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Quote from: duke59 on June 02, 2023, 12:55:38 AM

This exchange went down completely over the past few days with this error message...

... I don't use this exchange but know someone who has some funds stuck there. Does anyone know there's a way to get this recovered? Emailed [email protected] but they didn't reply.

Oh jeez. I'm not saying I buy their excuse but if it is true they have poor cybersec as they seem to not have backups/enough backups.

As for recovering, your friend's coins sits at STEX's wallets hence their hand is needed.

Some suggestions:

1. Try to reach out and follow up thru their other channels - perhaps their social media are still active or you know other email address. Side note: i think it's not a bad idea to send another email to [email protected]
2. Make noise in crypto communities - I would target the popular places first
3. Lawyer up - expensive and complicated. also know that I'm suggesting this without knowing your situation e.g. how much have you lost, where you're from etc.

In any case, whole situation is vague and sus. I've no idea how are they gonna verify information from users... for starters, screenshots can be manipulated... perhaps signed messages from a user's known addresses (judging from their deposit and withdrawals)? but that would require enough user data from STEX.

I wouldn't be surprised if they went, "sorry we can't verify this from the scraps of data we have, it is out of our hands" Sad

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This exchange went down completely over the past few days with this error message:

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Force Majeure statement
Due to unknown reasons, we suffered data loss. In result, we have very fragmented and non-consistent data regarding balances, transactions, etc. We cannot continue any business operations.

Trying to recover any accesable assets we kindly asking for your help. Please send any related information about your transactions and account to [email protected]. We are sorry for the inconveniences.

Definitely few like a scam. I don't use this exchange but know someone who has some funds stuck there. Does anyone know there's a way to get this recovered? Emailed [email protected] but they didn't reply.

A couple of Google queries found the following information:

Founder: Vadym Kurylovych
Crunchbase profile:

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Vadym is a blockchain visionary and entrepreneur with experience of 15+ year across products. He is currently the CEO, Founder at Stex which is a crypto exchange with best in class security. Prior to this, he was the CTO of Paragoncoin which was one of the most successful ICOs of all time. Vadym also serves as an advisor and board member atCryptonomica, a global attestation platform. A true believer of decentralization Vadym has mentored many upcoming entrepreneurs in the domain in Ukraine. He is a human rights activist and has been a part of many campaigns in the past.

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This rats from scam-exchange want KYC from me, and stolen my money.
I deposited over 1000 USDT on this scam-exchange without any fucking KYC,
I even recevied withdraw of 195 USDT, without fucking KYC.
Then I bought some Ethereum token - ProVOCO, and price on this asset was been low for a long time.
I waited price up, but VOCO was been delisted.
I did not log-in on exchange for a long time, and when I signed in there,
I saw my VOCO on account balance, but I could not trade this asset.
I did try to withdraw VOCO, and I see there need pay fees for ETH.
I deposited USDT to buy ETH, but I see there is impossible to trade - without fucking KYC!
I wrote an email for support-team, and they said me need to process fucking KYC.
KYC is not anonymous action, crypto created for anonymous, so I disagred with this shit.
After some time of correspondence, I see VOCO was been just dissapeared from my account balance.
It's scam-exchange, with dirty rats, who are stole just $1000, and ask motherfucking KYC, then.
Turn back my fucking $1k, or VOCO, or fuck this scam-exchange - stex.com .

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I deposited over $1000 on this exchange, without any KYC, and traded there, and bought some shit-tokens there.
But tokens was been delisted, and I can not withdraw this without KYC. I can not exchange nothing without KYC.
Seems like scam. I do not using binance since 2018, because they disabled trading for users without KYC.
Fuck KYC, it's first alert of scam, because anonymous admins can easy stole last money from known traders.
Turn back my $1000, if stex.com is not a scam-exchange. Contact me PM.

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stex.com has a lot of scam accusations most of them recent ones: https://www.trustpilot.com/review/stex.com. They seem to be losing the fear of scamming. I never used them. Anyone using them currently can be at risk.

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I have been registered on stex.com since Stock.Exchange, but haven't traded in the last couple of years. Recently, after receiving a letter about inactivity for a year, I decided to trade again and replenished my altcoin account.

What was my surprise when I could not start trading, and even more - they do not allow me to return them back. Require verification. But when entering coins, they did not require it from me. Moreover, it is written that verification is only "Verification provides advanced opportunities for using the STEX platform (reduces trading fees, the ability to use advanced API methods and simplifies the recovery of a lost 2fa authentication key)" - in this way they mislead customers.

