I also got crewed by Yobit (check out the following topic: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2726811.20) and tought that I could make some sort of a legal action against them. The problem is that Yobit does not exist anywhere but on the net. It is not registered in Russia as a business subject. The domain data are protected by some shady regulations in Russia (on the account of being protective over the private persons). The domain authority is in Russia and Ukraine. Their website is hosted in USA (CloudFlare Inc.) and is most probably paid for over the acc in Cayman Islands or similar sources. If you are a US citizen, the FBI might help, but for the rest of us ... that is about it. I surely doubt that the Russian FSB will bother with it.

So, I could not find any firm correlation between Yobit and its owner(s) and therefore I got noone to suit or persuit.

If you have anything better info, I am here and I'm willing to participate.

I sincerely hope he will pay for every cent he stolen hundred times over.
Maybe now Moscow police department will consider my complaint.

Edit:
I just came across a complete website dedicated to stopping this guy: http://stopkrymov.com/

Honestly, I can kiss my money goodbye, but you guys ... PULL OUT WHILE YOU CAN!!!

Tnx for sharing and I am trully sorry to read about so many negative experiances with YOBIT.
I have tryed doing something with the Moscow police dept but I don't have high hopes there. I'm not a Russian citizen. On top of that, there is no Yobit registered in Russia chamber of commerce. So, the big question is to whom to turn.



Until recent, I kept hoping everything will be resolved. When I joined YOBIT, there were some negative reviews. Most of the issues were solved in certain peroiod of time - purhaps long, but nevertheless they got solved. However, none of these reviews indicated a cold blooded theft like the one that happened to me. It has been 2 months since and I have not even an attempted explanation from their support. They are playing deaf and dumb.

Shameless theft - nothing more and nothing less.

Unfortunately, the lesson I paid for dearly.

So, to all you good people out there PULL OUT AND STAY AWAY FROM YOBIT!!!

Thank you for following up. I am posting a red alert wherever I can. The least I can do now is warn the others on the potential danger. As for reporting to authorities, I will follow up on that too. To tell you the truth, I don't expect any miracle coming out of that, which is why I kind of delayed with it.



Thank you for a comment, but it was not a remote access trojan nor could it be any other malware for that matter. It would be so simple if it was, but it wasn't. If you will go trough earlier posts, you will see why. Long story short:

• both the devices I use are/were clean 100%,
• both the devices were off at the time,
• a separate device (mobile phone) for a 2FA (TOTP codes),
• time schedule on/off on the mobile phone (it was off at 2AM)  + fingerprint unlocking,
• no activities from my IP addresses between 2018-01-04 22:06 and 2018-01-05 08:37
• no login notification
• no new IP aprouval notification

I went trough my security dozns of time and found nothing out of the ordenary. Not a single thing.
The only proof of what happened to my BTC wallet is laying within Yobit logs and apparently they don't need to, don't want to and don't care to look at them.
  

It has been over 30 days since I opened a ticket with Yobit's quasi suport. Since than there has been no attempt from their side to resolve the issue or even provide a sustainable explanation to what happened to my BTC wallet. I think that it is way pass the time where I could hope Yobit will do that, so it is pretty safe to claim that



In the previous posts I presented what happened. I shared all the info I had and all the updates as they appeared. Do go trough each post and judge for yourself if my claim is too harsh.

I even tried to contact them over their Telegram group (https://t.me/yobitnet) but soon after I typed few messages (which were in no way offensive or insulting) the group got closed for me. Maybe I got banned or maybe the group just ended up closed ... I cannot claim either way. All I know is when I try to access it, I get an error code 400 and the error message: CHANNEL_PRIVATE. Again, you will be the judge of that.

It has only left for me to issue a fair warning to all the community:



I hope this will help other memebers not to end up like me (and as far as I can see, at least a couple of other victims here).

A BIG tnx to all the members sharing their opinon here, giving me the directions and the objective insigts. I can only hope that this lesson I have paid for dearly will serve to prevent anyone else going the same path.

BTW, today I am removing a question mark in the title of this topic.

