Scammed - www.housecoinex.com

[newie_08]

Hi all,
I have recently been scammed and lost about 7,000€, and I´d like to share my experience so you guys can be savvier that me in the event that someone approaches you with similar intentions. Here we go:
I met this girls on tinder in mid September this year. She was from Hong Kong and was living in Hong Kong but she said that was trying to match with people from Madrid (which is where I live) because she was planning to come to Spain in November. She must have deleted that tinder profile because I can´t her pictures nor the conversation anymore but I remember after the first quick chat she suggested to continue the convesation on whatsapp.
We chatted for about 3 days in a row about our lives in general, nothing that made me suspicious about her but she said she worked in finances for a company. After that, we didn´t talk at all for about 2 week  until she began to talk to me and started chatting agaig. Looking back now, I notice that she was starting to introduce this scam in the conversation very subttlely sending me screenshot of what she would call “her work”.

Then this girl tried to get me in to “investing” in this cryptocurrency called HC from www.housecoinex.com, I didn´t take it too seriously and said no a couple of times but she kept on insisting and I thought it could be a scam but at some point I said okay, I’m going to put 100€ if they are gone they are gone, it’s not the end of the world. I had  never invested in cryptocurrencies before, all I knew is that a lot of peolpe are starting to invest in this thing and can be very profitable so it may be worth the risk – I´ll try and see what happens. Also, I am probably too naive but she really came across as an honest person and someone that actually makes a living out of investments.
So, she guided me through the process of transfering my money to my account on www.housecoinex.com and convert it to HC. I would send her screenshots of where I was and she would send them back to me indicating with an arrow where to click. The process is basically as follows: 
1-   you transfer money from your bank account to your www.coinbase.com wallet, then
2-   convert it to BTC and send this to your account on www.housecoinex.com.
3-   Once your BTC are in www.housecoinex.com you have to exchange them for dollars
4-   And finally you exchange dollars for this coin called HC

I tried to withdraw the Money from this website back to my coinbase wallet just to make sure I was able to, and I was! Even tough I just withdraw 5 USD, that made me trust the system a bit more. And the website didn´t look to dodgy either.
At the time I transferred my first  100 USD HC was worth between 2 and 3 USD and the laidy said that it was expected to increase up to 10 USD over the next three months, which was very tempting. After a few days she suggested that I should increase my investment and I was more that keen to do it. I sent 2000€ and told myself that was it, I wasn´t going invest any more that that. After a week or two of seeing how the value of the HC was increasing day after day I stopped questioning whether or not the website was legit and decided to invest more money little by little, 1,000€ here, 2,000€ there… up to 10,000€.

One morning about two weeks ago, for some reason I googled “cryptocurrency scams”, which led me to an article that described a type of scam very similar to all this story. The article said that victims of this scam usually usually find out thta the have been scammed when they try to withdraw their money once the investment “is completed” and they can´t do so. I googled the cryptocurrency to see whether or not it was a fictional currency and it does exist. However, the actual  value of HC is approximately 0.8$ and not 5.2$ as www.housecoinex.com was showing. Even though I was already panicking, I thought, maybe there are 2 different HCs that are not worth the same, so I compared their respective value graphs and found out that graphs were pretty much identical until a few months ago. I did a few more searches and saw that the domain www.housecoinex.com had been registered on the 30th of August 2020. That was the moment I knew I was seriously screwed.

That same morning I began transfering part of my funds back to coinbase, little by little to stay under the radar. Managed to retrieve 3,000€ before my account was “frozen”. This girl keeps claiming the website was legit and that she had recharge 50% of her funds before to unfreze her own account as well.

The transactions where made from the following addresses in case some of you are keen to dig into this:
bc1q0dzcktvjf8dxla5esl8lyfh5l0cp9kguagj340
33bxiTCiTamStgTHiTLPcaNVfJPx11Afyq
38VGuL26Rgqoi3xp6L2sTbVC5ReNRUpB74
3Eu1Qi62eWnGGskqgzVP5tywvEuqr9YXax
bc1qplh086atdp4ent74sl5uk3f8p8dg5jerfqa0cu
33mwLhknhNWvVXmSuffs7aHneyEJBvDuRC
32zywPz1PV59kLkEUuBEG8nuE6k9KCr8Kh

Cheers,
A.

