BITCOIN GOLD SCAM SITE mybtgwallet.com

[Crypington]

I don’t know how many times I’ve read on this site to move you bitcoins away from the private keys you are using to claim forks, before claiming.  Would have saved these people a small fortune....

[1714717918]

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[cryoser]

and one more victim here - heho...

seems like all stolen funds came here
1JZqYFqzxLN4w4uPuLbMHXbDPTDKvaBKoS

may be somebody help to find out more info about this wallet?

[fat.bodies]

Another victim here. I visited mybtgwallet site through the OFFICIAL link posted on OFFICIAL bitcoin gold website and ofcourse used my private keys because i believed it was a trustworthy website - turns out it was a scam. Ofcourse link disappeared last night from bitcoin gold website. Crazy irresponsible shit from BTG devs. BTW i didn't have any BTC, but all my BTG were stolen.

[asus09]

This website was on the official BTG page until a few hours ago.
Between 20-40 BTC were stolen by this website from the users trying to claim BTG for the BTC they had before the fork.
The users imput their mnemonics from BTC wallets in order to get the BTG wallet and private key.
This website used this menmonic to get access to the specified BTC account and empty it in a second.
After getting the BTC from those accounts the strange thing is that not for all the BTC account stolen, the scammer did not claim BTG although he had all info.

I built a community (https://join.slack.com/t/stolenbtc/shared_invite/enQtMjczNzMxOTM5MjIyLTNhZWRlNjNmMGUwOGJlYzFlMGZhNTIxMjA1ZWJhZmU1YTJjOTY3NTQ3Y2Q2YWE5NTc5NzAxZTRlYzAzYmEzMzA) with all the people that I could find that were ripped by this scammer and I helped a few of them to claim their btg. Feel free to join.

Some of the users claim that they lost up to 43 BTC.


Keep in touch.

Since it is in btg official webpage maybe developer of BTG is in cahoots with the one who stole btc, and they both have agreed to not claim btg's. It won't be listed on bitcoin gold official page unless my speculation is true. The fact that it got listed on their official page means that the developer might have had something to do with them or knows the scammer really well. For now wait for official announcement from btg dev, you can also go to services section and try to hire a skilled tracker to track the thief.

I agree with you, the possibility of advertising related to the developer or team of btg. this is very unfortunate once the cheating happens again.

[taxmanmt5]

just be carefull dont trus any site without some review from another
and make bookmark the trust site so you will make sfatey
and one again don give private key to another

Just a simple rule of thumb is to transfer the bitcoins to some other wallets from the wallet which you want to extract the fork coins whether it be Bitcoin cash or Bitcoin Cold. In this way, even if your private key is comprised, there is no risk that you lose bitcoin because you already moved the bitcoins but the bad thing is most people dont do this precautionary step.

[okinawa]

Thanks for the heads up man ! There are too many scam right now in the cryptoworld, ICO scam, Bitcoin gold scam, aidrop scam...etc

Stay safe fam

[lerelane]

Ladies and gentlemen, I am with you. Luckily 60% of my btc were transferred to kraken.
I suppose BTG officials should know the identities of people behind mybtgwallet, same implies for DNS registars, etc.
The total amount stolen is 70.5 BTC so far and, IMO, the best thing to do is to get this as much publicity as possible.

[sene4kin]

same here. Followed the link from the BTG official website. Got my BTC both BTG stolen. Don't know what to do now. The whole idea with this fork proved to be just another terrible scam, that's all. That was my fault i know this.

[zhzz]

same here.


my funds (around ~0.04 btc)were sent to following address:
1NJv7juV8LcLBo4egLvarkEVWskgjhY6NQ
1DVhaBdbp5mx5Y8zR1qR9NBiQtrgL9ZNQs

my post about it:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2414314.msg24695285#msg24695285


I highly (!) doubt that anyone can help us.

[unsoindovo]

there are a lot of thread who are reporting this scam.
here below another thread reporting the same problem.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2414759.0
syncing the wallet is boring, but more secure than use online wallet.

[fxbit]

Need on chain second layer of protection of private key transfer online, like 2FA authentication whenever private key is pass over for authentication, only owner be able to let private key to unlock anything

[fxbit]

We are also waiting for an official announcement.The devs from BTG told us that they've got access to the hosting server of the website and are investigating.
The developer of the website said he is investigating this too but the community acuses him for now until further proof.

The site is 1000% scam. You (all) should learn once at for all - never put your private keys on unknowns and suspicious sites.

My guess is that somebody hacked BTG site and put the phishing link there. It's pointless to steal some merely 40-50BTC and ruin a billions dollar cap project.

There is no chance it is put up there by hacker, it is offered by the website owner (btg official) as means to check your BTG availability right on the front page

[concorde899]

Need on chain second layer of protection of private key transfer online, like 2FA authentication whenever private key is pass over for authentication, only owner be able to let private key to unlock anything

If you have a 2FA then they will ask that too on the bogus website and you will give it to them.The script will do the job as easy as this time.

