[SCAM] Satoshiminers.com aka minerbros.io - Fake Team Profiles and Photos.

chatonBrutal

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Thanks for the update.

There is something strange here, with a bit of research, we can find another website quite different but with the same logo => https://www.cryptominerbros.com/
Domain is older, host is well known godaddy, and hosted in HK.
Are they related somehow ?

Code:

Domain Name: cryptominerbros.com
Registry Domain ID: 2211135152_DOMAIN_COM-VRSN
Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.godaddy.com
Registrar URL: http://www.godaddy.com
Updated Date: 2019-01-05T11:17:02Z
Creation Date: 2018-01-10T12:06:55Z
Registrar Registration Expiration Date: 2020-01-10T12:06:55Z
Registrar: GoDaddy.com, LLC
Registrar IANA ID: 146
Registrar Abuse Contact Email: [email protected]
Registrar Abuse Contact Phone: +1.4806242505
Domain Status: clientTransferProhibited http://www.icann.org/epp#clientTransferProhibited
Domain Status: clientUpdateProhibited http://www.icann.org/epp#clientUpdateProhibited
Domain Status: clientRenewProhibited http://www.icann.org/epp#clientRenewProhibited
Domain Status: clientDeleteProhibited http://www.icann.org/epp#clientDeleteProhibited
Registrant Organization: Miner Bros Limited
Registrant State/Province: Not Applicable
Registrant Country: HK
Registrant Email: Select Contact Domain Holder link at https://www.godaddy.com/whois/results.aspx?domain=cryptominerbros.com
Admin Email: Select Contact Domain Holder link at https://www.godaddy.com/whois/results.aspx?domain=cryptominerbros.com
Tech Email: Select Contact Domain Holder link at https://www.godaddy.com/whois/results.aspx?domain=cryptominerbros.com
Name Server: NS1.CRYPTOMINERBROS.COM
Name Server: NS2.CRYPTOMINERBROS.COM
DNSSEC: unsigned
URL of the ICANN WHOIS Data Problem Reporting System: http://wdprs.internic.net/
>>> Last update of WHOIS database: 2019-08-19T13:00:00Z <<<

Funny thing also, there is a youtube channel promoting the scam => https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChRGuMSXYZaRRG1jco4iVmA

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Quote from: Meethii on August 16, 2019, 10:37:55 PM

satoshiminers.com is now operating under a new domain and name MINERBROS @ minerbros.io

Do not deal with them!

P.S. Maybe edit the discussion headline and add the new name there also so it shows up in searches easier?

Thanks for the heads up mate... Just checked the domain and indeed it's a clear clone of satoshiminers.com with no single detail changed.

So here are the domain details

Satoshiminers

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Domain: satoshiminers.com
Registrar: CNOBIN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
Registered On: 2019-04-02
Expires On: 2020-04-02
Updated On: 2019-04-02
Status: clientTransferProhibited

minerbros

Code:

Domain: minerbros.io
Registrar: NameCheap, Inc
Registered On: 2019-08-14
Expires On: 2020-08-14
Updated On: 2019-08-16
Status:clientTransferProhibited, serverTransferProhibited, addPeriod

It clearly shows that minerbros has just been registered 4 days ago perhaps to scam more people

I am going to update the title

Meethii

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satoshiminers.com is now operating under a new domain and name MINERBROS @ minerbros.io

Do not deal with them!

P.S. Maybe edit the discussion headline and add the new name there also so it shows up in searches easier?

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Quote from: chatonBrutal on July 01, 2019, 07:10:31 AM

I did try to write to the people who owned the server but they say I have to report to authorities.
Maybe we should all report the website to [email protected] to let them know that we are serveral out there who wants this website dead.

What do you think guys ?

Vladimir didn't reply me since last week, I tried to google everybody involved but not sure if it´s the person what I found.

my objective is to get the m@ther f@cker´s ID, address, etc. when I have it I will see what to do.

from the other hand, Cryptocompare must have those kind of info, they really give a sh!t because their site is used by many scammers and they are doing nothing to improve.

anything that helps, I´m in...

chatonBrutal

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I did try to write to the people who owned the server but they say I have to report to authorities.
Maybe we should all report the website to [email protected] to let them know that we are serveral out there who wants this website dead.

