Fake ChipMixer review?

[BitcoinGirl.Club]

Visit darknetone<DOT>com/market/chipmixer/
Replace <DOT> with "." (without double quotation marks)

I was reading the review which came at the first page when I was searching with the keyword ChipMixer. It seems a good review. I did not pay attention to the .onion site. But when I was reading the section "Limitations of ChipMixer" and saw the given clear net URL with a TLD of .pro then I knew something is wrong. I went to the .pro domain and found the same ChipMixer site.

Few days ago I visited real ChipMixer site and it was saying "Due to recent events ChipMixer is available only on Tor network.". I had that in mind engraved. I still do not know what were the recent events.

It surprised me that a blog site who ranked up in google first page has put a fake article on their blog. How bad internet could be? I always thought SEO is expensive and it takes time and a lot of money to rank up a site.

Shall I assume everything on that site are fake and have fishing URLs to scam visitors? I really hope I am wrong.

[Upgrade00]

It surprised me that a blog site who ranked up in google first page has put a fake article on their blog. How bad internet could be? I always thought SEO is expensive and it takes time and a lot of money to rank up a site.

With my little knowledge of SEO, how much to pay depends on the keywords one wish to rank for and also how much useful content they put out.
It's generally not that expensive and fake sites can easily get ranked up if they put enough time to it and they are in a relatively small niche.

Shall I assume everything on that site are fake and have fishing URLs to scam visitors? I really hope I am wrong.

That's a possibility. It's always safer to assume everything is s scam until proven otherwise, so if there's any evidence suggesting that, I would avoid the site altogether.

[BitcoinGirl.Club]

That's a possibility. It's always safer to assume everything is s scam until proven otherwise, so if there's any evidence suggesting that, I would avoid the site altogether.

I sent PM to ChipMixer even though I am 100% sure that this is a fake review site which is trying to fish the internet users. If ChipMixer confirms then there will be no doubt in mind that everything that has put on that site, are fake.

I see a lot of DarkMarket review on the site which means all of them are scam and made up reviews by him.

[Upgrade00]

Here are some options for reporting the website to protect other users;
• https://safebrowsing.google.com/safebrowsing/report_phish/?hl=en
• https://supportcenter.godaddy.com/AbuseReport#

Pick the most appropriate abuse option that fits the website. Encouraging more users to do so as well hasten what action would be taken.

[dkbit98]

I was reading the section "Limitations of ChipMixer" and saw the given clear net URL with a TLD of .pro then I knew something is wrong. I went to the .pro domain and found the same ChipMixer site.

There are no other clearnet domains for Chipmixer other than .com domain that redirects customers to their onion address.
All other .xyz .pro and other variants found on search engines are scam, that means that all reviews directing to this domains are part of the same scam.
Scammers even created fake onion link, so it's better to double check if link is correct before starting with mixing.

Shall I assume everything on that site are fake and have fishing URLs to scam visitors?

It's enough for them to add scam domain link, and I would discard every information from that review.

[LeGaulois]

The blog darknetone is know to be unreliable. Like most of websites on the clearnet posting .onion urls because it very often leads to fake sites imitating real ones. You can check about DarkFox Market for exemple, the URL is also wrong.

Most of the blogs related to bitcoin mixers have phishing URLs. And ranking them up in the Google SERPs is not as hard as you think.
The thing with the mixing industry is it's a small niche with not a lot of competition. Hence, not a lot of blogs related, hence any garbage can be in the first page. You can even see hacked websites selling clothes for kids ranking in the first page of google when you search for "bitcoin mixer xxxx"

Believe me, I crawl a lot the SERPs and spy them (including their strategies) there are a lot of shits. I got once an idea to become their nightmare and make them lose money (or rather to prevent victims from losing their money). Or at least to make a blog to be "annoying".

People running mixers could also share about the threats they receive, it could be fun to read

[BitMaxz]

I tried to search but I found the chipmixer with .xyz extension and the #2 URL is the darknet one.

I tried to check the chipmixer keyword with Ahref and actually the keyword is not yet congested. If you create a new website with the same keyword a little effort of SEO can rank up the website easily on the first page of the Google results. And even I can easily rank up with that keyword.

