Coincity-ex.com: is it a scammer?

[Fgor]

I made some investments on Coincity-ex.com platform. When I wanted to withdraw my money they didn’t give me back. They wanted the payment of taxes!! I payed them helped by a friend and they said that it was irregular, only one can pay for taxes. I payed the whole amount and they didn’t give me the money. I am still waiting for it.
Can someone help me? Do you know this platform? Did you ever invested on it?

[coupable]

This link Coincity-ex.com doesn't work in my end. It shows an error written in Chinese.
Where did you find that platform and how you paid taxes with a friend?
It seems to be a successful scam attempt. I didn't hear about this platform before. It has a lot of negative reviews in almost all rating platforms. You had to search and check before using it with real money.
Sorry for your loss. Unfortunetly, you have nothing to do and zero chance to get your money back. I hope you didn't lose a considerable amount of money.

[Fgor]

I can enter in the site from smart phone, tablet and computer too. I think that I got a scam because they always used new reasons to block the payment. First the taxes; second the taxes should be payed only by one account (a friend helped me); third the said that there was the suspect of laundering dirty money and they wanted 20000$ a warranty of my account.  I didn’t payed this amount.

[Taskford]

I made some investments on Coincity-ex.com platform. When I wanted to withdraw my money they didn’t give me back. They wanted the payment of taxes!! I payed them helped by a friend and they said that it was irregular, only one can pay for taxes. I payed the whole amount and they didn’t give me the money. I am still waiting for it.
Can someone help me? Do you know this platform? Did you ever invested on it?

To bad you to fall for two times on a scam platform and this scam scheme is so classic where they promise  a to good to be true profit and then ask for money again so that their victim can withdraw the amount they wanted to get. Much better if you move on because no one can help you as those scammers for sure don't have plans to return your money.

And next time don't believe on anyone who claims that they can help you and ask some amount as payment since they possibly scam you again for third time.

[mocacinno]

I can enter in the site from smart phone, tablet and computer too. I think that I got a scam because they always used new reasons to block the payment. First the taxes; second the taxes should be payed only by one account (a friend helped me); third the said that there was the suspect of laundering dirty money and they wanted 20000$ a warranty of my account.  I didn’t payed this amount.

Ouch...
Sounds a lot like a scammer trying to scam some extra money from their scam victim by trying to make them pay for "taxes", then for "warrantee", and if you'd pay that, i'm pretty sure they'll say you also have to pay to "unlock your account", and before they leave they'll make you pay a "fine". And once you've payed all that, they'll dissapear and they'll probably contact you using a different identity and offering you to help you find the scammers for a nominal fee.

It's been said in this very thread: walk away... Every cent you give to these people is gone forever. Even if they offer to "free" all your money for a very small sum, they'll just keep that sum on top of everything they've taken from you.

The only thing left to do, is contacting your local law enforcement (if possible). Odds are big they'll do nothing, but at least your complaint will be on file, and if they ever catch those scammers you might have a very, very small chance you'll get part of your money back.

[Fgor]

I didn’t pay. The platform is still working you can find it as www.Coincity-ex.com

[mocacinno]

I didn’t pay. The platform is still working you can find it as --not listing a potentially fraudulent url--

But if i read your posts correctly you DID invest with them, but when you wanted to withdraw they asked you for more money to pay for "taxes" (eventough they could have used  part of your money they already had), and you DID pay those "taxes".  Then they apparently still didn't want to release the funds (because you say your friend had to help you?) and now they're asking a ridiculous amount of money as a "warranty".

Now ask yourself: why would they need cryptocurrency as a "warranty" to give you your own money back? There simply isn't any reason to do so... If they were legit, they would have taken the taxes from your money they already had access to, and maybe they'd force you to go trough a KYC procedure... There simply isn't any reason to ask for more money, cause this will prove nothing... What would they be doing? You give them $20k, they then proceed to give you your own money back and the $20k extra? Is having $20k a sign of honesty? For them, asking such an amount would prove nothing and it would solve nothing... The only thing it solves is their scam methodology.

There are multiple red flags here:

• continuously asking for more money because they won't release your money if you don't pay them more money first (pro tip: if somebody asks you to pay money in order to get money, it's 99,9999% certain that it's a scam)
• domain is only 89 days old
• hidden whois info

I can be wrong, but after looking at that site, it was pretty hard to navigate, the wording seemed strange to me, the proceeds seems relatively high... All in all, i'm pretty sure this is a scam. You're free to do whatever you want, but if it was my money, i'd go straight to the cops and i certainly wouldn't give those guys any more money.

[noorman0]

I didn’t pay.

They will not pay you even if you fulfill the "tax" request. I wonder what made you fall in love with investing in a completely messy site's page?
Check out the following sites and you understand that you are being scammed.
https://bitget-coin.com
https://www.ftplus-en.com

[Potato Chips]

If they ask you to pay first (which won't be deducted in your balance) in order to withdraw, it's a scam + their reasons were ridiculous lmao. In the future, avoid no-one-has-ever-heard-of exchanges like this.

