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Hi,

I am trying to find a company / Bounty Hunter to recover some BTC I had stolen.


Has anyone had any dealing with    www.darkwebsolutions.com  ????

I have been in contact with them and they are confident that they can get my BTC back, however they want $500 up front.

Naturally I am suspicious. Why not just include it in the 10% fee they take from the amount recovered.

Any help or alternative suggestions most welcome.

Looks like a scam to me.
They are using a free nulled wordpress(http://www.darkwebsolutions.com/wp-admin) theme (Sydney V 1.43).
Probably it's a teen trying to swindle people.
AVOID!

If you want to run a bounty then this forum is the best place!

Find a trusted escrow, and ask him to run the bounty for you.
Or you can just ask a free escrow to hold the funds, and run the bounty on your own.Post on the service section about your bounty, with details(Screenshots, transactions, addresses, etcetra).

Either way, there is near to 0% chance of getting scammed.Good luck!

Dont trust to scam project like that
THey only money before and after they willnot help u

But i heared somewhere that ppl can encrypt u files if u forgot password for u wallet file
that only i known

what about that its fully scam dont use that !

No dont use that, it can be scam except they want deal with you using escrow. Anyway, may i know How much did you lost?

Don't fall for this trap, confident that they can get back your bitcoin? How? What process?

You know that bitcoin address has no name right? If the one who stole your bitcoin used a mixing services then I doubt that you can recover it. Although there is blockchain analysis, criminals is one step further, they are not that dumb to just expose themselves in plain sight.

So I advice you to not pay them upfront and do their thing and just tell them to include it to the 10% fee. I'm not sure though if they are trusted on the first place.

How much did you lost though?

I do not understand, looking for bounty but have to pay BTC.
I think to be bounty not pay, only you have the expertise instead of paying.
this forum is better and do not go anywhere.

Just a trap, you shouldn't pay anything.

Sounds like a scam similar to those that say pay us a fee and you are guaranteed a loan - then no loan materialises. 

I'd stay clear OP.

 ;D ;D ;D ;D whats the reasoning that they gave you when i assumed you asked them why they needed money up front since they were certain the could recover the coins? usually when service operators request a payment for something in the line of recovery it simply a scam . why the need to collect monies upfront why would they not request a percentage of the recovered coins.This one has scam written all over it .

Bitcoin you had stolen and now is gone. seems to be a good thing to read.

well about the money upfront, its a scam!! if they will recover your bitcoin, why do they need upfront? they will still have your bitcoin right and that is more valuable than 500 USD. back off to them and live safe.

you can never get your btc back once it is sent
that website is scam and you will get scammed again if you pay them

Be careful now scam projects are everywhere, you do not believe it, unless they want to deal with you using escrow. It will not do you any good to ask them. Why they should ask to pay in advance, and not just cut a few percent of your results. I think if you continue to cooperate with them, you will lose big ..

WOW!!!

A big thank you to everyone who has commented.

Yes, i was 99.9 sure it was a scam. here is what they said when I questioned them about it.

Hello Martin,

"We have all the information needed to recover your bitcoin. Considering the volume of hack request we get on a daily basis, hack requests are queued and we also have to ensure that we are dealing with serious people.

We would trace the transaction from your wallet through all verifications on the blockchain and within 24 hours we will get the job done. However, we would require that you pay a commitment fee of $500 which is a baseline fee for Bitcoin recovery of over 1 BTC"



So, the amount stolen was 8 BTC from Binance :(   (Unsurprisingly they didn't want to know)

Several Alt coins were converted in to 8 BTC and vanished right before my eyes. The whole process was over in about 5 seconds, so I suspect a BOT was on the loose.


I will investigate the ESCROW option mentioned and hope for the best. As we are talking several thousand £'s it got to be worth a try, even though the odds are low.

It could be worth a few thousand to a Bounty Hunter if they are successful.

I have the times and the final withdrawel transaction Hash number,    Will I need to get anything else??

Usually, if your coins already stolen then there is no way to get it back except you can track through each transaction and when you already know who stole your coins you ask him to refund it.

