Sorry for the intrusion, but in your country there are no lawyers who offer affordable prices or do not you have a relative who is a lawyer? Look for a lawyer on the internet is something very dangerous since nowadays on the internet is full of scammer with high skills to deceive people, may even lie that they are lawyers when in fact never studied law
I've once used a (tax) lawyer here, it was a little case and it ended up costing 8000eur. Considering it's pretty much what my locked XRP's were worth (now worth half of that, of course), I'd really need to be sure I would win & BS is gonna pay all the fees.
But yeah, it's because I wanna avoid scammers that I'm seeking advice.
I have already reported them through UK's fraud reporting tool - even just because BS could be the next Mt Gox & we'd be the last to know about it. Since they haven't spoken publicly, someone has to check what they're doing.
BS has already been hacked once, afterall.
Can't even withdraw my fiat to be safe, since that's pretty much what everyone has troubles with (deposits/withdrawals) for a month now.
I do not see many cases of scam accusation against Bitstamp
Well take a look at Bitstamp's Reddit.
I don't *think* it's scam, it's negligence.
Unlike other exchanges, they didn't freeze their registration, got a lot of new users and they can't cope with support. But it costed us money... it's ultimately their fault.
(and that's *if* I ever my my coins back)