Dooh!, OK, time for me to speak up now you guys have made it pretty obvious it's a complete scam, they got me hook line and sinker.
I was working on something else at the time and, distracted, I didn't do enough due-dilligence. No excuse really.
I missed the bit where they claimed their chips were made in-house.
I knew nobody in the UK fabs 20nm - in the UK. That would have rung big alarm bells with me.
If you want a bitcoin address to chase, I've put the one I sent coins to below. For what it's worth.
Hopefully a minimum of people will have been got by this thanks to your detective work.
It's the first time I've been scammed over the internet and I will try to make sure it's my last.
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Order #CTS-75 made on January 24, 2014. Order status: processing.
Order Updates
Friday 24th of January 2014, 11:59am
Dear David,
Thank you for your payment for order #CTS-75.
Your pre-order has been confirmed in our system and will ship the week beginning 7th April 2014.
We will update you via email with all progress to the products and thank you very much for placing your pre-order with us.
Kind regards,
The CTS Miner Sales Team
Friday 24th of January 2014, 11:24am
Dear David,
Thank you for your order.
Please make payment of 9.52889160 BTC to Bitcoin wallet: 12215C29Z1cJYKyGfni9kMTfV4WG7M2b7T as soon as possible to avoid your order being cancelled.
Your space will be held in the queue for 2 hours after your order has been placed and if bitcoin payment is not received within 2 hours, your order will be regrettably cancelled, you will lose your place in the queue and will need to re-place your order.
If for any reason you cannot make payment within 2 hours, please contact sales@ctsminer.com and we will be happy to discuss your order with you.
Kind regards,
The CTS Miner Sales Team
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Cart Subtotal:
฿7,500.00
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Order Total:
฿7,500.00
To avoid having to copy and paste a thousand TxId's, let me make this all very easy for all of you.
https://blockchain.info/address/1BofXEuBSAbjwjhZuvxkoLJ9D8btpJ8knuIt will take you 3 clicks to get from the original address to here, then about 5 more clicks to see that they are funneling the bitcoin that they take in, directly back out to buy actual mining hardware from other suppliers. It only took me an hour of clicking on blockchain and goggling the addresses to see that they even bought Antminers from Sushi's group buy with the funds they have scammed people out of.
Congrats to anyone who sent them bitcoin, you have helped a scam artist get his first mining farm on your dollar.
They used a very piss poor mixing service too. took all of 5 minutes to find out that
https://blockchain.info/address/14qGrXbPca2c4ejcKaWzvjhTK9MeHTcvtP is the address of the "partner" in this scam. seems to be holding exactly half of what has been scammed so far.
Not bad guys $115,000 in only a few months between all your scams. Crap, i need to quit my day job. If only i didnt have morals, i might hire you to teach me how its done.
To put an end to all this debate and 20 something pages of banter.
THIS IS A SCAM: Reason belowNo legitimate asic mining manufacturer is going to take the bitcoin they make from selling their own hardware, and turn around and use it to buy mining hardware from other manufacturers and even group buys. Rest assured, that ANYONE who posts after this post claiming there is any legitimacy behind this company IS IN ON THE SCAM.There is no more need for a single person to bump this thread with another post or reply because all you are doing is keeping it at the top of the topics for more people to get ripped off. THE MODS REALLY NEED TO LOCK THIS THREAD BEFORE IT GETS MORE PEOPLE SCAMMED