Where are the located? So far it's worked out for me, but if they do have misleading info listed on their site, it would be nice to bring that to everyone's attention.
Well, they DO have misleading information on their site. It's not just misleading, it's entirely made up. I work for a web hosting company so what I'm about to point out is stuff I see literally every single day.
So I drop on by coin.mx and it looks nice (well not really, the design is awful) and notice the LivePerson chat window pop-up. Something odd caught my eye:
https://photos-5.dropbox.com/t/0/AABcXGaAzw1Ot9ghkuHqX2-PCyTmUcfVZX780tt6fyntZw/12/26047663/png/1024x768/3/1386831600/0/2/shot_131211_142835.png/X30AcHMNdcCMgmk_MeETxTlewvmNj0eNdAivXVFeHE8I'm confused. "Jen" in their (fake) chatbox says -- in very terribly Google Translated English -- they have been open for 3 weeks. But wait! Jeff's testimonial says he's been a member since July 2013, or five months ago. How can both of these be true? They can't be. Also, notice he's from "Sandeigo", a place that very much does not exist in California (or anywhere else). Also, take a look at Jen's picture, keep it in mind, I'll be coming back to it.
So this made me think, if their fake chat tech says they're three weeks old but they have rotating testimonials from "members" dating back 5-6 months, let's look at their domain registration.
https://photos-2.dropbox.com/t/0/AADntquUUC4WPec1zRbmC5bvxUUpKw27aYpLtMrpBz39oA/12/26047663/png/1024x768/3/1386831600/0/2/shot_131211_142850.png/TTlGNrd3ylZTKLmfGf3J-RTat3cTdCsL4h2Mqa1ivJwThe domain name itself is almost a full two months old. It's also pretty shady that they're using protected WHOIS from GoDaddy. Someone who is taking your money should never do this. So clearly, Jeff couldn't have been a member for three months before the domain was ever registered and Jen herself has a problem with time and dates. Three weeks is very different from five months. But speaking of Jen, remember her picture? Well, to me it looked very
off for a chat tech working for their company. I know this because the company I work for used to used to use LiveChat and none of our techs had pictures like that.
https://photos-2.dropbox.com/t/0/AAAYz6f6uqn4GF7Yy9uJpRKZ6msT_EWhHCO50wzMaPyxAQ/12/26047663/png/1024x768/3/1386831600/0/2/shot_131211_154752.png/6rNPgJrl1nQecU4cy0N2PtBNHqJzhgde4m5LkPildU4This just looks weird to me, in fact, it screams "stock photo". So what do I do? Jump on Tineye to see if I can find any results and guess what? I do:
http://www.tineye.com/search/2b42ea560e696320d8da2bd86fc99b6c2a2543f6 (screenshot in case the results expire:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/9r5h4gzup7f5vu0/shot_131212_001923.png ). Hmmmmm, curious, so they are using a stock photo. That would not be
that big of a deal if it were for a different part of their site but for their chat tech? Super sketchy.
But let's go looking for this picture. It was actually really easy to find:
http://www.pixmac.com/picture/young+woman+on+outdoor+background/000076573247 . In fact, the photographer has a lot of shots of the very same girl:
http://www.pixmac.com/author/arkusha%40dp#/page/1/obj/52. This makes this even more sketchy. In fact, I just investigated a "development company" last week from Orlando that was using a bunch of BS testimonial stuff like this as well to purposefully scam/defraud people out of money for something really stupid.
Then I noticed the "Featured on..." thing. If someone does this and doesn't link back to the original site or the article(s) where they have been featured, it's a complete sham, using that as a way to lend legitimacy to something obviously made up.
Then...the phone number. It's not in Florida. I know this because I live in the same county and all of our phone numbers start with area code 561 but their area code is 513 which is the general Cincinnati area in Ohio. This same number is registered to
https://www.bcoinmarket.com/index whom I've read is the same company operating under a different name. Why would they need two exchange companies? Also, their site has literally no publicly-accessible information about who they are, their T&Cs, or anything else. That screams scam. Further down the rabbit hole I go. Both sites are operated by Collectibles Club PMA:
http://collectpma.com/. This too lists the same contact info as the other two sites, which isn't really that big of a deal if their operation is really small. However, they make their operation sound extremely large. Also, this site's T&Cs are unlinked entirely, another sign of a sketchy operation.
Their own Facebook page has literally ZERO information about the company other than what is on the website:
https://www.facebook.com/coinmx. No one other than the page owners have posted to their page and even then, over half of the content is them re-sharing someone else's status/picture. So...they're not even talking about their own company? That's sketchy.
Based on all of this and my years of working in web hosting and coming across unscrupulous people everyday, I would never do business with these guys. They've got nearly every piece of data about the company obfuscated, faked, or purposefully hidden and yet, I'm supposed to trust them with my money? I don't think so. I did this much research because they're (supposedly) in Florida and if I could just drive up to their office and deposit funds, I'd use them in a heartbeat but their operation is way too sketchy for me to ever bother with.
