Scam: OnionWallet | Bitcointalksearch.org

sid065

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Yeah...
Onion Wallet is a scam.
It was my first time using bitcoins and
I used it to mix my btc.
I was duped of 150 USD.
It still shows the btc in my wallet but I am not able to send them to any other address.
Sad

Please use wallets with forum discussions and reviews.

Keyser Soze

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Quote from: Udyr on January 16, 2015, 03:52:44 PM

sorry for sounding like a newb, but is onionwallet related to ToR?

It was some scam from 2013 apparently, look at the the OP post date.

Udyr

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sorry for sounding like a newb, but is onionwallet related to ToR?

Tristana

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I dont really trust blockchain.info look at this long recent victim despite the 2fa security and everything.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=875805.20

Simon8x

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Quote from: ikydesu on January 16, 2015, 06:25:15 AM

Quote from: godlyitems on January 16, 2015, 03:55:03 AM

im sorry to hear that.
better use famous wallet there like blockchain. atleast its old wallet and safe

Blockchain.info secure now Huh

I see on bitcoin.org but still no blockchain.info there, I doubt their security is secure now.

Blockchain.info has been delisted on https://bitcoin.org/en/choose-your-wallet since early Dec.
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin.org/pull/663

Part of the problems have been fixed, according to the "edits" in the PR.

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Quote from: godlyitems on January 16, 2015, 03:55:03 AM

im sorry to hear that.
better use famous wallet there like blockchain. atleast its old wallet and safe

Blockchain.info secure now Huh

I see on bitcoin.org but still no blockchain.info there, I doubt their security is secure now.

Simon8x

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Quote from: Mitchell on January 16, 2015, 03:31:07 AM

I feel sorry for you OP, but why would you use an online wallet and sent so much at the first go even though you couldn't find anything about it? Sounds like a very stupid move to me. Either stick with the known trusted ones or use electrum, armory, bitcoin-qt, etc.

It is always a bad idea to use a wallet that doesn't give you access to the private key.
Even if you could find some good feedback on it, it could still become a scam at any moment, like inputs.io.

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im sorry to hear that.
better use famous wallet there like blockchain. atleast its old wallet and safe

Mitchell

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I feel sorry for you OP, but why would you use an online wallet and sent so much at the first go even though you couldn't find anything about it? Sounds like a very stupid move to me. Either stick with the known trusted ones or use electrum, armory, bitcoin-qt, etc.

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Quote from: PatienTemper on January 16, 2015, 02:51:10 AM

To all those who've been ripped off. I'm at sort of a stand still so I'll just spread the word and hope someone with better resources than myself can investigate and bring him to justice. I've found a connection between onionwallet and a man named David Galvan. He actually has a website run on the clearnet although it's sadly protected by a whois protection company so no address/phone. The site he runs is coins4life.com. Here is his donation link/link to his Coinbase account (which requires bank account) https://www.coinbase.com/checkouts/e32ed947ce816a8506fad37cc182ffd6. That's all I have on him. Good luck.

The whois protection doesn't do anything if a subpoena is sent out by law enforcement. That's going to be your method of tracking him.

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To all those who've been ripped off. I'm at sort of a stand still so I'll just spread the word and hope someone with better resources than myself can investigate and bring him to justice. I've found a connection between onionwallet and a man named David Galvan. He actually has a website run on the clearnet although it's sadly protected by a whois protection company so no address/phone. The site he runs is coins4life.com. Here is his donation link/link to his Coinbase account (which requires bank account) https://www.coinbase.com/checkouts/e32ed947ce816a8506fad37cc182ffd6. That's all I have on him. Good luck.

mrhelpful

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This pretty much opened my eyes, on using online wallets. Especially block chain.

litecoin_messiah

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lol why would you use such a thing

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Quote from: GaiusMaximus on June 12, 2013, 02:40:46 PM

Is the bitcoin foundation doing anything or have any long term plans for protecting users of btc from scammers, I really think headway in that direction would make cryptos alot more appealing to alot of investors

What can they do? They're just a group of dudes who like bitcoin. They can do about as much about fraud in bitcoin as you and I can, except we don't need to charge for it! Wink

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Is the bitcoin foundation doing anything or have any long term plans for protecting users of btc from scammers, I really think headway in that direction would make cryptos alot more appealing to alot of investors

btcworker

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I think pywallet has everything you need

ranlo

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Quote from: Chrithu on June 11, 2013, 01:30:26 PM

I wish the Bitcoin-QT Client would get an option to create a paper wallet built in.

BTW. Is there a way to extract a key pair from the wallet, print it and then delete it from the wallet manually?

@OP: Local wallets aren't that hard to handle and use. Actually I find them a lot more convenient than online wallets hence I never even used online wallets.

I don't have Bitcoin-QT but can't you use it to export the private/public keys? If so, you should be able to edit the key file in some way to figure out which ones you want to pull.

PeterB

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Thanks for the heads up.

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I wish the Bitcoin-QT Client would get an option to create a paper wallet built in.

BTW. Is there a way to extract a key pair from the wallet, print it and then delete it from the wallet manually?

@OP: Local wallets aren't that hard to handle and use. Actually I find them a lot more convenient than online wallets hence I never even used online wallets.

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I think there was a thread about javascript sending the private key to the owner, after that the line of code got removed? Could not find it now.

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