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Our aim is to protect society from extensive, deliberate criminal deception
They should investigate the financial system
Topic: Bitcoin is money laundering... according to some - page 2. (Read 5587 times)
They should investigate the financial system
This is from the UK serious fraud office:
Our aim is to protect society from extensive, deliberate criminal deception which could threaten public confidence in the financial system. We investigate fraud and corruption that requires our investigative expertise and special powers to obtain and assess evidence to successfully prosecute fraudsters, freeze assets and compensate victims.
Sounds exactly like bitcoin...
Our aim is to protect society from extensive, deliberate criminal deception which could threaten public confidence in the financial system. We investigate fraud and corruption that requires our investigative expertise and special powers to obtain and assess evidence to successfully prosecute fraudsters, freeze assets and compensate victims.
Sounds exactly like bitcoin...
They're British 
So I had a trial at StratoGen for their cloud hosting. I was tinkering with it and thought I'd load up bitcoinplus.com on it. Well I got this email this morning:
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And then received this:
Thought you guys would get a chuckle out of this. I do own a legit hosting business and was looking into cloud hosting from stratogen. Oh well.
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Dear xxxxx,
Our technical team noticed some unusual behaviour coming from your trial such as maxing out CPUs contently, and odd traffic profiles under further investigation. We found the severs to be running virtual money software which has linked with money laundering.
We therefore we deem your usages to be in breach of our AUP and have suspended you trial.
xxxxx xxxxx
Technical Director
StratoGen :: Hosting for Business
T: 0845 544 0465
M: 0773 606 2097
E: [email protected]:: http://www.stratogen.net
Our technical team noticed some unusual behaviour coming from your trial such as maxing out CPUs contently, and odd traffic profiles under further investigation. We found the severs to be running virtual money software which has linked with money laundering.
We therefore we deem your usages to be in breach of our AUP and have suspended you trial.
xxxxx xxxxx
Technical Director
StratoGen :: Hosting for Business
T: 0845 544 0465
M: 0773 606 2097
E: [email protected]:: http://www.stratogen.net
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Yes, I've run some hashing programs on there to determine CPU processing power. It's actually completely legal though (http://bitcoin.org/). I'd suggest you look into it rather than just accusing me of illegal activities. The CPU's were maxed for a while but I've got no idea what you mean by odd traffic profiles. Aside from using nearly 100% CPU for a few days, I've done absolutely nothing wrong and nothing that'd be against your AUP or TOS.
And then received this:
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Dear xxxx,
The account was suspended because our engineers saw the bitcoin application running which is considered a highly suspicious, offers no real benchmarking capability and is seen as a tool to utilise CPU to generate virtual currency which can be currency exchanged into legitimate currency.
The Bitcoin project is currently under investigation from many governments including UK serious fraud office. Several other similar projects have been closed down in recent years for money laundering offences.
Please can you give us a little more information about your company including company telephone and email addresses as the platform has been designed as an enterprise hosting environment and therefore is best suited to this, we need to ensure the service we offer is best suited to your requirements.
Kind regards
xxxx xxxxx
Technical Director
StratoGen :: Hosting for Business
T: 0845 544 0465
M: 0773 606 2097
E: [email protected]:: http://www.stratogen.net
The account was suspended because our engineers saw the bitcoin application running which is considered a highly suspicious, offers no real benchmarking capability and is seen as a tool to utilise CPU to generate virtual currency which can be currency exchanged into legitimate currency.
The Bitcoin project is currently under investigation from many governments including UK serious fraud office. Several other similar projects have been closed down in recent years for money laundering offences.
Please can you give us a little more information about your company including company telephone and email addresses as the platform has been designed as an enterprise hosting environment and therefore is best suited to this, we need to ensure the service we offer is best suited to your requirements.
Kind regards
xxxx xxxxx
Technical Director
StratoGen :: Hosting for Business
T: 0845 544 0465
M: 0773 606 2097
E: [email protected]:: http://www.stratogen.net
Thought you guys would get a chuckle out of this. I do own a legit hosting business and was looking into cloud hosting from stratogen. Oh well.
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It's fine. I do own a hosting company that's hosted in Atlanta, Georgia. I'm not a huge company yet but I do have a few racks. Honestly, I don't really care much about StratoGen. Cool service but I'm not impressed by how you manage clients. I would have preferred you email me to discuss the high CPU rather than suspending it. God knows what would have happened had I tested a file hosting site that used up 1Tb of information per day. I'm sure that would have been seen as illegal file sharing and your "Unlimited Internet Bandwidth" would have meant nothing.
I'm astonished that you closed the account simply because of high CPU usage. Especially since first you accused me of money laundering and now "The Bitcoin project is currently under investigation from many governments including UK serious fraud office."
I've learned everything I need to know about about your company in these few days.
Thanks,
xxxx
I'm astonished that you closed the account simply because of high CPU usage. Especially since first you accused me of money laundering and now "The Bitcoin project is currently under investigation from many governments including UK serious fraud office."
I've learned everything I need to know about about your company in these few days.
Thanks,
xxxx
whats with their horrible English?
