Topic: Is miningunited.com a SCAM, turning .1 bitcoins into .137 for almost free? - page 9. (Read 28717 times)
May 16, 2013, 07:28:25 PM
I have also received the email. Clearly satoshi dice shutting down for US users is a problem if that's what was driving.
May 16, 2013, 07:02:03 PM
now loads a page stating they are closed. EMail them and you get repeated info along with:
"WARNING: The website http://www.BTCcheap.com is NOT related to MU in
anyway. ANY U.S based users using this Vietnamese website is subject
to all regulations in your jurisdiction. It may be AGAINST THE LAW if
you are located in the United States, even if you USE BITCOIN ONLY."
but more importantly
"A 100% BitCoin refund is being sent back to all users. U.S based users
may take longer to receive a BitCoin refund. If your wallet was not
compatible with our service you will NOT RECEIVE A REFUND."
We shall see if this guy was legit soon enough..
"WARNING: The website http://www.BTCcheap.com is NOT related to MU in
anyway. ANY U.S based users using this Vietnamese website is subject
to all regulations in your jurisdiction. It may be AGAINST THE LAW if
you are located in the United States, even if you USE BITCOIN ONLY."
but more importantly
"A 100% BitCoin refund is being sent back to all users. U.S based users
may take longer to receive a BitCoin refund. If your wallet was not
compatible with our service you will NOT RECEIVE A REFUND."
We shall see if this guy was legit soon enough..
May 16, 2013, 07:01:36 PM
At least they are giving quite a show.
But it needs more fireworks for all that money.
But it needs more fireworks for all that money.
May 16, 2013, 07:00:06 PM
Miningunited.com is now redirecting to the Bitcoin wiki. Interesting.
Not any more. I get this:Code:
MU is no longer available and has shut down to comply with new U.S Regulations regarding the use of BitCoin in the United States. MU is not immune to these regulations and will 100% comply.
Contact: [email protected]
Legal: Click Here
Related:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/homeland-securitys-move-against-bitcoin-on-mt-gox-could-foreshadow-closer-regulation/2013/05/15/c4c13f54-bd76-11e2-9b09-1638acc3942e_story.html
http://upstart.bizjournals.com/news/technology/2013/05/15/regulating-bitcoin-after-dwolla-mt-gox.html
http://www.americanbanker.com/bankthink/fincen-regulations-choking-bitcoin-entrepreneurs-1058606-1.html
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/05/06/net-us-bitcoin-regulation-idUSBRE9450Y520130506
Other BitCoin services, such as Satoshi Dice (not related to this website), will remain open but blocked to United States Users. See for yourself:
http://www.SatoshiDice.com
Contact: [email protected]
Legal: Click Here
Related:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/homeland-securitys-move-against-bitcoin-on-mt-gox-could-foreshadow-closer-regulation/2013/05/15/c4c13f54-bd76-11e2-9b09-1638acc3942e_story.html
http://upstart.bizjournals.com/news/technology/2013/05/15/regulating-bitcoin-after-dwolla-mt-gox.html
http://www.americanbanker.com/bankthink/fincen-regulations-choking-bitcoin-entrepreneurs-1058606-1.html
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/05/06/net-us-bitcoin-regulation-idUSBRE9450Y520130506
Other BitCoin services, such as Satoshi Dice (not related to this website), will remain open but blocked to United States Users. See for yourself:
http://www.SatoshiDice.com
May 16, 2013, 06:30:02 PM
Miningunited.com is now redirecting to the Bitcoin wiki. Interesting.
May 16, 2013, 06:15:34 PM
For anyone who wishes to see the transaction list, my browser had it in its cache still from last night so I have copied the entirety of the text from that page into a pastebin.
See: http://pastebin.com/gcNmg6hf
See: http://pastebin.com/gcNmg6hf
May 16, 2013, 06:07:26 PM
The only one I had in there wasn't scheduled to payout until the 25th, so I won't know for a while, but have pretty much given up on that coming back at this point.
May 16, 2013, 06:06:14 PM
I didn't get paid on my last transaction, which was only a couple hours behind another one that did get paid, so it looks bad.
May 16, 2013, 06:05:25 PM
Can someone who is better versed in this than me look at the block chain and tell me if it looks like they are still paying people out.
Here's a cached copy of their transaction page: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Un12d5abLu0J:www.miningunited.com/trans.html+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&client=opera
Here's a cached copy of their transaction page: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Un12d5abLu0J:www.miningunited.com/trans.html+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&client=opera
That cached page is pretty old, just taking a quick look, the last one in that list was purchased on May 7 and paid on May 14, so prior to current issues.
May 16, 2013, 05:57:30 PM
Can someone who is better versed in this than me look at the block chain and tell me if it looks like they are still paying people out.
Here's a cached copy of their transaction page: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Un12d5abLu0J:www.miningunited.com/trans.html+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&client=opera
Here's a cached copy of their transaction page: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Un12d5abLu0J:www.miningunited.com/trans.html+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&client=opera
May 16, 2013, 05:39:09 PM
I just now tried emailing them and got this back:
"Hai!
Please a contact us btccheap.com! We love hear you from!
[email protected] - The Easy Way to Generate BitCoin!
