About 5 years back, BTCrow was purchased by:
                             
William Hulskamp - from Australia                   
biometrics74[at]gmail.com 


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Hi,

Could you provide a little more info on this site. Do you have any
aggregated statistics for escrow transactions e.g.

Number of transactions (per month, since started ...)
Average transaction value

Also what are the hosting requirements? e.g. Windows, Linux ...
development platform(s) (php, perl ...), database (mysql?), and third
party software requirements. Also could it run on shared hosting?

Kind Regards,

Paul


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Again, gfy BTCrow & thank you for your disservice to the community. Real class act you are to advertise your 59btc scam against me a top your commissions spreadsheet to prospective buyers: http://imgur.com/NMNbitB

Shame on the buyer who has interest in buying BTCrow (particularly as they claim someone is bidding upwards of 1300btc)!

BTCrow is doing the bitcoin community a favor by exiting the business. They are completely incompetent liars who failed me to the tune of 59 btc.

Read: Bitcoin Escrow Fraud


Ever think to update your misleading website description BTCrow?
meta description for btcrow.com:
<meta name="Description" content="Our mission is to add selectively scam online Bitcoin transactions for both buyers and sellers. Our service guarantees up to the first $10000 USD for every escrow transaction." />

I can confidently call BS on this...how dare you lie and act as if you verify payout addresses?

BTCrow is indeed a selective scammer. Good riddance!!!

So long BTCrow, good luck with your plan to scam another party via your website/'business' sale!

Thank you for being a lying scumbag & making off with undeserved/stolen btc!
View BTCrow support deceiving their customer when ask where the payment was/went. They claim the receiver address was stored encrypted via email: http://imgur.com/X3rBbyj

and clearly the selective scammers have full access to payout address they choose to withhold within their admin:
https://i.imgur.com/puzErTr.jpg

Thanks also for ducking legal and attorney contact you piece of work.

NOBODY purchase BTCrow.com the SCAM Escrow Fraud

BTCrow.com is a scammer and after their latest fraud, posted about here at bitcointalk...they are running away.

Thank you key!


Unsure this message from BTCrow is new or helpful, hopefully they will update & amend their protocol asap. It is clear they still only worry about the receipt of payments to them & place no priority to see the payout reaches a legitimate address. Further, the frauds/hackers are privy to their bogus service which fails to safeguard funds and are able to take full advantage. Indeed BTCrow is either a selective scammer and/or utterly incompetent.

Thank you very much, appreciate the clarity as I have been curious how a subdomain from btcrow (s2.btcrow) equates to a spoofed email/address.

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Thanks again for your cooperation BTCrow.

It's painfully obvious BTCrow protects themselves, ensuring they receive payments & disregards the security of their customers.

Allow my rebuttal for your skepticisms:
- There were 4 previous transactions with different amounts, in one of them the IP of buyer and seller were the same.
I recall only 1 previous transaction which was indeed for a different amount. Living in USA, I made a deal with an international buyer in USD. The deal was for 23k (USD) which was agreed upon in the beginning of Oct 2015. At the time, that translated to roughly 100 btc. Buyer needed a couple weeks to gather funds and then more time to acquire bitcoins. Early in Nov, when bitcoin value spiked, and rapidly dropped, receiving 48 coins was not welcomed and therefor I initiated a new transaction which the buyer agreed upon, totaling ~59 btc.
- The buyer never replied to any of our emails.
Did you require the buyer to reply to your emails? I also do not enjoy talking to this buyer and preferred doing business as passively/peacefully as possible.
- After initiated the inspection period the buyer has the option to release the payment, but he never release the payment.
I had given the buyer plenty of time & as I grew impatient I did make a special request for him to release payment. By the time he replied, the payment had been released to the fraudulent address.
- You contact us three times about this and I told you two times that request the of release payment (a option in the seller panel), but you preferred to wait until the transaction expire.
Some degree of arrogance you have to make such an assumption. What, were you in a rush to pay the fraudulent wallet? I do not understand 90% of your skepticism, but thanks for sharing - truly enlightening information from BTCrow!

I do feel as though I have been scammed hard, at least in large part by BTCrow.

After forwarding all emails to BTCrow support they share with me that I have been victim to their front page fraud. However, being the receiver/seller...the warning imho falls short & highlights the failure of BTCrow's service.
If I may reiterate, all of their highly publicized frauds w/ regards to their business could have been eliminated had they reach the escrow payment receiver & provide payment address.

BTCrow states I was victim of a scam with a spoofed email address because I failed to discern:

Allow me to provide off the cuff comments with regards to their security warnings:

• Do NOT send bitcoins to a bitcoin address you received via email

Not an applicable warning as I hoped to receive a release of payment.

