So not the address I sent the 0.3 BTC from?

Another one on a different exchange?

What do you mean by spending funds on a know your customer service?

Thanks

So finally, after me not sending any more money, they have declared that the funds are burned.

In addition to the funds that were put up for this ‘contract’, I have other funds in a regular trading account with this  account manager, who is allegedly separate from blockchain.com.

I have asked him to halt trading, and to return all my funds to me.

He has asked for a number and wallet address.

I’m not sure what ‘number’ he needs, but if I were to give him my wallet address, would I be compromising myself in anyway? Or is it safe to give the wallet address, in the hope that he just may return my funds?

(Long shot, I know)

Thanks.

I appreciate all the advice, thank you.

Yes, Black Hat Coiner, I know. I feel very stupid and angry. I’m just trying to keep them talking at the moment, to have as much evidence as possible. It must make lots of people here feel very smug and fortunate, so enjoy those emotions if you like, I don’t care. This is my first time, hopefully my last, I’m trying to learn as much as possible from it.

I have a friend who has runs their own cyber security operation, and contacts in Germany where this scam is supposedly originating, so maybe I’ll get lucky, probably not, but wouldn’t you try? Or would you just give in?

I asked for systemic proof that my deposit failed, and this is what they sent. Any coders that can verify this?

https://ibb.co/wYnrcY8

Yes, the email domain is different from the website domain. Email domain is @ltdblockchain.com, website is blockchain.com. So maybe phishing.

When I search for my transaction ID using the search function on blockchain.com, my deposit shows up, and also shows that it has left the wallet I deposited my 0.3BTC into, into and out of several other wallets, until it gets to a wallet where there are so many transactions that I lose it.

I emailed the phishy representative about this today:

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Hello,

I’ve been looking at the transaction trail of my 0.3BTC deposit on the Blockchain.com search function, I can see my deposit has left the wallet I deposited it to, and been moved into and out of several other wallets, until it is mixed in with a lot of other transactions in another wallet… what is going on?? If my initial deposit failed, why is it able to move into and out of all these wallets?

I would like to see clear evidence that my initial transaction failed, I want to see detailed systemic screenshots, describing errors in detail please.

Regards,
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The reply I got was:

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If I understand correctly, your question is why your 0.3BTC transaction was moved to different wallets.

The reason for that is the reservation of your crypto funds, before you will be able to make a duplicate transaction the funds will be stored on different wallets to avoid sending them to burning address.

That, among what I've told you yesterday, is the reason why we charge customers for 2,000 GBP for address reservation. It requires us to use several different wallets and for each wallet we pay additional fee.

Kind Regards.

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Totally ignored my request for proof.

I’m still not sure if the blockchain.com website I’m looking at, the one where I can see that my deposit arrived in the wallet, is real/legit or not. It seems ok to me… I submitted a support ticket to ask if they could verify my deposit, and if they had a representative by the name I had been told, using the @ltdblockchain email address, and if his communications were legitimate or not, but I have not heard back after two days. But then again, I’ve had terrible customer service from other exchanges too, so this fact alone doesn’t mean they are a scam site…. I think…

I mean, if my deposit is able to move around to different wallets, then SURELY it is/was a perfectly fine transaction in the first place, right?.. if not, it simply wouldn’t move around like that?…

Would my transaction ID show up on any search function on any exchange? Or would the wallet I deposited to only show up specifically on the exchange it belongs to, in this case blockchain.com?

Thanks for looking into this Mocacinno, it’s help me decide what to do (and not to do).

I will see about tracking them down and involving law enforcement.

Thanks again.

Thank you Mocacinno, I have PMed you.

Thank you for your replies.

I can provide the details you’ve mentioned, but wonder if I could message anyone privately about it?

I have noticed on the email thread I’m having with them that the email domain is different to the web domain, I have submitted a ticket with blockchain.com to verify that. Waiting to hear back.

Thank you.
S

I wonder if you could offer any advice please?

Earlier today, I withdrew 0.3 BTC from my exchange wallet, and deposited it elsewhere. The address I sent it to at Blockchain.com has received it, but is failing to process it properly due to a “missing block”, and cannot complete the transaction, meaning I cannot access the funds, and I’m being told that they will shortly burn my BTC…. obviously not what I want.

Blockchain.com is saying that to solve this, I must create a duplicate transaction (send ANOTHER 0.3 BTC) to repair the first transaction, and that once this is done, the first transaction will be sent back to my exchange wallet, and the second transaction will process properly.

My question is, does this sound plausible to you? I mean they are basically saying “you’re first 0.3 BTC didn’t work, try sending another 0.3. BTC…” This is a lot of money to me, I’m worried that I’m just going to lose another 0.3 BTC.

Is the problem they are describing a known one?

Does their solution sound like it is the right one?

I will paste the text from their email below:

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Our system has detected an error during your transaction mentioned in the email.

For you to understand what missing block means, let me explain how blockchain works.

Blockchain is a system of recording information. So, it's like a ledger system, where every data exchange has a spot in the log. More so, the data exchanges in the system are called transactions. Once the transaction is verified, it gets a place in the ledger system as a block (this is why it is called blockchain).

In the Bitcoin network, each peer maintains a full copy of the ledger (blockchain).

What will happen if a peer loses one of its blocks in the blockchain (e.g. another process on the peer accidentally wiped out the disk area that stores the block)?
For Bitcoin Core, the node maintains a database which has the locations of all blocks on disk. If a block is deleted, then it will notice that the location of a block either does not exist or contains garbage or invalid data. If it does notice that a block is missing (or something is corrupted), it will attempt to rebuild the database using the blocks stored on disk and then download the missing blocks from its peers.

However, blocks can actually be deleted after they have been verified and the local database has updated so that the node knows the block it has just deleted was a valid block. This is called pruning, and with pruning, old, historical blocks can be deleted as they aren't used for anything in normal node operation (except helping new nodes sync).

So how can we correct it, if the blockchain can not recover database of the transaction?

It is very simple, you need to try exactly the same transaction one more time, to exactly the same address, from exactly the same crypto exchange. Old transaction will take information from the new one. The old one will be returned to your crypto exchange and the new one will arrive at the recipient's address.

For more details please feel free to reply here.


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Any help here would be greatly appreciated, thank you.