WARNING, LocalBitcoins a Potencial Scam!
Good morning Steemians !!
Today I want to warn you about a possible scam, and this is the localbitcoins.com page, recently I was scammed here (yes, by the page itself, not by other users). I, in the necessity of paying a debt, I decided to sell the majority of the STEEM that i had gained thanks to a contest and send those steem to a page called Poloniex, from there change my money to bitcoins to transfer it to this web site (localbitcoins) to be able to have the money in my currency to pay my debt.
The point is that they are supposed to generate a unique address for you, where you can transfer the funds to your account, I transferred the Bitcoins I had and waited for it to become effective, the hours passed and the bitcoins had not arrived, so I decided to check if my transfer had already been approved through another means. And I realized that the transfer was already done
I decided to speak with "customer service" of localbitcoins, and his response was basically that my transfer number was not the one in the image, which was another one, I decided to show him that my user actually said another number different from what they Mentioned.
He even asked me to be sure that I was in my account and not in another, So I sent another image where my user appeared
After that (1 hour later) in my user already appeared the number that should be, and this no longer changed. They had solved the problem (or removed the scam) that appeared in my user. And a different person attended me in "customer service". This one started to tell me that I had an add-on or malware that changed what I saw on the screen (FALSE, because I tried to check on 2 computers more when the number changed and on those other computers also changed). I told that to him and his answer basically was that it had to be an add-on or malware because the transfer number that appeared to me has a first transfer in 2015.
So I realized that they did not intend to help me, but to give me excuses not to give me back the money. So what I recommend to you the community of Steemit, do not use this page, and if you do, make sure that your transfer number does not change at any time, to avoid getting ripped off.
mmm de verdad que es extraño tu caso.
Si, realmente es extraño porque otros amigos han usado la pag sin problemas, yo lo que siento es que probablemente alguien haya hackeado su pagina y estafado a unos cuantos, pero no quieren hacerse responsables de ello.
Revisaste la sección de transacciones entrantes?
Si, pero esta vacio, A efectos de LocalBitcoins mi transferencia se hizo a alguien mas
Te das cuenta que la dirección de tu wallet en esta foto:
Es totalmente distinta a esta?:
No habrás tenido otra cuenta de localbitcoins abierta en la misma PC? Porque la única forma es que te hayan cambiado la dirección de tu billetera y por ejemplo llevo tiempo usando Local y jamás me han cambiado la dirección.
No no, solo yo tengo una cuenta de localbitcoins en mi casa, y es justamente eso, el numero de la direccion de la transferencia cambiaba cada vez que refrescaba la pag, ese es justo el problema. Y siempre variaba entre 3 o 4 direcciones, pero nunca el que atencion al cliente decia que era el mio.
Incluso, los numero que aparecen en todas esas imagenes, ninguno es el que atencion al cliente dice que es el mio
Esa es tu wallet address. Bueno explica la situación y habla de manera tranquila con ellos y revisa donde esta la vulnerabilidad.
Explícales que siempre que actualizas se cambia tu wallet address. Porque puede ser que tu cuenta este hackeada, más que la página (no he visto más denuncia que la tuya al respecto) o que tu PC este comprometida.
Llevas mucho tiempo con esa cuenta? El año pasado hubo un incidente con Cloudfare (creo que así se llama) donde se comprometieron varias cuentas de local y local aviso rapidamente que cambiaran sus claves y pusieran más capas de seguridad.
La cuenta la abri ayer mismo. y el problema de que cada vez que cuando actualizaba se cambiaba el numero se resolvio justo despues de darles pruebas a ellos de que se cambiaba mi numero. Es decir, tenia el problema de que se cambiaba el numero, les di pruebas de ello a ellos, y luego dejaron de responderme, unos 20 min despues ese error dejo de ocurrir y empezo a mostrarle el numero que deberia ser, y luego de 10 horas mas volvieron a escribirme (esta vez otro operador) a que revisara nuevamente el numero.
Thank you for the warning.
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