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Cryptocurrency, Scam

No site can “magically” double up on the amount of bitcoins.

I saw this Google ad, BitcoinBanking, it offered a chance to wager bitcoins and gain interest on the loans. It even offered to double the amount of bitcoins I wagered. Sounded pretty good, looked through some reviews (guess they were fake).

What happened was that I already deposited the minimum amount of bitcoins required and gone through the whole signup process. But then they locked my account and kept demanding me to send even more bitcoins to in order access anywhere on their site or do anything at all.

What nonsense, these guys just gimped me for some BTC, a small amount but still, I feel kind of stupid.

I tried to speak with the BitcoinBanking support crew, but I only got nonsensical answers in return. People beware, just because there’s an ad on Google, doesn’t mean it comes from a legitimate company. Anyone can advertise on Google, even the scammers from BitcoinBanking!

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Cryptocurrency, Scam

BroCoin is a shitcoin and CryptoDAO has a monopoly of them.

For those of you out there who didn’t have a clue, there’s actually cryptocurrency called the BroCoin. It so happens that the exchange CryptoDAO happens to be the only exchange that lists it.

How did I come into possession of awesome BroCoins? Well, I participated in their crowd sale event!

Shortly after I realized that the coins were completely useless and I wanted to get rid of them. So, I sold my BroCoins on the website and decided to withdraw some sweet bitcoins into my account.

I submitted a withdrawal request on CryptoDAO, and waited for a confirmation. Over a day passed and CryptoDAO cancelled my request for some reason and sent the BTC back to the wallet on their exchange site.

Okay, I waited a little bit longer, sold some more awesome BroCoins, and decided to withdraw everything in one day. All of the transactions were showing as complete on CryptoDAO’s sleek page. But here’s the issue, out of the three withdrawal requests that I have submitted, ONLY funds from the third one have been delivered to my wallet, while the others have been completely lost.

I double checked everything to make sure that there weren’t any issues on my end, and there weren’t. I have been trying to contact CryptoDAO’s support team for over a week now and have not gotten any response, my conclusion is that CryptoDAO is just a piece of hot, steamy garbage.

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Cryptocurrency, Horror Story

My butterfingers deposited the money to the wrong wallet on LocalBitcoins.

I played around on Betcoin for a while and accumulated some Bitcoins that I decided to withdraw into my wallet on LocalBitcoins. I don’t know why, but I always use LocalBitcoins to store my stuff for some reason. So I transfered the 0.2 btc, but I accidentally chose BitcoinCash instead of Bitcoin.

Who would have thought having very similar names and logo design would not lead to mass confusing. (Sarcasm.)

I was hoping that LocalBitcoins would help me resolve my issue because I have been a loyal client for a few years now. I contacted their customer support to ask if it was possible for me get my Bitcoins back. They told me a bunch of stuff about some private keys, and that they won’t be able to reverse the transaction and get my BitcoinCash back if they don’t have these private keys.

It’s kinda weird how they don’t have private keys for wallets THEY own on THEIR website. I mean if they don’t have their private keys, who has it?

Ultimately, it’s my fault for not being careful enough, nevertheless I am still pissed that 0.2 worth of Bitcoins simply went for a walk out of my wallet.

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Cryptocurrency, Horror Story

pool.bitcoin.com is like Comcast. Pay them or they will throttle you.

I wanted to use pool.bitcoin.com for a little while now, and I finally set out to do it. I purchased a small cloud mining package from them, however the network speed was extremely slow. I wanted it to be faster, and, that’s when they revealed their true business model. I contacted their support service and they told me that I needed to pay more bitcoins to boost the speed. Okay, I kind of didn’t want to but it was already part of my bundle, and, they offered me a “discount” for a better package and more speed, so I sent them some more btc in the end.

Speeds went up for about a week, after which they dropped down drastically, again and have stayed low ever since.

I also recently noticed that all of their cloud mining contracts were pretty much conveniently sold out except for their most expensive plan.

Well… not that surprising since Bitcoin.com is owned by Roger Ver, a convicted felon and former politician.

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Cryptocurrency, Scam

Still waiting on my shipment from BitcoinWare

I really wanted to get into mining because I thought that it would provide me with an easy passive income. I jumped onto the BitcoinWare website and decided to purchase some miners, they were pretty expensive too. Let me tell you, I spend over six thousand dollars on both of them, in Dash. After sending BitcoinWare the funds I got a notification from them letting me know that my stuff would be shipped out in two weeks. Great, I waited the fifteen days, still didn’t get any of my stuff.

So, I contacted their customer support via email and asked them where the hell my miners were.

They promptly assured me that my shipment has left their facility and will be delivered shortly, and, that they apologize for the delay. Cool, nice guys. I kept on waiting, days gone by, and finally a week passed, at which point I had gotten super pissed. I keep emailing them but they aren’t responding to the email I used to file the order. When I use a different email to ask them questions about their orders, they reply with the same automated message stating that shipments are delivered within two weeks or something. BitcoinWare is pretty much full of shit and I urge everyone to be careful and don’t buy anything from them!

 

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Cryptocurrency, Horror Story

The crap site BTCGaw.com is trying to silence me

Here I was browsing BTCGaw when I realized that it’s a con. I was checking out their services and realized that they oddly use the same btc address to fulfill all of their orders over and over again. I also noticed that the coins remain untouched at this address. And for whatever reason, I almost ignored it and went on with a trade, but then I chose not to do anything. A few days later I get one of those abandon cart type messages from one of their support guys.

I responded and laid it on the support guy, calling him out that they deceitfully use one address for all deposits and that their website is a con.

The support guy invited me to join him on a friendly live chat service just to track my IP Address. After that the guy DDoSed my internet connection, and, threatened me with releasing filed stolen credit cards and ordering kiddie porn under my name if I ever told anybody else about their little con.

But screw him, I’m doing it anyway and I have records of interactions just in case he does stupidly follow through!

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Cryptocurrency, Scam

I stupidly followed SafeTrader.io’s guide to scam myself…

I have been using bitcoins for a little bit more than six months now. I found this cool website online that seemed to be apart of LocalBitcoins. It looked pretty authentic with reviews, so I blindly followed the instructions.

The site requires me to create a bookmark (it was some JavaScript) and then open it when I’m on the LocalBitcoins website. I mindlessly did all of that and when I clicked on the bookmark.

The JavaScript code asked me to authorize myself via LocalBitcoins. (I shouldn’t have done that.) Apparently, it was a cross-site scripting attack and now I’m sitting here with nothing on my LocalBitcoins’ account except the stupid bookmark that stole everything.

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Cryptocurrency, Horror Story

TradeSatoshi is only useful for trading Bitcoin-Bro pairs, barely…

I have been using the same crypto exchanger for a while now, TradeSatoshi. I know the platform looks like crap and not really professional or legit. I didn’t care, it was the only exchanger online that was using ‘Bro’ for trading bitcoins. So, about a week ago, the exchange had some maintenance on their wallet, they paused all withdrawals and deposits.

Later the platform releases a twitter post to let users know that the maintenance is done and deposits, withdrawals, and wallets were live.

People were still complaining though because they were sending Bro to them, but the deposits weren’t being registered by the exchange. I thought, eh, screw this exchange and started selling my Bro off (made a little bit of BTC). Pull it out, got a confirmation mail for the withdrawal and confirmed everything. Now just waiting for my money (it’s been a little over a week), while people are still complaining that they aren’t seeing any activity registering on their accounts…

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