Topic: Coincity-ex.com: is it a scammer? (Read 839 times)

As I feared, Mr Romain Stallaert, who said was working for Melmac Company, has disappeared. Fortunately I didn’t pay anything, but he didn’t recovered my money. The prevision was right

Im glad to hear that. If you don't mind share with all of us step taken to recover your fund. Appreciate your post and reply.

While it is not impossible to get back your assets, it is not as easy as just asking, using attribution technology and blockchain analytics can identify whether wallets are known to be associated with particular types of fraud or with exchanges. That's Melmac Solutions' approach. They have recovered my initial deposits, waiting for the rest of my investment amount this month.

Just read the first page and draw conclusions from the replies of some users there. If you want to invest then avoid saving in centralized services, ignore their bullshit offers that look good, get your personal wallet or HD wallet, buy some bitcoins via p2p and let it grow naturally. This way at least you can sleep better.

Explore this board for some guidance and warnings.

Hello Fgor,

Have you manage to get back your money back ?. This thread looks no update. Im new and intent to try to invest in crypto but I need to gain more knowledge.

Thanks all.

You're literally getting scammed again.

I found a company the Melmac Solutions that are working for me recover my stolen assets within a short time frame, This company was recommended by another person who was scammed by Coincity. They recovered all her money. For that I strongly recommend their service to every victim out there. I am waiting for my money 🙏💪🏻

Ho can I send you a private message

The new website provided links for their Apple and Android users to download. If you are using an iPhone, search the Apple store if this scam site has an application there. And if there is, flag it. Maybe there is an option in the Apple store to report as well, do it.

Reading back your previous posts, you deposited using Tron blockchain. I am unsure how fast Tron support can respond or assist you but do everything possible. Tell them you were scammed and you reported it already to the Italian and HK police departments. In the second link you will give information of the scam company. Unsure if Tron can help you track the scammers Tron addresses but nothing wrong if you try requesting for it.

https://tronscan.org/#/tools/contactUs
https://tronscanorg.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/12255730303641-What-happens-if-I-lose-my-funds

You'd be careful with people giving you links (including me) so you can also search it yourself on Tron blockchain.

I didn’t use app. I put my money through Binance in the platform. I put few money and I earned a lot, at this point I made the big mistake to trust the person who introduced me in coincity. The platform asked me to pay the taxes, I said that it was irregular but the person that said to be expert and friend gave me a part of the amount to pay the taxes and I put the rest. That amount was very big, for me.

I do not want to download anything from this scammy website. They have links to their app for Apple and Android phone users. All I know is the Apple store is more strict with their compliance. They appear to monitor well applications that enter their system. You can also report them there and mention how they scammed you.

I am sorry about what happened to you bud. It is surprising to me how people like you chose exchanges that are shady. I cannot find any information on the team and the company. They are also running a suspicious investment scheme with fixed returns.

Yes, I didn’t get back anything and I don’t hot to recover my money. I am surprised that they can work without problems. I advised the Federal Trade Center and I hope that they will do something, at least to find the persons that use these phone numbers

I've read your story from the beginning, this platform is completely changing to hunt new victims with new names, it's good that you follow them well and warn people about .
But with the passage of all this time, you have not been able to get your money back and I am sure that they will not return anything, so I advise you to stay away from this platform and from Telegram accounts as well because it is possible that you will fall victim to a new fraud. It is better for you to forget this painful incident and try to start over in a well-known and trusted exchange.

Now the platform is called https://www.rebitio.com/#/trade I spoke on Telegram with a “person” who wanted I payed 10000$ to complete “the account funds protection” in order to have my account free.

