this site is getting mass spammed in pm on every gambling site
a scammer is sending personal messages to players asking to "help to recover his money"
because he is from China and cannot withdraw , then he sends you the link to this scam exchange
so this is the site used to defraud people of their coins , beware
never agree to help random strangers on the internet , especially if they ask you to send something somewhere
Topic: Expocoin confirmed to scam me .03 btc (Read 224 times)
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This happened to me recently. A user named Zai21 on LuckyFish casino messaged me saying "hi". I responded with "sup", and he said:
"ok listen im from China and i have money on one site but i cant withdraw it because my region ban let me send you this money and you withdraw it and send me you can keep 0.1 btc for help"
I suspected an obvious scam, but I generally like to try to appear to be an easy target and follow through with scam attempts, if only to gain additional information about what methods scammers use to deceive unsuspecting victims. I would post screenshots of the exchange, but my account status is still Newbie so I'll just copy/paste and summarize.
"ok listen im from China and i have money on one site but i cant withdraw it because my region ban let me send you this money and you withdraw it and send me you can keep 0.1 btc for help"
I suspected an obvious scam, but I generally like to try to appear to be an easy target and follow through with scam attempts, if only to gain additional information about what methods scammers use to deceive unsuspecting victims. I would post screenshots of the exchange, but my account status is still Newbie so I'll just copy/paste and summarize.
Good job.
There is no reason for any stranger to trust you with such high amounts of money if they were actually legit about it. As long as you know that the funds you receive on a site that you have never heard of before in your life holds absolutely no real value, you should be able to avoid all scams of this nature.
You'll also find that this type of scam will run on multiple sites/domain names, but the structure remains the same each time, which makes it fairly easy to spot.
Just don't believe that someone you don't know is going to give you funds for free when they can literally use a VPN at a fraction of a cost. That's common sense.
This happened to me recently. A user named Zai21 on LuckyFish casino messaged me saying "hi". I responded with "sup", and he said:
"ok listen im from China and i have money on one site but i cant withdraw it because my region ban let me send you this money and you withdraw it and send me you can keep 0.1 btc for help"
I suspected an obvious scam, but I generally like to try to appear to be an easy target and follow through with scam attempts, if only to gain additional information about what methods scammers use to deceive unsuspecting victims. I would post screenshots of the exchange, but my account status is still Newbie so I'll just copy/paste and summarize.
I told them I'd be happy to help them out, and they asked if I had Telegram. I said yes, and they said:
"register on the exchange expocoin.net i send you btc on site then you get them from the exchange to your wallet and send me my soul mate"
*eyeroll*.. I did create an account on the site (not realizing at the time it was a totally fraudulent exchange platform), and proceeded with the charade of him (Telegram username was Chuiia) sending me 1.2 btc on the site and then giving me an address to withdraw 1.1 (allowing me to keep 0.1). Then there was an error message when I tried to withdraw to the wallet specified saying that the site required a deposit from their users of at least 0.02 btc before they could withdraw (didn't make much sense; something about in an effort to reduce bots or something). I told the guy on Tele and he seemed super nervous and frustrated and said if I made the deposit he'd let me keep 0.15 btc instead.
At this point I started looking at the site a bit more closely and found that although it looked somewhat believable, any of the links to go to the actual exchange were just dead, and the only seemingly functional part of it was a roulette-style game similar to the one on CoinOpen (dot io). I tried playing two different rounds using some of the "btc" that the user had transferred, and I won both rounds. The user was getting all aggro toward me on Tele saying things like "send me my btc now" and stuff, threatening to contact support to have me banned, I guess trying to convince me that it was legitimate coin that he desperately wanted back.
I eventually took a glance at the site's HTML/CSS data and quickly found that the entire looping contents of the fake chat frame. I sent him a screenshot of that and asked why he was still trying to convince me of anything and a minute or so later my IP had been blacklisted.
Overall, pretty clever little scam and I bet they manage to dupe quite a few less experienced people.
