Topic: HitBTC scam - page 2. (Read 604 times)

You have not faced any issues as you have provided all the perfect documents and you have no alternative accounts on there. But if you had multiple accounts and you could not provide real document and tried to provide fake document then you could understand about those who faces issues and issues.

My friend recommended me this exchange to trade but I wanted to KYC in advance to avoid any surprises. It may be strict, but I passed it, just followed the instructions and got verified in a couple of days. No complaints of any edited photos from them, the procedure is clear and straightforward. So far so good, hope it stays that way 

4 years later and you are still waiting. I wonder how much longer you have to wait before they decide to act and grant you access to your account. HitBTC is one of those notorious scam exchanges that keep blocking people's accounts and then force people to go on a never ending KYC verification journey.

Look at their feedback in the forum

Hi,

I am still waiting on removing my 2FA since I lost my phone back in 2018. Tried with photo and tons of email. It's that idiot Domingo Herrera. It's is a serious thief.

Success all.

Greetings,
A Dutch guy locked out for years from his account

Though other comment here say there has been this kind of discussion here before, I must say that this is the first scam allegation against Hitbtc am seeing here.
Though it never occurred to me to make a thread about it here, Hitbtc has always been a scam to me, and a kind of surprised(like I said before) this is the first time am seeing this kind of post against Hitbtc.
Worthy of note is that, Hitbtc used to be my favorite exchange along side latoken, cus my favorite coins were all listed there, but then, I discovered how Hitbtc never allowed me to sell or withdraw full amount of my coins no matter what, before I could sell all my coins, it has to be a round number like 100, 200 300, any think like 198, they allow me to sell only 100 and the remaining 98 will be in my account, unsellable as well as unwithdrawable, till I abandoned the exchange in 2017 or 2018, I had alot of different coins in the quantities of 89, 99, 56, 78, 98 etc that I can't sell or withdraw left on the exchange, imagine this coins hit $1 each in tht future, and also not forgetting the fact that am not the only customer they does this kind of dealing with, they do this to over a million other customers out there, so imagine the amount of coins they would gather from this when they combine all the coins from each account together, and if this coin hit $1 or even $0.50, that's alot of money for them.
This is what I call day light robbery.

The post has been created more than a year ago and no one could verify either Hitbtc sold any document (kyc info) or not so it is difficult to say either they are really selling kyc document or not. Also, it will not be helpful for you either they sell or not and the problem of you is verifying your identity. If your case was for selling kyc document then it could be helpful for you.

Knowing their methods will unfortunately not help you. I wish you had found that topic before you deposited any funds to HitBTC. I have read numerous accusations against this exchange even in the ICO days when it was relatively popular and you could trade some of those tokens on their platform. They weren't any better then, and they aren't looking to improve in the future either. I remember that it was always costly to withdraw from (s)HitBTC because of their high withdrawal fees.

I found this post https://www.reddit.com/r/hitbtc/comments/lxbhjc/hitbtc_is_a_scam_here_is_exactly_how_their_scam/

The man explains how HitBTC works.
This man suggested that the exchange might be selling your data on the darknet.

To date, the exchange still does not make contact, does not respond to inquiries.

Yeah, they have been operating for years. I have personally never been scammed by them but i noticed very high withdrawal fees and a very huge number of scam accusations which cannot be a coincidence. I occassionally used the exchange but citing so many scam accusation escpecially to do with KYC. I withdrew all my assets from there.

I think it will run a long way because all the people are not facing the same issue. Those who are not facing the issue they are not ware for their forthcoming problem. And the are being promoted on several way including by coinmarketcap. I think it is time to verify either they are doing wrong if they really do the wrong then coinmarketcap should take necessary steps to remove from their site.

I tend to agree with this, even though I wasn't personally have experienced scamming but one of my friends told me that he has an issue with using this exchange.  TBH, I have used this exchange platform before and I have never encountered a problem, but that was the there's no KYC process but when they implemented I never used this exchange anymore.

I can compare the HitBTC exchange to the Blockchain.com we wallet, it seems like they don't have support because as I have heard, it will take time before the CS will respond.  Next time, find a better exchange that doesn't have shady behavior.

HitBTC has been selectively scamming people for years using their KYC process, and I don't know how long people will come into realizing this so that they immediately cease to use the exchange. Their KYC verification process is endless, and they will frustrate the victim who will eventually give up on claiming the money thinking he can not pass KYC verification.

Do you know the countless number of scam exchanges that are operating in the cryptocurrency market? The fundamental advice of everything you want within the crypto investment is to always "do your own research".
If it happens that the HitBTC exchange that scammed you is delisted on CMC what guarantees that you won't be a victim of another scam exchange when you cant follow the fundamental tips that will save you from scam exchange?

I tried. If i use phone camera they send me this:

If I use a Canon camera and scanner they say "photos were modified".

Have you tried with your phone instead of using camera as well as scanner? If you already checked then nothing to say but if you have not yet checked then better check and I think it will be helpful for you. If you cant verify by this way then I don't think they will allow you to verify your identity.

Even if it is, they could let me take my coins and not work with them. They just stole my coins.

Its racist action for them to block russian citizens on their platform without giving a notice since if that's the only reason on why he's been block then this is totally bullshit on their part. Hitbtc has lot of issue before so I will not surprise on this if they do this without clear reason and if they join those sanction impose to Russia maybe they should give a notice to their user for them to take action on their departure to their platform.

Wondering why HitBtc blocked you if you already submitted the KYC, maybe since you’re a Russian they restrict users from your country. I hear a lot of allegation before about HitBtc, you might be already one of the victim of this scheme. Anyway, better to still protect your privacy, since no one really knows here if that is your real identity or not, exposing such details can be a big risk.

Even if that's true, I wouldn't advise going out of your way to worsen your situation because the scale of how widespread such information makes a difference in terms of potential damages. It's like saying large data breach victims should stop caring about the security of their personal information because it has already spread far and wide when the situation could always get worse.

Although there is no 100% security and we're basically just minimizing threats in a manner that is comfortable for us. I think everyone who has a life on the internet should still do the bare minimum of improving their cybersecurity and one of that is to not share their selfie + passport on a public online community accessible by everyone.

As for the hitbtc case, they are famous for that. Try looking up hitbtc threads and you'll see the pattern. I've long convinced myself it's just hitbtc trying to make their users rage quit so they can bag their funds.

I'am from Russia. Here government sites sell our information to scammers for money. I'm not afraid of anything anymore.