Topic: CoinGather is officially hacked (Read 2648 times)

Me too first time I've heared though the miney shouldn't be a problem since it's not that familiar of a site so maybe it's a little attack that holds almost nothing though it's not literally nothing just implying that it's a bit low. The site's been down for quite some time but if the devs are actively engaged it wouldn't have been this long to revive their site unless they actually bailed out as you've said seems fishy to me.

Hello @amir714, it says "Please refer back to this page for future updates regarding the status of accounts held on the exchange", I remember seeing this page back then. Pls can you gimme the exact page link now?

Latest update

March 15, 2018

Information on Coingather.com Seizure

The Coingather.com domain has been seized by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in accordance with a seizure warrant issued pursuant to 18 U.S.C. §§ 981, 982, and 1960 upon a probable cause finding by the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio that the Coingather domain was used, or was intended to be used, to commit or facilitate criminal violations of 18 U.S.C. § 1960 (Prohibition of unlicensed money transmitting businesses). Please refer back to this page for future updates regarding the status of accounts held on the exchange.

If you would like to file a complaint and have not already done so, please visit www.IC3.gov. Please include in the body of the complaint a reference to “Coingather” and your contact information, including the e-mail address that you originally registered with the exchange.

Damn @rapta i lost all dogecoin by coingather i hope you family will see hell by anything he do it

Is only one consequence of the war.
But I'm not sure if it's the result of a war with the FIAT world,
or whether it is not more the result of a war among the cryptocurrencies themselves.

The Crypto world get more then more to, enviousness, greed and get to a mammonism, like FIAT-people.

But if we can understand and act, I think it will be good for us।ithink is site made PTC and hijip sites to steal people's money, scammers have made something more disciplined, IOC and exchange are gold minutes for thieves.

I seriously think the government won't do any shit.

Why would government nail this guy?

Anyone contact the cops yet?

We have enough info on this thread to nail this guy

Patience is a must.
Things don't work that fast in the real world, take a look at what happened in Gox or inputs.io
The FBI will not just knock at his door, handcuff him and the beat the crap out of him in cell to get his coins.

First thing you should do is start preparing your case and better contact a lawyer or a groups that secured one already.
You're going to need proofs you had coins there and those coins are gone and back-up all the data you have about this exchange.
You guys should really unite in one case, I've already seen 3 Facebook groups, that is just wasting time and resources.

Anybody has an estimate on the total sum (btc value).
Trade volume was quite low, but wonder how much was in he wallets.

And the instability of these exchanges is incredible, in the case of Coin I know many people who had significant values that were in the loss. So far they have not given any explanation at all by the media.

Some people in the middle suggested that those who were injured by the exchange should seek the police force to file a formal complaint against the administrators of the exchange. These weeks also rounded on the internet several news reports that the FBI is investigating the CoinGather disappearance case.

You can't, bitcoin transactions are irreversible, you can only get your coin back if the owner decided to refund the coins back to his customer.

FBI will need to investigate the case first before they can make a move and seize the server or arrest the owner, this will take time.

Because the users decided to store bunch of coins inside  an exchange, this happened on multiple exchanges and always will until people learned their lesson

So how can we recover all our money? If this guy resides in the US and nothing is done to him, then US isn't what they said they are. The FBI should come into this matter. How can one guy go away with millions of USD$ if not Billions and let him go free. US government need to do something about it.

There is allready a facebook group.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/372392603208367/

I just sent an email to the local detective at the Township I am attaching a copy of that email. I have also started a FB group to get everyone together please join it at

https://www.facebook.com/groups/357718581358165/

Also if anyone has Contact information for an Attorney that would have any clue how to file this please let me know.


Good Morning,

Thank you for taking the time to speak with me last Friday. This is Marlena Carver we spoke regarding the cryptocurrency exchange website coingather.com. Per our conversation I am sending you the detailed information in this email regarding the theft.

On November 22, 2017 the Cryptocurrency Exchange website Coingather.com went offline and subsequently took all of the Users Financial Holdings within the exchange. The exchange is owned by a resident in your Jurisdiction from what the Toledo, OH sheriffs department stated.

The Exchange owned by David C. Bushea (AKA. Rapta) age 32 with an address listed on the Godaddy registrar of 2910 Moffat Rd Toledo, OH 43615.

My holdings on coingather are in an excess of $XXXXXX USD over XX Bitcoins. I am one of 1000's of users that have been victimized by this exchange.

On November 29, 2017 @ 9:06 A.M I filled a referral form with https://complaint.ic3.gov/
This Morning I also filled a report with the Atlanta FBI field office with a officer ID # XXXX. I would like to file a report/charges with your department as well.

