Be aware of a possible new exchange SCAM - I need your opinion

[Ox Kara]

Good afternoon,

I would really appreciate your advice on something as I believe that I was a victim of scam yesterday but I am not 100% sure.

I was told by someone that I know the last month and never met in person about an investment opportunity. Before you tell me that I am an idiot, how I was involved with this person and the reason that I trusted her is another discussion.

The coin is named VOT (Valid Order Chain) and is listed in an exchange that is called www.kolomine.com. I searched online if this exchange is a scam and I could not find any advere media. I then sent my whole bankroll 0.5 BTC and I bought VOT. Invite Code and account authentication were also needed which made the possible scam more real.

However, today I noticed the following, I can not sell the VOT coins that I bought and according to that person the ico needs to be ended in order for me to be able to sell. I could not find any ico details online. The service email has a gmail domain. There are only four wallets available (BTC, ETH, USDT and VOT) but the website operates with 23 coins for trade. When you press buy you go to another page where the following info are available.

VOT ERC20 Token Address:0x3d7afa0322f6dd2e28c16271d74e5aa22f968b48

Total Supply: 100,000,000  VOT

Total subscription: 70,000,000  VOT

Private placement price: 0.046 USDT

Subscription Time: 90 days

The Token Address belongs to VOT but there are no transactions available. The white paper is also available but I was not able to find any of the founders in the Linkedin and their names seem to be ordinary.

I am 99% sure that I was victim of a scam and I just remembered the reason that I stopped dealing with all crypto sh*t 3 years ago.

Please tell me your opinion on this.

Thank you

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[bob123]

According to coinmarketcap, VOT (VoteCoin) is a useless coin with a 24 trading volume of less than 100$. Mostly even less than 20-30$.
A google search regarding "Valid Order Chain" does not bring up any cryptocurrency.

And the exchange.. oh well:

Code:

Domain Name: kolomine.com
Updated Date: 2020-04-22T07:30:28Z

It is a scam too.

I am sorry, but you lost your money.

I am 99% sure that I was victim of a scam and I just remembered the reason that I stopped dealing with all crypto sh*t 3 years ago.

You should stop looking for the "next bitcoin". It won't exist.
All coins claiming that are scam.

If you really want to invests into crypto, choose bitcoin. Anything else will lose you money in the long run.

[Ox Kara]

Thank you for the reply bob123 as I really needed the opinion of a more experienced person than me.

[coupable]

I was told by someone that I know the last month and never met in person about an investment opportunity. Before you tell me that I am an idiot, how I was involved with this person and the reason that I trusted her is another discussion.

Almost all the tokens backed by ico are shitcoins and scams. We used to see how people lost their money investing in a coin called "promising", but trusting someone that you didn't ever meet with 0.5 btc is the most interesting part of your story. I think you bought the coin because you trust the person who told you about it and not because you beleive in the project itself especially after you found no review about the exchange. I think it's important to mention if the girl belong to scam team or she is a victim like you.
Sorry for your lost mate. You should take more care about who to trust and where to send your money.

[noorman0]

According to coinmarketcap, VOT (VoteCoin) is a useless coin with a 24 trading volume of less than 100$. Mostly even less than 20-30$.

No, not the VOT intended by the OP has not been registered at CMC as you mentioned. I think it's tokens that belong to this exchange, seeing them list it on the main bar on the front page. Another irregularity that I found is that, although this exchange has included 22 cryptos, only 4 cryptos can be deposited, including VOT.

The white paper is also available but I was not able to find any of the founders in the Linkedin and their names seem to be ordinary.

There is not even an official website representing ownership of the VOT project.

I wonder what the OP has thought to bring to this exchange which currently has no social media accounts or community groups as an assessment of the credibility of an exchange.

[Mahanton]

If you have experience scam thing 3 years ago then im pretty sure that you are somewhat familiar on how scams do work on this space specially with shitcoin thing.

Lesson learned?

