Topic: Idmining.com is hellish scammer (Read 874 times)

I filled in a report for my local police a long time ago, a couple of days after I was scammed. OKX wrote me an email 5 days ago that they froze one scammer's account for 7 days. Will see what will happen next.

Have you at least gotten a police report filed in your jurisdiction? if so, request a copy and send it to OKX so they know your case is in process and perhaps try to request for an extension as well. If you're from US or UK, maybe there's a way to file online too.

If you can't get ahold of authorities after that, try calling or going over the counter because there is a good chance solely writing to them will get you inboxed for some time as it is safe to assume they are receiving a lot of complaints hence the mentioned suggestion will land you better chances.

The sad reality is they have limited resources hence prioritize cases. If memory serves right, I remember reading an article about an FBI officer saying there are a lot that are too insignificant for them to look into. However I do think you have an edge since the perp is using custodial CEXs and the small number of addresses mentioned (perhaps the tip of an iceberg) have transacted with big amounts which I highly suggest emphasizing.

I can't stand the fact that Trustpilot and Cloudflare are not reacting to scam whistleblowers. Those companies are jokes. Is there any way to publicize the shameful behaviour of companies on the Internet? How to draw the attention of any law enforcement to investigate and chase scammers? Even the FBI and UK CyberCrime departments are not responding to my appeals. I'm all left alone.

They are not replying to my emails lol

Oh LOL, if you want to toy with them a little, ask what authority regulates such rule, or ask them to cite which articles of law in their country specified this.

The could mining industry is totally fake and anyone who invests money into such mining sites will lose the money with 100% guarantee. You should have learned about mining and cloud mining first before investing that heavy amount into a site that could easily steal your money, and would not even care if you take any legal action or not.

Most of such sites are hosted by scammers and unlike traditional scammers these ones are way more intelligent to convince the users that they will earn lifetime revenue when they purchase mining plans on their sites. The victims like OP fall for such scams and end up losing their money.

Although, you have lost money on such a site, but instead of keeping silent about the situation you came up with a proper way to protect other innocent users by reporting the scam they have done to you. I'm sorry for your loss as it's unlikely that you will get your money back even if you contact OKX, but still you should at least try your luck as that's the only way for you to at least get some amount of your money back.

Wow these scammers are fckin crazy They wrote me such email yesterday:

Your refund period will end on August 15th, please log in to the company website (idmining) to refund as soon as possible, overdue we will regard you as giving up automatically.
We will follow the request of the (Monetary Authority): transfer this money to a charity (International Red Cross).

They gonna transfer money to charity

I have some good news. I forgot to put another address in the money flow in the OKX appeal. I was tired when writing the appel. So 32BgauNVxn6A8byZtDjPTMLRkHYWGVbjun transferred money to bc1quhruqrghgcca950rvhtrg7cpd7u8k6svpzgzmrjy8xyukacl5lkq0r8l2d which I also found as an OKX related address. And this time OKX freezed that account for 7 days. I will contact my police department on Monday. I hope they will manage to send some official email regarding my scam. The appeal is only for 0.08 BTC but this is better than nothing. Maybe they freeze more money. Here is the response from the OKX, to which I'm grateful they would like to help me.

Dear Valued User,
 
We hope this email finds you well. We have conducted a thorough investigation into the wallet address bc1quhruqrghgcca950rvhtrg7cpd7u8k6svpzgzmrjy8xyukacl5lkq0r8l2d that you mentioned in your previous email. Our investigation has revealed that this address is associated with OKX's main wallet. However, we have also identified another OKX user address in the information you provided, and we have taken immediate action by freezing that account.
 
Based on our findings, we recommend that you take prompt legal action by filing a report with the appropriate authorities. It is crucial to involve law enforcement in this matter. Kindly inform your legal representatives to contact us at [email protected] on your behalf. We kindly request that they reference the ticket number xxx when reaching out to us.
 
Kindly ask your local law enforcement to email us on your behalf at [email protected], as per our https://www.okx.com/support/hc/en-us/articles/360021858931-Law-Enforcement-Request-Guide. Please ask your local law enforcement to cite this ticket number xxx in their email to us.

If OKX claims 32BgauNVxn6A8byZtDjPTMLRkHYWGVbjun is not theirs, I'm afraid, there's nothing much we can do unless we somehow able to get ahold of a solid proof and they admit there was a mistake.

