PSA: Becareful of imposters on forum boards

[richiela]

There is a user going by 'bittrex' that is signing off their message with "Bittrex Team" that is completely unrelated to our exchange.  Please be weary whenever people make contact with you over forum boards.

For those who are interested, the only bittrex members in the forums bittrex-bill, bittrex-rami, and myself.  You can always contact us via email @bittrex.com.

This doesn't only go for us... please be careful with anyone contacting you and verify.

[jonnysomething]

I will bump this because I hate scammers.

[Lannister]

same like poloniex and poloniex-team
be careful with impersonating user, they are scammer!

[PyroClasTix]

Noted. Good to know.

[cryptobuddy]

This fake Bittrex is created by MajorMiners (owners of some pools), who is one of the key team members of the HongKongCoin (HKC).

HongKongCoin key members (Scammers):
1. HongKongCoin
2. majorminers
(Probably HongKongCoin & MajorMiners are the same person according to their styles of written English.)

Very likely HongKongCoin key members (Possible Scammers):
1. zsnorbi
2. whatthefugg
3. poornamelessme
4. provenceday

MajorMiners' Twitter
https://twitter.com/majorminers

Here are his posts of this fake "Bittrex team dated on 22 March 2014.

Thanks for giving us the oppurtinity to be a part of HongKong Coin.
We are looking forward for the volumes!

Bittrex Team

All of us at Team HongKongCoin thank you for your excellent efforts! You're doing a great job expanding the market for HKC.

I fixed a bug while depositing HongKong Coin to the exchange, it should work now.

Bittrex Team

[cryptobuddy]

same like poloniex and poloniex-team
be careful with impersonating user, they are scammer!

You are absolutely correct. I have just sent a ticket to Poloniex to ask for their clarification.

[HarryPotterCoin]

This fake Bittrex is created by MajorMiners (owners of some pools), who is one of the key team members of the HongKongCoin (HKC).

HongKongCoin key members (Scammers):
1. HongKongCoin
2. majorminers

Very likely HongKongCoin key members (Possible Scammers):
1. zsnorbi
2. whatthefugg
3. poornamelessme
4. provenceday
5. PaQit

Here are his posts of this fake "Bittrex team dated on 22 March 2014.

Thanks for giving us the oppurtinity to be a part of HongKong Coin.
We are looking forward for the volumes!

Bittrex Team

All of us at Team HongKongCoin thank you for your excellent efforts! You're doing a great job expanding the market for HKC.

I fixed a bug while depositing HongKong Coin to the exchange, it should work now.

Bittrex Team

HKC dev, seem like Lucius Malfoy and other death eaters 

[PaQit]

Why is my name included here ?

You made a post on the ann thread that you were giving away free coins?

So i asked you for some and you gave them to me , so thank you 

Im in no way affiliated with HCK or Bittrex , i just wanted free coins

Thank you!

[cryptobuddy]

Why is my name included here ?

You made a post on the ann thread that you were giving away free coins?

So i asked you for some and you gave them to me , so thank you 

Im in no way affiliated with HCK or Bittrex , i just wanted free coins

Thank you!

Please accept my apology if I have made a mistake.

I put your name there is because you are the 1st member who quickly posted to against my post for not listing HKC in Reddit of Coinedup.

Upon your request and clarification, I removed your name in the list. 

[PaQit]

All good buddy 

Well at that time it was just you talking bad about the coin , so i appologize as well.

Thank you

[cryptobuddy]

same like poloniex and poloniex-team
be careful with impersonating user, they are scammer!

I have just got a clarification from Poloniex (real one) that those Poloniex and Poloniex-team in Bitcointalk are fake. They were created on 21 March 2014 and 22 March 2014. Almost at the same of the fake "Bittrex" created by HongKongCoin dev team.

Here is the reply from Poloniex

[majorminers]

Why is my name included here ?

You made a post on the ann thread that you were giving away free coins?

So i asked you for some and you gave them to me , so thank you 

Im in no way affiliated with HCK or Bittrex , i just wanted free coins

Thank you!

Please accept my apology if I have made a mistake.

I put your name there is because you are the 1st member who quickly posted to against my post for not listing HKC in Reddit of Coinedup.

Upon your request and clarification, I removed your name in the list. 

Apologize to me too - scumbag. I replied to the 'fake account' in the thread because I assume it was someone from Bittrex.

HKC is listed on Bittrex and the user's name was 'Bittrex.' I didn't take any time to investigate the user's origin - because why would I? I made one or two casual and polite replies because I thought they were updating the thread.

Replying to an account does not make you that person. Besides, I don't see what possible advantage this fake account could have given anyone and I wouldn't waste one second of
my time on childish crap like this.

