I've Been Scammed on Yobit - 5% Daily BTC Investbox

[DaleyEdster]

Hello all,

I just thought that I'd share my scamming experience with you all.

What happened::
I was contacted via PM on Yobit.net by someone called Placebo77 telling me about an exclusive 5% Daily BTC investbox that was invite only and limited amounts available. His username is very similar to Placebo1977 who is a regular trader / chatter on there and quite respected from what I can tell. I have already used other Investboxes on there so thought that this was legitimate. He told me to contact @WardenYobit - Alexander Warden (https://t.me/WardenYobit) on Telegram. He initially told me that 0.075 BTC was OK as a minimum but later said that there was a mistake and that it had to be 0.2 BTC. So I sent the extra 0.125. Then I needed to send a 0.1 BTC 'activation fee' to mount the 'smart contract'. Then they apparently changed the minimum investment to 0.5 BTC. At this point I had to start borrowing from my credit card (behind my wife's back as she said that this was too good to be true!). That took a few days to go through. Then I was told that my activation fee only lasted 3 days so I had to send another 0.1 BTC. All the while they were telling me that this money would be added to my BTC balance and doubled as an introductory bonus so I would get an IB of 1.5 BTC (including a 0.1 BTC 'sorry'). Finally I was told that as I was below 1 BTC I needed to keep another 0.5 BTC in my Yobit balance or it wouldn't work. But that 0.5 BTC had to be sent via a 'Yobit code'. So in total I have sent 1.2 BTC and have nothing but huge debts on my credit card and I am keeping this all from my wife or she will literally divorce me and we have a child on the way in February! I just wanted to look after her and my family with BTC profits but now I am ruined.
I was obviously a bit dubious from the start but the e-mails came from mailer@yobit.net so looked official. Also, Alexander Warden sent me to his 'boss' @RobertReece when I was moaning. Maybe this is the same person as they were never online at the same time.
AlexanderWarden is threatening me as I type and saying that if I post this to expose the situation then I can say goodbye to all of my BTC. I'm guessing that I've lost it anyway so what have I got to lose?

Scammers Profile Link:
Placebo77 on Yobit.net (there are no links to profiles on there from what I can tell)
@WardenYobit on Telegram (Alexander Warden)
@RobertReece on Telegram (Robert Reece)


Reference Link:
N/A. I did a quick Google search for 5% BTC Investbox and found something that looked like it was on the official Yobit Twitter account so I believed it was real. Placebo77 also sent me a link to a 'screenshot' showing his 5% daily IB. http://piccy.info/view3/12569628/a820b4f134a59aab01fb9b11b10a1fa4/
Looks convincing!

Amount Scammed:
1.2 BTC

Payment Method:
0.7 direct BTC transfers and 0.5 BTC Yobit code transfer

Proof of Payment:
22nd Aug - 0.07489 BTC - ed004d39b5f190ccd7aea0cf0d140981555ee43b9e74d3bb494baba28bb783ab (initial deposit into 'Investbox')
3rd Sept - 0.125 BTC - d790b2d9d77d9b571078f5f616e6123ef0760938c25476d19700a47ce5c8687e (To take the investbox to the new minimum of 0.2 BTC)
4th Sept - 0.1 BTC - 8a1aa51c04d9a66f18a3cc0b4e12532003504787de01c199f11e84688e866000 (1st activation fee)
6th Sept - 0.3 BTC - 5452a92493e089fefb10e169636b8b76f9fd9031245fd00e4e68bdf98369ed01 (To take it from 0.2 BTC to 0.5 BTC minimum investment)
10th Sept - 0.5 BTC - ebbfe49fcc3083bc46758ee988747ca87f20fffd19ccdc7e241cb548d7569e69 (Yobit code from my Yobit BTC address to whoever! As per request to keep 0.5 BTC in my Yobit balance)
12th Sept - 0.1 BTC - bc9ce2d8d93dd33240c5eaf0de62ff2e99964b0caacbc8db63f2047772465897 (2nd activation fee)


PM/Chat Logs:
2 x very long Telegram conversations with @WardenYobit and @RobertReece

Additional Notes:
Don't be as stupid as me! I will probably end up being divorced and lose my family over this. :-(

I know that people will say don't play with what you can't afford to lose and if I was reading the above I'd think "what a tw@t!". I've let myself and my family down. :-(

[DaleyEdster]

I've been doing some investigations into this. The mails that I received asking for investments come from the same address as the official Yobit site (for registrations etc.)

See below images from the scammers and for a new dummy account registration that I did yesterday:-

https://ibb.co/jm2kpp - registration
https://ibb.co/n56BUp - scam

Is this in fact an inside job on Yobit?!