And the very procedure of verification for the Russians looks like a sham. "All submitted documents must have a mandatory English translation." Yes, and notarized. And more photos, videos (well, they don’t ask for medical tests). In general, this is a very complicated and tedious procedure (I mean notary and translation into English).

Angry

Sorry for google translate.

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Quote from: brubic on March 09, 2021, 07:36:47 AM

Checked this exchange. It turns out they deleted my account. Lost all shitcoins ~50$

Not everything is as bad as I thought. Support restored my acc

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Checked this exchange. It turns out they deleted my account. Lost all shitcoins ~50$

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now They refuse kyc approval...why....or they Intend to cheat....

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Hello people,

I just want to warn you about stex that they are a pile of swindlers, what happened to me prove 100% that they are a group of scammers,

Yesterday 29-08-2020 I decided to give stex a trial trade by 10000 Dogecoin
I deposited the coins and offered them to sell at price 29 sat per coin , time was 15:35 pm
The total offered dogecoin to be sold at that time ( including my Dogecoins) was nearly 1 800 000 Dogecoin
and today 30-08-2020 time 19:24 and according to Dogecoin sold coins record based on Trading history, there was more than 4 million sold Dogecoin at price 29 sat !
My simple question is : Why my coins are not sold ? it supposed to be that sell order was excuted since more than 10 hours, but that didn't happen ?
The other question : What are they doing with my coins ?
I sen a detailed E-mail to the support named kate by what happened and I faced her by evidence
again I sent them an E-mail calling them like : Where are you scammers ? why no one of is replying ?
And no answer
People I'm warning you : I swear to you STEX are scammers , and if you want to repeat my trial to check go ahead and check by yourselves
I have warned you
Many thanks

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Quote from: versprichnix on April 28, 2020, 12:40:52 PM

Aah a hater. Yes, learn from it!

I traded without difficulty on HitBTC many years, then suddenly they wrote a KYC email message, so they have my coins stolen (as bittrex before too). We all have to learn from it, you are not the exception.

Very true. I too experienced this shit from Poloniex just after that hack (if you remember). They just started asking me for KYC and even after doing so, they started making false accusations that it's not me and someone else trying to get into my account. I mean what the heck? Even after providing them everything, they just didn't let me get into my account, it was having around BTC0.4 when BTC was $3500. Lost something big but learnt that I should never ever keep any tokens or BTC on any exchange.

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Quote from: Peter111280 on April 28, 2020, 10:38:23 AM

Quote from: versprichnix on December 08, 2019, 12:25:40 PM

extremely fair playing exchange (for me). failing withdraws are reviewed by them automatically, and one day later one can try again (on all other exchanges I have to investigate). They announce the change of their legel terms at the turn of the year, and let users withdraw their funds. This is quite the opposite of a lot of other scam exchanges like bittrex.

After they made their change I recommend them as non anonymous change, an alternative to the nice kraken exchange.

IS UNTIL THEY SCAM YOU , IT IS EXCATLY LIKE YOBIT FULL OF SHITCOINS THAT YOU CANT WITHDRAW TO PRIVATE WALLET , WHY SIMPLY THE REAL BLOCKCHAIN END TOKENS THAT THEY SELL ARE NOT THE SAME .IF YOU LOOSE 2—3k on that shit you will learn !

Aah a hater. Yes, learn from it!

I traded without difficulty on HitBTC many years, then suddenly they wrote a KYC email message, so they have my coins stolen (as bittrex before too). We all have to learn from it, you are not the exception.

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Quote from: versprichnix on December 08, 2019, 12:25:40 PM

extremely fair playing exchange (for me). failing withdraws are reviewed by them automatically, and one day later one can try again (on all other exchanges I have to investigate). They announce the change of their legel terms at the turn of the year, and let users withdraw their funds. This is quite the opposite of a lot of other scam exchanges like bittrex.

After they made their change I recommend them as non anonymous change, an alternative to the nice kraken exchange.

IS UNTIL THEY SCAM YOU , IT IS EXCATLY LIKE YOBIT FULL OF SHITCOINS THAT YOU CANT WITHDRAW TO PRIVATE WALLET , WHY SIMPLY THE REAL BLOCKCHAIN END TOKENS THAT THEY SELL ARE NOT THE SAME .IF YOU LOOSE 2—3k on that shit you will learn !

