Because they said i have 3.65 BTC there, but i must put some (little) cash to reach it....
LOOOOOOL!
Wait a minute, you've been here in the forum for around 7 years, why does it sound like you're just a newbie? Not to mention that, based on your bitcointalk account, you're probably immersed in crypto well enough, at least enough for you to understand the technicalities of mining, so why the noob question? And you've just logged in after 5 years of inactivity to ask this question?
Anyway, that's 99.9% a scam. Come to think of it, you haven't even heard of the exchange, how come you've got that number of BTC in there?
Because it could be possible. I mined for last time on 2016, i was selling stuff until 2017. Last operations maybe were not converted on cash and let the money on a abandoned wallet. Maybe.
I will try to explain this story: One day, i received a call, from Malmö (at least my mobile told me it was from Malmö). They asked me, in spanish language, if i was [Put my real name and surname here].
- "YES, who are you?" i asked her.
- "I am calling from bitex.financial. You have an old deposit with us and it will be lost if you do not login in 30 days".
- "I need to know the original source of this funds, because i never hearted about you" i answered.
- "Well, it's yours the mail [put my real email address here]?" asked her
- "Yes" (Damn, she is wight again).
- "So, what about to send you a mail to recover your access and then, you decide what you want to do?"
- "Well, if i don't know the source of this funds, i will not be able to recover them anyway. Yes, send me the mail" i answered
- "Allright, let's do this step first". closed her
One day later i received the mail and used the link: BALANCE: 3.65 BTC (Shit, it cannot be real).
Let's go to 2017. My last stuff i selled was for 4.000€ and it was made with more than one operation, so it could be real IF this guys are the latest owners of some old wallet.
Damn, now i seem a newby. If someone ask me if i think this is scam, i would say "Probably YES, don't put any money"
So i called them again. And, i talked with them 4 more times.
They said me the source of the money was MT4 and i don't know what the hell is that
Also, they said me they are a Swiss company and they have some country taxes to pay to let me transfer the BTC. This money must be send from the customer to the swiss bank (and it is 5.5%). There is another comision and it can be deduced from BTC (0.5%). And last surprise, minimal amount to let be moved must be 0.5 BTC...
Now i belive this is an SCAM, but it is a very well done SCAM. And my heart would like to think it could be possible to don't be an SCAM if i could belive on them. For that, i need to know anyone else who worked with them without issues. Because of that i came here and seemed a newby (and it is what i seem right now)
Thank you very much, this site is as great as when i was an active miner.