I don't think your stolen bitcoin could still be recovered. It could be traced definitely but recovered its a doubt. It's not worth it to pay 500 bucks for something that is too dubious. Don't fall for that scam and just lose your money again. My suggestion is that you can move forward from your stolen btc and start over again. Charge this one to experience.

If they can get your BTC back, they can get the BTC of all other people.
Let use your brain.

$500 upfront is not good they can easily run because they are not a popular company unless it is recommended by a trusted member of this forum, why not open a thread in the service section so people will vie for the best service.

It is quite sad that we are living in a very dishonest world. Can you just imagine...you have been a victim and there are people who are trying to use your situation to make you another victim again. This is using a desperate situation so they can victimize other people. What a shame! That is why we really have to be careful and the fact that you are asking members of this forum is a good decision on your part. Knowledge is always power!

this is one of the biggest risks of bitcoin, when bitcoin is lost no one is responsible. this will be difficult because for us how much bitcoin we have, it is worth it. then when we lose bitcoin, we will report to whom? no one will want to deal with the case.

$500 in bitcoin, up front, with anything is a scam. Guaranteed 99.9%. If you meet these people irl it might be more legit, but that doesn't really mean anything either. Don't give them anything up front. If they won't do it, offer to use an escrow. If they don't agree to that, fuck em.

Once again many thanks for all your replies.

edgycorner suggested I place an ESCROW in the "Service Section"   

I am not too sure exactly where this is located.

I also have no idea of ho to setup an ESCROW.  Is there an official form I need to fill out, or do i just put the detail in a post?

Could someone advise me please.

Regards
Martin

This is a risk we must bear, if we lose some of our bitcoins, so we really should be able to secure our bitcoin, nowadays very many people want to have bitcoin, and very many people want to buy some bitcoin, we lose some of our bitcoin of course no one wants to be responsible.

Take 10% from amount withdrawn, they will take all. But I think they are not capable of doing it an will take $500 and you will be fooled.

Before you can say yes to this, I think that you would have to first question their process and some customes that they already has business dealings with. Because as I am looking at this forum thread one thing is clare that we all concur that this is not to be trusted due to the nature of its site and the vagueness kf how it can be able to slove your problem

Rule of thumb, If it sounds too good to be true, it's probably a scam.

Oh no! That is not a good deal. Get away from it. It sounds pretty shady. That is not how it works. After all, the task is not as easy as it may sound to them. Recovering stolen Bitcoin is really a gargantuan task that is even close to impossible. How would they recover it, by stealing it from the thieves themselves? Let them prove that they can recover your Bitcoins first and then the payment will happen. But seal the certain amount first.  Good luck.

Never trust anyone in the internet. Every time you do a transaction, you need an escrow for it. Anyone who is charging you $500  up front specially shady websites like that is a scam. Be careful :)

There is no way you could recover your stolen btc. There are a lot of online wallet who frequently reminds their users to b responsible for their passwords. It's not advisable to always to online log ins.

If your BTC's are stolen it might be gone for good. Unless the culprit would be bothered by his conscience and give it back to you.

Now don't fall into another scam and have another transactions with darkweb. From the name of the site itself, aren't you suspiscious yet? LOL

Try looking for a thread on this forum, but as far as I know, there is none.

Don't fall for such scams. They obviously want your money and you'll get nothing in return. Sorry to break your heart but once btc is gone...it's gone for good. Next time try to be more careful when dealing with bitcoins to avoid such sad endings

I think that is clear scam. Why need to pay btc in order to joined bounty.? They will easily stolen your btc.

There is a project that pay btc but very few. In your case if your btc was stolen it couldn't be back forever.

I know its 99.9% sure its gone, but it cant harm putting out a bounty on it just in case.   

Can anyone please help me by pointing me in the right direction as to setting up an ESCROW.

Is there a form for this?

What section can i post it in?

Any help most welcome.

the stolen bitcoin is just an omission for those of us who are too open to all your eth information to others. this is how the coin thieves work from all these bitcoin networks. and how about we who have bothered to participate in bonty each campaign ..