What do you think guys ?

bit2255

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Quote from: logfiles on June 21, 2019, 06:42:12 PM

Quote from: bit2255 on June 21, 2019, 06:24:09 AM

Dam - I am another one who just got ripped off / scammed!!!!

I should have kissed my BTC goodbye before I sent it to them - now I'll never see them again Cry

(or the S17)

So sorry mate. Too many scammers out there.
I am going to update the OP with your reply... I hope its okay, so that other people can know that this is a real scam and it's happening.

Sure, It's OK.

The more people know the better.

I am usually the king of researching before I "click buy", but I got bit (no pun intended) this time Angry

This IS a real SCAM!!

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Quote from: bit2255 on June 21, 2019, 06:24:09 AM

Dam - I am another one who just got ripped off / scammed!!!!

I should have kissed my BTC goodbye before I sent it to them - now I'll never see them again Cry

(or the S17)

So sorry mate. Too many scammers out there.
I am going to update the OP with your reply... I hope its okay, so that other people can know that this is a real scam and it's happening.

bit2255

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Dam - I am another one who just got ripped off / scammed!!!!

I should have kissed my BTC goodbye before I sent it to them - now I'll never see them again Cry

(or the S17)

chatonBrutal

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Yes, thanks to cryptoFr, we now have a ref banner and a yellow flag on cryptocompare

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It has been brought to our attention that Satoshi Miners might not be delivering their orders. Their website reviews pattern seems suspicious as well. Satoshi Miners – Why You Shouldn’t Trust Any Site Online

Thread on twitter here => https://twitter.com/CryptoFR/status/1137037800761634816

But still, the website is on, we still have a green flag on mining machins => https://www.cryptocompare.com/mining/satoshi-miners/antminer-s17-pro-sha-256-56ths/ and, as you say, people could still fall for this scam.

Fight is not over !

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More people are being scammed, take extra caution not to deal with them members

Quote from: Roguepanther on June 15, 2019, 10:43:02 PM

Following this thread, I was scammed by them as well. They maintained contact up until shipping.

chatonBrutal

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Only have information on the guy who made the plugin, no clue if it's related otherwise

Ruso21

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if there is a chance to find out any information like address, id, photo, etc. would be awesome to do the payback

chatonBrutal

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Quote from: Ruso21 on June 03, 2019, 07:46:08 AM

i'm 1 of those stupid guys to be fooled. I made a post telling the progress of the situation....

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/beware-of-satoshiminers-cryptocompares-review-5149487

Same here ...

I have been fooled by the cryptocompare green flag and I'm now in touch with someone from there support and I will try to have satoshiminer website remove from the cc website.

Also, during my research I have been faced to something very strange ...

1) Take the BTC address from the QR Code on this page https://satoshiminers.com/contact-us/
2) Do a google search with it (address is 1ABwGVwbna6DnHgPefSiakyzm99VXVwQz9)
3) You will find MANY websites, very similar to this scam, all with the same templates, images ect ...
4) if you keep going into google searchers, you will find that this adress belong to a wordpress plugin called cryptocurrency-prices https://nl.wordpress.org/plugins/cryptocurrency-prices/#developers

Make sense that the plugin is used by many websites, problem is that all websites I saw with this does really seem very scammy to me now.
Is the guy who create the plugin the scammer ?or only a dev who wanted to share with community ?

Don't know, but hop it helps a bit

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Quote from: Ruso21 on June 03, 2019, 07:46:08 AM

i'm 1 of those stupid guys to be fooled. I made a post telling the progress of the situation....
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/beware-of-satoshiminers-cryptocompares-review-5149487

Sorry about what you went through mate.
I saw someone ask about them in the service board so i tried to look them and discovered that they are faking the team. I tried to look for the thread which that person had posted so that I can warn them but it seems it had already been deleted, so I decided to open up a scam accusation.

I don't know whether the person was genuinely asking for help, or they were indirectly advertising them.
I also checked up their cryptocompare reviews, and they seem to be so fake/forged. I hope people don't believe those reviews and stay safe.

Ruso21

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i'm 1 of those stupid guys to be fooled. I made a post telling the progress of the situation....

