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Update October 2018: Reimbursement program has closed early. Please see the latest post for updates.

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Beware of impersonators!
There are a number of impersonators who are pretending to me, and trying to steal your reimbursements. Funds have been lost!

I will ONLY ever email you from admin+g [at] glados [dot] cc, or this bitcointalk account.

Do not trust anyone else. Please forward any suspicious messages to me.


Important legal notice
No contractual relationship is created, entered into, acknowledged, or ratified from this post, unless stated otherwise. This also applies to any other communications in relation to reimbursements, whether in public or private.

It is the intent of the poster to explicitly disavow the acknowledgement, creation, expansion, renewal, or modification of any claim, liability, or obligation of whatsoever character, nature, kind, or description. Any statement, clause, or wording that is contradictory to this clause shall be interpreted or ignored in such a way so that no claim, liability, or obligation is created or broadened.

All reimbursements are at my sole discretion.

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Hi everyone,

If you had a balance on CoinLenders or Inputs.io (which were services offered back in 2013), a significant reimbursement is available. I have been in touch with some individual users over the past 5 years, and I'm now ready to proceed with the reimbursement process for everyone.

If you have already accepted a settlement offer, such as the USD-value settlement from 2013, you may still be eligible. Any amount previously sent will be deducted from the current offer, leaving you with the same outcome! :)

I will try to contact you, based on data I have. As there are hundreds of accounts to work through, it may be a while before I get to you. The data I have is incomplete, and my email addresses for you might be outdated. If you haven't heard from me, please contact me ASAP.

You can contact me via this email: admin+g [at] glados.cc

Alternatively, you can send a PM via Bitcointalk to this account. Please allow a few days for a response.

It is the plan to distribute all funds by December 31, 2018. If I have your contact details, I will be reach out before then. Unclaimed funds will go towards greater reimbursements to claimed users.

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Please supply the following details:

- Email address and/or username used for CoinLenders
- The balance that was on your account
- Proof of balances, e.g. email or PM exchanges, deposit TXIDs, etc
- Any past settlements to you

The more information you can supply, the easier it will be for me to match your account, and the faster your reimbursement can be made.

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FAQ

What is the % of reimbursement?

I will give you the current % when you contact me.

The goal is to distribute 100% of the funds to users. So the exact percentage may be updated, depending on crypto valuations (some of the funds are still in other cryptocurrencies, including ETH), if new balances are discovered and verified, or if certain users cannot reached, etc.

Please note that due to a limited amount of reimbursement funds remaining, you may receive payments in instalments, or an offer to redenominate balances in USD.  

Updated September 2018: Due to the decline in ETH relative to BTC (from 0.07 at start of reimbursement, to 0.033), of which most of my crypto is in, recent reimbursements offered are much less. You may opt to receive the amounts in ETH.

CL/Inputs was 2013, it's been 5 years. Why now?

You trusted me, CL, and Inputs.io with your funds, and I'm sorry that I've let you down. I'm also sorry for the communication and lack of process between then and now.

When the Inputs.io hack happened, and CL lost most of its assets and loans, I kind of ran away from the whole bitcoin mess and settled with a portion of the accounts. But over the years, thanks to some good investments, and profitable speculative trading, I'm able to offer a reimbursement plan that I hope you're happy with. It unfortunately isn't possible to be 100% in BTC, but the average USD ROI exceeds 18x.

What happens after Dec 31st, 2018?

All remaining funds will go towards users who have reached out with addresses on file.

Thanks,
TF

After looking at your trust page I realized the mess that happened. Reading your OP gives me a positive impression for now. I hope it works out for all those people who lost their assets because of your mismanagement and you come out clear. Good luck.

I've heard about what happen years ago with you and what I believe is a project that went down hill. Honestly, its rare to see someone coming back to try to make things right. Is youre sticking to your word, I hope everything works out in the end.

Never believe in a scammer who has scammed and says that they can reimburse your losses. Its just another scam to me.

This is a common method to double scam the same victim. A good example of this is when cloud mining sites close down and then another site pops ups saying that they are going to reimburse the losses to the victims and they need some payment to do so. Whatever payment you do is going to be the second scam.

You never know who is controlling TF account and what they intend to do with these details.