As of writing both oxt.me and oklink.com tags the address in question as OKX address but I doubt any of them will claim all the data they present is fool proof. However, it wouldn't hurt to try to reach out to them how the OKX tag on this particular address came to be.

I did see the binance tag on breadcrumbs.app at some point btw however I asked binance and the support told me it's not theirs. You may try to ask again for a second opinion, they have a live chat.

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I forgot to mention this but you should also look into if you can can deduct your losses to your tax in your country, see: https://koinly.io/guides/ (note: look for the question about stolen crypto)

I got the response from OKX:

Dear Sir/Madam,
 
Greeting from OKX,

We deeply apologize for any inconvenience caused, and perhaps there might have been some misunderstanding regarding our previous email. What we intended to convey is that the scammer's wallet address does not belong to any OKX user. Consequently, we are unable to conduct a more in-depth investigation or take action regarding the scammer's address.
 
As a result, we recommend that you reach out to your local law enforcement authorities for further steps regarding your case. Based on their guidance, they might have alternative methods to assist you.
You may also refer to our https://www.okx.com/support/hc/en-us/articles/360021858931-Law-Enforcement-Request-Guide.
 
We may also be able to provide certain documents and information to said local law enforcement authorities to assist with their investigation.
 
We trust the above is helpful, and we look forward to receiving a request from your local law enforcement authorities.
 
We hope that you will take the necessary steps to protect yourself from any future scams or fraudulent activities. If there is anything else we can do to assist you, please do not hesitate to let us know.-

What I understand this time is the address 32BgauNVxn6A8byZtDjPTMLRkHYWGVbjun doesn't belong to OKX, which I don't believe is true. I asked explicitly if they think the scammer's address is indeed 32BgauNVxn6A8byZtDjPTMLRkHYWGVbjun. I haven't got the response yet.

Where is the truth? My source was https://oxt.me/address/32BgauNVxn6A8byZtDjPTMLRkHYWGVbjun. However, I found in BreadCrumbs now that this might be a Binance address. I'm very confused.
https://cloud.screenpresso.com/3qILc/2023-08-04_21h41_44.png

Yes, this is what I understood from the email :/ I'm going to ask them so they say this explicitly.

I don't think I understand what OKX's stance on this. Weren't on this table's pipeline, all they require you is to fill the victim's address, disregarding the source? And now they require an official warrant because the chain of transactions begin with a deposit from a binance address?

The problem is I made the first deposit from Binance and not from OKX. I understood if I had deposited from my OKX account and there was any OKX account involved along the money flow, then they would pick that up. They can pick it up still, but they need an official warrant from local law enforcement. My local law enforcement it's reacting slowly. I don't even know if they will start an investigation or not.
https://cloud.screenpresso.com/Iw1mb/2023-08-03_15h02_06.png

So, in other words, OKX is a dead end and they will not proceed to freeze the account due to insufficient materials? I am sorry to hear that. But for what it worth, OKX was a far fetched method, anyway, since [as previously said] there's a huge chance they can't recover your fund, only freezing their account, and the KYC will quite likely to be a fake one too.

I'm happy to see you again I appreciate your help. OKX responded to my appeal:

In order to proceed with the next course of action more effectively, we kindly request you to provide the following information to help us gain a clearer understanding of the entire incident:
1. The victim's transaction hash value and a screenshot of the transaction's withdrawal record (not a block record screenshot).
2. The transaction address of the fraudster/hacker.
3. The amount of financial loss incurred by the victim.
4. A comprehensive description of the complete incident of fraud or hacking.
5. The complete block transaction record process from the initial fraudulent/hacked transaction to the Okx account address.

I filled in all five points as required, including the filled-in money flow matrix:
https://www.talkimg.com/images/2023/08/02/GaX8H.png

Unfortunately, they responded below the initiating account(my Binance account) was not OKX, so they could not help without a law order or warrant, even if the end address is OKX. It is sad because the police didn't even send me confirmation whether they will or will not investigate my case. I've been waiting since May for them to respond  

Dear Sir/Madam,
 
We are sorry to hear that you have fallen victim to a scam and transferred your funds to an address that does not belong to OKX. We understand how distressing and frustrating this can be, and we want to assure you that we are here to help you in any way we can.
 
