BEWARE OF ELABORATED SCAM WHICH USES STRATIS AS A BAIT!!!

[YDDS]

Hello. I have been a longtime lurker, but I have to quickly warn the community. This is to alert all would-be STRATIS investors of a new, elaborated scam I may have fallen victim to, as per Poloniex' latest answer to me on the issue. I had written STRATIS about it at info@stratisplatform.net, but didn't get any answer as of now(edit: even the site Poloniex thought was real, is a fake, which explains the silence). It uses the STRATIS jumpstart offer as a bait. THIS IS NOT AN ATTACK ON STRATIS. Just a warning that someone is using their platform(and Poloniex' name)as a bait. This is the email I received on Thursday, with the subject "Quick profit for 2017":

Hello,

This e-mail is sent to all STRAT jumpstart promotion token holders.

YOUR JUMPSTART TOKEN IS: X14JUAB6

Stratis Jumpstart is a low risk, high reward short term trading investment scheme insured by the Stratis Platform and targeted at Poloniex crypto-currency trading. Withdrawals are processed on the 1st of January.

If you do not wish to take part in the jumpstart round, you are permitted to give your token to a friend - but it can only be used once and all deposits need to confirm before the 29th of December 2016.

To take part in Stratis Jumpstart and make 50%+ profit on your deposit, enter your token here:

https://stratis-platform.net/jumpstart/X14JUAB6

STRAT was listed on Poloniex recently. Find more information on our Twitter feed:

https://twitter.com/Poloniex/status/810703765955289088

Sincerely,
The Poloniex Team and Stratis

Obviously, I checked on Google and all to see if it wasn't a scam, and could see that the jumpstart offer was legit and there was no result showing a scam related to STRATIS. Furthermore, the email was sent to me and me only, unlike the usual scammer trick of sending to different addresses in a single email, which further enhanced my confidence. Nobody knows I am a registered Poloniex user except Poloniex staff. The scammer also sent it close to Christmas to make people hasty and any staff answer delayed by the holidays. So, despite wanting to 1st contact Poloniex, I went ahead and attempted to register, depositing some money. Here is what happened, as I told Poloniex(and STRATIS at info@stratisplatform.net):

Hello. I received your mail about the Stratis Jumpstart offer. My token is X14JUAB6. I followed the link, then followed the procedure, sending 0.22323319 BTC to address 15bxXiKRzHd5ahE9P8fHB5GbMrZXtRv3AC thru transaction ID a16cd401bc37dc5ee3eb71298cff9fd32e32d947ade6e336a557776ee12d3a71. For the past hour, it has been stuck at 0 confirmations out of 3 on the Jumpstart page(step 3), while it has been confirmed 8 times on the blockchain in the same timeframe. I didn't refresh the page during that time, as I thought that something might finally happen, to no avail. I'd like you to fix this ASAP and confirm my entry into the Stratis Jumpstart scheme, or refund my BTC to address3EMpcLaWx7JdiyoKPargZNFjPDpCdES8Nh, as I sent the money directly from my BitStamp online wallet. I have attached all the relevant pictures.Thank you.

To which they answered, 2 days later:

Thank you for getting in touch.

I am sorry but there appears to be some confusion -- which email are you referring to? Was this from Poloniex? As far as I know we have not taken part in any affiliation or crowdsales for Stratis. Can you please let us know the details your received and from whom they originated?


Best regards,

Kevin
Poloniex Support

To which I replied with the particulars of the original email. This was their answer, today:

I am very sorry, but it appears that you have fallen victim to a scam website. We never sent this email and are not affiliated with STRATIS past the point of having it listed on our platform.

The website link you provided goes to https://stratis-platform.net/jumpstart/ -- this is not the official website for STRATIS, which is actually https://stratisplatform.net. You will see that if you click the link to main page at top of the page your provided me with, it loads the original site in a windowed box, portraying this 'scam' website to be part of it.

I am very sorry but if you have sent BTC to this site I am afraid it may be lost.


Best regards,

Kevin
Poloniex Support

Now, I wonder how the scammer knew the way to target me that specifically, knowing I was a Poloniex member and all that. I asked Poloniex if there wasn't any database breach on their side. The website looks perfectly identical, and even links to the original. So, I got scammed out of 0.22 BTC, but I want to make sure it's all that thief gets for his "quick profit for 2017" on the back of STRATIS, and nobody else falls for it, at least those who can read it here and spread the word. Thank you.

[StratisKing]

You are naive, where did you get that site?   .net website is a phishing site, sorry for your loss.

http://stratisplatform.com/   with .com domain, which is the real stratis platform website, it is official one. There is no jumpstart program at all, you can come to stratis slack, and stratis op: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1512202.new#new

Recent posts were not such a program, you were fooled by the phishing site, and scammed by hackers. But stratis platform is innocent.

[VanDeinsberg12]

You are naive, where did you get that site?   .net website is a phishing site, sorry for your loss.

http://stratisplatform.com/   with .com domain, which is the real stratis platform website, it is official one. There is no jumpstart program at all, you can come to stratis slack, and stratis op: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1512202.new#new

Recent posts were not such a program, you were fooled by the phishing site, and scammed by hackers. But stratis platform is innocent.

That's right and seem like the explanation was rediculous for me. Strating has doing his job with best and there is no reason to be a scam.



OP, You must check again and try to compare about the both of real platform and fake platform.

[YDDS]

You must have been mistaken, nowhere am I accusing the Stratis people of any wrongdoing, just saying that the emails at info@stratisplatform.net were not answered. On the contrary, I want to help the platform, and others. I have reported the site to Google, and asked Poloniex to make an announcement, given that their name is used in that scam. Just want the word to be spread. It was just me not being careful enough with that token. Even the .net site is a fake, while I thought it was just an alternative to the .com one. It was just well thought out: e-mail close to Christmas, to make sure any question asked to support would be slow to answer, email addressed to me and just me, using Poloniex(which is the most baffling part, but I guess it was just a coincidence in the end, given that part of the scam was using the fact that Poloniex recently listed it), perfect copy of your website, using a deadline close enough to the holidays to make people hasty, no mention of any previous scam attempt on Google(which I am trying to change, and it looks like I am succeeding, as, prior to my post, any search of "Stratis jumpstart" netted no relevant result, while my post is now the 1st hit). Just wanted to warn others and spread the word. Congrats to the thief for managing to get me to fall for an Internet scam for the 1st time ever since I've started using the Internet in the late 90s, thanks to a favorable convergence of circumstances, but I want to help limit his end-of-year profit.  Hope I have made myself clear. My apologies if there were any confusion in my wording.

[ArdiPrabowo]

until now staitis coin is good coin
not any problem, big community, link annoucment is still active
volume transaction last 24 hour 25k dollar, so is not bad
and price in 24 hour incraese 7% in dollar value, and 4% to bitcoin value

if you problem deposit in poloniex, is answer not satisfied, you can ask moderator in chatbox