TF reached out to me and reimbursed a very high % of my BTC loss, in BTC. I removed my negative trust feedback accordingly. Reply to him and give him a new if you wish BTC deposit address, you will see, nothing to risk. I sent him a redacted ID (blacking out some key numbers so there is no risk of ID fraud either).

I'm a victim in CL accident, maybe top 5(You can see my posts in 2013). I have received my BTC from TF. Though not all, that's enough for me.

Please don't doubt, this time he really took responsibility. Thanks for TF, he changes my life.

Well keep in mind that he said he will only reimburse a specific percentage amount based on the pricing back in '13 (dont know what month or day so he should clarify that), but at this point only time will tell. I have seen people who have attempted to repay their debt before so if he does keep his word, good for him.

We can also ask him to sign a message from an address from that time period as well if one is also concern about the account ownership.


This is your first reply in years and considering that your account is still a newbie, its really hard to say if what youre saying is true or not, but if its true it is a good sign.


If he reached out to you, why would he need an ID sent? Atleast information is redacted.

Just to clarify, the reimbursement is for a % of your BTC balance. It is NOT based on value in 2013, it is a majority of your BTC balance.

Back in 2013, I offered to settle accounts based on USD values at times of deposit. Even if you have settled for that, you are still eligible for this reimbursement.


If you're not a CL user, or joined bitcoin after the whole thing happened, this thread isn't for you. I will be distributing all funds to CL/Inputs users in any case, and would like as many people to receive their share as possible. At no point will I ever ask for payment, and if anyone asks for payment, you're talking to an impersonator. There is nothing I can gain from this.

The point is, if you were a CL/Inputs user, please talk to me, especially if your contact details have changed, or you never reached out to me in the first place and hence I may not have your records.

I can confirm that this is not a scam, and that Tradefortress is in control of his account. I encourage anyone that is a customer of Inputs.io/Coinlenders to contact him for reimbursement. He returned far more than I had ever hoped.

I suppose if we took a pessimistic view it could be that Tradefortress had the coins all along, has had a crises of conscience and is now returning a larger portion. In my case, I'm completely sure I would have sold my coins long before the price got to this point and as a result I'm far better off having giving them to Tradefortress than not.

I happen to think he's someone that accumulated a lot of bitcoins before and after the hack and now he wants to make amends to his customers. If that's the case, then he deserves a lot of respect. I'm not sure I'd have the character to do it if I were in his shoes.

In any case you should contact him if you were a customer.

I think I am going to follow this topic to see where it goes, after reading few replies on the topic so far. However I really hope people get the reimbursement. It does not feel good to hear people lost their assets. Good luck.

I can confirm too that I have received a substantial amount of bitcoin back from TradeFortress recently which I had invested in Coinlenders.

I was probably one of the larger investors and have received a very percentage of btc returned. And of course the dollar value is significantly higher than back in 2013.

Like others here I encourage anyone who lost btc to any of his schemes to reach out to him now.

This is not a scam. He appears to be the only person making the effort to recuperate losses from all the "investments" and scams which were rife back in 2013.

I too have deleted my negative feedback and believe TradeFortress should be regarded as a bit of a hero as he really didn't need to do this and could just quietly have kept everyone's coins.

I also just received a large reimbursement from TF. Feel free to contact me if you want details.

I was in touch with TF a couple weeks back and can confirm that they are indeed issuing partial reimbursements.

Your mileage may vary, but at least in my case the process was pretty straightforward. No payment request or anything else that could be used as part of a scam -- just a signed message with one of my older Bitcoin addresses to confirm ownership. I'm not saying that I'd entrust TF with funds in the future (no hard feelings) but this reimbursement process is definitely the real thing.

Damn, he could have held on all these BTCs from others, nice job on the change of heart though.

Glad people are somewhat happy that people are getting their money back from CL

I doubt he is doing this voluntarily.  Probably some pre-emptive action to reduce a potential jail term...

You're cynical and clueless. I'm not aware of any criminal or civil action; nor is this a response or pre-emptive response.

I have been making reimbursements over the past 5 years; see this reddit post for an example (https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/52xxmd/inputsio_coinlenders_tradefortress/).


By the way, when emailing please email me from the address you originally used on CoinLenders. I'm unable to send reimbursements unless it can be proven that it is your account. There has been multiple scam attempts.

