What happened:: I have been scammed from a guy who hosted TELEGRAM ICO site and sent him 1.5 ETH , then saw on etherscan that he moved this ETH to YoBit and writed to them for assistance,they told me that they can assist me and return these 1.5 ETH but I have to send at least 1 ETH to address that they gave me to refresh some transaction network,so I sent 1 ETH but because there are transaction fees the address that they gave me received only 0.995 ETH so they told me that I have to send at least 1 ETH so I send again 1.095 ETH to the address that they gave me and started asking what is going on,they asked me ONE TIME is my account balance refunded and I said NO becaues it wasn't refunded and I started to wait for respond from their side almost 1 month,so one day they answered me and told me that I have to refresh my transaction network again by sending 1 more ETH....meanwhile I saw that the ETH that I send before that is transfered to SHAPESHIFT.....I send the last 1 ETH (3 ETH total) and waited for their respond,they told me that because the prices are lower now,the sent ETH is stuck on 1000$ price because when I sent them the prices was about 1000$ and I have to send about 400$ more in ETH because now the prices are lower.I started to ask some questions which maybe isn't comfort to them and they told me that when the price hits 1000$ again they will return all of my ETH back immediately......I got screenshots on all of this conversations but I dont know if they are valuable.....
so,what do you think,I am expecting that some of their employee is scamming me personal but when I read some threads about other scams from YoBit side I started to doubt that I will get my money back,the problem is that they told me that THEY COULD HELP ME , thats why I'm pissed off,if they told me "sorry,we cant help you.." all of this bullshit will be gone and forgotten but now I lost even more money because they told me that they can help me,my hope isn't lost,but this is very shady way for refunding....
What are your thoughts ?
Thanks
Scammers Profile Link: https://bitcointalksearch.org/user/yobit-406594Reference Link: Amount Scammed: 3 ETH (4,5 ETH if they really can help me..) Payment Method: DepositProof of Payment: https://etherscan.io/tx/0xada40c663a66db4ec7f2203bce0d222d4254fa76fb12e88c7dc720e6c0362477
https://etherscan.io/tx/0xe8c062cc52a30f1402adbe80294ac71d419100c99659e70111231a0df5ddf8f8
https://etherscan.io/tx/0xb274cbb882075607eeb1e1aab9621517dea823bad8f5f7afd1d99a42b39d7e3aPM/Chat Logs: Lots of pictures Additional Notes: Please share your thoughts Never send money to someone. If someone ask you to send money to get help, don't send because it should be a scam.
Becareful, because on twitter there was a bot who asked ETH and said that there was an airdrop but people should send them ETH. It is also a scam (i got scammed this way because i was not careful).
If someone ask money to get more money, it should be a scam.
If they put an address where to send a coin or token, search the address on etherdelta to see what this address contains. You should see that it is a scammer. You are going to see the transactions made at this address.
If they put a kind of list on a webpage which looks like there were transactions made, you should also look at etherdelta and you are going to see that this webpage is fake. Also look well at the address name of the website, and also the certificate of the website. The website should be secure and also in the name of the company.
On Bittrex twitter account, they put an article about how to detect a scam webpage. You should look at their twitter. This article explains very well the methods used by the scammers. The scammers are very ingenious. Don't do things quickly as you may be scammed.
Take your time if you need to send money to another person.
For example, someone mention about being scammed by yobit.io. It seems that it is a fake yobit website. They have a valid certificate.
But if you go to yobit.net, in the certificate you can see:
Nom DNS=ssl832280.cloudflaressl.com
Nom DNS=*.yobit.net
Nom DNS=yobit.net
On the yobit.io certificate, they didn't mention any information about the DNS. It may also help to identify if a website is a fake one. You can also see the certificate of Bitcointalk and you are going to see their DNS.