I think Bitcoin Fog just scammed me very badly. What can I do?

Last night I deposited just over $300 into my Bitcoin Fog account, and this morning when I went to transfer the funds into my market wallet I found that my username/password no longer work.

I've created a second account and sent a message to support, but I'm pretty sure I've just been badly scammed by Bitcoin Fog.

This is pretty devastating. I don't mind going without drugs, but that money was basically the only spending money I had available to waste for the year.

Is there anything I can do? How long does Bitcoin Fog support take to reply?


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[16 Points] None:

For fuck's sake, people are being pretty hard on OP. I realize that a lot of morons are out there who get phished and then cry "scammer" but the number of times this has come up on BitCoinFog has to stand out. If you say, "did you get phished," and OP says, "what's that," or, "what do you mean, I Googled the URL like I always do," then maybe you have a point. But if OP says, "No. I used the same bookmark I always do, and the same login that has always worked," then what more do you want?

To the people saying, "Vendors never get scammed," no shit. If you are BitCoinFog and you are going to selective scam, who do you scam? Big time vendors who are moving tens of thousands of dollars? No. You scam new accounts who just put in a few hundred, specifically because people like you will discount the story. You scam a vendor and they make a big stink and people believe them.

To people who are saying, "Why would they scam over $300?" Well, let's see. They take on average 1.5% of the transaction. So taking $300 represents the equivalent of $20,000 in transactions. Makes sense to me.


[11 Points] None:

Ever think you got phished maybe?


[9 Points] None:

Before anything, are you sure you used the correct .onion address and not the clearnet one?

Hey OP, I created (under a throwaway account) this topic months ago. The exact same thing happened to many. You put in money, then your account password does not work, you then create a new account, message support, support tells you to make sure you entered your password correctly, you tell them you did, then they say they cannot give you info on another users account, or they just ignore you all together. There used to be tons of postings about this on the old SR2 forums. Bitcoin Fog are known selective scammers. I'm not sure if they do it on purpose or if they just get hacked into from time to time, but if you look in the Evolution and Agora forums you will see what I'm talking about. I think some people were actually complaining about it in Bitcoin Fog's actual forum.

Not totally sure what your options are. I think as one gentleman suggested, you should contact their CS, see if you can work something out with them. However, I have heard that there CS is terrible, but I never dealt with them. The only other thing I can think of is to play the waiting game and hope they are just taking a long time. I have heard of people using the Fog and then having their funds show up over a week later. Personally I only dealt with the Fog once, but in the SR2 days, and had no problem, but after that I started hearing wide spread rumors about them scamming.

Last thing I can say, and it's of little worth now if you already lost your money, but in the future try using Helix or Helix Light, especially Helix Light. I never had problems with them. Also, BitBlender has been working great recenly. I know they were hacked a little while back, but apparently everyone got their money back and the security issues have been resolved.

Sorry this happened to you. I hope you get your money back.


[3 Points] sullyrb:

tumbling= pointless, now you know.


[3 Points] impost_r:

Every time one of these posts pops up its a new account. Why would fog scam this guy for 300usd?


[2 Points] free_wifi_:

Gimme da current email and passwordz


[1 Points] shamelessonion:

Sorry but who would put all his spending money in darkweb BC accounts.... -.-


[0 Points] -pixel-:

Ill bet a million bucks your a windows user...

Also its not very good to use your last dime on drugs, porn, gambling, sketchy investments, etc


[1 Points] None:

Bitcoin scammed me too & no my account was not new & I was not phished, I've been saying this for a while! I now use BTC Blender


[1 Points] Sloppy__Jalopy:

that money was basically the only spending money I had available to waste for the year.

Shootin' your whole load a little premature eh? Look at it this way, you're in the same position you'd be in months from now if you'd bought the drugs; no drugs, no money. At least you saved your body from the ravages of whatever drug you planned on purchasing.

Also, I think somebody else scammed you. Bitcoin fog has much more lucrative opportunities to scam people; your $300 is likely not shit to them. Unless it is, I don't know their scamming procedure.


[1 Points] None:

my bitcoins were stolen on the anonymous internet what can i do?

be more careful next time.


[1 Points] Hank_Vendor:

Stop laundering clean money you donuts. Just create a new wallet address every time you deposit.

You are all seriously mixed up. It's possible to know a DNMs wallet addresses by running a small amount through it (deposit it, then cash it out, then deposit it, then cash it out, over and over again) and recording the addresses your cash outs come from. That is the reason for tumblers. To give vendors bitcoin to cash out which hasn't come straogbt frkm ine of those wallets. Its the same as how you may takes all your grubby tens and twenties to a casino. Sit there feeding them one by one into the slog machine then having one spin and cashing out. Asking for a cheque or a sealed packet. This is money laundering.

Taking a cheque of a sealed packet of notes and swapping them for a pile of grubby old tens and twenties is... god I don't even know what that's is called. It's fuckin stupid and pointless. I know that.

You are studying this next level opsec, but you've all missed the only class that mattered. You go to jail for having drugs. More drugs = more jail generally. 0 drugs = 0 jail.


[1 Points] unalert:

I've never used BitFog because I was always worried about this kind of thing. It's super fucked up that people can do this shit and get away with it.


[-2 Points] iLoveDNM:

Your drug budget for the entire year was $300? That's insane! You need a better job if that's all the extra money you can come up with over the entire year.


[-3 Points] None:

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[-7 Points] hdheuud:

Suck it up, buttercup. & if you think $300 is getting scammed "very badly" you must be like twelve years old


[-10 Points] sheeproadreloaded2:

Bitcoinfog's support are very good.

I bet this was the first time you used the account after registering, isn't it?

Number lock on your keyboard.

Have you noticed that bitcoinfog doesn't scam vendors using it to launder large amounts of drug bitcoins to make them clean enough for an exchange?

It seems to scam drug BUYERS trying to make their clean bitcoin look like it was earned illegally, paying 3% on behalf of the darknet marketplace it immediately hands the bitcoin to. 6 hours later.

Always the first time after registering.

I think you probably had number lock in a different state between registering and logging in again. And I'm pretty sure you were trying to do the opposite of "money laundering"

It draws less attention to pay your clean 1.5 BTC from one wallet to another.

There is at least one post per day from some kid looking to buy weed, rubbing shoulders with mafioso in the bitcoin cayman islands, looking lost and thinking his offsore holding corporation has moved out of its skyscraper to trick him out of his $300.