Moolah Scam on Mintpal - Reporting Missing Coins

[MetaMorphius]

If it did they should be finding their way to jail. 

[1715004345]

1715004345

[Kentastic]

Round 1 pie 1.3BTC

[1echo]

we got goxxed by mooxed

[sex1234]

I have been pending in mintpal btc 126.9963btc.
I had a request for support from October 9. But it did not resolve.
I did not receive the pending btc.
Let the class action.

[ruletheworld]

Pending: 0.34 BTC, 115,000 MYR
Received: 1,500,000 MINT, 4,720,000 NOBL

[ShillAccount]

Duh.  Seriously.  Duh.

[awais3344_1]

you just got Moolah'd. jk I feel sorry for y'all, I had losses with coinex before. But somehow I could withdraw doges, so I bought doges and withdrew them asap.

[Olimpiata]

Pending: 0.34 BTC, 115,000 MYR
Received: 1,500,000 MINT, 4,720,000 NOBL

How can you see which balances are pending? All I have when I login is an extremely basic layout with a text box (and a few btc missing..)

[ShillAccount]

(and a few btc missing..)

It's called interest for holding your coins, duh.  Gotta pay the bills somehow.

[BlockaFett]

info

would you be willing to write an article on your investigation that we will publish?

It's not really an investigation, if you start at the original address and just follow the transactions out that are over 100btc, always following the largest amount you pretty soon end up at those addresses, the unconfirmed one has already moved on another few times and is now sitting here
https://blockchain.info/address/12jgEDUGSVPtug1oJirztibPhxavt9CWcw 217btc

A username "Caffeine Drive" mining with Eligius has his mining address filter through to an address that just received 1.4btc of the stolen coins
https://blockchain.info/address/19H6HWGiERgpV8rWQWc8FtjpFv3dLU5FEr

what you have done is admirable and should be shared with more than those who happen to read your post in this thread in this section of this site.  I think others would be made aware of the various ways to get accountability.

Everyone is crazy about 'dark-this' and 'dark-that' until it's their money that is "mixed-up" in all of the 'darkness', then they want a money trail, evidence, and intervention.

Anyway, please contact me if you decide to do a 200 - 1000 word article on how you investigated the Mintpal/Moolah scandal.

Totally agree- I've done my best to alert Bitstamp in the most immediate way possible. If this info we're lookin at is incorrect the worst thing that happens is the wrong account is frozen for a few hours. Best thing that happens is we catch a theif.

Please RT this - https://twitter.com/AltCoinInvestor/status/523889570296135680 or tweet to @Bitstamp (or email) them yourself. If anyone knows of a direct operator over there we can reach out to, lets do that ASAP.

great work

so what is the wallet address that sent to bitstamp, do we need to be more specific?

EDIT: what I mean is like is there a link to the actual transaction going into Bitstamp on blockhain.info or something

The vital address here is https://blockchain.info/address/14S6kiHzVNcSCA9TCiPaEGJfSiP1HHokEd which has:
Total Received   255,069.02367412 BTC   
Final Balance   33,744.14068149 BTC

So it currently has 33k btc in it. The original 148 btc withdrawal from the 3,700 btc was gradually filtered away until the biggest chunk 58.7821574 BTC
was sent to that address. That address has recently sent funds to, what i believe to be, Bitstamps wallet. The thing is, most of the coins being filtered down lead to a simple path, they are all sitting in addresses, but this one ends up in a gigantic wallet. That wallet basically only sends to the 180k Bitstamp wallet and to new clean wallets, like it's Bitstamp moving a chunk of coins to cold storage every so often and the rest is like a new change address or hot wallet. If that 33k wallet was found to be owned by Bitstamp (i'm guessing their hot wallet) then it would be a direct link to Ryan cashing out stolen funds via Bitstamp on 1st September. I'm guessing he used those funds to buy his plane tickets and pay for the hotel etc, but definitely Bitstamp would have to have some kind of paperwork/evidence on file.

https://blockchain.info/tx/9c0824176a642f4e4542cd6438ae689f6d9d843532ee8c3aba3f4d105bcf3b86
is the exact id, stolen funds sent to the 33k address 2014-09-01 17:00:47 if anyone needs it to report it to Bitstamp

Thanks for the info, so we know at least that some of the 3,700 BTC the employees said the CEO took ended up on Bitstamp now...