The strange thing is that I see working both sites: Coincity-ex.com and Coincityce.com. My account is in both

Hello everyone,

Nothing recovered yet. I have reported the scam to the Dubai's Police as a place where the crime was perpetrated. Also on advice of a user of this forum @thmlarge, I have tried to report to the FCA without any legal basis, thus my request was rejected after two days stating that "FCA is unable to assist in recovering funds that have been invested and we do not investigate individual cases of scams. So I suppose, our friend is playing for the other team. Apart from that, I notice that we dominion https://m.coincity-ex.com/ is not more accessible, and only https://www.coincityce.com/ is "working".

Yes. I contacted the Italian postal police and the Hong Kong Postal Police. I was looking for someone that could support them. As you told me many times a lot of people said they were able to help me but I didn’t trust them. For that I was looking for a serious person, not for another scammers, because I don’t know a law firm specialized in internet crime

Many members have already answered you, there is very little chance of getting your money back. €38,000 is a lot of money. Have you reported the case to the local police or internet crime department in your country?
Try seeking a consultation with a local private detective agency or law firm that specializes in Internet crime.

I thank you for your kindness. I understood something, not all. Could you suggest me something to do, I know that it is almost impossible to recover my money but in Italy we say “Hope is the last to die”.

Codes? you mean the addresses? yes it’s possible to follow the trail for most cryptocurrencies which you can easily do on any block explorer e.g. blockchair.com but it does not mean it would answer the questions who and where as they're pseudonymous, not to mention scammers could also obfuscate their tracks. There are some block explorers that labels known exchange address for some coins, so if the scammer did not obfuscate their tracks before they sent the coins to an exchange, there's a good chance you can find that out.

It's worth noting that an average person has way limited resources (likely to be relying on public info/tools) compared to reputable blockchain analysis firms hence be careful with help gestures from strangers, it's most probably shady, and if they mean well, it's likely that they won't be able to do much for you.

Yes. I understood that. But often they ask the numbers of the transactions. I don’t trust them but I wish to know if someone could follow the movement of the transactions using the codes.

These scammers will prey on people who have recently lost money to scams, and will often claim to be law enforcement officials, government officials or lawyers that can help recover lost funds. They will try to get your personal information by claiming that you're entitled to a refund.

Thus, be suspicious of anyone who says they can get your money back, especially if they ask for a fee up front. Avoid sharing personal information online (for example, banking information) with any third party. Make sure you practice good judgment and stay away from anyone that contacts you out of the blue promising to recover money you lost in a scam.

How is made a recovery scam attempt?

Is this where you deposited your bitcoins AKA the scammer's address? Sorry, I'm a bit confused since you said withdrawal address.

I see funds where all sent to a single address-- 3CLPtmd6WNuHhGnx1CuV6DvMT8cUvsmhdH. A quick look indicates the address has also sent some coins to CEXes like gate.io and OKEX.


Typical recovery scam attempt.

This is a very bad Company. Right now i lost 8500$. The people only answer when they believe that they can make money. But when they got it, they dont talk to you anymore.  There is a girl named Stefanie and she swear by the life of her mother that i can trust her. Maybe her mother already died. My luck changed when i was introduced to Broadoak-capital   com  who helped me get all of my money back.

Thanks. I made the complaint to the postal police in Italy and in Hong Kong too

You two, your hopes are actually very low on recovering the funds. What I worry about is that you will be lured in by other scammers who contact you for any recovery services. I recommend that you stop requesting/or receiving internet any helps and start reporting to physical authorities around you.
Just writing a random address for the office is easier than building a real one, they're not at that address.

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Including you? 

I had 2 phone numbers this was of the person who introduced me in Coincity +44 7566 899703
This was of the customer service +852 6691 7574
Did you call this number?

No. They wanted i pay the taxes.

I received an email from [email protected] which sayys that in order to complete the USDT withdrawal I requested, I should customer contact number +447478861688

I don't know if any of you have received it

Thank you for sharing this information. May I ask on what legal basis I can file a report to FCA?

Thank you. Tell me. How they were able to trace those responsible and to recover the money

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) says it is taking “assertive action” against investment scams and has published data about the scale of the problem. Talk to their customer support and your bank. Don't fall for recovery scammers because no one else can help you. I just filed a report and I finally got my initial deposit back. I can guide you on the steps I took.

