Topic: CHANGELLY - Illegal exchanger from RUSSIA with FAKE team (Read 4889 times)

this cause the reviewer is their team. easy to make that. that web need filter ip lol

Is this exchanger alive? My friend sends me a referral link, as well as this review https://cryptogeek.info/en/exchanges/changelly, and tells me to register using his link if it's not difficult for me.
All reviews are too positive, I feel a catch.

thank for OP almost used this for big transaction.....bad service. very thank save us from scammer~

All this information gathered in one place provides very good information about both teams and their sannanigans. What the exchange did was ultra shady changing the rules like that and withholding funds...

We all need to be careful in crypto guys! Every step of the way

Must confess that I've never been as vested in any thread on BTT has I've been with this one. Was under the impression that the "community" aspect of the forum was long gone and nobody in crypto will lift a finger if the lifting ain't incentivized. Was completely astounded when I realized OP paid for thread, then went "Oh, well, it's their crypto". Then I got the message about OP's appreciation. Apparently, chivalry's not dead and we all now have a standard to strive to attain to.

Glad to hear its over. And OP is again with funds in the hands.
Make sure all you avoid this services because u might fall in to this trap like OP did.

Good luck all

As far as I know, in Russia, cryptocurrency is not legalized, in addition, it is planned to levy taxes. Perhaps this is why the team made this decision.
This does not deny the fact that at any moment it can stop exchanges and close.

thanks for the information

We can only handle the facts and statements of official ministries

I meant, you had people hunting down Mark Karpelès like these guys from the US or London all the way to Japan.
https://youtu.be/VqgOsBeON0o?t=532

So buying an ad on a forum is not much in comparison,  I don't understand why people are surprised by it (granting he's saying the truth).

It has been great helping sustain pressure on the Changelly, Changenow and Atomic Swaps group of scamming thieves. The OP got his funds back and was generous enough to part with a huge chunk of it to various people throughout the threads that helped him or made positive posts for him.

Nobody asked to receive anything, the OP is a very generous man and made payments to users to say thanks.

In the end we owe him gratitude because thanks to him we have got solid evidence that Changelly, Changenow and Atomic Swaps are part of the same group of companies operated by the same people that selectively scam people by throwing the KYC card when it suits them.

I am done with this thread, time to UNWATCH but wish you all keep your crypto safe and do not use Atomic Swaps, Changenow or Changelly. Uninstall Atomic Swaps if you have that software on your device.

AFAIK such rules in their terms are irrelevant, you can sue them wherever they conduct business and you can surely sue them in place where they're psychically located (PO box/ virtual office doesn't count as psychical location). Such rules are put in T&Cs to scare people away from suing. 

Find their real location and start sueing them there.

Based on their website they require KYC (don't know if it was in the past too ,you would need to check in archive) but what i can tell from reading their terms is that their terms are no binding to you since they provide no company name or adress in their terms.It means there is no partner to make a binding contract with which leads that the terms are useless / not being executed.


Am of course no lawyer and not giving any advice on law but i'm  pretty sure i'm right on this.

Bittrex had a similar issue freezing accounts without having in their terms which they changed afterwards but i know for a fact some people hired a lawyer and got quickly their funds back.


If you are sure they are located in St.Petersburg send to them some people to make a visit and take pictures to expose them....


What is extremly funny and massiv worrying is the fact that they claim to be in Malta and theirfor are implementing KYC


but if thats true then why do they have this one on their terms ?



I highly doubt this is matching Maltas terms in any possible way and more important based on their terms they don't allow you to open a class action,represetative action or class arbitration !!!!!! but only a arbitration in HK .

This is clearly a function to avoid legal punishment and to catch anyone wanting to open a lawsuite in HK arbitrage knowing they would lose their cases in other jurisdictions and could have serious trouble because of that.

Its clearly designed to protect their asses against people who got scammed


Also based from your social media links and picture you can clearly say they are russians.
vk.com is also mainly being used in russia.

I never thought about that before. At the time of the scam the OP has 100 BCH valued around 11 Bitcoin, I wonder how much that 100 BCH would have been worth in Bitcoin a couple of days ago. I am fairly sure the Op would have been at a loss and these scammers at Changelly, Changenow and Atomic Swaps would have made free money in the interim!

Op at the moment is short of 11 BTC at the past rate. Changelly and gang knew what they doing. It's definitely something to think about when using or considering using all them exchanges.

Probably. But OP's post is enough. I thought the exchange was actually very legit that it had promoted itself on the big cryptosites like coinmarketcap. They even have a buy button there going to changelly. Its just interesting to see that no one had investigate them thoroughly like OP did.


I know.  Is the one who advertised this to bitcointalk.org? 

If somebody had stolen my money, I would probably seek to get revenge and writing such post is an option. I'm not shocked he bought an add and try to make bad buzz.

Are you sure by the way it's an illegal business in Russia ? I know other spb based companies like these...

Pretty funny how someone will spend so much money and effort trying to discredit Changelly publicly?! Kinda seems counter intuitive if there's a dispute over held funds.

Perhaps Roger 'I call myself Bitcoin Jesus' Ver hired a troll army to damage the reputation of his venture's (Shapeshift) rising competitor? Not that it would be the first time for him to do so... Anyone remember the whole BCash debacle with all the faked, non-organic interest towards it?

I think it's logical he's first trying to sort out his own affair - maybe if he gets his money back or lose all faith of that happening he'll become scam hunter and start doing what you're suggesting. But when there is still chance of getting his back he's focused on that, there is nothing strange in such behaviour.

You must contact a legal advice  for this. I can't believed  it that changelly can be like that  but Hopefully  not.  Sorry for your  lose, Hopefully you will resolve  it. Thank you for this info i'll  be aware using this one for great amount if ever,  I thought my friend just kidding because  he also have an issue like yours.

WTF is this insanity?