Time has come. It is necessary to invest now for how much rapid growth bitcoin.

The Binance part got my attention as it is an exchange I patronize. Are we beginning to experience that there now? OP, did you get to Support for complaint before seeking recovery outside? I feel Binance is a more reliable exchange but with this story now, I dont know.

did not quite understand the question, you can exactly write what happened, I'm just a bounty hunter too, and so far, everything is fine, because there you specify the wallet ETH

you should avoid that website, no one can win back your lost i am sorry to say but crypto trading is not easy to hacked even you were a well skilled in hacking. you can call to the support about your problem maybe they can help.

I would not particularly trust. The truth is very suspicious that they ask for such a sum. Although there are different cases here my friend had the same situation and nothing was not deceived.

Bitcoind is too sophisticated for beginners, and there to store their miserable 0,007 is not too convenient, and even more so to store for the sake of it all the blocking, too expensive pleasure.

You do not need to invest every month. You throw money into the account. Specialists work with them. Your income is 10-20% for bitcoins per month. You can take profit every week. And you can reinvest ..

Ok, I am not saying that this is a scam, but you have to be careful. They are saying that they are tracing the funds on the

Blockchain and this can honestly be done by anyone with a Blockexplorer. What happens after they push the funds through a

mixer service? {this is what usually happens} It is not uncommon for people to ask a "deposit" ...because once people get

their money, they are reluctant to pay for the service, but then this must be in escrow too.

Its so easy to buy a cheap webhost, and a domain. Its also easy to get rank in Google. Dont fall for BTC services listed in Google. Always get an escrow.

I never know these kind of service before,is it possible to recover the stolen BTC?

I f possible they how and then why they need to give back to the owner they can recover and keep for themselves and almost there are 3 million lost bitcoin so they can get back them too?:o

I am confused with this process.

I think this is unlikely. bitcoin works around the world. bitcoin direct payment transactions are not monitored by any government. Therefore, bitcoin must have high security. Managers must make every effort to ensure that the bitcoin is safe. I am very confident in the bitcoin managers.

I think it's a hoax. Bitcoin is anonymous. We can't find a liar. This is a scam, please don't believe they can get your stolen bitcoins back, I don't think any heat will do. Please don't be deceived, think carefully.

currently in investing, I still have not been scam by this crypto myself, although for the first ICO I follow, it is quite stressful, in this investment is never make a debt and use it to invest or your daily money, it is the worst step to enter cryptocurrencies. only use money that you can lose it. if you can't better dont invest.

if you want to join into ICO, make sure you've choose that have great trust or rating. I myself only follow with maximum 2 kind of ICO for each month. because i realize too many ICO are born each week, and each of them have a risk in it.

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Just make a research about their identity before having a transaction did you believe that they can give you the 1 BTC? common think about it! In the season now you do not know on who you are going to trust with besides the value of btc now is quiet expensive and I guess they are not going to return it even you pay them on that price. Don't trust anyone and don't click on phishing site to avoid being stole.

Feel like a scam to me.In my opinion, don't promote this kind of applications.How could we say that their idea is clear. There is a chance to stole the bitcoins of their and give back to the same person for a specified fee.

WOW can you please explain in details what happened ! did you tried to contact Binance ? . Did you had your 2 factor enabled ? . I never used API or bots but I know you get the option to disable withdraw ! it is really strange that you did not ! .

Anyways as stated above if the BTC gone it is gone no way to get them back  . Sorry for your loss .

I Never click files sent to me if I did'nt request for it. Chances are it is a virus or spam or a scam. You must put protection on your pc antivirus that can detect scams, viruses and the likes. And by the way never give your private key address/link your wallet will surely get hacked.

There are so many philsing link that sent into your email.
I've never clicked in them because i do have experiences with them. They will fake the original email from the supports but there will always be a mistake .
The problem is you have to notice it very well then nothing will happen to your Bitcoin at all.
Money is yours and the duty to protect it is yours also.