Don't easily trust up someone who do randomly suggest for you to invest into a particular project just because they do said that its tradable or do have that great feature and potential since they are just trying to hyping it up or you have been approached by the team behind of that coin which made you throw in your 0.5 btc.

Sorry to say but you wont able to get those funds back and better to move on.

[Gozie51]

I was told by someone that I know the last month and never met in person about an investment opportunity. Before you tell me that I am an idiot, how I was involved with this person and the reason that I trusted her is another discussion.

Almost all the tokens backed by ico are shitcoins and scams. We used to see how people lost their money investing in a coin called "promising", but trusting someone that you didn't ever meet with 0.5 btc is the most interesting part of your story. I think you bought the coin because you trust the person who told you about it and not because you beleive in the project itself especially after you found no review about the exchange. I think it's important to mention if the girl belong to scam team or she is a victim like you.
Sorry for your lost mate. You should take more care about who to trust and where to send your money.

I think is easier said this way, he needs to move on and don't fall again for things like this.

Some of us have made some now foolish mistake of investing in ICO. We now understand better not to invest in such levels of start ups because anything can happen and the team decides to go under.

[harizen]

I was told by someone that I know the last month and never met in person about an investment opportunity. Before you tell me that I am an idiot, how I was involved with this person and the reason that I trusted her is another discussion.

And that reason leads you to fall on the trap. Is this person affiliated with this Valid Order Chain thing?

The coin is named VOT (Valid Order Chain) and is listed in an exchange that is called www.kolomine.com. I searched online if this exchange is a scam and I could not find any advere media. I then sent my whole bankroll 0.5 BTC and I bought VOT. Invite Code and account authentication were also needed which made the possible scam more real.

Account authentication is usual in any exchange.

The moment you searched for some info online about that exchange, you should at least think that they are not trusted and not worth putting a risk. Aside from a few reviews around, they are using the domain GMAIL, a free email domain for an exchange? And ICO is running, and then it was being traded? How with a person with BTC0.5 just easily trusted that kind of exchange?

I hope that will not lead you to think crypto is sh*t. Honestly, people themselves are the reason why they led to this scam thing. Being involved in this crypto stuffs for years, at least you should understand that there's no overnight profit here. You should have used that BTC0.5 wisely and not to rely on other's promise.

What to do now? Rest a bit, bear your losses, move on slowly, or continue talking to your "girl" on what's the best thing to do.

[adzino]

Sucks. I think you got scammed for real. The exchange you used, didn't have any "negative" review, probably because it was created quite recently to scam "targeted" people like you all at once. This "random person" comes and tells you to buy shitcoins from an exchange that no one ever heard of -> Sounds like a classic scam. I wouldn't be surprised to see the exchange disappear and then another one with a different name popup to scam someone else.
You said you couldn't find any reviews about them, but then they say they have "8" years of experience and "tens of millions of users"(and yet no one talk about this exchange on this forum), how come this not feel weird to you? And then they say there were formed on 2013, how did they get 8 years of experience? lol.
The copy pasted most of the explanation. For example https://www.huobi.com/en-us/assetintro/ Same description, same link on interest over there.
And Gmail domain, seriously man?

I was told by someone that I know the last month and never met in person about an investment opportunity. Before you tell me that I am an idiot, how I was involved with this person and the reason that I trusted her is another discussion.

And that reason leads you to fall on the trap. Is this person affiliated with this Valid Order Chain thing?

What to do now? Rest a bit, bear your losses, move on slowly, or continue talking to your "girl" on what's the best thing to do.

Dude probably got catfished lmao.

[thesmallgod]

A deep search on the web could have safe you from losing your money or even come to this forum to ask for guide because I can see you are a newbie. That trading site had no social media and could not even afford to have self hosted email but they are using email account. It will expire next year and I think it was setup to scam people that are new and want to invest like you. You can use https://lookup.icann.org/lookup to get detail analysis of the website. Also I will advise you to avoid people that will send you random message especially on telegram to come and invest in a particular token on exchanges that are not listed on CMC. It is mostly going to lead to something like this.

