oh please, you have it in the website field on your profile and now you're here making this post look like a user review... yes, thanks for proving to us one more time about how signals aren't worth our time.

Frankly, I'm unsure whether this is worth pursuing but I guess it wouldn't hurt to get a free consultation. I only know one blockchain analysis company who work for individuals, they're called coinfirm.com. If you go to their website to schedule a free consultation, there's a category called reclaim crypto that you can opt for which is pretty self-explanatory. Afaik they have also partnered with kroll.com for this. Ultimately, you'd have to see to it that the cost wouldn't outweigh the reward.


Quick search and this doesn't seem like a route for you.


Have you reported this at: https://www.europol.europa.eu/report-a-crime/report-cybercrime-online?


USDT is available in multiple blockchains e.g. eth, tron, omni etc... you can tell us the first few characters of the address or if you're fine with sharing the transaction IDs publicly, you may post it here.

Try to evaluate yourself with the question, why should they hire you? cause you have to be able to sell yourself. The edge you could give yourself without having no experience is becoming a reputable account by contributing in the forum + you'd have higher chances of attracting serious projects.

Some must-know-how-to's I could think of right now is being able to spot signs of blatant scams because if you keep accepting them, there's a high chance you'll be tagged. Obviously, you must know your way with spreadsheets.

It appears a lot of people here still confuses blockchain.com's private key wallet and custodial wallets. There is no kyc for the former, it is only needed if you wanna use their exchange, hence custodial wallet.


How many times did it fail? once or twice is totally normal as verification softwares are far from accurate. In fact blockchain.com is aware about this and offers manual verification, although I would expect a dreadful amount of time for it to get done 


Perhaps the hazy memory led to $100 bonus because of "buy $100 cryptos and get $50".

It's not impossible but the chances are typically not favorable on your side as a lot of these scammers obfuscate their tracks. You could start an investigation but know that it doesn't guarantee answers to the questions who and where. Further, legal proceedings are also to be expected when trying to recover money. This shouldn't stop you from reporting to your local authorities tho. It's free and maybe it could be of some help someday.

Another thing you could try is to look if this type of scam is tax deductible in your country, see: https://koinly.io/guides/

Because no legit exchange would ask for a deposit first in order to withdraw, it doesn't prove anything... Let me guess, an internet stranger introduced the exchange to you? and each time you profit, you were encouraged to come back with more money? and now they have halted the withdrawals. It's a very popular scam, if you bring the money they're asking, they will just ask for more so don't give any cent or your personal documents.

If you don't mind me asking how much did you end up depositing?

Yobit, its team and their whereabouts are an enigma but they are often associated with Russia. If I have to guess, I'd say they are based on the internet lol as they are scammers who are more interested in hiding rather than complying with the law. This probably adds on people's reluctance to sue them on top of spending loads of time and money.


There was a news about them being investigated by russian authorities, see: https://cointelegraph.com/news/cryptocurrency-exchange-yobit-investigated-in-russia-on-fraud-claims, and a rumored founder being arrested in russia however there wasn't enough evidence suggesting he was actually the founder. That's it 

Yeah this is very typical but with the recent changes to their unverified accounts, it wouldn't be surprising if they also tightened their security triggers (things that could ask them to verify it's you) which of course they wouldn't announce to the world.

Supported!

At the time of change of hands allegation, the account did change its email according from the posts, although not the password which was weird...still, it had an evident change of posting pattern: account started posting in russian boards - i know bilingual people exist but the account has also stopped posting in the german boards where they have been a regular since they registered. Further, they didn't do anything despite the negative tags considering that they appear to trade regularly using the account which is why I'm learning towards change of hands.

Heads up! They even bought a legendary account to promote their service, see: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5426428.0

SCAM! STAY AWAY FROM THIS EXCHANGE!!

1. Someone have been scammed already, see: Beware of BITYX . COM Exchange Total scam lost 5100 $ in USDT & Bitcoin
2. They have been sending bots to create fake user reviews, see: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5420996.msg61328547#msg61328547 (also look at all the newbie accounts above this post)
3. OP's account has changed hands, check its trust feedback! which means they even bought a legendary account to make themselves appear legitimate, something every scammer do!

In here, it's possible to use a DHL service point's address and collect the parcel from there. I suggest reaching out to DHL if that's available in your place.

With the ginormous amount of shitcoins they listed, I wouldn't be surprised if they're constantly having problems with their wallets - one of the reasons why I only traded small amounts there. However, waiting for a year is simply too much (even a month is!), it's safe to say that your case isn't being prioritized and it shows their reluctance to release your money.

I guess you're probably already making rounds on crypto communities about this, no? I can only suggest subtly dropping that you're exploring your legal options with other users.

Website is inaccessible on my end. I dropped it in urlscan and same result: https://urlscan.io/result/b330c5e3-2bea-4fa2-94cf-9b7324abc04e/

This is why you should stay away with new and obscure exchanges, they are likely to scam their users. If you whois wolebit, it's only 13 days old so it's likely that no one has ever heard of it therefore it has zero rep. I'd consider the documents compromised, I suggest reaching out to relevant authorities/companies.

How to attach images: you can upload it to hosting websites like https://imgur.com/ and drop the links in your post.

For bigger amounts, I'd say you should at least be prepared for KYC or possibly lose the money. It's still a CEX and the higher the amount, the higher chance it'd be noticed. If you can, try to split the swaps into smaller pieces.

or you can look if there are better alternative for your use case first.

This article has some good points. I've also seen CEXes use it as a security measure for when your activity is flagged. However, in your case it's because expired documents aren't valid anymore hence your entry needed to be updated like how we have to renew some of our valid IDs.

Might be a good idea to activate the anti-phishing feature for emails in your binance account. I'm not suggesting that you should fully trust emails marked with your code, just that it could act as a guide on what emails should be looked into and deleted.

I remember trezor also partnered with changenow, integrated their exchange in their platform and had a stance of no-responsibility hence why I assumed.

Could you tell us more about how this partnership (in your case) works? Am I correct to assume that user deposits go to a non-changenow handled wallet? Would it not be possible for changenow to collect user data from ppl who use your exchange? by user data, I do not necessarily mean personal documents as it could also be addresses used.

For starters I would put a disclaimer or some sort that it's powered by changenow so that if any problem comes up, people are likely to contact them. It'll be also nice if the fact about them being able to request KYC any time is put out there.

Misc: I'm not sure if it's just me but I have habit of clicking the website logo if i wanna be redirected to homepage again which I can't seem to do on your website. A lot of websites works like this so I believe it'll be a nice quality of life update.

This thread is only for the well knowns so it's likely that they won't be included. Instant exchanges like changelly and changenow also has a different thread, see: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5218464.0.


Not so much... you may check their profile and judge for yourself: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=823207

It's quite disappointing that major updates such as this is just nestled in their blog. This is why I'm grateful to crypto communities.


It's also a very efficient way to gain userbase and eventually good rep, you can just change the policies later.