We have investigated your account and found that the reported address does not belong to OKX. Therefore, we are unable to take any further action on that matter. However, we recommend that you immediately contact your local law enforcement and file a report of the incident. They can help investigate the matter and take any necessary actions to try to recover your funds.
 
Also, kindly make a report to your local law enforcement authorities, and ask them to email us on your behalf at [email protected], as per our https://www.okx.com/support/hc/en-us/articles/360021858931-Law-Enforcement-Request-Guide.
 
We may also be able to provide certain documents and information to said local law enforcement authorities to assist with their investigation. We trust the above is helpful, and we look forward to receiving a request from your local law enforcement authorities. We hope that you will take the necessary steps to protect yourself from any future scams or fraudulent activities. If there is anything else we can do to assist you, please do not hesitate to let us know.
 

My apology for the [too] late response, OP, life gets the better of me. I was addressing to several other threads and when I am about to get to yours, I got distracted by matters that require my attention. If it worth, I was intending to reply to your post about since you were not depositing to TM1Z...wx9R and the address you send your fund to was not one of OKX addresses, then OKX will not be able to do anything, and that to pull a connection between TFZH..D6LP to TM1Z...wx9R might be very time consuming as anyone will need to check 50-something pages worth of transaction, and that if your friend has a tx hash, then it'll be better if he's the one submitting the complaint as he's the one directly affected, OKX most likely would want him to be the one raising the request of fund freezing.

But... I figure OKX's reply to you topped all of my comment above.

For this part, though,


I understand that you send them this after they give the conclusion of their investigation ["we have investigated ... to recover your fund"]?

That's it for OKX's help. If the money wasn't sent from OKX, they can't help.

We have investigated your account and found that the reported address does not belong to OKX. Therefore, we are unable to take any further action on that matter. However, we recommend that you immediately contact your local law enforcement and file a report of the incident. They can help investigate the matter and take necessary actions to recover your funds.

Police in my country is very clumsy. I can't call or email them and ask about the progress of the investigation. They must initiate every contact. I will go there and see if I can kiss the door handle.

I reported to OKX this BTC money flow from my Revolut account to OKX address, among others:
https://www.talkimg.com/images/2023/08/02/G2Gc2.png

I'm sorry I confused you. I was depositing USDT only to TFZH..D6LP. I thought I used TM1zz..wx9R too, but I didn't. I wanted to write that scammers changed the IDM deposit address to TM1zz..wx9R later on. I feel stupid, probably because of the loss of money stress However, my colleague said he used that address. I asked for his TX IDs. I don't know if this can help with my appeal to OKX. I'm trying to check if those two addresses are anyhow connected.

I understand correctly that all of those tron hashes are from what you send to TFZHB2H7MuXXNruXvbvVKTSweaj2NxD6LP? Given on the opening post you said that you also send funds at a later time to TM1zzNDZD2DPASbKcgdVoTYhfmYgtfwx9R, can you perhaps provide the tx hash for the ones on wx9R? Given they're the ones labelled as OKX's, maybe it'll give us a direct and shorter field to fill on the table

Those guys have no mercy on people. Today I received an email from IDmining that I can be refunded. So I tried to withdraw and got notice that I need to pay taxes before withdrawing. I'm so angry with them 

https://www.talkimg.com/images/2023/07/29/Q4PuI.png
https://www.talkimg.com/images/2023/07/29/Q4RNd.png

Transaction hashes below.

BTC
d3d85b8babf8110f7cb2871b1fe9229fdcea5305109f146337f4b27705d5c93c

TRON USDT
23130b671457c2ea90e4dafacc848606190f50beff22c1ee8092eaf708f10e37  

d9078905381192f00314fcde458b845b853d5cf197fad73d2fa73bc375b3f41b  

7b7ac64b29dec8b4ac34fe6a4a6a42388d457220d879ef1e24802a1b163d2e0d  

5a46a9c8b6b5a62abe801184a2e6c1a91131c49f34866637c13396c17ac20896  

c4381a3612ffd24682cc85e86ec7148aa3dabf2441cfad98ef658aeb8859c656  

63e4f3b9e3ddb799b596fd08724762f5141116a1a015289ab60478eda514bac1  

6e82bb3910f9f79359377fcc417fbe16b09bdea0b917636d84009bd46c9806d6  

 e195b78c46a38a2f1223c95c6a9e1c8caa2013618073c0f01ecc08415f014e7e

Cloud mining sites are usually the same. They first entice you to think that they are genuine making you want to invest more on their scam site. After they had allowed you withdraw you think they are genuine and want to reinvest more money  then they would scam you and start telling you stories of referrals and increasing of level so you could be free to withdraw at any point in time. All these are just their strategic planning to scam people hence I do not bother getting myself involved with anything cloud mining.