"ok listen im from China and i have money on one site but i cant withdraw it because my region ban let me send you this money and you withdraw it and send me you can keep 0.1 btc for help"
I suspected an obvious scam, but I generally like to try to appear to be an easy target and follow through with scam attempts, if only to gain additional information about what methods scammers use to deceive unsuspecting victims. I would post screenshots of the exchange, but my account status is still Newbie so I'll just copy/paste and summarize.
I told them I'd be happy to help them out, and they asked if I had Telegram. I said yes, and they said:
"register on the exchange expocoin.net i send you btc on site then you get them from the exchange to your wallet and send me my soul mate"
*eyeroll*.. I did create an account on the site (not realizing at the time it was a totally fraudulent exchange platform), and proceeded with the charade of him (Telegram username was Chuiia) sending me 1.2 btc on the site and then giving me an address to withdraw 1.1 (allowing me to keep 0.1). Then there was an error message when I tried to withdraw to the wallet specified saying that the site required a deposit from their users of at least 0.02 btc before they could withdraw (didn't make much sense; something about in an effort to reduce bots or something). I told the guy on Tele and he seemed super nervous and frustrated and said if I made the deposit he'd let me keep 0.15 btc instead.
At this point I started looking at the site a bit more closely and found that although it looked somewhat believable, any of the links to go to the actual exchange were just dead, and the only seemingly functional part of it was a roulette-style game similar to the one on CoinOpen (dot io). I tried playing two different rounds using some of the "btc" that the user had transferred, and I won both rounds. The user was getting all aggro toward me on Tele saying things like "send me my btc now" and stuff, threatening to contact support to have me banned, I guess trying to convince me that it was legitimate coin that he desperately wanted back.
I eventually took a glance at the site's HTML/CSS data and quickly found that the entire looping contents of the fake chat frame. I sent him a screenshot of that and asked why he was still trying to convince me of anything and a minute or so later my IP had been blacklisted.
Overall, pretty clever little scam and I bet they manage to dupe quite a few less experienced people.
Seems similar to scam attempt like this one: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/new-scam-cryptoxbnbcom-upd-tronxwalletcom-httpstronxcashcom-5106397 . You must have been inactive otherwise there were many reports like this made in around Sep last year till the end of last year IIRC,
The scammer will ask for your help and in return will promise to compensate you a certain amount of money. When it comes about money then money is the motivating factor. They forget to do due diligence or ask themselves "is it too good to be true".
I have visited that site and do not seem to be professional or have anything to motivate me to send money to them.
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The scammer will ask for your help and in return will promise to compensate you a certain amount of money. When it comes about money then money is the motivating factor. They forget to do due diligence or ask themselves "is it too good to be true".
Are you sure that the right site is "expocoin.com"? I have visited that site and do not seem to be professional or have anything to motivate me to send money to them.
Maybe you mean ----> expocoin.net [Scam site].
Generally, sorry for losing your money. I have not understood your case clearly but the money has been sent to a mixing service and may be difficult to recover.
Check the accounts again and consider that BTC is a sacrifice for future learning.
Maybe you mean ----> expocoin.net [Scam site].
Generally, sorry for losing your money. I have not understood your case clearly but the money has been sent to a mixing service and may be difficult to recover.
Check the accounts again and consider that BTC is a sacrifice for future learning.
You should really fix the chat logs. Really hard to read.
Never heard of the site. Anyway, so what happened was you lend money from shasan's lending service to help someone. Most likely, you don't know this someone (correct me if I'm wrong). You wanted to help him because you will get something in return as he says. If I understand correctly, out of 1.3 BTC he claimed he has, he will give you 1.2 BTC if you deposit. It's already too good to be true if that's the case. **red flag**
This is not only fake gambling sites' tactic to scam, but also online crypto generator, fake online mining sites etc. I agree to @Royse777. This should serve as a lesson to you. Don't fall for this kind of dirty scam trick
Sad to say, but you are the victim of the scam, sashan has nothing to do with it. The loan you got is your reaponsibility. You need to pay no matter what. Sashan will just be a victim if you will not pay if ever (a victim of you and not of the scammer)
Be extra careful next time and wish you good luck in repaying the loan.
