is ShadeBit Exchange a Scam?

[blockchain_citizen]

I have taken a questions test through Discord channel and have won 15.4 ETH which were made available through a code sent in Telegram in their Exchange website after I have registered on it. Currently I have a balance of 15.4 ETH but if I want to Withdraw them to my ETH address the second screenshot appears. Do you guys think this is a scam and does anyone else here did the same experience as I did? Thank you for the time and the website is https://shadebit.com/en


https://ibb.co/TYTB9hf
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[logfiles]

Bro, do you know how much 15.4 ETH is worth today? 21,000 USD!
Who would be so generous to give away 21,000 USD for you to just answer a couple of questions online?

It's scam

As soon as i saw this screenshoot, avoid them

[blockchain_citizen]

Yes, because I know how much worth ETH is at the moment it was legit to ask here. I am 90% sure it's a scam but I hope to hear someone else who had the same experience as I did

[acroman08]

Yes, because I know how much worth ETH is at the moment it was legit to ask here. I am 90% sure it's a scam but I hope to hear someone else who had the same experience as I did

you shouldn't be having doubts. a newly created "exchange site"(10 days to be exact according to who.is) that gives 15.4 ETH as a "prize" for their "question test" (which is definitely rigged to win the "prize" every time someone finished the question test) and ask for "verification deposition for 0.02btc" in order to withdraw the "winning funds" is a complete and utterly 100% SCAM!!!

how did you even come across with this website? did someone contact you? seen it on an ad?

[blockchain_citizen]

Yes, the contact happened on Discord in a crypto trading channel. I wanted to post here to have a confirmation from someone who does have more experience than me in this type of things. I will make sure now to inform other people of that discord channel to not be fooled by this type of Scam. Thank you again guys for your time

[sujonali1819]

It's more than 100% scam. In general if anybody/any platform ask for money to get your winning or something like that is pure scam. Don't fall into these scam man. It's an old class tricks.

Few months ago some such exchange site was providing promo code to receive some bonus. And the bonus was not a little amount. and they ask money during withdrawal.

[ScamViruS]

This is a fake scam exchange just like the exchanges exopseed earlier. After seeing huge winning funds, many crypto users send money to scammers for verification purposes and they never get that money back. I saw their domain registration date, they purchased this domain few days ago. Creating such an original exchange in such a short time is not easy. So the scammers have created this fake exchange only for the purpose of scam.

https://www.whois.com/whois/shadebit.com

Domain:shadebit.com
Registrar:NameCheap, Inc.
Registered On:2021-01-15
Expires On:2022-01-15
Updated On:2021-01-15
Status:clientTransferProhibited
Name Servers:dns1.registrar-servers.com
dns2.registrar-servers.com

[logfiles]

I am 90% sure it's a scam but I hope to hear someone else who had the same experience as I did

So many people have had the same experience here especially newbies and there are hundreds of such site created with the same intent. They are mostly either casinos or Exchanges

The tricks have been evolving from time to time, but the end game is always the same, that is, send this amount of BTC or ETH to;
- Verify your account
- Unlock your account
- Unlock your rewards

Most of the scam websites using this trick were always updated on this thread back then

[Lorence.xD]

Yes, because I know how much worth ETH is at the moment it was legit to ask here. I am 90% sure it's a scam but I hope to hear someone else who had the same experience as I did

Hopefully, you are the only one who have experienced this thing on this website. It is a scam 100% no need to put a slack of 10% because this is clearly a scam, unless you still have hope that the money is a real thing because it is not, I know how attractive it is but all that glitter isn't gold or in this case ethereum. There are other people here that have the same experience as you because most scams operate the same.

[Kittygalore]

So many people have had the same experience here especially newbies and there are hundreds of such site created with the same intent. They are mostly either casinos or Exchanges
The tricks have been evolving from time to time, but the end game is always the same, that is, send this amount of BTC or ETH to;
- Verify your account
- Unlock your account
- Unlock your rewards
Most of the scam websites using this trick were always updated on this thread back then

I had encounters with this kind of websites back then but I knew that they were scams because the advertisement is that no money is needed to get the "free log-in reward" but then I completed the necessary forms to put in and voila you need to send this amount to get the full benefits, good thing I grow up knowing about things that are often offered free of charge and that is most of them have an underlying favor that is not worth it to hustle on to get the reward. Hopefully, this kind of trick becomes a normal thing for people that when they see one that does this, they wouldn't even bat an eye or check it out, its tricky thing though as @logfiles have mentioned that some of the offenders are casinos or exchanges, they will lure you in and make you comfortable before they leave you hanging, the only thing that I can think of to prevent this one is to not put a lot of money in the website so as not to prevent a big loss in the case that they did pull a big one on you.

[blockchain_citizen]

The funny thing is that I did actually have a chat with this scammer after completed the form with the right answers, he is on telegram with this nickname @Managerwithereum but after questioning if his website is legit he disappeared