Yeah probably mostly motivated due to the CPU usage. Secondarily because they are afraid bitcoin will become illegal and they will get shut down for allowing people to generate coins on their servers.
I replied. They can blow it out their ass, lol. Probably the most valuable trial ever.
They simply don't want 100% cpu utilization as their business depends on spare capacity and they made up few reasons to cancel it
I like this one
Ask them how do they know Bitcoin is under investigation by many governments?
I like this one
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The Bitcoin project is currently under investigation from many governments including UK serious fraud office. Several other similar projects have been closed down in recent years for money laundering offences
Ask them how do they know Bitcoin is under investigation by many governments?
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The Bitcoin project is currently under investigation from many governments including UK serious fraud office.
Well I certainly find that interesting.
So I had a trial at StratoGen for their cloud hosting. I was tinkering with it and thought I'd load up bitcoinplus.com on it. Well I got this email this morning:
Replied with:
And then received this:
Thought you guys would get a chuckle out of this. I do own a legit hosting business and was looking into cloud hosting from stratogen. Oh well.
replied:
Quote
Dear xxxxx,
Our technical team noticed some unusual behaviour coming from your trial such as maxing out CPUs contently, and odd traffic profiles under further investigation. We found the severs to be running virtual money software which has linked with money laundering.
We therefore we deem your usages to be in breach of our AUP and have suspended you trial.
xxxxx xxxxx
Technical Director
StratoGen :: Hosting for Business
T: 0845 544 0465
M: 0773 606 2097
E: [email protected]:: http://www.stratogen.net
Our technical team noticed some unusual behaviour coming from your trial such as maxing out CPUs contently, and odd traffic profiles under further investigation. We found the severs to be running virtual money software which has linked with money laundering.
We therefore we deem your usages to be in breach of our AUP and have suspended you trial.
xxxxx xxxxx
Technical Director
StratoGen :: Hosting for Business
T: 0845 544 0465
M: 0773 606 2097
E: [email protected]:: http://www.stratogen.net
Replied with:
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Yes, I've run some hashing programs on there to determine CPU processing power. It's actually completely legal though (http://bitcoin.org/). I'd suggest you look into it rather than just accusing me of illegal activities. The CPU's were maxed for a while but I've got no idea what you mean by odd traffic profiles. Aside from using nearly 100% CPU for a few days, I've done absolutely nothing wrong and nothing that'd be against your AUP or TOS.
And then received this:
Quote
Dear xxxx,
The account was suspended because our engineers saw the bitcoin application running which is considered a highly suspicious, offers no real benchmarking capability and is seen as a tool to utilise CPU to generate virtual currency which can be currency exchanged into legitimate currency.
The Bitcoin project is currently under investigation from many governments including UK serious fraud office. Several other similar projects have been closed down in recent years for money laundering offences.
Please can you give us a little more information about your company including company telephone and email addresses as the platform has been designed as an enterprise hosting environment and therefore is best suited to this, we need to ensure the service we offer is best suited to your requirements.
Kind regards
xxxx xxxxx
Technical Director
StratoGen :: Hosting for Business
T: 0845 544 0465
M: 0773 606 2097
E: [email protected]:: http://www.stratogen.net
The account was suspended because our engineers saw the bitcoin application running which is considered a highly suspicious, offers no real benchmarking capability and is seen as a tool to utilise CPU to generate virtual currency which can be currency exchanged into legitimate currency.
The Bitcoin project is currently under investigation from many governments including UK serious fraud office. Several other similar projects have been closed down in recent years for money laundering offences.
Please can you give us a little more information about your company including company telephone and email addresses as the platform has been designed as an enterprise hosting environment and therefore is best suited to this, we need to ensure the service we offer is best suited to your requirements.
Kind regards
xxxx xxxxx
Technical Director
StratoGen :: Hosting for Business
T: 0845 544 0465
M: 0773 606 2097
E: [email protected]:: http://www.stratogen.net
Thought you guys would get a chuckle out of this. I do own a legit hosting business and was looking into cloud hosting from stratogen. Oh well.
replied:
Quote
It's fine. I do own a hosting company that's hosted in Atlanta, Georgia. I'm not a huge company yet but I do have a few racks. Honestly, I don't really care much about StratoGen. Cool service but I'm not impressed by how you manage clients. I would have preferred you email me to discuss the high CPU rather than suspending it. God knows what would have happened had I tested a file hosting site that used up 1Tb of information per day. I'm sure that would have been seen as illegal file sharing and your "Unlimited Internet Bandwidth" would have meant nothing.
I'm astonished that you closed the account simply because of high CPU usage. Especially since first you accused me of money laundering and now "The Bitcoin project is currently under investigation from many governments including UK serious fraud office."
I've learned everything I need to know about about your company in these few days.
Thanks,
xxxx
I'm astonished that you closed the account simply because of high CPU usage. Especially since first you accused me of money laundering and now "The Bitcoin project is currently under investigation from many governments including UK serious fraud office."
I've learned everything I need to know about about your company in these few days.
Thanks,
xxxx
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