Anyway,I think something is not clear here:

Giving away one Private Address from one of your Addresses from your wallet, gives the hacker/scammer etc access only to that specific address.
Giving away the Secure Passphrase (MNEMONIC/SEED etc) gives FULL ACCESS to the WHOLE wallet!!!!!

The guys from mybtgwallet didn't steal only BTC. They did steal also ETH/LTC/ZEC and other coins from the users that were using multicoin wallets. So the access was to the whole wallet not just one address.
Mind the difference between Priv Key and Seed....

The damage is much bigger than we expect, multi coins are involved.

[fxbit]

2FA is not like private key/seed word which is one time authentication pairing at creation time only, there is 2 way interactive response challenge in 2FA, the scammer have to contact all the victim on time to complete the transaction because 2FA is time sensitive, if he failed to give the code within the time given the transaction will be cancelled

[EcoChavCrypto]

A lot of people lost their bitcoins, plus their bitcoin gold because of this.
I dont know why you all are still giving your private keys to another people, doesnt matter how good and temptative looks the other project.
It was free money, and you all felt tempted to export your private key into there in order to receive those free tokens for free. And the price went up by a lot of money, so it increased the anxiety to get those coins for free ASAP, because they were increasing so quickly.
Maybe all this thing was just a setup, we dont know yet.

[Sindren]

All wars, color revolutions - printed dollars. There are 2 concepts. Strength in money and power in truth. Mankind is entering a new era of virtual technologies, where truth and money lose all meaning. We all need a free economy. The failed projects are the discrediting of the crypto currency. A familiar handwriting!

[rigel]

Just move your BTC before trying to redeem your BTG.

Everyone should understand this.

[concorde899]

Join the community of people that got scammed.
Only toghether we can get over this.
https://join.slack.com/t/stolenbtc/shared_invite/enQtMjczNzMxOTM5MjIyLTNhZWRlNjNmMGUwOGJlYzFlMGZhNTIxMjA1ZWJhZmU1YTJjOTY3NTQ3Y2Q2YWE5NTc5NzAxZTRlYzAzYmEzMzA


Also please comment on this post:

http://bitcoinwhoswho.com/blog/2017/11/16/million-dollar-mybtgwallet-scam/

[concorde899]

There is a new clone of Mybtgwallet.com online. It is https://mybitgoldwallet.com/...BEWARE: it is a scam too, has transmit script inside, do not use!

Also there is another fishy wallet on the official Bitcoin gold website : Freewallet and as according to this topic is fraud too :

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1964190.0


Holders, BEWARE

[sonsoflight]

*Note: Crosspost from another thread day before yesterday; posted before I knew there was a dedicated thread about this*

Yup. For my first post, I was just about to sound off about this. Same exact thing.

I thought it was safe, because it had been (previously) listed in the "Ecosystem" at the official BTGold site, and was actually one of the first ones available. Otherwise, I would never have entered my private keys there, or the private keys to my girlfriend's wallet. She had about $2000 in BTC in her Jaxx wallet, and we were getting the BTG.

We entered our private keys into mybtgwallet.com ... again, thinking it was safe. I had told her to move her BTC asap, but I didn't push it super hard, because I couldn't imagine an official website linking to a scam right on their website. However, at the time, the "wallet" couldn't transfer the BTG, saying that the mainnet hadn't been released yet. Once it was released, we kept refreshing the site, only to see that it still hadn't been updated since the 10th, or two days before mainnet. Eventually, we just used Coinomi to transfer the BTG and she kept her money in Jaxx. The *only* other place we exposed the private keys would have been to the Coinomi wallet. And I don't think that they're sucking money out of accounts these days.

This evening, we check in, and guess what? All of her BTC gone (except for $7). Also, all of my BTG gone. They wiped us out. She called me crying; that was a lot of money for her. I feel super guilty, because I was the one that talked her into investing during the last dip. Of course, when I check the site now, it's changed. The other two options are gone, the certificate is expired, it links to a *different* github address (it used to be this guy: https://github.com/iancoleman/), and all the credits and other info are gone. And, of course, it's disappeared from the Ecosystem section of the official site without a word from the BTG devs.

There's absolutely *no way* it wasn't mybtgwallet.com. I can post the transaction later, on. But here's the real question: how involved were they with these folks? Because the person who's currently linked to mybtgwallet.com is, at the moment, a contributor to the BTG project on Github:

https://github.com/John-Dass?tab=stars

... and the "official" wallet, as well:

https://github.com/John-Dass?tab=repositories

Did we just get scammed by the official creators of Bitcoin Gold for our Bitcoin (and our Bitcoin Gold)?

I'm sick to my stomach, here.