I had the same experience. The person that scammed me said she was Chinese from Hong Kong.

Hi everyone, just to summarize my experience with that platform.

I did three transactions of the amount of 12,000 euro as it follows:

Withdrawal address: 16ecaq6JLBDPmor9wydhyn42c3Jsu5Zeqc

First transaction: 9f5a83c330939448d3963619e0bb8258f8ac378f15160228057ab3824975c789
Second transaction: f7d1a14f45c8f97fa90ce0328d79efb6bcb020a83893fca031c489a7d6716ae0
Third transaction: d3eec55f2898df9ad22f8ec931caeaa2dbfd8e0bf70a32cea59ddfbbceb08cee

The scammer deposited another 18,000 euro on the same wallet, and then through some contracts selling, the amount raised to 51,000 US Dollars
Once I tried to withdraw to my Binance wallet the amount got froze and was labelled as “under review” and requires to be audited.
I reported everything to the law enforcement in Dubai, since the scammer seemed to be in the UAE with a Malesiyan number.

Yes. My money is considered “available”, only a part, but when I try to withdraw, the amount changes “place”, it goes in the other part, where there is my earns, that is frozen. I don’t know if my explawas clear

So it means that I won't be able to withdraw them as well?

Thank you very much. Your message was really clear. ☺️👍🏻

Unfortunately, no one can help you get your money back, and someone who offers such a service is probably trying to scam you. So be careful.

The only thing blockchain investigators might be able to find out is where the coins went (assuming the scammer was stupid enough and didn't use some sort of coin mixing scheme, which is unlikely). The coins may end up on an exchange or other centralized service, in which case you would need to work with your local law enforcement to try to recover your funds or to get the scammer's contact information in order to pursue other legal actions.

I sent you a PM, reply with all or as many addresses as possible. I think this is connected to another Asian scam.

Yes i can. But where do I have to send the list?
Could you help to recover the money too?

If you can make a list of all the addresses and send them to me I'd appreciate it. Working on a project and I need to collect as many scam addresses as possible. Message it to me please.

Little by little

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This is another

Withdrawal Address : TQhEnPaW2uCVK7zvpueBWLbYX5mCkmPSTb
Transaction ID : 1f259133c5b2d385540f452ec68bfd52e7a4358a77782fcaea2d3188de1114af

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Did you send all the money at once or little by little?

I didn’t have my money back. The Hong Kong Police says that the crime wasn’t made in Hong Kong. I am still trying to figure a solution. For that I wrote here. I punt a message on LinkedIn, were I met the person that scammed me, and on Twitter

Hello,

 I am sorry for the uncomfortable situation, I can feel you. I might be involved in the same scam unfortunately. I would like to follow up on the situation. How did you proceed with recover of money and the report to the authorities?

I appreciate your time and efforts in responding to whatever you can. I am looking forward to hearing from you.

Thanks you and Regards,

Excuse me, I don’t understand what do you need. I can send the number of the transaction from Binance to Coincity (Withdrawal address)

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Perhaps you need these numbers


Withdrawal Address : TQhEnPaW2uCVK7zvpueBWLbYX5mCkmPSTb
Transaction ID : 4d0e7e2c6cd1c79b6f840339e8c16607339fece76f3d9ef7ebf1f3659fa9df50

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Is it right? Of course I have many other code

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Not that, the Bitcoin address or whatever crypto you sent.

Yes. Here
https://m.coincity-ex.com/#/

Can you send me the address you sent the money to?

Now the site use another name too, not only www.coincity-ex.com but also www.coincityce.com and both are accepting the same credentials

I used cryptovalute because the predictive text suggested me that solution.
Of course I wasn’t wise and I threw my money, a lot, I could explain how the story was, nothing of romantic nor interest to earn, but it would be too long and complicated to explain in english.