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[Joel_Jantsen]

You should move this to the Scam Accusations section as it's a better fit there.

You were really naive to invest money into something that you had zero ideas about. Maybe you're just rich. Which crypo did you invest in? HC as in HyperCash? Did you try contacting their customer care? service@housecoinex.com

A girl living in HongKong looking for dudes from Spain should be enough red flags to avoid any contact with them. I know you've listed the addresses but could you separate which one belongs to the exchange and which one belongs to you?

[Insanerman]

I have recently been scammed and lost about 7,000€, and I´d like to share my experience so you guys can be savvier that me in the event that someone approaches you with similar intentions. Here we go:
...

Holy sh*t that was detailed. No need of screenshots or whatsoever, the story itself is already convincing, especially with the 'investment' per se on the particular platform. Here's one thing you should learn before investing, DYOR (Do Your Own Research). Sadly, HC isn't even registered/listed on CoinMarketCap or in Coingecko and the HC coin stands for H-Cash and not HouseCoin, hence their price in the platform is quite fraudulent and alarming.

A girl living in HongKong looking for dudes from Spain should be enough red flags to avoid any contact with them. I know you've listed the addresses but could you separate which one belongs to the exchange and which one belongs to you?

I've tried to look up to those addresses and it all had transactions starting from the first address indicated which sent dated on Aug 06, then the next one is Aug 12, yet I've doubt the third address as it recently holds almost 20BTC and the transactions was too many to be investigated. Hence, if the OP cannot provide a proof of authenticity that he holds the wallets he indicated (which I think he can), then we still must take a look on housecoinex's having fraudulent display of price on their platform.

[logfiles]

What? Some random "girl" on Tinder introduced you into some investment scheme and you just believed everything without first doing some digging for information?

Well, It looks like the €7,000 was tuition fee for you to learn that there are so many cryptocurrency scams around and you should always carry out due diligence before sending out your money.

If you wanted to "invest" why didn't you just buy Bitcoin? Its price has more than doubled in the past few months, You should be having more than €20,000 worth of BTC by now. Clean and smart money, safe in your Bitcoin address.

[r34tr783tr78]

No need to criticize the OP. Thanks for posting the warning. Did you try to contact the site? Scam sites usually dont let you withdraw any money. Also you should post some screens as evidence of your btc transfers from coinbase to www.housecoinex.com and of their answers from your contacts. Try to find out who is behind the site and expose the scammers.

[icopress]

Reading this sad story, I understand that cryptocurrency scams will continue as long as there are naive people like you. Now you know firsthand that an investment opportunity that seems too good to be true, or when you are told to act quickly, is a serious Red Flag. In any case, this will be a good lesson for the future, both for you and for the readers.
These are [Examples] of questions to ask yourself if you are considering cryptocurrency as an investment. ^{[Take the time to read]}

[likeachild]

I just make an account to write that.
Fresh case.
Sorry for bad english, it's not my primary language.

I get scammed at housecoinex as well. Pretty asian lady offered me an investment opportunity. I lost 6k usd and I knew about it for at least a week.
I applied for a withdraw but my account gets freeze. I didn't let the girl know that I found out that it's a scam and I was trying to get my money back.
I promised that I will add some big funds and my brother wants to get in but he needs a prove that I can withdraw money. I thought that might be a way to get my money back to localbitcoins but didn't make it. It's unbelievable, we were chatting every day almost whole day and I enjoyed it a lot. I'm not a rich man but I don't care much about money, I do believe that good things come back as well as bad things. Cheating on emotions is much worse than money, they won't have a happy life. 

I'm so ashamed.

[24Kt]

I just make an account to write that.
Fresh case.
Sorry for bad english, it's not my primary language.

