Pages:
Author

Topic: SCAM EXCHANGE: Openchange (Openchange.cash) (PARTIALLY SOLVED) - page 2. (Read 1661 times)

legendary
Activity: 1512
Merit: 7340
Farewell, Leo
@loycev it is definetly same owner as the cryptsy hack
If it's "definitely" the same owner, prove me how transaction - 1e7c498469369e90dfdd0c8258c6aa5325661553f441a2c6897d93b210f8ef67 - which spends supposedly stolen funds of 2014, has a direct correlation with transaction - 1f393532c18ac21a21b17ea890579a6d071f008400b2c73ced357cd59fe194d3 - wherein I only see some (conceivably) ChipMixer's chips being spent.

This  story is Already over
It might be over for pro-censorship folks like you, but those who wear this signature appear to be more delicate to privacy invasion, customer extortion for personal data, treating bitcoin as non-fungible and confiscating funds arbitrarily - generally, for breaking the law. Thanks.
aew
jr. member
Activity: 141
Merit: 7
This  story is Already over but signature spammers keep raising it. I'm surprised the exchange still paid 90% a reputable exchange will never pay back a dime after the OP admitted to laundry his coins at  mixing sites.

Guys I mean signature spammers you guys keep repeating same this again  and again and talk about stupid things

I surprised also those signature patrons pays for such posts .
member
Activity: 429
Merit: 52
@loycev it is definetly same owner as the cryptsy hack, i sent the address yesterday to blackhatcoiner as PM, same as the one opensea posted from that scam aml service, the funny part is that this aml bot opensea uses it is considered by most people who work in aml in crypto as a scam. but the result is the same as the one i have.
legendary
Activity: 3290
Merit: 16489
Thick-Skinned Gang Leader and Golden Feather 2021
Quote
I would like to see a more detailed analysis to see how they justify their conclusions.
http://joxi.ru/ZrJoxGqCQ4v9pm
Allow me to embed the image from another host:

So, you're saying the funds came from a hack 5 transactions and 8 years ago. Without verifying the chain evidence, even if this is correct, it makes no sense to blame the current owner of the funds. Just like someone can't be blamed if they received dollar bills that were previously stolen.
Luckily, the funds now moved to the address of a large exchange, so it's at 7 transactions now and completely clean, right? Don't you see none of this makes any sense?



I can understand that the legislation of the country where you are located does not oblige you to put information about the company on the website, apart from the email you put. Another thing is that if I am fine with that legislation.

But it is inconsistent to ask for KYC documents while you do not expose anything about your company.
Allow me to emphasize this again:
It doesn't worry you that an anonymous entity demands people to share their legal documents? It worries me! I'm okay with legit companies following the law in the country they're registered in. I'm also okay with totally anonymous services that solely rely on their reputation.
But I'm not okay with anonymous entities cherry picking which rules do or don't apply to them.
@Support OpenChange: Pick a side Smiley
newbie
Activity: 5
Merit: 0
Quote
I would like to see a more detailed analysis to see how they justify their conclusions.
http://joxi.ru/ZrJoxGqCQ4v9pm

Quote
If there's a chance for the funds to be "high risk", why can't the user first confirm they aren't and move onto depositing to your exchange right after?
Maybe we will add this feature in the future

Quote
Can you shed any light on where you decided to use a 10% figure confiscating user funds? I mean, why not raise your percentage to 50%, 100% or even drop it to 5% or zero?
We relied on statistics

Quote
Just wondering, if user bother to provide evidence they use ChipMixer (or other mixer),
1. Would you allow that user to use OpenChange?
2. What proof do you accept? Screenshot of their browser?
The crypto exchange demanded to block this client.
All possible evidence, including screenshots, is accepted for confirmation.

As I said before perhaps we will revise our rules regarding AML and additional fees.
legendary
Activity: 2212
Merit: 7064
1. Would you allow that user to use OpenChange?
2. What proof do you accept? Screenshot of their browser?
That are good questions and I would like to see openchange answering on them, but in reality this magical AMLbot can one time flag address coming from CM as high risk, second time as medium risk, and third time as low risk... it's like lottery.
There are some free tools for testing this and last time I tested them it was giving medium risk for most coins coming from exchanges like Binance.
Now we don't have proof that openchange is using Binance and WhiteBIT but they claim they are using this two exchanges.

Just tried to scam over the wrong person (a Bitcointalk user)
Let me play evil advocate here...
What happens if they only have multiple accounts at Binance exchange, and they really received warning and frozen funds by Binance.
They could easily prove this by showing us screenshot from that message and this would stop all speculations.
My question is what happens with those (unclean) coins that are now mixed with supposed clean coins, and how can anyone separate ''clean'' from ''unclean'' coins?
It's ridiculous concept  Tongue


legendary
Activity: 1372
Merit: 2017
I doubt if Support OpenChange is going to come back here, but just in case he does, I would like to ask him a question.