[harsh057]

According to coinmarketcap, VOT (VoteCoin) is a useless coin with a 24 trading volume of less than 100$. Mostly even less than 20-30$.
A google search regarding "Valid Order Chain" does not bring up any cryptocurrency.

And the exchange.. oh well:

Code:

Domain Name: kolomine.com
Updated Date: 2020-04-22T07:30:28Z

It is a scam too.

I am sorry, but you lost your money.

I am 99% sure that I was victim of a scam and I just remembered the reason that I stopped dealing with all crypto sh*t 3 years ago.

You should stop looking for the "next bitcoin". It won't exist.
All coins claiming that are scam.

If you really want to invests into crypto, choose bitcoin. Anything else will lose you money in the long run.

How to find ip address of any exchange and please give us full details that how can we check that when the exchange damain name buy from go Daddy and any other source too???
It's very good source could be to find scam exchange and this will be helpfull to us find out scam project and scam exchange too.

[bob123]

How to find ip address of any exchange and please give us full details that how can we check that when the exchange damain name buy from go Daddy and any other source too???
It's very good source could be to find scam exchange and this will be helpfull to us find out scam project and scam exchange too.

Finding the ip address is simple, but this doesn't help you much.
However, you can simply ping it:

Code:

ping www.website.com

This works in the linux terminal and the windows command line the same way.


For information about the registry of the website, you can use whois:

Linux:

Code:

whois website.com

Windows:

Code:

whois -v website.com

Or you can even use a website if you don't want to use the command line at all. For example: https://whois.domaintools.com/.

[harsh057]

How to find ip address of any exchange and please give us full details that how can we check that when the exchange damain name buy from go Daddy and any other source too???
It's very good source could be to find scam exchange and this will be helpfull to us find out scam project and scam exchange too.

Finding the ip address is simple, but this doesn't help you much.
However, you can simply ping it:

Code:

ping www.website.com

This works in the linux terminal and the windows command line the same way.


For information about the registry of the website, you can use whois:

Linux:

Code:

whois website.com

Windows:

Code:

whois -v website.com

Or you can even use a website if you don't want to use the command line at all. For example: https://whois.domaintools.com/.

I don't know too much on this point but it's very simple to use and understand hope this will help to all who will be their and Don't know about that information thanks

[crwth]

At first, I was thinking about why it is VOT when the name is Valid Order Chain. Thankfully bob123 already shown what the real coin is. Anyways, thanks for sharing this experience because now, when someone searches for VOT or whoever you will be talking with and entailing the word scam with,, it would be given here and will be sought.

I hope you don't stop dealing with crypto because not everyone will scam you. It's just that you can educate yourself on what you could do to avoid it. Crypto is the future, you know.

[Harlot]

The coin is named VOT (Valid Order Chain) and is listed in an exchange that is called www.kolomine.com. I searched online if this exchange is a scam and I could not find any advere media. I then sent my whole bankroll 0.5 BTC and I bought VOT. Invite Code and account authentication were also needed which made the possible scam more real.

Generally if someone is offering you crypto directly even if the ICO hasn't even ended yet chances are you are holding a shitcoin/scamcoin, if there is even an ICO you wouldn't even receive the crypto earlier. Aside from that you even have searched for any background information for the cryptocurrency exchange, I don't even know why you have continued to make that transaction even though you failed to receive any kind of information with that crypto exchange. The good thing here is you did your due diligence on searching everything about this crypto and the crypto exchange but the wrong thing you did is you still continued to go with that deal even if you have seen a lot of red flags as a warning.

[arwin100]

The coin is named VOT (Valid Order Chain) and is listed in an exchange that is called www.kolomine.com. I searched online if this exchange is a scam and I could not find any advere media. I then sent my whole bankroll 0.5 BTC and I bought VOT. Invite Code and account authentication were also needed which made the possible scam more real.

