Can you add something to this? help us out please.
FACTS KNOWN TO DATE:
a) Many complaints about them on boards, everything from money going missing to failing to respond to support.
b) They have no direct bank account, but are using payment services like OKPAY and Mayzus
c) They operate on the following forums (
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=433283.0 and Russian
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=29698.0 ), but tend to delete posts/complaints they don't like.
d) They hide their servers behind CloudFlare, but they have been ping triangulated to be in Europe, probably London.
e) Their SSL security certificate is fraudulent.
f) Their DNS Registration entries are false.
g) Their website offers no API for bitcoin withdrawal, a service that every other exchange provides! Huge red flag!
h) Their website has "Copyright © 2011-2014 BTC-e.com." but since there are no company registration details, this is legally invalid.
i) They are using the following Mazzars Financial services bank account:
Beneficiary: Mayzus Financial Services Limited, organizacni slozka
Beneficiary Address: U Vystaviste 287/17,170 00 Praha 7, Czech Republic
Beneficiary Account: 107-7747130227
Beneficiary Czech Bank Code: 0100
Beneficiary IBAN: CZ58 0100 0001 0777 4713 0227
Beneficiary Bank: Komercni banka
Beneficiary Bank Address: Na Prikope 33, 114 07 Praha 1, Czech Republic
Beneficiary Bank SWIFT: KOMBCZPPXXX
Correspondent bank: SOCIETE GENERALE
City: New York
Country: USA
Correspondent bank SWIFT: SOGEUS33XXX
Correspondent Account: 188190
j) They only tell you about their 0.2% trading fee when you join, but their withdrawl fee's can be up to 10%!!
k) The following bitcointalk users claim to have lost (missing transfers) or had stolen (unauthorised transfers) money at BTC-e.com:
legster $1000.
EvilLizardApparel 8565 LTC
bradmurmz
BTC200
libertysilver
BTC4.77 + 526 PPC + 306 LTC
pindis 19 LTC
flagstaff_miner
BTC43.75
z12
BTC30.48
ub3rCoin $10,000
OversightNL
BTC4.8
Unclegogi 100 TRC
Shiba
BTC7.9
ychunlau
BTC4
redmist 108.5335 LTC
l) None of the 'terms and conditions' you agree to when you join are binding either way, because they do not name the legal party!.
m) They trade on their own site, this gives their own arbitrage bots an unfair advantage over over public, as trading without fee's at faster access
effectively corners the market.
n) In february the website released a statement, which amongst other claims said:
"The company plans to soon begin to publish publicly available statements certified by external auditors. " This has of course turned out to be a lie.
RUMOURS TO DATE:
a) They are owned and run by Russians.
b) The company is Bulgarian
c) Servers probably in London
d) Probably where most stolen bitcoin are traded due to absense of Know Your Customer (KYC) regulations.
e) Used by some parties for bitcoin price manipulation.
What you can do:
a ) Is there a UK resident out there that has paid money into BTC-e.com via Mayzus Financial Services Ltd?? If so, could you consider sending a standard Data Protection "Subject Access Request" to Mayzus for yourself. This should reveal details of BTC-e that so many people are searching for. And if it doesn't, then Mayzus are breaching UK anti money laundering laws.
b) Anything else you know? publish it here.
c)
If you have money or crypto stock with them, protect yourself and get it out now. There has to be a reasonable chance that they are fraudulent and
just the process of unmasking them may cause them to run with your money.
So you have been warned!
