Trying to recover funds from bitcoin scam

[johnny33]

Hello. I invested in in Coinxcryptominingcom last year which turned out to be a scam site. I posted on instagram about my ordeal and was recently contacted by @_jacob.armstrong about recovering my lost funds. He suggested contacting slushpool.com and gave me an email contact@slushpool.co.uk to explain my story. I sent them my transactions with wallet addresses to where i sent my funds and this is the response I received.

Good Day ,
We can see from our records and investigations that all your money is on a cloud crypto currency wallet and none of it is lost This is because the CME  ( Chicago Mercantile Exchange)  gap got filled at $9200 on the 2019-6-16 08:42pm which is the exact time you sent 0.31433482  BTC  ($2,861),
See the has code below as all your money in the cloud has amounted to this
https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/1MvuFAodHn775joqCnahJTiHuMnsQZnxM9

However, we have tested your funding several times and each time it got exhausted by the blockchain liquidation machine.
Nevertheless, we can successfully say all your money is in safe hands and the only way for all your money is to be released  is if  you are  to make an API Integration fee payment so all your funds amounting  to 8.79034054 BTC  will be released within  5  hours

You need to send 0.20 BTC ($1,897) as a fee to claim back your account.
And the additional fee of 0.20 BTC ($1,897) to recover all your funds.
We can say the total amounting to 0.41 BTC ($3,700) this payment is to be made within 48 hours if you want a successful refund of all your funds

The payment is to be made into this BTC address:  14hBpJncS6fqKZqoYAjRCGmbc63ZhLJ6Xs

Is this another scam? Any insight would greatly be appreciated.

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[Oyarebu]

^^That's obvious scam mate, for anyone to ask for such fee before your funds be transfer to your wallet is = scam. Well, you will be disappointed at this: your investment platform was a scam one as you said and still remains a scam investment platform. Don't send anything cents or whatsoever. Next time ensure to research into the investment platform before make you investment.

[adzino]

Hello. I invested in in Coinxcryptominingcom last year which turned out to be a scam site. I posted on instagram about my ordeal and was recently contacted by @_jacob.armstrong about recovering my lost funds. He suggested contacting slushpool.com and gave me an email contact@slushpool.co.uk to explain my story. I sent them my transactions with wallet addresses to where i sent my funds and this is the response I received.

Good Day ,
We can see from our records and investigations that all your money is on a cloud crypto currency wallet and none of it is lost This is because the CME  ( Chicago Mercantile Exchange)  gap got filled at $9200 on the 2019-6-16 08:42pm which is the exact time you sent 0.31433482  BTC  ($2,861),
See the has code below as all your money in the cloud has amounted to this
https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/1MvuFAodHn775joqCnahJTiHuMnsQZnxM9

However, we have tested your funding several times and each time it got exhausted by the blockchain liquidation machine.
Nevertheless, we can successfully say all your money is in safe hands and the only way for all your money is to be released  is if  you are  to make an API Integration fee payment so all your funds amounting  to 8.79034054 BTC  will be released within  5  hours

You need to send 0.20 BTC ($1,897) as a fee to claim back your account.
And the additional fee of 0.20 BTC ($1,897) to recover all your funds.
We can say the total amounting to 0.41 BTC ($3,700) this payment is to be made within 48 hours if you want a successful refund of all your funds

The payment is to be made into this BTC address:  14hBpJncS6fqKZqoYAjRCGmbc63ZhLJ6Xs

Is this another scam? Any insight would greatly be appreciated.

You should have google and check about cloud crypto mining. You will see all of them are scam!
And you won't be able to recover your fund. That jacobarmstrong guy is probably a scammer. I highly doubt contact@slushpool.co.uk belongs to  slushpool.com. Why is the email domain .co.uk while the domain has .com? Don't pay any fee or anything. That guy probably filled you in with bullshit information.
Jacobarmstrong seems to be a someone who looks for victims and take advantage of their situation.

[Yamifoud]

How ridiculous it was. You have to send more BTC in order to get back your fund from them( pretending to be in the cloud crypto) and recover your account? They would like to scam you again. It is really a big mistake for you if you will send them just for that and for sure, they won't give back your money (including your activation fee).

Maybe I should have to let go of it and forget. That was a big scam and we can't think they'll be good for you, after all, and then give back your money.
This will serve as a warning for the others and be careful into nice offerings and fake sites because this will compromise accounts once they got you.

