Quote from: LoyceV on Today at 05:19:03 AM

That doesn't fit the message sent to HHampuz after a long time of inactivity:

I don't question the integrity of that message given that it was reported by Hampuz, but I do question the intention of whoever sent him that message, what did they gain? they said they would fix things in a few hours / the next day, what does that earn them if we were to assume they are nothing but scammers? if that message holds any truth in it, it's could be the other way around, something bad happened to the person with access, and whoever wrote that message has no access to anything but an email of some sort.

Quote from: JollyGood on Today at 12:41:01 PM

There is definitely something strange about Whirlwind. The way they arrived in the forum with an innovative mixing idea and then abandoned it, something seems strange especially with the manner they left behind the $40,000 deposit.

As mentioned in my previous post, going with the assumption that this has been a scam attempt from the get-go -- leaving the 40k in escrow increases users' trust, asking to get the 40k back while pretending to be sitting on a lot of BTC was going to make them a little less trustworthy, but what doesn't make sense is their complete absence.

Let's think as a scammer, your main goal is to scam the most money, so now regular users of the forum are aware of your scam and they will no longer use your service, but everyone else who isn't active here and isn't lucky enough to read all the updates doesn't know, so in order to scam even more people you would want to

1-Fix the clearnet
2-Make some withdrawals from the multisig (to addresses you own) to make things seem normal
3-Change the color of the main banner on your website

Basically, anything that would make anyone attempting to use your service more comfortable so you can scam more and more money, if you don't do that, then it's one of four.

1- Stupid (obviously not the case here we know WW person here was pretty smart)
2- You feel bad and don't want to scam more people (would bet my first born that no scammer would do that) p.s you would just shut down the whole service if this was the case.
3-You are not a scammer and something bad actually happened to you.
4-You are indeed a scammer BUT something bad actually happened to you.

Anyway, it's fun to hear all the different thoughts on this, we all are just speculating (for fun and curiosity I suppose), we may know the truth at one point, or maybe not.