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Hi all, I just wanted to let you know of a scam web site that is being advertised on Google (search term "bitcoin cloud mining").  The web site is www.bitcoincloudhashing.com (http://www.bitcoincloudhashing.com).  I chatted with someone on the site, using their Zopim chat program on the homepage, and they claimed to be Equinix, Inc (www.equinix.com (http://www.equinix.com)).  So I called Equinix, Inc (located at the same physical address that www.bitcoincloudhashing.com claims to be at on their web site, which is One Lagoon Drive, 4th Floor, Redwood City, CA 94065) at +1-650-598-6000.  I got to talk finally to a sales person, and she then did some leg work to find out that this site has nothing to do with Equinix.  She said the matter had been turned over to legal and that many other people had asked today about this site.

So, please do NOT do business with this company if you value your BTC!  It is a SCAM!

All,

We do not know who they are either.  They are not CloudHashing.com or affiliated with us in any way.

-Michael

many thanks ! it's a very sophisticated scam :

- yesterday they clam to be HIGH BITCOIN LLC and indicate their company number : when you ask to High Bitcoin LLC (https://highbitcoin.com) they tell you that they are not the owner of this site, and that they are going to see to stop this with their legal team

- today, we can see that they change HIGH BITCOIN LLC to HIGH BITCOIN MINING in their company name, but not the registration number...

So be careful they steal the identity of existing company and change their names as soon as they are spotted!

They are also offering hash at a price that is far too good to be true, even with difficulty increases their contracts are profitable after less than a month.

Compare that to other cloud mining companies who are offering contracts that will be underwater after the next difficult increase and well, if it seems too good to be true it probably is.

Simple rule of thumb; never trust a site that doesn't have a plethora of good and reliable feedback, guys!!!
Don't be the guinea pigs.

They definitely are scammers. I paid 7.39BTC last week (before anyone posted on forums) for 2TH/S for 6 months.

Immediately after paying, I got an email from a Walter Strickland saying that as soon as the transfer had been confirmed , he will send my login details.

A week later, I still have not received my login details.They have not responded to any emails I have sent and their website keeps changing. Any phone number they have given reaches a dead end.

Yesterday I emailed them from a friends email address as a prospective customer and low and behold, I got an answer within an hour. I asked them about my order in a follow up email and still no reply.

When you email them, the message goes to an Esteban Amador Soto Martinez who then forwards it to Walter Strickland who then responds.

Do not pay them a penny? They are a bunch of crooks. If anyone finds out anything new about them, I will really appreciate it as I do not know how I'm going to go about getting my money.

I just don't understand how they're still online and able to take orders.

Thanks! I did that earlier.

I have also reported it to police in the UK which is where I am from. I think I can also report to the FBI which I am looking in to at the moment.

Paid them some Bitcoins for 1TH hosting over 48hours ago. Order is on complete but still no login info, so yes prob scammers big time!! Beware of bitcoincloudhashing.com

Same, but paid for .5 th/s. Be careful!

I contacted Highbitcoin LLC last week. That is when bitcoincloudhashing changed their details on their website to to High Bitcoin mining.

Highbitcoin LLC have now posted this on their website:

https://highbitcoin.com/beware-of-the-fraudulent-websites/

There website is down. I can still acces my account on https://www.bitcoincloudhashing.com/my-account/ but the rest of the site seems to be down.

So guess all hope is lost now  :-[

I too was scammed for a 1 T/hs contract... Arrgg.

I had a phone conversation with the group for over 30 mins, they won my trust. Amazing that Google is still running adds for this group; profiting with their adverts off this too.

I talked with the local police; they made a visit to the physical address. Which exists; and I guess they have a lease for another couple months. So hopefully, the police or FBI will do their work and find the parties involved.

-Colorado.

i no understand.
why you give more $10,000 to any website on internet ?? minimum use paypal or visa card. if they no accept you no it scam. every company even where i live take visa!

Geez, where was this thread last Thursday - I googled "scam" and "bitcoincloudhashing" and got nothing... and so like an idiot I too fell prey to these scammers... they got me for 8 BTC. Very sophisticated scam, I mean you get an order approved email letter and a site that tracks your order, sure looked legit. Hopefully the other fellow in this thread that called the cops will get some feedback from them and perhaps arrest him and from the website records get a list of everyone they scammed with their addresses and send their BTC back (hey, I can dream can't I?)

Has anyone tried to use this: https://complaint.ic3.gov/default.aspx ?
If not, please do. I was scammed as well, and I will try to report him using this form, but it would be better if I wasn't the only one.

Already did!

I have just done this as well!

The site is online and still seems to be functional... ???

Got scammed as well for 6.05 btc. I am glad I did not sent more. Thanks guys for the warning. I have submitted form to FBI https://complaint.ic3.gov/default.aspx
Please keep posts on any updates.

What is the best and legit cloud hashing anyone can suggest?

I came very close to falling for this scam.  Thanks to everybody on this forum who reported about this.

Let's shut these guys down.

This is the best link to report them to google that I found.  They are at the top of the ranks if you search "bitcoin cloud hashing".

https://support.google.com/adsense/contact/violation_report

The best REAL cloud hashing site I have found so far is www.cex.io

-NME

What was the Bitcoin adress you've sent it to?

The bitcoin wallet changes with every order. They ask you to pay in bitcoins within an hour of placing your order.