[larraboj]

Any news on where the fat fuck is hiding?

[neutralitymentality]

info

would you be willing to write an article on your investigation that we will publish?

It's not really an investigation, if you start at the original address and just follow the transactions out that are over 100btc, always following the largest amount you pretty soon end up at those addresses, the unconfirmed one has already moved on another few times and is now sitting here
https://blockchain.info/address/12jgEDUGSVPtug1oJirztibPhxavt9CWcw 217btc

A username "Caffeine Drive" mining with Eligius has his mining address filter through to an address that just received 1.4btc of the stolen coins
https://blockchain.info/address/19H6HWGiERgpV8rWQWc8FtjpFv3dLU5FEr

what you have done is admirable and should be shared with more than those who happen to read your post in this thread in this section of this site.  I think others would be made aware of the various ways to get accountability.

Everyone is crazy about 'dark-this' and 'dark-that' until it's their money that is "mixed-up" in all of the 'darkness', then they want a money trail, evidence, and intervention.

Anyway, please contact me if you decide to do a 200 - 1000 word article on how you investigated the Mintpal/Moolah scandal.

Totally agree- I've done my best to alert Bitstamp in the most immediate way possible. If this info we're lookin at is incorrect the worst thing that happens is the wrong account is frozen for a few hours. Best thing that happens is we catch a theif.

Please RT this - https://twitter.com/AltCoinInvestor/status/523889570296135680 or tweet to @Bitstamp (or email) them yourself. If anyone knows of a direct operator over there we can reach out to, lets do that ASAP.

great work

so what is the wallet address that sent to bitstamp, do we need to be more specific?

EDIT: what I mean is like is there a link to the actual transaction going into Bitstamp on blockhain.info or something

The vital address here is https://blockchain.info/address/14S6kiHzVNcSCA9TCiPaEGJfSiP1HHokEd which has:
Total Received   255,069.02367412 BTC   
Final Balance   33,744.14068149 BTC

So it currently has 33k btc in it. The original 148 btc withdrawal from the 3,700 btc was gradually filtered away until the biggest chunk 58.7821574 BTC
was sent to that address. That address has recently sent funds to, what i believe to be, Bitstamps wallet. The thing is, most of the coins being filtered down lead to a simple path, they are all sitting in addresses, but this one ends up in a gigantic wallet. That wallet basically only sends to the 180k Bitstamp wallet and to new clean wallets, like it's Bitstamp moving a chunk of coins to cold storage every so often and the rest is like a new change address or hot wallet. If that 33k wallet was found to be owned by Bitstamp (i'm guessing their hot wallet) then it would be a direct link to Ryan cashing out stolen funds via Bitstamp on 1st September. I'm guessing he used those funds to buy his plane tickets and pay for the hotel etc, but definitely Bitstamp would have to have some kind of paperwork/evidence on file.

https://blockchain.info/tx/9c0824176a642f4e4542cd6438ae689f6d9d843532ee8c3aba3f4d105bcf3b86
is the exact id, stolen funds sent to the 33k address 2014-09-01 17:00:47 if anyone needs it to report it to Bitstamp

Thanks for the info, so we know at least that some of the 3,700 BTC the employees said the CEO took ended up on Bitstamp now...

I passed on information about these addresses to the relevant team at Bitstamp through an intermediary yesterday, I don't expect them to comment publicly but hopefully he cashed out through a bank account using his real name which would be a smoking gun.

[vytasz7]

10 million mint coins stuck on mintpal

[Werg]

Balance
1.92919485 BTC

Withdrawal Status
Requested

[depboy]

Fuck, fuck, fuck, fuckety fuck.

New twist to this for me personally.  I put in a mintpal withdrawal request for my BTC balance on Friday.  The address that I requested the withdrawal to was my blockchain.info wallet.  Yesterday, someone kindly emptied my blockchain wallet for me.  Looks like they sent the funds to 13jxBSEBCTNq45ATDxHdTMNdM2dVNH9bmq.

So now instead of being down by the 0.15 btc that I had on Mintpal, I'm also down an extra 0.13 btc by way of theft from my supposedly encrypted blockchain.info wallet.

