Topic: changenow.io - Review? (Read 2670 times)

I will bring up this topic as they want to cheat me out of $100K https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.57911052

matej krkic - full time troll of ChangeNOW scammers or just a cheap whore

I just want to add that this guy doesn’t say much about what happened. So, he  sent a fake ID twice. He believes that this is a joke, so guys, I do not think that it is worth taking seriously what he tells us.


In addition, when I became interested in his problem, it became clear to me that this person does not want to solve this problem legally. He categorically refuses to disclose his personal identity, which is suspicious of me. In addition, I explained to him that the exchange of 100 BCH is impossible without KYC. Since I do not agree with him, he considers me as a part of the exchange (very funny!) This is a way to get away from an awkward question.


Many of you have seen an banner for his thread of accusations here, and many consider this guy a hero who “exposed the scammers.” But I have my own point on his actions. I consider this blackmailing, to return coins without providing a real ID. Described in more detail in this article, where facts are gathered about how this guy spreads charges, using bots and shills, hidding the fact that he sent a fake twice.

https://medium.com/@arennathan9/changenow-scam-or-review-how-ni23457-blackmails-the-exchange-978c483ef81a

I hope that many of you use your brain to see that this is a problem of two sides. In addition, OP initiated a problem by sending fake. Therefore, I consider him the main culprit and I follow his actions.

Dear forum users, excuse me for upping a topic with this shit. But these freaks disappeared from the forum and almost 3 months do not respond to my letters. Perhaps so, they will see my message.


I just ask you(ChangeNOW) to reply to the forum for what legal reason do you keep my money for 3 months?


You are just a group of Russian guys who bought an offshore company in Belize (cheapest and dirtiest offshore zone - 650 USD)

Earlier, you explained the impossibility of returning the money without documents to me because you are afraid that my money was stolen and you are afraid that you may have problems with Europol.

But as soon as it became known, you immediately disappeared from the forum:
That is, a company that is with you in the same city and which is very close to you has exchanged the amount ten times more without KYC and was not afraid of anything.

Therefore, how are you, a group of Russian guys with papers bought for $ 650, explain the refusal to make a refund? I will repeat. I do not need your exchange. I need my money back into the sender's wallet.
If you don't like me, then you can ban me. I will never use your service and cooperate with you anyway.

So explain. What is the reason to refuse me in refund? After all, you can no longer lie about the fear of Europol. Then why do you keep my money for 3 months? It is not your property to hold it. So why the hell are you keeping it illegally 3 months?

I sent this message to their PMs and emails. I hope they have a bit of decency to answer.

Please stay away from changenow scammers

Changenow has a disastrous reputation, similar to Betking and Monaco.

Stay away from changenow https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/changenowio-evercode-lab-scam-illegally-holding-of-100-bch-11-bitcoins-4619534

After reading more about ChangeNow.io in the past couple of days I would say: Find another exchange coz they might ask for your ID, selfie and videocall later.
...they might even keep your money if you won't provide what they've asked for 

This is not the only place to, You can sell somewhere else and maybe in future after some months when reviews come for changenow, then you can use it if the reviews were good.

I did not send a fake ID.  I opened a Google images and sent them JPG file like this:

My young cute users, there is not one country in the world where JPG image sent by email could be called a document so I have the right to send any images I want



And it was absolutely the right decision. They are not a COMPANY, it's just a bunch of cowardly and dishonest people from Russia.

https://postimg.cc/image/i8a8z5nj5/
https://postimg.cc/image/odwzy37rl/
https://postimg.cc/image/b52djluz5/
https://postimg.cc/image/6j69bhmdd/
https://postimg.cc/image/9d9eoze9t

Only an idiot can take them seriously. Although I think it would be more correct if I photographed my ass and sent to them - maybe here was my mistake.

My point is that the exchangers are not willing to do that but they have to Just to stay in business

Thank you for highlighting that changelly as for ID verification. Maybe that has been implemented after I used their service.

Yes you are right, the reality is crypto is becoming less and less anonymous.

They do. For anonymous coins and “suspicious” transactions.

