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Board Legal
I have just been scammed bitcoinat.co.uk
by
mintymark
on 08/06/2017, 19:59:46 UTC
So I have just been scammed, and not by a trivial amount either. This site, which has been operating for at least a month. Its obvious with hindsight that I could easily have protected myself if I had done the most trivial amount of due dillegence, but I sent 100 ETH to this it in a single transaction, and now I pretty much regard it as lost. 

Please do not tell me how stupid I have been, I am aware of that! Of course I should have known better, but a moment of stupidity is all it takes. I am gutted, of course.

If you have any idea how I might recover something, anything, I will give you 25% of whatever is recovered. Let me know, give me an insight by PM of what you think should be done. If I agree, I will give you further information and ask you to proceed. There are a few emails. I have remained polite. I have also filed a police report but thats pretty hopeless I dont expect anything from that. I am thinking along the lines of scamming the scammer but really I dont have the litrary skills to do that. Perhaps you do.

The website lists a postal address which it turns out is rented office PO boxes. Their PA refuses to say if they know of bitcoinat. There is no such registered company in the Uk.  The email headers imply a los angeles address and I have also been told there may be a Austria connection (Virwox).

Really this is aweful and very very hard to accept, extremely depressing.

On a more posative note, whats the best way to take the site down to prevent others falling for it ?