Same thing on my end. Maybe OP is whitelisted that's why it works for them? judging from OPs reply, we got the link right.


Logic probably gets thrown out of the window. Instead, we have emotions/traits being the main driving force. Some people are too unwary/desperate/greedy/lonely/nice etc... which makes them vulnerable and the perfect target audience to scams.

It seems incredible to me that someone decides to throw all their savings into some unknown company, I would really like to know where such people see the slightest logic that something like that makes sense?

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If you have another 38 000 EUR that you can risk losing, then definitely contact these companies, because you don't think they work for free, do you? If the scammer put even a little effort into all that, then he mixed up your coins in such a way that no one can find them anymore. Your best chance is for the police to find a clue and for there to be others like you, because an international investigation for so little money is not something you should expect.

By the way, why do you use the term cryptovalute, which is an expression that is used mainly in the countries of the Balkans?

The address is:  https://www.coincity-ex.com/#/trade

I cannot insert the screenshoot

maybe we're not talking about the same site, can you post a screenshot of the site so I can see it's working? by this link:

Coincity-ex.com

It is not working, this appears:




can you post a picture of the conversation you have had with support


these scammers won't pay you, they are afflicted with so much money and they ask you to pay tax because they don't have money, their purpose for creating this site is to steal money. they are anonymous on the internet, few countries have enough police in cybercrime departments to meet the huge demand for cybercrime that has arisen every day, and these scammers know this, that's why they steal and go unpunished.

Coincity is still working. I said to the customer service that I didn’t have to pay them the taxes, I asked where i this rule was written in the site, but this is a long question. I cannot resume more than 2 months. I would like to know the way to have back my money.

dude this is a lot of money, and your wife already knows that you lost money on a scam site? for starters why would you pay tax on a non-government website? You know that earnings tax has always been automatically deducted from your earnings when you withdraw to the bank, at least that's how I see it. I've never seen a person having to take money from the bank to pay tax on an anonymous site to be able to withdraw what the person won. anyway:

https://trustedrevie.ws/reviews/coincity-ex.com

I don't know if it wasn't you who posted this, if it wasn't you then it's someone else who fell for this scam

the site now doesn't work:

38000 euro is a lot of money, this is unbelievable,  you should have known that any platform that ask for money in order to release money is almost 100 percent scam.
How can you even deposit such a huge amount of money to a platform you are just using for the first time??
This is really a disaster.

My advice to you now is that you let your wife know about this current situation if she's not already aware,  you both should contact all relevant agencies to see if there's anything they can do to help you recover this money back,  but I highly doubt,  we are looking at a 25/75 situation here.
25 percent is the possibility of money being recovered.
And 75 percent is the possibility that the money is gone forever.

I pray you get help and that luck smiles on you and your wife.

Excuse me. I didn’t want to hide the amount. I lost 38000€ and for me it is a disaster. They were all my savings collected with my wife.

Hello
Again I am very sorry for your loss.
It seems that you lost a large amount in the scam that happened to you. Why don't you tell us how much money you lost so that we can help you because if the amount is small, there is no point in communicating with these agencies because you will lose more than the lost amount in the form of fees for the service.
I do not expect that there are those who have previous experience with one of these agencies because their clients are usually companies and financial institutions that want to track one of the transactions or addresses, and I do not remember that I read about a person who was able to communicate with one of these agencies and succeeded in recovering his money.
The Italian police or the Hong Kong police are the ones who can communicate with one of the agencies to track these operations and this is their duty.

Hello,
Another question
I spoke with Binance the suggested me to contact an agency that look for the traces of cryptovalute
I wrote them and they said I can contact one of these link to find help
Please seek a consultation with a Digital Asset Recovery/ Cryptocurrency Fraud Investigations service. Below is our list of recommended organizations:
@ CyberTrace [email protected]
BlockTrace < https://www.blocktrace.com/  based in Texas
CipherBlade https://cipherblade.com/
CoinStructive https://coinstructive.com/ based in California
CNC Intel https://cncintel.com/”

Do you know them. Is it a good chance?
Thank you 🙏

This person, that I knew on LinkedIn, is surely involved in the scam.