Out of curiosity, how would you not know if the reimbursement percentage is less than 100%? I would think you know how much crypto you have access to and the balances of deposits when CL failed. 

It is less than 100%; the reimbursement percentage may be slightly adjusted over this process depending on contactable users, crypto exchange rates, etc; so I don't want to lock in a percentage here yet. The objective is to fully send all of the reimbursement crypto.

Same experience here. Say what you want, this really is admirable. The hit on me personally (naively enough I invested a large, for my standards, amount on CL) was substantial and impacted me for years (~2017). TF's action is unexpected and I can't attribute it to anything other than genuine interest to make good our loss.

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I've also just received a reimbursement from TF. Thank you so much. This will pay for food on the table.

But not the 75BTC he owed you, right?  Just enough to make you happy so he can scam you again?

Important warning

It has just come to my attention that scammer has impersonated me and communicated to a user as the 'man in the middle'. The scammer was using TradeFortress@protonmail.com, and passed along proof (such as signed messages, etc) from the actual user to me.

They were able to convince the actual user to email me at my admin @ glados.cc email, to establish verification. A reimbursement was unfortunately paid to this scammer.

Due to this, please be aware that:

- You must always email me from the address associated with your account. No exceptions
- All my bitcointalk PMs will come from this account, TradeFortress. No other users are legitimate.
- All my emails will come from admin+g [at] glados.cc; and will be DKIM signed by Google/Gmail (who hosts my email)
- Any email that is not from glados.cc is illegitimate and not from me
- You may still reach me using cl [at] tfbtct.e4ward.com or admin+g [at] glados.cc

Are you willing to accept a signed message that says “this is [user name] from CL and I would like the proceeds from my settlement sent to [address]” (or something similar but still specific)

The above is specific enough to not be vulnerable to a MITM and should allow for situations in which users no longer have access to old email addresses.

LOL.   Are you talking to yourself (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3095008.msg32206463#msg32206463), or is TF a separate person that you scammed 20btc from (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3095008.msg31952599#msg31952599)?

TF doesn't seem too concerned about returning that 20btc to his investors....

That will only help with a situation where someone does not have access to the old email. In this case, they did, the scammer just pretended to be me and got the actual accountholder to email me using their email.

(In this case, I spoke to the accountholder on the phone and was able to get their correct bitcoin address; and they will still be receiving their reimbursement).

A signed message from most addresses proves nothing; it'll have to be an address that you used to deposit to CL/Inputs; but even if so I'm not able to match it with the actual user.

If someone no longer has access to their old email addresses; a very stringent verification process can be used. We'll cross that bridge when we get there.

1. Vod is now on my ignore list. Go distract people somewhere else.

2. I am not Quickseller.

3. Quickseller has returned to me the 20 BTC years ago.

See?  Without the transaction trail (which you and QS always post), you are nothing but a liar.   ;)

i have contacted TF for coinlenders/inputs refund today.  TF replied funds will be transferred to me within 7 days.

Is it possible the accountholder played you to receive double the funds?

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I wasn't around in 2013, but I'm curious enough to follow this case now.

I'm very confident that the accountholder is not the same person as the scammer.


Was able to send another round of reimbursements just then.

Wow... that's admirable.
Thanks!

I also received a large refund.

wow! i thought i already lost my coinlender/inputs investments years ago.  i was keeping silent during the last few days after TF promised to send back my funds.  i wasn't sure if TF was just trolling around or not.  upon checking my balance just now, wow!!! it's true.  my funds are sent back to me in full.  kudos to TF's courage to come out and settle old loans.

To clarify, the balance was reimbursed in full as it was a small balance :) Enjoy your BTC!

That is absolutely absurd. He ran away with the coins in the first place.

Many people cannot see past their own selfish interests.  :/

TF contacted me via email and refunded me the remaining 70% of my CL balance a couple of days ago.  I have removed the negative trust rating I placed with his account (http://"https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=trust;u=67058") years ago.   

I didn't see this thread until just now.   So he wasn't refunding me in response to a request from my end.  The CL debacle (and TF's "disappearance" shortly thereafter) was far from what anyone would consider "handled in an ideal way," but the fact that he's trying to make good on the mistakes of the past is really encouraging.  There have been so many scams and so much greed in the cryptocurrency community over the years...this result is practically the very last thing I would have expected to happen, today or any other day.