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extremely fair playing exchange (for me). failing withdraws are reviewed by them automatically, and one day later one can try again (on all other exchanges I have to investigate). They announce the change of their legel terms at the turn of the year, and let users withdraw their funds. This is quite the opposite of a lot of other scam exchanges like bittrex.

After they made their change I recommend them as non anonymous change, an alternative to the nice kraken exchange.

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Quote from: Dimitry on December 07, 2019, 11:10:01 AM

extreme slow deposit and withdrawal times +hours

I cannot confirm this. I've used them quite a few times to sell mined or staked shitcoins, deposits always arrived fast and withdrawals were close to instant. Maybe I just got lucky with my withdrawals, but my experience does not confirm this at all.

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extreme slow deposit and withdrawal times +hours

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shitcoin exchange = shit service.. it does not equate to a scam, Ive used stex for shitecoins and it hasn't been too bad even with the bad interface

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Not sure if is a scam or not, but they for sure are faking their volume and listing shitty coins.

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I have used Stex in the past to trade Absolute (ABS). I never had issues with deposits/withdraws but I never trade large amounts at once on 'shitcoin' exchanges.

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Quote from: coin-investor on May 26, 2019, 09:47:20 PM

Quote from: Francisco Paixao on May 26, 2019, 05:00:48 PM

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Quote from: Francisco Paixao on May 19, 2019, 07:17:22 PM

Hello, I would like to know if the stex.com is scam. I can not access my account after allowing only one IP (My ISP changed the IP after a local network failure), I contacted the chat support, they requested to contact via email, but so far I have not gotten a response. Chat support only repeats the same message: Send your data via email and ask to disable "Allow Logins via IPs". I'm already out of patience. 3 days and still did not respond to my email.

Sounds like this was your fault? You enabled an option that blocks every IP other than X and you changed your IP (regardless of if it was intentional or was your ISP's fault)... Looks like they are just doing what they have been told to do.

So, you already emailed them with your data and request to disable the IP option? If that's the case, 3 days doesn't seem like a lot of time to call them a scam.

That could be the reason, they have an option like that in your personal dashboard when I'm still in Azart campaign I sold all my coins in that exchange after I verified my account I did not face any hassle depositing, trading and withdrawing my coins. everything is easy and hassle-free.

Support asked me to prove that I am the account owner.
I tried this with my 2FA code and now they are sending a tutroial about using 2FA, and I just want to have access to my account, but I can not have it because I'm blocked by IP. They are sending me the automatic answers, it's the same attendant, and the guy does not look at the history of the conversation?

Is there a possibility that you access it from the IP that you've used that is not yet blocked or use another IP you can try to message them in their other social media channel if you keep receiving the same message, or a telegram channel I'm sure they have one, most exchange has one.

the stex.com is sure scam first when it was the step token ico they sold themselves stex tokens other that real stex . The stex token from stex.com use to pay good dividends until one day that the team sold all the stex tokens end disable them before 2 years end until now all the money that was invested in stex is frozen disabled lost! Personally I have make many transactions with them they was always withdraw . Take one other example yobit.exchange is matter of luck if your founds will be withdrawal.are the alt coins that you buy you can withdraw them to your wallet . Why they sell scam fake tokens with only one propose is to steal money

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Quote from: Francisco Paixao on May 26, 2019, 05:00:48 PM

Quote from: fortunecrypto on May 26, 2019, 07:20:16 AM

Quote from: TryNinja on May 19, 2019, 08:22:47 PM

Quote from: Francisco Paixao on May 19, 2019, 07:17:22 PM

Hello, I would like to know if the stex.com is scam. I can not access my account after allowing only one IP (My ISP changed the IP after a local network failure), I contacted the chat support, they requested to contact via email, but so far I have not gotten a response. Chat support only repeats the same message: Send your data via email and ask to disable "Allow Logins via IPs". I'm already out of patience. 3 days and still did not respond to my email.

Sounds like this was your fault? You enabled an option that blocks every IP other than X and you changed your IP (regardless of if it was intentional or was your ISP's fault)... Looks like they are just doing what they have been told to do.

So, you already emailed them with your data and request to disable the IP option? If that's the case, 3 days doesn't seem like a lot of time to call them a scam.