[bobitza]

^^That's obvious scam mate, for anyone to ask for such fee before your funds be transfer to your wallet is = scam. Well, you will be disappointed at this: your investment platform was a scam one as you said and still remains a scam investment platform. Don't send anything cents or whatsoever. Next time ensure to research into the investment platform before make you investment.

How can we avoid scammers in the best way? It is not easy to recognize whether it is a fraud or a business partner on the bitcoin forum. Just as you said we should be careful before transferring money to anyone when joining the electronic market. You must learn thoroughly over time.

[hosseinimr93]

Yes, it's a scam.

They are giving a same address to all their users. How can they know you have sent bitcoin to that address?
Just take a look at transaction history of the address they gave you.
https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/14hBpJncS6fqKZqoYAjRCGmbc63ZhLJ6Xs

There are many people that have fallen for this scam.

[serjent05]

Obviously the site you contacted that requested you to deposit around 0.4 BTC is another attempt to milk you of your BTC.  You already have the fund in there, why do you need to deposit another amount when they can just deduct it from your supposed to be recovered BTC. Do not fall for this another attempt to scam you.

[DdmrDdmr]

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If it looks like horseshit, and smells like horseshit, well, it’s going to be just that .. horseshit.

The email address should be tied to the domain http://www.slushpool.co.uk/, which points to an empty wordpress blog. The "@_jacob.armstrong" Instagram profile seems to have other things on his mind: https://searchusers.com/user/_jacob.armstrong. The mumble-jumble response is another sad attempt to confuse by using obscure terms (expect for the part that asks for an upfront transfer).

[Rengga Jati]

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Please noted:
Scammers will never give back your money, they will precisely want to take your money again, again and again.
So, be careful another scamming is coming to you. Never believe in any party or person that will help you to get back your money to you if they ask some funds to do it. It is absolutely another scam.
If you're scammed, let it go because you may not get it back. Just make it is a lesson to be more careful when investing and also putting your money.

[yohananaomi]

Hello. I invested in in Coinxcryptominingcom last year which turned out to be a scam site. I posted on instagram about my ordeal and was recently contacted by @_jacob.armstrong about recovering my lost funds. He suggested contacting slushpool.com and gave me an email contact@slushpool.co.uk to explain my story. I sent them my transactions with wallet addresses to where i sent my funds and this is the response I received.

Good Day ,
We can see from our records and investigations that all your money is on a cloud crypto currency wallet and none of it is lost This is because the CME  ( Chicago Mercantile Exchange)  gap got filled at $9200 on the 2019-6-16 08:42pm which is the exact time you sent 0.31433482  BTC  ($2,861),
See the has code below as all your money in the cloud has amounted to this
https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/1MvuFAodHn775joqCnahJTiHuMnsQZnxM9

However, we have tested your funding several times and each time it got exhausted by the blockchain liquidation machine.
Nevertheless, we can successfully say all your money is in safe hands and the only way for all your money is to be released  is if  you are  to make an API Integration fee payment so all your funds amounting  to 8.79034054 BTC  will be released within  5  hours

You need to send 0.20 BTC ($1,897) as a fee to claim back your account.
And the additional fee of 0.20 BTC ($1,897) to recover all your funds.
We can say the total amounting to 0.41 BTC ($3,700) this payment is to be made within 48 hours if you want a successful refund of all your funds

The payment is to be made into this BTC address:  14hBpJncS6fqKZqoYAjRCGmbc63ZhLJ6Xs

Is this another scam? Any insight would greatly be appreciated.

You should have google and check about cloud crypto mining. You will see all of them are scam!
And you won't be able to recover your fund. That jacobarmstrong guy is probably a scammer. I highly doubt contact@slushpool.co.uk belongs to  slushpool.com. Why is the email domain .co.uk while the domain has .com? Don't pay any fee or anything. That guy probably filled you in with bullshit information.
Jacobarmstrong seems to be a someone who looks for victims and take advantage of their situation.

I think you should think about what the information has been given to you by the colleague above. however if there is someone who is kind enough to provide assistance but asks for something for the cost of the recovery it can be ascertained it is fraud. it is true that there are no free jobs but usually and often is the way it is often done by fraudsters. because we feel helped and the value given is still below what we have, so we are tempted to give with what we have the goal can be returned. but with absolute certainty that you will lose for the umpteenth time.

if there really is an email address we can wisely see the email address properly and we can search on google so we believe that the email address can indeed be believed to be correct. because fraudsters will usually try to change the email address that doesn't match up with the correct one.