Initially I could not get the full amount with an hour, so my first order was cancelled. Shortly after, I was able to get the full amount and I placed a second order and paid the full amount within the hour. The wallet for the second order was different from the first one. Hope this helps!

It looks like Google temporarily took them of Adsense but they're back up now. I hope we can find a way to permanently shut them down.

Hello,

They always go to the same adress with their payment system

I paid 7.399 bitcoins to this address

18ep4hB7GZJToyxdSJs3bnNtM2Kbu1rE6a

My initial order which was cancelled because I could not pay within the hour had the following wallet address

1LSEE67JMi9ebN1nWonhiiXCp8RvCkPPDp

I've reported to google as well. what a scandal!
thanks to this thread I still have my bitcoin!

Highbitcoin LLC have taken down their website warning against bitcoincloudhasing

https://highbitcoin.com/beware-of-the-fraudulent-websites/

bitcoincloudhasing are still giving the correspondence address of Highbitcoin LLC (1999 W Bascom Avenue Campbell, CA 95008)

I just find it really suspicious and it feels like Highbitcoin LLC are in on the scam.

They have changed their web address to

www.bitcoinhashingcloud.com/‎

to avoid being caught out by other gullible customers

I sent it to: 1PL91QdosGU5ieXCgVHfCckJKgx9QGjd6Q Did any body get any news or updates, as it seems like their website still on?

With all the abuse reports it seems Google doesn't care, bitcoinhashingcloud.com is advertised all over Google....

Thanks so much for this discussion that bitcoinhashingcloud.com is a scam.  

Top billing on google and a very convincing site almost fooled me. I was close to sending 5btc.  

I have come to trust top-billing for adsense over any decent duration provides some degree of trust.  No more.
Thanks again and I'll report even though it seems reading above they do not care.

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I think I'll go w/ a butterfly 300GH rig vs. cloud.  I'll probably lose out to preorder delays and difficulty in then end but... I want in the game.

+1

I too totally can't understand why people throw money at random like this...

It is mid-march and really unfortunate that the scam site continues to exist and continues to advertise heavily on Google. Wonder why Google is not heeding all the complaints and allows this website to be found. 

From our side, we've registered a police case in the city of Campbell and had a large banner on our website (highbitcoin.com) clarifying that we are not the same company. Unfortunately, these guys are really cunning, since they have a very legitimate looking website, with a Service Level Agreement and they use two legitimate addresses from two different companies to ensure that a basic Google map search will work:

1. Home Page lists HighBitCoin LLC's business registration address in Campbell
2. Terms and Conditions lists another company's real address in Redwood City (Equinix) to send mail to

We are looking into taking more aggressive action with the help of our lawyers after we received two customer emails recently about the same issue. One customer was very irate that he had lost 10BTC to these scam artists. I explained to him that we were both victims: HighBitCoin's identity is stolen and it affects our credibility when we are associated with these scammers, while customers continue to lose BTC and blame us thinking we are operating both sites.

I'm new to the Bitcoin community and to my role at HighBitCoin, so this forum has been invaluable to me as I come up to speed. From my years as a management consultant, one thing I do know is that trust takes a long time to build and only one misstep to be broken forever. So for those interested in Cloud Mining services, rather than give you some marketing stuff, let me say that we are looking into it, but we do not have anything to offer at this time. I'd suggest doing your own due diligence while we do ours: research providers here before putting down your BTC or entering into any contract. Definitely read some of the threads that raise some questions about the potential ROI involved in cloud mining and ...hope that BTC stays above $700

thanks
Prakash Aditham
Director of Product Marketing
HighBitCoin LLC

Holy sh*t, I'm also f*cked, I paid BTC8 to this web site two days ago and still waiting for the login information...sent several emails already, thought was due to weekends delays.
until I see this thread, why this f*cking site still exists? I felt like a dummy today.

I've submit to FBI as well: https://complaint.ic3.gov/default.aspx

Report to Google? don't kidding me, Google doesn't care about it.

any one want to be united to shut those guys down?

Colorado, any news?

1Dq1DLaNwVmjknh9XH95jutAK9yQr7Zqxh is the address I paid to, so it's dynamic.

Not sure why you guys would think Google would be your savior.

However, this site is using an old version of wordpress, woocommerce, and yoast. Maybe the route to retribution runs through a town called 'hackthatshit'.

Any new victims want to join the Google Group I created?

Yep, Scam! I was speaking to their customer support for a few minutes. Asked them if they could explain the complaints in this thread and a few seconds later the chat window vanished (Customer Support Ban)

you shouldn't let him know this thread, instead you should try to get as much as possible his information for FBI's investigation.

bitcoincloudmining.com

Is this their new address? Or another site?

I was scammed to :(

http://postimg.org/image/6rtbs3ff7/ (http://postimg.org/image/6rtbs3ff7/)

What do we know about? https://cloudhashing.com/ The hash rate seems to be fake.  Warning http://www.bitcoincloudmining.com/ is back under a new name and company!!! What a surprise... >.>

Hello all,

just found this thread today.

I was taken by these clowns back in February 14' for 24BTC so I'd love to hear of any progress people have made.

I sent my BTC to 1Q3twwi4dMHrstHzrZsn16cqZoRKGmBGua

I have no progress, but I won't forget this place, if anyone in US please try to report to police for more investigation, there are several clues out there, web site register, domain hosting company, chatting program provider etc...