Topic: Scam/suspicious/clones faucets to avoid (Read 1562 times)

Thank you Tipstar.

Updates for this topic :

1. I'm bringing an update about the welovefaucets  an online scamming faucets network. As i said in a previous comment , i had on my balance 15700 satoshi since October-November 2016 which i tried mny times to withdraw without success .
Here is the proof that this network has cleared balances using a fake reason of " too many bots" and an excuse of bitcoin price price to high.


Beware of this network so you won't lose time for claims as i did . You will never know when another clearing balances will be applied again.
Just as i was expecting, and just as i explained here, https://www.beermoneyforum.com/threads/guide-scam-definition-types-methods.7558/ the methods of scamming people on PTCs and faucets.
Now paying with faucethub.io ? this is not an excuse for (prevoius or next) scamming people and also not making more trustful this scam.

2. Also another update about the boomfaucet network, this announcement it is displayed on all faucets belonging to this network :

"Dear friends,

At the moment, we have around 20 thousand users, who want on average 0.0003 Bitcoin for the withdrawal. However, the commission per transaction is around 0.001 Bitcoin. The sum of all unprocessed transactions is around 6 Bitcoins, and commission for transactions will take twice as much

Right now we have no chances to fulfill withdrawals. All costs will be paid to users only after the price of the transaction will get back to 0.0001 Bitcoin. That has been regularly announced to our users.

Also, as we explained after the ban from Google Adsense, we didn’t have a regular income, so we couldn’t predict how the withdrawals would be held. Despite this, and despite knowing that we wouldn’t get the money back, we paid all costs on the sum of about 35 thousand dollars, and we continued to pay our users for a quite long period after the ban. And we will definitely pay all users who reached the minimum threshold.

Besides, we’ve implemented the anti-bot system that works on the neural network and which needs some time to learn how to distinguish real users from trespassers. When the system works flawlessly, and the problem with Bitcoin is solved, we will carry out all withdrawals.

Thank you for your attention"
So the payments are still not payed and this network remains not trusted .

3. The lionbitcoin.ru and other animal based faucets network
- Lionbitcoin.ru 
- Tigerbitcoin.ru
- Monkeybitcoin.ru
- Giraffebitcoin.ru
- Elephantbitcoin.ru
- Horsebitcoin.ru

 has been shutdown .

You can add rocketbitco.in who is hosting a self moderated thread and deleting every complaints about it. https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/rocketbitcoin-claim-your-earnings-any-time-1977632

Today the blacklist with faucets to avoid is extended with the following faucets :

1. http://boomfaucet.com/game (the original domain name was boomfaucet then changed to bombcatch (for adsense) then returned to original name this spring)
...........Oldest known reports of pendings are from May 16, 2017 .
............Minimum payment 10k satoshi direct to wallet weekly. No payments anymore since that time or at least 1 month..
2. http://frogfaucet.com/ (the original domain name was frogfaucet then changed to frogcatch (for adsense) then returned to frogfaucet on March 2017)
...........very slow earning, and difficult to reach 25k satoshi minimum withdraw. The satoshi are named Points since the faucet had adsense.
3.http://fish-bit.com/en (the original domain name was fish-bit then changed to fishingrow.com (for adsense) then returned to fish-bit after got banned from adsense.
...........last known payments was in April 2017. They were paying constantly weekly when the minimum balance was 10k directly automated to wallet.
...........Personal pending : 11318 satoshi   16 May 13:59   pending


These faucets seems to belong to the same admin(s) from landbit company. Lately these faucets were paying once 2 weeks or once a month , if this network will pay its users until 15-30 july 2017 this comment will be deleted.
There are also many other faucets in the same network, cross advertised , such as birdsbit, stellarbit.co.in , etc.
Stellarbitcoin has been shut down , the minimum withdraw was 25 satoshi paid weekly.
This list might be expanded very soon with some other faucets from the same network which didnt payed users for more than 1 month or which are using a scheme in upgrades that makes it impossible to earn satoshi ,so keep an eye on this comment for updates.
I will keep making random claims on these faucets to see if this network will finally pay the users .

The same network has recently shut down all the 5 Ethereum faucets linked within 1 account balance in Boxether.com

List of scams (shut down faucets) of this network :
Stellarbit.co.in
5 ETH faucets

Been a while since i haven't added new faucets on the blacklist to avoid .
I kept requesting 15700 satoshi from time to time since October-November 2016 from the welovefaucets network specifically welove faucets 3 or PlayBitcoin or playbtc website.
You will work for nothing and every time you request a payment you will see this message :
 We are out of funds now! We'll add more on Monday/Tuesday!
As i said ,i get this message since october-november 2016 when i started to test/use this 3rd faucet from this network.

Today's blacklist addition is :
http://welovefaucets.com/free-bitcoin-3/
Also is very likely that other faucets from the same admin to not pay :
http://welovefaucets.com/free-bitcoin-1/
http://welovefaucets.com/free-bitcoin-2/ (also known as Water Bicoin)
another faucet Ice Bitcoin owned previously has been shut down.

