Topic: Bitcoinat.co.uk - Scam (Read 1526 times)

10 months after this thread was started, the fake website has been taken down.

This scammer must have made so much money-for-nothing with the scam. So many people must have lost out because of the thief running the scam.

Hi mintymark, sorry to hear about your woes. Check this thread I started: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/beware-bitcoinatcouk-and-asmoneycom-1957242

It seems there are many things you can do but the way forward depends on your country of residence. In which country do you live? I will try my best to help you.

JollyGood - useful information - but what to do next. I have lost a substantial amount to this outfit. Looks like its been going the best part of a year. Any course of action sugested?
 

A quick search shows "Bitcoin AT LTD" does not exist in the UK, it was not registered.

"BITCOIN ARBITRAGE TRADING LIMITED" was registered on 4th January 2016 and was dissolved on 13th June 2017 (that is the date the strike off will go through)

The registered company number is the same for Bitcoin AT Ltd and Bitcoin Arbitrage Trading Ltd - they are effectively one and the same.

- Their copyright footer shows 2016
- Their SSL was issued on 30th August 2016, it will expire on 31st August 2017

This website is STILL active, and still scamming.  Can we not get it taken down?

If you follow the tx outputs all the bitcoin ends up here https://blockchain.info/address/1J37CY8hcdUXQ1KfBhMCsUVafa8XjDsdCn

I also see that wallet address here https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.12800617

God. next time be carefully. don't trust anyone. your mother too. gl

So sad, this domain is very great but they are scam, next time trade in famous site.

Did you actually test the service before jumping to such rash conclusions? Otherwise I still have doubts on your points

As long as its related to bitcoin, there's no issue why OP cant post it here for awareness. This is after all a bitcoin forum.

Do they have any announcement thread in this forum? NO
If they do then provide a link otherwise you can't just accuse a company providing a service while they only announced it some place else.

The website www.bitcoinat.co.uk caught my attention as they claim to exchange bitcoin/eth/ltc to paypal or skrill instantly. Their "exchange prices" on their website, even though they do change a little bit, is certainly "attractive" from an exchange point of view - they are 5-10% above the market (with the exception of the UK Pounds prices). Company is registered in the UK, no accounts filed, sole director Miel Ge has correspondence address at the same address as the firm (a red flag). No KYC to send cash to Paypal - another red flag. No payment processing licence in the UK - another red flag. Not listed with the FCA.
Now here is the main concern:

If you type in the amount you want to exchange, select paypal and enter your email address, a BTC address pops up with the address to send the BTC to. The address is the same each time - regardless of the email address, amount or anything. In other words there would be no way for bitcoinat.co.uk to differentiate between deposits, if two persons fill in the deposit form, and only one of the two actually sends the 1 BTC, the company has no way to see who of the two who actually sent the BTC. Their BTC address - https://blockchain.info/address/135yzkufEp3KkYdubkdnCEP6KFswyYnSfr fortunately only has a very small deposit on it, so hopefully people are aware of the scam. The LTC and ETH addresses so far has no deposits, but this firm only started advertising on Reddit a few days ago. I would hate for newbies to loose interest in Cyber crypto after being scammed by these people.

Needless to say if the staff at bitcoinat.co.uk can prove otherwise, and that they only have made a very clumsy deposit system (which are doomed to fail) then please go ahead and prove it. This smells classic fraud a long way is you ask me.