Strange website /cryptocoines.com SCAM?

[efialtis]

Hey together,

so I signed up with cryptocoines.com after a guy was posting something about it on another forum - "register now with signup code XXX" and you will receive a little btc amount, which you would be able to withdraw immediately. I never believe in such things but was bored so I tried.

I signed up, entered the code and "received" the btw - of course I was not able to withdraw but a popup appeared telling me I need to play at least one game of roulette before cashing out... So I did that and this was very strange since I did not see any roulette game exactly - a few minutes later I came back and saw my balance completely out of space - being worth $1800... Obviously too good to be true. Still I tried to withdraw and guess what...:

In order to protect against abusing, you need to make at least one minimum deposit of 0.01 BTC or 0.40 ETH. After receiving the 1st confirmation from the blockchain/ethereum networks, your account will be unlocked and you will be available to withdraw your funds.

I did not do that since this MUST be a scam... also the site was hosted only a week ago or so I checked on whois.com. What I find strange is the fact though that they have a busy chat room with lots of talks...

[vv181]

~I was not able to withdraw but a popup appeared telling me I need to play~
you need to make at least one minimum deposit of 0.01 BTC or 0.40 ETH. After receiving the 1st confirmation from the blockchain/ethereum networks, your account will be unlocked and you will be available to withdraw your funds.

Its probably has a high chance of a scam website. It is a classic method within the cryptocurrencies community to scam people. Good things you aren't getting deceived
Whois data stated

Creation Date: 2019-05-02T08:44:54Z

How could a website that tells it is established since 2013, but upon inspection it's not, that is highly suspicious.

I suggest you try to post/move the thread in Scam Accusation section.

[BitMaxz]

New website just created a week ago is 100% scammed beware.
And I saw that this website with newbies spamming this website on the altcoin section.

Someone already talked about with this scam website from here https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5081286.msg50899395#msg50899395

What I find strange is the fact though that they have a busy chat room with lots of talks...

Possible it's just a bot to make the website look legit.

[Bitcoin_Arena]

Absolute scam and do not visit the website!
OP, can you please provide the links of the profiles that announced it and probably the ANN thread so that It can be reported.

[joniboini]

OP, can you please provide the links of the profiles that announced it and probably the ANN thread so that It can be reported.

What's the purpose? He explicitly states that it was from another forum, not here.
Do you want to make an account on that forum and report the thread?

so I signed up with cryptocoines.com after a guy was posting something about it on another forum - "register now with signup code XXX" and you will receive a little btc amount, which you would be able to withdraw immediately. I never believe in such things but was bored so I tried.

[nc50lc]

-snip- What I find strange is the fact though that they have a busy chat room with lots of talks...

That chat room is a simple pre-coded fake conversation in the site's main HTML with stolen avatars from steam community.


Another thing, the site was included in this list (Bitcointalk thread): New scam schema on the forum - Free Money To Test Casinos with the scheme's full detail.
I found it using the "search" function with the keyword: cryptocoines. Asking is good but searching before asking is better 

[r1s2g3]

Forget about the site, if somebody tells you send 'x' amount first , so that you can withdraw your 'y' amount is a definite scam and there is no need to waste your time on analysing the site or other details associated with it.

[RapTarX]

This is a serial scammer creating website at a daily basis and creating thread here. You will be given a registration bonus, for withdraw the fund, you must have to play roulette one time, you will win a big hand. After that, you will be required to deposit a little amount of BTC to withdraw the fund.
That's his way of scamming people. Ignore websites any of these kinds.

[efialtis]

Thanks for the heads up guys, highly appreciated!

[efialtis]

Yes I know - honestly the only reason I felt this was a little "strange" for a scam was the live chat but someone explained that before in this thread, so thanks guys!

[marcf2212]

The same thing happened to me just recently. Weird thing is, i asked on chat and people answered me but on the second browser i opened another account, there i didnt won any money (what made me think against a scam) and i didnt saw me writing in chat, but others answering at me. And i didnt saw myself betting at roulette too.
At the second account i couldent withdraw too cause: you get 0.0029 from bonus and you need to play roulette a time and roulette min. bet is 0.0025. so i had 0.0004 btc left and minimum withdraw said like 0.001?

