AlphaBay.. slowest exit scam of all time.. but still a scam..

So far we've reported AlphaBay as scamming us 11+ times..

Normally I'm too lazy to put something like this together but look..

Other vendors claiming that they are doing the same thing to them -

  1. https://www.reddit.com/r/AlphaBay/comments/3v9585/alphabay_unfreeze_my_damn_account/

  2. https://www.reddit.com/r/AlphaBay/comments/3v8y5e/alphabay_admins/

  3. https://www.reddit.com/r/AlphaBay/comments/3v47qv/alphabay_is_scamming_funds_from_vendor_wallet/

  4. Literally tons of reports of this on their "Helpdesk" section of their forum.

Now we have scamming reports from buyers too! All over their subreddit people missing deposits and balances.. Their workers say it's always phishing or hacking but what are the odds that 10x more people get phished going to AB than all the other markets combined??

No help from anybody there ever.. Scamwatch workers reply like 10 year old gamers with nothing helpful ever.. Literally no response from alpha02 or Admin or whoever their leader is now.

Only real communication we've ever had with their people was with /u/Trappy_Pandora where he begged us to do escrow after the first big shipping delay, even going so far as to offer 0% commission. Then as soon as we get a decent escrow balance our account gets banned a second time, this time for NO REASON and with NO EXPLANATION but this time Trappy pretends he can't do anything despite being able to unlock our account the first time within 30 seconds of agreeing to do so and being able to offer custom commission rates..

I GET THAT WE ARE NOT THAT HIGHLY REGARDED BY SOME OF YOU BUT THIS IS INSANE!


Comments


[28 Points] DHLMarket:

I just wish we could all meet and trust one another and live in a small city and never get arrested for anything and we could have different streets named after vendors or even after drug categories and we'd be high 25/8.

And then the vendors would exit scam.


[15 Points] Hong_Kong_Post:

I'm gonna be Mr Different here, but I've never understood all this ABM bashing. I've never had a delayed deposit or withdrawal - and I withdraw daily. I've never been scammed. No-one's ever stolen from me. I've got one open dispute that's been open for longer than it should be, but for the $25 in question, I just haven't been bothered fighting it yet - so that's really my fault.

The interface is good, not awesome, but does the job just fine for me. I've highlighted a couple suggestions for improvement to them - they've implemented them. You know the delayed message thing? I asked for that and they said sure, good idea - and they did it. So they listen, they're responsive - and I'm not a high volume vendor at all.

The only complaint I have is the annoying captcha image when logging in. But I've worked out what the F5 button is for, so now all is right with the world.


[0 Points] aboutthednm:

This is the blaring incompetency of alphabay that I keep referring to people asking about alphabay on this sub.

Yeah, it's a market, yeah it sometimes works, yeah it's got some real vendors on it, no you're not getting any help, good luck when you do have a problem, yes problems are rampant, no nobody is helping or talking about fixing things and making it right.

Avoid if at all possible. If I like my vendors I will seek you out on other markets that aren't as plagued by problems, or contact you for a direct deal.


[2 Points] MitalikaSucks:

Are you a vendor on Alphabay ? Vendors are those who make a market successful or not, and if vendors still stay there, they feel safe to keep/move there big amounts of BTC


[2 Points] SpiffyWhiff:

My beef is their dispute resolution process, which seems to entail checking who has more deals on the site, and siding with them.

My vendor(Discover) admitting to sending different product than I ordered(his ad was for blister packs, I received a bag of generic pills). He said, "trust me they are real pills", but that's not the point. I bought blisters because you can't trust vendors with all the pressed pills going around these days. I've since found out this vendor has a long history of lying about the contents of his pills(he sold fake hydrocodones capsules for a long time).

AB gave him the full escrow anyway, even though the vendor admitted it. The vendor is still lying about his product on the product page, they couldn't give a shit about it, they even wiped my negative feedback.

Why even have escrow if the market is always going to side with the vendor?


[3 Points] None:

If it's happening so often and so consistently, and the common element is you...well, do I really need to finish?


[2 Points] R_O_F_L:

I don't think it's an exit scam but rather a selective scam- and whenever a thread on here gets too big they relent and give the vender their money back. It happened two days in a row a few weeks ago. As soon as people start to think they are exiting they give the money back.

I bet there are countless vendors who have been robbed by them who didn't post on here.


[1 Points] inboundmarketingman:

This is why if you are a vendor, memorize the god damn links it's not that hard


[1 Points] Vendor_BBMC:

On both Silk roads, my balance was never anything like my expected balance after selling all my stock. I thought it was just my imagination playing tricks on me.

On Agora, my imagination never played that trick on me.. I always seemed to have earned what I was expecting. Funny that...

Do you alphabay vendors get that feeling that your wallet is a bit less-full than you expected? Try writing down every sale and every withdrawal on a piece of paper for a few days.

Martketplaces probably assume that vendors don't have accountants.


[1 Points] sillysally11:

It's clear something is up, just look at their forums. Huge list of people claiming missing coins.


[1 Points] TheGreatSkeletor:

I don't see the [FUD] attached to this post ...


[1 Points] Ghostfeind:

Okay, I'm going to start off by saying I don't have a horse in this race. I haven't used AB yet and they may well be selectively scamming, but I'm going to go with the Occam's razor response for this one.

Their workers say it's always phishing or hacking but what are the odds that 10x more people get phished going to AB than all the other markets combined??

It easily could be that Alphabay really does have a user-base as large as they claim.

This post claims that Alphabay has 1/3 of the users it reports to have.

Whether or not they do indeed have the base they report it would make sense for phishers to target Alphabay because they have the greatest chance of catching a phish and getting a payoff.

Why waste your time trying to phish accounts from a market with 1/10th the (reported)user-base?


On the flip side, they are Carders, there are a lot of issues and people should take caution when conducting business there.


[1 Points] None:

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[1 Points] CosmicBites:

If you are stupid enough to use Alphabay just send me all your bitcoin. I will spend the coin better than AlphaBay Admins.


[1 Points] None:

Fuck off slablabs. Your exit scam was foiled by Colorado of all fucking people


[1 Points] XinruLiu:

Agree, having been engaged from SR1 onwards this site is sending a concerning amount of neg signals, such a shame some of the best vendors seem tied to it. Perhaps its a way to get LE off their most wanted list as theyre just about to exit, always.


[1 Points] DarkC0de101:

TeamDarkc0de™ #OpAlpha: Boycotting Alphabay

Join #OpAlpha and revolt against the new leaders of the market.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AlphaBay/comments/3zt5zy/update_teamdarkc0de_top_12_alphabay_carding/

They are hiding under a wave of "phishing" to steal money from the poorest of the poor...

Boycott AB, Until they change the situation and stop robbing us.


[-1 Points] alphabaysupport:

The admins never stole money from anyone, ever. There is no issue with the deposit / withdrawal system either. There is just people who get hacked / phished by whatever means it might be. Even the main URL on Wikipedia got changed to a phishing link once, but someone undoed it.


[0 Points] Vendor_BBMC:

The P calling the K B