This is the person you should report to the police as he might be involved into this scam and knows who the website owner is. I hoe you know him personally and he is not just a random guy you met on the Internet.
I couldn't find any information about the company (license, location..) on their about us page and since they used namecheap then they've mostly registered the domain name anonymously.
Don't trust anyone who contacts you saying he can help you recover your money.

On the other hand, I'm not sure any company information presented on the website is real insofar as they are scammers. All the police need to do is monitor the deposit addresses and hopefully one day they will sweep the balance and end up on a centralized account address.

From my PC, their default language is Korean

I think you're correct report on HongKong police since the website is using Chinese language, maybe the another option is Taiwan, I doubt it's China since they're ban all cryptocurrency related. Maybe you can wait until the HongKong police already take an action about your case, so you will know which thing you need to do next. They could no have any idea with crypto and might ask you to contact crypto lawyer, the thing is there's many scammer out there.

Because the ID is located in Hong Kong and the person that suggested me to invest there said that Coincity is located in Hong Kong.  Which police should I report to? Do you find an address? I thank you for your help.

I agree with you, because the first look at the page reveals that it is an amateur work, especially all the links that should lead to social networks or "about, user support..." behind which there is a blank page. It is hard for me to believe that someone thinks it is logical to invest in something that is so poorly presented that it literally warns of a scam.

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Is there a special reason why you are contacting the police in HK? The domain is registered on namecheap and the real owner is hidden according to the information I can see...

I thank you for your competence and kindness. 🙏 I sent all my transactions to Italian Police and to Hong Kong Police. They have all the numbers of the transactions from Binance to Coincity

No problem. Most of us aren't native english speakers, so sometimes things go wrong during translation

As for getting your money back: i'm afraid crypto transactions are irreversible...
Getting your money back will involve law enforcement. You can help them a little bit by tracking transactions and hoping they don't pass a mixer and end up on a KYC exchange, but your odds are very (very) slim i'm afraid.

Anyways, i hope you get lucky.

I explained badly, excuse me. I am sure that it is a scam. I went one month ago to Italian postal police and I wrote to Police of Hong Kong too. I only said that the site was working.
I wished to know if there were a possibility to recover my money, at least a part. I thank you all for your very  interesting comments.

It works so well they got your initial deposit AND managed to squeeze you for the money for "tax" and it looks you're still not convinced this is a scam... Or at least, that's the feeling i get from your response.

It's quite simple: you're responsible for your own finances. We all warned you about all the red flags and the typical scam behavior. If you value the layout of that site over our experience, you could always just ignore our warnings and proceed... There's nothing stopping you. The only thing you cannot expect is us condoning a site that exhibits many of the red flags of a typical scammer.

Maybe you get lucky (and we got it wrong), but i seriously doubt it... All in all, there's nothing more to say...

I wish you good luck, and i hope you won't lose any more money than you already did!

The site works well. All the functions are ok. I see my earned money as “frozen” and the money for the taxes “available”

I'm afraid your money is gone. Click on any button at the bottom of the landing page and you will see that they do not work, a poor quality website is always a red flag.

If they ask you to pay first (which won't be deducted in your balance) in order to withdraw, it's a scam + their reasons were ridiculous lmao. In the future, avoid no-one-has-ever-heard-of exchanges like this.

Two things you may wanna check:

1. if the loss is tax deductible, for instance see: https://koinly.io/guides/ (I'd consult a CPA to be extra sure)
2. recovery chances are extremely low but another thing to try is to see if your coins went to a centralized exchange using a block explorer that tags known addresses e.g. oxt.me for bitcoin, etherscan.io for ETH - if the coins did, you would need to involve the authorities.