The fact is that it’s hard to do crypto-punk exchange business now. You are being penetrated from everywhere: partner exchanges ask for lots of legal papers, interpol/europol asks for information about different transactions related to scams etc etc etc.

This is the reality. Crypto is becaming less and less anonymous.

Yes I mean Changelly.

I used them twice earlier this year, the transaction went smoothly. I sent no ID, they asked for no ID. I had no idea they even ask for AML/KYC at any point.

Changelly??
You mean  these guys?

They have the most strict kyc policy from all exchangers.

Thank you for the post.

Though I did not read the whole threads associated with this exchange I did read the part where he sent of images from google to changenow. After reading what other users posted I still think their FAQ and T/Cs should be clear and the misleading selling point about being "anonymous and limitless" because that is the main reason people would go to them.

The fault in this situation lay with both parties. The OP sender really should have sent out 11 BTC in small batches because it was his first trade using this changenow website but if the website did not display the ridiculous "anonymous and limitless" nonsense then he probably would not have used them.

You are absolutely right, the OP should not have submitted fake ID. With changenow asking for documents and a video call to ascertain identity is an overkill. They should have released his funds to him the moment he queried why he had to send ID verification when they were supposed to be providing a service that was "anonymous and limitless". When he did not want to send his ID they should have returned his 11 BTC back to him but they did not and as it stands they have his 11 BTC and he has lost that money and paid for ads in this forum to advise people to stay away from that service.

If I were the OP I would probably not send my ID to these people after all the drama they caused with their overkill reaction. The solution? Well since he complained land got nowhere he should arrange for someone such as a friend or colleague to help out by sending their ID and them making the video call. Whatever he decided to do he should stay with the legal limits of the country he resides in and is a citizen of and not anything illegal. I hope he gets his 11 BTC back.

Changenow have lost credibility in my opinion and I will never use them. I avoid Shapeshift because of their bad reputation. I recommend only Changelly because I used them in the past and it was an excellent service.

Just read the whole topic and you'll understand that ni23457 was trying to cheat service by submitting fake ID two times.

I will not bother visiting their website to check what they are doing. This scam link is enough to convince me that these people are not to be trusted:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4619534.0;topicseen

I have some problems with my eyesight. Can't read the question. Could you use a bigger font, Mr. Scammer?

And why do you use your shill @bitcoinewman for that? Do you think it will help to pass KYC?

Explain please why you fled your office a week ago? (as soon as Russian sites wrote about your illegal activities)
St. Petersburg, Ligovsky prospect, 50, building 13, office 28
Why, when someone calls +7 812 646-96-32, Konstantin Brumm refuses to give a new address?


You call yourself a legitimate business. Why do you run away from your office and keep the new address a secret? What are you afraid of? After all, you have everything under the law and Russian police will protect you. So what is the problem?

With regards to the cyber_pinoy situation:

Cyber_pinoy is our Arabic translator. He is upset that his whitepaper translation was rejected.
We have already discussed this matter in our PMs. All our translations are proofread by outsourced native speakers. I have explained to cyber_pinoy that our Arabic proofreader said that his translation was not acceptable. I have offered him a compliment for his work anyway and tried to negotiate with him for a full pay our translators get and that offer still stands, by the way. We reserve the right to reject any work offered to us, be it a bounty article or a translation job.

How can you call yourself not a scammer when you refuse to make a video call after providing “real” ID? Are you afraid of something? So why do you call to their telephone number instead? Or it was not you because you are afraid of something?

You are just a funny dumb kid

P.S. If anyone here is really interested - no "russian site" has written about that case. Only few payed posts by shitbloggers found in the internet by this scamer.

Explain please why you fled your office a week ago? (as soon as Russian sites wrote about your illegal activities)
St. Petersburg, Ligovsky prospect, 50, building 13, office 28
Why, when someone calls +7 812 646-96-32, Konstantin Brumm refuses to give a new address?


You call yourself a legitimate business. Why do you run away from your office and keep the new address a secret? What are you afraid of? After all, you have everything under the law and Russian police will protect you. So what is the problem?

Did you come there to pass KYC procedure, Mr.Scammer?

