Topic: YOBIT scam!!! BTC wallet empty - page 3. (Read 21612 times)

Yobit has so many complaints and I am delighted I moved all my funds from yobit to other exchanges and to my personal wallets.

Thank you for participating and thank you for giving your observation.

To tell you the truth I honestly want to believe that what happened to my wallet was not their intention. But ... No. No way I was hacked. For 13 years I worked as a senior network engineer with an ISP and I take pretty good care of the security of my devices. I'm not saying I'm a God given expert, but something as naive as a phishing attack is out of the question. Fake support and stuff ... c'mon. That even didn't work back in 90's. The suggestion of Yobit's support is not holding the water for a lot of reasons. Why? Well, here is why:

Let us assume for a moment that someone got my uname / pass combination by phishing. Fine. I'm a dumbass and got phished. They still have to go trough the 2FA. OK. Now, let us say further that they bypassed 2FA somehow. Apparently they hacked along the way my smartphone as well, got it turned on at just before 2 AM and used for 2FA, than they turned it back off. Wau! Some cojones. So they did that as well. Then we come to a point where the login attempt from a new IP has to be confirmed trough a unique link sent by an email. In the meantime not a single notification came in. Wait ... That is really a load of assumptions. Wouldn't you agree?

Now, back to me trying to convince myself that Yobit didn't wiped my wallet intentionally. At about that time (even before New Year's eve), Yobit was suffering a large number of massive DDOS attacks. If you will recall, at certain moments it was impossible to reach Yobit and than even if you got trough it was impossible to do anything further. You would wait and wait and nothing would happen. So, I'm thinking wouldn't it be just a bit more feasible scenario that Yobit actually got hacked just about that time? No 2FA, no confirmations, no notifications ... Well, that just might explain a lot. Still, to prove that, you have to have access to the network logs, transaction logs, activity logs, ... and check them. And again that still sits at Yobit's responsability ... not mine. This is actually the only reason why I'm still restraining myself from taking further action... for now.

Someone might say it's a rather small amount to make such a fuzz about it. Well, believe me, at this point it means a lot to me and I really, really, really need my amount back.

I will wait a bit more and see if they have any intention of giving me back my money or not.

Yobit has been having a lot of complaints in the past few weeks, it may be just poor support issues and at worst preparing for bankruptcy.

I have account on YoBit.net from time I was participated in their signature campaign and I also promote my ref link in signature so I get some nice number of referrals which make my some BTC there.I just check and all balance is there,so far I have no problem with them.Before they send me e-mail for log in verification,but this is not the case anymore.

Is it possible that you and some others are victims of phishing or your log in data was exposed in any way?

Here is what happened in the meantime.
As I mentioned, I got some kind of a reply from Yobit's support:

Here is my reaction to it:

This morning I logged in to see if there is anything going on there and I discovered all the tickets I openned on Yobit gone. Support section lists "No records". Well, ain't that just conveniant. (they reappeared)
I will not settle until I have my wallet restored.

So far I count you to be the third one with the same problem.
Yesterday morning, I got a short message from Yobit's support (it appears they are alive after all) explaining absolutely nothing. I was far to aggrivated to type any comment here on that. I still am, so, in short, I still hold YOBIT responsable for missing BTC from my wallet.

Will keep you posted and will see this to the end.

Dear ALL,

I have come accross the same empty wallet case today. Yobit market history shows all of my balance swifted to anywhere that i have no information about. Do you have any information about YobiCodes Code Activation information. My all balance is empty 0,19 btc flown.

I have sent 3 different messages to Yobit Support and have not received any answer yet.

Please give me an advise that how i can bring back the missing balance.

Best Regards,

Aviatorist.   

You are quite correct. A rather unique situation and the one that could be hard to prove. At this point Yobit is the only one that holds the answer to who and how created these codes and where they went. A simple sweep trough the logs would do the magic. But, apparently we are way beyond the point of expecting them to explain and resolve that. I was kind of hopping they would but to be honest deep down I knew they won't and I took some steps.

For the last couple of days I've been exchanging phone calls with a friend of a friend that works at VTB bank in Moscow, at their information security center. The guy was quite friendly and is willing to help as much as he can. I explained my situation, forwarded what I had and got some replies back. He told me he knows of Yobit and that they already were for a couple of times under the investigation for the similar situations in past. He explained that there are certain legal steps I should consider taking in this matter, which will cost me nothing and will insure a positive resolution. He promised to make some inquiries and give me more details on the following Monday or Tuesday.

So, there you go. One thing is for sure, I will not sit back with my hands crossed and forget about my money. One way or the other, I will have my BTC's back with the interest rate.

Wish me luck and I'll try to keep you posted!

this is weird actually , with all the past reports about yobit this is the first time I see such a problem
I mean is there anyway to prove that the yobi codes was created by someone else ?? yobit is shady but your case is hard to prove
anyway they already have a  lot of negative reviews , so this won't change a thing sadly

Hi, this has also happened to me, I send 0.2 ETH over and made 1 transaction for some HTML5 I now have nothing in my wallet but it all shows on the yobi code page.

