bug?? my bitcoins magically doubled - page 2.

DanielVG

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You are admitting to a scam ? You need to report this to the site involved and hand back the coins or get a scammer label.

I didn't even look at it like that yet. I'm an ignorant user and from my point of view, these bitcoins came out of thin air, handing them over to the website would be assuming they made a mistake, there are more possibilities.
I thought i was just communicating between my local wallet and an online wallet linked to my account. How can a website be between this transaction anyway?

FreeMoney

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I've seen some very temporary doublings at instawallet.org. They are never available for sending though.

Do tell us which wallet it was.

gweedo

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Quote from: Bitcoin Oz on August 03, 2012, 08:36:15 PM

You are admitting to a scam ? You need to report this to the site involved and hand back the coins or get a scammer label.

I agree with that, that are abuse of the system and if I was running the site I would probably give you a reward anyway for reporting of the bug. So Please on behalf of the devs report it to them otherwise or face being labeled a scammer.

Graet

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Quote from: DanielVG on August 03, 2012, 08:20:49 PM

So here's the story:

On monday i moved Bitcoins to a wallet on a website. It took 5 days to arrive. I was starting to get a little bit stressed that i made a mistake with the address, checked it out with block explorer but everything seemed fine.

Today i finally saw some Bitcoins on the site, the amount i sended though was exactly doubled. I took them off immediately, moved very fast this time, 30 min instead of 5 days, and sold them, ka-stjing!

Does anybody have an explanation for this?

did you contact the "wallet on a website" service
asking here will just get guesses or opinions, asking the people you are dealing with might get some actual answers

JompinDox

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What site is that? Huh

I would be VERY wary of keeping your coins there. Not a good sign.

Stephen Gornick

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Quote from: DanielVG on August 03, 2012, 08:20:49 PM

Does anybody have an explanation for this?

There could have been a technical problem with the account handling at the service you were using, where customer service saw your request and decided to add funds to your account, and then the technical problem was resolved and you got credited a second time.

Or your ticket was looked at by two different people doing customer service, and both gave you credit at the same time, before the support ticket was closed.

Or the outfit is so sloppy they just honor any complaints and pay out to resolve it. This is particularly true for sites that hold a wallet (e.g., exchanges, escrows, wallets) that are fraudulent. If they don't really hold all the customer funds that they should be holding, then who cares if the proceeds of the fraud is only for 80% of the balance (because 20% was credited to fix problems like this).

There are a lot of reasons this could happen. And each time it does should be a warning sign.

Bitcoin Oz

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Wat

You are admitting to a scam ? You need to report this to the site involved and hand back the coins or get a scammer label.

tiberiandusk

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It should not take 5 days for a Bitcoin transaction. I bet something went wrong on the website's end and they messed up the deposit.

DanielVG

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I want free lunch, i'm gonna go with this guy.

So here's the story:

On monday i moved Bitcoins to a wallet on a website. It took 5 days to arrive. I was starting to get a little bit stressed that i made a mistake with the address, checked it out with block explorer but everything seemed fine.

Today i finally saw some Bitcoins on the site, the amount i sended though was exactly doubled. I took them off immediately, moved very fast this time, 30 min instead of 5 days, and sold them, ka-stjing!

Does anybody have an explanation for this?

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