I require help. I've either been scammed or put my coins into a dead website.

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Quote from: egytrickz on July 24, 2015, 04:33:11 AM

I doubt there is a way to get your funds back, a mixer website is mostly semi-anonymous and even getting there real contact details would be very difficult, Also if you were able to get in contact with them getting a refund from them depends solely on their willingness to refund you since the website doesn't seem active at all.

Read the thread. The issue was already resolved.

OP, it might be smart to lock this thread to prevent unnecessary replies.

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I doubt there is a way to get your funds back, a mixer website is mostly semi-anonymous and even getting there real contact details would be very difficult, Also if you were able to get in contact with them getting a refund from them depends solely on their willingness to refund you since the website doesn't seem active at all.

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Quote from: GuessWho? on June 02, 2015, 08:36:42 PM

The bottom of the site says its run by https://coingateway.net/contact.php

maybe they can help you. Wink

There are company registration details for Coingateway:

https://opencorporates.com/companies/gb/09224948

It's a UK-registered outfit so OP should try contacting them direct, keeping a copy of all communications and allow them an opportunity to resolve the issue. If no answer or resolution, follow the recommended procedure for complaining to the authorities.

Cheers

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there are sites that keep a list of bitcoin related sites that are just ponzi or just scams... http://www.badbitcoin.org/thebadlist/ is a good place to check for sites that whether they are scam or not before investing money... it can be good to do a thorough search of any given site before putting your money down...

there is also a list of scam websites that tomatocage keeps up to date: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/edu-bitcoin-related-scam-websites-928263
its updated quite frequently too, be sure to check everything before sending your money to an unknown website.

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Quote from: MicroGuy on July 21, 2015, 06:58:40 PM

Quote from: ShamrockHannah on July 21, 2015, 06:17:03 PM

Next time make sure you research any website before putting your coins into it. It's not nice when you learn the hard way. Most of us have been there at some point.

This sounds like excellent advice. Since this site came up first in my Google search, I 'dumbly' thought it would be safe.

You can't trust search rankings. I can rank anything for #1, scam or not. Its ranking is solely based on someone's knowledge of gaming Google,

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Quote from: chinesekato on May 29, 2015, 09:45:48 AM

Bottom line I put around £300 into the coinmixer website https://coinblender.net/. The problem is that I haven't received the money yet (it's been 5 days now). I've tried contacting them numerous times but the website appears almost dead. Their last tweet was from April 1st giving someone a refund so I don't know what I can do.

I really would appreciate some help about what I can do. Will donate if they help greatly, thank you.

Normally before making an investment online must to do a search with the name of the site. After reading all can be decided what to do. If they don't answer I think that your money is lost. Sorry for this. It will be a lesson for the other investments.

I know some threads are long and hard to read all of them. But here you're replying to the OP of this 2 month old thread without even looking half-way down the first page:

Quote from: chinesekato on May 30, 2015, 07:22:21 PM

Final update, thank you everyone. Anyone who commented before with help please leave below your address. http://gyazo.com/72a5c51e2748837e5faa5ca9dcb0f3e9

If you want to bump a thread and give echo-like answers, at least read the first page before answering Roll Eyes

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Quote from: chinesekato on May 29, 2015, 09:45:48 AM

Bottom line I put around £300 into the coinmixer website https://coinblender.net/. The problem is that I haven't received the money yet (it's been 5 days now). I've tried contacting them numerous times but the website appears almost dead. Their last tweet was from April 1st giving someone a refund so I don't know what I can do.

I really would appreciate some help about what I can do. Will donate if they help greatly, thank you.

Normally before making an investment online must to do a search with the name of the site. After reading all can be decided what to do. If they don't answer I think that your money is lost. Sorry for this. It will be a lesson for the other investments.

