Not sure who will be the trolls in such a good topic but anyway.
Most of these exchanges are big and they have millions of clients. Obviously no one is perfect. When you have millions to deal, there will be always a percentage who will be mismanaged. I am not saying this will justify the victims but we can not ignore the fact too.

Personally I have very conservative impression for Changelly, ChangeNOW.
I am not much familiar with Cripto Intercambio, HTX, Quickex.io, Paytiz so there are no opinion about them from me.
Kraken, Kucoin, FixedFloat, Binance and some others never been created any negative image in my mind (until now).

List updated: adding one line

It's a good idea to compile all information about scams by exchanges in one place to better keep track of them. There are so many issues with these custodial services and most of them never get reported publicly because people are afraid that if they speak out it will diminish their chances of ever getting their money back. If you started going through the pages on the Scam Accusation board you would surely find more cases that fit the criteria you posted in the OP.

Just updated the list. First case of the year added:

Both Reference links are the same. The latest date on the link is 13 days before November 24, and it says the account has been Unfrozen. The links are messy and hard to read, but am I missing something here?

Adding old cases to the list:





The second list, “other ressources”, has also been updated and is now more readable.

You should consider converting this table into a website.

Then you could scale all of the cases of missing crypto deposits to users on social media such as X.

News websites could site your resource when the article is about an exchange.

And you would get a lot more visibility and reach that way.

Currently this list only includes scam accusations that have been make on bitcointalk, but we know that even more happen off-site.

You have no legal standing to require documents from other users if you yourself are not vetted by a government agency. (i.e. have licenses to take such data.)

There are some services, e.g. Pi Network that absolutely demand your documents to withdraw but as far as I know of, none of those are registered companies with a regulatory license.

Thank you for the suggestion!

Indeed, most of the cases on the current list are from Bitcointalk (and only a few from Reddit). I'm already trying to find other sources, but it's quite difficult to find credible cases with enough evidences on social networks when you're not very active on them yourself.

I've been planning for some time to publish a minimalist page that would mirror this list - and potentially propose some more information (it's only a matter of time, should be done within the current year). It would be great to get to the point where users could share their cases themselves directly on the website for review before publication, but that would require a certain amount of notoriety that I'm far from having now.


Indeed, an unregistered / unregulated entity has no legal ground to receive/store/process the legal documents of its users. We should even consider it dangerous to send one's legal documents to random people on the Internet, and all these unregistered API resellers who use KYC procedures as a pretext to confiscate (and often to keep) people's funds, are in reality probably no more than greedy private individuals behind their laptops (at least from a legal perspective. In reality we could easily suspect that they are often part of a well organized scheme..).

Also, this hurts the whole ecosystem by maintaining the myth that there are “clean” and “dirty” crypto, as well as hurting users' privacy and data security, and in most cases it's simply illegal. Unfortunately, it became a whole part of their business model.

What's more, it's often totally hypocritical. For example, Germany recently seized 47 exchanges for money laundering reasons, even though these exchanges were performing "AML checks" and imposing KYC on their users lol.


Motivation is not a problem
As long as I'm active here, I'll keep my threads up to date when necessary. And normally - unless there's a catastrophe - I plan to remain active here for a long time to come touching wood.

Once again Thank you for creating this thread @paid2

 
The thread i created has been updated. More evidence added.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5511957.new#new

Once again to all, I would strongly suggests to stay away from ChangeNow.io