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Economy => Scam Accusations => Topic started by: $crypto$ on March 26, 2020, 03:25:24 PM



Title: Warning - Exchange https://oqex.io/
Post by: $crypto$ on March 26, 2020, 03:25:24 PM
What happened: I suspect that OQEX exchanges like Bituary offer arbitrage. I think it makes no sense where the real exchange and the price are very different from this OQEX exchange.
And this has been promoted in many telegram channels so there are people who are tempted by this arbitration. Please be careful !!!!
Website: https://oqex.io/
Archived: http://archive.is/8T0xr
ANN: Not posted on this forum

Code:
NameNAMECHEAP INC
Whois Serverwhois.namecheap.com
Referral URLhttp://www.namecheap.com
Status clientTransfer Prohibited https://icann.org/epp#clientTransfer Prohibited
serverTransferProhibited https://icann.org/epp#serverTransferProhibited
Expires On 2023-02-25
Registered On 2020-02-25
Updated On 0001-01-01


Binance.com

https://i.ibb.co/87VBG99/Screenshot-11.png

Oqex.io
https://i.ibb.co/Jm9xqhr/Screenshot-10.png


Title: Re: Warning - Exchange https://oqex.io/
Post by: Anon12951 on March 28, 2020, 10:02:47 AM
I agree, looks suspicious.

Anyone tested?


Title: Re: Warning - Exchange https://oqex.io/
Post by: fortunecrypto on March 28, 2020, 01:30:33 PM
I agree, looks suspicious.

Anyone tested?

First time I read about it and since OP mention that they do not have an official announcement here we have something to doubt here, they do have an Steemit channel and I don't know how they accumulate that huge number of telegram followers, I guess they subscribe to those offering subscriptions to increase telegram followers, but I love to hear those who already traded in this exchange.


Title: Re: Warning - Exchange https://oqex.io/
Post by: $crypto$ on March 28, 2020, 03:54:22 PM
I agree, looks suspicious.

Anyone tested?

First time I read about it and since OP mention that they do not have an official announcement here we have something to doubt here, they do have an Steemit channel and I don't know how they accumulate that huge number of telegram followers, I guess they subscribe to those offering subscriptions to increase telegram followers, but I love to hear those who already traded in this exchange.
But other social media does not exist but I am not convinced even though there is a fixed steemit for me this is suspicious and this exchange is always promoted repeatedly on the same telegram channel to conduct arbitration.

BTC and ETH prices are not very reasonable on this exchange. So please be careful not to do that.


Title: Re: Warning - Exchange https://oqex.io/
Post by: stompix on March 29, 2020, 08:45:48 AM
Yeah, a bit fishy..

Company is brand new:
https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/12499461

Adress is as always just a virtual office:
Quote
14 Commercial St, Manchester, England, M15 4PZ

And I can't shake the feeling I saw their trading script already.

Now, speaking about the prices, these are the differences between them and CMC:

BTC 1.064
ETH 1.062
XRP 1.069
BCH 1.066
EOS 1.063

More than fishy


Title: Re: Warning - Exchange https://oqex.io/
Post by: Raflesia on March 30, 2020, 11:52:34 AM
I don't know why I was included in the arbitration channel even though I didn't follow it, maybe most of them are bots?
It is very frustrating to see arbitration like this and it is very suspicious and I will never try to use this exchange.


Title: Re: Warning - Exchange https://oqex.io/
Post by: yummybtc on March 30, 2020, 02:54:40 PM
well yeah it's not real exchange dont be stupid.


Title: Re: Warning - Exchange https://oqex.io/
Post by: JAC80 on April 02, 2020, 04:03:02 PM
What happened: I suspect that OQEX exchanges like Bituary offer arbitrage. I think it makes no sense where the real exchange and the price are very different from this OQEX exchange.
And this has been promoted in many telegram channels so there are people who are tempted by this arbitration. Please be careful !!!!
Website: https://oqex.io/
Archived: http://archive.is/8T0xr
ANN: Not posted on this forum

Code:
NameNAMECHEAP INC
Whois Serverwhois.namecheap.com
Referral URLhttp://www.namecheap.com
Status clientTransfer Prohibited https://icann.org/epp#clientTransfer Prohibited
serverTransferProhibited https://icann.org/epp#serverTransferProhibited
Expires On 2023-02-25
Registered On 2020-02-25
Updated On 0001-01-01


Binance.com

https://i.ibb.co/87VBG99/Screenshot-11.png

Oqex.io
https://i.ibb.co/Jm9xqhr/Screenshot-10.png


Title: Re: Warning - Exchange https://oqex.io/
Post by: jessusmach on April 04, 2020, 09:58:20 PM
I agree, looks suspicious.

Anyone tested?