Most of the blogs right now with chipmixer have fake chipmixer like this blog post below

Code:

https://www.guru99.com/best-bitcoin-mixers-tumblers.html

I found almost 3 fake websites today after using that keyword.

Code:

chipmixer.pro
chipmixer.xyz
chipmixer.app

All of them are connected.

The original clearnet of chipmixer.com seems already outrank with the same keyword and it seems it is no longer at the SERP.

[examplens]

@dkbit98 did a small test on the term chipmixer on other search engines as well https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1935098.msg60403691#msg60403691

Most of the blogs right now with chipmixer have fake chipmixer like this blog post below

Code:

https://www.guru99.com/best-bitcoin-mixers-tumblers.html

it is probably the best way to promote the site, why wouldn't impersonators do the same.

[PX-Z]

It's one of the scammers tactics, to make a paid review article tank in search pages.
Usually this happens if the website owners never check the links on the article draft to be published by scammers, obviously, money talks.

[BitMaxz]

it is probably the best way to promote the site, why wouldn't impersonators do the same.

Actually, their first purpose is not promoting it on the blog they only need is the DA or the domain rating of blog website to easily rank up fast on the first page of Google.
The guru99.com have high DR based on ahrefs checker with lots of backlinks so if one of the fake website link to this blog site there is a big impact on the SERP and easily placed on the first page of Google.

The only thing that I noticed is how and why guru99 linked a fake website?

I search a bit with their website and end up on this link below

Code:

https://www.guru99.com/advertise-us

It seems the fake website hires them to advertise on their blog.

[NotATether]

With my little knowledge of SEO, how much to pay depends on the keywords one wish to rank for and also how much useful content they put out.
It's generally not that expensive and fake sites can easily get ranked up if they put enough time to it and they are in a relatively small niche.

Take my website for example. My articles are ranking first for absolute garbage keywords, but are in >50th place for the useful keywords that I actually want to be ranking for.

[dkbit98]

It seems the fake website hires them to advertise on their blog.

Someone should have a talk with Barbara Thompson (C/C++ and Blockchain Technology Expert) who allegedly wrote that article including fake Chipmixer website we can find in that mix.
There is still a small chance that she could make a mistake if that happened during the recent period when Chipmixer clearnet domain was not available at all.
I am not even sure that person even exist, but there is her page on that website:

Barbara Thompson is a C/C++ and Blockchain technology expert. She has written C, C#, C++, Android, Blockchain, and Go Programming tutorials. She has given in-depth examples, which helps the audience to learn better. In her free time, she likes to watch action, drama, science movies, and watch videos that talk about the latest technologies.

https://www.guru99.com/barbara-thompson-2

[BitcoinGirl.Club]

Someone should have a talk with Barbara Thompson (C/C++ and Blockchain Technology Expert) who allegedly wrote that article including fake Chipmixer website we can find in that mix.

The name Barbara Thompson does not seem a real name. Someone is hiding behind their monitor. The Twitter and LinkedIn are under the company guru99. The website seems resourceful but this is shady to have article with phishing links.

[Potato Chips]

There is still a small chance that she could make a mistake if that happened during the recent period when Chipmixer clearnet domain was not available at all.

I find it hard to buy that it was an honest mistake. In their article, blender.io was repeated many times but they still managed to give a phishing link...

]1) Blender.io

Blender.io is one of the best Bitcoin tumblers available for beginners and experts to mix coins.... Registration Requirement: No registration is required to mix Bitcoins on Blender.io

Note: I forgot i was in the wayback machine when i did the snapshot but you get it.





Notice that it's blendAr instead of blendEr? from what it looks like, the article is just a ploy to disguise phishing links.

I am not even sure that person even exist,

I wouldn't be surprised, the way her picture was awkwardly cropped reminds me of face generators, for instance: https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/

[BitcoinGirl.Club]

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I don't remember if we have any topic about phishing link websites or better say blog sites that are promoting phishing links. If we don't then someone can create a topic about it and put all those urls in "code" tag. Obviously guru99DOTcom will be on that list. Maybe we give it a name like scam99DOTcom LOL