I had long written off the BTC I lost at CL as a "hard lesson learned," and nothing much more to say/think/hope for.  To say the least, this was a happy surprise indeed.


For reference purposes:

Back in 2013, TF offered a refund of approximately 30% of my CL balance...and I begrudgingly accepted.   (I had placed far too much of my BTC balance into Coinlenders, so after it was clear that we weren't going to have our balances refunded -- "cutting bait" and getting something rather than nothing seemed like the only viable option.)   

My balance was less than 10 BTC -- not much by some standards, but it was almost all of the BTC I had back then.   (Ah, the follies of youth.)  I can confirm that the amount TF refunded to me was (AFAICT) the correct amount to "make me whole" for the BTC that was lost on his service.   

Words of advice: During this time where TradeFortress will be trying to re-establish credibility for an upcoming scam, play nice, get as many of your scammed coins back as you can, and then never communicate with this account again. If he truly wants credibility re-established, he can wait 5 years after returning your coins just like you did.

Also, for the record, anyone who claims they are receiving anything should be posting transaction links.

Relax, I’m I will not be asking anyone for bitcoins in the future.

Until he asks people for bitcoins in the future.  :/

TF knows enough to not ask for money via his TF account. I don’t think anyone would give him money anyway, at least not anything substantial.

The above won’t stop him from collecting money from others unfortunately. See the hashie scam that he has been accused of being behind. I doubt he is the only one who can pull off these kinds of scams. It just highlights the importance of performing due diligence prior to trusting your money with others.

Am starting to give the neagtive comments here a credibility. I did a bounty work for TF 3 days ago for 20 BTC , off escrow deal only to be ignored by him after work delivery. If I don't get any response from him within the next 24 hours... I guess il be counting a broken egg. Until then il be patient and drop him a benefit of doubt.

It's borderline impossible to arrest people internationally, so I wouldn't be holding my breath if I were you. This has nothing to do with trustworthiness and everything to do with the reality of international law.



I'm sure your intentions are good, but this really annoys me for two reasons. The first is I made the mistake of telling people how much bitcoin I had the first go-around and I don't intend on repeating that mistake. So the implication that we aren't posting the transaction and therefore possibly in on Tradefortress' potential deception is annoying.

The second is that this advice is useless. I've had a lot of time to reflect on the large amount of bitcoins I thought I lost, and there were many lessons that I learned that I won't bore you with. The most relevant lesson here is that controlling risk has very little to do with the "credibility" of the source. When I gave over my bitcoins to Tradefortress I spent days looking through his history and I couldn't find a single credible accusation against him, he clearly had a lot of knowledge about security, and even spent a lot of time pointing out vulnerabilities and scams in other offerings back in 2013.

My point is none of this made any difference whatsoever. It wouldn't have made any difference with MtGox, Theranos, Coinlenders or all kinds of other failed companies we could talk about. Credibility is a borderline worthless indicator, because everyone can make mistakes, and no one can hear a lie that the speaker believes.

So ya, don't invest in companies you don't trust, duh, but don't invest in companies just because you trust them either.

I’m going to address this only once, but the bounty is for information that leads to the arrest of the scammer. This has not happened. While you have provided information, like dox of the person who owns the website (that was hacked), you have provided no evidence that the owner is behind the hacks, despite my repeated requests for you to do so, and based on public and private information I have every indication suggests the owner is NOT the hacker. Instead, you claim through “years of dark net analyst experience” that you are certain he is the hacker... which I do not find credible.

Your information isn’t credible and do not fill the requirements of the bounty. Please stop messaging me. I am not going to be commenting or responding further on this matter.

You claim my information aint credible yet you asked for the link between the hacker and elllee and prove that elllee was involved in the hack, which i went ahead  and gave you without further adue. Something tells me you are directly or somehow involved in this scam as well. You once pulled a similar scam in 2013, where you directly impersonated a scam. I will open a new thread based on you but meanwhile I will go ahead and post full finding reports on both threads...let people judge why I do not qualify for the bounty yet a random hacker who offered nothing but an IP got a fee. And yea, you might be calling fake shots on the re-embursment bullshit to pull another scam . Will make sure it doesnt work... Watch this.

