[Warning]: Scam/Phishing Tornado Cash Website

[TravelMug]

What happened: Scam/Phishing Tornado Cash Website

Website:

Code:

https://tornadov2.cash/

Archived: https://web.archive.org/save/https://tornadov2.cash/



Whois Information:

Code:

Registrar	HOSTINGER operations, UAB
IANA ID: 1636
URL: http://www.hostinger.com
Whois Server: http://www.hostinger.com

(p)
Registrar Status	addPeriod, clientTransferProhibited
Dates	1 days old
Created on 2023-11-01
Expires on 2024-11-01
Updated on 2023-11-01

Website is still fresh, criminals just established this websites 24 hours ago and hoping that someone will fell for it. We all know what happen to Tornado Cash though so I wouldn't be surprised if this criminals are still using to scam as there could be gullible individuals who thinks that this kind of services is still up and running.

Just be careful everyone and this is just another warning.

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[Husires]

I thought that anyone could host this mixing service, as the code/protocol is open source, main developer was arrested and the service was re-hosted again despite the United States banning all transactions related to that mixer.
The site is new, and there are a lot of questions surrounding the original site, so if you want to avoid fraud or get yourself into trouble, avoid any mixing service associated with Tornado Cash

[examplens]

OP, you can suggest LeGaulois add this scam mixer to his list https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5381839

I thought that anyone could host this mixing service, as the code/protocol is open source, main developer was arrested and the service was re-hosted again despite the United States banning all transactions related to that mixer.
The site is new, and there are a lot of questions surrounding the original site, so if you want to avoid fraud or get yourself into trouble, avoid any mixing service associated with Tornado Cash

Interestingly, the original owner of Tornado Cash was arrested, although his service was not designed to scam people. At the same time, his impersonators, whose sole intention is to scam, continue to operate and no one investigates them.

[Kemarit]

I thought that anyone could host this mixing service, as the code/protocol is open source, main developer was arrested and the service was re-hosted again despite the United States banning all transactions related to that mixer.
The site is new, and there are a lot of questions surrounding the original site, so if you want to avoid fraud or get yourself into trouble, avoid any mixing service associated with Tornado Cash

Yes, as far as I know, Tornado Cash smart contract is immutable so anyone can create to interact with the smart contract.

However, we really don't know the people behind this new site, so it's better to just stay away from this website. And if in any case this new website turns out to be rea or safel, then there is the risk that it could be put down anytime soon by the authorities.

[albon]

Interestingly, the original owner of Tornado Cash was arrested, although his service was not designed to scam people. At the same time, his impersonators, whose sole intention is to scam, continue to operate and no one investigates them.

This information is essential for the scammers, and it presents a golden opportunity because they will naturally exploit the lack of awareness among many people about it and will try in various ways to spread phishing sites and target Tornado Cash clients who will think that the phishing site they encountered in Google ads or on social media is the official Tornado Cash website and that it has returned to operation. Once again, here comes the importance of doing adequate research.

I see that the mixers' sites are the ones that scammers set their eyes on because of the ease of impersonating them through their domains and making them close to the legitimate mixers. Therefore, people should add the legitimate domains of mixers or any other platforms they use daily to their browser bookmarks without clicking on any unfamiliar links they might stumble upon by chance.

[Husires]

Yes, as far as I know, Tornado Cash smart contract is immutable so anyone can create to interact with the smart contract.
However, we really don't know the people behind this new site, so it's better to just stay away from this website. And if in any case this new website turns out to be rea or safel, then there is the risk that it could be put down anytime soon by the authorities.

Yes, then we cannot say that this service is Scam/Phishing, but we must warn that whoever runs the site may be a scammer, it may be government agencies, and it may be an honest person.
Tornado Cash is a service with which some of the addresses associated with it have been banned, so dealing with it may lead to problems. It is best to use a Bitcoin mixer and then convert Bitcoin to Eth.

[rat03gopoh]

Try paying attention to the donations address in the footer, if we use it in a Google search then you wi'll be presented with other scam duplicate sitess (some have been taken down). Looks like it's created and controlled by the same scammer.

Code:

torenado.cash
tornadoproxy.eth.limo
tornadocash.me
tornado-cash.link

[Bitcoin_Arena]

Looks like the scammers are taking advantage of the vacuum left behind by Tornado.cash
As far as I remember, tornado.cash would never ask one to connect their wallet to the site just to view the statistic

Originally after the shutdown of Tornado.cash site, This link (https://ipfs.io/ipns/tornadocash.eth) was functional and was mentioned in their official Twitter account, but now it's also offline. When I check their telegram.

This seems to now be their official site: https://tornado.ws

More documentation here: https://docs.tornado.ws/general/guides/post-censorship/

[PX-Z]

This seems to now be their official site: https://tornado.ws

Can you tell your sources?
As i can't see this on any of their official platforms ^{(well, maybe its inaccessible for them already)}.  Or is there new social handles used by them? Or what.

[Bitcoin_Arena]

Can you tell your sources?

1. Coinmarketcap
2. https://t.me/TornadoOfficial
3. https://t.me/TornadoCashOff
4. https://element.tornadocash.social/
5. https://git.tornado.ws/tornadocash

[Husires]

seems to now be their official site: https://tornado.ws
More documentation here: https://docs.tornado.ws/general/guides/post-censorship/

How can we know that it is official? The links that you mentioned do not prove this and a government agency can host the service or hackers who were able to reach their accounts on X. Everything related to Tornado Cash cannot be proven or denying, and therefore it is better to avoid them all

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seems to now be their official site: https://tornado.ws
More documentation here: https://docs.tornado.ws/general/guides/post-censorship/

How can we know that it is official? The links that you mentioned do not prove this and a government agency can host the service or hackers who were able to reach their accounts on X. Everything related to Tornado Cash cannot be proven or denying, and therefore it is better to avoid them all

At the moment, there is quite serious competition when we talk about mixers. I don't see a reason why anyone would take the risk and prove that this is not a phishing site. I believe that even the original Tornado owners would not start a mixing service under the same name again.

