BitStamp selective scam victims list. In the continuation of topics [BitcoinTalk], [Russian Thread], [bits.media]

In this post, we are going to collect some of the most scandalous cases of payout ‘delay’ which are considered to be selective scam by Bitstamp. For now, we have registered more than 10 cases with the overall pecuniary damage amounted to more than US$ 1,5M.
Aforementioned cases may often be referred by one of the following:
1.   Customer’s account deleted without notification or any communication, the account balance has not been paid out to the customer.
2.   Withdrawal transaction got lost.
3.   Deposited amount has not been credited to the customer’s account.
We have referred by #3 only cases of delay for more than 3 weeks, so far as we understand that the delay may happen due to public holidays, for instance. To our knowledge, there are more than 100 cases of delay for 7 to 25 days.

We have been collecting the cases from public sources for a last week, It will be updated as new cases are identified. There is good reason to believe that there are many more cases of scam which go unreported. We kindly ask you to report to us any delays for more than 20-30 days by providing the following details:
1.   Your BitStamp account number.
2.   Case description.
3.   Date.
4.   Amount.
5.   Support ticket number.

We would like to bring this list to attention of the law-enforcement authorities, mass media, cryptocurrencies community and BitStamp.

https://s18.postimg.org/wfyqbbvrd/list_of_victim_19.01.18.png

I had already started a thread like this, but anyway:

My ticket 306719 was introduced the 22.12.2017, for 2775 XRP's "lost" in their trap XRP IOU address.

I also have proof that I started selling the remaining XRP's that I had, starting at 2eur, and I was planning to sell them progressively. Thus my loss right now is those XRP's that still haven't been given back, as well as pretty much the difference between what they are now worth, and what they were a few weeks ago when I started selling. Meaning, somewhere between 5500 and 7500eur.

I don't think you should ask for ID's, but: vuci1033

There are no victims here. Bitstamp is a regulated and legitimate exchange. Blocked funds (or perceived/assumed "losses") are most probably undergoing scrutiny or enhanced checks. I suggest you regularly contact them to remind them of any open and unresolved tickets. The one thing you should all remember is that exchanges are now very busy dealing with floods of new account registrations.

Remind them regularly of any unresolved issues and they will eventually resolve it. Bitstamp has been around for nearly a decade and they are one of the very few exchanges licensed to operate legally. They have an almost bank-like status in the EU.

Try contacting their CEO on his twitter account:

https://twitter.com/nejc_kodric

I traded 4 years, with them, and what? They just deleted my account, and for more than 3 weeks I have not seen all my money


Their license is received for the "Bitstamp Europe" company, and the Bitstamp company from London itself serves the stock exchange. Ie it's all an illusion.
Below is the CSSF regulator response, from Luxemburg

https://s17.postimg.org/p72m6ikvj/cssf.png

I'd think that Bitstamp would PREFER to be regulated, but can't because this is no normal trading.
They would porbably like to not be required to have a lot of fiat reserve & get away with it legally. But the reserve requirement for normal trading is probably low & wouldn't be suitable for crypto where the whole market could crash -90% overnight.
That's right, I think it's more of Bitstamp's interest to be regulated, than the user's interest. A bit like you put cancerogenous stuff in your food, you can get away saying "but the european union allows it".


Out of the exchanges that I use, it's on Bitstamp that I prefer to keep most of my fiat (which sucks a bit when it comes to arbitrage), I find it safer as Bitstamp is *supposed* to have real money, whereas others use coupons such as tethers. But I really hope that they do.



I've sold part of my coins that weren't blocked at a price, it still went upwards with no abrupt dump, I had all the time to sell the rest. Of course it's a loss for me, it's not perceived.
It's not "I could have bought & sold this using my fiat", I did start to progressively sell what I had, the rest I couldn't sell because it's blocked.

You know who else was blocking people's money? BITCONNECT. And those were at least promizing interests upon release.
Here it's "but don't worry, it has been a month but you will eventually get your coins back".

Could you show links on the forum or Reddit on the user you are talking about?

All the same, and Bitstapm refuses to solve problems for more than two months, and in some cases - 5 months. All this is a scam, which they explain by internal policy. As well as many of us understand, that Bitstamp conducts illegal actions and steals money. I do not understand why they keep money, it's arrest, confiscation, something else? Many times I have redirected to Reddit a link to this topic, as you can see, has not received replies to Reddit here. Where do you approve?

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitstamp/comments/7rxm0f/top_of_the_longest_delayed_refunds_for_bitstamp/ - There are all the questions they do not answer me by email from the end of November and do not respond to Reddit, here and on Twitter. I am interested in the legitimate reasons for withholding money for such a long time - Bitstamp has nothing to say! Because they're a big fucking scam.
My bank can not check and find out whether the money was sent without the SWIFT messager, Bitstamp does not send a check with the number so my bank will check, because my bank is reliable and answers me 24 hours a day for a minute. But declares that they released my money on December 18, 2017, which I still have not received!

If someone wants to help us on behalf of the crypto community on Reddit, please ask a question Bitstamp-Domen https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitstamp/comments/7rxm0f/top_of_the_longest_delayed_refunds_for_bitstamp/  - So that they can not ignore us any more, cheat and steal money without legal grounds, decisions of state oragns, whom they fear and spend KYC.

This is a common fraud, if money is sent then they will go to the bank, but the sons of bitches do not send them, because they have already stolen for themselves.