I don't get it why there are people that are thinking those legit once to be shady and those shady to be legit, it's hard to understand people.
Suspecting one cannot be ignored because we do not know when one person or service may turn their intentions. There were many records that some services suddenly stopping paying out and one escrow from this forum suddenly disappeared with all the funds he got through providing escrow services.
Oh yes, you're right with it I forgot that thing even there are people / services that has been trusted for a longer time, things can changed.
But I think it's totally different with bitmixer, they built trust and reputation to the bitcoin community as one of the well known mixing service.
always check the domain / website address before using them, figure out the btc - bit words used by them.
There are multiple ways available to double check the reliability. Still we cannot be sure about one services all the times. But particularly for bitmixer, I am not finding any complaint nor scam accusations. When I tried them some two months back, all went smooth for mixing my bitcoins.
There's none when it comes to complain about them but there are people that are making this type of site as an opportunity to fool people.
They are imitating almost exact name of the domain but I guess it's out of their jurisdiction and it's our negligence if we'll fall for those type of sites.