Topic: 0.33 BTC Locked in Muhus Wallet or Has Been Hacked. (Read 636 times)

Agreed. Do note that I made the post on April 18th and AgoraDesk has announced their decision of closing the service on May 7th, so at the time that intention wasn't knew and the service was running as usual.

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[1]https://agoradesk.com/blog/announcements/winding-down

Unfortunately, since it's a custodial service and your friend doesn't possess any keys, only the exchange can give your friend his coins back. I don't think it will do it, though.

AgoreDesk is closing down soon and should no longer be recommended to people. It's one of the latest victims in the global fight against privacy-enhancing services. You can't open new accounts any longer and you won't be able to post new trades either. The website shuts down in November.

I know all that and we looking for a solution to move those coins from that shit wallet and since there is no way again then we have to let it go. Personally I use Electrum for bitcoin and I don't like to use another Wallet except Electrum. I thank you all for your contributions. And this should be a lesson to many people that don't keep large amount of coins in exchanges or custodial wallet but keep it in a self custodial wallet.

It's 100% scam exchange, there is no chance of funds being recovered. Check out these sites too, I think it's duplicates:

There are 2 possibilities: The application was listed on Playstore in the past, but has been taken down; Users can install any apps outside Playstore if they allow "install unknown apps" in settings.

Electrum is a recommended BTC wallet, but i would not call any wallet 'the best BTC wallet', there are many recommended BTC wallet's and the user will simply choose which of them satisfies their needs. Take note that Electrum is an online wallet and isn't even recommended to store ~ 0.3 BTC that the op's friend lost, except it is run in an airgapped device that would never be connected to the internet.

Maybe it's because from first replies I was trying to help you? If you back, I asked you here.

I am trying to help, so I tell you that there is no Google Play app, and if there is a wallet app, it may be a different from what was mentioned because many comments on Reddit indicate that the service is a scam from the beginning.

I wish it was a different wallet and he didn't really lose 0.33 BTC

Perhaps you misunderstood my comment - What I said is that, based on recent feedback from a review platform[1] - it seems that the modus operandi[1] of the company to entail investors was to spread a message of "Send us 0.004 BTC (to X address) and we'll credit you with 0.33 BTC on our service/website".

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[1]https://www.reviews.io/company-reviews/store/muhus-com?filters%5Brating%5D%5B0%5D=1

We have passed this stage of the discussion, please if you don't understand can you go back and read the Op and other comments so that you will have a good background of the thread. If the app was not in Google Play Store then how would he downloaded it and send Bitcoins to it? He has been using the wallet to make transfers and the issue happened suddenly and recently. As of November last year, he told me that he had bitcoin of $3+k and he had sold $1k, and as of that time I wanted to buy some from him but there was no funds with me because he wanted to sell about $1+k worth of bitcoin. When something pains me and see this kind of comment, it pains me the more.

RickDeckard that has been following up this thread making a comment as if he is just coming to the thread, I told you clearly that my friends 0.33 bitcoin is stucked and you are saying 0.004 BTC. Well according to a saying "if what happened is not related to them, they can say all sorts of things". It is only the bearer knows how it pains. I think I came here for solution if possible and I am satisfied with the answers previously given. But I will still open the thread.

Because there isn't one. Probably what happened is that his friend was sent a url that took him to a lookalike of Google Play, where the compromised application could be downloaded from.
The latter. He probably invested most of the corresponding funds that represented 0.33 BTC and was then asked to invest even more in order to retrieve it (which would be impossible since he didn't had any amount of bitcoin to begin with). Like many have said before, a common tactic used by scammers with unaware clients of what they are actually doing. The (fake) positive reviews in some webites[1] - also promoted by the scammers - didn't help as new users to this world wouldn't probably be aware that promotion scams within review websites are also rampant.

Also, according to the only real reviews of the service - the ones that are 1 star[2] - it looks like 0.33 BTC was a common tactic used by Muhus so that people would deposit 0.004 BTC (at current rate it represents ~ $256 USD) and then they would be "rewarded" with 0.33 BTC. It takes one second to smell that something is fishy, but most people are unaware and just want to have bitcoin. Hopefully Agbe's friend only lost 0.004 BTC but I fear that many more have lost more than that.

I highly recommend that everyone reports this service to prevent more damage to current and future users. According to WHOIS[3] data, here is some basic contact information:


This would take only the domain down but it is better than nothing. The address that is being used (Iceland, Kalkofnsvegur 2) is usually used by cheap hosting providers, so I guess there is nothing much that can be done on that regard.

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[1]https://www.reviews.io/company-reviews/store/muhus-com
[2]https://www.reviews.io/company-reviews/store/muhus-com?filters%5Brating%5D%5B0%5D=1
[3]https://www.whois.com/whois/muhus.com

you mentioned that it is a Google Play app but I did not find any mention they have an app on the Google Play and did not find any active app.
Did he really lose 0.33 BTC or did he think he earned it and the site asked him to deposit to withdraw it?

I think your friend didn't have 0.33 BTC, it's just some numbers entered on the website. After he staked some amount of Bitcoin on the fake exchange, the figure was put up to trick him into sending more Bitcoin.