I see you have already started the process of presentation of proof that they are scammers. Your transaction hash would be of good help and possibly if you get the money that would be nice but if not that's no problem but as long as you have reported that wallet address, it would be blacklisted and blocked on the exchange and they would not be able to have access to it again.

Was about to address this matter yesterday, but I got a bit swamped.

As I previously said, address digging is not my forte, but if you can provide a transaction ID ["transaction hash"] on the table, I'll see what I can do, or perhaps others can help fill the fields for you. But to do that, we'll need one of the TX ID as that's the first step to begin the trace.

Check your wallet to see the transaction id. Then fill the form as what it is, the input address^{(is your address)}, output address _{(is the scammer's address)}

Now since the scammer use the OKX address directly then that's what you will input there.

They asked to fill in matrices with tokens flow to OKX. It is a little bit complicated to fill this in.
https://www.talkimg.com/images/2023/07/27/QJZmg.jpeg

I send an appeal to OKX. I attached statements of the transactions and screenshots.

With these addresses they just use these exchanges' address directly to their platform and the connections between these scam platform and these exchanges like OKX is getting lower.

It would be better if you OP will directly report these to those exchanges, provide screenshots proving they are scammers like the screenshots of asking you another deposit just to withdraw your funds, screenshots of withdrawal page, the deposit address, your transactions using those exchanges.
They might not give you a refund at least the exchanges block their accounts and funds there.

I guess it shouldn't come as a surprise they have different exchange accounts on their hands. See how the BTC's were consolidated/sent to different exchanges:

OKX: https://www.oklink.com/btc/tx/2f003f3d564b9f7072123a85d6bbca48e4991c8abafab77551c0f68a38f5430c
Binance 1: https://www.oklink.com/btc/tx/55e6fbed56fe61454934849ca1b8e1e6e1c888d25a3f352fea8074b76d12624f
Crypto.com: https://www.oklink.com/btc/tx/5ec4f57554f667a9d5d9c007ce692eb75362d0f944a96c9a3defa5630bbdc037
Binance 2: https://www.oklink.com/btc/tx/547bb2fbe685c56a44c7c09909d1a7a73a2325b78adec31782e5db5d8ea29c54
Coinbase: https://www.oklink.com/btc/tx/9d61441021ad8fa45904fdbcf4dcfeefac21fe786355efe384323437d3bebdfb
Coincola: https://www.oklink.com/btc/tx/0ab8aa6142c2fbb11e1b4fae170f028872bbeb7afcf761ce7fc4e6d19be3e662
Binance 3: https://www.oklink.com/btc/tx/0c216f0f0b3f3c6760c0fd913fff26e9889e27b28dfc6572d96a3d86536e5e95

Try to paste the transaction ID of your bitcoin deposit in oklink.com and see if that exact deposit went to an exchange who are more likely to entertain cases like this. For instance, see binance: https://www.binance.com/en/support/faq/how-to-report-stolen-funds-transferred-to-binance-360000006051

I edited my first post and added new addresses.

It might be nice and helpful for others if you can add those new addresses to the opening post where it will have a bigger chance of get read by anyone stumbled upon this thread looking about idmining compared to if it's being slipped into the second page of the thread.

Sorry for your loss, really big loss, this space is full of scammers, but IDMINING scammer beat all other scammers in scamming tactics.

Anyway, I hope you will succeed in your endeavors with OKX exchange, I don't want to disappoint you but I doubt they will respond positively to you, at best they could freeze the scammer money but I doubt they will return the stolen money to you.

In any case, you should keep trying and do not despair, at least if you do not succeed in recovering the money, you may succeed in freezing the scammer account.