I'm hoping it isn't a scam but something to do with how the site works and I must need to do something with those yobi codes. I haven't figured it out yet though. Hopefully someone on here can help?

If you get a reply from support please let me know, if I find out I'll do the same

What happened:
On January 8th, I discovered my BTC wallet completely blank. Empty!? I have not done any withdrawals, conversions, trades or anything else for that matter.
I openned a support ticket and by the time I was writting this posted another 7 related messages. So far without a single word from Yobit.

I posted a message in this forum (https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.27827640) and got a reply that gave me some guidance for further investigation of this issue. Now, up until that moment I haven't had any idea what YobiCodes might be. Anyway, what I found out is that on 2018-01-05 at 02:00:47 my BTC were miraculously converted to these YobiCodes and than on 2018-01-05 at 02:00:56 YobiCodes were activated. Within 9 seconds all my earnings were stolen.

Each time I log in, I receive a notification email and there were no notifications that I (or anyone else) was logged in at that particular time at Yobit. At 2AM I was logged out completely. Further more, I use 2FA auth, so I do not see how anyone from the outside could do that.
History, of trading, withdrawals, dice, etc. is normal. Nothing suspicious there. The only position out of order is in the history of YobiCodes, where it stands that at the given time code was created.

Now, I know for sure that I didn't do that. With 2FA there is no way anyone else could do that either. The only conclusion is that someone from within Yobit took all the BTC's from my wallet with them.


Scammers Profile Link: https://yobit.net
Reference Link:  https://yobit.net
Amount Scammed: 0.091749 BTC (aprox. 1.600 USD)
Payment Method: Deposited in my Yobit wallet 1K7ee2WQ399y5YidK8AaGmEYMaPNjYpMeV
Proof of Payment:
- email on login notifications: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1Iz4hdte8uKDgO3VkzGzCAZ3pc6-Ov-h_
- messages to their support: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1Iz4hdte8uKDgO3VkzGzCAZ3pc6-Ov-h_
- history YobiCodes: https://drive.google.com/open?id=17ri9Va5U-E-x8PSAwbtT3U6H4Vci5WLm
- YobiCodes: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1HfbZLRlHKZ_lUQOuv_5SHN27xbBcxyN8


PM/Chat Logs: Transcript of messages posted to Yobits support:
2018-01-11 09:54:36 niemann
Here is what I discovered so far:

1). On January 5th, 2018, at 05:00:47 my BTC wallet was converted to YobiCodes.
    Proof: https://drive.google.com/open?id=17ri9Va5U-E-x8PSAwbtT3U6H4Vci5WLm

2). After 9 seconds, the YobiCode has been used.
    Proof: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1HfbZLRlHKZ_lUQOuv_5SHN27xbBcxyN8

3). I was not logged in at the time, nor is there any notification that would indicate that someone used my credentials and logged in instead of me. With 2FA auth it is impossible.
    Proof: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1woPF_zNODnwivM4lLOEnbfO5xVltc5Wv

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From the above the only conclusion is that Yobit or someone within Yobit did it on their own and stole my money. Having that said, I hold Yobit fully responsable for safeguarding my deposits and therefore demand my wallet to be restored.

If I do not receive any reply in the following couple of days I will have to asume that this teft was done with the approval of Yobit.
2018-01-10 18:24:56 niemann
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.27856715
2018-01-10 12:53:47 niemann
Here is a link to bitcointalks topic:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.27827640
2018-01-10 09:03:00 niemann
Guys this is getting very frustrating. I cannot beleive that I cannot get a single word from you.
I started a discussion on this on Bitcoin talk and I found out that YobiCodes are something like a cheque. WHO and WHY made a conversion of my BTC into these cheques. I need my BTC back to my wallet asap.
As much as it may be insignificant to you, this amount is far more than I can afford to loose. PLEASE HELP and restore my wallet.

2018-01-09 21:05:55 niemann
I would very much appreciate an answer here. What is going on with my BTC wallet and what happened to the sum I had on it? Can I expect a resolution or amI being ripped off? I am getting worried now. Please reply
2018-01-09 12:56:53 niemann
If you need screenshots of history and wallet do let me know.
2018-01-09 10:35:13 niemann
I checked the history if there is anything out of order going on, but everything looks fine, with the exception of the section "YobiCodes". I do not know what this is but there is a creation on January 5th, at 02:00:47 type "Code creation" stating my BTC balance in minus form. What is this? When I click on it it takes me to trading section.

Please tell me where are my BTC's.
2018-01-09 08:56:51 niemann
What happened with my BTC balance? I had something over 0,092 BTC in it and now I don't have anything. I made no withdrawalls and no tradings.

Please reply ASAP.


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