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Not a lead, just a curiosity, from the spidering results I found the pending reviews ( https://www.timetobit.com/starreviews/34eayghzrtdj56rtjsh/). Apparently the review system approval mechanism was unprotected. There are 157 pending reviews, all of which state the site is a scam. They seem to have be spammed since there is a lot of repetition on the review text and they were all done on the same day. Follows some examples: - Leave immediately, and do not get scammed like I did. No one answers support, no payout - Do not throw your bitcoins down the drain of TimeToBit. Once payment is received, they stop responding, and there are no payouts - I made a terrible mistake joining TimeToBit, one of the biggest bitcoin scam ever. Please do not lose your money too. No payouts, no support - (...) Screenshot of the webpage http://i.cubeupload.com/m2AfU0.pngEDIT: Google Cache cached the page with some of the "it's a scam" reviews http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Awww.timetobit.com&btnG=Well, I can clear this up right now: All those reviews were posted by me, the same day I posted the scam alert, here on this forum. After getting no replies from the site support, and happening to note reviews are getting posted to the home page unfiltered, I posted these using random first name-last name-email combinations, and a set of around 6 reviews, just to see if they would react.. |
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Yes, the site is down, as I had expected it would be sooner or later. The 'legit' company registration was probably a clever cover or decoy tactic.
I am concerned that this could form the template for a series of scams in the near future.
A 'legit' company suddenly appears, starts to offers freebies and generates interest on forums, has a fairly well designed and legit-looking website.
Accepts payment only by bitcoin, then, one day, 'poofff'... gone, just like that. Too late, by the time you realise everything was just a cover for a clever scam!
I think, at least partly, it is the unique nature of bitcoin transactions makes such a scam possible.
Hereafter, I would be extremely careful dealing with a site that "accepts payment only by bitcoin"!
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Good luck to you LXBGMiners - I hope your investigations will lead to at least some positive result!
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Dear LXBGMiners, I found these instructions on the RIPE site: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/cteusche/finding-anti-abuse-contact-information-with-ripestatHow to report a suspected abuse incident
Please keep in mind that the email addresses listed may be for contact people at an ISP providing Internet services and they may not be aware that somebody is using their network in this way. They will need you to give them details of the abuse so that they can investigate it further. Explain what happened Try to explain why you think it's an abuse case Include the IP address Include the times when it happened Include any evidence (e.g. copy the message from your firewall, log entries etc.) You might want to mention that you found this contact via RIPEstat's Abuse Contact Finder widget by appending this line: "This email contact was found using RIPEstat's Abuse Contact Finder widget. Please find more information at https://stat.ripe.net/specials/abuse." You might consider using the above format to write a convincing email to peter@serverconnect.se, requesting help from him to give leads for recovering the loss - that is, unless you have already done it! |
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Dear LXBGMiners, Very sorry to hear about the huge loss you have incurred. I am wondering of the scammer's evil genius to have made this really clever scam. I am sure there are may more who have already fallen prey. I think there is nothing much that can be done, but write to peter@serverconnect.se reporting abuse form the IP address 95.143.193.61, though I have no idea what he could do. If there are any Swedish contacts, I wonder - could we push for an official investigation or legal proceedings? |
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From the RIPE Facebook page: If you are looking to contact us about misuse of an IP address, please understand that the RIPE NCC allocates and assigns IP addresses to Local Internet Registries (LIRs) and does not use them itself. You can find out more information about possible abuse and/or misuse of an IP address by using the Abuse Finder Widget on RIPEstat: https://stat.ripe.net/specials/abuseSo when I entered 95.143.193.61 in the Abuse Contact Finder, the email address that came up was: Abuse Contact Finder (95.143.193.61) Email-Contact peter@serverconnect.seThis contact can be used to report abuse. I am sending an email to Peter, thank you odlal for helping to lead upto this! |
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Checked out the site betarigs.com, it looks rather ok, their discussion thread on this forum also does not indicate any specific accusations regarding scamming activity...
Paolo Fanton looks like a tech contact.
I'm just wondering now how many bitcoins the creep 'Tony' could have collected by now through his fake cloud mining contracts.. I hope he catches no more fish from this site, but the open and irreversible nature of bitcoin transactions make such scams a constant threat.
Has been a hard lesson to learn!
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I wonder - is there by chance anybody from Sweden, near abouts Gavleborgs Lan, Hudiksvall, in this forum who can help with this in any way - or give some pointers?
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Imagining a Phone Call, to +4665010000
"Hello..?"
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"Do you run bitcoin scams?"
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"Do you know who Tony is?"
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I've got 4 payments still "pending". Wondering if I've been scammed too.
Quite possibly yes - you too have been scammed. Looked pretty legit didn't it? Same here! |
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Yup - that seems to be the guy running this site.
Somewhere in Sweden.
Possible goes by the name 'Tony'
And he's got all our bitcoins!