I get scammed at housecoinex as well. Pretty asian lady offered me an investment opportunity. I lost 6k usd and I knew about it for at least a week.
I applied for a withdraw but my account gets freeze. I didn't let the girl know that I found out that it's a scam and I was trying to get my money back.
I promised that I will add some big funds and my brother wants to get in but he needs a prove that I can withdraw money. I thought that might be a way to get my money back to localbitcoins but didn't make it. It's unbelievable, we were chatting every day almost whole day and I enjoyed it a lot. I'm not a rich man but I don't care much about money, I do believe that good things come back as well as bad things. Cheating on emotions is much worse than money, they won't have a happy life. 

I'm so ashamed.

Don't be ashamed of what had happened. This will be your learning lesson in life and glad that you shared your experience here in the forum. Not many people can admit their mistakes especially when it comes to investments. Or maybe because here in the forum we are not using our real names so not very hard for you to share this event of your life. Really not trust people these days especially in social media channels.

[logfiles]

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Mistakes happen in Life and after every mistake, we learn a lesson. Cryptocurrency and online related scams are getting more and more common in social media platforms such as Instagram, tinder etc where the scammers prey on one's emotions. One thing you should always have at the back of your mind is that there is no easy way to make money or get rich. All the investment offers scammers always introduce to you are always too good to be true. That should be the first red flag to alert you that something is not right.

[nobita_vision]

I just make an account to write that.
Fresh case.
Sorry for bad english, it's not my primary language.

I get scammed at housecoinex as well. Pretty asian lady offered me an investment opportunity. I lost 6k usd and I knew about it for at least a week.
I applied for a withdraw but my account gets freeze. I didn't let the girl know that I found out that it's a scam and I was trying to get my money back.
I promised that I will add some big funds and my brother wants to get in but he needs a prove that I can withdraw money. I thought that might be a way to get my money back to localbitcoins but didn't make it. It's unbelievable, we were chatting every day almost whole day and I enjoyed it a lot. I'm not a rich man but I don't care much about money, I do believe that good things come back as well as bad things. Cheating on emotions is much worse than money, they won't have a happy life. 

I'm so ashamed.

Don't be ashamed of what had happened. This will be your learning lesson in life and glad that you shared your experience here in the forum. Not many people can admit their mistakes especially when it comes to investments. Or maybe because here in the forum we are not using our real names so not very hard for you to share this event of your life. Really not trust people these days especially in social media channels.

I just was scammed exactly the same way. Is it possible to chat, I really want to share my experience and heard your advice.

[nobita_vision]

i had the same experience, just had it.... want to share my experience and try to track back the scammers, probably if we gather more information we can recognize how big is the scam and how many people may be involved and where the hell they are... 

[nobita_vision]

I have recently been scammed and lost about 7,000€, and I´d like to share my experience so you guys can be savvier that me in the event that someone approaches you with similar intentions. Here we go:
...

Holy sh*t that was detailed. No need of screenshots or whatsoever, the story itself is already convincing, especially with the 'investment' per se on the particular platform. Here's one thing you should learn before investing, DYOR (Do Your Own Research). Sadly, HC isn't even registered/listed on CoinMarketCap or in Coingecko and the HC coin stands for H-Cash and not HouseCoin, hence their price in the platform is quite fraudulent and alarming.

A girl living in HongKong looking for dudes from Spain should be enough red flags to avoid any contact with them. I know you've listed the addresses but could you separate which one belongs to the exchange and which one belongs to you?

I've tried to look up to those addresses and it all had transactions starting from the first address indicated which sent dated on Aug 06, then the next one is Aug 12, yet I've doubt the third address as it recently holds almost 20BTC and the transactions was too many to be investigated. Hence, if the OP cannot provide a proof of authenticity that he holds the wallets he indicated (which I think he can), then we still must take a look on housecoinex's having fraudulent display of price on their platform.

There is a new page that is exactly the same opened on 29 of December. is called https://www.coinhouse.me ,  I just was scammed the same way. And im ready to find out more and share experiences (probably gather information we could do something. At least to make them close the fucking scam pages.)