Never heard of the site. Anyway, so what happened was you lend money from shasan's lending service to help someone. Most likely, you don't know this someone (correct me if I'm wrong). You wanted to help him because you will get something in return as he says. If I understand correctly, out of 1.3 BTC he claimed he has, he will give you 1.2 BTC if you deposit. It's already too good to be true if that's the case. **red flag**
This is not only fake gambling sites' tactic to scam, but also online crypto generator, fake online mining sites etc. I agree to @Royse777. This should serve as a lesson to you. Don't fall for this kind of dirty scam trick
Sad to say, but you are the victim of the scam, sashan has nothing to do with it. The loan you got is your reaponsibility. You need to pay no matter what. Sashan will just be a victim if you will not pay if ever (a victim of you and not of the scammer)
Be extra careful next time and wish you good luck in repaying the loan.
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To access the withdraw you need to make a first deposit for activate your account.
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This is a warning.
Whenever you will find anyone is asking to deposit first to withdraw then consider it as a warning of scam attempt. I have seen several cases like this in fake gambling sites. I the scam accusations board you will find some if you look for but I did not have idea that now people moved to exchange concept too.
You should not give them a penny.
Logically, there are no valid reason to deposit first to withdraw whatever you have with any site.
What happened:: someone from expocoin scammed me .03 btc when i tried to help someone. i knew that was a scam, though when he did not respond that the address i needed to get.
Scammers Profile Link: not sure, because it did not claim to have a btc profile but it is www.expocoin.com <--- scam site! do not get in
Reference Link: https://prnt.sc/n1rp41 this is a photo about parts of the transaction
Amount Scammed: .03 btc
Payment Method: bitcoin
Proof of Payment: https://www.blockchain.com/btc/tx/3c988b617d9aeeacb86ae3f7f56966d372d8b75d68d98aed39f02cb5cbd66a88 https://www.blockchain.com/btc/tx/dcd2472d3f7192678b8e6a8a8f2e21930f1d3e5d87d0637ba5ec8a65c796269c
PM/Chat Logs:
Additional Notes: i tried this method from shasan's loaning. so i have to apologise that i am likely made him a victim as well
i might not have further proof because the initial conversation was in bitvest site, probably it is gone.
Scammers Profile Link: not sure, because it did not claim to have a btc profile but it is www.expocoin.com <--- scam site! do not get in
Reference Link: https://prnt.sc/n1rp41 this is a photo about parts of the transaction
Amount Scammed: .03 btc
Payment Method: bitcoin
Proof of Payment: https://www.blockchain.com/btc/tx/3c988b617d9aeeacb86ae3f7f56966d372d8b75d68d98aed39f02cb5cbd66a88 https://www.blockchain.com/btc/tx/dcd2472d3f7192678b8e6a8a8f2e21930f1d3e5d87d0637ba5ec8a65c796269c
PM/Chat Logs:
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hellohelloi just have deposited .0198 btc and i cannot withdraw yet
need deposit 0.02You are new exchanger user.
To access the withdraw you need to make a first deposit for activate your account.
This is done due to the fact that there are frequent cases of resale of BTC and ETF by scammers and avoid spam.
After you making the first deposit, you will be added 0.02 bitcoin to your balance (your deposit).