Thank you ssm4n for the support and the concern. Be sure, I will keep everyone posted on the developement.
Sadly, at this point, there are none. I opened a second ticket with their support (since they keep ignoring the first one).

Check the peers list in your config file at %appdata%\Bitcoin2X\Bitcoin2X.conf

Here is what I have in it:

Guys, bail out of Yobit. They stole my btc wallet: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2726811.0

If you are reffering to my comment, than YES I use 2FA. Check the above link to the post on this board.

I am trully sorry to hear of yet another houx sponsored by Yobit.
Unfortunatelly for all of us, I think the previous comment, posted by timerland came as a call for reality:


As depressive as this comment sounds, the man has a point. More or less, all of us ripped off by Yobit (and similar hoaxsers) have printscreens and we have some indications. We stronglly beleive that the truth and righteousness are on our side. But, do these printscreens represent a conclusive evidence? Well, no quite. They do indicate that something really odd happened and if Yobit's support would want to, they could get down to the bottom of it. Will they do that? Hard chance as getting to bottom of it would mean that they are responsible and that they would have to repare the injustice. It's far cheaper to keep the eyes and ears shut and wait for it to go away.

They will keep silent and we ain't never gonna see our money back. We paid the lesson very dearlly. The cherry on the top of this cake in my case is the fact that I actually borrowed 1.25 DASH-es and now I am expected to return them. I am way way over my credit limit, so I cannot even raise a credit with the bank to return these DASH-es. I lost my money and I lost a trust of the man I borrowed the DASH-es from. Well done.

It has only left for us to raise a red flag and warn all the others on what might find them. Since I cannot do much more, that is exactlly my intention. I will make sure to warn as much people as possible about Yobit and at least, that way make them loose what they stole from me.


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P.S.: It is embarrassing to ask, but if there are any good souls out there willing to help a collegue in trouble, I would very very much appreciate any donations. Sorry for being unpolite, but I am really cornered and I need all the help I can get. Thanks to all. Here are my wallets:
​DASH: XxGn waEP 33YJ fiQbo P4Tb AUSL 3dCq uiQrg
BTC: ​1Pj9 fe6E 6kFX vPpLy qwjb DvjH 3mni V8hpx

I am honestly sorry to find another issue of this kind. They ripped me of for (at the time) close to $1.700. Check out the link: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2726811.0

The only thing left for me (and probably you) is to raise a red flag and warn the others of the possible faith.

Guys, bail out from Yobit before you suffer my faith. They stole everything from my BTC wallet.
You can check out the details at this topic: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2726811.0

I checked the Google account activities and activities history. No unusual reports on account history. As for the activities history, the last one on January 4th was at 22:06 related to activities in this forum. On January 5th, the first one was at 8:37 related to reading the news. So, no one used my devices or credential to access Yobit at the time the theft occurred. I ran a sweep on all my devices to see if there is hijacker or a malware of any kind there ... and nothing. Clean. I purposely run 2FA on a separate device (smartphone). I have auto on/off set on my phone: it turns off at 23:00 and back on at 05:30. I have fingerprint unlocking on it. No way in a hell I was hacked and no way any of my devices were used to authenticate, login, create and use these codes at Yobit.

As far as I see it, there are two possibilities:
1). Yobit got hacked during the massive DDOS attacks
2). Yobit or someone at Yobit ripped me off

In either case, Yobit holds the full responsibiliy for restoring my wallet.
I contacted their suppor numerius times now and, other than the above shaddy reply, I got nothing.

Tnx for the tip. I'll make a post on Reddit and will post a link here, so do support me.

Thank you again and thanks to everyone else for sharing the comments!




Well, you do not have to be a Russian to raise the criminal charges. As I mentioned earlier, I've been exchanging phone calls with a friend from VTP Bank in Moscow. He already gave me some guidelines and a link to the Moscow Police with a form for reporting criminal activities. It actually makes no difference if you are Russian or not in doing so.
However, I am still kind of fooling myself that I will not have to go that far.  