I can understand that the legislation of the country where you are located does not oblige you to put information about the company on the website, apart from the email you put. Another thing is that if I am fine with that legislation.

But it is inconsistent to ask for KYC documents while you do not expose anything about your company.

Can you give some more information about your company?

One thing is that the legislation does not oblige you, but it does not forbid you to share information about your company. Not sharing anything makes us think that the company simply does not exist, that it is not legally registered.

Besides, I agree with most of the things that have been commented here. For example, keeping 10% of funds that you consider stolen says a lot about you, and about the supposed legality of your actions.

hero member
Activity: 882
Merit: 5834
not your keys, not your coins!
you all took his side. I absolutely don't understand why. Who can explain to me?
We don't side with: OP, we just want to help and solve the problem between @Janyiah201 and @OpenChange/you.
The problem was resolved. Due to public pressure, they gave in and returned the missing 10%, as they stated earlier. It doesn't make them seem any more legit / trustable as business partners though, since if the funds were indeed as 'super duper for sure stolen' and 'going to be returned to righteous owners'; they wouldn't/shouldn't have returned anything; neither 90%, nor 100%, no matter how much public pressure. However, the fact that they did return the funds to Janyiah201 confirms they know just as well as us that there is no way to tell if CM funds are stolen or not.
Just tried to scam over the wrong person (a Bitcointalk user).. Roll Eyes

Warning;
From the data I see, I dare to conclude, anyone who uses mixed services such as Mixer, etc., including gambling, like the data above, be careful making transactions to the openchange.cash service, high risk, you can end up as experienced by: @Janyiah201, use an exchange service which is not high risk for you and read all their rules before doing it.
Amen to that! This is the reaction I want to see from customers / Bitcoin users. If a service comes up with some arbitrary, hilarious money laundering / stealing accusations, do not give in; stop using this service. Having to give a bank all your personal information, letting wallets track your every transaction and letting other people decide if you're allowed to spend your coins or not, are exactly the things Bitcoin was made to destroy. That's why we keep saying this behavior shown by 'Bitcoin companies' is actually 'anti-Bitcoin'.

copper member
Activity: 2338
Merit: 4543
Join the world-leading crypto sportsbook NOW!
I find it hilarious that they wave around some random 'tainting service database website' evaluation as if it was definitive proof of anything. Cheesy
This is so unprofessional - either the people behind OpenChange are clueless of how all of this works or they are actually malicious. In both cases definitive signs of a service to avoid.

I don't have to explain why such a website link is no proof of anything. But just to reiterate: anyone can set up a little web server that does basic parsing of transactions and give them some random score. For all we know, such blockchain analysis can be (and often are confirmed to be) close with governments and other authorities; meaning they can directly censor people if we accept such websites' opinions as truth.

Most probably in this case, they flag anything that looks like it comes from ChipMixer as '95% risk' or whatever. I will check later with a ChipMixer withdrawal. Even if someone tumbled stolen coins through CM, there would be no way to return those funds to the legitimate owner, so there is no legit use in freezing them.
To OpenChange; if you're reading this: if the exchange you work with, uses such explanations to steal your funds; and then you try to pass these costs on to your customers, I'm sorry, but you're the stupid party in this business relationship. Your customers know that all this 'tainting talk' and 'risky transactions' is bullshit. Like: how is a Bitcoin transaction risky for you? It's the most irreversible way of transfering money; you got your coins, you're done. No amount of 'alleged risk' will result in an actual risk to your company.

It does bring up the question as to why exchanges are relying on third parties to define tainted vs. clean bitcoin.  Who gave these third party companies the authority to decide other than the exchange, and why do these exchanges think they're entitled to break the law based on some random third party's claims?

If Openchange was operating in the US, they would have their asses handed to them in their own hat for pulling this kind of shit.  The AMLbot they purport to be using is registered to a company that's based in the UK.  The UK must have some laws that protect consumers' funds from being frozen by rogue financial services.  It seems that if the OP decided to sue, the company behind AMLbot could be held liable for providing misleading, or downright false information.

It's starting to look like any exchange that contracts with a third-party AML "authority" is only doing so to shift blame when they decide to abuse their power.  
legendary
Activity: 2128
Merit: 1775
you all took his side. I absolutely don't understand why. Who can explain to me?
We don't side with: OP, we just want to help and solve the problem between @Janyiah201 and @OpenChange/you.