Well, I just received my reimbursement from TF today, It's going to be buffet treat tonight! :D
Thank you TF you made my day :)

No offense but it’s annoying to me that you expect me to blindly accept text from a few somewhat unknown accounts as being fact, without anyone actually providing any proof. My intent was not to imply anyone was in on any deception, I just wanted a little verification - and I assumed others would as well.

Regardless, I’ve found recent transactions which appear to be showing you receiving 2 reimbursements roughly 2 weeks ago, so it appears TradeFortress is actually sending large reimbursements. But that doesn't mean he's a saint.

I personally don’t care how many bitcoins you have, and if your story is legitimate, I’m happy you recovered some of your coins, but it looks like you’ve only gotten back ~62% of what you were scammed, according to your numbers, and while I’m sure that is exciting considering the conversion rates, he’s potentially had your coins for 5 years… and still could have ~38% of them somewhere.

Ok you learned some lessons and even though you had done your research, still got scammed. And seriously, you should share the rest of your lessons learned, they will not be a bore and may help others. But, I'm still not sure what any of this has to do with my advice, which essentially was for victims to play nicely to get their coins back but do not trust the account or who is behind it.

Credibility is certainly not a guarantee but I believe it is a needed indicator, one of multiple, that people should include in their decision making process. I've heard and seen through plenty of lies that a speaker may believe (Josh Zerlan comes to mind)… and it's generally done through knowledge/research (credibility is looked at here), being inquisitive, and using deductive reasoning / logic. There are certainly no guarantees this would make any difference but it doesn't mean people should stop trying.

I agree.

This scumbag by the name "TradeFortress" https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=67058  also Known as "MICHAEL MORIARTY" is still scamming.  He came up with this topic a couple of days ago https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4623173.msg41977642#msg41977642 ; which he was somehow involved in. We had an off escrow deal for the 20 BTC bounty but decided to fuck me over after submitting proof of work.

HERE IS MY DEAL.. AM SELLING THIS FUCKER'S PERSONAL INFO.  Anyone willing to work with me to bring him down, Welcome on Board too.

REAL PERSONAL INFO INCLUDING RELATIVES and THE REST.

Lets finally lay this asshole to rest. Anyone interested PM me with your offers... Open to work with anyone genuine.

Regards.

Escrow?

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It doesn't really matter a whole lot, but imagine for a second that what Tradefortress has said is true and he was hacked, and is returning 5 years later to try to make amends to his customers, you come by asking everyone reveal the transactions implying that not only is Tradefortress is a fraud but we might be part of it. Tradefortress could easily just list all of the transactions, but he doesn't out of respect to his customers. I expressed that I prefer it that way and you post the information anyway.
That's just real sweet of you.

Ya it worked out so well last time. Maybe this time you can post the name of the bank I use?

Maybe, only he really knows. Though I've gotten far more returns in purchasing power than I ever hoped to gain by investing in Coinlenders. If I could guarantee the same results, I'd do it all over again. (Obviously it was still a bad idea, and would still be a bad idea.)


This is patronizing. I knew to be cynical back in 2013, and I especially know it now. It wouldn't have helped me then, and it's not helpful now. I know that's blunt, and I'm sure you have good intentions, but I wish if I could go back I could have given myself very different advice.

I don't disagree with you per se, but focusing on cynicism is guiding people toward looking at investing the wrong way. There's all kinds of ways you can still get burned even if you're cynical. That's what really grated on me when I read it.

Edit: Whatever. I should've just posted my own thoughts rather than being argumentative. I apologize.

OF COURSE WITH ESCROW. IL SEND YOU A PM.

Don't. The trollface should have been a hint. I wouldn't trust you even with escrow, nor do I have any interest in TF's dox.

TFs dox is known by a decent number of people, myself included.

Blazr had figured out his dox and decided against publishing it out of fear that doing so would result in him getting harassed which could potentially add significant time and expense to any lawsuits filed against him in relation to losses caused by him.

Blazr has said in the past he would release his dox only to law enforcement or to a lawyer pursuing litigation against TF.

Good on you for making this thread.

I did have an account on Inputs.IO. It was quite a while ago so I'm unsure of the amount.
Do you have a ledger of the amounts?

