PLEASE READ: Over the last few months ShapeShift has had various reports of various scamming accounts being created on our social media accounts, as well as copy cat websites. With this becoming more of an issues over the last month, we would like to make a few notes about how to avoid falling victim to these scammers. Please read our blog post about this so to protect your BitcoinDark transactions:
http://bit.ly/1PhK20LIn order to avoid scams the first thing I do is to avoid clicking links hidden with bit.ly or other similar url shorteners.