In your place I would not give them anything upfront - this clearly is a scam, if they'd be able to recover your funds they could get a percentage of what they can rescue.

 BitPay does it a little faster. The problem is that the financiers have not yet realized what to do with the bitcoins.

I think it's a new scam
If you want to lost all you can send to it ! ;D

Looks more like a scam. Investigate first, don't fall for it.

In no country in the world the bitcoin is legally protected and as far as I know there are no computer recovery techniques so the proposal does not seem honest to me.

Its better to directly approach blockchain managers or developers. see if they can do anything

What do you mean stolen ? maybe your private or mnemonic stolen?
i suggest you to not give any information about your wallet to anyone.
never trust anyone because anyone can steal yours.

He clearly lost his bitcoin so his wallet or private key got stolen.

ps: don't get scammed out of another 500.

many bitcoins lose their wallet because their account is not safe especially so many bitcoins your gmail sucutions should not just steal your bitcoin early wallet

I also scammed many times before and I learn on it, just move on and i'm sure that it is already been lost to your investment, their's a lot of scammers online just beware.
Consider it lost and don't give $500 for taking it back because i'm pretty sure it is scam.

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yes at this time a lot of thefts around my area. and bnyk who complain about losing coins, until now I have not been able to find a good solution to overcome the loss of coins.

I think this is too much, it requires to be checked once again because I don't think they are real people.

There is absolutely no such thing as recovering bitcoin that has been transfered to someone else's  private key. You are only going to be ripped off a second time.

Is it really stolen or you just have lost the private keys and cant now find them -_-

This occurs because of stupid people who don’t take care of their private keys. Listen dudes, all you know about your coins is just saved in private key. Once it is revealed to anyone, you will be losing all your investment with no seconds. So to avoid such circumstances, better is to relive your password every time and don’t tell it to anyone. Implement best practices for saving your coins from thieves.

This is absolutely right. If someone here wants to make you accept this fact, don’t believe him. There might be some game behind it. Because when it is officially declared by the developing team of bitocin that they never ever be recovered once transferred from one account to another so how this brother say this. So be attentive and stay away from such devils they are here just to distract you.

I also want to ask a little bit about how our bitcoin is stolen and what kind of protection to keep our bitcooin from being stolen?

Not the kind of news I want to be reading, sorry about your loss OP  :'(

I strongly advice not pay this $500 advance these guys are asking for as there could be a possibility of losing double your money

and knowing this is no easy task of recovering your btc...the best is follow the money trail if it hits an exchange you might talk to the owners to help but this is a longshot too.

One of the biggest reasons why Bitcoin is stolen is that the password is very simple and 2FA is not used. You can secure your Bitcoin with 2FA code, because it changes once time in 30 seconds and it is the best secure way . The another way for it you can secure account with your Mail, Number (for exchanges, not wallet).

it is obviously very suspicious, we should be vigilant. if they can return the lost btc but with a deposit. my advice is to look at the track record of a web or person who will help you. If it is guaranteed and reliable it is okay. otherwise we have to think hard.

You're wrong. I have not used 2 factor authentication for a long time and have never lost my bitcoins. The most important reason that people often lose their coins is their greed. I don't understand how you can believe in such tempting offers. Everyone should know that there is no easy money. This will help to protect yourself from scams.

I took a look into the website and i didn't find that they give this kind of service. Besides, no one can give you back your stolen Bitcoins.

Stolen bitcoins will forever be stolen,theres no way to retrieve those loss bitcoins most especially if private keys of your addres were also stolen and you can't be able to open it.Be careful who you trusted to because in this field there were lots of scammers that looks after your money that can easily be taken,pretending that they can give you full service but left you empty handed,that sounds so annoying mate so please be vigilant and be wise enough  to whom you trust.

Once , your bitcoins were gone unless you have the private key or access to the wallet that holding your coins, or else your Bitcoins are totally gone and you absolutely can't do anything about it .
No services can bring your Bitcoins back for sure because if they can do it then they could break down the whole blockchain system also.

It is very sad that your BTC has been stolen. I think this BTC will not be able to get back. It is better to give up his hope. If someone wants to help you get back BTC, it may also be a fraud.

