bitcoinminingcenter.com was registered in april and they did a lot of groundwork like doing a professional PR release, ecommerce site, had a real tech support by the name of "Xiao" with what looked like a legit Hong Kong address. They were suppose to ship batch 1 on mid nov but on mid-nov, they said that they had a delay of power supplies and would ship only end of nov or early dec. On 29 Nov 2013, after scamming tonnes of bitcoins from the public, they disappeared completely from the world. The value of bitcoin was much lower then. It would have been worth a lot more today. It was looking like they planned this scam right in the beginning when they registered the domain name in april 2013.
I am helping to collate all the resources available to help to make the investigation easier.
If you are a victim, pls write all your grievances here to make life easier for investigation. Don't let the scammer get away. We don't need these people around.
Related discusssion threads:
http://virtualmining.com/cloud-mining-center-hits-50-capacity/https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/phoenix-techologies-bitcoinminingcentre-312912https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/phoenix-technologies-another-asic-pre-order-scam-308670http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/17388/phoenix-technologies-can-they-be-trusted-their-prices-seem-way-too-low-comparehttp://coincafe.net/2013/08/17/phoenix-technologies-announces-production-of-bitcoin-mining-hardware/http://whois.domaintools.com/bitcoinminingcenter.comhttp://bitcoinscammers.com/bitcoinminingcenter-com/http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1o45cc/scam_do_not_deal_with_phoenix_technologies/I've made a report to the hong kong police on 9 Dec 2013. I am not a hongkonger and I was told I was not eligible to make a complain. Can anyone from hong kong help?
I have given this url to the police for them to keep track of the progress of the thread.
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Dear Sir/Madam,
Thank you for the complaint/information passed to the Hong Kong Police
Force by e-mail on 2013-12-09.
On the basis of the information provided, there is insufficient detail for
the Hong Kong Police Force to take action. We may be able to assist if you
could provide full details of the matter, your residental address in Hong
Kong, bank account number and branch address in Hong Kong. We cannot take
appropriate action in the absence of your further information.
Regards,
Criminal Records Bureau
Hong Kong Police Force
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