BitcoinVanityGen, Stole My Funds -1.27653443 BTC

[BitcoinVanityGenScam]

Hello guys I've used bitcoinvanitygen address and linked it to blockchain, I always thought it was legit as I forgot about those private they thing, i thought they were legit enough I made a wallet and used it on my main, I was receiving some small $50 -$230 bitcoins and got them cashed out no problem, until like 3 months came and I got 1.2 received on my wallet, an hour after a $200 payment was sent to me I saw a unauthorized transaction with 1.2 bitcoin sent to a completely new address, I was feeling shit and dismayed as the money on my wallet is really needed in real life, now I'm broke here is the blockchain link " https://blockchain.info/tx/b3a5ab397824c88950abbc9776c2ff9adc562339bc4ce8e070ab05ea5cd642d5 " I've asked them and beg to them on email and all they said was this " Thank you for contact. After your message our security team checked every possible way of intrusion. We didn't found any breach in our systems. Please check again everything on your side including antivirus scan. Please contact us if you found anything.
Regards,
bitcoinvanitygen.com " this is not the only reports about them I saw this aswell "https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=795023.0 "

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[subzero22]

Hello i believe bitcoinvanitygen.com stole my funds too. As i. Used their service to generate the following 1ACiD2jDZkZzeuEHA5yKuY3RKbobRVzLQG I had BTC4.17 BTC when i noticed the following unauthorized transaction to a completely new address followed by a small transaction to empty my 1Acid account to new different address please investigate this as when i emailed bitcoinvanitygen.Com i got the exact same email that you got there is no possible way that mycelium wallet protected with a pin code send transactions by itself. I F$###NG begged them i got the same email you got.


Unauthorized https://blockchain.info/tx/fd253e281dd4ad3952cdb2b717dae41ee3d2f6140842e031cbd1d20978cef32c
 

Unauthorized https://blockchain.info/tx/8762719341ed330edf80e2694e77c0b9f30a1799ae2f4f6a8c22311ba7372bbf

Address generated from bitcoinvanitygen.com 1ACiD2jDZkZzeuEHA5yKuY3RKbobRVzLQG I had other addresses on mycelium wallet and they contained some mbtc which i did not lose only with bitcoinvanitygen.com


 
Please advise

[GIANNAT]

Tip: never generate private keys online

[MrBig]

They probably stole your coins themselves. Anybody using a service like that is likely to lose any btc they deposit into the generated vanity address. Only thing you can do is be more careful next time.

[bitboy11]

That sucks big time...
I never liked vanity addresses anyway.

[OgNasty]

I never liked vanity addresses anyway.

Vanity addresses are awesome.  They have only 1 catch.  You can't give anyone else your private key...  Using these websites instead of your own GPU is begging to have your funds stolen.

[Kozan]

I am very happy i have read this post today, i have moved all my fundas to a new wallet they will not catch me and stole my funds!

I did no know that this is a high risk in the first palse if i would i would never have done it before, I am sorry for your lost OP but as well thanks so much for this warning and let us all know about this scammers.

Other people will hopefully ready this and not doing the same errors as you did !

[digicoinuser]

I never liked vanity addresses anyway.

Vanity addresses are awesome.  They have only 1 catch.  You can't give anyone else your private key...  Using these websites instead of your own GPU is begging to have your funds stolen.

With time and patience you can easily generate vanity addresses on a CPU instead of a GPU. 

I have been running a low wattage high output CPU at 1.2MH/s for nearly 6 months and have generated most of the addresses I wanted.  Obviously a GPU would be required for complex case sensitive addresses but my mini-itx does just fine for my needs.

Looking forward to when the remaining addresses for the October 2015 pre-order are generated.   

[Quickseller]

It is possible to use an untrusted third party to generate a vanity address for you using the following method:

Just follow the steps below:

Step 1: Goto https://www.bitaddress.org/ move your mouse/type in the field until it shows 100% and wait a second.
Step 1.5: Optional but highly recommended. Download the page, verify the download and run it locally.
Step 2: Click Vanity Wallet click the generate buttion next to “Generate your "Step1 Key Pair"
Step 3: Reply to this thread with your public key and the prefix for your address. Save the private key somewhere safe. You will need it later when I generated your partial private key.
Step 4: Either pay me directly or the escrow.
Step 4.5: Optional provide me your PGP pub key for encryption.
Step 5: Once you received your partial private key - this can take several days depending on the difficulty - go back to bitaddress.org and click on Vanity Wallet.
Step 6: Go to step 2 Calculate your vanity wallet. In the first field put the private key you saved and in the second field put the partial private key I gave you. Click Add and Calculate Vanity Wallet
Step 7: Copy the Vanity Private Key (WIF) and import it into your preferred wallet.
Step 8: Enjoy.

Basically you will give the untrusted third party a public key and the third party will use that public key along with private keys they generate to try to generate a vanity address. This will result in the third party only knowing 1/2 of your private key, however with current technology and the (extremely) large number of potential private keys, as of now this is generally secure (this might change once advances in QC technology are made).

