Poloniex Preparing for an Exit Scam! DO _NOT_ SEND COINS THERE!

[nutildah]

Despite the fact that I have been a customer with them for almost 4 years, Poloniex is refusing to allow the withdrawal over $2,000 worth of coins from my account. Yes, I have a Legacy Account. Yes, I created a Support Ticket over 1 month ago. Now they are just sitting on my money and there is no way to contact a real human being there. So whatever you do, DON'T USE POLONIEX. They will likely just sit on your money until they run away with it all.

Want proof? Here you go:

They will gladly take your money, even though I don't really understand what this means. 12 of 12 confirmations and still pending... Hmmm...



Here is me trying to withdraw BTC from my XRP trade, after clicking the verification email link to confirm its me and I really do want to make this withdrawal. As you can see, the withdraw request was made over 24 hours ago and despite what is says in their "Support" section (what a corruption of the word), I have not been contacted by anybody. Obviously they have my email address, so why no follow-up?



Here's me re-visiting the withdraw request link in my email, just so you can see that I actually received the email, and I clicked it again thinking maybe I didn't click it the first time (even though I did), after all, it says "Awaiting Approval" for my withdrawal status.



Here's what Poloniex has to say after I clicked the link in my email. "Oops" is right. Assholes. (Them, not you.)



Finally, here's an example of how slow and useless their support team is. I would say this is proof they are either readying for an exit scam or else practicing fractional reserve banking, which means they don't actually have the coins to send me. As you can see I created these tickets an entire month ago and have received NO RESPONSE WHATSOEVER from them.



No telephone number. No email address. Nothing to do except for sit and wait and pray.

TL;DR - DON'T USE POLONIEX OR COUNT ON THEM TO OFFER _ANY_ BIT OF SUPPORT!

[Agozyen]

I got scammed by Cryptsy a couple years ago.  Shit like this will bring the regulation hammer down.  It's a good idea to spread your coins among different exchanged instead of dropping them all in a single exchange.  I hope they are just backed up as opposed to trying to run off with your funds though

[nutildah]

Now as a final hammer to the balls, this just happened:



Someone explain to me how they're not absolutely crooked and about to go down the drain, ala Vircurex, Mintpal and Cryptsy.

[kobradobra]

WOW. What the hell is that?

Were there any explanations from Polo via email/chat?

If such a big exchange using cheap tricks like that, I imagine what will do the likes of CoinsMarkets or lets say CoinExchange.

[yolucky]

It's really bad, hope your issue gets sorted soon and let's try to spread the #Poloniexscam so everyone stops using it for good.

[nutildah]

WOW. What the hell is that?

Were there any explanations from Polo via email/chat?

If such a big exchange using cheap tricks like that, I imagine what will do the likes of CoinsMarkets or lets say CoinExchange.

No explanations. No follow-up email, no response to my support tickets. I was an idiot for continuing to trust them after they have been sitting on my NEM for so long without resolving those tickets.

Time to go have another cigarette. I was trying to quit, too.

[左]

Can't wait till we can switch to good decentralized exchanges, and at least avoid mess like this.

[pey]

Not all customers suffer from this kind of problems. Poloniex is maybe the one which will not scam anyone in the future because they are in us. You may be in loss but not scammed.

[左]

Not all customers suffer from this kind of problems. Poloniex is maybe the one which will not scam anyone in the future because they are in us. You may be in loss but not scammed.

What does this even mean? And it's a pretty common thing over at polo, withdrawal issues and bad customer support etc.

[timikulit]

This is insane. Poloniex is about to become Scam if many people will encounter this. Too bad. better to stay away with this exchange.

[Acguy]

It's very disappointing considering poloniex was one of the best exchange back then. A lot of old crypto businesses are exiting like nicehash, etherdelta etc...

[DLXS]

This has been ongoing for so long... One day it will be true. I decided to stop working with them long ago, don't wanna put my money were risk is higher.

[Spoetnik]

I wonder what is going on.
I also am hearing complaints about Bittrex that are similar.
It's getting to be the same story with us older accounts and not getting out our coins and then no support.

[nutildah]

I wonder what is going on.
I also am hearing complaints about Bittrex that are similar.
It's getting to be the same story with us older accounts and not getting out our coins and then no support.

Hmm no support from Poloniex or Bittrex... I know you've been around for a while Sputty; whats your next best exchange?

C-Cex?

[nadbucs]

Thank you for the info.

[CryptoScorpio]

I wonder what is going on.
I also am hearing complaints about Bittrex that are similar.
It's getting to be the same story with us older accounts and not getting out our coins and then no support.

Hmm no support from Poloniex or Bittrex... I know you've been around for a while Sputty; whats your next best exchange?

C-Cex?

Yes Poloniex seems somewhat shady with its behavior of increasing fees and not adding any coins since last three months. It will exit at any moment. Good exchanges are Binance and Kucoin. But we need more decentralized exchanges.

[quierx16]

I wonder what is going on.
I also am hearing complaints about Bittrex that are similar.
It's getting to be the same story with us older accounts and not getting out our coins and then no support.

Hmm no support from Poloniex or Bittrex... I know you've been around for a while Sputty; whats your next best exchange?

C-Cex?

Yes Poloniex seems somewhat shady with its behavior of increasing fees and not adding any coins since last three months. It will exit at any moment. Good exchanges are Binance and Kucoin. But we need more decentralized exchanges.

well, on their part they need to increase withdrawal fee so the transaction did not stuck on hundreds of thousands of unconfirmed transaction.
I agree about binance and kucoin as a good exchange.

[RDNX]

TL;DR - DON'T USE POLONIEX OR COUNT ON THEM TO OFFER _ANY_ BIT OF SUPPORT!

Damn! Thanks for your warning advice man. Since begining i enter the crypto markets, there are a lot of bad news about POLONEIX, so i avoid that exchanger. I prefer dex exchange or bittrex now.

[Ayamj]

omg, i just hope is a joke

[chanc3r]

I wonder what is going on.
I also am hearing complaints about Bittrex that are similar.
It's getting to be the same story with us older accounts and not getting out our coins and then no support.

Hmm no support from Poloniex or Bittrex... I know you've been around for a while Sputty; whats your next best exchange?

C-Cex?

Ccex just another crap exchange site just like bittrex or polo, I've taken all my consideration from there and i've used only binance exchange right now. Remember if the exchange site will try to apply strict rules to the users and then that should become the best time for you to cash out all of your money from there. I've an account that has been banned by polo too.