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May 25, 2017, 02:48:24 PM |
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Hiring a lawyer was the best thing for you to do personally. The 2'nd best thing would be to get in touch & build solid rapport with somebody who writes articles/blogs about Cryptocurrency on the deep web that get a lot of exposure... I just so happen to be such a person btw. Don't bother asking who I am or which blog(s) because that could blow my anonymity. But I'm about to write a blog about mixing/tumbling sites, and I'm going to burn a certain one (Bitcoin Blender) because they stole my money and are not responding to any inquiries. It was nowhere near what you lost, only $120, but that's still a lot of money to me. And heck as much as the value has gone up since then it's closer to $200 now. But it's more the principle of it than anything. After further research I came to find it's a shell scheme, where they have 3 separate sites all run by the same people. All talking a great game on their home pages... a strategy that is very sound and would be quite effective if not for the fact that there's a chance they'll take your BTC and run. Ironically I was going to praise them in particular as being the go-to option for people that insist on tumbling their BTC, while not endorsing the method of tumbling as a whole.
I'm writing mainly about whether or not they are necessary, or even beneficiary, or heck... even detrimental for that matter. Is it worth putting your trust in someone(s) you don't even know to possibly end up with someone elses even dirtier BTC? You use yours to buy a potted plant, tumble it, and end up with BTC that were used to buy drugs or snuff films from some shady corner of the dark net. If you use anonymity from the word go using a tumbling site is just adding an extra M.I.T.M. that you're giving away information to. And my experience also went a long way into shaping my view... the fact that any one of them can and will rob you eventually, just never the first time (or first few times) you use them. Selectively, so that there's far more positive than negative feedback. And this is a scenario that's happened to you it seems unfortunately, just with a different medium... you see I'm not going off topic here this is all about you and your unfortunate situation, I'm just drawing parallels, setting the scene and offering advice on how to combat it.
And once you turn your $ into cryptocurrency and grow/gain some excess get it the heck offline ASAP. Never trust any middle man with it or any 1'st party to handle it for any length of time either.
And on top of that do what you're doing right now... get the word out in cryptocurrency forums where you know lots of people are bound to see it. And let them know that you're doing exactly that "if" they don't give you your money back. In your case unfortunately it's so much money they probably wouldn't flinch anyhow. In mine they think I'm bluffing, but in 3 days thousands of people will read my blog condemning said site and they'll end up losing FAR more business in the end than that measly $120 BTC was worth to them. What I did was try each tumbling site I knew about at least twice... first sending a very small amount, like 40-$60. And then the second time 100-$150. And if both of them went through a 3'rd time for several hundred. And I caught one of them being shady on the 2'nd try, all the rest of them came through but I'm over the entire operation by association. I know if one of them does it they all will, again selectively. I've done enough research to come to this conclusion. I figured I'd catch at least one with their hand in the cookie jar and I did, but it just as easily could have been any of them. And this recent boom will result in even more people having tumbling sites eat their cryptocurrency as if they're a bowl full of Skittles sitting beside them as they play XBox Live.
I'm sorry that this happened to you. I might just have to look into this operation personally, and who knows, have a few things to say about them in a future blog if you don't get your money back. So keep us posted...
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