG balance with your private keys (which is when we input our private keys); and the second one was the one that looked broken and "hacked" (which happened just the evening before most of our coins were stolen, and is its current state). The first version of the site had to be the version that stored and transmitted the keys, because for us, that's the only time we submitted them. Changing the site later to look like it's been "hacked" is super suspect to me. Why would the hacker change *anything* after stealing the money? You're done dude; no need to make the site look *more* jenky. And you mean to tell me that the site owner didn't notice this for five days? Or that his site was jenky looking for all days since? And hasn't bothered to lock it down, or fix it? I call shenanigans.

For us, the timeline wouldn't work out. We submitted the keys on the 11th, when the site looked normal, and just after it was listed on the BTG official site and just before the launch of the mainnet. We waited for several days before just transferring it instead to a Coinomi wallet, since the date of last update (which was then 11/10/2017) hadn't changed. Even as recently as the 13th, when you clicked on the second tab to "transfer your BTC to BTG", you'd get a popup that said that this was disabled until the mainnet launch. It was clear that something might be wrong, but there was still little cause for alarm, because the site was still listed on the official BTG site, as far as we were concerned. This is when we started talking about moving the money (which we were actually planning to do).

On 11/14, I checked one last time in the evening, and that's when the site suddenly looked "hacked". But again, our keys shouldn't have been stored anywhere, right? So being "hacked" later shouldn't have affected us. And, if they were "hacked" before, why would a hacker then go out of their way, the day before their big heist, to make the site look horrible to dissuade others from losing their money?

And on 11/15, our money, both our BTC and our BTG, were gone (by about 1:30pm our time, MDT).

The timeline just doesn't work out.

BTG is 100% at fault, I knew that was going to happen, I put a bit of BTC in an account and only used there onsite part where you put the info in, and sure enough its gone, I don't care what anyone says, if it says it safe and its on the main site where you enter the info, then its on them, I did that just to test, they could of made a keygen for offline, they know what they where doing, and crypto or not, there will be a day when all this will have an out come, you just cant think you can take that much money and in the long term get away with it, I am looking at it like long term full adoption for crypto, and that will never happen as long as others can get away with this. And I was really excited for a GPU only BTC chain.

Hi, I am also one of those scammed by this mybtgwallet site. The way I see it is also that the BTG team is at fault here, in multiple ways. Firstly they didn't have a disclaimer that those are community sites and only added it after this incident. They assured everyone on Twitter that the site was safe and they personally vetted the team. Secondly from all appearances it looked like an official site they were running so depended very much on the trust placed in them.

They also had numerous incidents of negligence along the way. They should have had proper replay protection BEFORE the fork. They could have done a private fork and tested this before announcing the official real fork. Instead they ran a competition for a member of the community to come up with a solution. They decided to implement a "unique address format" which itself is good but they should have had an official tool to convert addresses before even announcing the fork. I asked them for this on numerous occasions but they never bothered to even respond to it. Instead we had to use third party tools at literally the last moment or else I would have never provided my key as it was the only way I could get my address at that time. I'm not saying it's the case but it's almost as if it was planned to be like this. I never fall for phishing scams so that itself should tell you something but crypto is a new world where things function differently.

Further they still haven't said anything about this incident, only releasing a general safety bulletin afterwards. We don't know if they are tracking down the individuals involved or provided their information to the authorities. I don't buy the hacker/impersonator excuse they gave for a moment before shutting down the site. You don't run away if you are truly innocent. Firefox gave no warning about the insecure certificate when the site was functioning. It was only after the incident that it complained so that is just a convenient excuse they tried to implement after the fact to try and cover their tracks.

The BTG team should do the right thing here and compensate us from all those blocks they mined. If they don't do it I hope this continues to haunt them till the project eventually dies.

Response to some of the comments made

"BTG or the team isn't a scam"
That may or may be the case. Personally I reserve the word "scammer" for people that trick other people out of something. They did do a few things though that would be considered unethical in a regulated environment. They may not have hidden the fee code but they sure as hell weren't upfront about it and snuck it in. Most mining software and pools state their fees upfront for the sake of transparency. How can we trust them?

"Why would the developers steal funds when they did a premine?"
I don't know, why would they sneak in a mining fee in their software? Some people are just greedy like that. The premine is supposed to pay for ALL development yet in this case they didn't think it was enough and wanted more.