I tested, after 2 rounds of arbitration they blocked my funds, they won't let me withdraw unless I upgrade to an institutional account


Title: Re: Warning - Exchange https://oqex.io/
Post by: Eddx on April 07, 2020, 08:50:39 AM
This are in the terms of service

Quote
ARBITRAGING DIGITAL ASSETS

OQEX Global forbids individual accounts to perform digital asset arbitrage - i.e. depositing funds from third-party exchange service with only purpose to perform exchange and withdraw funds to a third-party exchange gaining profit on price differencies between OQEX Global and third-party exchange Services due to high possibility of money laundering activity. OQEX Global reserves the right to shut down that kind of activity by freezing arbitraged funds and forcing you to upgrade your account to Institutional. OQEX Global reserves the right to freeze your account untill you follow the conditions of this term. Individual account, upgraded to Institutional, or account registered as Institutional is exempted of following this requirement. OQEX Global will not charge you any fees for upgrading your account to Institutional while being frozen for performing this kind of activity.


Title: Re: Warning - Exchange https://oqex.io/
Post by: Lean on April 08, 2020, 05:33:07 AM
Just read the comments left at: https://www.trustpilot.com/review/oqex.io (https://www.trustpilot.com/review/oqex.io)

A pure scam. Stay away.


Title: Re: Warning - Exchange https://oqex.io/
Post by: greentech2 on April 08, 2020, 07:19:23 PM
They are from China.  They are just the scam.


Title: Re: Warning - Exchange https://oqex.io/
Post by: manubjj on April 10, 2020, 05:10:10 PM
Yep, keep being included on those telegram channels and came here to research, LOOK LIKE PURE SCAM. Is there a thread here on legit arbitrage?


Title: Re: Warning - Exchange https://oqex.io/
Post by: SheldonCobb on April 10, 2020, 07:18:42 PM
Went to make researches about this accusation, I think you all should see this.

https://www.trustpilot.com/users/5e8f71d294af7eaa88bf0b1b


Title: Re: Warning - Exchange https://oqex.io/
Post by: Young Merlin on April 10, 2020, 10:20:48 PM
I agree, looks suspicious.

Anyone tested?

I tested, after 2 rounds of arbitration they blocked my funds, they won't let me withdraw unless I upgrade to an institutional account

I also did 1 round and funds was blocked and upgrade to Institution account was requested.


Title: Re: Warning - Exchange https://oqex.io/
Post by: daciana.postavaru on April 22, 2020, 11:41:02 AM
It is a scam exchange. Once you deposit money they block your withdraw and tell you to upgrade account to institutional and for this you need to deposit 25000 $. None succeed in getting their money back, they just block your money and transferred the money from a user address to a different address that the users don't have access. 
You can make a complain here.
https://www.actionfraud.police.uk/
This is the form for abuse on cloudflare https://www.cloudflare.com/abuse/form


Title: Re: Warning - Exchange https://oqex.io/
Post by: andreasanta on May 28, 2020, 11:10:40 PM
I confirm IT'S A SCAM, please see my post in this other thread:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5235862.msg54520381#msg54520381

Please be safe out there!


Title: Re: Warning - Exchange https://oqex.io/
Post by: Furious 7 on May 29, 2020, 01:34:55 AM
Many Scamer exchanges with manipulation of Binance exchanges by offering considerable arbitration I'm not sure what they are saying or promoting on telegraph lines, obviously we have to be careful with their deception.


Title: Re: Warning - Exchange https://oqex.io/
Post by: invisiblefriend321 on September 10, 2020, 08:21:21 PM
BEWARE ---    THIS IS STIL SAME SCAM


will allow you to deposit as much as you like ---

will allow you to trade


will NOT ALLOW WITHDRAWAL

even after giving full KYC as institution ...        even if you play by thur rules and games they still do not follow through ....

once they received all documents -- they sent msg that approval would be complete once they/I (lol) received 25 plus bitcoin in my wallet for 24 hours !!!!!   after 24 hours I would be approved and could withdraw as much as 100 btc per day (story story story -- scam scam scam )

I did this as a test --

do not fall for these type of scams


arbitrage works with high volume ----- such as making 12$ on each bitcoin and selling 150 btc and making qwik 1800$
but to do this you must trust all parties involved --- it does not work on small scale like it did back in 2014 .....


namaste


Title: Re: Warning - Exchange https://oqex.io/
Post by: r34tr783tr78 on September 16, 2020, 12:25:00 PM
BEWARE ---    THIS IS STIL SAME SCAM


will allow you to deposit as much as you like ---

will allow you to trade


will NOT ALLOW WITHDRAWAL

even after giving full KYC as institution ...        even if you play by thur rules and games they still do not follow through ....

once they received all documents -- they sent msg that approval would be complete once they/I (lol) received 25 plus bitcoin in my wallet for 24 hours !!!!!   after 24 hours I would be approved and could withdraw as much as 100 btc per day (story story story -- scam scam scam )

I did this as a test --

do not fall for these type of scams


arbitrage works with high volume ----- such as making 12$ on each bitcoin and selling 150 btc and making qwik 1800$
but to do this you must trust all parties involved --- it does not work on small scale like it did back in 2014 .....


namaste

Its surprising that you were willing to send them your documents for a test. You can end up finding your documents for sale on the dark net. That they were blocking even small amounts says that they are stupid scammers. Anyway good post it will help others avoid them. If you really want it to have impact post a scan of the deposit and of their answer with that 25 btcs balance demand. Can anyone write something more stupid than that? Its like if they signed the message we are scammers.