About 10% fee:
Many times we have lost and frozen our own funds due to users sending high risk funds. Questions about these transactions appear after we complete orders. You can't even imagine how much money was lost due to users like this one. This is our rule. If some user does not agree with our rules, he can use another exchanger.
Since the user did not provide any evidence of using ChipMixer, we have every reason to believe that the funds were stolen. Refusal to provide additional information confirms this. Many times, such freezes allowed the thieves to be stopped and the funds returned to the rightful owners.
There are some inconsistencies I see here.
If you are part of the OpenChange exchange team, I think your words are too much for users of mixed companies like Mixer, you equate all users who use mixed services with the case experienced by: @Janyiah201, you guys think all crypto transactions coming from companies mixed with stolen coins, this is really overkill.

@Janyiah201, already explained here, that he doesn't steal, and he does some AML and KYC Verification, which you requested, Of course any user object, if the Verification carried out exceeds the limits of the KYC rules.

After receiving enough confirmations they changed order status to "Mistake" and accused me of trying to money launder stolen funds. According to their AML bot funds that I have sent are stolen. I have tried to explain them what Chipmixer is and it was a waste of time. They keep insisting on:"Risk of your transaction - Stolen 100.00%".

Conversation was going on inside their internal "messages" and now I can't find all that they asked me to refund me, but it was from source of funds, who sent me, conversations and screenshots, can't even remember everything and in the end KYC (ID, selfie, etc), but most of what they asked I couldn't provide even if I wanted to. It's the first part about source, who, how, links, transactions, conversations, crazy.

I looked at the AML and KYC Verification rules, which OpenChange/you guys are running.
Quote
7. AML and KYC verification.
7.1 The Company conducts AML and KYC verification of Payin transactions according to its own algorithms.
7.2 AML and KYC verification includes the use of specialized services for analyzing cryptocurrency transactions for the presence of funds that have high risks for the Company. These risks include Dark Service, Dark Market, Illegal Service, Exchange Fraudulent, Scam, Stolen, Gambling, Mixer, Ransom, Sanctions, Child Exploitation and Terrorism Financing.
7.3 If the analysis of the Payin transaction revealed the presence of these types of high-risk funds and their total percentage was 40% or more, the Company has the right to withhold 10% of the amount of the incoming transaction.
7.4 If the total risk of the incoming transaction is 70% or more, the Company has the right to withhold 10% of the amount of the Payin transaction.
7.5 The Company has the right not to inform the User about the deduction of 10% of the amount of the Payin transaction.
7.6 The user has the right to receive the results of the audit and/or independently verify the correctness of the risk assessment.
7.7 Payin transactions are verified by AML and KYC by Cryptocurrency exchanges.
7.7.1 If a high risk of an Payin transaction is detected and/or if outgoing wallets are involved in illegal activities, the received funds may be frozen.
7.7.2 To unfreeze funds, documents may be required to verify the identity of the sender and information explaining the source of origin of the funds sent.
7.7.3 If the sender provides comprehensive information upon request, the funds can be unfrozen by the exchange, credited to the account of the Company and the Order will be completed.
7.7.4 Realizing that the verification requirement is not from the Company, but from the Cryptocurrency Exchange, the User undertakes to wait for a decision on verification and not to make a claim against the Company.
openchange.cash

Some points I see, openchange.cash implements AML and KYC Verification, burdensome one party/user of openchange.cash service.

Warning;
From the data I see, I dare to conclude, anyone who uses mixed services such as Mixer, etc., including gambling, like the data above, be careful making transactions to the openchange.cash service, high risk, you can end up as experienced by: @Janyiah201, use an exchange service which is not high risk for you and read all their rules before doing it.
legendary
Activity: 1624
Merit: 2594
Top Crypto Casino
So, in summary, the AML report:

- shows the TX ID.
- shows the amount of bitcoin that is deposited to openchange dot cash, may I assume?
- shows groups of risk score.
- shows that the risk score of that transaction is 94.9%, with no explanation.
- colors it red.
- somehow concludes it's de facto stolen.

Perhaps, a little explanation might clear up the situation. You're likely going to get a feedback of the same color, though.
I find it hilarious that they wave around some random 'tainting service database website' evaluation as if it was definitive proof of anything. Cheesy
This is so unprofessional - either the people behind OpenChange are clueless of how all of this works or they are actually malicious. In both cases definitive signs of a service to avoid.

I don't have to explain why such a website link is no proof of anything. But just to reiterate: anyone can set up a little web server that does basic parsing of transactions and give them some random score. For all we know, such blockchain analysis can be (and often are confirmed to be) close with governments and other authorities; meaning they can directly censor people if we accept such websites' opinions as truth.

