Topic: hotbit.io is big scam (Read 278 times)

Guys, be careful with your funds if they are on the Exchange Hotbit, they scammed the CashHand Project

1 received 12 787 CHND to exchange https://explorer.cashhand.info/transaction/deb889a8e16ba1b7081479cb580d474fecf123b439cc022543d280a80dae20af
2 did not make the exchange and did not return the coins for the project nor did they exchange it for its users
3 don't answer us anymore
4 excluded our CHND / USDT pair
5 excluded the group of telegrams where we maintained contact

SFR have already provided enough information about "hotbit" by which you can easily understand what is their real intention. Don't send any fund to them and ignore their messages.
      
I can give you guarantee that you are not going to get your fund back. They are just trying to steal some extra fund from you. I will suggest you to gather all information against them and open a new thread to let others know about their fraudulent activity.    

AFAIK, any platform or service that requires additional funds to unlock a certain amount of funds is just another scam...

- Having said that, I found a "newbie" that claimed he/she got his/her money back ^{[it could be just one of their shills]}: Read all of the highlighted posts
- There's also "this post".
- I've seen a lot of mixed reviews ^{[perhaps they're selectively scamming their users]}.

Hello everybody.

I am quiet new in the crypto world to begin with ... I see this was answered but honestly hard to understand at my level.

I am having the same problem and received the exact same message which seems like blackmailing to me.

As per the blockchair link I have 0.06 BTC blocked on my USDT hotbit account and received the same message telling I have to send 0.3 ETH for them to send back my BTCs at origin ...

It is now blocked since 5 days what should I do ? How can I get guarantee I will receive all back if I send them the 0.3 ETH ?

Thank you in advance for help ..

There is a difference between a normal tx and a tx from contract address. There are mostly exchanges who ask to deposit through normal tx only and not through contract address. There is a good reason and you will find similar cases like this here with good explanation why:

https://github.com/ethereum/meteor-dapp-wallet/issues/82
https://ethereum.stackexchange.com/questions/4270/why-are-smart-contract-outputs-different-from-ordinary-transactions

I had this.

It was because they can't deal with smart contract and have to create a forced settlement. They do say to not use a smart contract on the despotic screen. I didn't know what the hell that meant and assumed my Wirex transfer was straight.

Did you manage to get your ETH back? I have 4.8ETH trapped.

coinmarketcap.com has the contract address, lol these guys some small chinese scammers

CMC LINK -> https://ww7.etherscan.io/token/0x0cbc9b02b8628ae08688b5cc8134dc09e36c443b?a=0x0E00D8Bc271a6121CbDe6D542AbC7185C0F9D983

i deposited some funds directly from https://token.store exchange :
https://ww7.etherscan.io/tx/0x0f889a98ee1b0c594d39776bf55e100720df1228dfc011d2a09132a0d214670b




lol they change contract address :
https://help.hotbit.io/hc/en-us/articles/360035156093-
and manipluate the token price



LOL I GET THIS REPLY AFTER FEW MINUTES :

   
Hotbit-Aurora (HOTBIT TRADE)

Sep 2, 12:29 CST

Dear Respected Users:
During your deposit process, please do carefully verify and confirm your deposit address and the type of token you intend to deposit (due to the fact that there are many types of ERC 20 tokens, it is possible that different types of ERC 20 tokens may share the same abbreviation while their full titles may be different from each other) if you deposit your tokens into the wrong address, it is very likely that your tokens will not be retrieved.
Hotbit is not responsible for helping our users to retrieve all mistakenly deposited tokens. However, in order to help our users to retrieve all serious loss caused by their misoperation, we will still try our best to retrieve all tokens that are mistakenly deposited by our users. Please read all following information carefully and wait patiently:
1. If any of your tokens was/were deposited mistakenly, please provide us with the following information: Your Hotbit account, the email address you registered with Hotbit,UID(the last few numbers of the invite link of your Hotbit account is your UID ) the type, address, amount, TXID(this is very important) of the token(s) you deposited by mistake, the screenshot that shows your deposit information.
2. In order to retrieve your mistakenly deposited tokens, we would have to conduct relevant operations such as extra installation or upgrade on the software of our wallet, the import and export of the private key and so on. Due to the fact that only those staff with very high authority are allowed to conduct relevant operations and that the whole process has to go through very strict risk control verification process, such operations require huge amount of time, labor cost and risk control cost. It might take one to two months to retrieve your assets. Please do be patient.
3. Due to the strict risk control verification process, you need to pay 0.3 ETH by original sending address（0x0e00d8bc271a6121cbde6d542abc7185c0f9d983 ） that you transferred this transaction mistakenly to switch back the coins. The transerred address is 0x5c0e7D5D2c3f244083eA00a8c6b17c42120ac632 and then send TXID to us so that we can check it for you. Attention please: Due to the strict risk control verification process, we can only send your assets back to your original sending address（0x0e00d8bc271a6121cbde6d542abc7185c0f9d983 ） later.