Before I say anything else, i want to make one thing perfectly clear: I don't want to start victim-blaming. You lost your lifesavings, and by any defenition of the word, you are the victim of a crime.
It's horrible to read somebody losing so much money to a scam, and there is no excuse whatsoever...That being said, I do have some remarks on some of the things you said in your last 2 posts... I have no skin in this game, I'm not trying to piss you off, but i'm just offering an alternative view... When you are the vitcim, it's normal to see everything very black and white, but a judge will probably see more of a gray area, so it might be a good idear to read some alternative idears before you spend a lot of time and money pursuing the "wrong" person.
Last but not least: i'm not a lawyer, take nothing i say as legal advice! And on top of this, something illegal in country A might be perfectly fine (even socially acceptable) in country B!
Coinpayments.net's company has provided a payment gateway to the scammer.
100% in agreement
From the point of view of the law, Coinpayment.net's company has done money laundering.
Coinpayments.net's company has entered illegal money into the exchange system.
Coinpayments.net's company is a way for stolen money to enter the online exchange system.
For example if I give my bank account to criminals to enter the stolen money into the banking system, Am I not an accomplice? Of course, I will be guilty.
Coinpayments.net's company has provided fraudulent tools to fraudsters and money laundering.
Sure, in your IRL example: giving your bank account to a criminal, knowing that they'll use it to launder money is probably considered to be a crime in most of the civilised countries of the world.
HOWEVER, I'd personally argue that coinpayments is the bank, not somebody lending out the account for fraudulent purposes. They process transactions, hold people's funds, provide a gateway, exchange money, require KYC,... So, i think they should be seen as the banking institution. And if YOU give your account to a CRIMINAL to launder money, will the BANK be sued?
Offcourse, in this case, it might be argued that the bank didn't do it's due diligence... They should vet their account holders, process KYC properly and they should provide assistence to people that have been victimized by accounts that belong to clients of it's system... Coinpayment lacks in this department, and therefor you might have a valid argument, but the argument shouldn't be wether or not they're and accomplice, but rather if they shouldn't have put more effort in vetting their clients and making 100% sure the KYC info provided to them is valid...
To make the payment gateway available, coinpayments.net have not examined the nature of Bitmine.farm's work and that their work is legitimate. Coinpayment.net's company must verify and verify the merchants' work licenses, but they did not do it, of course, is not surprising because Coinpayments.net's company are new companies in this field. and it makes more money in selling more, and it does not matter to it whether it is a legal activity or not. Be sure Coinpayments.net is a partner in crime, Coinpayments.net is considered an accomplice to the scam in this case.
coinpayments is not new... Sure, they should have vetted their clients better, they should put more effort in KYC and they should help their client's victims... But like i said before, that's not the same as being an accomplice (at least, that's what my gut feeling tells me, once again: i'm not a lawyer)
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1. Using the Bitmain brand and numerous simulations of the Bitmain website and its products
(Bitmain is a reputable and well-known Chinese company)
CoinPayments.net knew the famous Bitmain brand (Bitmain.com), however, CoinPayments.net allowed Bitmain.farm/Bitmine.farm operators and fraudsters to abuse from this famous and reputable brand and they enabled payment gateways for fraudsters.
Well, that's basically part of the defenition of abusing someone's brand. I don't know why you'd be impressed just because they were able to steal logo's or images... It's pretty trivial to do so.
But once again, yes, coinpayments should have vetted their clients a bit better.
2. Shopping system with a very professional and advanced payment gateway, when a purchase was made, the money transfer was immediately identified in the blockchain and the product was immediately activated. All this showed that the professional payment’s system is behind this website (Bitmain.farm), not an ordinary person.
There are tons of scripts available... It isn't supprising to see a professional shopping cart system. One can roll out a professional looking webshops in a couple of hours. Many of these scripts even have plugins available for gateways like coinpayments. Easy-peasy...
The fact that the money transfer was immediately identified in the blockchain is trivial aswell, it has nothing to do with the scammers, that's just one of the basic principles of bitcoin... Decentralisation, immutability and trustlessnes... If you create a valid tx and broadcast it, it will be viewable on explorers.
Investigation of wallet destination
I checked the wallet addresses where my money has went in
www.walletexplorer.com. Surveys show that destination wallet are on
www.CoinPayments.netThe above research shows that
www.Bitmain.farm has been a scam with using
www.CoinPayments.net payment gateway.
CoinPayments’s company provides advanced payment industry tools to fraudulent companies so that no one suspects fraud.
Coinpayments’s Company easily breaks the rules and does not heed the advice of regulators and is not accountable.
This Company has to pay all the damages itself, not pass us to a fraudulent site that has no real indication) no correct address and phone). It is not clear whether Bitmine.farm exists externally. It is possible that Coinpayments.net itself is behind this story, because there is no information from the operators of Bitmine.farm site and all is incorrect.
I and thousands of others are complaining about Coinpayments.net
I would certainly be very, very, very supprised if coinpayments had anything to do with the setup of a scam site. They just have to many clients and don't spend enough money on support, and on vetting and verifying their clients... That's about it.
Nobody will argue that the scam site used coinpayments as a payment gateway. Maybe you have a case if you want to prove coinpayments isn't using it's due diligence, nor do they provide a sufficient level of support.. But do you think a bank will reimburse you if you got scammed by somebody having an account with said bank? I seriously doubt it... They'll probably tell you to sue the scammer instead, and i would seriously doubt if any judge would ever tell said bank to reimburse the vicims of one of it's account holders.