[icopress]

There is a new page that is exactly the same opened on 29 of December. is called https://www.coinhSCAMouse.me ,  I just was scammed the same way. And im ready to find out more and share experiences (probably gather information we could do something. At least to make them close the fucking scam pages.)

Start small, just communicate it.

This is a general form that covers many types of fraudulent activities on the site: https://safebrowsing.google.com/safebrowsing/report_phish/
Report a site that you suspect contains malware: https://safebrowsing.google.com/safebrowsing/report_badware/
The URL name speaks for itself: https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/spamreportform

[Luioza]

Apparently I got scammed with this as wel. Found out since the old site is down now..
Please send me a pm so we can team up about this.

[logfiles]

Apparently I got scammed with this as wel. Found out since the old site is down now..
Please send me a pm so we can team up about this.

Were you scammed in the same fashion? Like random girl on Instagram messages you about and investment opportunity?
I think these scammers are using the current Bitcoin hype to fool and scam innocent people off their money. I have so many people who don't know so much about Bitcoin and had no interest now asking me so much about some "investment companies" lately.

[nobita_vision]

Apparently I got scammed with this as wel. Found out since the old site is down now..
Please send me a pm so we can team up about this.

Hey, if you want, we can share some information. I already started legal process that won't get anywhere, but who knows probably we can team up and get some conclusions.
where do you live?
Im Felipe, from Colombia... reply this comment or activate your private messages to let you know my email.

[Almost_scammed]

Hi all,
I have recently been scammed and lost about 7,000€, and I´d like to share my experience so you guys can be savvier that me in the event that someone approaches you with similar intentions. Here we go:
I met this girls on tinder in mid September this year. She was from Hong Kong and was living in Hong Kong but she said that was trying to match with people from Madrid (which is where I live) because she was planning to come to Spain in November. She must have deleted that tinder profile because I can´t her pictures nor the conversation anymore but I remember after the first quick chat she suggested to continue the convesation on whatsapp.
We chatted for about 3 days in a row about our lives in general, nothing that made me suspicious about her but she said she worked in finances for a company. After that, we didn´t talk at all for about 2 week  until she began to talk to me and started chatting agaig. Looking back now, I notice that she was starting to introduce this scam in the conversation very subttlely sending me screenshot of what she would call “her work”.

Then this girl tried to get me in to “investing” in this cryptocurrency called HC from www.housecoinex.com, I didn´t take it too seriously and said no a couple of times but she kept on insisting and I thought it could be a scam but at some point I said okay, I’m going to put 100€ if they are gone they are gone, it’s not the end of the world. I had  never invested in cryptocurrencies before, all I knew is that a lot of peolpe are starting to invest in this thing and can be very profitable so it may be worth the risk – I´ll try and see what happens. Also, I am probably too naive but she really came across as an honest person and someone that actually makes a living out of investments.
So, she guided me through the process of transfering my money to my account on www.housecoinex.com and convert it to HC. I would send her screenshots of where I was and she would send them back to me indicating with an arrow where to click. The process is basically as follows: 
1-   you transfer money from your bank account to your www.coinbase.com wallet, then
2-   convert it to BTC and send this to your account on www.housecoinex.com.
3-   Once your BTC are in www.housecoinex.com you have to exchange them for dollars
4-   And finally you exchange dollars for this coin called HC

I tried to withdraw the Money from this website back to my coinbase wallet just to make sure I was able to, and I was! Even tough I just withdraw 5 USD, that made me trust the system a bit more. And the website didn´t look to dodgy either.
At the time I transferred my first  100 USD HC was worth between 2 and 3 USD and the laidy said that it was expected to increase up to 10 USD over the next three months, which was very tempting. After a few days she suggested that I should increase my investment and I was more that keen to do it. I sent 2000€ and told myself that was it, I wasn´t going invest any more that that. After a week or two of seeing how the value of the HC was increasing day after day I stopped questioning whether or not the website was legit and decided to invest more money little by little, 1,000€ here, 2,000€ there… up to 10,000€.

