Topic: [SCAM ALERT] http://doge.scryptpools.com/ - DOGECOIN MINERS PLEASE READ - page 2. (Read 12390 times)

If you have submitted a manual withdrawal, please resubmit it."
Does not work.

5 days ago, requesting manual payment. I have not received. Where are you? Phonetic?

Well, everything was ok untill the pool went down big time. Noone wants to lose hours of mining. I personally didnt have a failover option yet. Cost me lot of coins but shit happens. He deserves some time to get everything fixed and then we will judge him. He  said something about 3 servers. Maybe something good is at stakes..lets wait!

why don't you ask him yourself? he's been here the whole time.


from the support thread.

My thoughts exactly.  cthulu and his ilk act like the only possibility is that Phonetic absconded with our Doge.  I think it is entirely likely that the guy invested a lot of time and his own money into this pool.  When he re-opened registrations, the load again swamped the servers.  He spent a lot of time on Christmas eve and Christmas day trying to fix it, only to have people like cthulu scream "SCAMMER!"  Phonetic may have said "Screw this!  I spent my money and missed time with my family on Christmas to get called a scammer?  I'm going to take a few days to clear my head."  He may also be working on the problem and waiting to make an announcement when he has it finished.  No matter what is going on, it is way too early to assume that he absconded with our Doge.

try doge-pool.com instead. They are giving away big bonusses to boost their pool.

I just submitted a manual payout request, I guess we shall see.

And thats why I always tell people to stay at smaller pools like mine and NOT give so much hashing power in one hand/one pool... especially when there is no fee ...

You can't drive a pool without any fee for long, its costs a shitload of time and money when it grows..

Many don't understand the difficulty rise and only see their earnings getting smaller, then they think they can earn more at a larger pool (as they find more blocks in shorter time) and join them .. and the problem starts again..

Its too late when they notice that their earnings are even smaller there as the blocks are shared between too many...

FWIW I was paid 150k doge from Scryptpool on Christmas Eve.

I've been waiting four days. Request manual payment and fails. I again request and says "You already have one active manual payout request."... Phonetic tell us something. I have sent several mail and has not replied to any.

Congratulations on your 15 minutes of fame, gained purely through smearing another persons reputation and your investigation. Also, please welcome yourself to not inferring anything regarding myself -- I have seen how vile your inferrances can be. Personally, I am mining elsewhere until the situation resolves itself -- just saying that your vitriol is doing NOTHING to help people get their Đ. You could have EASILY just pointed out that people aren't getting funds, instead of you attacking someone who realistically has ZERO responsibility towards paying people other than his own moral compass (Technically we put faith into someone in the hopes he will fulfill his end of the agreement).

Which is even more of a reason to disapprove of your "methods." You "called bullshit" after 14 hours of non-payment, attacked other people who didn't agree with your crusade, and mocked the host you affectionately call "Phony-tic." Then statements like "How about instead of getting butthurt, put your money where your mouth is brochacho and start addressing the issues" do little to add to your calling my maturity level into question.

Just saying, while what you are doing in essence IS GOOD, because you are trying to help others not get screwed (IF THIS TURNS OUT TO BE A SCAM) -- No need to shit on the one guy who (if he isn't scamming people) will help people get their payments. You've done your part, and just leave it as is. I know I will, because I'm still making money -- just not on scryptpools (for now).

if you suppose saying "im going to fix things" and "soon" are acceptable answers then yeah sure I guess you can consider that "informative". what you're referring to as a smear campaign is actually a public awareness campaign. he's had over 4 days to even give a single response to anyone, including the several times I asked for answers about the discrepancies. if anything, I welcome him to join this discussion and tell us all where the remainder of everyone's doge is. he had admitted that he was put into debt because the pool grew faster than he had expected. I'm not one to go and try to hurt someone's reputation until I have some pretty solid proof but I'm not the only one with the problem. however, I am the only one with a voice aside from those coming forward with their stories of how my investigation is potentially valid. there's already collectively confirmed over 500k doge in limbo, that is enough to merit some sort of response. and I'm aware about the WHOIS scenario, but in light of the recent hacks of dogewallet and dogehouse, it's better to air on the side of caution. also, he shouldn't have to spoof his address if he has nothing to hide.

if in fact he has stopped responding because I have confronted him directly about this, then all the more reason to be suspicious. if that were even the case though, he would most likely just freeze my account....why take it out on the whole pool? and if you trust your money to someone of that maturity level then I can see even greater losses coming in your future. as I said, this is all speculation until he comes forth and gives at least a reasonable explanation as to why he's still running the pool and not paying anyone out.