[Bitcoin_Arena]

How can we know that it is official? The links that you mentioned do not prove this and a government agency can host the service or hackers who were able to reach their accounts on X. Everything related to Tornado Cash cannot be proven or denying, and therefore it is better to avoid them all

Do I have to prove to you everything?

You can also go prove for yourself because unlike the closed source mixers you are used to seeing here every day including whirlwind.money that exit scammed while trying to be a copycat of tornado.cash, there's a source code in one of the links I just shared.

The mixer is just sanctioned, it doesn't mean Government took over the smart contract 🤷‍♂️

[Baofeng]

Perhaps you can add this to the list if you have time,

Code:

https://tornado.cash.earn.li/

And yeah, a lot of this tornado cash phishing sites is popping from time to time to trap users to used them as supposedly new website to mix everyhting.

But almost all of them are fake and obviously cyber criminals are behind them, and it could be just one group behind all of this websites.

[JackETH]

Looks like the scammers are taking advantage of the vacuum left behind by Tornado.cash
As far as I remember, tornado.cash would never ask one to connect their wallet to the site just to view the statistic

Originally after the shutdown of Tornado.cash site, This link (https://ipfs.io/ipns/tornadocash.eth) was functional and was mentioned in their official Twitter account, but now it's also offline. When I check their telegram.

This seems to now be their official site: [Suspicious link removed]

More documentation here: [Suspicious link removed]/general/guides/post-censorship/

I successfully transferred the funds to the contract on tornado.ws a fraudulent site. Despite securely storing my private note, all my money was stolen. Just 5 minutes after transferring the money, the note was used, and the funds were passed through tornado again. I couldn't trace where the money went.

[Husires]

I successfully transferred the funds to the contract on tornado.ws a fraudulent site. Despite securely storing my private note, all my money was stolen. Just 5 minutes after transferring the money, the note was used, and the funds were passed through tornado again. I couldn't trace where the money went.

stay away from any mixing service called Tornado, because you will either be scammed or you may be exposed to legal problems because the mixer is considered a money laundering and illegal mixer. Sorry for losing but they definitely know how to hide this coins from being traced, so the best solution for you to mix your currencies using P2P DEX to Monero, wait a random time and convert it back to Bitcoin.

[SmartGold01]

Interestingly, the original owner of Tornado Cash was arrested, although his service was not designed to scam people. At the same time, his impersonators, whose sole intention is to scam, continue to operate and no one investigates them.

Scammers always take chances of other people mistake or inactivity to execute their plans, currently they knew that lots of people do not have the information about the real owner of the site, they went and rebuild it and try to scam people from the site with the intention for them to utilize the opportunity that people do not know about recently updates concerning the site or since the news is not widely spread across to scam people for being ignorant.

[Bitcoin_Arena]

I successfully transferred the funds to the contract on tornado.ws a fraudulent site. Despite securely storing my private note, all my money was stolen. Just 5 minutes after transferring the money, the note was used, and the funds were passed through tornado again. I couldn't trace where the money went.

Check their telegram and get support or better suggestions. You won't get it here, since mixers are now banned in this forum. I can't risk my account getting banned by pointing you to their current active community communication channels, but if you dig a little, you will be able to access the communication channels.

[Bitcoadvice]

I successfully transferred the funds to the contract on tornado.ws a fraudulent site. Despite securely storing my private note, all my money was stolen. Just 5 minutes after transferring the money, the note was used, and the funds were passed through tornado again. I couldn't trace where the money went.

Check their telegram and get support or better suggestions. You won't get it here, since mixers are now banned in this forum. I can't risk my account getting banned by pointing you to their current active community communication channels, but if you dig a little, you will be able to access the communication channels.

I would be cautious with "JackETH" replies as it appears that this person is alleged to be a multi-account named "icryptofbi" on BitcoinTalk. The individual in question is known as "icryptofbi" on BitcoinTalk or "cryptofbi007" on the web.

There is a high possibility that there are malicious intentions behind their replies, such as attempting to socially engineer people into thinking certain things. I have found possible connections and similarities to this case, which indicate a high likelihood of bad intentions behind his activities.

I have provided detailed information about these allegations in my post, which also mentions the "JackETH" BitcoinTalk user.
You can find the post here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5475430.msg63411893#msg63411893

[Maus0728]

This is just going to be difficult for everyone now, with no base for which mixer you can trust to use, it's going to be a difficult and hard time for a lot of us to use mixers anymore, I feel bad about this kind of stuff but this has to happen or this forum will be infested by narcs trying to catch a case.

There is a high possibility that there are malicious intentions behind their replies, such as attempting to socially engineer people into thinking certain things. I have found possible connections and similarities to this case, which indicate a high likelihood of bad intentions behind his activities.

That's a flimsy way to use social engineering, you don't use social engineering to make them think certain things, you use that to get something out of them, you know like asking a simple question of when's your day off or when's the busiest time of the day for your work. It's more of a inquiry rather than implanting them with thoughts maybe you're talking about psy ops or something like that, I might be wrong on that part though but hey I want to learn something everyday.