Richard Forsyth here.
I am sorry for not posting as often as I should. I keep having issues logging in. I want to keep up with everyone, and I want you to know we are doing our best to fix everything.
Yes, we WILL restore stolen Bitcoins. At this point, we're going to have to borrow the money, but we're working as fast as we can. Our goal is to do it as fast as possible. We need anyone who has been robbed to contact us and provide us a picture of their unbroken coin casing, if they haven't already. Thank you to those who have done this promptly. This will be very helpful. Our process will be to verify that there are no public address duplicates with applicants for refund, and to match up the public address with our sales records. If you did not acquire your coin from us directly, please let us know from whom you bought it, if you can recall.
As far as revealing technical details of the theft: we're still trying to figure out how it might have happened. We can't release individual names for privacy reasons, and also because the FBI has been contacted and saying too much at this point might frustrate an official investigation. We have not verified how many coins are stolen at this point. This will take some time. But as thefts are verified, we will be providing refunds as fast as we can.
More about the authorities: I personally went to the FBI on Monday morning--the morning after I found out that some thefts occurred. I have given them as much information as I could--what I knew at the time, along with what little I suspected--along with my contact information; and I am at their beck-and-call in this process. Meanwhile, I am answering emails as best I can while trying to coordinate the refund effort.
We have also re-launched our site at AlitinMint.com.
My contact info is there, and I URGE ANYONE who thinks they've been the victim of a theft to contact my email at
[email protected] and I will try to coordinate your refund as fast as I can. I will also do my best to answer your questions and ... provide a punching bag if it will help in any way.
If you have any concerns about my personal complicity, I also urge you to email me and stay in contact with me. I'm not going anywhere until this is fixed. Unless of course I am sent to jail for a theft that I did not commit. That would only frustrate my efforts to undo as much damage as I can, and it would leave the real thief at large.
For those who are still considering contacting "authorities":
Please feel free to do so. It's really not a bad idea, and it might even help. If you do contact authorities, be sure to mention that I have been to the FBI and the process is already started. I can assure you that I have more than enough motivation at this point to make everything right. Give them my name, my email, and I will talk to them and work with them.
I am personally very hurt over so many family and friends being robbed. I'm angry that
anyone has been robbed who was under my protection. I don't expect any personal sympathy, and I reiterate that your anger is
entirely justified.
Contact me at
[email protected] if you have not already, if you think you are the victim of a theft having to do with Alitin Mint, or to just get a feel for me to increase your confidence that I am telling the truth and doing my best. Right now I am fielding dozens of emails and calls per hour, and I may at times be on the phone or at the offices of the FBI answering questions or assisting with investigative efforts; and If contact increases quite a bit, I might be hard-pressed to respond quickly at certain times. But these days, I'm sacrificing sleep so I I will put as much time in to it as I am physically able. I'm barely eating, and honestly I am shaking constantly because of how hurt and angry I am that we were all robbed. My short-term and some mid-term memory are a little groggy at times too. I guess stress can do that. So if you communicate with me and I seem a little "out of it," that's why.