I found on their page new addresses allowed for depositing crypto:
1. TJjzBnVLJjbJRic9JhSqRLYWHcyyMjKjrh USDT-TRC20
2. 0xea5796bcf3f2ff15be2369af8c6278df9680d6f8 USDT-ERC20
3. MDT7CkwTXucXS1VReQumCo9GgGQKfnyNKa LTC-Litecoin
4. 0xea5796bcf3f2ff15be2369af8c6278df9680d6f8 ETH-TRC20
5. 3Lhy4FoCDuExGosmxyrTUpH4zvv4aP1Az1 - BTC

To level with you, address digging is not exactly my forte, so I can't be a help for this matter, but I think even if an excellent address tracker helped you get to the bottom of the wallet transfer chain, there's a huge chance we still can't pinpoint it to one entity. The pseudo-anonymity of crypto could be a double-edged sword for cases like this, especially for cases like yours where there's no further info we could use as a starting point.

The company is fake, the legal body they mentioned is stolen from others, the IPs are inconsistent [though it's quite obvious it will be]. I think your best shot right now, and it's quite far-fetched, is if you can present your case enough for OKX to freeze the account and reveal the KYC document for that account and filed a criminal complaint toward the user; but like what already presented on this thread, even the KYC itself could be fake and bought, so your filed complaint could still be for nothing.

I don't think I can be much help for you in tracking down to an entity.

Alternatively, and it's also quite unlikely to be realized, if OKX ever replied to you and considered your appeal, maybe you can ask them to "reimburse" you by draining the remaining balance of that user to yours... yeah, as said on the earlier part of this sentence, it's also quite unlikely to be realized.

Thank you for helping me. OKX hasn't responded yet. Do you think there is no other way to track the scammers?

That company is not theirs, "Bitcoin Mining Company, Ltd." registered under "#12145667" has their own website  with a clear statement that it's their one and only website, as well as a clear difference of office address,



While for the image they used, you don't even need to use maps's streetview to prove it, simply typing the address into the search engine will bring you a lot of image to be used; this website, for example,

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Yes, I agree they are counteracting. However, the withdrawal functionality doesn't work. When asked why, it's because I need to pay taxes first. Also, they are sending emails with the withdrawal issue restoration from the private Gmail mailbox [email protected]:
https://www.talkimg.com/images/2023/07/19/Zpivc.png

Regarding the company registration. When asked them in the chat, they said this is their company: UK’s government website. I think they appropriated this company name and have nothing in common with that company. Regarding the building in Glasgow - my friend lives in the UK and went to check their office. He found nothing interesting there. It's a fake office location. Was the office picture taken from internet? It seems so, here is their "headquarters" in Gmaps:
https://www.talkimg.com/images/2023/07/19/ZpePf.jpeg

I managed to trace one IP address from the email headers when sending them emails:
https://www.talkimg.com/images/2023/07/19/ZpD4G.png
https://www.talkimg.com/images/2023/07/19/ZpOxD.png

I didn't check their website up to few hours ago so I can't be sure if it's there before or they just recently put it there, but I think they're trying to counteract those wave of scam alert by placing a banner saying their withdrawal issue has been restored. [archived website].

As for the UK fraud police and no response from them, I think that's because idmining is not from UK. So it's not on their jurisdiction. I can't find their company license or their legal name on their website to prove their registration on UK's database --and most certainly I've checked under "idmining" and it returned zero-- but I am somewhat sure they are not headquartered in St. Vincent, UK, because that office building image itself is taken from the net.

I flooded Reddit with scam alerts. I filed reports to the FBI, UK Fraud Police, my local police, almost every antivirus scam form and, of course, to the hosting provider Cloudflare, scammers email provider. I got from them reports receiving confirmation by email. The worst is Cloudflare, they are doing nothing, so I filled a report also to ICANN. Two months have passed now and nothing happened. Maybe one thing is positive, their email provider took down scammers' mailboxes. Now they are sending emails from a private Gmail

Why are so surprised?
Did you file a complaint against the website operators for fraud with your local police or cybercrime?
Did you contact their hosting provider or domain name registrar and tell them how you've got scammed by that website?

Until a few do so nobody will take action since the one who can do something can't act on their own or don't know about it at all!