Whether if its true or not that info isnt credible, it is your fault for not making sure to provide direct proof, as well as waiting for funds to be put into escrow. Trying to blackmail TF or anyone by "selling" a "dox" in this manner is pretty much childish. If he says the info isnt credible then go back to the drawing board and make sure it is to the point where authorities can do something or just move on. Simple as that. If it is, then lesson learned, never make deals without escrow. Now stop spamming this thread and either post in the thread regarding the bounty or open a new accusation.

If the scammer is arrested, there should be media or news on it and a link to a credible news website or video.

As for TF, he sent me some coins he owed me 5 years ago. Obviously, I am not going to publish the tx or the amount, that's irrelevant, if me posting about it isn't enough.

I wasn’t implying anything, I was seeking verification coins were being sent.

I actually thought I was being polite by not posting the transaction links, amounts, source, etc., which is what I would normally do in these situations. I posted percentages to at least maintain some sort of record of what TradeFortress is doing.

??? Posting lessons learned from being scammed seems different than what you did, which is I assume what you mean by "it worked out so well last time". <— Which, again, I'm omitting to be polite.

TradeFortress / Coinlenders mishandled your coins, whether you actually believe he was hacked or he stole them. Regardless, investing in them had nothing to do with Bitcoins value rising, which is where your new returns in purchasing power came from. Direct your happiness towards Bitcoin. :)

What is the advice?  I’m not sure how revealing this advice jeopardizes your bank name or personal information, but if it does, obviously, don’t answer!

I wasn't giving general investment advice. Regardless of who I am or how I tend to act, in this situation, being cynical towards anything TradeFortress says is the right advice.

No apologies necessary. We can agree to disagree on these points.

you can give some information regarding your inputs.io account:  like username and address used to deposit on your wallet there.  TF will ask you for signature from that wallet.  i did the same and was refunded in full, though without interest.

I’ve received more reports that there are third parties, unaffiliated with me, who are contacting CL users and asking for claims information.

Remember: I will only email you from admin+g [at] glados [dot] cc; or this very bitcointalk account.

If you get any third party communication please forward them to me and I will respond appropriately.

I received an email from you today and responded with requested details.  Posting here for posterity.

Mhm, payments are batched and will be sent in the next couple of days.

One day my daughter will ask me:"Dad what is the most successful thing you have done? "
I will tell her: "Losting all my bitoins in CL in 2013".

I might be top 10 user in CL and I "lost" hundreds of bitcoins in that accident.
Five years later I recieved a email from TF and he said "I'm happy to let you know that a reimbursement for your CoinLenders balance is available..."

WTF? An other scam?
I reply him if he is serious.
He said "Yes, I am serious."
Then he told me he could offer a reimbersement of xx% of my origin balance!

I provided my bitcoin address and today I recieved quite large mount bitcoins and he said it's the first package.
I had never met thing like this!
My wife can't believe what happened!

If someone told me such a story I will send him to psycholical hospital.
I can't sleep, my bitcointalk account has been locked for inactive, I have to register a new one to share this to guys with my poor english.

TF is a hero!
Contract him if you are CL's user!
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Thank you TF!
You save my life!

Out of curiosity, have you received repayment? (debitme)

Out of curiosity, have you received repayment? (debitme)
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I havent had a chance to get on today since we are coming up to sept 15 and taxes are getting busy, but as of this morning i received the entire balance of my account repaid to me.

Frankly, this is nothing short of a blessing as my wife is going back to school for nursing, which is 45k, and we still have over 60k of student loans left on her previous college degree. I do not know the full details of what actually happened, and no one besides TF may actually be privy to that information, but this repayment was a huge blessing for us to be able to rest easy on those payments and also start my sons college savings account. I still check my balance every hour or so just because i cant believe it.

I dont know what really happened 5 years ago or what has cause this repayment program to happen, but i am happy to settle the liability between TF and myselt with this repayment.

bump

I'm trying to find the old email address from my previous account w/ Inputs.io

Do you remember if Inputs.IO sent out emails, upon registration or any other event? I know this thread is about CoinLenders so apologies for that.

Yes, emails were sent on registration, and every time you made or received a transaction.

Just now I got the second round of reimbrusement!
Thank you TF, You are my family's hero!
You don't know what it means to me and my family!

When You send the email to me several days before,
I'm in the low of  my life -- I lend all my money to a p2p company in 2017, and now it is very possible that I can't have my money back.
Then you advent and change everything!