I am attaching news articles relating to the disappearance of Coingather.com as well as links to the forums regarding the Theft with many of the other victims.

https://news.bitcoin.com/coingather-exchange-has-been-offline-for-days-and-no-one-knows-why/
https://www.bitcoinmarketinsider.com/coingather-offline-for-days/
https://bitcoinexchangeguide.com/coingather-exchange-shuts-down/

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/coingather-is-officially-hacked-2461774

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/coingather-website-giving-cloudfare-warnings-and-unable-to-connect-2450047

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/is-coingather-down-2454147

If you need any other information from me please email me back at [email protected] or call me at 404-860-4009. I look forward to hearing back from you regarding the next step in filling charges.

Sincerely,

Marlena Carver

Good Morning Everyone,

I have Spoken with the FBI as well as Sylvania Sherrifs Department, I have also taken all the information that everyone has sent me that has been confirmed to both organizations. On all of our part. Every Victim of Coingather needs to compile any proof of account and holdings (anything from personal logs, screenshots, deposit or withdraw emails ect.) and send them to both the local and federal agencies.

If you have not already please file a report at https://complaint.ic3.gov/, This is going to take alot of work with our community to repair this Robbery. I would like to create a community FB group to work on this together https://www.facebook.com/groups/357718581358165/.

Please Join this group on FB.

Stop calling it officially hacked. If it was hacked then site owner and his people should give us a feedback (or are they really that scared no give a statement?). The owner run away with clients money. He's a scam unless proven innocent in this case.

Thank you for taking the time to file a complaint.   There is an FBI Internet Crime division where you can also file a complaint.  Through Twitter, I have attached a couple of posts.  I filed an FBI report but didn't have near the information you have found. See posts below:


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The #HTMLCOIN community contacted the FBI regarding the disappearance of Coingather. The FBI informed them that they were already investigating. All of us Fill out this form to help build the case faster.

FBI Cleveland: Phone: (216) 522-1400

http://complaint.ic3.gov/default.aspx#
4:59 PM - 28 Nov 2017

Perhaps you are part of the group but there is also a Facebook group that has been created to consolidate information -

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If you lost with #coingather just join to FB “coingather fraud” group they tried to find all the people lost their coins and go to the court
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Coingather is Hosted in cisp.com OHIO ... The owner @rapta is David C Bushea Jr. He is there and do not answer our calls anymore.

Denúncia​ ​no​ ​FTC​ ​(Federal​ ​Trade​ ​Comission):
1) Ligar no +1 877 438 4338 e solicitar abertura de uma reclamação (complaint).
2) Relatar o caso e pegar o número do protocolo.
3) Enviar email para [email protected] com o seguinte teor:
Subject: Additional information about complaint #XXXXXX

I just called FTC and opened a complaint. The number is XXXXXX. Just a summary about
my case: This year I created an account at www.coingather.com, a bitcoin/cryptocurrency
exchange. I have an amount equivalent to USD XXXXX (in Bitcoin current price on
11/29/2017) stored at this exchange. Since November 23, Coingather has vanished itself
and now I don't have access to my money anymore. There are hundreds (possibly
thousands) of people complaining about this on the internet and we have not received any
official communication from Coingather team not even heard any news about them. All their
communication through social media has ceased since the day the website went down and
they are also not answering any e-mails, tweets and any other
communication channel.
Is I told the FTC atendant, I'm not accusing anyone of theft. But I and a group of other
people who were victims of the same company decided to perform a complex research on
the internet in order to try to find the responsible for this scam. We found a lot of information
that lead us to one guy. His name is David C. Bushea. You can find below all information
that we got and how we linked all the information to reach this guy:
- WebSite: www.coingather.com
- Contact e-mail: [email protected]
- Suspect Name: David C. Bushea
- A guy named David Bushea registered the domain www.coingather.com in March 2014 -
Source:
https://www.domainhistory.net/coingather.com
- He used the nickname "Rapta" for support on social media and he was talking about his
other website: mscmall.info, that was also registered by David Bushea:
https://www.domainhistory.net/mecmall.info (PO box from OHIO)
- David Bushea uses nickname "Rapta":
https://forums.cpanel.net/threads/api-addition-request-killpkg.25770/
- "Rapta" talks about mecmall.info: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/ann-exchange-coingather-720274
- The domain "www.rapta.net" is registered under David Bushea:
https://www.domainhistory.net/rapta.net
- The email "[email protected]" is associated with a PO Box in Maumee/OH. Using
this tool "https://www.instantcheckmate.com/" we found a link between David Bushea's
Facebook profile and a Github account that has the CoinGather's source code inside:
https://github.com/coingather/
- David's Facebook profile shows that he is located in Maumee/OH -
https://www.facebook.com/david.bushea.1
- The website https://publicrecords.directory/profiles/david-bushea.1856716.html shows that
David C Bushea has 2 emails with the nickname "Rapta": [email protected] and
[email protected]
All the information above was collected by a huge community that is desperately trying to get
their criptocoins back. Our intention is to help the authorities and speed up the investigation;
we all suspect of the same individual and you will probably get many complaints with the
same information