They will not pay you even if you fulfill the "tax" request. I wonder what made you fall in love with investing in a completely messy site's page?
Check out the following sites and you understand that you are being scammed.
https://bitget-coin.com
https://www.ftplus-en.com

But if i read your posts correctly you DID invest with them, but when you wanted to withdraw they asked you for more money to pay for "taxes" (eventough they could have used  part of your money they already had), and you DID pay those "taxes".  Then they apparently still didn't want to release the funds (because you say your friend had to help you?) and now they're asking a ridiculous amount of money as a "warranty".

Now ask yourself: why would they need cryptocurrency as a "warranty" to give you your own money back? There simply isn't any reason to do so... If they were legit, they would have taken the taxes from your money they already had access to, and maybe they'd force you to go trough a KYC procedure... There simply isn't any reason to ask for more money, cause this will prove nothing... What would they be doing? You give them $20k, they then proceed to give you your own money back and the $20k extra? Is having $20k a sign of honesty? For them, asking such an amount would prove nothing and it would solve nothing... The only thing it solves is their scam methodology.

There are multiple red flags here:

• continuously asking for more money because they won't release your money if you don't pay them more money first (pro tip: if somebody asks you to pay money in order to get money, it's 99,9999% certain that it's a scam)
• domain is only 89 days old
• hidden whois info

I can be wrong, but after looking at that site, it was pretty hard to navigate, the wording seemed strange to me, the proceeds seems relatively high... All in all, i'm pretty sure this is a scam. You're free to do whatever you want, but if it was my money, i'd go straight to the cops and i certainly wouldn't give those guys any more money.

I didn’t pay. The platform is still working you can find it as www.Coincity-ex.com

Ouch...
Sounds a lot like a scammer trying to scam some extra money from their scam victim by trying to make them pay for "taxes", then for "warrantee", and if you'd pay that, i'm pretty sure they'll say you also have to pay to "unlock your account", and before they leave they'll make you pay a "fine". And once you've payed all that, they'll dissapear and they'll probably contact you using a different identity and offering you to help you find the scammers for a nominal fee.

It's been said in this very thread: walk away... Every cent you give to these people is gone forever. Even if they offer to "free" all your money for a very small sum, they'll just keep that sum on top of everything they've taken from you.

The only thing left to do, is contacting your local law enforcement (if possible). Odds are big they'll do nothing, but at least your complaint will be on file, and if they ever catch those scammers you might have a very, very small chance you'll get part of your money back.

To bad you to fall for two times on a scam platform and this scam scheme is so classic where they promise  a to good to be true profit and then ask for money again so that their victim can withdraw the amount they wanted to get. Much better if you move on because no one can help you as those scammers for sure don't have plans to return your money.

And next time don't believe on anyone who claims that they can help you and ask some amount as payment since they possibly scam you again for third time.

I can enter in the site from smart phone, tablet and computer too. I think that I got a scam because they always used new reasons to block the payment. First the taxes; second the taxes should be payed only by one account (a friend helped me); third the said that there was the suspect of laundering dirty money and they wanted 20000$ a warranty of my account.  I didn’t payed this amount.

This link Coincity-ex.com doesn't work in my end. It shows an error written in Chinese.
Where did you find that platform and how you paid taxes with a friend?
It seems to be a successful scam attempt. I didn't hear about this platform before. It has a lot of negative reviews in almost all rating platforms. You had to search and check before using it with real money.
Sorry for your loss. Unfortunetly, you have nothing to do and zero chance to get your money back. I hope you didn't lose a considerable amount of money.

I made some investments on Coincity-ex.com platform. When I wanted to withdraw my money they didn’t give me back. They wanted the payment of taxes!! I payed them helped by a friend and they said that it was irregular, only one can pay for taxes. I payed the whole amount and they didn’t give me the money. I am still waiting for it.
Can someone help me? Do you know this platform? Did you ever invested on it?