After 27 hours of them illegally withholding assets that belong to me, I went to the contact page of the
Delaware Attorney General to find his contact information. I then looked on Poloniex's site for their physical address and it only shows "Poloniex, Inc. 2017 - Wilmington, DE, USA".
Trying to find their complete physical address, I did a search for "Poloniex" on the
SEC site, which raised a red flag - the SEC has the company registered as "Poloniex, LCC" and incorporated in Montana, with the physical address "1001 S. MAIN STREET SUITE 600 KALISPELL MT 59901".
A quick search on Google for "Poloniex, LLC" returned
this very interesting reddit post from just 3 months ago among the first results (someone had made this research before me):
with the recent altcoin runup... with most of the volume on poloniex, i'm quite worried that poloniex is simply cryptsy 2.0.
they were only recently legally incorporated (2/9/2016), in delaware, by a "virtual office" called vcorp services.
https://www.delawarelookup.com/company/5959580/poloniex-inchttps://icis.corp.delaware.gov/ecorp/entitysearch/namesearch.aspx (look for poloniex)
their 'address' is again, a virtual office (see:
https://poloniex.com/terms/content.php)
1013 centre road, suite 403b , wilmington, de, 19805
searching for this address results in millions of other 'corporations' at this address. with hundreds of millions of dollars in volume, you'd think they'd spring for a real office?
they claim to be registered with fincen. (see:
https://poloniex.com/terms/content.php)
poloniex is registered with fincen as an msb (money services business), registration number 31000055869515. poloniex may be required to file details of account activity to this organization from time to time.
if you look up their msb number here:
https://www.fincen.gov/msb-registrant-search there is no result.
there's a few other things like, particularly very little information on the owner. something stinks. the main thing that bothers me is the fact that they've been around so long yet still use virtual offices. we're talking hundreds of millions of dollars of volume, this isn't some new small business that can't afford a full blown office.
here's just a few 'legitimate businesses' that have the same physical address as poloniex.
https://www.owhealth.com/about.htmlhttps://splitmetrics.com/legal-contacts/https://www.vyayama.com/pages/terms-conditionshttps://www.totemmi.com/pages/terms-of-servicehttp://scalarr.io/https://www.appvirality.com/contactcan really go on all day.
edit: they were also registered as an llc in 2014, but this also was done by a virtual corporation service in montana.
In a nutshell: their physical addresses, both in Delaware and in Montana, are of virtual offices provided by companies like Vcorp Services, whose site advertises "same day incorporation and LLC formations".The reddit user who started that thread posted this reply to a comment that said this was "common business practice":
this is acceptable for new businesses, just starting out and need to conserve money.
not so much when you're already dealing with millions of dollars. they claim to have offices in boston... but they don't seem to keen to share an address, so it could be bullshit, or another virtual office.
but don't worry, we can trust them with tens of millions of dollars. their physical address though must remain private, we can't be trusted with that.