This address TM1zzNDZD2DPASbKcgdVoTYhfmYgtfwx9R is tagged as Okex address on tronscan.org. Report it on OKX exchange providing your bitcointalk posts or other site posts with this address. You can provide screenshots^{(upload it on imgbb.com or talkimg.com and post the image url here)} on the OP as well for more evidence for them to check.

I think not, I don't know how to determine which receiver is OKX hot wallet. Or maybe I understood you wrong. I compared these two USDT addresses:
TFZHB2H7MuXXNruXvbvVKTSweaj2NxD6LP and
TM1zzNDZD2DPASbKcgdVoTYhfmYgtfwx9R


Anyway, I wrote to OKX that one of the addresses is used by the scammer.

Most likely yes, back to my previous question, did you see that all the output transactions from those different addresses were only forwarded to OKX hot wallet?

If you can confirm that, then try contacting OKX supports and hope they are more cooperative and take action soon.

The Scamwatcher entry is mine.

After searching this address leads to many scam reports against idmining few months ago on scamwatcher^[1], reddit^[2], etc. There are also few comments who have the same experience with larger amount than yours, unfortunately.

[1] https://www.scamwatcher.com/scam/view/648482
[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoScamBlacklist/comments/12jfnkv/idminingcom_a_big_scam_warning_to_all

Is there any way of finding the exchange of this address TFZHB2H7MuXXNruXvbvVKTSweaj2NxD6LP 

Haha I wrote this on the support chat

If you still want to pursue this from their end, I'd suggest you tell them to deduct it from your current balance, that you're more than happy to get paid with Earning-After-Taxes [EAT], see what they'll responded.


Fair warning, they might will refuse to do so if they deemed your case is not strong enough.

I sent an appeal two days ago. I wonder what they respond.

I asked Idmining why I still couldn't withdraw money. Finally they responded:


It is a crazy world where this site is still active and scammers are stealing money from new people.

OKX [or OKEX] is an exchange, not a mixer. The wallet in reference, Tm1z...wx9r is their hotwallet.

The post you referred to was experimenting on the "mixer" theory in a sense that someone deposited funds to the hot wallet and "mix" it through internal transfer prior to being sent to the destination address, thus [in a strict sense of what a mixer do] obscuring the fund's origin because when someone check the inbound address from the recipient side it'll show the amount is coming from a hot wallet, or if they check from the sender's side, it'll show the fund was transferred to a hot wallet. Nonetheless, OKX will still keep a record of whose address sent what amount to their hot wallet, and this is what Potato Chips proposes to you.

Given that the address is proven to be OKX's, you can probably send an appeal to them to freeze the account. Though [also what Potato Chips proposed] the ID used for verification on that account won't necessarily be the true ID of the scammers as there are a lot of way to fake credentials.

Please excuse me, but my English is not perfect . Does it mean that the address I was sending money to is the real address owned by the scammer?

Thank you. Every withdrawal attempt, even with a smaller amount is ending with an error. They are not responding to my emails and the support chat is not available anymore. Anyway, I won't give them anything, I know they scammed me.

OKX has no mixer service, OKX allows an account to generate multiple deposit addresses. If you find that the funds for each address they provide are only sent to the OKX hot wallet, it is confirmed to be generated from the same OKX account belonging to the one scammer, there is no need for further investigation.

Yes, based on edited OP.

Did you try to withdraw smaller amount just like before? I guess its worth to try just like before based on this record.

Let's try to dial back.

I had assumed this was a deposit address provided to you on idmining, is it not?


They probably want you to reach out to them asking what's wrong and from there, they could demand another set of deposit e.g. tax or personal information for you to be able to withdraw without hiccups. Proceed with extreme caution.

Thank you. I checked Tronscan and many other things to track the money flow. I used mostly USDT and TRC20 to deposit money to Idmining. Everything is totally prepared like a masquerade. The Idmining.com website is behind Cloudflare making it impossible to find the real hosting IP address. Similarly, the address TM1zzNDZD2DPASbKcgdVoTYhfmYgtfwx9R is an OKX company address, but it is not a real scammer's address. I found a post on this forum describing how the OKX mixer works. It seems it will be very hard to track the real owner.


