Topic: HitBTC.com - The most advanced cryptocurrency exchange - page 6. (Read 109937 times)

Hi friends!

I am sorry to admit that, I as well have been scammed by HitBTC for 10 BTC. I have been trying to "verify" my account for 2 years now. 

But it is safe to say that they will never release those funds considering the amount involved. Sure they will unfreeze an account with a few $100 here and there in order to legitimize their whole fraud operation but anything larger they will keep locked up in order to hide their insolvency.

But they tide just MIGHT be turning. I have been emailing prosecutors and lawyers all around the world about this case and I have found an attorney from the Ukraine that holds close relations with people at Eurojust in order to combat cybercrime. We have a meeting scheduled in The Hague, Netherlands with Eurojust about this case. The EU is trying to ramp up prosecution of financial crimes and cyber crime so they are keen to listen at this point.

Now my attorney has filed a data inquiry with HitBTC support about my account (which I am sure they will ignore) but I have documented everything from my end as well.

So what do I need? I need proof of other people willing to step forward and tell Eurojust about their account with HitBTC and how they were scammed. If you can physically show up in The Hague even better, otherwise Skype or Zoom can be one too. Please anybody willing to step forward PM or email me to talk about this. Or simply email me your evidence collected of them scamming you together with your contact information.

If there is anybody from Chile, we can use your help too with some translations, they claim to be in Chilean jurisdiction so we are going to ramp up pressure on Chilean prosecutors as well.

If we stand together we can finally get rid of these scammers once and for all!!!!

These guys have created a digital version of pickpocketing, the withdrawal fees are still have pegged to around $6 for all altcoins. Just curious, what happened later? Did you get your funds back or HitBtc had made a next step towards scamming one more random user who forgot to log in the exchange account for years? A similar situation has happened to me but the locked funds were less than $200, so I just sent the right documents for passing KYC, AML.  

Why would you keep your coins in an exchange thou? This has been preached over an over again "Never keep your coins in an exchange long term", "Not your private key, Not your coins"

On top of that, HitBTC is one of the worst old exchanges that still exist, we are seeing complaints about them here week in, week out. Avoid using them Like CoronaVirus.

Hello to everyone,
Its been a long time i didnt log in in my account on HITBTC. Beginning of March i started checking all my exchanges again. I had 2FA security in all of them.
After such long time I forgot that I have changed mobile device so I couldn’t get the 2FA anymore. With every exchange they just sent me a secret code on my personal phone number or an email and my account was fine within few minutes. With HITBTC im exchanging emails from 14 March until today without success. After asking me question about trades and dates that its impossible to remember as i havent logged in for 2 years, they asked for my personal documents, selfie, extra picture with selfie showing their email i received that i provided everything, then they asked for specific dates and transactions that i had no idea. Finally they asked me about the date of the account creation that i provided, after that i informed them about 2 specific coins i have inside and they STILL dont give me access to my account and funds. These guys are scammers that i lost almost a month of my time exchanging emails every day with them.
Anybody who has issues with them can contact me so we can file a complaint to authorities through my lawyer. Its time to stop scammers once and for all.
If Anyone from the moderators wants the emails and everything i can provide to him all the information.
Soon I will upload the emails here also so anybody can judge by himself.
Thank you

I hope that your KYC images is really unacceptable, otherwise I think that such sites will sell your documents to third parties.
I don't think they care for their reputation as long as they work in secret, taking advantage of some platforms like changelly and other fast exchange services, so selling personal documents will not make them a scandal.

Identity verification is a necessary thing if you want to deal with centralized platforms but do it only with a reliable and reputable platform and not with platforms like HITBTC.

Feeling sorry for your lost but now its usual stuff from many exchanges as they are blocking accounts and freezing funds without any solid reason in the name of KYC which is really sad but we are not able to do any thing just avoid these scam exchanges as they are alive just because of scams and cheats.

Yep, I advise anybody who can see this to avoid using HitBTC or else you risk losing your money. There are lots of much better exchanges out there with lower fees and won't just look up your funds randomly and start hiding behind KYC requirements.

They have been selective scamming for too long. They will keep doing it until the day they close down. They keep making excuses for not releasing funds belonging to users. Seriously, HitBTC should be investigated by various law enforcement agencies and shut down.

Just adding my name to the long list of people that have done KYC verification, holding photos, all sorts of stuff, only to be repeatedly told the exact same thing that the photo isn't accepted and to send it again, along with a long delay.

It is clear to me this exchange is selectively withholding funds from some users. Avoid. I have left a negative trust rating.

This is the exact reason I was against KYC becoming a standard in the crypto community to begin with, because unscrupulous entities such as HitBTC will take advantage of the concept as an excuse to commit theft and other things.

Dear administrators of the exchange! You do not accept documents certified by notary with address confirmation and refer to unclear what. I have already done selfies with these documents and provided everything, and you remain silent and send the same text! Accept the documents or I will write to everyone that you scam

You are right yobit and hitbtc both from same family I remember I deposited few coins in yobit and suddenly wallet gone in maintanance mode and its take nearly 7 or 8 months for coming back and I have my coins value from 25000 satoshies to just 900 satoshies after this I never use this again.

Don't store a huge balance on any exchange (especially hitbtc, yobit) as they can anytime freeze your account and ask you to complete KYC which hitbtc has done in case of many users. It's not scam but selective scamming as they refuse to return funds of users and ask them to prove the source as well.

Yep, from time to time, they still keep locking up customer's funds and their fees are very abnormally high. I would suggest you use other honest and fair exchanges like Binance, Huobi, Kucoin etc

Is this site still a scam?  Back then i heard very negative reviews about it

I really am sorry to read about this. 2.6 BTC is a lot of money for anybody regardless of which country they are from but if your brother is from India this must be a big disaster for him to have been scammed by HitBTC. They really are low-life scammers. These cases of selective scamming by HitBTC are disgraceful.

Please explain if your brother was trying withdraw the 2.6 BTC to his own wallet or if he was trying to withdraw fiat/cash to his bank account.

Some theorise that Freewallet, ShitBTC, Changelly, Minergate, Bytecoin, Cointelegraph and a few others are all operated by the same people.

https://monero.stackexchange.com/questions/2930/which-entities-are-related-to-bytecoin-and-minergate

Certainly Freewallet, Changelly and ShitBTC have the same habits when it comes to springing KYC on people.

They both can freeze users' funds. Freewallet is custodial.

Ironically it's called "Free"wallet 

freewallet Support HITBTC

Beware, do not deposit money In the site freewallet

Now we can Hitbtc as shitbtc because they are stealing funds regularly now many cases against them and they not like to give any reply about this which is very poorly from them look like we are going to face something serious about this in near future.

Sad to hear out your brothers story and i would tell you this that he's not the only one who have been sh%t out by Hitbtc.2.6 btc is indeed a big money.
Why would leave out those funds for too long on an exchange? If they do block you out and doesnt get any response then its better to move on and consider those
btc are lost forever.Yeah its hard but chances on getting those funds back is nearly 0%.

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