Well this totally sucks... I hope they catch this freaking guy, and he returns our money.. although it will probably never happen.. I noticed that everyone seems to just accept that they have been jacked.. and that sucks... I don't know if you guys have seen what this supposed guy looks like but here's a link to see for yourself.
https://steemit.com/cryptocurrency/@cryptonyte67/coinsmarkets-com-exchange-the-bizarre-scam-that-fooled-the-worldAlso.. if you notice in the whois for coinsmarkets.com it is registered under a Kirkland Washington address... instead of tokyo like it used to be. Apparently the owners alias is Michael Weber..
Last thing... the website actually went down because the domain registrar is locked.. notice below.
Domain Status: registrar-lock*
https://www.icann.org/epp#registrar-lock*
So it is from my understanding that the reason the website got shutdown completely is because of the domain host.. So.. not sure what anyone else's feedback is but we have to keep talking about it in order to keep the story alive and have a possibility of getting our crypto back.
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I highly doubt that 'the' Michael Weber with so many connections to bitcoin is the same guy behind coinsmarkets. Or... maybe it is and this guy is some kind of serial scammer who just can't resist the allure of stealing from people through the most absurdly sociopathic ways ever conceived. I'm glad the website seems to be not working again but I wonder if he'll just spin it up in some other way and get the IPs out for wherever it has a new host again. I mean, that seems to be the enjoyment factor for whoever is running this. for now, they are probably enjoying that people even comment further about it.
Was there ever an accounting of what was lost? I wouldn't doubt if it were into 7-figures.
But yeah, not happy to lose what I lost. I won't say how much it was... It was more than a little but not so much as to stop me from working in crypto. I do operations as a business so I account for expenses and this will be categorized as a theft/fraud loss which happens everyday in business. Don't get me wrong... I'm not at all okay with this but it does come with the territory here in crypto-land.
If they caught every crypto criminal and restored all stolen wealth then bitcoin really would be worth over $100K right now.
