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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 benbot »

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…

If you're having to manually update transactions, that might be worth mentioning on your site.

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

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Post by ryanlol »

isubkhankulov wrote: post #46
ryanlol wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Considering they mostly offer known VOIP numbers from twilio and likes and smsprivacy.org charges an UTTERLY INSANE $50 per day for physical numbers https://smsprivacy.org/buy-number/physical/GB I can't imagine them being too popular. Sites like https://smspva.com offer you real physical numbers associated with real physical sim cards for a couple of cents.

Russian and Ukraninan numbers from smspva.com would not be used for fraud. in fact, that would be a huge red flag.

Depends on the type of fraud. SMSPVA is mostly used to create email, social media accounts which are then used for various schemes.

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

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Post by brazzledazzle »

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…

You don't even need a working app or an original idea anymore to create an MVP. Just (literally) copy a competitor and do everything manually on the backend. When you make enough money you can pay someone to build it.

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

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Post by brazzledazzle »

jstanley wrote: post #38
franciscop wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"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? (;

Well after my payment didn't show up, I put 2 and 2 together and concluded (clearly incorrectly) that the site didn't actually work. :)

Well to be fair, it doesn't actually work. He did say he does it manually.

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

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Post by BoiledCabbage »

jstanley wrote: post #26
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.

To be clear, you had a problem and didn't get a response from customer service within 3hrs so concluded the entire website was a scam?

To me that sounds even more reckless than anything that site did.

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