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/beware-of-satoshiminers-cryptocompares-review-5149487

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Quote from: Patatas on June 01, 2019, 08:10:17 AM

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I have tried to reload the domain but for some reason it's either taking too long to respond but it eventually loads.
I also had very had time to archive their website thus archiving only the team part.

However you can use this for now

The Domain just got registered one month ago according to whois

Other domain information such as Registry Registrant ID, Registry Admin ID and Registry Tech ID is not available from Registry

Code:

Domain name: satoshiminers.com
Registry Domain ID: 2376108117_DOMAIN_COM-VRSN
Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.ordertld.com
Registrar URL: http://www.ordertld.com
Updated Date: 2019-04-02T20:05:52Z
Creation Date: 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z
Registrar Registration Expiration Date: 2020-04-02T00:00:00Z
Registrar: CNOBIN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
Registrar IANA ID: 3254
Registrar Abuse Contact Email: [email protected]
Registrar Abuse Contact Phone: +852.81926949
Reseller:
Domain Status: clientDeleteProhibited (http://www.icann.org/epp#clientDeleteProhibited)
Domain Status: clientTransferProhibited (http://www.icann.org/epp#clientTransferProhibited)
Registry Registrant ID: Not Available From Registry
Registry Admin ID: Not Available From Registry
Registry Tech ID: Not Available From Registry
Name Server: ns1.satoshiminers.com
Name Server: ns2.satoshiminers.com
DNSSEC: unsignedDelegation

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Quote from: Patatas on June 01, 2019, 08:10:17 AM

I think they noticed your thread already and shut the website down. I tried opening that domain but it's unreachable for me. The issue could be just on my end do. Wait for someone else to confirm.

There is no issue from my side and the domain is still working for me.

I can see there team still there. They are surely working with some scam to sell those miners.

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I think they noticed your thread already and shut the website down. I tried opening that domain but it's unreachable for me. The issue could be just on my end do. Wait for someone else to confirm. It's really funny that they ripped pictures of the guy with a thumbs up lol Cringy af

Also, how dumb these people have to be to know that a mining resell company online doesn't need more than 2 people lol

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What happened: Satoshi miners, a cryptocurrency mining equipment sales company are scammers and are using Stock photos to create fake team profiles

Scammers Profile Link: Not Available in the forum yet

Website Link: https://satoshiminers.com/

Archived: https://web.archive.org/web/20190601115422/https://satoshiminers.com/about/

FAKE TEAM

1. Jon Agin
Chief Market Analyst

Free stock Businessman PNG image from a number of websites including http://pngimg.com

Image source: http://pngimg.com/download/6564

2. David Long
Sales Analyst

Free stock image from a number of websites such as nicepng.com

3. Donald Loftus
Chief Sales Officer

Stock image from so many sites around including https://www.featurepics.com

4. Ulrich Fassbinder
Author, Technology Consultant

Stock image and video from a number of websites including stutterstock

EDIT

More Testimonies from people who have been scammed

1.

Quote from: Ruso21 on May 31, 2019, 10:05:40 AM

admin, please do not delete and help to move it to the correct place. thanks

i "bought" an X1 on satoshiminers, supposedly it is based in Netherlands but it is not, the IP address gives me to Panama or Curacao (45.227.252.166)
purchased on May 23 and have no tracking number, also no replies of my emails.

most of the comments on Cryptocompare are from the scammer, i didn't saw the comments of those people who got scammed because i didn't login. On May 31 i sent an email to them and will see if they reply and how will solve it.

beware of those 2 websites!!!

https://satoshiminers.com/
https://www.cryptocompare.com/mining/satoshi-miners/

2.

Quote from: Roguepanther on June 15, 2019, 10:43:02 PM

Following this thread, I was scammed by them as well. They maintained contact up until shipping.

3.

Quote from: bit2255 on June 21, 2019, 06:24:09 AM

Dam - I am another one who just got ripped off / scammed!!!!

I should have kissed my BTC goodbye before I sent it to them - now I'll never see them again Cry

(or the S17)

UPDATE

minerbros.io another scam mining equipment selling site just popped off the radar... The website is an exact clone of satoshiminers.com and i believe they are the same scammers.
Never deal with them at all costs

Scammers website: minerbros.io
Archive: http://archive.fo/Eb0NG

Additional Notes:
This people are not honest about their team and are very likely to scam you. Stay away.

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