Since you were misled, I also think you should be compensated ASAP. It could really take a long ass time for them to recover your funds, let's take this one for instance which took more than a year! Good job on taking your case publicly. I think with the community's backing, you could change kraken's mind. Have you tried posting in their subreddit ( https://www.reddit.com/r/KrakenSupport/)? |
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I had a similar case. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5391946 Then the user paid all costs in advance, and there was no need for escrow. however, I think this method can only be used once and only with proof of the initial token purchase. You must prove that you really lost that money because the value of the token dropped drastically. otherwise, we could all buy such tokens and report to the tax office that we acquired them when they were on ATH. I see a similarity but I'm not sure how it applies in this case? op from the thread you linked appears to be playing by the rules and doesn't hint red flags. Meanwhile op here has no plans on paying taxes hence wanted to sell the wallet access and not the tokens. As pointed by the posts above, there are things that could likely land you in trouble for this. or perhaps you were talking about the escrow? well, i guess if op is willing to go first, they could deal without one. |
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In addition, what is stopping op from reselling these wallet files to multiple people? nothing lol. There’s even a good chance, it’s not theirs. The addresses could also be linked to centralized exchanges that shares information to tax agencies. OP can say otherwise but you'll never know because the best evidence they could provide is trust me bro.
and I very much doubt any reputable escrow from here would facilitate such sleazy dealing.
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What is backing you down from posting the link openly if it is already ready?
Nothing, it is just not feeling right to do it before launch. You can think of it as a pre-launch promotion since that's also a thing. You could get better feedback from the community and additional exposure for your website. If it's really good like you described, it's possible to get some people keeping an eye on it as well. I suggest get the website to have some basic information about what you will be offering and a way for people to get updates thru email. |
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According to Florida department the company name was under Nicholas Spurlock and Kevin Russ and I don’t know if they are real or actors
Since this type of scam is typically low-effort, my guess is they just used someone else's information-- the company directory can be viewed by anyone so it's pretty easy to get information online and claim you're the same company. If not, then I doubt they registered with their real name. Quick lookup and it's not that hard to register a company: it cost a hundred bucks or so and can be done onlineBut yeah, all you need is the guaranteed high profit to know it's a scam, money doesn't grow like magic. I hope you did not put a large amount of money... |
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The trading platform is Bullgeko. They are requesting a 0.75% hash power fee for a transfer of $500k.
Are they trying to request a new payment from you instead of deducting it to your balance? if so, that's 100% a scammer move. I've never heard of this hash power fee term, at first, I thought they meant miner fee but it shouldn't cost that much. Note that scammers often use technical words/buzz words to sound smart/legitimate. edit: I assumed they're requesting .75% of 500K, is this correct? |
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From what I understand, it's a cashback/rewards program? You integrate a swap exchange in your website - pretty much referring people, get a % from the trade and share some to your users, correct?
Then I suggest letting your users know what they're getting into e.g. if the exchange may at some point request for kyc, who to contact when problem arises, the prohibited uses to take note from the chosen exchange, etc. You could set up an easy to read pop-up box and/or have them as filters to help users pick an exchange.
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Hello,
First I hope they catch this person. I'm the new owner of this domain. I did not know the history of this domain. Before buying.
Our services caters to financial data. We intend to stay this way..I just wanted make sure to mention were the new owners.
We have nothing to do with the past bad people.
Cotey
Hard to buy since it's pretty easy for anyone to claim such thing. If I were to give you the benefit of the doubt, you're better off moving to a new domain. Just imagine always being associated with scams, and frankly, internet coin exchange sounds very tacky imo. The biggest reasson why I don't trust your words is the obviously fake stats on your website... these numbers don't add up with an obscure exchange. $657B Quarterly volume traded
100+Countries supported
56+M Verified users |
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he is the one who scammed me
i have all his chat proofs
he is not legit
he is absolutely scammer
check chat between us i already posted here
If you look closely, they are different subreddits. r/giftcardexchange/ is spelled normally, meanwhile the /r/giftcaredxchange which was the one in your posts isn't. They spelled card with cared and exchange with xchange. Perhaps you were phished op? |
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dear he is moderator there
and when i report him
i was banned in reddit
That's weird... write to them for an appeal, see: https://reddit.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/requests/new. A subreddit mod doesn't mean absolute power or do you mean you were only banned in their subreddit/community? cause that would make sense. I noticed there's a subreddit called /r/giftcardexchange/ which "at a glance" seems legit. I suggest noting that they could be trying to phish users. |
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Sorry for your loss op. As you have said, you'd need some sort of guarantee which means a reputable platform with a reliable escrow to fall back into. In the future, you could try selling them in the Digital Goods board together with a hired escrow, see this thread for a list: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=276897.0. Try to also check the p2p exchanges in kycnot.me if they list gift cards. I can say all of them are reputable except for the voucherbot (cause idk much about it), see: https://kycnot.me/?cash=on |
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Localbitcoin is the perfect website to do a person to person transaction because some seller there is offering a meetup transaction. Most of the traders that doing this meetup is using localbitcoin and not Bitcointalk forum since most user preferred there privacy.
Afaik they no longer list in-person trades and now requires mandatory KYC. But op could try their luck on other p2p websites such as: agoradesk, hodlhodl, localcryptos -no mandatory kyc for using them -it's currently impossible to create a new account in localcryptos but anyone will still be able to see the current in-person trade offers. And if they go to a user profile, other means of communication are typically listed. |
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It appears they're not in friendly terms with yahoo email accounts. What if I did not receive a verification email?
1. Wait 10 minutes. Do not resubmit during this time.
2. Check your spam folder.
3. If you use a @yahoo email account, consider signing up with a different email domain address.
But perhaps you could still try whitelisting their domain in your email account? Further, when you submitted your support ticket, were you able to get an automated email indicating that they have received your ticket everytime? because if not, you may wanna resubmit with a non-yahoo email address. Another thing, did you at some point used their mobile app? |
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SCAM! don't deposit and cent! 1. The popular scam scheme of depositing to verify your account is in their terms. No legitimate exchange do this as it doesn't prove anything. If total balance of Your account is less than 15 BTC or the same value in other currencies You have the right to pass verification procedure by making a verification Deposit using the capabilities of our decentralized system. To verify Your account, You can make a Deposit (Transfer Funds from your External Account into CIRCLEEX Account). The exact amount of Deposit is 0.04 BTC in one payment. The System will automatically identify this Deposit as verification. The entire main balance including the last Deposit will be available for Transfer Funds from your CIRCLEEX Account into an External Account and Internal Addresses instantly. It will also open access to all Service functions (with the exception of Trading) and remove all restrictions. 2. They lied about their background. Whois says they're less than a year old, yet they claim to have 5 years of experience. Along with this, the volume and number of users doesn't add up as they are pretty obscure - try doing a few searches about them + as stated earlier they've only been here six months ago. Users: 75915
Years Experience: 5
Current volume: 3645BTC
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I also suspect they converted your legacy wallet (old) to HD wallet (new) when you logged in 3 years ago. The question is do you remember transferring your bitcoins to your HD wallet? I've read posts from people whose legacy wallets were also converted to an HD wallet and their legacy addresses always ends up sitting in the imported addresses which is outside of the 12-word seed from your HD wallet.
It's worth mentioning that you could also login using your email address now, I did this with my 2016 account! although I think it's still worth giving logging-in using the wallet ID a try.
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