Thank you for participating and thank you for giving your observation.

To tell you the truth I honestly want to believe that what happened to my wallet was not their intention. But ... No. No way I was hacked. For 13 years I worked as a senior network engineer with an ISP and I take pretty good care of the security of my devices. I'm not saying I'm a God given expert, but something as naive as a phishing attack is out of the question. Fake support and stuff ... c'mon. That even didn't work back in 90's. The suggestion of Yobit's support is not holding the water for a lot of reasons. Why? Well, here is why:

Let us assume for a moment that someone got my uname / pass combination by phishing. Fine. I'm a dumbass and got phished. They still have to go trough the 2FA. OK. Now, let us say further that they bypassed 2FA somehow. Apparently they hacked along the way my smartphone as well, got it turned on at just before 2 AM and used for 2FA, than they turned it back off. Wau! Some cojones. So they did that as well. Then we come to a point where the login attempt from a new IP has to be confirmed trough a unique link sent by an email. In the meantime not a single notification came in. Wait ... That is really a load of assumptions. Wouldn't you agree?

Now, back to me trying to convince myself that Yobit didn't wiped my wallet intentionally. At about that time (even before New Year's eve), Yobit was suffering a large number of massive DDOS attacks. If you will recall, at certain moments it was impossible to reach Yobit and than even if you got trough it was impossible to do anything further. You would wait and wait and nothing would happen. So, I'm thinking wouldn't it be just a bit more feasible scenario that Yobit actually got hacked just about that time? No 2FA, no confirmations, no notifications ... Well, that just might explain a lot. Still, to prove that, you have to have access to the network logs, transaction logs, activity logs, ... and check them. And again that still sits at Yobit's responsability ... not mine. This is actually the only reason why I'm still restraining myself from taking further action... for now.

Someone might say it's a rather small amount to make such a fuzz about it. Well, believe me, at this point it means a lot to me and I really, really, really need my amount back.

I will wait a bit more and see if they have any intention of giving me back my money or not.

Here is what happened in the meantime.
As I mentioned, I got some kind of a reply from Yobit's support:

Here is my reaction to it:

This morning I logged in to see if there is anything going on there and I discovered all the tickets I openned on Yobit gone. Support section lists "No records". Well, ain't that just conveniant. (they reappeared)
I will not settle until I have my wallet restored.

So far I count you to be the third one with the same problem.
Yesterday morning, I got a short message from Yobit's support (it appears they are alive after all) explaining absolutely nothing. I was far to aggrivated to type any comment here on that. I still am, so, in short, I still hold YOBIT responsable for missing BTC from my wallet.

Will keep you posted and will see this to the end.

You are quite correct. A rather unique situation and the one that could be hard to prove. At this point Yobit is the only one that holds the answer to who and how created these codes and where they went. A simple sweep trough the logs would do the magic. But, apparently we are way beyond the point of expecting them to explain and resolve that. I was kind of hopping they would but to be honest deep down I knew they won't and I took some steps.

For the last couple of days I've been exchanging phone calls with a friend of a friend that works at VTB bank in Moscow, at their information security center. The guy was quite friendly and is willing to help as much as he can. I explained my situation, forwarded what I had and got some replies back. He told me he knows of Yobit and that they already were for a couple of times under the investigation for the similar situations in past. He explained that there are certain legal steps I should consider taking in this matter, which will cost me nothing and will insure a positive resolution. He promised to make some inquiries and give me more details on the following Monday or Tuesday.

So, there you go. One thing is for sure, I will not sit back with my hands crossed and forget about my money. One way or the other, I will have my BTC's back with the interest rate.

Wish me luck and I'll try to keep you posted!

Have you had any reaction from Yobit? I have the same situation. Check my post: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2726811.0

I wish you (and me too) good luck!

I did that. Check the post: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2726811.0
Getting pretty desperate.


I most honestly hope you are write. I tend to beleive that they only have a bad support and that my issue will be solved, in which case I will writte an appology. Until that time, I have to call it a potential scam with a question mark.


Uf ...