Btw, why is your reddit account banned? For spreading FUD? =)

What a shame. They are so cowardly freaks. A week ago they fled from their office.

St. Petersburg, Ligovsky prospect, 50, building 13, office 28, +7 812 646-96-32 (Investigation topic: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/--4647308 )

They immediately disappeared as soon as Russian sites wrote about their illegal activities in the center of St. Petersburg.

I knew they are cowardly rats, but I never would have imagined that.


Look at the address below. It has not changed. Although as their neighbors say, there is already no one there for a week.
https://evercodelab.com/

If you call +7 812 646-96-32 then most likely you will be answered by Konstantin Brumm (CEO of Evercode at now when Roman Lapin is founder of Evercode(and CEO of ChangeNOW) but both work together. Evercode is developer of ChangeNOW).
And just try asking them why they did not change the address on the site. Why did they escape. Why is the legitimate company something to be afraid of? (they understand English well.)
Perhaps they will tell you their new address, and then the lawyers will be able to come to them... before police and FSB

OMG  

OMG, seems that I have a guess! Are you connected to WEX.NZ (ex btc-e)?

- you are from Russia,
- you are denying to pass KYC and afraid to disclose your personality,
- you are denying to disclose your wallet address,
- you say that the wallet was created and replenished 5 years ago and you DIDN'T touch it even during the hypes(!!!),
- now you are trying to sell and exchange these coins exactly the same time when WEX.NZ is exitscamming.

Seems that the wallet address has a huge amount of stolen money connected somehow to wex.nz!

They have seen this message many times. If they did not refute it, then it really is. Is it difficult for you to understand?

Well, I think they are pathetic vile rats. I do not talk with rats. Do you think I really need these f*cking 100 BCH?
I will spend the same amount of money, but I will get true satisfaction from the fact that their service will be closed, and the police and FSB will come to their office.
I understand that you are not a real man and you do not understand what pride and honor mean, but accept it as it is.

This is not even the evidence. But the facts that you deny disclosing the address and deny video call after providing “REAL” Id show that you are afraid of something. Typical behavior of a scammer

 

So funny to speak with you. You even don’t understand that nobody cares about your scam here. Only that helps you not to go to prison. Hope one days things will change and europol will come to you

P.S. Sorry, but your investigation about “my profiles” has failed ) But its ok for such a kid.

Dear friends, pity this man. This Russian defender is sick with schizophrenia, a split personality and a failure in memory.




And the most sad thing for a strong man: he's a coward. He is afraid even to respond in private messages.

his profiles
crazy_elky
https://bitcointalksearch.org/user/crazyelky-1776263
dewinsec
https://bitcointalksearch.org/user/dewinsec-2265157
and more likely Zalaster  as he has a similar style of messages and he is from Russia like others and he also keeps silent in private messages.
https://bitcointalksearch.org/user/zalaster-2081838

Why don’t you post here that you deny to pass kyc and have submitted fake docs several times? Why don’t you mention that the coins were previously  stolen by you and you can’t prove the sources of funds? Smiley such a funny scammer

Wow!  I did not see this topic!

Let's I tell you a story my dear friends.

The problem of these guys is here:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/changenowio-evercode-lab-scam-illegally-holding-of-100-bch-11-bitcoins-4619534 ChangeNow.io - Scam. Illegally holding of 100 BCH (11 bitcoins).
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/--4647308 INVESTIGATION TOPIC WITH THE INFO ABOUT SCAMMERS

Okay if they would be honest and law-abiding guys, who demand documents from everyone.
But the problem is that these are dishonest Russian scammers who wanted to steal 11 bitcoins from a crypto pioneer, which fell on them only because I confused them with Changelly

How did this happen?
1. July 5 - I send them 100 BCH. They stop the exchange and require a passport.  I'm asked by a man with a Russian name Sergey. I was embarrassed and sent them the first picture with someone's passport from Google pictures. Then they asked for selfie.
2. July 6 - I sent them a real passport photo and selfie and apologized for the last picture.
3. They were offended and said they would conduct some kind of investigation. They within 2 weeks told everyone that they are conducting some kind of investigation.
4. July 19 - I told them that I know that this is absolutely Russian service and I know absolutely everything about them. I also said that I will not work with people who organized illegal business in their country. in Russia there are no laws about crypto currency. And they organized anonymous exchange service. This is a black business. I do not want me and my money to concern this business. I demanded to return my money back.
5. And since then they have found to themselves an occasion not to give me money - they require video verification. But I will never go through it, because they are criminals in their own country. I do not negotiate with criminals. 100 BCH, which I got for free with hardfork, is not the amount to forget about my principles.