[saerlingen]

Hello, I am sorry that you are in this situation.

Please see the following screenshot of an email I received from official yobit administrator BlackSmith:

https://screenshots.firefox.com/uLUOE2scvs3bGT2E/mail.google.com (BlackSmith told me in a telegram chat that "you should have a mail")

I had a stuck order in EDR2/LTC market. If you cannot find it, its because the market is bugged (but not disabled) and only available through typing the URL directly: https://yobit.net/en/trade/EDR2/LTC.

You can place orders, unless they "match" another order, then it fails. You cannot cancel placed orders.

The reason i ended up with a stuck order in this market is that Yobit API returned the market as if it was active and working, so my bot ended up pouring a decent amount of btc into a buy order in this market. Few days after creating a ticket about it, the above email ticked in. I was honestly shocked to see it was the official mail.

It really does seem like Yobit is actively scamming their own users.

I have limited my exposure by not having anymore than 0.005 BTC value on my Yobit account at any time.

[DaleyEdster]

Hi All.

Just to update you - it appears that they've now given up on the @WardenYobit account on Telegram and have now changed it to impersonate another Yobit admin - Dominik Herzog - @DominikHerzog

BEWARE!

Do not trust Yobit. It is an inside job scamming their own users and sending mails from their official account.

[DaleyEdster]

Plus whenever I raise a ticket about the situation they just close them immediately without any response! 

[Slow death]

" 5% Daily BTC Investbox "

That's 150% per month, how did you not see that it would be impossible? Imagine if yoshit offered this plan to 1000 people, how long would it take for yoshit to collapse? another thing:

volume: $ 28 421 960 USD = 4 424 BTC

It would be impossible for them or any other exchange to offer 5% Daily returns

Hi All.

Just to update you - it appears that they've now given up on the @WardenYobit account on Telegram and have now changed it to impersonate another Yobit admin - Dominik Herzog - @DominikHerzog

BEWARE!

Do not trust Yobit. It is an inside job scamming their own users and sending mails from their official account.

Plus whenever I raise a ticket about the situation they just close them immediately without any response! 

People should not expect anything good coming from yoshit.

[timerland]

Firstly, even if you invested in the actual Investbox, you're pretty much investing in a ponzi scheme due to the fact that they are promising extremely unsustainable returns while being extremely shady.

What you just encountered isn't even that. They're impersonators of a likely scam, essentially. And they were playing on your greed to send more and more investments or "activation fees" (as they call them) in order for them to scam the highest amount possible.

Even though yobit has an extremely shady track record, I don't think that this can be directly be attributed to them. Even if these scammers are related to yobit themselves, you have no proof that these random telegram users are actually associated with them. Either way, take this as a lesson. Your wife was right. If it looks too good to be true, then it probably is. 5% per day is simply not something that's legit at any given rate. Even if he does pay you at first, it would be a ponzi. But these scams are typically just exit scams altogether.

[milly6]

I've been doing some investigations into this. The mails that I received asking for investments come from the same address as the official Yobit site (for registrations etc.)

See below images from the scammers and for a new dummy account registration that I did yesterday:-

https://ibb.co/jm2kpp - registration
https://ibb.co/n56BUp - scam

Is this in fact an inside job on Yobit?!

it could be fudged easily

[magneto]

The first mistake that you made was trusting a person which just approached you out of the blue with an investment opportunity. Even if he was the real Placebo1977 or whatever, you simply can't trust anyone just based on their chatting history alone.

The real yobit investbox is on yobit.net, and requires you to deposit into yobit itself before you can access their investments. And even that in itself is fraudulent and I'd stay the heck away from.

In this scam, the scammer literally asks you to send directly to his address if I'm not mistaken, which is not something that exchanges would ever ask you to do, even in the case of yobit which can be considered a scam in itself.

But 5% per day is just so unrealistic that even HYIPs (aka ponzis) don't offer that kind of returns to you. And yet, the scammer asked you for more and more money at this rate, which you should have been suspicious of. But oh well, you've already been scammed and there is pretty much nothing you can do to get the money back. Hopefully you do settle your debt situation, though. Even with legit investments, I would never take out loans to fund them.

[barrystark]

OP you are a fucking idiot

How did you come to believe you will earn  5% per day ?

Invest your money on a brain, fucking retard

[r34tr783tr78]

OP you are a fucking idiot

How did you come to believe you will earn  5% per day ?

Invest your money on a brain, fucking retard

Insulting victims? You clearly deserve the feedback you have.