Topic: BITCOIN GOLD SCAM SITE mybtgwallet.com (Read 12882 times)

I notified the victims. People will contact you.

People are the ones to be blame for there actions, why can't you stick to the wallet on bitcoingold.org itself? Or Other popular mobile wallets to store your btcg coins? I'm just hearing this website for the first time and I'm sure they are scams

Wow, we need to be very careful in this crypto space, we should know that crypto is being our own bank, and we have to do everything possible to make sure our bank is being secured, I never saw this topic till now and I am very sorry for those that have lost their funds already to this scam company.

But, we should try to make sure we make good research about a project before sending our money there, because we have a lot of haters that want to make sure that the crypto community crumbles and will do anything possible to see this happen.

Hitbtc is the best for trading the Bitcoin gold and its pairs. Hitbtc has the biggest Bitcoin gold volume currently and they have a partnership. For scam BTG site, I never visit the sites for storing my crypto and I only use the known wallets.

I'm studying the business opportunity and feasability of helping bitcoin theft victims when the hacked service
cannot refund the customers. And this scam can be a good proof of concept example.

There's 2 main challenges:
1. investigation to track bitcoins transaction
2. legal to force btc services (like exchanges) to disclose scammer/robber identity,
   block funds if the service hold somes,
   and perform a lawsuit up to recover lost funds

On investigation challenge, I can say that some btc of this scam passed throught some well known exchanges.

Now I need some victims support to start a "disclose KYC request" to continue the proof of concept. I already contact
the exchanges and based on their responses, I understand that a lawyer is needed.

I need real victims mandate to continue this proof of concept, I will not ask for money compensation, but it may have lawsuit expenses
and no garantee of success. My main motivation is experience/know how and verify the business opportunity based on a % fee of recovered btc for next actions.

I would like to be in touch with several mybtgwallet scam victims, to see if it's an interesting opportunity for thems. So victims, feel free to PM me. We'll see together how to reach the right lawyer.

As it's a Proof of concept, all feedbacks are welcome.

unfinished forks and theft, i hate btc you

There are also some victims into that community that moved the BTC before using their Mnemonic Phrase to that malicious website. They lost the BTG though. We are talking about aprox. 1800 BTG stolen.
Even if you protected your BTC, you got robbed of your forked coins...

It is not a FUD and it is good this is being exposed right now before more people fall for this same shit. This should have been looked into first even before dropping that wallet link on their website, but I guess they did not expect it.

Moreover, the users are to be blamed as no matter how sage, you are not supposed to on any account leave your funds in your wallet before trying to claim most especially from a wallet you do not even know. Come on!

Anybody here that can give us the IP's of "John Dass"? We need the IP's to move forward.

Exactly. People who say never give out your keys don't know how crypto works themselves and should rather stay away. It is all about trust and in this case we trusted the wrong people. They are responsible for this mess.

Seems this coin is run by amateurs.  They can put a disclaimer up to say they don't take responsibility for links from their web site, but it is their responsibility to check they aren't scams - don't advertise the third party if you can verify them. 

I really don't know either but the number of victims desicovered is increasing as we speak and the damage is huge.
This will not pass unseen in the cryptoworld.

I really do not know why people do not listen or they just tend to take some unnecessary risks. I really do not know how legit this news may be but one thing people should always do before the try to claim another chain is to move out their funds from that wallet first. Any shit can happen and you have to be prepared for the unspeakable.

This whole BTG thing is really getting out of hand and I really hope it does not end up being more of a huge disaster than being a shit coin.

Thank you for warning.
The Linux wallet was not affected by this bug/hack.

They just warned people that their windows wallet is compromised and anyone downloading their windows wallet release should remove it and redownload new, this should not be happen to such huge project that have BTC community behind it, there is no security consideration at all, who knows I future what they will offer that they eventually found out to be scam software from unknown bounty developer     https://bitcoingold.org/critical-warning-nov-26/

I do not understand why people say do not trust any website and do not import private key or seed. mybtgwallet was on the official bitcoingold website, that is why people trusted this.

I do trust myetherwallet.com and put my private key there, I do trust neowallet.cn and put my private key there, I do trust waveswallet.io and put my seed there, I do trust mymonero.com and put my private key there. These are official or supported wallets by the coins themselves. I thought mybtgwallet is also one of them.

This should be a really bad reputation for bitcoin gold, but as I see most people do not think so and blame users. This is not right.

Dont trust anyone about your private keys,no one would be scammed.I wont be suprise if the BTG is a scam most of the supply is being hold by the founders.

The official website listed services created by the community prior to their launch and prior to Bitcoin Gold official launch.

Bitcoin Gold developers proved many times how noobs and inexperienced they were. They have been totally overwhelmed by the events. Putting links on the website helped them show how serious the project was. And they may have not checked any of them. This is the same case for the pools, made by noobs, who failed to start in time (we can see how well Suprnova did since the beginning).

Bitcoin Gold may have started as a scam, or a joke, we might never know, but whatever it was, it's now live and the community can take it over. Spreading FUD by talking about the same subject again and again won't help the community. Remember that devs have 8000 block premine, so they already have more money than you. If you want it to succeed, community has to take ownership of the coin, and its development.

And again, if you have many bitcoins in your wallet, why would you put your private key in an online service?
Because you need your BTG so hard and fast? My first advice is to use your BTC to buy you some patience magic potion.
But let's say you need your BTG hardly and fast. Why don't you first empty your bitcoin BTC wallet by sending the coins to another address, let's say on Blockchain.info (if you have no other alternative), and then use that old btc-empty wallet private key on the scamsite? If you lose coins, you'd only lose BTG, not your precious BTC.

Never give private keys of a non-empty wallet. Never. May this BTG event be a lesson for everyone.

The website mybtgwallet.com WAS listed on the official website of bitcoin gold.
As soon as the scams started to be reported they put it down and uploaded a disclaimer.

Who would want to use that website for Bitcoin Gold? What's wrong with just going to Bitcoin Gold's official site?