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…
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#32The 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…
I'm glad you're not ripping off your customers, though.
It's just a shame so much of your site is copied from mine.
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#33kevin 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.
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#34ironically, both websites serve predominantly scammers who need SMS to verify with various websites to commit fraud.
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#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Would love to hear a timeline as well, AFAIK in these kind of situations they are normally included. It's not as bad if someone doesn't reply in 24h as if someone doesn't reply in 1 month.
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#36ironically, both websites serve predominantly scammers who need SMS to verify with various websites to commit fraud.
Sites like https://smspva.com offer you real physical numbers associated with real physical sim cards for a couple of cents.
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#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
Would love to hear a timeline as well, AFAIK in these kind of situations they are normally included. It's not as bad if someone doesn't reply in 24h as if someone doesn't reply in 1 month.
It was only about 3 hours, I just wrote up the post as soon as I was done with other work today.
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#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
It was only about 3 hours, I just wrote up the post as soon as I was done with other work today.
"asking for the copied text to be removed, although I haven't received a reply and no longer expect to" => so you mean you lost all hope for an answer to your email within 3 hours? (;
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#39ironically, both websites serve predominantly scammers who need SMS to verify with various websites to commit fraud.
I can see how scammers would abuse such a service but u should not be so quick to assume that that is his major customer base. There have been numerous occasions where I was required to do SMS verification for legit accounts, and I didn't want to expose my phone number.
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#40His 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.
We don't have any connection to the project, but we've reached out asking him to change / delete the copied text. Hopefully this gets cleared up shortly.