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Thanks again, I had tried tracing the email using the header - and it was located as sent from Sweden: IP address : 95.143.193.61 IP number : 1603256637 Country : Sweden flag Region: City (Estimate) : Latitude : 62° 0' North Longitude : 15° 0' East Time Zone : W. Europe Daylight Time GMT Offset : 02:00:00 I can now see Sweden mentioned in the Lunamine thread also. Is something going on there!?These are the headers, if any one would like to examine them further: Return-path: < info@timetobit.com> Envelope-to: xx@xxx.xxxDelivery-date: Thu, 14 Aug 2014 22:51:17 -0400 Received: from [10.115.3.11] (helo=bosimpinc11) by bosmailscan06.eigbox.net with esmtp (Exim) id 1XI7bp-000779-Az for xx@xxx.xxx; Thu, 14 Aug 2014 22:51:17 -0400 Received: from server1.timetobit.com ([192.64.118.151]) by bosimpinc11 with bizsmtp id eqrF1o01D3G4Pk001qrGvP; Thu, 14 Aug 2014 22:51:17 -0400 X-EN-OrigIP: 192.64.118.151 X-EN-IMPSID: eqrF1o01D3G4Pk001qrGvP DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=timetobit.com; s=default; h=Content-Type:In-Reply-To:References:Subject:To:MIME-Version:From:Date:Message-ID; bh=e/4PGOkZ0whJdArR0D4LPv8zJcVO5cEOLPhuH6MXc2M=; b=LGT/lbAmHdgVSLy0gt6UAQIKG9AnompH1SDWzwoQpxAyuAsky//jOJ2ydQXlbh8BU19MNYmmJQZt8XqZULdn9/DjIpylMUkop3vbRlIhn7Y+yOY76tQGNLoWSIxArHGwSR2Sw0I/8mBmLO7ONfCoq6xu/ELX3l/y7R5WksgH09Y=; Received: from [95.143.193.61] (port=56958 helo=Tonys-iMac.local) by server1.timetobit.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from < info@timetobit.com>) id 1XI7bj-0003z9-EN for xx@xxx.xxx; Thu, 14 Aug 2014 19:51:13 -0700 Message-ID: < 53ED769B.5040709@timetobit.com> Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2014 09:55:23 +0700 From: Info | TimeToBit < info@timetobit.com> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.9; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Xx Xxxx < xx@xxx.xxx> Subject: Re: Reviews on homepage showing site is a scam References: < 0f740657-06bd-4e04-b535-18899ffc2875@email.android.com> < 53ED6EA5.4070106@timetobit.com> < 85073B35-8A1F-420D-86C5-F20E690C6E60@xxx.xxx> In-Reply-To: < 85073B35-8A1F-420D-86C5-F20E690C6E60@xxx.xxx> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------010600000008010400000100" X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - server1.timetobit.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - xxx.xxx X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - timetobit.com X-Get-Message-Sender-Via: server1.timetobit.com: authenticated_id: info@timetobit.comX-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: So 'Claire | Sales' was writing from "Tony's iMac", from a Swedish IP, on behalf of TimeToBit - in Scotland?! |
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Thank you, I have posted a reply on that thread.
All the pointers favour the conclusion that timetobit.com is a scam site - I feel it might probably will disappear, once they see all this!
But it is hard to understand what is actually going on.
However, if they have some sort of crisis, they could reach out to customers on this forum, their Facebook//twitter page etc.
Nope, this is something deep.
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Thanks a lot for finding their information, I too had found their entry on opencompany.com, indicating their legality. However: - they do not mention a phone number on their site
- the 'Live Chat' always offline,
- they have disappeared from this forum and twitter.
I actually managed to get an email reply from them, it was sent from a time zone corresponding to Sweden, when I sent them the link of an earlier scam accusation from this very forum ( https://bitcointa.lk/threads/timetobit-free-mining-plan-giveaways-round-2.336005/page-6), posing as a new user who is considering buying a contract: On Aug 15, 2014, at 8:25 AM, Info | TimeToBit < info@timetobit.com> wrote: Hello, I will have one of our PR representatives have a look and try to clear up the situation, generally we are not really active in the forums, it may sound weird for the regular customer, but reason being for that is that there's not much of a customer base present in bitcoin forums at all. After all we are a company relying on sales, if there's no sales to be made in a particular location, you don't bother going there. Please do not confuse this with customer support, in my personal opinion and I would say also in that of our customers, we provide excellent support via e-mail with exceptional response time. Kind Regards, Claire | Sales -- If you have any further queries, requests or suggestions, we will be pleased to assist you. Best Regards, TimeToBit | Instant Bitcoin Cloud Mining This was the last communication I received from them. They never responded when I wrote from the email ID I used to sign up - a few minutes later on the same day that I got this reply. |
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I am sorry that I saw this too late - I too have been scammed by timetobit.
Subscribed for their 1TH/s plan, and the payouts remain as 'pending' with no response from support when emailed.
I then tried contacting them from another email id posing as a new customer who came across negative reviews on a forum and is anxious to join them, and they promptly responded that they have 'never wronged any customer' etc..
So somebody is THERE, but they just have set the bait and are waiting for people to fall in with their bitcoins. I'm going to campaign against this scam, posting about them wherever I can.
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