Most probably in this case, they flag anything that looks like it comes from ChipMixer as '95% risk' or whatever. I will check later with a ChipMixer withdrawal. Even if someone tumbled stolen coins through CM, there would be no way to return those funds to the legitimate owner, so there is no legit use in freezing them.

It appears that they use the AMLBot API to check for "tainted" or "high risk" coins, but I can't verify these results because it's a paid service.
According to the website, AMLBot is operated by AML CORPORATION LIMITED, UK

To OpenChange; if you're reading this: if the exchange you work with, uses such explanations to steal your funds; and then you try to pass these costs on to your customers, I'm sorry, but you're the stupid party in this business relationship. Your customers know that all this 'tainting talk' and 'risky transactions' is bullshit. Like: how is a Bitcoin transaction risky for you? It's the most irreversible way of transfering money; you got your coins, you're done. No amount of 'alleged risk' will result in an actual risk to your company.

I definitely agree with this. Judging by all of the above, OpenChange should be flagged for illegal misappropriation of user funds and avoided at all costs.
hero member
Activity: 882
Merit: 5834
not your keys, not your coins!
Changed circuit for joxi dot net, and it loaded normally. But, thanks.

So, in summary, the AML report:

- shows the TX ID.
- shows the amount of bitcoin that is deposited to openchange dot cash, may I assume?
- shows groups of risk score.
- shows that the risk score of that transaction is 94.9%, with no explanation.
- colors it red.
- somehow concludes it's de facto stolen.

Perhaps, a little explanation might clear up the situation. You're likely going to get a feedback of the same color, though.
I find it hilarious that they wave around some random 'tainting service database website' evaluation as if it was definitive proof of anything. Cheesy
This is so unprofessional - either the people behind OpenChange are clueless of how all of this works or they are actually malicious. In both cases definitive signs of a service to avoid.

I don't have to explain why such a website link is no proof of anything. But just to reiterate: anyone can set up a little web server that does basic parsing of transactions and give them some random score. For all we know, such blockchain analysis can be (and often are confirmed to be) close with governments and other authorities; meaning they can directly censor people if we accept such websites' opinions as truth.

Most probably in this case, they flag anything that looks like it comes from ChipMixer as '95% risk' or whatever. I will check later with a ChipMixer withdrawal. Even if someone tumbled stolen coins through CM, there would be no way to return those funds to the legitimate owner, so there is no legit use in freezing them.
To OpenChange; if you're reading this: if the exchange you work with, uses such explanations to steal your funds; and then you try to pass these costs on to your customers, I'm sorry, but you're the stupid party in this business relationship. Your customers know that all this 'tainting talk' and 'risky transactions' is bullshit. Like: how is a Bitcoin transaction risky for you? It's the most irreversible way of transfering money; you got your coins, you're done. No amount of 'alleged risk' will result in an actual risk to your company.



FACTS:
-you took the money from the person who opened this scam accusation
-both you and best exchange claimed you're a company following AML rules and you froze the funds because you followed AML regulations
-suddenly we find out you're not a company, you have no license to operate, and you're no money transmitter so you're whole existence defies AML regulations and FATF rules
- despite the funds being flagged as stolen 100%, despite the user not going through any KYC, you forgot everything about AML regulations, you accepted knowingly stolen funds and you released the exchange for a 10% money laundering fee
This is the bullshit that results when people come into Development & Technical Discussion (or 'Wallets'?) and ask about 'Bitcoin APIs' for buying and selling BTC. I have seen this more than twice in the last 9 months and just from the way those questions are written it becomes clear the guys who build this type of stuff are totally incompetent.
I am not sure if the threads have been deleted or if I just can't find them right now, but I'll link them later.
legendary
Activity: 2800
Merit: 2736
Farewell LEO: o_e_l_e_o
Just wondering, if user bother to provide evidence they use ChipMixer (or other mixer),
Tracing back an input if I find an address has 0.xxx bitcoin then it could consider that it came from chipmixer since their minimum amount is 0.001 BTC with 0.001 BTC increments. But a single bitcoin user can create the same cheap and then spend it which will look like they are coming from chipmixer. Ideally, there are no valid way which will find out 100% that it came from Chipmixer.

Off - topic: Has anything wrong with ChipMixer clearnet?
Quote
Due to recent events ChipMixer is available only on Tor network.
legendary
Activity: 2912
Merit: 6403
Blackjack.fun
I love how they are digging the grave deeper and deeper with such explanations:

Since the user did not provide any evidence of using ChipMixer, we have every reason to believe that the funds were stolen. Refusal to provide additional information confirms this. Many times, such freezes allowed the thieves to be stopped and the funds returned to the rightful owners.
Read carefully, at the moment the user has received the full amount.
We are not engaged in investigating theft or finding the rightful owner, this is what the crypto exchange is doing.