Although, I'm against the action of the Nigerian govt for blacklisting exchanges urls, but it did work in his favour. If not for this, I'm sure your friend wouldn't have contacted you about the Bitcoin on the fake app and would have blindly release his funds to those scammers. This is just say that not every actions are sometimes bad, this one worked for him. Also, It's good knowing you recommended a good wallet for him.

Maybe the OP's friend wouldn't connect to this forum. Because if he is on a forum or connected, then he must know which wallet is best for Bitcoin. But I think he lost his Bitcoin due to his lack of knowledge. That's why I often try to make the employee have a strong privacy stance first and emphasize on it like when OP's friend used MUHUS instead of the right wallet, i.e., an Electrum Wallet/Hardware Wallet because of his ignorance. Currently, the best wallet to store Bitcoin is Electrum. But he lost his BTC by choosing a worn wallet in the process. 
 
So your point is correct that people dig asset's by their mistakes and later will see Bitcion as scammed that Bitcoin is scammed, but due to his lack of knowledge he has stored his BTC in the wrong place. Therefore, every person should consider it properly before entering the crypto industry so as not to fall prey to scammers later.

A well known scam scheme is to convince gullible "investors" to transfer amounts of $200-$250 for trading. This seems to be a well working limit that a lot of people are willing to risk for a "profitable" investment. Then this multiplies by fake trading to (sometimes absurdly) larger "profit". To be clear, it's faked profit. The scammers either persuade the now increasingly more greedy "investors" to fund more money for even more (fake) "profit", this cycle can repeat, or prepare the cash-out exit-scam.

If the "investor" wants to cash out, then the already described add-on scam starts to ask for more money in order to "facilitate" the cash-out process (e.g. paying trading taxes or other silly claims). This of course is only to squeeze any further amount of money from the victims. It seems to work surprisingly well, especially when the victims are blinded by greed for their "huge profit". The latter is of course all faked.

Don't be stupid and greedy. If it sounds too good to be true, it likely isn't any true. And as always: not your keys, not really your coins.

I would also explain your friend that, unlike the fake "Muhus Wallet", he can't buy bitcoin in Electrum as it only serves the purpose of storing his bitcoin. As far as exchanges go, a couple come to mind:

• Robosats[1]
• AgoraDesk[2]
• Peach Bitcoin[3]

You can guide him here[4] if he is not satisfied with the previous suggestions as well.

EDIT 16/05: As of May 7th, AgoraDesk will be taken offline on November 7th[5]

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[1]https://dex.robosats.com/
[2]https://agoradesk.com/
[3]https://peachbitcoin.com/
[4]https://kycnot.me/?t=exchange
[5]https://agoradesk.com/blog/announcements/winding-down

Yes the guy has not really gotten enough knowledge on wallet. He knew only all those old wallets, exchanges the popular exchange like Binance and few. So yesterday he came to my place and I told him all the contributions here and I also advised him to use Electrum wallet if in anytime he will be using bitcoin again and he agreed with me. He said he didn't know Electrum wallet before though he has heard the name but he has not used it to keep any coin. So he has no knowledge about it. And really this has reminded me on the popular phrase that, "ignorance is a disease".

Lack of knowledge and also storing BTC without being a member of a BTC forum, i.e. bitcointalk. It is very possible that OP's friend has never heard of Electrum or a hardware wallet, yet they have a lot of money in BTC.

I don't know if op's friend would still be interested in BTC after this, he is likely to call BTC a scam and leave the network. However, if they are still interested in BTC, you can try to help them join this forum and grow their knowledge about BTC before accumulating it again.

I don't know if it makes sense considering the country where the OP and his friend are located, but the only option left is to report it to the police, and hope that one day someone will be able to locate these scammers and make them pay for what they stole through the courts.

Apart from that, the only thing the rest of us can do is to report that site as malicious and hope that it will be blocked in most browsers.

Oh! Man it's trap may be I just heard first time about this wallet and website address also I search it in google there are no huge data and traffic or user data in there may be they scammed with you and others users also.  I am really sorry for that!!

Why he use this wallet there are more best can try like electrum and others.

0.33 Bitcoin is a TON of money to lose so this will be a very, very expensive lesson for your friend to learn.

But unfortunately, besides trying their best to get their funds back through Customer Support WITHOUT PAYING any Dollar to any body for it, there is nothing else they can do.  And since the website is talked about as being a Scam anyway, the hopes are too little and there will likely be no good solution for your friend.

Next step is, have your friend get a Hardware Wallet and have them store their Bitcoin PROPERLY.  This is the biggest danger of Centralized Exchanges.  Particularly if your friend does NOT need to move money, have them keep all the money in their OWN non Custodial Wallet instead.  For long periods of time, even the most Trusted Exchanges such as Binance are an incredible risk to assume.

Yes you are right, it was after my previous comment, I visit the link and saw everything. Thanks for sheenshane for the information. I also asked the guy (my friend) why he chose to use the Muhus Wallet and he told me he was using it for trading and the period.of trading he kept all the coins there and using it very fine but suddenly the wallet just misbehaved and before he knew, he couldn't transfer his coins again and since then he has been battling to transfer them but they told him that he should deposit money to the wallet to unfreeze the balance and he visited me and told the narrative, I told him to hold on for me to make some research and inquiry about the wallet and that is why I brought it here.