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most of the coin mixers are well known due to their signatures.

but yeah, the whole google thing being on the top keyword does suck, since most people would click on it. I know the 300 is a good amount, but at least it wasnt more then 300 right? what if it was like 1k, just take it as a expensive education. Tongue

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Quote from: ShamrockHannah on July 21, 2015, 06:17:03 PM

Next time make sure you research any website before putting your coins into it. It's not nice when you learn the hard way. Most of us have been there at some point.

This sounds like excellent advice. Since this site came up first in my Google search, I 'dumbly' thought it would be safe.

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Next time make sure you research any website before putting your coins into it. It's not nice when you learn the hard way. Most of us have been there at some point.

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Quote from: silverolivia on July 21, 2015, 10:34:40 AM

I don't think you can really do something to return your coins. It's always sad when such scam sites are disappearing. But it is life. And you need to be careful when you are sending you money to such projects. Because after it closes no one can actually help you to return your funds.
Sorry for that m8. Sad

very sad story.

I would likely agree with you. Haven't been in such situation tho, but anyways.

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I don't think you can really do something to return your coins. It's always sad when such scam sites are disappearing. But it is life. And you need to be careful when you are sending you money to such projects. Because after it closes no one can actually help you to return your funds.
Sorry for that m8. Sad

very sad story.

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I just used this service and my coins never appeared at the destination address?

It was only .05 BTC but still it would be nice to have it back. It was a donation to the Goldcoin community. Cry

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The bottom of the site says its run by https://coingateway.net/contact.php

maybe they can help you. Wink

Good Luck

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Quote from: chinesekato on June 01, 2015, 04:09:13 PM

You people are all so kind and I can't thank you enough.

(regarding the typo comment, I meant anything that seemed like a typo probably was)

The owner of coin gateway itself seemed like a lovely dude, he however also seemed to be the strongest link in a weak chain.

Oh, yah, maybe checkout that mixer advertized in kprawns' signature if you still need a mixer. bitmixer.io has been around for quite a while and I've never heard any complaints.

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You people are all so kind and I can't thank you enough.

(regarding the typo comment, I meant anything that seemed like a typo probably was)

The owner of coin gateway itself seemed like a lovely dude, he however also seemed to be the strongest link in a weak chain.

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Next time, pop into the forum before you use any site and ask some questions... Nobody will laugh at you, we all made some of these same mistakes before.

There are reliable and reputable sites, which we can suggest from our own experience.. cross check with a post on another platform like Reddit. Wink

Thank you for your original thread... It serve as a lesson for everyone and it highlights possibly dodgy operations.

Good luck with your future decisions and congrats on not giving up on your first failure. { So many people give up, after they failed once } Sad

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Quote from: chinesekato on May 29, 2015, 12:15:04 PM

My only glint of hope is that the minimum amount of bitcoin I'm able to mix has changed from 0btc to 2.02btc (a similar amount to what I put in).

@OP, when you said this (above), it looked like your coins were lost. What did you mean by the "minimum you could mix". I don't get it at all.

Oh, I take it from your last post that you got the money back! That's a wonderful ending and I'm happy to hear it. So it seems like you got the important lesson for free

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Quote from: chinesekato on May 29, 2015, 09:45:48 AM

Bottom line I put around £300 into the coinmixer website https://coinblender.net/. The problem is that I haven't received the money yet (it's been 5 days now). I've tried contacting them numerous times but the website appears almost dead. Their last tweet was from April 1st giving someone a refund so I don't know what I can do.

I really would appreciate some help about what I can do. Will donate if they help greatly, thank you.

I got the registrant email:
Registrant Email: [email protected]

fire a complain againt them if they still are not listening to you..
first send them request regarding your proble...head towards their twitter account and express your problem let everyone out there know that they are scamming.
this will down their repo and bound them to make it correct..

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Quote from: chinesekato on May 30, 2015, 07:22:21 PM

Final update, thank you everyone. Anyone who commented before with help please leave below your address. http://gyazo.com/72a5c51e2748837e5faa5ca9dcb0f3e9

Awesome! To be honest, I wasn't optimistic about this situation because a lot of users have ended up scammed in that same scenario. Now you've learned a valuable lesson.

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