So exchanges down where you are acting like both police, lawyers, prosecutors and court orders and return the money to the victims based on what? The picture id? How where have victims reimbursed you just released flagged money?

FACTS:
-you took the money from the person who opened this scam accusation
-both you and best exchange claimed you're a company following AML rules and you froze the funds because you followed AML regulations
-suddenly we find out you're not a company, you have no license to operate, and you're no money transmitter so you're whole existence defies AML regulations and FATF rules
- despite the funds being flagged as stolen 100%, despite the user not going through any KYC, you forgot everything about AML regulations, you accepted knowingly stolen funds and you released the exchange for a 10% money laundering fee

In what alternative reality is anything you have done legally...

I want to stop this discussion.

Of course, you do, there is no sane explanation that even a kid would buy for what you did

Just to make things clear:
If you would have frozen the funds, announced the authorities, informed the user of the case that might be opened against him, and offered him a chance to claim his funds back if the prosecutor would refuse any criminal charge against him, that would have been understandable.
You taking 10% because some script says so and telling us this is the law, this is bullshit!
legendary
Activity: 1512
Merit: 7340
Farewell, Leo
Changed circuit for joxi dot net, and it loaded normally. But, thanks.

So, in summary, the AML report:

- shows the TX ID.
- shows the amount of bitcoin that is deposited to openchange dot cash, may I assume?
- shows groups of risk score.
- shows that the risk score of that transaction is 94.9%, with no explanation.
- colors it red.
- somehow concludes it's de facto stolen.

Perhaps, a little explanation might clear up the situation. You're likely going to get a feedback of the same color, though.
legendary
Activity: 2534
Merit: 1713
Top Crypto Casino


Well, here is your image displaying properly, now we all can see it.

Can you shed any light on where you decided to use a 10% figure confiscating user funds? I mean, why not raise your percentage to 50%, 100% or even drop it to 5% or zero?

Quote
Based on what/whose analysis? The coins came directly from ChipMixer, meaning it is impossible for you to say they are 100% anything (unless you are the first person ever to be able to break ChipMixer). You have absolutely no idea where those coins came from, and claiming they are "stolen 100%" is nonsense.

Check this

http://joxi.ru/l2ZozEVClok8NA
legendary
Activity: 1512
Merit: 7340
Farewell, Leo
We do not make a scam. We just exchange currencies, but sometimes users with high-risk money come along and make problems like this.
You still haven't answered me this question:
Had you ever thought of asking the user's inputs, so you can judge if you can accept them according to your criteria?
If there's a chance for the funds to be "high risk", why can't the user first confirm they aren't and move onto depositing to your exchange right after?

You're also avoiding my other questions. Would you mind answering? Even typically.
- What does it mean to "include the use of "? For example, how can you know that my output has come from a mixer? And if you somehow do, will I delude you if I spend it to one of my wallet's addresses a couple of times, and then send it to you? Do you check the history of that output?

The link doesn't load from Tor Browser.
member
Activity: 173
Merit: 74

How reliable is that? I see that it has a very high risk score and a 100% probability that they are stolen funds, which does not fit coming from a mixer, because the supposed stolen funds would have been mixed with others.

I would like to see a more detailed analysis to see how they justify their conclusions.
newbie
Activity: 5
Merit: 0
Quote
Based on what/whose analysis? The coins came directly from ChipMixer, meaning it is impossible for you to say they are 100% anything (unless you are the first person ever to be able to break ChipMixer). You have absolutely no idea where those coins came from, and claiming they are "stolen 100%" is nonsense.

Check this

http://joxi.ru/l2ZozEVClok8NA
legendary
Activity: 2268
Merit: 18748
Funds were frozen because their risk was Stolen 100%
Based on what/whose analysis? The coins came directly from ChipMixer, meaning it is impossible for you to say they are 100% anything (unless you are the first person ever to be able to break ChipMixer). You have absolutely no idea where those coins came from, and claiming they are "stolen 100%" is nonsense.

Your terms of service say the following:
Victim? It's funny. High-risk funds are sent to me, but you call the sender a victim. I can not believe this.
No bitcoin is inherently "high risk". If you subjectively decide that some particular bitcoin is high risk and you don't want to accept it, then you return it to the customer and say "No thanks". You don't keep it for yourself and extort the customer in to risking identity theft.
Pages:
Jump to: