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Topic: YOBIT Scam/Theft - waiting five months on $10000 (Read 641 times)

newbie
Activity: 27
Merit: 0
The platform becomes ridiculous. yobit can not do a simple hard fork update. wallet under maintenance for many months.

they continue trading dead fake coins.

it is a certificate of poverty
jr. member
Activity: 150
Merit: 2
Looking for a good project
Not sure if he got his money back or not but we should stay away from yobit as they are very dodgy exchange.

Yes it is sad and pathetic
full member
Activity: 218
Merit: 100
Not sure if he got his money back or not but we should stay away from yobit as they are very dodgy exchange.
jr. member
Activity: 150
Merit: 2
Looking for a good project
Did you get your money back yet?
newbie
Activity: 1
Merit: 0
Hello,

I am also victim of this website and I would like to join forces to file a complain against this website.

I transfered 1.05 ETH 2 days ago but website was crashing all the time and could not give me a ETH deposit adress.

I had a message saying come back in 2 minutes and again and again.
I don't know what happened but the ETH got sent to my ETC wallet instead of ETH

I imediatly open a support ticket knowing that you can recover the ETH and place it in the right wallet. You just need the private keep but only yobit support has got it.
I sent detail of the transaction but since then, nothing but being told by yobit chat admin there was a slim chance to recover. They are stealing lots of people because after my chat, people saw my problem and I receive messages from them telling me they had the same problem.

How would you like to proceed ? I can get the people who PM me to join us.

dominikherzog the chat admin ask me to be patient. Hopefully, they will do something because after all, I own the ETH coins and the ETC wallet.
hero member
Activity: 1438
Merit: 574
Always ask questions. #StandWithHongKong
Copy/paste from one of the many other Yoshit scam threads:

Why do people continue to use this exchange for trading and storage? Yobit's risky practice of locking accounts and coins is well-documented here. Sending coins to Yobit is playing a risky dice, almost always in favor of the exchange keeping the coins.

For those who ignore the countless scam reports, I can suggest a few charities who accept bitcoins for a good cause. You would be doing this planet a greater favor by donating your coins to them. It's the exact same thing. When you send coins to Yobit's hot wallet you are donating your coins to this exchange.

Agreed. And since OP has confirmed that it's 1.5 BTC it's a huge amount of BTC to be trusting a random exchange in Russia(or is it even located there, now) that has an absolutely dreadful reputation of being consistently the worst place to trade your coins and has consistently the worst customer support out there.

Even though i'm sure you did nothing wrong, you should have been informed on yobit's shady activities.

Their environment basically is completely toxic, the entire exchange relies on pump and dump coins to operate and wallets are in constant maintenance mode. People's money is stuck in every way you can imagine. OP, if you don't get your money back or even if you do, learn your lesson and don't return with a new account.

TBH bitcointalk have allowed this scam exchange to to rip-off forum members for far too long. I have been warning users about this exchange since they scammed me many, many months ago - & I'm not the only one. Over the last few weeks Yoshit have been flooding their thread with fake noob comments from literally hundreds of shill accounts - even posting in Russian, even though it's the English thread, in an effort to hide the hundreds of complaints about them.

It is simply a 100% scam.

It's about time BCT moderators put a stop to Yoshit & their scammy activities by locking their thread for good & not allowing them to advertise on BCT ever again. By doing nothing BCT is actively helping promote this scam - it's got to stop.

@BCT moderators - stop advertising this scam - kill their thread please.
hero member
Activity: 1666
Merit: 753
Unfortunately, that is literally how yobit operates. I'd say that half of their markets listed there are artificially priced because either the deposits are in maintenance or withdrawals are in maintenance meaning that you're literally trading nothingness.

You just simply cannot depend on them or their support.

Beware of them, and do not deposit anything that you can't afford to lose. You could be waiting up to a year or more here.
sr. member
Activity: 306
Merit: 252
I only deposited small amounts to all kind of these small exchange.
Now I use Bittrex and Binance as well

but before you get too far ahead thinking that way, know that bittrex has lots of scam accusations going on, and many people feel they stole their money too...

I think at the end of the day no exchange is safe anymore. Too easy to pull a vern and get away with it
member
Activity: 73
Merit: 10
What happened:
37 days ago, I sent coins to Yobit, they were never deposited
Scammers login: tel29
 

Amount Scammed: 6.545407 ETH
Payment Method: deposit in my wallet in YOBIT : 0xcd0c0df7f1Ba0D7D47AB064d0701b0ffc2991B0f
Proof of Payment:  Transaction  0x0cdeccff2073f6f09567c85aa9004bb5ca098531e956d236c1021e1a2bf0c6b7
https://etherscan.io/tx/0x0cdeccff2073f6f09567c85aa9004bb5ca098531e956d236c1021e1a2bf0c6b7

PM/Chat Logs:

I opened five tickets support, i sent private message in bitcointalk and bits.media, MMGP and until now nothing.
Stay away from the Yobit exchange!!!
newbie
Activity: 42
Merit: 0
@shield, well for me its worth it, cause its worth over 10000 dollars and you can also join forces to do a mass claim.
I believe in justice and ignoring people who should have a lot of money which does not appear on the balance is crime in my opinion.