That could be the reason, they have an option like that in your personal dashboard when I'm still in Azart campaign I sold all my coins in that exchange after I verified my account I did not face any hassle depositing, trading and withdrawing my coins. everything is easy and hassle-free.

Support asked me to prove that I am the account owner.
I tried this with my 2FA code and now they are sending a tutroial about using 2FA, and I just want to have access to my account, but I can not have it because I'm blocked by IP. They are sending me the automatic answers, it's the same attendant, and the guy does not look at the history of the conversation?

Is there a possibility that you access it from the IP that you've used that is not yet blocked or use another IP you can try to message them in their other social media channel if you keep receiving the same message, or a telegram channel I'm sure they have one, most exchange has one.

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Quote from: fortunecrypto on May 26, 2019, 07:20:16 AM

Quote from: TryNinja on May 19, 2019, 08:22:47 PM

Quote from: Francisco Paixao on May 19, 2019, 07:17:22 PM

Hello, I would like to know if the stex.com is scam. I can not access my account after allowing only one IP (My ISP changed the IP after a local network failure), I contacted the chat support, they requested to contact via email, but so far I have not gotten a response. Chat support only repeats the same message: Send your data via email and ask to disable "Allow Logins via IPs". I'm already out of patience. 3 days and still did not respond to my email.

Sounds like this was your fault? You enabled an option that blocks every IP other than X and you changed your IP (regardless of if it was intentional or was your ISP's fault)... Looks like they are just doing what they have been told to do.

So, you already emailed them with your data and request to disable the IP option? If that's the case, 3 days doesn't seem like a lot of time to call them a scam.

That could be the reason, they have an option like that in your personal dashboard when I'm still in Azart campaign I sold all my coins in that exchange after I verified my account I did not face any hassle depositing, trading and withdrawing my coins. everything is easy and hassle-free.

Support asked me to prove that I am the account owner.
I tried this with my 2FA code and now they are sending a tutroial about using 2FA, and I just want to have access to my account, but I can not have it because I'm blocked by IP. They are sending me the automatic answers, it's the same attendant, and the guy does not look at the history of the conversation?

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Quote from: TryNinja on May 19, 2019, 08:22:47 PM

Quote from: Francisco Paixao on May 19, 2019, 07:17:22 PM

Hello, I would like to know if the stex.com is scam. I can not access my account after allowing only one IP (My ISP changed the IP after a local network failure), I contacted the chat support, they requested to contact via email, but so far I have not gotten a response. Chat support only repeats the same message: Send your data via email and ask to disable "Allow Logins via IPs". I'm already out of patience. 3 days and still did not respond to my email.

Sounds like this was your fault? You enabled an option that blocks every IP other than X and you changed your IP (regardless of if it was intentional or was your ISP's fault)... Looks like they are just doing what they have been told to do.

So, you already emailed them with your data and request to disable the IP option? If that's the case, 3 days doesn't seem like a lot of time to call them a scam.

That could be the reason, they have an option like that in your personal dashboard when I'm still in Azart campaign I sold all my coins in that exchange after I verified my account I did not face any hassle depositing, trading and withdrawing my coins. everything is easy and hassle-free.

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Quote from: Francisco Paixao on May 26, 2019, 01:02:37 AM

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Im just trying to help you. You don’t have to pull the passive aggressive card.

But great! Everybody is now warned! Thank you for your service, sir. Maybe lock the thread to avoid more “obvious” stuff? Wink

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Quote from: TryNinja on May 24, 2019, 02:56:58 PM

Quote from: Francisco Paixao on May 24, 2019, 02:44:25 PM

They did not respond to my email, now do you think it's a scam?

So, you sent them what they requested and they still did nothing? Or you didn’t because you don’t trust them with your data? If it’s the first, then it looks like it could be a scam. But unfortunately I don’t know what we can do to help you. It could even be a excuse to get your coins in case you don’t want to comply with their requests (which is pretty shady).

Do you know if they have an account here?

I sent my document, a picture of me holding a paper with "Stex" next to my document, the estimated amount of coins, and the CoinIMP.com transaction history for my account. They also ask for video, but before sending it, I asked if I could send it in my language. They did not respond to the email and the chat said that it had not arrived. I proved that I had sent and responded with: "Dear User
Please prove that you are the owner of this account. "
I made a screenshot of the page that shows the code for the 2FA, I sent as proof to them.

