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Topic: [WARNING] Beware of godex.io exchange "SCAM" 58 ETH (Read 200 times)

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and accepted the offer by Godex.io for about 1.3 ETH.
Who offered you (exactly)? Their team or did you see an ad somewhere?

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0x28C6c06298d514Db089934071355E5743bf21d60, a Binance account.


I think they have passed KYC on Binance. You can start from the address that sent your old token here as the subject of your case with details. Just hope that Binance support is kind and takes your report seriously.
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If this is indeed what happened, I wished they would have been honest and told me so.
You could say that again. I understand. I have also come across such incompetent customer support assistants. Some even do not know the language well, and their replies or reactions are never satisfactory.

Instead they told me the tokens are old thus have no value and cannot be refunded. Makes me think they are just keeping the tokens.
Given that it's a lot of money involved, you could try making some noise in different forums where they have a presence and also try to convince them to ask Binance to send back the old tokens.

It's going to be a very hard task, but for 58 ETH, I don't think you have any other choice.
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If this is indeed what happened, I wished they would have been honest and told me so.

Instead they told me the tokens are old thus have no value and cannot be refunded. Makes me think they are just keeping the tokens.
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But is it not possible that we could have old tokens lying around and are not always keeping up-to-date? If I remember correctly, ETH gas fees were sky high then and there was no deadline for swap, so I did not rush to swap. In fact, if they did not want to support, they should not provide price quotes in Trezor Exchange instead of showing quotes and then refusing to swap nor refund them after I sent the tokens? I was accepting a big haircut off market value for the quoted swap precisely because I thought they were old tokens.

If the tokens are indeed without value as they claim, why not send them back instead of keeping them and saying they have no value? They are in fact still swappable via wallet.loomx.io/token-swap , I just swapped a few more yesterday.
Here is the huge problem. Godex might be working with partners for liquidity like Binance, so when you sent the tokens to their address. Of course, they might have tried to send them over to Binance (which probably no longer supports the old tokens) for exchange of which they found out that the tokens were invalid. From what I know, once you send a wrong token to an exchange, getting a refund is almost impossible for security purposes of other people's funds.

If you have some doubts, try to send a few old tokens to Binance and see if they will credit your account. I am very sure you will lose the funds and receive nothing.

I see on my Binance mobile app, LOOMOLD (old loom network) is suspended.
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But is it not possible that we could have old tokens lying around and are not always keeping up-to-date? If I remember correctly, ETH gas fees were sky high then and there was no deadline for swap, so I did not rush to swap. In fact, if they did not want to support, they should not provide price quotes in Trezor Exchange instead of showing quotes and then refusing to swap nor refund them after I sent the tokens? I was accepting a big haircut off market value for the quoted swap precisely because I thought they were old tokens.

If the tokens are indeed without value as they claim, why not send them back instead of keeping them and saying they have no value? They are in fact still swappable via wallet.loomx.io/token-swap , I just swapped a few more yesterday.
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Initiated a Swap of 41,641.104 Old LOOM tokens for ETH though Trezor Exchange and accepted the offer by Godex.io for about 1.3 ETH. The Godex address I was provided to send is 0x1a31df52BB0BC938b47652A91d3045e5681eb6aD


You are also part of the problem. The LOOM token swap started about 3 years ago. Why did you ignore swapping your old tokens for all that long?

When a token swap happens, exchanges will obviously upgrade and start supporting the new token will they slowly stop supporting the old tokens. It was your responsibility to first swap the token before sending to Godex.

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After about 12 hours from sending, my exchange order showed Failed status even though my sent tokens were already confirmed. I contacted support and was told old LOOM tokens are deemed "invalid" tokens, even though they are swappable 1:1 for new LOOM tokens.


I can't blame them. They probably no longer support the old tokens.

Try to ask for a refund, but your chances are so thin.

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Initiated a Swap of 41,641.104 Old LOOM tokens for ETH though Trezor Exchange and accepted the offer by Godex.io for about 1.3 ETH. The Godex address I was provided to send is 0x1a31df52BB0BC938b47652A91d3045e5681eb6aD



After about 12 hours from sending, my exchange order showed Failed status even though my sent tokens were already confirmed. I contacted support and was told old LOOM tokens are deemed "invalid" tokens, even though they are swappable 1:1 for new LOOM tokens.



On-chain, I can even see that my old LOOM tokens have been sent onwards to 0x28C6c06298d514Db089934071355E5743bf21d60, a Binance account.

Therefore, not only were my tokens not swapped for ETH, but they are not sending back my old LOOM tokens that they deem "invalid", which have a market value of about USD$4,000+ when swapped for new LOOM. (Maybe slightly lesser now due to crypto market falling since)



People, be careful and not be tempted by their good swap offer rates. I picked Godex.io to swap because they were showing the best rates, but I know why they can do so now, that is because when your swap value is high enough they will receive your tokens and send you nothing back.


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They have an announcement thread here (although it han't been active for a long time) and an official representative on bitcointalk so try to reach out to him via PMs.
Their ann thread: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/annexchange-godexio-new-exchanger-with-full-privacy-feature-4693949
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The good news is that Godex_io was active earlier on today. it's now OP's task to send him a message.

Can you still login to your account? If possible try to get as many screenshots as you can from the Account area that could shed some light on what is going on.
It's an instant exchange that does not require creating an account or logging in, but for every transaction, there is an order ID which OP should be able to produce if his claims are true.

I can say that's a lot of money. Much better if he can still log in and get the snapshots that those txs were credited to his account. He should have tested with small amount first before sending those big amounts. I don't know what the OP is thinking but honestly, I never heard of that exchange. They have good reviews in trustpilot - https://www.trustpilot.com/review/godex.io, but we don't know what percentage of them are legit ones.
I used the instant exchange before and everything went on smoothly, though I obviously didn't send in such huge amounts. They have been there for a while. However things can change pretty fast in this crypto space.
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You will need to provide much more detail if you would like your claim to be taken seriously. Try to explain clearly exactly how you think they scammed you.

Can you still login to your account? If possible try to get as many screenshots as you can from the Account area that could shed some light on what is going on.



I can say that's a lot of money. Much better if he can still log in and get the snapshots that those txs were credited to his account. He should have tested with small amount first before sending those big amounts. I don't know what the OP is thinking but honestly, I never heard of that exchange. They have good reviews in trustpilot - https://www.trustpilot.com/review/godex.io, but we don't know what percentage of them are legit ones.
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You will need to provide much more detail if you would like your claim to be taken seriously. Try to explain clearly exactly how you think they scammed you.

Can you still login to your account? If possible try to get as many screenshots as you can from the Account area that could shed some light on what is going on.


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I agree with hosseinimr, those transactions IDs do not prove or mean anything.
The first thing you need to do is to prove that you issued those transactions and that the receiving addresses belong to godex.io. Then you need to provide more details and explain how you got scammed.

Did you try to contact their customer support?
They have an announcement thread here (although it han't been active for a long time) and an official representative on bitcointalk so try to reach out to him via PMs.
Their ann thread: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/annexchange-godexio-new-exchanger-with-full-privacy-feature-4693949
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legendary
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These transactions don't prove anything.
Can you please share your order IDs, so we can see your trades details? And why did you make three more trades, if they scammed you at your first trade?
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