And you will be available to withdraw.i just have completed the deposit and i still unable to withdraw
let me checkwe have an automatic system for defrosting you have made a 2 deposit, and you need one deposit at 0.02 including commissionyou need to make a deposit at 0.02 with commissionbut can i get my return of btc at this moment? please this is to prove you are not a fraudI can not because your funds are frozenbut can you make an exception to that at once? i don't have any more fundsYou will NOT lose you funds after deposit: they will be able to withdraw too.i can't sorryto get your funds you need to make one more at 0.02 including commissionbut why must be in one transaction thoughbecause the system works that wayyou got absolutely no ability to unfreeze me?i didn't know the rule, and i am newso it was necessary to first contact uswe told you everythingi know that is my fault...is that the amount by exact, or more than?0.02 including commissioni mean, is that by exact or more than .02 after commission?0.025 make depositthat's enough for youi got scammed from a user here just to make a depositmake a deposit and be able to receive your funds, we guaranteebut i can no longer trust at this moment, you should have made a new policy that will allow accumulative deposit to unlock, i am not gonna care and my funds given back to the user in case36hJCAyQ1ivdKx6ysU2YSEntFiNEGeUJjE this address is the in charge, tried to ask me depositsandhe claimed to have 1.3 btc but unable to withdraw?then he made the 1.2 btc to me, asked me to deposit .02 after commission. then i tried to deposit .02 before commission, then i found that the problem.if you wrote us right away we would tell you everything and you would get these fundsthen tell me what exactly happenedi don't mean i can't deposit but i got no more available funds toyou just made a deposit without commissioni know that is my fault, then i made another deposit to fill the insufficiency. now that i transferred all the funds back to that addressand?and what do you want from mei would wish to take the partial refund of .01 in case and i will keep this thing silentI have no funds in your account, I cannot return youyou balanse 0damnso if i got the funds again, could i get refunded in part?if you had a balance you could write an application for the return of a part of your fundsyesdon't you tell me earlier facepalm
You also need to click on the home page Get started and install the extensioni did not install itbut it needs to be installed
this is what happened when i tried to contact support, the word stuck together should be separated. need deposit 0.02You are new exchanger user.
To access the withdraw you need to make a first deposit for activate your account.
This is done due to the fact that there are frequent cases of resale of BTC and ETF by scammers and avoid spam.
After you making the first deposit, you will be added 0.02 bitcoin to your balance (your deposit).
And you will be available to withdraw.i just have completed the deposit and i still unable to withdraw
let me checkwe have an automatic system for defrosting you have made a 2 deposit, and you need one deposit at 0.02 including commissionyou need to make a deposit at 0.02 with commissionbut can i get my return of btc at this moment? please this is to prove you are not a fraudI can not because your funds are frozenbut can you make an exception to that at once? i don't have any more fundsYou will NOT lose you funds after deposit: they will be able to withdraw too.i can't sorryto get your funds you need to make one more at 0.02 including commissionbut why must be in one transaction thoughbecause the system works that wayyou got absolutely no ability to unfreeze me?i didn't know the rule, and i am newso it was necessary to first contact uswe told you everythingi know that is my fault...is that the amount by exact, or more than?0.02 including commissioni mean, is that by exact or more than .02 after commission?0.025 make depositthat's enough for youi got scammed from a user here just to make a depositmake a deposit and be able to receive your funds, we guaranteebut i can no longer trust at this moment, you should have made a new policy that will allow accumulative deposit to unlock, i am not gonna care and my funds given back to the user in case36hJCAyQ1ivdKx6ysU2YSEntFiNEGeUJjE this address is the in charge, tried to ask me depositsandhe claimed to have 1.3 btc but unable to withdraw?then he made the 1.2 btc to me, asked me to deposit .02 after commission. then i tried to deposit .02 before commission, then i found that the problem.if you wrote us right away we would tell you everything and you would get these fundsthen tell me what exactly happenedi don't mean i can't deposit but i got no more available funds toyou just made a deposit without commissioni know that is my fault, then i made another deposit to fill the insufficiency. now that i transferred all the funds back to that addressand?and what do you want from mei would wish to take the partial refund of .01 in case and i will keep this thing silentI have no funds in your account, I cannot return youyou balanse 0damnso if i got the funds again, could i get refunded in part?if you had a balance you could write an application for the return of a part of your fundsyesdon't you tell me earlier facepalm
You also need to click on the home page Get started and install the extensioni did not install itbut it needs to be installed
Additional Notes: i tried this method from shasan's loaning. so i have to apologise that i am likely made him a victim as well
i might not have further proof because the initial conversation was in bitvest site, probably it is gone.
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