[pawanjain]

Hello. I invested in in Coinxcryptominingcom last year which turned out to be a scam site. I posted on instagram about my ordeal and was recently contacted by @_jacob.armstrong about recovering my lost funds. He suggested contacting slushpool.com and gave me an email contact@slushpool.co.uk to explain my story. I sent them my transactions with wallet addresses to where i sent my funds and this is the response I received.

Good Day ,
We can see from our records and investigations that all your money is on a cloud crypto currency wallet and none of it is lost This is because the CME  ( Chicago Mercantile Exchange)  gap got filled at $9200 on the 2019-6-16 08:42pm which is the exact time you sent 0.31433482  BTC  ($2,861),
See the has code below as all your money in the cloud has amounted to this
https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/1MvuFAodHn775joqCnahJTiHuMnsQZnxM9

However, we have tested your funding several times and each time it got exhausted by the blockchain liquidation machine.
Nevertheless, we can successfully say all your money is in safe hands and the only way for all your money is to be released  is if  you are  to make an API Integration fee payment so all your funds amounting  to 8.79034054 BTC  will be released within  5  hours

You need to send 0.20 BTC ($1,897) as a fee to claim back your account.
And the additional fee of 0.20 BTC ($1,897) to recover all your funds.
We can say the total amounting to 0.41 BTC ($3,700) this payment is to be made within 48 hours if you want a successful refund of all your funds

The payment is to be made into this BTC address:  14hBpJncS6fqKZqoYAjRCGmbc63ZhLJ6Xs

Is this another scam? Any insight would greatly be appreciated.

The above bold part was enough to read and know that it's an obvious scam.
This reminds of those days when email scam was a norm and people used to ask some kind of fees to send the so called lottery winning amount to senders address.

This is something similar where the scammer is asking for some kind of fees to send the amount to the senders address.
Sorry for your loss but the amount has gone to wrong hands already and there is nothing you can do about it.

[The Cryptovator]

Is this another scam? Any insight would greatly be appreciated.

Obvious SCAM. Ask them recover your funds first and keep their fees from recover funds and remain amount send to you. I strongly believe they will never agree for it, because simply they aren't able to recover your funds. If you fall into it means you are you to scammed for second time. As a crypto users you should know very well that crypto-currency is irreversible, so any organisation is unable to recover your funds from scammer's bitcoin address. Just try to use your common sense, if you sent btc to one of your friends address then how a third party organisation could refund it. It's really unrealistic and ridiculous. Just stay away mate! Find some good job/business and live, don't regret.

[dothebeats]

It's definitely a scam. Most cloud mining sites post-2016 are half-assed projects that were never really meant for long-term commitments since you can see that most of them gets the same layout and just different in domains. There is no way that they would be asking that kind of money in exchange of a larger sum in the end. Also, notice the simple arithmetic error that they committed at the bottom which just shows that they really aren't doing this thing seriously and professionally as possible.

You need to send 0.20 BTC ($1,897) as a fee to claim back your account.
And the additional fee of 0.20 BTC ($1,897) to recover all your funds.
We can say the total amounting to 0.41 BTC ($3,700) this payment is to be made within 48 hours if you want a successful refund of all your funds

The signs are telling. It's an obvious scam.

[SiNeReiNZzz]

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Is this another scam? Any insight would greatly be appreciated.

Don't fall for it! Even a quick search for the email address suggests that it is not from slushpool.
And as already mentioned here, there are also enough inconsistencies when checking the address...

[JeromeTash]

Why would slushpool.com a bitcoin mining pool contact you on recovering your funds stolen by a scam site?
The Slushpool.com domain has been in existence since 2013 so the email address the scammer gave you is definitely not from their support.

The said email address was created just in April this year with the purpose of scamming people

Code:

URL	http://uk.godaddy.com
Registered on	27-Apr-2020
Expiry date	27-Apr-2021
Last updated	27-Apr-2020
WHOIS lookup made at 19	08:29 30-Jun-2020

https://mxtoolbox.com/SuperTool.aspx?action=whois%3aslushpool.co.uk&run=toolpage

Do not send them any money

[hatshepsut93]

Is this another scam? Any insight would greatly be appreciated.