[naplam]

It seems that he is the only one with access to the funds - I think this was a little bit different on mtgox.

He will need a good lawyer - UK is quite serious regarding internet crime from what I have read so far.

I can hardly understand how stupid this guy is - he is known, his scamming past is known, it is known that he is the only one having access to the funds. What does he expect, that he can run away with around 2kk$?

And he's on probation too, apparently!! got a slap on the wrist for harassment a year ago.

[BlockaFett]

Notice of suspicion of handling of stolen funds defrauded from Mintpal Ltd customers by Bitstamp Ltd, Company No. 08157033, 5 New Street Square, London, EC4A 3TW, United Kingdom

To the Bitstamp Ltd Directors:

On Oct. 29th, former MooPay Ltd employee Eoghan Hayes came forward and reported that they are 'attempting to follow the trail of a 3700BTC transaction from MintPal, which is now accused of being lodged into a personal account of Ryan Kennedy', Mintpal Ltd (09009856) being the crypto-exchange that recently had operations taken over by MooPay Ltd (08920347) and with ownership of both companies by Torihiki Ltd (09143500), all 3 companies being registered in the UK.

More background on the incident can be found here: https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/mintpals-3700-stolen-bitcoin-likely-in-hands-of-alleged-scammer-alex-green/ and in the first post of this thread here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=824211.0 and Eoghan Hayes's full account of the incident here: http://pastebin.com/VYpQ5CWA

The funds in question were lodged to the Bitcoin wallet: 17ztgkcaZbs4VFrAswMQGvnNDEtn47rsmu which according to the MooPay Ltd employees is under the complete control of the CEO, one Alex Green aka Ryan Kennedy, and some of which have been tracked as entering your exchange through the Bitcoin transaction: 9c0824176a642f4e4542cd6438ae689f6d9d843532ee8c3aba3f4d105bcf3b86

Consequently I believe that it is likely that you may be dealing in funds stolen from Mintpal customers and you are advised to:

1) Freeze said funds and take account of all activity and transactions occurring with these funds pending potential future investigation by the UK financial authorities and legal action by Mintpal Ltd's customers

2) Identify and record safely any information you have that can be used to identify the Bitstamp user who is depositing the funds in question to your system including and not limited to their email address, login history, client IP addresses, full name, address and bank account details also pending an inquiry by the relevant authorities.

3) Any other actions that are required under English law to help identify and prevent potential financial crimes that may be happening in this case when notified of the potential of such

Please find this as notice of the evidence from people within the company (MooPay Ltd) themselves that these funds may have been stolen and be the property of the company's customers and it is your responsibility to act on this information accordingly to prevent further fraud from occurring (if it is found later that this is the case) and to safeguard the information as to the identity of the user in question and the accounting information as to what happened to these funds pending legal action to reclaim them.

I have also emailed the above for your convenience and provided you with my contact details in addition if you require further information.

Kind Regards

BlockaFett (BitcoinTalk.org User)

[BlockaFett]

RT: https://twitter.com/BlockaFett/status/524144766880317440

Actually I just got a reply from yesterday's email I sent to Bitstamp, maybe not retweet as I think they are on the case and if so not fair to pester them.  If they don't take action it's on their backs later anyway if in fact it's found that these are stolen funds from Mintpal and they've been notified.

[insanid]

I was able to get out 11,541.25054019 GRS from Mintpal by requesting a withdraw through the MintPal Standalone Withdrawal Tool; however, my request to withdraw 0.02062944 BTC has the status of requested, and my BTC has not been returned yet. I know it's not a lot, but regardless, it's important to return all funds to their customers.

[ninjaskip]

It seems that he is the only one with access to the funds - I think this was a little bit different on mtgox.

He will need a good lawyer - UK is quite serious regarding internet crime from what I have read so far.

I can hardly understand how stupid this guy is - he is known, his scamming past is known, it is known that he is the only one having access to the funds. What does he expect, that he can run away with around 2kk$?

And he's on probation too, apparently!! got a slap on the wrist for harassment a year ago.

My question is:

How come all this information about this cunt comes out after he fucked everyone up @Mintpal and not before.

How come such a low life gets to be in charge of one of the biggest exchanges in the world?