"The premine wasn't any different than any other premine or ICO reserve"
Well actually it was. First off it wasn't a premine as they themselves state. Secondly we already knew the base price from the Bitcoin Cash fork instead of it being valueless like with new coins. That means they already calculated what they were getting out of it. That part was a money grab whether the project survives or not. Personally I don't care about this as there are bigger issues. The team is hugely unprofessional with how they handled the fork and it's clear they aren't professional coders that created a lot of issues along the way.

"mybtgwallet got scammed/hacked"
Well that is a matter of debate. I can say for sure it's the same site from my browser history so there was no impersonation and I followed the link directly from the BTG site. It's also debatable whether it got hacked. The site was working fine with no security warnings until the theft occurred. Why was an invalid certificate then added? If this was an issue with a hack then it raises another serious question, why were the private keys stored when they were only needed at the time of a user checking their balance? Even real online wallets don't need to store any keys to function and calculating an address can even be done entirely on the client side. It's negligence at the very least and who uses a free host for something like this in any case? Why have the owners now run away without making a statement as well?

This is my point exactly. Nothing was wrong with the site when I used it on the 12th. The funds got stolen on the 15th. I didn't visit the site again as I managed to get Coinomi working in a VM. Initially I thought it was my fault for using dodgy software or having a virus but realise now I was probably never at risk for any of that. From the reports the site only looked broken or hacked after this. So why was it changed again and a broken certificate added after the keys were already stolen? All of this looks like a cover up after the fact.

Then there's also the issue of using a free host which usually doesn't ask a lot of questions like a paid one would do. Does anybody even really know the real identity of the owner?

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Freewallet has never stole from their users. We were the first to release a dedicated Bitcoin Cash wallet (https://freewallet.org/currency/bcc) during the first Bitcoin chain split we supported. The idea was the same behind our most recent Bitcoin Gold wallet (https://freewallet.org/currency/btg): when there's a chain split, it's a chance to benefit, and we won't miss an opportunity to present it to our users.

I ve been reading that MyBtgwallet is stealing private keys,maybe thay have bug and thay have been hacked
Better be careful than cry later

this will throw some shade to btg, good luck to all believers of this coin. Greedy people will always find a way to scam or take advantage if they have the chance to. I feel sorry for those who lost their btc jst to claim btg 

Just use a trezor and call it a day.

As I stated into some other topics:
"Most of the scammed holders were new to the blockchain technology but the strange thing is that not all!
They used their Mnemonic to claim btg/create btg wallet/check balance on forked btg on the developers official statements on many social networks.
They trusted thos sources.
The community is still growing after 6 days from the initial scam."

Regarding all the hardware wallets : It is of no use if you keep your account into trezor wallets and input your mnemonic seed on a fake website. You have to understand that money is not actually into that wallet. Money is on the blockchain. You might as well use any good encryption software to keep your passwords safe, or a offline computer.
The best antivirus ever is the specific user in front of the computer.

Who would want to use that website for Bitcoin Gold? What's wrong with just going to Bitcoin Gold's official site?

The website mybtgwallet.com WAS listed on the official website of bitcoin gold.
As soon as the scams started to be reported they put it down and uploaded a disclaimer.

The official website listed services created by the community prior to their launch and prior to Bitcoin Gold official launch.

Bitcoin Gold developers proved many times how noobs and inexperienced they were. They have been totally overwhelmed by the events. Putting links on the website helped them show how serious the project was. And they may have not checked any of them. This is the same case for the pools, made by noobs, who failed to start in time (we can see how well Suprnova did since the beginning).

Bitcoin Gold may have started as a scam, or a joke, we might never know, but whatever it was, it's now live and the community can take it over. Spreading FUD by talking about the same subject again and again won't help the community. Remember that devs have 8000 block premine, so they already have more money than you. If you want it to succeed, community has to take ownership of the coin, and its development.

And again, if you have many bitcoins in your wallet, why would you put your private key in an online service?
Because you need your BTG so hard and fast? My first advice is to use your BTC to buy you some patience magic potion.
But let's say you need your BTG hardly and fast. Why don't you first empty your bitcoin BTC wallet by sending the coins to another address, let's say on Blockchain.info (if you have no other alternative), and then use that old btc-empty wallet private key on the scamsite? If you lose coins, you'd only lose BTG, not your precious BTC.

Never give private keys of a non-empty wallet. Never. May this BTG event be a lesson for everyone.