Anyone who offers to retrieve hacked or stolen coins is a scammer themselves, there's simply no way to do so unless you can somehow get the private key of a scammer, which is nearly impossible. Even a good private investigator won't be able to do anything most of the time, especially since the scammers can be anywhere in the world. A tiny chance to see your coins again exists if the scammers get caught be law enforcement and the coins are retrieved by them.

[acroman08]

You need to send 0.20 BTC ($1,897) as a fee to claim back your account.
And the additional fee of 0.20 BTC ($1,897) to recover all your funds.
We can say the total amounting to 0.41 BTC ($3,700) this payment is to be made within 48 hours if you want a successful refund of all your funds

The payment is to be made into this BTC address:  14hBpJncS6fqKZqoYAjRCGmbc63ZhLJ6Xs

Is this another scam? Any insight would greatly be appreciated.

the audacity they have! trying to scam you again after getting your investment getting scammed. it's good that you came to this forum when you are in doubt about something that has something to do with cryptocurrency since the members of this from are willing to warn or verify if a website you're interested of investing is a scam site or not (but most of them are). it is just unfortunate that you didn't ask first when you were deciding to invest on a project last year.

[bouren]

Hello. I invested in in Coinxcryptominingcom last year which turned out to be a scam site. I posted on instagram about my ordeal and was recently contacted by @_jacob.armstrong about recovering my lost funds. He suggested contacting slushpool.com and gave me an email contact@slushpool.co.uk to explain my story. I sent them my transactions with wallet addresses to where i sent my funds and this is the response I received.

Good Day ,
We can see from our records and investigations that all your money is on a cloud crypto currency wallet and none of it is lost This is because the CME  ( Chicago Mercantile Exchange)  gap got filled at $9200 on the 2019-6-16 08:42pm which is the exact time you sent 0.31433482  BTC  ($2,861),
See the has code below as all your money in the cloud has amounted to this
https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/1MvuFAodHn775joqCnahJTiHuMnsQZnxM9

However, we have tested your funding several times and each time it got exhausted by the blockchain liquidation machine.
Nevertheless, we can successfully say all your money is in safe hands and the only way for all your money is to be released  is if  you are  to make an API Integration fee payment so all your funds amounting  to 8.79034054 BTC  will be released within  5  hours

You need to send 0.20 BTC ($1,897) as a fee to claim back your account.
And the additional fee of 0.20 BTC ($1,897) to recover all your funds.
We can say the total amounting to 0.41 BTC ($3,700) this payment is to be made within 48 hours if you want a successful refund of all your funds

The payment is to be made into this BTC address:  14hBpJncS6fqKZqoYAjRCGmbc63ZhLJ6Xs

Is this another scam? Any insight would greatly be appreciated.

I think people need to realize that if someone has such a magical way of recovering your funds they won't come out of nowhere and ask you if you want to recover your money. First of all you were a complete noob when you investing in some cloud mining pool as I can see. Now the people from the pool might have already used their reserves and are now taking that route once again. If you really want to trust them with something make some smart contract arrangement like escrow or something. 99% it's a scam none of their words make any sense but if you are even 1% hopeful then better ask them if they would accept some escrow. If they don't just drop the plan altogether.

[CaVO32]

How ridiculous it was. You have to send more BTC in order to get back your fund from them( pretending to be in the cloud crypto) and recover your account? They would like to scam you again. It is really a big mistake for you if you will send them just for that and for sure, they won't give back your money (including your activation fee).

Maybe I should have to let go of it and forget. That was a big scam and we can't think they'll be good for you, after all, and then give back your money.
This will serve as a warning for the others and be careful into nice offerings and fake sites because this will compromise accounts once they got you.

I hope the OP will not make a mistake of sending again money to these scammers. If they are legit, they may just ask for your credentials that you have given on the site and if it really corresponds to what they have, they will processed it. But asking more money? Please don't fall about this tactic, that's an old trick by scammers.

Someone from the forum also asked about this site and most users replied that this is indeed a scam site. This was more than a year ago.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5126261.0

[LogitechMouse]

A typical newbie who got fell in to a typical scam attempt and now the scammer is doing another typical scam attempt again .
Scammers are always greedy shits when it comes to money anyways

I just hope that the OP posted here but the reality is that he already sent the additional funds that the scammer has said to him. This is an obvious scam attempt from a newbie investor like you. Better make a research first before investing. At first glance, I already see the website as a scam site.