[Fortify]

It is possible to use an untrusted third party to generate a vanity address for you using the following method:

Just follow the steps below:

Step 1: Goto https://www.bitaddress.org/ move your mouse/type in the field until it shows 100% and wait a second.
Step 1.5: Optional but highly recommended. Download the page, verify the download and run it locally.
Step 2: Click Vanity Wallet click the generate buttion next to “Generate your "Step1 Key Pair"
Step 3: Reply to this thread with your public key and the prefix for your address. Save the private key somewhere safe. You will need it later when I generated your partial private key.
Step 4: Either pay me directly or the escrow.
Step 4.5: Optional provide me your PGP pub key for encryption.
Step 5: Once you received your partial private key - this can take several days depending on the difficulty - go back to bitaddress.org and click on Vanity Wallet.
Step 6: Go to step 2 Calculate your vanity wallet. In the first field put the private key you saved and in the second field put the partial private key I gave you. Click Add and Calculate Vanity Wallet
Step 7: Copy the Vanity Private Key (WIF) and import it into your preferred wallet.
Step 8: Enjoy.

Basically you will give the untrusted third party a public key and the third party will use that public key along with private keys they generate to try to generate a vanity address. This will result in the third party only knowing 1/2 of your private key, however with current technology and the (extremely) large number of potential private keys, as of now this is generally secure (this might change once advances in QC technology are made).

It looks like you have to pay for this service? Of course vanity addresses take some processing power to achieve so people are unlikely to do it for free. BitcoinVanityGen seem to have the perfect scam set up, they give away free vanity addresses but still have copies of the private keys. It was inevitable that somebody would take advantage of this because a site like that has few other options when it comes to earning revenue, although adverts would make them a bit.

It's nice to have a quirky address, but by being so shallow you gave up your security. Being vain was never a good trait..

[defcon23]

well knowed story ....  nothing new here....     anyway sorry for your lost , but it was already discuss, unfortunaly : NEVER USE THIS KIND OF ONLINE SERVICES !!!   vanitygen works like a charm, and it's pretty a robust piece of software..., but , you have to build it from the source , and run it by yourself.. : in this way , no chances to  anyone  getting a collision with your own freshly generated vanity-adress..

i hope this finaly gona help someone .. i 'm sad to see another people using these kind of online scam websites...   sorry man... 

[nickles987]

Hello i believe bitcoinvanitygen.com stole my funds too. As i. Used their service to generate the following 1ACiD2jDZkZzeuEHA5yKuY3RKbobRVzLQG I had BTC4.17 BTC when i noticed the following unauthorized transaction to a completely new address followed by a small transaction to empty my 1Acid account to new different address please investigate this as when i emailed bitcoinvanitygen.Com i got the exact same email that you got there is no possible way that mycelium wallet protected with a pin code send transactions by itself. I F$###NG begged them i got the same email you got.


Unauthorized https://blockchain.info/tx/fd253e281dd4ad3952cdb2b717dae41ee3d2f6140842e031cbd1d20978cef32c
 

Unauthorized https://blockchain.info/tx/8762719341ed330edf80e2694e77c0b9f30a1799ae2f4f6a8c22311ba7372bbf

Address generated from bitcoinvanitygen.com 1ACiD2jDZkZzeuEHA5yKuY3RKbobRVzLQG I had other addresses on mycelium wallet and they contained some mbtc which i did not lose only with bitcoinvanitygen.com


 
Please advise

Hello guys I've used bitcoinvanitygen address and linked it to blockchain, I always thought it was legit as I forgot about those private they thing, i thought they were legit enough I made a wallet and used it on my main, I was receiving some small $50 -$230 bitcoins and got them cashed out no problem, until like 3 months came and I got 1.2 received on my wallet, an hour after a $200 payment was sent to me I saw a unauthorized transaction with 1.2 bitcoin sent to a completely new address, I was feeling shit and dismayed as the money on my wallet is really needed in real life, now I'm broke here is the blockchain link " https://blockchain.info/tx/b3a5ab397824c88950abbc9776c2ff9adc562339bc4ce8e070ab05ea5cd642d5 " I've asked them and beg to them on email and all they said was this " Thank you for contact. After your message our security team checked every possible way of intrusion. We didn't found any breach in our systems. Please check again everything on your side including antivirus scan. Please contact us if you found anything.
Regards,
bitcoinvanitygen.com " this is not the only reports about them I saw this aswell "https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=795023.0 "

These two posters seem like the same person.

[fqsbits]

I also had my funds stolen from them.
This website is a total scam with several people reporting them.
Report the website to Google and everywhere possible, so at least
we stop more people to lose their money.

[CounterStrike]

Yep its a confirmed scam by now.

[saferbitcoin]

This video explains the scam:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjGx4JCKcy0

[cdtc]

This is really old site, i bet a lot of people used it at some point, they collected a lot i bet.