Nice Work, DarkOm - have you forwarded this information to the FBI or shared it with the Facebook Coingather Fraud group?

ok, what can we really do with this information?
Can the FBI arrest him?

Info about Coingather owner
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WebSite: www.coingather.com
Contact e-mail: [email protected]
Suspect Name: David C. Bushea

Registered the domain in 2014 - Source: https://www.domainhistory.net/coingather.com

Used the nickname "RAPTA" for support on social media and he was talking about his other website: mscmall.info
that was also registered by David Bushea: https://www.domainhistory.net/mecmall.info (PO box from OHIO)

David Bushea uses nickname Rapta: https://forums.cpanel.net/threads/api-addition-request-killpkg.25770/
Rapta talks about mecmall.info: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/ann-exchange-coingather-720274

The domain "www.rapta.net" is registered under David Bushea: https://www.domainhistory.net/rapta.net

The email "[email protected]" is associated with a PO Box in Maumee - Ohio

Using this tool "https://www.instantcheckmate.com/" we found a link between David Bushea facebook and a Github account that has the CoinGather's source code inside. "https://github.com/coingather/"

David's Facebook shows that he is located in Maumee - Ohio - "https://www.facebook.com/david.bushea.1"

This website "https://publicrecords.directory/profiles/david-bushea.1856716.html" shows that David C Bushea has 2 emails with the nickname "RAPTA": [email protected], [email protected]
www.domainhistory.net

https://www.domainhistory.net/coingather.com

Yup, I'm always weary of putting my money into something that hasn't established its reputation yet. Like @magneto said, stick to top exchanges. I just got into Binance the other day and it seems to be working just fine for me. It's highly unlikely they run off with people's coins because they're making a ton off of their fees alone.

Anything can happen though. Let's not forget the infamous Mt.Gox breakdown... Dropped BTC prices and drove people mad.

This is the reason why whale traders stick to exchanges that are legibly registered and exchange owners identified as they cannot really run easily. So i'd rather stick on top exchanges.

Still down as we speak...

How come you know that it's "officially hacked"? It seems like you are aware that the chances are that the admin just took off with user funds big time, if it was a hack they probably would have stayed up or at least made some announcements.

Sad for anyone who had BTC on their site. Another example why you should NEVER store large amounts of BTC on an exchange for no reason.

https://www.sitelinks.info/coingather.com/

I've been doing a lot of digging and on this site - at some point in the past 4 developers did work on Coingather/API - I'm not a techy but I would assume that when developers help website owners etc - they much know who they are dealing with. 

I am in the US and I won't rest until I find what happened to my coins!  Rapta - if you are reading these messages - if you are alive and well - and have any self respect let us know what's happened!  CBWriternyc

Hi Specktroman,

Out of curiosity, how do you know if my funds are still in my wallet on Coingather? How can we check addresses?  I hate to think the worst but what else are we supposed to think? It's been a week and Rapta has disappeared? No social media announcements have been made - which we all know can be quite effective.  I've been doing a lot of digging and there is a ton of information about Coingather on different internet monitoring websites. Even though it was a small exchange compared to some - still thousands of people visited everyday and I'm they feel as helpless as I feel.

So whoever is reading this - I've spent the last few days - tweeting, emailing new organizations, authorities etc to get some attention on this - and I think anyone who wants to needs to do the same.  Check out this site - follow the different links - DM me  (CBWriternyc) on Twitter or here and lets start building our case.  https://www.sitelinks.info/coingather.com/. 

Seems like they've been in business for a while and though it feels like a scam - maybe it's run by one person and that person got sick, or something.  I've love to give them the benefit of the doubt but ever if you were sick - tell a friend to post a message on your twitter feed or something.  We can understand technical difficulties, sickness etc - I can't stand silence, not in this day and age when social media makes it easy to do make announcements or place notices.

https://www.sitelinks.info/coingather.com/

https://twitter.com/bitcoinnetwork3/status/935674469590343680

I am sorry for the money lost but in the forum there has been a dozen warnings about not keeping your money in exchanges except a very few which you will do trading with. And that warning has been for much better known exchanges which they turned scam too. So I am not surprised at all if another exchanges from the mass has pulled an exit scam. Users have the main duty to safeguard their coins and not believing that some exchange will do the same for you.