These people know perfectly well that I own crystal-clear coins, but they still do not return them for more than a month.
All Internet resources will have information about you, but I asked the team not to write on this forum. Here I will deal with you myself. It does not take much time. So no one paid them... at least I did not pay

I disagree too and its quite not ethical to say against competitor to presume that they are running illegitimate business.Im also a user of Shapeshift too for years and doesn't experience to have that KYC requirement that had been mentioned on here and I don't know where he do get such thing about verification. We understand for some coins but this isn't happening on shapeshift that's why people do love to use it because it isn't too hassle to use up a swap site.In this case this would be hard for them to compete with shapeshift alone.

Are you saying that Shapeshift is an illegitimate instant exchange (it's the most used one by popularity and likely by volume), or that they require KYC? I've exchanged several thousand USD in crypto through their system, and I've never had to go through any verification whatsoever, and I seriously doubt they are illegitimate. I can respect your statements of people finding your service better and you guys having some rarer pairs, but I disagree with your first two statements.

I'll have to inform you that all legitimate instant exchangers have KYC implemented. Meanwhile, ChangeNOW has some rare coin pairs than our market rivals don't. Besides, some people just find our service better and more preferrable than others.

Unfortunately, all those reviews have been paid for by ni23457, who has openly admitted having done that in our customer support.

We're sorry that this is the experience you've had with ChangeNOW. Our policy is quite clearly explained in our FAQ, Terms Of Use, and Privacy Policy. The "many users getting cheated" situation you're describing here is one user (ni23457) refusing to pass KYC and having his exchange finished and being very active about it on the forums.

Besides all of this, from what I've seen looking at both sites, Shapeshift provides slightly better rates at the moment for certain pairs like ETH/BTC even with their quick swap system. Makes basically no sense to use Changenow anyways if they're requiring KYC occasionally, as Shapeshift has no such requirement. I fail to see why anyone would use a coin swap site with KYC over one with slightly better rates and no KYC. Why swap services if the current one is just fine?

There are many negative reviews.People are saying that is a scam.So,I think we need to skip them.

If it's about to review changenow.io I will give you the suggestion to avoid the exchange site.They are policy is quite complicated. many of there getting cheated.they are just giving a little but they are taking a lot from the customers who are going towards them.
My suggestion is this if you don't want to loose your money..take your decisions carefully.

Hello! I am a rep for ChangeNOW.

I'd like to recap the situation from our side, point by point:

1. As a money services business, we comply with market standards and legal requirements that any legit exchange service must comply with, which obliges us to have AML and KYC implemented. This is clearly stated in our FAQ, our Terms of Use, and our Privacy Policy, and one automatically accepts them when using ChangeNOW.

2. ni23457's activity was deemed suspicious by our risk management system. We asked him for his ID in order to pass KYC. He sent us a fake ID which prompted an investigation, during which his funds were placed on a cold wallet, only to be released when the situation clears up.

3. The only step of the investigation left is the video verification procedure. We asked ni23457 to participate in a video call with his real ID to complete the KYC procedure. He has refused to cooperate so far, has been sending accusatory messages everywhere, and sending us threats. Despite everything, we're always open for communication, are constantly talking with him through our support, and would be happy to release his funds after the video call.

ni23457 has created multiple threads here on the forums, has been harassing our service on other public spaces, sending us threats and completely refusing to cooperate.

They are scammers, beware of using this exchange. These guys can decide to seize your funds without any notice and ask you to prove the source of funds. In crypto, really?

See this thread: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/changenowio-evercode-lab-scam-illegally-holding-of-100-bch-11-bitcoins-4619534

Hi guys!