You need to grow up and get on with your own life.

[majorminers]

There is a user going by 'bittrex' that is signing off their message with "Bittrex Team" that is completely unrelated to our exchange.  Please be weary whenever people make contact with you over forum boards.

For those who are interested, the only bittrex members in the forums bittrex-bill, bittrex-rami, and myself.  You can always contact us via email @bittrex.com.

This doesn't only go for us... please be careful with anyone contacting you and verify.

Just to clarify: This is your Twitter, right: https://twitter.com/BittrexExchange

I don't want any more mishaps when communicating with you.

[Lethn]

Well done for going out of your way to warn people about this, most exchanges would have just ignored it unless they received direct complaints.

[belmonty]

This fake Bittrex is created by MajorMiners (owners of some pools), who is one of the key team members of the HongKongCoin (HKC).

HongKongCoin key members (Scammers):
1. HongKongCoin
2. majorminers

Very likely HongKongCoin key members (Possible Scammers):
1. zsnorbi
2. whatthefugg
3. poornamelessme
4. provenceday

Here are his posts of this fake "Bittrex team dated on 22 March 2014.

Thanks for giving us the oppurtinity to be a part of HongKong Coin.
We are looking forward for the volumes!

Bittrex Team

All of us at Team HongKongCoin thank you for your excellent efforts! You're doing a great job expanding the market for HKC.

I fixed a bug while depositing HongKong Coin to the exchange, it should work now.

Bittrex Team

I incorrectly thought this someone who worked for Bittrex until I read your post. Thanks for putting the record straight.

[poornamelessme]

This fake Bittrex is created by MajorMiners (owners of some pools), who is one of the key team members of the HongKongCoin (HKC).

HongKongCoin key members (Scammers):
1. HongKongCoin
2. majorminers

Very likely HongKongCoin key members (Possible Scammers):
1. zsnorbi
2. whatthefugg
3. poornamelessme
4. provenceday

Apparently I made the list, although I've said the coin probably serves no purpose right now, never actually recommended the coin to anyone, and think most nation coins are silly. You have also repeatedly said I was Chinese (even though I'm not). You'll do best if you just stick with sane posts.

I agreed with you last night when you found the Bittrex thing. I don't agree that means we know who is using the fake account, but good catch finding it.

[NutshellCoin]

Um...why people do such bad thing....

[cryptobuddy]

Apparently I made the list, although I've said the coin probably serves no purpose right now, never actually recommended the coin to anyone, and think most nation coins are silly. You have also repeatedly said I was Chinese (even though I'm not). You'll do best if you just stick with sane posts.

I agreed with you last night when you found the Bittrex thing. I don't agree that means we know who is using the fake account, but good catch finding it.

Your contributions and enthusiasm in HKC ANN thread seems contradict to what you said here.

The following is what you have said in HKC ANN thread:

Any idea with this coin will be listed on coinmarketcap?

BTW, can you think of any other places you would like to see this coin listed?

Some people are still sleeping on HKC and they need to be aware it's out there.

Poloniex would seem like the next logical step for the coin. It's still a small exchange, but not as small as Bittrex. A lot of nation coins seem to 'graduate' to there before then moving to larger exchanges.

[NutshellCoin]

Apparently I made the list, although I've said the coin probably serves no purpose right now, never actually recommended the coin to anyone, and think most nation coins are silly. You have also repeatedly said I was Chinese (even though I'm not). You'll do best if you just stick with sane posts.

I agreed with you last night when you found the Bittrex thing. I don't agree that means we know who is using the fake account, but good catch finding it.

Your contributions and enthusiasm in HKC ANN thread seems contradict to what you said here.

The following is what you have said in HKC ANN thread:

Any idea with this coin will be listed on coinmarketcap?

BTW, can you think of any other places you would like to see this coin listed?

Some people are still sleeping on HKC and they need to be aware it's out there.

Poloniex would seem like the next logical step for the coin. It's still a small exchange, but not as small as Bittrex. A lot of nation coins seem to 'graduate' to there before then moving to larger exchanges.

HKC dev planning get into Poloniex ... OK... There is a reason for them to make some fake Poloniex accounts in BTT.

[poornamelessme]

Your contributions and enthusiasm in HKC ANN thread seems contradict to what you said here.

If that is enthusiasm to you, I guess you have no emotions. I was stating where a coin logically would go to after Bittrex. And as I have stated in several threads here, I find nation coins sort of silly, unless it has an infrastructure behind it. The main reason I even posted in that thread was because I found their faucet idea interesting... and then because you went into nutty troll mode.