You MIGHT be right, but I don't want to slam him so hard he decides not to fix it.  I'm still holding out on him coming around and returning the coins.

Josh

Not gonna lie cthulu, he was pretty good about being informative and letting us know what was going on, about until you spearheaded a smear campaign against the guy. I received payouts regularly, and sure there was some unrest with the few issues that were forming, but you went on a full blown attack and regularly berated the guy on his thread. I mean, I got about Đ20k tied up on his server and that sucks and I know plenty have in the Đ100k's, but Jesus I wouldn't be surprised if he certainly doesn't try to right the wrongs with how you treated him. Sure, it sucks that he isn't responsive, but I don't mind pinning some blame on you for the fact he isn't responding at all.

Also, the WHOIS Protection means nothing. Think about how often his site got DDOS'd before XMAS -- Why wouldn't you want to get WHOIS protection? And for all we know, the Panama protection was the most inexpensive. Means nothing.

EDIT :: Directly from the WhoisGuard website: "WhoisGuard protection can be obtained as an addon to domains registered at our partner registrars."

it is also noted that when I asked him to give us some logistical proof that the changes he was supposedly putting into effect, as I and several other members of the pool have technical know how when it comes to systems administrations and the likes, he simply blew the question off and would not even give a timeframe for which the fixes would actually be implemented other than "soon".

it really bums me out that I tried to warn people and they blew me off early and now they're suffering for it. in the crypto world, it's either band of brothers or doge eat doge. I started as a small fry, so I know the patience it takes to have this hobby even begin to be worth it, and how devastating it can be to some. i will try to provide more information as it becomes available, and try to spread the word! there are also two separate threads in /r/dogecoin specifically relating to this scam, so I would also suggest upvoting either as well to raise public awareness. here are the links:

http://www.reddit.com/r/dogecoin/comments/1tw7q8/miners_beware_dogescryptpoolscom_potential_scam/
and
http://www.reddit.com/r/dogecoin/comments/1tw9cs/psa_scryptpoolscom_is_not_paying_out/

EDIT: another sleuth in the support thread did a whois search on the guy and lo and behold, I present to you red flag #2:

With the domain hidden in Panama, should we be suprised??

Admin Name: WHOISGUARD PROTECTED
Admin Organization: WHOISGUARD, INC.
Admin Street: P.O. BOX 0823-03411
Admin City: PANAMA
Admin State/Province: PANAMA
Admin Postal Code: NA
Admin Country: PA
Admin Phone: +507.8365503
Admin Phone Ext:
Admin Fax: +51.17057182
Admin Fax Ext:
Admin Email: [email protected]

"He has made the mistake of hosting in US  (In Kansas) via Digital Ocean though, so if anyone wants to track him down via Fed's it should be possible." as stated by the investigator. this is almost a 100% confirmed scam now, can we get this stickied by an admin?

Please Phonetic, I have faith that you will recover my dogecoin.

Sakusenob

http://i.imgur.com/5Jx3JrF.png

yeah, i moved pools as i would like to receive the doges i mine :-D

ive 280k doges mate stuck on this pool ???and still some guys mining on the pool...its weired

the pool has had it's ups and downs since the very beginning, but always seems to recover even if it takes a couple of days.
last payout i got was the 27th dec., havent received latest auto payout.
still hoping that it's technical issues as he posted yesterday, 28th dec., on the pool frontpage.

got 65k doge stuck :-/

Same....

feels kinda sad that its a scam . i can almost confirm. trying to get my doges out of the pool since i dont know how many days...