Obviously you are a hero, not just for me , you are a hero of whole bitcoin community!
Too much lies and unfair and darwin around us, many times I think we are holding our coins and steping by steping into the hell.
Everything is cold and cruel, It's hard to see something which are inspiring.
Now you did a big thing which should be record in bitcoin's history!
It make the bitcoin world better!

I think a lot of people misunderstand you before.
Now I'm sure you are a victim of 2013-CL-Hack-Event too, just like us.
This conclusion is based a simple logic: thousands of bitcoin is big to everybody, A thief will never send thousands btc to others.
An other "scam"? What a genius trap you have to set to catch a group of sheep which had been alarmed?

TF is noble,absoulutely.

In the interests of reaching more CoinLenders / Inputs.io users, I have put 0.1 BTC towards text ads to this thread using a-ads; as not everyone is still active on bitcointalk. You can see a preview here: https://a-ads.com/ads/733574/preview

This is a very small / de minimis portion of the reimbursement funds.

Let me know if you reach this thread, through the ad, so I can evaluate the effectiveness, or if you have any other ideas for how to reach more CL/Inputs users (beyond ones I have emails for)!

I know I'm not a very active member so my voice doesn't mean much, but for what it is worth TF paid me back in full. It was a relatively small amount compared to others. But it was significant to me.

Huge thank you to TF.

Sent you a PM regarding my account.

Cheers!

man this makes me so happy to see, there are so many users saying they got repayment. this is the first time i ever seen anything like this from any scam. ive never read anything like this on the internet ever. this guy doesn't deserve -9999 anymore

It's been quite some time since I've been active within the community, but nevertheless TradeFortress reached out regarding my old balance on Inputs.io. For an amount that I had long written off, he came through and paid the balance in full. All outstanding obligations have been cleared, and I couldn't be more appreciative - it's certainly a nice surprise. Thank you!

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Email sent regarding CoinLenders/Inputs.io balances


Thanks for taking steps towards resolving this situation.

I don't have an email from you! Are you sure you sent it to the right email?

Was sent to admin+g of the domain glados.cc I just sent a PM here as well to be a definitive contact

What a crummy situation, that whole thing with inputs a cc.

I don't know what can be done, but PM sent.

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Can confirm, just received my reimbursement.

Wow, thank you. I actually didn't expect anything. Mostly sad that a lot of us lost contact from earlier coinchat days, including 'admin'.

TradeFortress paid my losses back within a few days of PMing him. Like seriously, again, did not expect. Thanks and I really do hope this fixes your reputation around here. People that knew you for a hot second didn't get to see how generous you were and the whole heartbleed exploits or whatever it wound up being really did more than steal bitcoins. It crushed relationships.

I hope one day we have the means to catch those who caused all that trouble.

It took almost 5 years, but TradeFortress reimbursed me more than half of my loss in CoinLenders.

Thank you TF. I really wasn't expecting this.

It's nice to see you are making things right, props to you tradefortress

Just another warning: another impersonator is on the loose.

I will ONLY ever email you from admin+g at glados dot cc.

If you receive any suspicious emails, please reach out and forward them to me.

I will open a new thread based on you but meanwhile I will go ahead and post full finding reports on both threads let people judge why I do not qualify for the bounty yet a random hacker who offered nothing but an IP got a fee. And you might be calling fake shots on the re-embursment bullshit to pull another scam.

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he literally says all reimbursements are at his own discretion, how can you be mad.
i didnt qualify either, I don't  care. cause i know he is genuinely refunding people for nothing in return, not so people like him dummy. You had nothing for years so why care now

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Just sent an email regarding the possible reimbursement.

If this is true, my year would be made.

Cheers mate.

Right, so I registered an account, posted, created a persona on bitcointalk around 5 years ago just to one day join in on some conspiracy with someone who lives on the opposite side of the world as I. Sounds legit.

Sorry, but other than becoming friends with TF for a short few months before everything that happened to us, him, myself, investors, coinchatters, etc, that is the full extent of our relations. He refunded me because I could verify the transaction and he remembered who I was. I'm sure a lot of people are probably trying to make up claims trying to scam him as well, as others on here scamming other users. My vouching for TF, isn't as *much* as an investor or business person, just as someone I personally, genuinely got along with really well in a chat room who also made good in my eyes. I have every right to be a forgiving person for my situation. You have every right to be angry if you were taken by someone too. But if you are just trying to be a squeaky wheel attempting to take advantage and get some free coins, then IDGAF what you do, your reputation wont live long. Don't suck me into whatever beef you have.