Can there be any such organisation? infact I don't know since its nearly impossible to recover your stole btcs once for all

Just forget about it. You are just going to let your money stolen again because no one has ever retrieve their stolen btc in the history of btc unless the owner changed their mind which is very impossible.

If you are willing to give some random company $500 upfront than i can clearly see why you had your bitcoin stolen in the first place. It is not recoverable, learn from your mistakes and stop trusting people or using phishing websites like the one that wants $500 than you won't have your btc stolen again.

If your bitcoin was stolen then I am sorry to tell you that there is no way to actually get your bitcoin back because that is gone and it is gone forever. The same technology that was made to protect you is what keeps you from ever getting back stolen bitcoins so it works both ways. Do not pay anybody upfront to get back your bitcoins because they cannot get it back and you will just end up getting scammed.

One of the main features of Bitcoin is that each holder of a crypto currency is responsible for its own finances. Nobody can dictate the owner of the bitcoins, where to spend money or who to send them to. There is no censorship, only full financial freedom. However, you have to pay for everything. If you lose your bitcoins by sending them to someone by mistake or if they are stolen, you will not be able to return them - the funds will be lost forever.
That's why Bitcoin has turned into a haven of various scammers. Cybercriminals are becoming more sophisticated and find more and more ways and solutions that allow you to steal honestly earned bitcoins right under your nose. Those who have been using crypto-currencies for more than a year now, as a rule, rarely become victims of fraudsters. Their goal is new users, who are easily deceived, promising a rapid increase in capital in a short time.
And this is becoming a serious problem for Bitcoin. Despite the fact that such frauds occur in the case of traditional currencies, no one will refuse to use dollars just because someone was deceived and lost a lot of money. However, in the case of Bitcoin, the situation is somewhat different - the theft of funds and fraud is perceived by some users as a lack of a network and provokes them to refuse to use crypto currency.
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I smell something fishy with the site that you negotiated to do the thing. If they are really legit on that kind of job, then they should take some percent of the total btc recovered from you rather than asking that amount.

it doesn't make sense to me personally, how would they charge you 10 percent of the total amount to be recovered and they still request for a $500 payment upfront before they start the investigation. i think you should't make that payment, instead you can increase the percentage payment and allow them access to the transaction but don't giive them a dime.

This is a pure scam,  any company asking you for an upfront payment in other to retrieve your btc back will always want to scam you,  you have to flee and report such companies so that other people who are coming newly into the crypto space will not fall into there hands. Most bitcoin lost cannot be retrieved back,  bitcoin don't have the function to back date or call back a transaction just like banks.

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DARKWEBSOLUTIONS is a scam. Trust me! >:(  I speak from a very expensive experience

If someone asks for an advance payment for an unprocessed job, this means fraud. I do not recommend the use of such services

Do not use any such service, looks very fishy to me. Even if you decide to give it a try, use Escrow for payment to be on safer side.

Its already obvious and even just using up your own common sense you would able to know if these things or companies are just pure scams.They do really let theirself blind instead on avoiding it, out of their curiosity they would try such thing and now when they face problems they do easily mention that they do regret their decision.Once your bitcoins is transferred into other wallet there no chance for it to retrieve this is why we should really be careful.

Why he need to use the unknown service first mate. There are plenty of trusted exchanges available in online. If you have big funds first keep it on private key secured wallet and enable 2FA as encryption betterment for your wallet.
Then when you think stolen I can say you have to think like the project owner how they looking the keep their wallet safe. That is how should be helped dude.

Be 'happy' that people are actually losing money with this nonsense. If people did stupid things and got rewarded for that stupidity, they would keep doing it because they don't see anything wrong with it. The only way for people to learn from their mistakes is to lose money, it's that simple -- only losing money points out you're doing something wrong. That being said, it looks like no one even bothers to improve with how things have only become worse in the last years. In some cases people are too greedy and too retarded to acknowledge that they aren't following the right path -- no advice or education will help you if you don't want to be helped.