• Check the URL domain is btcrow.com

Being the party which chose BTCrow for the escrow service, my feelings are that I was perfectly able to traffic BTCrow.com's secure website without issue.

• Check the automated emails are from a btcrow.com address

This bullet point sure does get quickly glossed over by BTCrow....

• You must verify your email address and the escrow details on btcrow.com for each transaction

Easy enough. How about the company which is receiving 1.5% of the cut handle their share of the verification of email address and escrow details?!

• We do not send the escrow's payment address via email

How you justify hiding the release of escrow payment address from view is baffling, distasteful and ripe for fraud/abuse.

• If the confirmation email goes to your SPAM or Junk folder it's most likely a spoofed email

Not once did gmail send your spoofed (or spuffed as you say) emails to SPAM/Junk folder, fyi.

• Always confirm your transaction exists on our website, and ALL details are correct

Always did confirm transaction existed on BTCrow.com, however ALL details are not transparent. Again, how dare your company conceal the release of payment address information...how are you trying to protect/fool?

• Contact us immediately if you have any suspicions

Consistent communication is what you received from my end. Allow me to sum up BTCrow's support and fill in some gaps had any party wish to use this company. While using BTCrow escrow, I learned the 1 day inspection period would not be followed by an immediate release of payment. Support shares a 7 day security period is followed by the inspection period (had the buyer not take the initiative to go out to their way to release the payment). Further, 7 day security period is later defined/clarified by BTCrow support as 7 business day period....
Perhaps during, or better yet, before the inspection & security period, BTCrow should take notice of an IP log consisting of half use from Texas & the other traffic from Amsterdam?
IP Log:
87.226.2.122
176.126.252.12
87.226.2.122
99.99.185.213
87.226.2.122
99.99.185.213
87.226.2.122
99.99.185.213

Thank you for your continued support and astounding high degree of confidence in your system. I should mention to the onlookers BTCrow disregarded or didn't care to respond to multiple inquires in private earlier in the week. Thanks again to the bitcoin community here for provided such a valuable resource.

All emails have been forwarded to BTCrow.

How doubtful is it that I visited Coinbase via a spoofed email & went through multiple verification processes only to have copied and pasted a fraudulent bitcoin wallet address?

If you are a company that's victim to so many scam attempts per week...it is amazing that you have so few verification steps.... Maybe it's worth reiterating to the folks...BTCrow NEVER verifies the release of payment address to the seller & encrypts/conceals until the end.

Thank you for admitting fault in your process & your consideration going forward that you'll be wise to verify the address before release of payment to avoid these devastating situations.

I expect all logs to be provided to me via email (& feel free to publish IP addresses here) and to be provided with your legal address/contact information for law enforcement & attorney.

This is exactly their protocol. Absolute nonsense. BTCrow, I created this topic and alerted you so that you may help others...care to do so?

How exactly did I know that the payment would automatically be released to a fraudulent address? Never once did you or btcrow.com offer up the specific address details to confirm with me. Folks should know that the info disappears & is concealed and/or encrypted on your side after submission via btcrow early on within the process...only to be noticed if/when it's too late.
Fyi, zero spuffed emails are within my inbox.

Thank you BTCrow for responding in public and your further courtesy and understanding so far in private. Would you mind offering a rational for concealing the receiver BTC address throughout the escrow process? Perhaps during the inspection period the seller may wish to be reminded of the btc address expected to receive a $20k+ payment?
The IP address provided by BTCrow claims the fraudulent wallet address originates from a European address? 87.226.2.124 is far away from Texas, USA. Is this correct?

Rest assured I will look for and fwd any/all spoofed emails & that I was in full control & saw with my eyes (pardon not knowing to capture a screenshot...if that sort of tech exists during submission...) confirmation of my email + wallet address.

Thank you in advance for your help bitcointalk.org community!

I am new to bitcoin and had hoped to receive a release of payment into my wallet (via coinbase). BTCrow.com facilitated a website sale with their escrow service. Unfortunately, as I understand, during the escrow process the seller (myself) provides the desired btc address to be paid. In the end of the inspection period + 7 business day wait period (for 'security'), btcrow automatically deposited (without any verification/notification until too late) into an unknown wallet (which they claim has been encrypted/etc & provided by myself):1N8FbnAWjegbUPzFJhnYQx7ECN5V3ec12m
https://blockchain.info/address/1N8FbnAWjegbUPzFJhnYQx7ECN5V3ec12m

1N8FbnAWjegbUPzFJhnYQx7ECN5V3ec12m is not my wallet address, nor is it ANY wallet associated with Coinbase (the only company I have used to create a wallet in 2015). My newbie eye/analysis appears to indicate all funds are long gone.

BTCrow support shares with me that they will fully cooperate with law enforcement and I should contact Police had I be a scam victim. What action should I take?

Best regards,
-956Vette