Avoid the welovefaucets network if you don't want to waste your time.
Admin, you had 6 months (!!!) to get enough ads revenue to pay your debts to the users, admin, but you didn't payed.

ok, the list with scam/suspicious faucets continues :
Today we're adding on the blacklist menu :
http://infaucet.com/  (https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/ann-infaucetcom-free-bitcoins-big-big-faucet-975002 ) - admin claims that the faucet is sold . Lies, nothing has been changed, sister websites are still advertised.
and related/(cross advertised) websites :

• http://greenbitco.in/ (faucet)
• http://dailysatoshis.com/ (faucet - not working)
• https://cointopal.com/ ( a so called bitcoin to paypal exchanger ) - reference : https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/ann-cointopalcom-convert-bitcoin-to-paypal-1153049
• other sister websites linked in there such as https://www.bitlaunder.com

@ricku 

adding to the russian scam faucets list :
 http://faucetrun.ru/

Faucetrun.ru is a scam clone of the FaucetGo.com

@ Op, this is really funny because i the names mentioned are animals, probably the person/s behind it is/are animals in character  .
Noted all the same not going to waste my time with them.

Thank you pramila28 for your add.  
If anyone had bad experience  such as not getting paid at all , specially from russian faucets ,suspicious faucets for scamming, please feel free to add them on this topic to warn  others to avoid them and stop wasting their important time.
Time is money, don't waste it on faucet scams, help us to create a list .
When more links are gathered i will make a dedicated topic with all the scam faucets which are still online and the claiming is working but they haven't paid members or not anymore during the last few months.
Together we can make it, together we can fight against scams by exposing them.
If someone is afraid to post a comment bellow with a scam faucet name because it knows private data from you ,feel free to PM me with the name  of the faucet and i will verify/join the faucet to test for you before to be sure it can be categorised as scam unless there are reports on internet already.

coinone ru
satzors ru

Thank you for informing us thats the faucet not paying
better next time we use faucet which give payment direct to faucetbox so no need minimum withdrawal
and waiting for long time reach the minimum withdrawal

If you would be so kind, change your thread symbol with exclamation point or something that's more eye catching, so people will put their eyes here and know to avoid this faucet. Thank you.

Thnx for warning, few weeks ago someone post similar thread about lionbitcoin faucet, and one of users said that site didn't pay. I guess its one of the greedy owners, its easier not to pay than pay 

You can add these also

Your balance: Current: 34970

Cash out amount: 30,000 satoshis

When can I request my payment?
You can request your payment when you reach minimum threshold of 30.000 Satoshi

You cannot request 1 satosh from any of these two sites

http://fire-bitcoin.ru/index.html

http://w3bin.com/domain/fire-bitcoin.ru

http://air-bitcoin.ru/

http://w3bin.com/domain/air-bitcoin.ru

Your balance: Current: 43919

Cash out amount: 30,000 satoshis

NEWS:Payments are instantly sent to you via Faucetbox. Faucetbox processes payments to your BTC address when you have accumulated over 13000 satoshi to prevent transaction fees.

No they are not sent instantly.

If you got scammed by not getting paid after 1-2-3 months since withdraw request or you have link proofs of different complaints about a faucet or a faucet-generator please let us know, the faucets users community, in a comment bellow. We are grateful for your time to post your experience and for letting us know to not waste important time on such websites.
I consider that 1-2-3 months are enough for any admin to get funds to pay at least 50% of the members or to announce if the faucet is no longer sustainable.
Keeping the faucet alive and ignoring the members is called scamming.
If you're the owner of any website listed in this topic and you are paying please post a comment here so we can make claims and withdraw  and i shall remove it from the blacklist temporary or permanently. Until then, welcome to the


Hint : How to recognize a faucet which is very likely to be a scam before starting to claim for nothing :

• 1. The minimum withdraw is set to high (way above 25k satoshi or way above 50k)
• 2. The faucet has no official announcing topic anywere and claim values are very high (such as 800 satoshi/hour or 1000 satoshi/10 minute or...)
• 3. You won't see advertised this faucet on other popular websites/faucets.
• 4. Sister scam faucets are usually cross advertised between each other.
• 5. There is a probability of 99% that a scam faucet has at least 1 another sister faucet (see point 4 how to find them).
• 6. Domains ending with .ru (russians) are highly probable to be a scam + clone , internet is saturated with russian scam faucets.

Let's get started exposing the scammers :

There are 6 faucets (linked to each other) :

- Lionbitcoin.ru  ( Get 850 satoshi - 60 minutes)
- Tigerbitcoin.ru ( Get 200 satoshi - 10 minutes)
- Monkeybitcoin.ru  ( Get 750 satoshi - 50 minutes)
- Giraffebitcoin.ru ( Get 350 satoshi - 20 minutes )
- Elephantbitcoin.ru ( Get 650 satoshi - 40 minutes )
- Horsebitcoin.ru  (Get 500 satoshi - 30 minutes )

"MINIMUM WITHDRAW 25000 SATOSHI the withdrawals are processed manually within 24 hours maximum "

I have 25k on lionbitcoin.ru and 25k on monkeybitcoin.ru waiting/pending for about a month but it is not paying. Also i have different amounts (lower than minimum) on the other 4 animal linked faucets.
The websites are in english despite to the .ru which means are ..russian domains .

Don't waste your time on these russian scams as i did .