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There have been lots of posts from people who can't withdraw their money from scryptpools.com. I recently spent some time doing some amateur sleuthing, and it doesn't look good:

Scryptpools generated coins pay to http://dogechain.info/address/DBosmYAzYJ22rFoVETozJ7nXYQLeN7r51d

Each block's payout is split. The bulk of it (amounts down to the hundreds of thousands) goes to http://dogechain.info/address/D79AecQuo7Zaar19qtAMu6BBe3p5J6oktr
The remainder (amount below hundred thousands) goes to other addresses like
http://dogechain.info/address/DG3C2iFNMH29DD1gy3i8Yv6kg4cCYGPATo
http://dogechain.info/address/DQ8Jhf3S4kzrhtujUoP1NA3dev4uK9FrLM
http://dogechain.info/address/DFkxutVb79wrxMKWzBMyYCcLGbyMmejjFP
http://dogechain.info/address/DME2WKidghaSDpkRRRF6BSGK9Bei5cg2Up
http://dogechain.info/address/DEuZBABgomwf388RHmjY72iaB4Su5jgvZQ

payments from the bulk address http://dogechain.info/address/D79AecQuo7Zaar19qtAMu6BBe3p5J6oktr are immediately sent to

http://dogechain.info/address/DEJxNoV8Z5XdesBMnxxa4ASwEYxRshvpC6

Some of the doge stays put here. As of 15:27EST on January 3 this address has 70,000,000 doge. If I had to guess, this is Phonetic's main storage address or his exchange account address
Payments from this address are combined with large payments from addresses which appear unrelated to scriptpools.
The last five payments from this address:
1.) 2014-01-03 19:11:29 2,400,000 doge was combined with payments from other sources and paid to http://dogechain.info/address/DRSRMuaaYTDCS9FCNVFty3CKtZRsUtTcXL
That combined payment was then immediately paid to: http://dogechain.info/address/DU4wp32x4kvHHqnhPXJ1LnzsS48LedJvbi This address has over 1 billion doge.
2.) 2014-01-03 08:37:58 3,000,000 doge was combined with payments from other sources and paid to http://dogechain.info/address/DBDLHzTUt3bpAXnaHpzBkDnPkmuhbktFH5
This combined payment stayed put
3.) 2014-01-02 21:35:22 4,900,000 doge was combined with payments from other sources and paid to http://dogechain.info/address/D6dBWcNfTApUtHkiP7mGd7st2KK9N2pAmH
This combined payment stayed put
4.) 2014-01-02 19:11:14 3,000,000 doge was combined with payments from other sources and paid to http://dogechain.info/address/D67cBDy6r6vMW6d5wDbazUb7AYg5PCZGjD
This account frequently pays out large sums to http://dogechain.info/address/DLtM4o5LwjK5RathKZLNHsc6fd9nkRudKj which immediately pays all receieved funds to http://dogechain.info/address/DU4wp32x4kvHHqnhPXJ1LnzsS48LedJvbi
Does that last address sound familiar? That's the one with over 1 billion doge from the latest transaction
5.) 2014-01-02 18:44:09 3,000,000 doge was combined with payments from other sources and paid to http://dogechain.info/address/D6dBWcNfTApUtHkiP7mGd7st2KK9N2pAmH
This is the same address as transaction 3 above and also stayed put

Again, I'm not an expert, but this does not look legitimate. I ran this past a few other people, including an admin at another pool, and they concurred. It looks like nearly all of the doge mined by this pool are being dumped onto an exchange.

It would be a good idea for people to take screenshots of their account page so they can prove their claim before Phonetic pulls the plug.

Phonetic hasn't posted anything here for over a week. I think that miners with larger amounts of Doge outstanding might be able to get their local authorities to compel Phonetic's web host. Another option is for somebody to file a claim in small claims court. This is not expensive and a court order would compel the web host to reveal who pays for the servers that host the pool. The IP address associated with scryptpools.com belongs to digitalocean, which is a US hosting provider. If we can find out where Phonetic is located, his local law enforcement agencies will likely be interested, as his total take is conservatively in the tens of thousands of dollars.

Please keep replies to this post informative. This thread is not the place for you to promote your pool or mock people who lost doge to this scampool I will update the post with any further information you guys dig up.

Edit 1: A helpful stranger sent me the following information. The pool's main email is scryptpools@gmail.com. The secondary email associated with that account is t****8@gmail.com The helpful stranger believes that the asterisks are 1 for 1 replacements for the actual characters in the address. That's not much to go on, but maybe somebody has noticed an email address that fits this pattern associated with Phonetic or scryptpools somewhere.

If you lost doge in this scam, please post here or PM me. Including your location (country, US state) would be helpful.

Update 2014-1-9
I emailed coinedup and crypsty, explaining the scryptpools scam and asking if any of the scryptpools addresses belonged to one of their customers. Coinedup responded immediately, saying that none of the addresses belonged to a customer. Cryptsy took six days to respond with a form letter:

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"Our team will review your request and if deemed plausible we will get back to you.
Please know that we receive a thousand requests daily and only those requests that
appear to be workable will be replied to."