Unfortunately, it seems that you have been scam already. So they won't answer back and probably those scammers are laughing their ass off because they got another victim. In any case, this is not the first time. It has been reported as well as early as 2020. I guess this will serve a big lesson for you and hopefully you will be the last victim.

I wonder though where you get this API?

{Warning}: Fake Bitcoin QR Code Generators. by @Baofeng

Many people warned probably but not enough and yeah I hope I was last and they must be dying from laugh 


Thx noorman0 for link, I will report it.

They got good SEO and look serious

That is sad that there are so many scams and not many good services...
I used simple text to QR generator.
It has not BTC logo, but it serves its purpose and works perfectly.

But I wonder if these are really their addresses to harvest stolen Bitcoins or they are generating some random to "burn" these Bitcoins

It's just really not good to rely on Bitcoin QR Generator services while QR works mostly just by reading the blacks and whites hence generating your address on a simple text to QR generator would suffice. You can also check the validity of your QR just simply be scanning it and scanners are already available in any smartphone. Scanning it with your phone's camera would prompt you what the message or the link the QR provides which is obviously a tool to verify what you've generated. Hope no one relies nor promotes QR generators exclusive for Bitcoin that doesn't show warnings about its risks and consequences.

The address the scam site bitcoinqrcodemaker.com is currently producing on their QR codes currently does not have any transactions, although it is likely that it has used different addresses over time.

This is one example as to why it is important to search for scams prior to interacting with any bitcoin related website or service, especially "free" services.

I wrote them this (Just for inspiration):


Hi,
This website is scam and scammed me for 400$
bitcoinqrcodemaker.com

We have a topic here:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5364414.new;topicseen#new

and here:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5235014.0
(I am sure there are so many more of them)

How can such a scam still be working?
For so many years???

Here is my scam transaction so you can see:
https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/bc1qu649ujp32tsaklnqzgdqh9ztrcrnw8zkds9du0

Thanks for resolving this.
Hopefully more people will email you, so you can decide easier and faster, before somebody will fall for it.

Have a nice day
Kevin

Oh wow, so this scam site has been up that long?  That's incredible.  Makes me wonder how much money they've blatantly stolen from unsuspecting people who've used it--and also what it would take to get the site shuttered.

OP, just curious: How did you happen to stumble upon this site?  They obviously don't advertise on the forum, so did you search for a QR code generator or something?  Seems like that would be something a lot of people might do who aren't aware of how many scammers there are in the bitcoin space, and it'd be a shame if this particular site came up on the first page of results.

Oh shit....sorry you lost that much.  Glad you reported them to namecheap though.  Hopefully that'll be the way they get shut down--but unfortunately I suspect that if they've made decent money with this scam, they'll just hop on over to another domain name provider and set up shop again.