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Someone cloned my website and is using it to scam people

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Re: Someone cloned my website and is using it to scam people

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Post by pavel_lishin »

agf wrote: post #15
pavel_lishin wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Let's not doxx people here. How certain are you that it's the same person? How certain are you that the scammer isn't just picking a random scapegoat, and registering a domain in their name?

I agree about not doxxing, but the article points out that there is a link from this person's personal website to the "scam" site. So it's not just someone who's name was randomly used to register the domain.

Sure, unless their accounts were compromised, etc.

I know that the risk is low, and it likely is the person in the LinkedIn account, but regardless - that doesn't belong her on HN. We're not vigilantes; let the article's author and the legal system deal with it for now.

Re: Someone cloned my website and is using it to scam people

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Post by pavel_lishin »

dublinben wrote: post #18
isubkhankulov wrote: post #5

ironically, both websites serve predominantly scammers who need SMS to verify with various websites to commit fraud.

Scammers don't need to use services like this to commit fraud. They'll just buy their own burner phones.

Unless they're in another country, or need to automate the process, or need multiple numbers, etc.

Re: Someone cloned my website and is using it to scam people

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Post by mazlix »

nydrewreynolds wrote: post #16

His site says "Anonymously send and receive SMS messages with bitcoin. Built during Hacker Paradise South America 2017" Possibly just a hackathon project that was never meant to have full functionality

I'm friends with a founder of Hacker Paradise. I sent him a link to this post so hopefully he can look into it asap.

Re: Someone cloned my website and is using it to scam people

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Post by anonbtcms »

kevin at anonymousbtcsms.com:

This is not a scam website. I am using Coinbase to process transactions and their platform has had a host of technical difficulties for non-usa based customers. I have been manually updating payments for the last several weeks, such that there maybe a few hours delay between when transactions have been confirmed and when they are tracked on the website.

I noticed your payments several hours ago and I had already credited your account.

While my FAQ does say no refunds, I have always provided refunds when asked. You did not contact me about the payments not being correctly stored.

-Kevin

Re: Someone cloned my website and is using it to scam people

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Post by jstanley »

anonbtcms wrote: post #25

kevin at anonymousbtcsms.com: This is not a scam website. I am using Coinbase to process transactions and their platform has had a host of technical difficulties for non-usa based customers. I have been manually updating payments for the last several weeks, such that there maybe a few hours delay between when transactions have been confirmed and when they are tracked on the website. I noticed your payments several ho…

Hi Kevin,

Thanks for the update, I'm glad to hear your site is legit!

I can confirm the payment is now credited in my account, although it wasn't at the time I wrote the post.

Can you please remove the text you copied from my site?

EDIT: I've added an update at the top of the article.

Re: Someone cloned my website and is using it to scam people

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Post by anonbtcms »

s73ver wrote: post #3

The author is far more charitable in his characterization of the scammer than I would be. No one "accidentally" copies someone's website, and no one "accidentally" scams someone. And a person who does that is not a good person.

anonymousbtcsms here.

This is not a scam website. As I stated in my previous comment, we are having issues with our integrations with Coinbase. Because I have been out of the USA, they refuse to service my support tickets.

I am in the process of moving over to Bitpay, but I have not had the bandwidth recently to tackle that project so I have manually been entering in payments as I see them. As a result, the payments wont be registered for multiple hours.

Any customers that have not been happy with the service have been refunded upon request. I wish OP had contacted me directly about the payments not registering.

Re: Someone cloned my website and is using it to scam people

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Post by wolco »

slivanes wrote: post #6

Raising a DMCA notice to their hosting provider should be one of your first actions.

Agreed. If text and look & feel are the same.

I know the poster mentioned that text was rearranged but based on the google description snippet text both appear different enough.

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