I wish this was true, however during his first election campaign he praised many people such as Wikileak's Julian Assange but never pardoned them. He also never pardoned Edward Snowden although he revealed the secret operations of what they refer to as the "deep state", and which Trump's team claim they despise.

Although there are no confirmations, their request for KYC data for the payment processor makes them a bad choice, especially since we are talking about transactions of less than $1000, which are usually not subject to auditing, especially if they are random and infrequent, which is what happens with the payment processor.
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I couldn't agree more. Their business model relies on the ignorance of people that don't know that third parties aren't required to accept p2p money.

And so, just after we launched our campaign against them, our transaction suddenly became eligible for a refund! 41 days after the initial transaction was made.

Those people understand only one thing, public humiliation. We pushed a case against them to Canada's financial monitor and will follow up on it.

I can confirm that cryptomus.com is shady at best and that they think that having a company registration is enough to make them a legitimate business. In reality cryptomus.com is likely a frontend to a business from Russia and the overzealous AML "verifications" are likely in hope that this would help them stay safe from authorities. On top of that they also demonstrate total ignorance of how Bitcoin works.

We discovered cryptomus.com because we had a trade with a Russian exchange, the exchange could not complete the trade and eventually told us that the Bitcoin transaction we made was in fact made to a Bitcoin address in the custody of cryptomus.com  and so that cryptomus.com blocked access to the funds with the claim that the transaction is "ransom". That is, they are basically accusing us of having coerced a victim into making that transaction.

We asked them to provide details to back up that nonsense, ..nothing. We told them to send back the funds to one of the input addresses, which eliminates the argument that we have ransomed someone, .. nothing.

Then they made further ridiculous demands such: "screenshot of the withdrawal of the platform from which you have sent the funds to us", "through which platform did the funds come to you?", "through which contact person did you communicate with the sender of funds?".

Those morons apparently completely ignore the fact that you can make a transaction without a third party and/or a crappy centralized platform. On top of that, all those "evidences" could easily be forged. So we told them that there is nothing like that, instead we provided them cryptographic evidences that we made this transaction by signing messages with the private keys of the input addresses, an actual real proof. All of that in vain.

We've made a report to Canada's financial monitor, but this is going to take time. The person we were supposed to send money has faced considerable damages and it was decided that we would proceed to the KYC nonsense to get the funds back. Before registering we read their "AML policy" where it is written that they do not do business with entities of several countries including the Russian Federation and Ukraine, yet they definitely do since they even force them to register an account and provide their documents, in fact their business seem to mostly rely on Russian citizens and Russian exchanges, nothing surprising since this is very likely a Russian business. Well, the KYC "verification" passed anyway, and still no refund.

The cryptomus.com clowns also came up with other claims like: "Our AML partner requests this information". When we asked them to tell who their "partner" is, they could only come up with a "enforcement@cryptomus.com". In fact, they won't tell this information because they are in reality likely using Bitcoin forensic scam services which make them believe they can detect whether a Bitcoin transaction is a fraud or not. The Bitcoin forensic scammers are mostly Russian have been very good at selling their services to Russian exchanges. Yet this serve as another evidence that cryptomus.com is just a masked Russian business. Other evidences of that include the grammar mistakes that are typical to Russian speakers and that are present all over cryptomus.com' website.

They also seem to buy reviews on sites like TrustPilot. On other websites the reviews are way more mixed, in fact they seem to have removed their ads on websites such as bestchange, where reviews are quite bad.

UPD: комиссия 1%.

Добрый день,

Мы заинтересованы в покупке Bitcoin и BTCE-USD за наличные USD в Киеве. Наша комиссия: 1%.
1010 BTCE-USD -> 1000 USD

Для прямого обмена Bitcoin: берем за основу курс btc-e.com и отнимаем от него 1%.

В первую очередь интересует обмен с постоянными клиентами на регулярной основе.

Контакты:
ЛС на форуме
Jabber/XMPP: cryptomates@swissjabber.ch (OTR: 28520A83 F0D46B59 2E238FAF 6485AE1D A31C4CF7)

I've got almost immediately contacted by this user after the first scam, https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=205915

The message uses the same syntax and his last posts before today are from last year so I suspect that it's the same person.

It was a small deal, experimental. I still though selected one that had lot of posts and some reputation.

I don't have a reputation myself here so I had to make small deals to gain some trust.

Scammers Profile Link: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=111084
What happened: Sent Bitcoin for Paypal, never received any funds and the user has blocked private messages.
Reference Link: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=pm#msg5172203 (private message)
Amount Scammed: 0.1153 BTC
Transaction ID: ec770be66e63e3c30a9ec48441a889439b9cb94ed022255cf15afeca175c5056
Payment Method: Paypal
Additional Notes: This user has reputation points and a relatively large number of posts thus prolly a compromised account.

The same scammer was reported by another user, https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1607791.0

I confirm this. Same scenario here.

What happened: Sent Bitcoin for Paypal, never received any funds and the user has blocked private messages.
Scammers Profile Link: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=111084
Reference Link: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=pm#msg5172203 (private message)
Amount Scammed: 0.1153 BTC
Payment Method: Paypal
Additional Notes: This user has reputation points and a relatively large number of posts thus prolly a compromised account.

Hi,

We can exchange Paypal for 8% (if the funds are in euro, this can be reduced to 5%) but it will take a few days since we're always waiting for the funds to be withdrawn from Paypal.

Regarding this stupid comment, we've just performed a trade with an African user and everything went through fine and he had most likely found the announce on this site.

Therefore segregating African when you use ethical practices is a no way to go.

How is your betting site related to my topic?

The thing is that now I've got two users spoiling my topic with incoherent rambling while other users posting announces without providing any method of escrow don't get any of such commentaries.

Oh, now I have multiple accounts? Go have this proven, however I think that we've demonstrated enough that your posts are absurd.

Nonsense, I don't see any difference with localbitcoins, neither how that makes it safer if you imagine such a scenario.

Yes, I'd like to be able to add a negative feedback to his profile since he has soiled my topic and did not apologize. Furthermore, the posted disinformation could mislead a lot of people.

Sorry, reading too fast indeed. I'm ok to bet with that guy too.

I accept the bet, however I am not going to use paypal. Also it is completely illogical as anyone who has compromised a paypal account can make a transfer as "gift".

Yes it can, it will just take more time. Paypal sucks.

You still don't get it? Localbitcoins is the escrow system.

You are misleading people, whether or not you use the "gift" option, paypal can charge you back even a month after the payment was made.


I have used paypal to send and receive money. The victim of a fraudulent payment can charge back the money the hijacker paid with their account even after a very long period of time therefore you're much more the one who has not used paypal much.


Thanks for telling me what paypal is, I am too dumb.


So you are proving that you did not even narrowly read my post, and that you do not even know how localbitcoins.com works. Also I don't see what troubles I would go through making the transfer?


Certainly. I'm a noob and a scammer from Africa because I might have used "we" as we're a team of friends.


You are again proving that you have not read my post and that you do not know how localbitcoins.com works. Secondly, we have a maximum of $1250 per transaction, we have not made it, this is set by the National Bank of Ukraine.


You have proved enough that you know nothing. Therefore I will politely ask you to stop defaming us and eventually stay away from this topic.

And stop posting your incoherent and misleading information.

Also, regarding your bashing on Africa. We have dealt with people from different African countries without any problem and that's most likely because we used irreversible payment systems which prevent us from having to deal with scammers.