Just want to say thanks again to TF for my reimbursement. It is definitely legit!

Cheers

Kindly email me again, or PM me as I do not have any emails on Sept 23.

p.s. as mentioned in the OP and communicated to email, there are some delays with the reimbursement program. I will still try to reimburse you to the best of my ability, and I will not forget about you :)

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PM sent. 
 
   
       

Hey everyone,

I’m a little bit sad (okay, seriously sad) to announce that the reimbursement program is closing early.

I am happy that I was able to reimburse more than a hundred users, including 11 out of 12 of reachable users with the biggest balances.

Unfortunately, I do not have any more cryptocurrencies or assets that I can reimburse CL / Inputs users with. For context, the top 9 reimbursed individually have received more bitcoins from me, than anything I have to my own name today.

As far as I know, this might be the only instance in bitcoin where a significant amount of lost funds has been reimbursed, even 5 years down the track.

So the reimbursement program is now closed. I’m sorry to the ones that missed out, unfortunately there’s nothing I can do.

Best of luck with your crypto adventures,
TF

Why were you unable to reimburse the 12th top reachable user?

I presume the 12th user is what this thread was about, and they simply never responded, https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4545316


Edit: scratch that just reread after posting and it says of "reachable" users, so that thread wouldn't apply as they would be "unreachable"

Shame to hear, I was still in the process of finding information from my account of w/ 0.1 BTC.

Nonetheless, even though I wasn't reimbursed, good on you for coming back and offering reimbursements. I'm sure you've made many people very happy and I'm sure many appreciate it.

its ok. you lose in Gambling?

Hi,

I just sent an email from l**.****n@gmail.com about the reimbursement program.

SF

just found this thread, i had inputs.io account with BTC in them and a coinlenders account and never received any message about this reimbursement. I checked my email that i used for them and nothing was ever received about this.  how real was this reimbursement?  :(


I see that my coins have not moved from their addresses since inputs.io shut, which i assume means the privatekeys are lost?

what happened with the inputs.io addresses?  Is the BTC remaining in those addresses completely impossible to recover?

Real enough I was reimbursed my full balance circa 1btc

Thats great you got most of your balance back.  I had a similar amount held there and would have claimed if I had been informed about it or past reimbursements(?).  :(

Unfortunately yes, the wallet.dat was lost. Forensics of the server was kept but not for this long.

Hi TF,

I just sent an email from l**.****n@gmail.com regarding the reimbursement address.

SF

Seems I'm late for the reimbursements? I have sent the email anyways in hope..

I would be interested in knowing if anyone actually received reimbursements?

I did send info over to Tradefortress regarding my losses but never got a reply.

Was this all a last ditch attempt at getting some 'trust' back from the community?

You needed to email him at his right email address admin+g@glados.cc

I had a smaller amount that he owned me from Inputs.io and he paid back (last week), not in full but partial amount. Better something than nothing, the reimbursement is closed but he made a exception. 

Email him again and maybe you will get lucky.

A number of people have emailed me asking whether the reimbursement program is still open.

I am replying to clarify that the program is closed and no funds are available. Sorry.

Please do not reach out to me about this program.

#unicodesnowman= admin@glados.cc

gladoscc on Twitter = Danny

unicodesnowman = Danny who won two google code-ins in 2012 and 2015

They all reside or resided in Australia.

Tradefortress resided in Australia

Tradefortress = admin@glados.cc

But don’t believe me. Just look for the names and monikers on these pages. Google them in pairs. Look on Twitter at @gladoscc. There’s a cruel tweet to Mark Karpeles in 2015 suggesting they throw a party together.

https://github.com/wikimedia/integration-config/blob/master/zuul/layout.yaml

https://opensource.googleblog.com/2015/06/google-code-in-2014-wrap-up-with_11.html?m=1

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/extensions/Wikibase/+/181064/

http://btcbase.org/log/2015-09-18

https://www.theage.com.au/technology/australian-bitcoin-bank-hacked-1m-stolen-20131108-hv2iv.html