956Vette, I feel like you have been scammed hard by BTCRow....
I do feel as though I have been scammed hard, at least in large part by BTCrow.
After forwarding all emails to BTCrow support they share with me that I have been victim to their front page fraud. However, being the receiver/seller...the warning imho falls short & highlights the failure of BTCrow's service.
Please remember, we NEVER send the escrow's payment address via email. If you receive a bitcoin address via email is being victim of a scam with a spoofed email address.
If I may reiterate, all of their highly publicized frauds w/ regards to their business could have been eliminated had they reach the escrow payment receiver & provide payment address.
BTCrow states I was victim of a scam with a spoofed email address because I failed to discern:
All our emails are:
"Received: from server.btcrow.com"
or
"Received: from a2i559.smtp2go.com"
You received few spuffed emails "from s2.btcrow.com"
Allow me to provide off the cuff comments with regards to their security warnings:
Security Precautions:
To protect your escrow funds we require that you take the following precautions:
Do NOT send bitcoins to a bitcoin address you received via email
Check the URL domain is btcrow.com
Check the automated emails are from a btcrow.com address
You must verify your email address and the escrow details on btcrow.com for each transaction
We do not send the escrow's payment address via email
If the confirmation email goes to your SPAM or Junk folder it's most likely a spoofed email
Always confirm your transaction exists on our website, and ALL details are correct
Contact us immediately if you have any suspicions
- Do NOT send bitcoins to a bitcoin address you received via email
Not an applicable warning as I hoped to receive a release of payment.
- Check the URL domain is btcrow.com
Being the party which chose BTCrow for the escrow service, my feelings are that I was perfectly able to traffic BTCrow.com's secure website without issue.
- Check the automated emails are from a btcrow.com address
This bullet point sure does get quickly glossed over by BTCrow....
- You must verify your email address and the escrow details on btcrow.com for each transaction
Easy enough. How about the company which is receiving 1.5% of the cut handle their share of the verification of email address and escrow details?!
- We do not send the escrow's payment address via email
How you justify hiding the release of escrow payment address from view is baffling, distasteful and ripe for fraud/abuse.
- If the confirmation email goes to your SPAM or Junk folder it's most likely a spoofed email
Not once did gmail send your spoofed (or spuffed as you say) emails to SPAM/Junk folder, fyi.
- Always confirm your transaction exists on our website, and ALL details are correct
Always did confirm transaction existed on BTCrow.com, however ALL details are not transparent. Again, how dare your company conceal the release of payment address information...how are you trying to protect/fool?
- Contact us immediately if you have any suspicions
Consistent communication is what you received from my end. Allow me to sum up BTCrow's support and fill in some gaps had any party wish to use this company. While using BTCrow escrow, I learned the 1 day inspection period would not be followed by an immediate release of payment. Support shares a 7 day
security period is followed by the inspection period (had the buyer not take the initiative to go out to their way to release the payment). Further, 7 day
security period is later defined/clarified by BTCrow support as 7 business day period....
Perhaps during, or better yet, before the inspection & security period, BTCrow should take notice of an IP log consisting of half use from Texas & the other traffic from Amsterdam?
IP Log:
87.226.2.122
176.126.252.12
87.226.2.122
99.99.185.213
87.226.2.122
99.99.185.213
87.226.2.122
99.99.185.213
