How c-cex can easily scam you.In spring 2014 I decided to join the crypto hype wave. I deposited 0.11 BTC to c-cex.com and started trading various alt-coins. Trading didn't go well, most of the coins I bought depreciated in value, so I ended up holding them in hope that they rise again and I can sell them.
At that time I was moving to another town, new job, etc., and I didn't pay attention to warnings about delisting coins (though I think I saw it, I admit it).
So, after a break, one day in summer 2014 I log in to my account and see almost all of my coins gone (some of them were still displayed in balance, but withdrawals disabled, others - not displayed at all, I could find info about them only in history).
I googled it, and it appeared that similar thing happened to many other folks. I asked the support in chat about it and their response was something like:
"Yes, we have your coins, but we won't bring a wallet up just for 1 person to withdraw his $1 of coins. You can withdraw them when we list them again.".
I found it fair enough, as my biggest holding at that time was worth about $15.
So I subscribed to the newsletter and just waited for the coins to be listed again.
And I waited until summer 2017, but none of the coins was listed again.
At that time the coins taken by the exchange were worth about $500, so I made a shy attempt to negotiate their retrieval. I wrote to the support, but their response was as standard "Wait till the coin is listed".
In December 2017 my coins value went over 3000 USD, so I thought - "maybe I could just facilitate listing the coin there?".
Turns out that even though they have "voting" for new coins, it is clear that only scam coins with no community get any decent number of votes (see PFTC as an example), and the only way to list a coin there is to pay.
Last listed coin (IoP), for example, has 15.6 BTC in paid votes! That's $200,000!
Now as my coins worth a lot more, I decided to write to support to negotiate bringing up a wallet, expecting they would agree to take a reasonable fee. Here is how it went.
https://preview.ibb.co/es2E4G/c_cex_scam.pngThat's all, folks!
Only you decide whether to trust them your money or not.