Then i had an intresting chat with Support:

Why is my balance frozen? And on bitcointalk it said i dont need to deposit for  for withdraw

Thanks for waiting. Dear player, you are a new player on our site, your account does not have any deposits. Due to the fact that the bonus code has been activated, you need to make at least one deposit of 0.0125 BTC or 0.60 ETH in order to protect against abusing. Your balance has been frozen automatically before making a deposit.I did not quite understand what you meant by the bitcointalk?

there was someone advertising for this site and saying you dont need deposit for withdrawing the bonus here

Some of our old affiliates could do this. We closed our affiliate system due to the fact of spam, however this system still works for older affiliates. We apologize any for inconveniences caused.

okay, thank you. but how can it be that the about site says the site exist since 2013 but the domain is registred a week ago and i cant find anything about this site on the internet?

Thanks for waiting. This is true, our project was launched in 2013 with beta mode. But, we have not worked for a very long time since 2013. We have a multi-domain system in order to protect against DDoS attacks

And why is nothing about your site on google or anywhere else?

As we wrote to you above - we have a multi-domain system, we advertised in google and with the help of our affiliates.

How can you have multi domains when your company name is all over the site? do you have 100 times the same project in different names or what?

Not 100 times, but we have many domains

I guess the chat isnt fake, cause the message numbers in the website code are going higher too, these are just fake people that get paid for answering there maybe? cause the support answer messages are in the website code too. (I dont know about coding but why did they answer me and the message id gets higher always?) Weird are just the steamcommunity avatars..

[odolvlobo]

...
In order to protect against abusing, you need to make at least one minimum deposit of 0.01 BTC or 0.40 ETH. After receiving the 1st confirmation from the blockchain/ethereum networks, your account will be unlocked and you will be available to withdraw your funds.
...

It is a very common scam.

[Sharon121212]

Scam site always prey on ones greed the give your juicy, hard to resist offers. You might have scaled that hurdle but the same might not be said of others out there that let's emotion overwhelm them when making decisions.
In conclusion is always good to investigate on the site and don't trust everything you see

[badykvik]

Wisdom is very important in everything that we are doing, I congratulate you for not sending such funds and most importantly you are not a greedy fellow otherwise you would have fell for the trick.
Its an obvious scam and such scam websites are many online they always rip-off those that want to reap where they did not sow.

[Crypto Girl]

Yes I know - honestly the only reason I felt this was a little "strange" for a scam was the live chat but someone explained that before in this thread, so thanks guys!

Usually scammers tend to that "thing" just to look legit and lessen the suspicion.
Though good thing you're vigilant to these things and didn't carried away your emotion especially when you see that $1800 on your account.

So I guess whenever you get bored again you'll don't easily try random links from strangers.  

[Nadziratel]

OMG! They've copied cex.io perfectly. I never seen like that copy

I don't know if it is SCAM or not but they are untrustable, I am sure of that.

[ethereumhunter]

That will a new way for them to attract more members to join with them and after they deposit some amount of bitcoin, they will say that we need to complete the KYC or another else. It is normal to see your experience, and I am sure that there is another type like what you get and that will be fake information for every new member because they need to deposit their money before they can do something or withdraw their profit. Leave the site will be a great solution for you but if you already sent the money to them, then I don't think that they will let you withdraw any money in their site.

[milewilda]

OMG! They've copied cex.io perfectly. I never seen like that copy

I don't know if it is SCAM or not but they are untrustable, I am sure of that.

Actually there are lots of them who do simply copy out CEX.io. All things being copied from the original ones is considered 100% fake so simply its a scam no doubt on that.

[CEX]

Thank you all for the heads-up.

Please be careful with this and similar fake sites. We kindly ask you not to share any of your personal data and encourage you to be very cautious with sending the funds to sources you are not confident about.
Also, be kindly notified that CEX.IO is in no way related to "Cryptocoines".

We are already being taken the necessary actions to report it.

[marcf2212]

They have a new website! "maincoine.com"

I contacted them again, but now about their cex.io design, and they said they have a sponsorhip with cex.io im dying
https://i.imgur.com/O1AYd7g.png

They have to everything a answer, read my post above lol