This mailbox is no longer monitored you'r message will be deleted! Contact us new mail!"
The grammar is horrible. The original site and email replies did not suffer from this so now I'm wondering if they really did get hacked. Either way, I got my bitcoin back before this happened so I'm good LOL.
"Hai!
Please a contact us btccheap.com! We love hear you from!
[email protected] - The Easy Way to Generate BitCoin!
This mailbox is no longer monitored you'r message will be deleted! Contact us new mail!"
The grammar is horrible. The original site and email replies did not suffer from this so now I'm wondering if they really did get hacked. Either way, I got my bitcoin back before this happened so I'm good LOL.
May 16, 2013, 05:35:28 PM
On Saturday I asked them about the other site that appeared to be copying them and this was their reply:
"Yes, and we are currently suffering hacking attempts & DDoS attacks. We were notified by GoDaddy.com and our account is locked due to too many 'incorrect password attempts' as well.
Someone (some group) is trying to ruin our service. As you can see, that website totally stole all our scripting. Since it looks like us, people think it is us. Not good.
MU Support Team
MiningUnited.com - BitCoin Shared Servers
Help us help you by spreading the word of this website!"
"Yes, and we are currently suffering hacking attempts & DDoS attacks. We were notified by GoDaddy.com and our account is locked due to too many 'incorrect password attempts' as well.
Someone (some group) is trying to ruin our service. As you can see, that website totally stole all our scripting. Since it looks like us, people think it is us. Not good.
MU Support Team
MiningUnited.com - BitCoin Shared Servers
Help us help you by spreading the word of this website!"
May 16, 2013, 05:18:44 PM
HONESTLY......let it go... many of us been scammed.. contact FBI or let it be..have some dignity...
Ha ha. I'm not really freaking out. Just inquiring. 
May 16, 2013, 04:59:30 PM
HONESTLY......let it go... many of us been scammed.. contact FBI or let it be..have some dignity...
May 16, 2013, 04:28:54 PM
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I have been wondering how you are going to scale your scam in order to increase your take.
Now we know: http://www.btccheap.com/index.html
Just make duplicate web sites! Nice...
Now we know: http://www.btccheap.com/index.html
Just make duplicate web sites! Nice...
Once again, your assumptions have you wrong.
BTCCheap.com is a blatant, obvious, copy of our website. We are in NO WAY related to this website, all the way down to the DNS's being different. The have copied ALL of our pages literally word-for-word. Shortly after the website went up this was sent to us:
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"why yuu copy my website! you take down your website. it is mine."
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Creation date: 07 May 2013 15:29:00
It was registered on May 7, almost a month after our website. MiningUnited is NOT responsible for loss of BitCoin from using the copy website BTCCheap.com. We have already had several email's from people who used that 'scam copy' website saying that they have lost BitCoin after several days with no contact back from this copy website.
Can you update us on this situation since the sites been hacked.
You really should be able to get a new site up in an afternoon if you still have access to your registrar.
May 16, 2013, 03:02:23 PM
bet he's proper enjoying this now..reading all the comments.. 
May 16, 2013, 02:41:10 PM
Considering how vocal he was in here regarding the other issues that were raised it's interesting to note he hasn't been back for damage control yet.
[sarcasm] Maybe his forum ID was hacked as well? [/sarcasm] Looks like he hasn't been on in a couple of days if I'm not mistaken.
[sarcasm] Maybe his forum ID was hacked as well? [/sarcasm] Looks like he hasn't been on in a couple of days if I'm not mistaken.
May 16, 2013, 02:35:39 PM
My prediction, they come right back and pay you double for apologies.
May 16, 2013, 02:34:52 PM
They seem very very manipulative. THERE IS NO HACK.
So I'm assuming this is a mind trick. I'm thinking they will pay and build your confidence even higher, enough to get your 30 btc.
THERE IS NO HACK. This guy must be either very dumb or very smart. Probably studied psychology.
So I'm assuming this is a mind trick. I'm thinking they will pay and build your confidence even higher, enough to get your 30 btc.
THERE IS NO HACK. This guy must be either very dumb or very smart. Probably studied psychology.
May 16, 2013, 02:32:22 PM
This is such an awesome story in progress. Not awesome as in it was cool he ripped people off but awesome in the sense of "Holy crap, there are major shenanigans going down with this." Yes, I said shenanigans. I may even toss out high-jinks and monkey business later.
Sorry to everyone who has or will potentially lose coins from this.
And geez, you guys with all the coins to throw around...? $3000 bucks...really? Feel free to send some BTC love my way anytime if you feel your coinbag is getting too heavy.
I was nervous sending in my .05 payment.
I guess that's what being old and having a mortgage and kids will do to you.
Love that most of the older posters here were/are calling this stage by stage as it happens. Interesting to see the next few chapters and how this plays out.
Sorry to everyone who has or will potentially lose coins from this.
And geez, you guys with all the coins to throw around...? $3000 bucks...really? Feel free to send some BTC love my way anytime if you feel your coinbag is getting too heavy.
I was nervous sending in my .05 payment.
I guess that's what being old and having a mortgage and kids will do to you.
Love that most of the older posters here were/are calling this stage by stage as it happens. Interesting to see the next few chapters and how this plays out.
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