Two things you may wanna check:

1. if the loss is tax deductible, for instance see: https://koinly.io/guides/ (I'd consult a CPA to be extra sure)
2. recovery chances are extremely low but another thing to try is to see if your coins went to a centralized exchange using a block explorer that tags known addresses e.g. oxt.me for bitcoin, etherscan.io for ETH - if the coins did, you would need to involve the authorities.

[alterra57]

I'm afraid your money is gone. Click on any button at the bottom of the landing page and you will see that they do not work, a poor quality website is always a red flag.

[Fgor]

The site works well. All the functions are ok. I see my earned money as “frozen” and the money for the taxes “available”

[mocacinno]

The site works well. All the functions are ok. I see my earned money as “frozen” and the money for the taxes “available”

It works so well they got your initial deposit AND managed to squeeze you for the money for "tax" and it looks you're still not convinced this is a scam... Or at least, that's the feeling i get from your response.

It's quite simple: you're responsible for your own finances. We all warned you about all the red flags and the typical scam behavior. If you value the layout of that site over our experience, you could always just ignore our warnings and proceed... There's nothing stopping you. The only thing you cannot expect is us condoning a site that exhibits many of the red flags of a typical scammer.

Maybe you get lucky (and we got it wrong), but i seriously doubt it... All in all, there's nothing more to say...

I wish you good luck, and i hope you won't lose any more money than you already did!

[Fgor]

I explained badly, excuse me. I am sure that it is a scam. I went one month ago to Italian postal police and I wrote to Police of Hong Kong too. I only said that the site was working.
I wished to know if there were a possibility to recover my money, at least a part. I thank you all for your very  interesting comments.

[mocacinno]

I explained badly, excuse me. I am sure that it is a scam. I went one month ago to Italian postal police and I wrote to Police of Hong Kong too. I only said that the site was working.
I wished to know if there were a possibility to recover my money, at least a part. I thank you all for your very  interesting comments.

No problem. Most of us aren't native english speakers, so sometimes things go wrong during translation

As for getting your money back: i'm afraid crypto transactions are irreversible...
Getting your money back will involve law enforcement. You can help them a little bit by tracking transactions and hoping they don't pass a mixer and end up on a KYC exchange, but your odds are very (very) slim i'm afraid.

Anyways, i hope you get lucky.

[Fgor]

I thank you for your competence and kindness. 🙏 I sent all my transactions to Italian Police and to Hong Kong Police. They have all the numbers of the transactions from Binance to Coincity

[Lucius]

I can be wrong, but after looking at that site, it was pretty hard to navigate, the wording seemed strange to me, the proceeds seems relatively high... All in all, i'm pretty sure this is a scam. You're free to do whatever you want, but if it was my money, i'd go straight to the cops and i certainly wouldn't give those guys any more money.

I agree with you, because the first look at the page reveals that it is an amateur work, especially all the links that should lead to social networks or "about, user support..." behind which there is a blank page. It is hard for me to believe that someone thinks it is logical to invest in something that is so poorly presented that it literally warns of a scam.

I thank you for your competence and kindness. 🙏 I sent all my transactions to Italian Police and to Hong Kong Police. They have all the numbers of the transactions from Binance to Coincity

Is there a special reason why you are contacting the police in HK? The domain is registered on namecheap and the real owner is hidden according to the information I can see...

[Fgor]

Because the ID is located in Hong Kong and the person that suggested me to invest there said that Coincity is located in Hong Kong.  Which police should I report to? Do you find an address? I thank you for your help.

[Plaguedeath]

Because the ID is located in Hong Kong and the person that suggested me to invest there said that Coincity is located in Hong Kong.  Which police should I report to? Do you find an address? I thank you for your help.

I think you're correct report on HongKong police since the website is using Chinese language, maybe the another option is Taiwan, I doubt it's China since they're ban all cryptocurrency related. Maybe you can wait until the HongKong police already take an action about your case, so you will know which thing you need to do next. They could no have any idea with crypto and might ask you to contact crypto lawyer, the thing is there's many scammer out there.

[noorman0]

I thank you for your competence and kindness. 🙏 I sent all my transactions to Italian Police and to Hong Kong Police. They have all the numbers of the transactions from Binance to Coincity

On the other hand, I'm not sure any company information presented on the website is real insofar as they are scammers. All the police need to do is monitor the deposit addresses and hopefully one day they will sweep the balance and end up on a centralized account address.

I think you're correct report on HongKong police since the website is using Chinese language, maybe the another option is Taiwan, I doubt it's China since they're ban all cryptocurrency related.

From my PC, their default language is Korean

[khaled0111]

and the person that suggested me to invest there said that Coincity is located in Hong Kong.

This is the person you should report to the police as he might be involved into this scam and knows who the website owner is. I hoe you know him personally and he is not just a random guy you met on the Internet.
I couldn't find any information about the company (license, location..) on their about us page and since they used namecheap then they've mostly registered the domain name anonymously.
Don't trust anyone who contacts you saying he can help you recover your money.