Bitcoin mixer Bitwhisk.io seized by the FBI - page 2.

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Quote from: TryNinja on October 14, 2021, 03:33:27 PM

Could be fake. The one on BestMixer was just a plain image: https://archive.is/sBZZy

You say this was a joke, but you could be right. When BestMixer was seized, europol issued a press release. No such press release was issued for the seizure of Bitwhisk.io.

My understanding is that when a property is seized, a lawsuit and/or criminal complaint needs to be filed. I have been unable to locate anything to suggest either has been filed.

Absent a public statement from the FBI and/or the DA for the Eastern District of Virginia, I think the evidence suggests this was an exit scam.

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I did some digging, and it turns out ghostmixer.cc has been "seized" too
Same seizure banner just like Bitwhisk.io

This site was reported to have shutdown before, it was brought back to life again according to this post

Quote from: logfiles on September 03, 2019, 05:26:10 PM

What happened: Ghostmixer.cc shut down their website in March 2019 probably due to no profitable business but the website is online again with the design same as that of SCAM Bitwhisk.io 2.0 and intention is definitely malicious. Probably a scammer bought the domain.

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Quote from: JeromeTash on October 14, 2021, 04:59:56 PM

What if it was the FBI who bought the domain all along after the first shutdown just to net some money launderers? Grin

Or the scammer, after scamming a huge amount, is just trying to play games to make people think that the website was seized yet it's just their way of exiting the scam.

Ah ah, I wouldn't be surprised coming from The US since the IRS Goes Undercover as A Bitcoin Trader

If it's a scam exit it doesn't make really sense. I mean if the goal is to scam, the scammer should let the website alive to scam more until the domain name expires or until it doesn't worth keeping it online. That's what they usually do.
Or he scammed so much that he was happy with it and decided to get some fun?

edit:
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In the original post, I accidentally posted a wrong URL redirecting to a copy of Bitcointalk
bitcointalksearch.org/topic/bitwhiskio-is-online-again-is-it-a-scam-attempt-by-someone-else-or-a-comeback-5177643#msg52275809
instead of
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/bitwhiskio-is-online-again-is-it-a-scam-attempt-by-someone-else-or-a-comeback-5177643

I'm sorry Lips sealed

I just figured out now

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Quote from: LeGaulois on October 14, 2021, 04:47:33 PM

I doubt they have the same devs

That was a joke. Cheesy

What I'm saying is that I find weird that they both look the same, but were made in completely different ways (one is a single image, the other an actual HTML page) like the latter is trying to make you think they had the same fate.

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What if it was the FBI who bought the domain all along after the first shutdown just to net some money launderers? Grin

Or the scammer, after scamming a huge amount, is just trying to play games to make people think that the website was seized yet it's just their way of exiting the scam.

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Quote from: TryNinja on October 14, 2021, 03:33:27 PM

Bestmixer was seized by a European agency, Bitwhisk domain displays an American agency. I doubt they have the same devs
I believe there is no strict decision on what to do. If you look for other examples of seized domains, you can see several different designs.

and some looking like Bestmixer are also used by US agencies, perhaps when there is a collaboration with Europe, I didn't check all of them but
for example, Wikipedia has an example

Politie means "Police" in Belgium, ~~Germany~~, and the Netherlands

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Could be fake. The one on BestMixer was just a plain image: https://archive.is/sBZZy

Bitwhisk's "seized" page has an animated background and actual HTML text. Maybe the FBI hired a new web developer?

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Some may remember this mixer (bitwhisk.io). For the others, it was a mixer that decided to stop its activities about 3 years ago (see here). Sometime later, the site had been taken over to make a scam (see here)

Today, I wanted to scrap some SERP and revisited the domain name and this is what you can see when you access the site.

I wondered if it was not fake. Like some people, it reminds me about Bestmixer which has really been seized by Interpol and the Deutch (2 years ago) and it had more or less the same page.

However it seems that this background is not unique, I remember having seen this homepage style before. I found other sites with more or less the same image/text

It could be that the FBI was after bitwhisk.io, but by the time they catch it, the domain had changed ownership. What do you think?
So finally, a scammer possibly in trouble for something he didn't do

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