Sorry for such a delay, this is an official account of ChangeNOW. We've grown a lot since January and our TrustPilot rating remains the best among our competitors. Feel free to use our service and let me know if you have any questions! https://[Suspicious link removed]/3uQpr7

Cheers!

Endorsed by actual bitcoin gold development team or at least saying so on twitter so the chances of them going scam would be much less likely than if it was just a random site that was dug up on google. You can trust them with anything under $1k in my opinion.

Anything over, still use the traditional exchanges like HitBTC or Bittrex. It's going to get you better rates and you don't need to worry about counterparty risk as much as you would with changenow.io, even though there has been no allegations of scam yet.

Used this for BTG -> BTC, went seamlessly.

Now that BTG is listed on Bittrex and other sites it's become a lot easier to sell it if you want to. But yeah, i find that changenow.io is still the best and most convenient way to do it, and it's pretty much the same as changelly so if you're comfortable with operating changelly you'll find no problems with operating changenow.

my experience is that one, don't expect transactions to be instant. It took around 30 mins for my deposit to even show up.

Two, they take around 0.001 BTC in transaction fees if you exchange BTG to BTC, which is not noted at the beginning of the transaction. Just watch out for that.

If that's the case, then the problem is in the BTG team already. People with BTG probably trust what they say/post rather than random results in the web. As they endorsed a service, people (may be not all but there will always be) will think that it's trusted and use it.

This doesn't make the service more trustworthy. The Bitcoin Gold team also "endorsed" a website that helped people claim their BTG but also kept all the users seeds and resulted in a loss of over $1 million. Of course they removed the site from their page after some time. But this shows how careless they are.

Here is a thread about the scam: https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/7dsmvd/my_analysis_of_the_1_million_usd_mybtgwalletcom/

Still didn't receive the BTC in exchange of your BTG? If you haven't contacted the support yet, I think you should do so [email protected]
@ChangeNOW_io seems to be active on twitter answering people to send an email to support and will be assist further. Since you've mentioned that it was endorsed by @bitcoingold, maybe the team checked how trusted the service is.

@OP didn't update here, I wonder if he used the site or just waited for an exchange.

It is a scam. And "review" by domgreen with 1 forum post doesn't count much .

Still received nothing. Scam.

The site looks legit to me, and since they seemingly have partnerships with so many people they are most likely to be legit to some degree. I still don't see any reason to be using them apart from BTG transactions, though.


The site is back up now. Not sure what the reason is like you said it could just be maintenance.

"502 Bad Gateway"

And yep, it seems like both guarda wallet and the actual bitcoin gold twitter account endorsed changenow.io. Not sure why exactly, whether they have partnered up with them or they are simply getting paid to say that.

Even though the site is down, when i saw their twitter account there was a latest tweet coming from 27m ago.

Could be just down for maintenance. But no official notice on why this is happening.

Never heard of this one and this being a new website should give you some warning that you shouldn't deal with them. First time that I went to their website provided me an "error loading page" message. I did get through after 3 attempts and with just that information, it smells trouble. Their website is, for the lack of better word, somehow "rip-off" with so many incorrect spellings and not working pages. Stay away from them and find another exchange that will trade your BTG. 

Bitgold official twitter account @bitcoingold endorsed (retweeted) them. That's the only reason I trusted them. Mistake cost me $100k

https://www.dropbox.com/s/73o1y6w9qoob1yw/twit.JPG?dl=0

Red flags are all over dude. Its a new site and what have you seen, there are a a lot of spelling errors and broken pages. For me its good as saying goodbye to you coins. So my .2 BTC is too stay away from it. Just look for more trusted website before you lost all your BTG.

Really??? *falm palm*

Sent BTG to it an hour ago. Received nothing back yet.

Looks like another ShapeShift/Changelly style website. But I never heard of this website, so why use it?
I would just use an exchange to manually sell my BTG.

You can use this website to see every market that has BTG pairs: https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/bitcoin-gold/#markets

It seems to be pretty new. Like less than a week. I want to sell BTG here, but looks very unreliable. Spelling errors, broken pages. Any one have any good experience with this?

I cant sell it in any other place. No wallet accepts deposit. How do I sell now?