One morning about two weeks ago, for some reason I googled “cryptocurrency scams”, which led me to an article that described a type of scam very similar to all this story. The article said that victims of this scam usually usually find out thta the have been scammed when they try to withdraw their money once the investment “is completed” and they can´t do so. I googled the cryptocurrency to see whether or not it was a fictional currency and it does exist. However, the actual  value of HC is approximately 0.8$ and not 5.2$ as www.housecoinex.com was showing. Even though I was already panicking, I thought, maybe there are 2 different HCs that are not worth the same, so I compared their respective value graphs and found out that graphs were pretty much identical until a few months ago. I did a few more searches and saw that the domain www.housecoinex.com had been registered on the 30th of August 2020. That was the moment I knew I was seriously screwed.

That same morning I began transfering part of my funds back to coinbase, little by little to stay under the radar. Managed to retrieve 3,000€ before my account was “frozen”. This girl keeps claiming the website was legit and that she had recharge 50% of her funds before to unfreze her own account as well.

The transactions where made from the following addresses in case some of you are keen to dig into this:
bc1q0dzcktvjf8dxla5esl8lyfh5l0cp9kguagj340
33bxiTCiTamStgTHiTLPcaNVfJPx11Afyq
38VGuL26Rgqoi3xp6L2sTbVC5ReNRUpB74
3Eu1Qi62eWnGGskqgzVP5tywvEuqr9YXax
bc1qplh086atdp4ent74sl5uk3f8p8dg5jerfqa0cu
33mwLhknhNWvVXmSuffs7aHneyEJBvDuRC
32zywPz1PV59kLkEUuBEG8nuE6k9KCr8Kh

Cheers,
A.

Same thing happened to me (except the part in which I actually get my money inside a super fishy website where most of the links don't work).

I reported the profile on tinder and I regret not having taken screenshots before so I could share with you all.

Apparently the same girl, she also said she lives in HK she also advised me to buy HC. But I am actually an hardcore investor in cryptos so this sounded fishy as fuck the moment she advised me to buy HC. Not only is that crypto almost dead, it is also delisted from binance (the platform I use) for being shady. The website she gave me was housecoin.me (<---- SCAM). If you are not paying much attention to it it will look like a legit website. But then you notice that there isn't any information about exchange fees or anything, which is super weird. And also, many hyperlinks that aren't actually clickable. At that moment I confirmed it was 100% a scam.

Anyways here are the pictures:

https://ibb.co/12MTYyK - random pictures she sent me before talking about investing and stuff
https://ibb.co/T2yRKQv - another random picture
https://ibb.co/nBsqYJ3 - another one
https://ibb.co/dtDhqHr - her whatsapp profile picture

her phone number - +44 7310 541334

her name on tinder - Song Yun

She had 3 pictures on tinder the first one was just her wearing a mask (cirurgical mask, like the ones we use for covid). Can't really remember the other ones, but I know the last one she was wearing a big jacket and it was very blurry

This happened yesterday and as far as I can see she doesn't sleep. She is always online on whatsapp XD

I will not reveal my location, but I live in the other side of Europe (although I lived in Madrid for 2 years some time ago)

[Almost_scammed]

I forgot this one:

https://ibb.co/HqYyx2J

Someone please tell me if this is the same girl. I am very curious about this.

[Almost_scammed]

Jesus Christ am I clumsy...

I forgot the picture of the website

https://ibb.co/ydjB8vT

Here!

[MRKLYE]

When a honeypot approaches you telling you that they've got an investment opportunity for you.. Run the fuck away as fast as you can.

People messaging you out of the blue on discord or wherever do NOT have your best intentions in mind. They are solely acting for their own personal gain.
Sorry you got fucked captain.. But even the way you did your write up about the lead up to anyone in the space any amount of time would have raised red flags on that shit.

whole situation stinks.. PLease do your research next time before getting suckered into something like this.. Trade on established exchanges and for the love of god avoid the DEFI HYIP bullshit hype.