Edit 1:

They unblocked withdrawals on my account, but now there is a different fooling action - transfers are ending as invalid ones.

https://imgtr.ee/images/2023/07/16/d2b9914c1589495fe5908bbc6c876b34.jpeg

This is really a sad story. And it's even more worrying that crypto users sneak large transactions to scam websites when they see tempting offers. This crypto user has deposited such a large amount of funds on such a website, because they allowed this user to withdraw the previously deposited funds! And this is exactly how these websites operate to gain trust and then scam them. These stories make me wonder how many traps scammers have created for newbies. Because the stories of these incidents are being seen in various media these days.

Once scammers used to run HYIP websites to scam crypto users, and now scammers are creating such websites and scamming them with tempting offers. Newbies should spend more time learning without thinking of such easy earning ways. And by this they can stay safe from scammers.

All these scam alert were added by me. Check it out.

This discussion is already in the search engine I hope people before putting their hard-earned money on Idmining will do their research using the keywords IDMINING SCAM and they will eventually land here and see this discussion and save their hard-earned money, it's ok to look for passive income but its only takes a minute or two to research.

I am sorry to hear this story and with your losses OP. It's been a long time since cloud mining have been like a real thing. It's like 99.9% of them are likely a scam these days and if there are companies left that are doing and offering real cloud mining, their contracts are mostly full at all times. It is enticing to have these contracts because you think that they're for real as a passive income but then, no wonder that they're still existing because there are beginners that will always fall for these schemes. And please, don't ever put such amounts and it's best to never trust them quickly if there's one out there interested and keeping an eye with these cloud mining companies.

Yup. I had the same assumption - that their account was already fully verified in the higher tier (or highest?) given the big amounts they transacted recently.

At the same time, buying and selling of verified exchange accounts have also been rampant and there are even people who volunteers their identity to be used hence my most likely bet went to the mentioned situation. Ofc, there's also a chance they're dum dums and have actually used their identity or one of their team members.

The fact that they didn't mind giving you the first investment back meant that these scammers are experienced when it comes to social engineering and psychology, they know that when someone sees that they can make money out of the platform because they trusted the platform to give back the money with the profits, I don't know if they coerced you into putting in more but if they do, that's a tell tale sign that it's a pyramid scheme. Also OP, you should know that no matter how grave the offense is, doxxing isn't the way, you're putting yourself and the people that accepts your request in an awkward if not dangerous position even if you offer a reward. My suggestion is that you do it legitimately and talk with the authorities about the identity of these scammers and regarding their identities, even if you were to know it, there's a possibility that they're not from your country.

They smartly use the term Lifetime for their KYC requirements and limits on deposits and withdrawals.

They are shady because they don't publicly tell their users about deposit and withdrawal limits that are related with their KYC levels.

This article How do I verify an individual account? should have link to another article that has information about lifetime limits on deposits and withdrawals or should have that information directly.

That's it and no more detailed information.

OKX began to freeze accounts and set a limit for withdrawals of about $1,000 from the date of creation of the account. Therefore, if there are on-going transactions at that address, they are locked until scammer complete KYC L2.
There is a good chance of getting your money back if you submit an application to OKX with details of what happened and some police or legal data attached.


Unfortunately, they are good at marketing, and these links appear first in Google searches, along with some paid articles.

According to Archive.org Idmining.com was up for sale.

Looking at Whois.com, the DNS settings were changed in February 2023 and the new scammer site popped up.

Quick lookup indicates they're using OKX

For instance, their BTC address has a lot of transactions going to 32BgauNVxn6A8byZtDjPTMLRkHYWGVbjun

and this address is tagged as OKX, see: https://oxt.me/address/32BgauNVxn6A8byZtDjPTMLRkHYWGVbjun

One of their USDT address is also tagged as Okex which is previously OKX, see: https://tronscan.org/#/address/TM1zzNDZD2DPASbKcgdVoTYhfmYgtfwx9R



Their OKX account is most likely not tied with their identity but perhaps you'll be able to freeze (not necessarily recover) some of their coins specially since it does seem like it is actively being used. That is, if OKX cooperates, so yeah, reach out to them.

Thank you for kind words. I think the reason behind such behavior is the greediness. Let's use classical words - I am an idiot. I investigated on the internet before and I found many articles that were backing up this company like this one
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/idmining-launches-cost-effective-cloud-131500225.html. Now I know that these articles were written by scammers themselves. Also in May, idmining had score 4.5 on trustpilot and negative reviews. In the end I think I was too lazy to think more critically, but greediness did the job. I realized that they changed agrement after I bought first 28k contract just to get money from me. I want to find who are these guys.

