Check their reputation. How much money you should entrust also depend on this.

1. The longer they have been in business the better.
2. Plus points if their team and where are they located are publicized.
3. Make use of the forum when researching, learn who is reputable or not (post history, trust history) cause they are unlikely to write fake feedbacks (not meant to say you should blindly trust anyone). Try to look if the exchange has an account in the forum as well to see if there's any scam accusation about them.
4. A reputable exchange would also be mentioned by reputable news outlets.

Lastly, make sure to read the TOS and privacy policy. I know you feel lazy to read it but it's important to know the risks before getting into something. You can check https://kycnot.me for a list of no mandatory to no kyc at all exchanges.

Verified cashapp account with most likely stolen KYC data... You will effectively be locked out of your account if they request you to do another KYC. Re-verification and the request for more personal information happens a lot more often in CEXs.

In addition, this marketplace is less than a month old, basically zero reputation. How did you find it?

Try to look in job listing platforms?

I'm not sure what you're trying to do, it would help if you can explain that in detail.

Cross-posting this, it might help you if you're a victim



Also called pig butchering scam and they are usually a combination of romance + investment scams.

Actually, young ppl seems to be more prone to this, at least from what the articles I've read says.

Just checked and they do! In fact, there's still a raffle going on... wth


I'm guessing logfiles wanted a more visible warning in the hashnest thread which was unfortunately started by bitmain. But yeahhh tagging bitmain would be unfair to them, I share the same thoughts.

Binance is using a combination of 2FAs so if OP has their email verified + authenticator app enabled, binance would ask for both of them. Last time I check (months ago), there was no workaround to only use one. Email and SMS 2fa are both insecure anyway, imo they are more likely to provide inconvenience rather than security.

Meanwhile, you can login to your binance.com account by scanning a QR code using the binance app lol.

Someone has asked about it. No proof was provided but I don't think they would lie about this since they were one of hashnest's victims.


Strangely, only one news outlet has mentioned it, which is South China Morning Post


A month after that, there was an interview from Hashnest CEO where it he implied the parting ways


Overall, I believe this should be enough to back OPs claim.

If there's no way to verify they don't get to pick who wins and that no participant is made-up by their system, I don't think it's a good idea...

and on march 16, 2022 you sent your proof of ownership?

Apparently, before this, you only sent them the ETH address in question which has thousands of other transactions hence there's now way they would promise to return your funds without being able to pinpoint which one of them was yours. In addition, they would also need a more viable proof of ownership other than an ETH address which I'm guessing wasn't provided until March 16, 2022.

March 2, 2022 from a changenow reddit mod:


Fast forward, after pinpointing which one of the thousands of transactions is yours, they come to a conclusion that the trade has been long completed and they do not withhold such funds anymore. I'll say it again but I don't think they are responsible for such thing.

I think it's more about considering every possible threats that's why we should factor in everything else as well.

For instance, if the person on the other end starts behaving like a typical romance scam artist, you would wanna cut ties with them so you don't waste anymore of your time. Because if crypto trading doesn't work, it's likely that they will just come up with another way to scam their victim e.g. "i wanna see you but i don't have the money for plane tickets", my father/mother/brother/sister/cat/dog/you name it... is very very sick sick right now and I'm having a hard hard time bc I have no money for hospital bills", etc...

Was this before you sent your proof of ownership?

With your example, the risk is there for every side. First, the escrow's (or the proxy buyer's) name could just be a placeholder for the client's shady deals. Second is when the escrow runs away with the buyer's/seller's funds/goods.

The thing about escrow is they need to be trusted/reputable first otherwise it's the same as trusting random guys with your money/goods. By trusted, I do not mean being able to give a resume or any of their personal information. It's more about having a good track record as an escrow (beware of questionable feedbacks).

We do have a list of reputable escrow agents in the forum but if we're talking about bitcointalk account selling, I don't think they would facilitate that for you.

Unless they said it directly, I wouldn't say changenow "promised" and "insisted" to give your funds back. Involving law enforcemnt for this type of case is the standard for most centralized exchanges. Changenow requesting such letter isn't a strong evidence that they are still withholding your coins. Honestly, they can just say it's a case of poor support or they're just trying to collect required legal documents (as per their policy) as they work on your case.

I don't really see how changenow should be responsible if a scammer completed a trade in their platform. You could say they are lying about not withholding the said funds anymore but you're gonna need a stronger evidence for that.

Good idea. If the scammer is dumb, they might use the same address again or actually, they might have already used it in a KYC'd exchange account. Although changenow has probably included the address in their network of blocklist, it's not everything. What OP can do is to make the rounds themselves in as many exchanges as they can although it's gonna be a tedious task.

It's really possible they don't have your coins anymore. They're an instant exchange and once the deposit has enough confirmations, trade is completed within a minute or two UNLESS their system flagged the transaction leading to withholding the funds. Former happens more often than the latter.

She will most probably receive another set of scam emails. Consider the email address at high risk and try not to connect another account with it. More about securing your emails here

Well, if it's indeed the same Glidebitinvest, it's basically confirmed it's a scam with how their business model works. Guaranteed overly high returns isn't possible cause that would mean donating their money to their clients, every business has to earn.

It's odd that they use an actual registration number instead of counting numbers (123456789) as a placeholder text...

In any case, the developer is the developer and you're the highest person in charge so how can you not check? Replacing all the placeholder texts is one of the most basic things. If you can overlook such thing, I'm doubting you can properly run an exchange.

You are being catfished OP. I very much doubt those pictures are real unless they're dumb enough to reveal themselves. Look up romance scams and you'll find the same stories. You can try to drop their pictures in reverse image search engines (google, bing, tineye, yandex, etc.) but do note that if it doesn't return any results, it doesn't mean they are what they claim to be. It's just some scammers use photos which are wide spread all over the internet.

If any stranger starts talking about money, you should immediately run... almost everytime they don't end well. Take note that some of these scammers are a bit tricky. They would spend a good amount of time (weeks, months...) to make you warm up to them before they start talking about finances and stuff, and therefore to some people, it comes off as natural or less alarming at least.

Lastly, limit the personal information you give out to ppl you don't know well, particularly those that could reveal your financial situation cause scammers could use it to assess if you're worth the trouble.

This definitely falls into the pig butchering scam where scammers tries to slowly gain their victims trust until they make that one big deposit. It usually involves romance scam as well but not necessarily.

Since you're involving authorities, this might help you. It's from a victim of the said scam.


While I cant vouch for the org, I did a quick search that time and they were quoted by reputable news outlets as a source of information which you should be able to confirm yourself by DYOR. However this doesn't mean you should blindly trust them! in fact you shouldn't do that to anyone. Be cautious to anything a stranger tries to offer, it would help to think twice before jumping to anything.

Are you talking about binance's broker partner program? If so, how do you satisfy this prerequisite when you have not started yet?