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But unfortunately I don’t know what we can do to help you.

I do not want your help and I know that no one can help me, I'm just reporting a fraud (would you prefer more people to fall into a fraud?). If you want to say something obvious, ok but not on my topic.

I recently tested BiteBTC with a small amount on WebChain. It was a fraud already reported in the forum and in groups on Facebook. If the blow was not reported on the forum, I would have deposited all my coins there.

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Quote from: Slow death on May 24, 2019, 03:13:43 PM

OP

you must post according to the appropriate format

ANN Thread: [ANN][STEX.Exchange]1-st Exchange Aggregator to trade all coins in one place

ANN Thread2: [ANN][ICO] STeX Exchange - 1st aggregator and 10000 cross-rates on one platform

Profile:: @STeX.exchange

Profile2: @Ivan [STeX]

OP

I think you should read their ANN thread, next time do research before using anything

stex.com is different from stex.exchange

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OP

you must post according to the appropriate format

ANN Thread: [ANN][STEX.Exchange]1-st Exchange Aggregator to trade all coins in one place

ANN Thread2: [ANN][ICO] STeX Exchange - 1st aggregator and 10000 cross-rates on one platform

Profile:: @STeX.exchange

Profile2: @Ivan [STeX]

OP

I think you should read their ANN thread, next time do research before using anything

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Quote from: Francisco Paixao on May 24, 2019, 02:44:25 PM

They did not respond to my email, now do you think it's a scam?

So, you sent them what they requested and they still did nothing? Or you didn’t because you don’t trust them with your data? If it’s the first, then it looks like it could be a scam. But unfortunately I don’t know what we can do to help you. It could even be a excuse to get your coins in case you don’t want to comply with their requests (which is pretty shady).

Do you know if they have an account here?

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Quote from: TryNinja on May 19, 2019, 08:22:47 PM

Quote from: Francisco Paixao on May 19, 2019, 07:17:22 PM

Hello, I would like to know if the stex.com is scam. I can not access my account after allowing only one IP (My ISP changed the IP after a local network failure), I contacted the chat support, they requested to contact via email, but so far I have not gotten a response. Chat support only repeats the same message: Send your data via email and ask to disable "Allow Logins via IPs". I'm already out of patience. 3 days and still did not respond to my email.

Sounds like this was your fault? You enabled an option that blocks every IP other than X and you changed your IP (regardless of if it was intentional or was your ISP's fault)... Looks like they are just doing what they have been told to do.

So, you already emailed them with your data and request to disable the IP option? If that's the case, 3 days doesn't seem like a lot of time to call them a scam.

They did not respond to my email, now do you think it's a scam?

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I dont know is STEX.COM scam or not, but they blocked withdrowal for me answering that
"You have been blocked for withdrawal through suspicious activity. Please pass the verification in our system."
Realy??? Depositing mined coins, trading it to BTC and withdrawing BTC is suspicious activity at crypto exchange? At twitter STEX.COM previously claimed
"You need verification just if you want to deposit or withdraw fiat currencies (for depositing/withdrawing crypto you don't need to verify your account)"
twitter com StexExchangeR/status/1036983334105165824
Now they took my BTC, should I give them also my ID, address, selfie with ID and video recording of yourself saying that I trust my personal data to STEX.COM, that is the question.

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Quote from: Francisco Paixao on May 19, 2019, 07:17:22 PM

Hello, I would like to know if the stex.com is scam. I can not access my account after allowing only one IP (My ISP changed the IP after a local network failure), I contacted the chat support, they requested to contact via email, but so far I have not gotten a response. Chat support only repeats the same message: Send your data via email and ask to disable "Allow Logins via IPs". I'm already out of patience. 3 days and still did not respond to my email.

Sounds like this was your fault? You enabled an option that blocks every IP other than X and you changed your IP (regardless of if it was intentional or was your ISP's fault)... Looks like they are just doing what they have been told to do.

So, you already emailed them with your data and request to disable the IP option? If that's the case, 3 days doesn't seem like a lot of time to call them a scam.

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Hello, I would like to know if the stex.com is scam. I can not access my account after allowing only one IP (My ISP changed the IP after a local network failure), I contacted the chat support, they requested to contact via email, but so far I have not gotten a response. Chat support only repeats the same message: Send your data via email and ask to disable "Allow Logins via IPs". I'm already out of patience. 3 days and still did not respond to my email.

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