What I also found is scammers most probably have other sites for scamming people. One of them is Happyminer.us which is now gone and cryptolyi.com the websites have the same tech stack and they use same wallet addresses.

Cloud mining works like a Ponzi scheme that's already a big fact we have already proven that so many times on so many reports here in Bitcointalk and yet so many people do not still know this fact because they failed to do the most important when looking for a platform to invest and that is doing their research, this is why Ponzi scheme are proliferating because they have willing victims.
I'm so sorry for you OP but these scammers are good at hiding their addresses although it's good if one can provide the identities of these scammers.

I'm really sorry for your loss OP! But I can't understand how can, you guys, invest such huge amounts so easily without doing a proper research.
They scammed you for 28k the first time, I can understand that. But didn't you think that something was not right when they asked you to invest another 28k and buy a second contract! Are there anything on their terms saying that you have to do so in order to withdraw your money! I don't think so.

Stawy away. It is a scam. I was looking for a passive income strategies. I purchased the first contract worth USDT 5,800 (a cryptocurrency with a unit value similar to the US dollar), IDMINING initially paid me the so-called daily profits and thus paid me about  4200 USDT. I made all transactions with BINANCE(.)com. I was depositing USDT cryptocurrency directly from Binance(.)com to an IDMINING wallet whose TRC20 network wallet address is TFZHB2H7MuXXNruXvbvVKTSweaj2NxD6LP and BTC wallet 3J46FZi5TAisEgM2Sd6WGNsG9MsBKnj1m1. Later they changed the USDT address to TM1zzNDZD2DPASbKcgdVoTYhfmYgtfwx9R, but unfortunately, I didn't use it for depositing. Satisfied with how things turned out, I purchased another contract worth USDT 28,000. Unfortunately, the ability to withdraw daily profits has been blocked for me. After contacting the support on the scammer's website the same day, they told me that I needed to buy a second contract worth 28,000 USDT and only then would they unlock my account. In the end I bought a second contract and at the same time I wrote to the technical department a request to unblock my account. Unfortunately, despite this request, they said my account's scoring value low and I can't withdraw until my scoring will high again. They nagged me to refer my friends to increase the scoring. It is brutal scam. Stay away. They are blocking withdrawal after you reach some threshold or when you buy a more expensive contract. Then when you ask their support what is going on, they:
-tell you must buy another contract
-ask you to pay a deposit
-ask friends to join a referral program
This is an obvious scam. "Trust"pilot is not reacting to complains. They are flagging truth comments very quickly.

You can read stories of the other people who were scammed:
1. https://medium.com/@amin.sajedi/idmining-is-scam-and-you-must-not-trust-at-all-dbabeb3e25e8
2. https://youtu.be/1QqBBXeHDSs

I pay 1000$ to the person who exposes Idmining scammers or wallets owners with their names and addresses.

Edit 1:

The IDMINING's deposit addresses later changed, although I didn't use them because IDMINING blocked withdrawals on my account. The other scammed people I'm in contact with were using the new addresses. Moreover, the money flow on the crypto chain proves all the mentioned accounts are connected.
1. TPkJiS3r7bmKo6YZvtRCMLtD3ySbqYVxkA [USDT]
2. TM1zzNDZD2DPASbKcgdVoTYhfmYgtfwx9R [USDT]
3. 32BgauNVxn6A8byZtDjPTMLRkHYWGVbjun BTC

Edit 2:

I found on IDmining page new scammer's addresses for depositing crypto:
1. TJjzBnVLJjbJRic9JhSqRLYWHcyyMjKjrh [USDT]-[TRC20]
2. 0xea5796bcf3f2ff15be2369af8c6278df9680d6f8 [USDT]-ERC20]
3. MDT7CkwTXucXS1VReQumCo9GgGQKfnyNKa [LTC]-[Litecoin]
4. 0xea5796bcf3f2ff15be2369af8c6278df9680d6f8 [ETH]-[TRC20]
5. 3Lhy4FoCDuExGosmxyrTUpH4zvv4aP1Az1 - BTC

!!!! SCAM ALERT!!!!