Dont trust anyone about your private keys,no one would be scammed.I wont be suprise if the BTG is a scam most of the supply is being hold by the founders.

I do not understand why people say do not trust any website and do not import private key or seed. mybtgwallet was on the official bitcoingold website, that is why people trusted this.

I do trust myetherwallet.com and put my private key there, I do trust neowallet.cn and put my private key there, I do trust waveswallet.io and put my seed there, I do trust mymonero.com and put my private key there. These are official or supported wallets by the coins themselves. I thought mybtgwallet is also one of them.

This should be a really bad reputation for bitcoin gold, but as I see most people do not think so and blame users. This is not right.

They just warned people that their windows wallet is compromised and anyone downloading their windows wallet release should remove it and redownload new, this should not be happen to such huge project that have BTC community behind it, there is no security consideration at all, who knows I future what they will offer that they eventually found out to be scam software from unknown bounty developer     https://bitcoingold.org/critical-warning-nov-26/

Thank you for warning.
The Linux wallet was not affected by this bug/hack.

I really do not know why people do not listen or they just tend to take some unnecessary risks. I really do not know how legit this news may be but one thing people should always do before the try to claim another chain is to move out their funds from that wallet first. Any shit can happen and you have to be prepared for the unspeakable.

This whole BTG thing is really getting out of hand and I really hope it does not end up being more of a huge disaster than being a shit coin.

I really don't know either but the number of victims desicovered is increasing as we speak and the damage is huge.
This will not pass unseen in the cryptoworld.

Seems this coin is run by amateurs.  They can put a disclaimer up to say they don't take responsibility for links from their web site, but it is their responsibility to check they aren't scams - don't advertise the third party if you can verify them. 

Exactly. People who say never give out your keys don't know how crypto works themselves and should rather stay away. It is all about trust and in this case we trusted the wrong people. They are responsible for this mess.

Anybody here that can give us the IP's of "John Dass"? We need the IP's to move forward.

It is not a FUD and it is good this is being exposed right now before more people fall for this same shit. This should have been looked into first even before dropping that wallet link on their website, but I guess they did not expect it.

Moreover, the users are to be blamed as no matter how sage, you are not supposed to on any account leave your funds in your wallet before trying to claim most especially from a wallet you do not even know. Come on!

There are also some victims into that community that moved the BTC before using their Mnemonic Phrase to that malicious website. They lost the BTG though. We are talking about aprox. 1800 BTG stolen.
Even if you protected your BTC, you got robbed of your forked coins...

unfinished forks and theft, i hate btc you

I'm studying the business opportunity and feasability of helping bitcoin theft victims when the hacked service
cannot refund the customers. And this scam can be a good proof of concept example.

There's 2 main challenges:
1. investigation to track bitcoins transaction
2. legal to force btc services (like exchanges) to disclose scammer/robber identity,
   block funds if the service hold somes,
   and perform a lawsuit up to recover lost funds

On investigation challenge, I can say that some btc of this scam passed throught some well known exchanges.

Now I need some victims support to start a "disclose KYC request" to continue the proof of concept. I already contact
the exchanges and based on their responses, I understand that a lawyer is needed.

I need real victims mandate to continue this proof of concept, I will not ask for money compensation, but it may have lawsuit expenses
and no garantee of success. My main motivation is experience/know how and verify the business opportunity based on a % fee of recovered btc for next actions.

I would like to be in touch with several mybtgwallet scam victims, to see if it's an interesting opportunity for thems. So victims, feel free to PM me. We'll see together how to reach the right lawyer.

As it's a Proof of concept, all feedbacks are welcome.

Hitbtc is the best for trading the Bitcoin gold and its pairs. Hitbtc has the biggest Bitcoin gold volume currently and they have a partnership. For scam BTG site, I never visit the sites for storing my crypto and I only use the known wallets.

Wow, we need to be very careful in this crypto space, we should know that crypto is being our own bank, and we have to do everything possible to make sure our bank is being secured, I never saw this topic till now and I am very sorry for those that have lost their funds already to this scam company.

But, we should try to make sure we make good research about a project before sending our money there, because we have a lot of haters that want to make sure that the crypto community crumbles and will do anything possible to see this happen.

People are the ones to be blame for there actions, why can't you stick to the wallet on bitcoingold.org itself? Or Other popular mobile wallets to store your btcg coins? I'm just hearing this website for the first time and I'm sure they are scams

I notified the victims. People will contact you.