Changelly scam... I think so.
from changelly_com via /r/CryptoCurrency sent an hour ago
Dear Nttwo, once again let us explain the issue.
Your exchange was completed 5 august once we got confirmation of your 20 BTC for exchange.
We've provided that trade to about 105.68 GBYTE on Bittrex, one of our exchange partners.
As amount was rather huge, we've requested withdrawal from our Bittrex account.
Unfortunately at that moment their wallet was under maintains.
We've temporarily stopped GBYTE trading on Changelly too.
Once Bittrex reactivated Bytebal wallet, we've sent your GBYTE to the initial requested address.
Transaction hashes you can find in your exchanges history on Changelly, it was at 9 August.
We do apologies for the delay once again, unfortunately not all the things are depending on our service. Blockchain is rather new not so stable industry. And speculative trading is always risky.
During the contribution period your funds were saved on our corporate account on Bittrex, we didn't get any extra funds there. So we have nothing to compensate you, sorry.
Hope for your understating.
Hello Changelly,
Thank you for your response.
I hope you understand that due to the amount of money here, this will not go away in your favor unless a court finds in your favor.
I think it would be preferable for everyone concerned if Changelly did the right thing and issued me a refund.
I have just a few questions. If your explanation is true, then you have a great opportunity to demonstrate Changelly's commitment to its customers and the crypto world.
Before the questions, I want to make one point clear:
The problem here has nothing to do with the "risk of speculative trading", or risks associated with the nascent blockchain industry.
Just as there were no risks to anyone holding BTC on August 1st to receiving their BCH. If you had BTC, you got BCH, period.
This is no different. If you had GBYTE at the time of the snapshot, you got 20% more GBYTE - no speculation or risk involved.
Thus, at a minimum, someone was unjustly enriched by holding my funds.
Please answer the following questions:
Here is the Tx where the 105.306518200 GBYTE owed to me was first delivered to Changelly's pay out address.
https://explorer.byteball.org/#Q2PTWTIHqHDUzDk3suTKtX37VN2ntKmcrUdttUG8oWQ=The relevant details are:
- Received: 05.08.2017 11:40:22 (about 12 minutes after Changelly received my 20 BTC)
- 105,306,518,200 (BYTES) to BRAAXVBQPDBBCUQWHW4BHBIDDKTWJYW3
1) Please confirm that
BRAAXVBQPDBBCUQWHW4BHBIDDKTWJYW3 is indeed Changelly's address.
2) Is the address above from Changelly's Bittrex corporate account wallet?
3) Is the wallet in #2 the one that you claim was taken offline by Bittrex for maintenance just after you received my 20 BTC on 8/5/2017 at ~11:28?
4) Please explain why Changelly did not send the GBYTE from the Tx above to me at that time?
5) Lastly, here is a subsequent Tx that occurred ~2 hours later on 05.08.2017 at 13:35:07.
https://explorer.byteball.org/#DiHg/Sc4wtpLugwjOJMSj8NmHsEPLAw78K759PG102I=Can you explain this Tx?
To whom did Changelly send my GBYTE?
Who owns those addresses?
Thank you for helping me to understand how Changelly was neither negligent, nor nefarious here.
Your answers should clarify who was unjustly enriched at my expense, Changelly or Bittrex, or someone else.
It would be great to know if it was Bittrex, as they're local and I can drive over to their place and speak with them directly.