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1  Economy / Exchanges / Re: BITSTAMP seizing coins and accounts - BEWARE on: July 23, 2014, 11:35:08 PM
Bitstamp has nothing to do with this, they just follow the rules, provide the necessary documents and it's all fine.

This guide seems good, don't know if it's up to date: http://www.pwc.com/en_gx/gx/financial-services/assets/pwc-kyc-anti-money-laundering-guide-2013.pdf

And stay away from exchanges who do not follow these international directives, your bank account can be frozen and you may have to answer a lot of questions.

Bitstamp has nothing to do with this, they just follow the rules, provide the necessary documents and it's all fine.

This guide seems good, don't know if it's up to date: http://www.pwc.com/en_gx/gx/financial-services/assets/pwc-kyc-anti-money-laundering-guide-2013.pdf

And stay away from exchanges who do not follow these international directives, your bank account can be frozen and you may have to answer a lot of questions.

Bitstamp has EVERYTHING to do with this. They have changed their policies which explicitly stated that your anonymity was a core value of theirs. If legislative changes have forced them to take on these new policies then it was incumbent on them to give advance warning to their customers about those changes before they came into effect. They did not do that. No email, no press release, no announcement....just this new play to effectively steal coins and cash from those old clients who value their privacy and do not wish their identification info (that that can be used to say steal your identity) to end up in the hands of faceless non-government actors in faraway Estonia, which also happens to be a country largely controlled by mobsters.

And the coins/cash they seize....do you think Bitstamp is giving it to the EU govt's justice department? Or money-laundering agency?

Please....

....BITSTAMP is officially a place where your coins will get stolen/seized if you do not wish to reveal your most private identification. Get your coins out now!!
2  Economy / Exchanges / Re: BITSTAMP seizing coins and accounts - BEWARE on: July 23, 2014, 07:27:15 PM
i have been a bitstamp customer for over a year and i have completed many transactions there in that time.
last friday, i initiated a small cash withdrawal and was shocked to get a message the next day that told me that unless i send them my passport image and information, i would not be able to withdraw any of my coins or cash ever again.
nothing has changed in my account with regards to my banking information or the volume and size of my transactions, or my password or security information. but they are claiming this is a new KYC (know your customer) initiative designed to protect my account from hackers, even though they admit that there is no evidence that anyone has tried to improperly access my account or make any changes to my account information.
i have been passing messages back and forth since then but they are refusing to release my coins and cash unless i provide them with my passport.

does anybody have any suggestions on who i should be talking to there?
has anyone been through this before? what did you do to resolve this?
any advice on how to proceed will be greatly appreciated.

i do not want to give them my passport or any identification information beyond what they already have. it is a betrayal of the promises they used to make about protecting my anonymity and money!

this appears to be straight up stealing from all of us who do not wish our passports to end up with a bunch of faceless Estonians.

once i get my money back, i will never use bitstamp again.

what other exchanges do you recommend that do NOT want that amount of personal information.


May I ask what kind identification they already have on file for you. For example do they have a driver's license or identity card on file for you?

i don't remember what identification  i gave them when i first opened my account. i don't think i gave them any - but i did give them my name and banking information, which they checked out and confirmed was real.
3  Economy / Exchanges / Re: BITSTAMP seizing coins and accounts - BEWARE on: July 23, 2014, 07:19:42 PM
i am not dealing with FIAT ( i don't even know what FIAT is) and i am not moving funds at all.
all i do is buy and sell coins, and withdraw some profits to my bank 1-3 times a month.

do you have any advice on what i should do or who i should be speaking/messaging at bitstamp?

4  Economy / Exchanges / BITSTAMP seizing coins and accounts - BEWARE on: July 23, 2014, 07:02:30 PM
i have been a bitstamp customer for over a year and i have completed many transactions there in that time.
last friday, i initiated a small cash withdrawal and was shocked to get a message the next day that told me that unless i send them my passport image and information, i would not be able to withdraw any of my coins or cash ever again.
nothing has changed in my account with regards to my banking information or the volume and size of my transactions, or my password or security information. but they are claiming this is a new KYC (know your customer) initiative designed to protect my account from hackers, even though they admit that there is no evidence that anyone has tried to improperly access my account or make any changes to my account information.
i have been passing messages back and forth since then but they are refusing to release my coins and cash unless i provide them with my passport.

does anybody have any suggestions on who i should be talking to there?
has anyone been through this before? what did you do to resolve this?
any advice on how to proceed will be greatly appreciated.

i do not want to give them my passport or any identification information beyond what they already have. it is a betrayal of the promises they used to make about protecting my anonymity and money!

this appears to be straight up stealing from all of us who do not wish our passports to end up with a bunch of faceless Estonians.

once i get my money back, i will never use bitstamp again.

what other exchanges do you recommend that do NOT want that amount of personal information.
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