If they dont want to keep their clients happy in a reasonable way, then they need to feel it.
I feel really sick knowing that they stole this amount of money from me, so i'm not going to say,,,, oke guys keep it as a reward for your good service

I really get the feeling they do their wallet maintenance on purpose for some coins.....
full member
Activity: 168
Merit: 120
Always their explanations when you are about to withdraw your bitcoin which was in their possession for depository purposes but when your about to withdraw this was always most of the unreliable ICO's explanation maintenance or something error in their fuzzy excuses made by thos untrusted and those will eventually turn to be scammers.
hero member
Activity: 1470
Merit: 595
@akamit. I wish i could trade them for BTC but thats not the issue. My deposit of 10000 unit coins is still not available in my balance. So thats why i'm angry. I would love to trade them for BTC because yesterday night on yobit they reached 1.3 dollar a piece. I should have 10000 unit coins in my balance since July but i still have 0

I am really very sorry to hear about your loss.
After reading your post, now I can't think off any solution for the issue.
The issue is very much common at yobit, and they are very much experienced in doing this shit.

Is UNIT dev team active or left the project? If they are active then contact them and tell the story.
Request them to contact yoshit in order to update their wallet. I don't know the procedure will work or not but it will not hurt to give a shot.

As yoshit didn't updated the wallet since 5 months then I doubt they won't update it now anyway.
newbie
Activity: 42
Merit: 0
@akamit. I wish i could trade them for BTC but thats not the issue. My deposit of 10000 unit coins is still not available in my balance. So thats why i'm angry. I would love to trade them for BTC because yesterday night on yobit they reached 1.3 dollar a piece. I should have 10000 unit coins in my balance since July but i still have 0
hero member
Activity: 2198
Merit: 847
The best I can say is that please don't use any exchanger without seing threads here or as we see it can cause some fatal erors, people lose money and register here after that. There are still many people who don't knows about yobit's unethical actions. They even trade dead coins, they do any shit to get much profit. Currently revealed every bad bitcoin service provider is usually tagged here so just try to google, scroll down and look for bitcointalk threads (bitcointalk has good positions in google so it makes search process very easy).
Does it worths for you to hire lawer? I guess it can't change situation or it will cost you a lot of money.
full member
Activity: 238
Merit: 100
As I have read many scam reports about small exchanges like yobit, cryptopia and liqui I stay away from them most of the time. I only use them if there is no other way to do what I want and then only do my business in small batches, so far I have not encountered any problems myself. It seems like this happens mostly with larger amounts.
member
Activity: 64
Merit: 10
I only deposited small amounts to all kind of these small exchange.
Now I use Bittrex and Binance as well
legendary
Activity: 2968
Merit: 1095
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With a small court request you could by example ask the judge to repo their servers until they have paid. Properly that will hurt Yobit the most.

you should be concerned about your situation and yobit should be concerned about their situation, if you file a lawsuit against yobit you are doing your part and in a way you are helping thousands of clients who were harmed by yobit

Also seen their servers are located in the US, the US law will also apply to them.

I read comments from someone who said the owner of yobit was Russian, but I already forgot where I read this and I'm not sure if it's true or not

Registrar Data Make Private

Registrant Contact Information:

Name: Protection of Private Person
Organization
Address: PO box 87, REG.RU Protection Service
City: Moscow
Postal Code: 123007
Country: RU
Phone: +7.4955801111
Fax: +7.4955801111

hero member
Activity: 1470
Merit: 595
The issue is not new, its a very old issue with yobit.
If you search the forum then you will find lots of scam accusations with the same issue before the month of July.
So I doubt you already knew about this issue and yet you have deposited there to trade.

The only solution I can think off, sale your UNIT for BTC or USD and withdraw your money.
So far I haven't heard any issue with BTC and USD withdrawal.

I will not directly consider the issue as yobits's scam, but I would rather say it is TECHNICAL SCAM.
newbie
Activity: 42
Merit: 0
Yes its the universal currency. Since the 7th of July your deposit will not be credited to your account, and its not possible to withdraw (unless you sell them for BTC ofcourse)

Just thinking... , but isnt it not supprising that yobit sells a lot of unit coins on the market while its not possible to deposit.... feels a bit like Yobit is doing well to sell their own handfull of unit coins before i'm allowed todo. I dont like conspiracy theories, but it could be very well possible that Yobit is doing the wallet maintenance on purpose....
legendary
Activity: 2436
Merit: 1804
guess who's back
yeah sadly yobit takes ages to fix wallets that don't have high trade volume , that's why they shouldn't be offering a lot of shitty coins
is the coin UNIT Universal currency ?? if so then it's weird since the volume in yobit is close to 17 btc now , maybe people don't know yet that they can't withdraw
I'm afraid that there is no much you can do except waiting , yobit already has a red tag due to similar issues with some coins so they don't care about topics here
even CLAM has been on maintenance for over two months now , it seems yobit are so lazy to fix the low volume wallets
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