Cloudfare can only open their customer's info when there are official letter from the authorities, you can contact the FBI via Emails and wait for their response, if they can arrest the owner of BTC e, why can't do the same with coingather

Even then, there are a chance that Rapta registered using fake data.

Regardless on if the site was Hacked or if Rapta ran off with our money. The fact stands that he has had more then enough time my now to make an announcement and update everyone on the situation. Further more I am offering a bounty to be determined by the information received for ALL the exchange and owner info.

They have so many accounts that it's going to take a while for all those funds to be moved and not a lot of people have the private keys meaning they have all the time in the world to move the funds.

Even if there were no official info, the fact that Coingather has been silent for days now is a sign that there are problem within their website, whether it's a hack or they're running with their user's money (or maybe they're just incompetent in managing their social media).
How long are you going to monitor their addresses anyway, 2 years?

Look, based on the past exchangers who ran away with their user's money, things are not looking good for Coingather, even if they did comeback I'd bet most of their users will withdraw their alts and btc asap.

Do not make any FUD. There is no official info about beeing hacked. The funds is in all wallets we can check the addresses. No BTC was moved from there. Stop talking shit.

Right, we need new technology for the exchanges.

Its just becoming hard everyday to have a trust on the exchange sites in the crypto world entirely both the established ones and not so popular ones

For the established ones, in as much as they the likelihood of them running off with users money, is low (although its a possibility), they are fond if series of policy change that would take effect immediately, bad customer support that tickets will have to be open for several days, etc.

And for the not so popular ones, they tend to be more faster with answering of tickets but at the same time they really don't have much to lose in terms of reputation like the case of what is happening here so they can just betray clients confidence and bolt as they wish.

Moral of the story, the moment you have huge funds on an exchange, never wait till tomorrow before taking action, that might be the most costly mistake ever made

I haven't deposited there anything or even don't have any account there. I have never heard that name before, I don't think many have lost their coins with it.

However it looks like there are few traders who used to hold quite good amount of bitcoin there.
$93000 daily trade volume means atleast 11BTC+ has gone...

Looks like it's an exit scam. Anyone who has used to site I advise you to change your passwords and emails because you can count your money on it he will use them maliciously or sell them on. This is the risk with the smaller exchanges that they can exit so fast and don't have any identity linked with the exchange.

It's actually the first time I've heard of that exchange. Sads news though.
This is why decentralized exchanges matter. Even the largest, most deemingly trustworthy companies bail out.

So my hunch were right, down websites without any updates on their social media are a big sign that they're either "Hacked" or pulling an exit scam.
Nice timing for exit scam too, Btc just reached $9k

Never trust an exchange, even if they're long established within the community, we never know what they'll do in the future.
Hence the reason many users always recommend not to put large fund within the exchange wallet.
Let's learn from Mt.gox and Crpytsy Incident (and now probably CoinGather) how to secure our Coins safely

This site is unpopular even though it was announced here few years back, also there were posts about withdrawal issue before this offline thing. Seems that several users of the site came here on bitcointalk because of this. I saw newbies posting in the ANN Thread about the site being inaccessible since 23rd.

It's really hard to trust exchanges, new or old, trusted or well known, the thing is they are holding people's money and they could run anytime.

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/ann-exchange-coingather-720274

I just checked coinmarketcap and see the trading volumes and its aside from few good coins like ETH, that exchanges has been trading shitcoins. LOL.

It's a sign that this exchange will run off with their money with those trading volumes as well. Some of the coins in there, I haven't heard of them.

Not sure though how much money they got from their customers but I'm sure not that much but it is still a scam if the site didn't get back. But I wouldn't be surprise if they didn't.

I was commenting on this in another post, First the thieves created PTC and HYIP sites to steal people's money, this scheme became less profitable, now the scammers have evolved into something more sophisticated, ICOs and exchange have become the gold mine for thieves

" CoinGather site admin has officially ran off customer bitcoins by pulling out an exit scam. "

Registrant Contact Information:

Name: Registration Private

https://who.is/whois/coingather.com

Now should report the case to the police and pray that they find the thief

CoinGather site admin has officially ran off customer bitcoins by pulling out an exit scam.

Site down : https://www.coingather.com/

News : https://news.bitcoin.com/coingather-exchange-has-been-offline-for-days-and-no-one-knows-why/

RIP money