Generally if someone is offering you crypto directly even if the ICO hasn't even ended yet chances are you are holding a shitcoin/scamcoin, if there is even an ICO you wouldn't even receive the crypto earlier. Aside from that you even have searched for any background information for the cryptocurrency exchange, I don't even know why you have continued to make that transaction even though you failed to receive any kind of information with that crypto exchange. The good thing here is you did your due diligence on searching everything about this crypto and the crypto exchange but the wrong thing you did is you still continued to go with that deal even if you have seen a lot of red flags as a warning.

A big mistakes always happening on newbies side which is not properly researching on the platform introduced to them and they are always late when they are in trouble that's why next time people should research first since for sure they will find more information posted on internet regarding on the platform or any similar to that.

Hopefully OP learn a lesson from that loss and better move on to the next chapter also stay away on the ICO's

There are more valuable things than investing on ICO's, Learn trading OP since that is more legit than anything offered investment opportunities to you by the people who know you.

[Harlot]

Generally if someone is offering you crypto directly even if the ICO hasn't even ended yet chances are you are holding a shitcoin/scamcoin, if there is even an ICO you wouldn't even receive the crypto earlier. Aside from that you even have searched for any background information for the cryptocurrency exchange, I don't even know why you have continued to make that transaction even though you failed to receive any kind of information with that crypto exchange. The good thing here is you did your due diligence on searching everything about this crypto and the crypto exchange but the wrong thing you did is you still continued to go with that deal even if you have seen a lot of red flags as a warning.

A big mistakes always happening on newbies side which is not properly researching on the platform introduced to them and they are always late when they are in trouble that's why next time people should research first since for sure they will find more information posted on internet regarding on the platform or any similar to that.

Hopefully OP learn a lesson from that loss and better move on to the next chapter also stay away on the ICO's

There are more valuable things than investing on ICO's, Learn trading OP since that is more legit than anything offered investment opportunities to you by the people who know you.

He did research on it but the problem here is even if the OP have seen a lot of red flags prior to the deal he still push through with the deal which for me is a bad decision making on his side. He didn't really lack on doing research as proven by how he have found out a lot of things after as proven what he had posted in the OP the problem here is why he had agreed with the transaction. To be honest this mistake is one of those where you will learn the most as anyone who will fall for this even though they have seen a lot of red flags beforehand will really learn from this mistake.

[Cryptobd24]

I was happened with many people’s who new in crypto world and still many scammer trying to scam  with new users. I am very sorry for your lost big amount of money. Remember always be careful about any scammers.         

[sabretooth84]

Hey, thank you for your page.
With your help, I saved 500€.

I met a girl in tinder.. a chinese woman (i´m german), she told me she worked for a company in munich and made 30.000€ per month with trading.

and she told me many private things and wanted also meet me, but the whole chat time she tried often to talk about to invest in btc with the app coinomi and then buy VOT at kolomine.com

i searched the internet and found nothing but you website here... many thanks for that.


I mean, i don´t have many money and I never would have spend money on crytpocurrencies, but i was curious if this girl (which talked about dating me) only tried to stay in touch with me because of the investment in VOT or if she lost her money herself.

the reason is she showed me pictures of her wallet and asked me financial things about the german taxes and social security systems and also about economics in germany... and if I told her, that I have no money to invest, she said "thats no problem, I will help you get money for you invest".. that sounds really strange to me..

I mean next week she will go on a date with me.. i´m curious if this is a lie or if she also doesn´t know about the fraud from this website.


EDIT: After an internet search.. i found this site:

https://www.signal-arnaques.com/de/scam/view/224098


the same story.. so .. yes, it´s definitly a fraud / scam

[BitCoinNewby 125]

Hey there,

as you can see, I´m a newby in the topic of Bitcoin, but I get the same offer than Ox Kara.
The difference, I didn´t made any exchange and check out before.
But I´m almost in contact with that person and wanted to ask would it be helpful to handover the phonenumber?

Sorry for my bad english.