Scam Alert!!

[renante]

SCAM ALERT!!!

There is a website called ripplecoin.us selling ripples/xrp with bitcoin using mtgox payment. Please beware, I paid 1BTC 9hrs ago but I have not receive my ripples yet.

It could be a scam!! Ripple advocates/defender please help, check the site. We dont need this kind of scam in ripple!

[Seth de l'Isle]

How many commits do you have on your bitcoin transaction?

How did you find ripplecoin.us in the first place?

2013/5/15 renante <bahma...@gmail.com>:

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[bahma...@gmail.com]

its advertised in bitmit. when you clicked pay in ripplecoin.us the payment button of mtgox appears.  Please

help! If its real scam it could damaged the reputation of ripple. I can provide an email conversation from the site owner if its important. 

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[Melanie Allen]

Is it possible the DHS seizing Mutum Sigillum's account is the cause of the delay?

[bahma...@gmail.com]

            "Is it possible the DHS seizing Mutum Sigillum's account is the cause of the delay?"

What do you mean delay? I pay with bitcoin using mtgox payment system, and its been withdrawn to my account

immediately. If he send the ripples it should be to my wallet in seconds. Its more than 30hrs now and I havent got the ripples and his reply. 

This is his last reply, he wants me to download and install something.

"Please download our payment diagnostics tool. Here you can contact our live support and contact me directly. The software has a build in calling so I will be alerted immidiately. We can resolve the problem through there. Here is the download link '' http://www.ripplecoin.us/support.rar ''  Our payment systems were  not working and the site was not fully functional. Please send the payment again. We did not receive the payment as I said in the last message, we only completed coding the payments a few hours ago."

 

[Seth de l'Isle]

I hope you left negative feedback for the seller on Bitmit. Searching
for ripplecoin.us I didn't find anything on bitmit; is the post still
there?

I would assume that all these currency trades make Bitmit look pretty
tempting for scam artists. Does anyone know much about this subject?

I downloaded and inspected that support.rar file. It contains an
executable; looking through the human readable strings that are
embedded. Therein I see references to ksks.exe. Sounds even more
ominous.

The domain ripplecoin.us is registered to a very suspicious sounding name:

Registrant Name: Curtis B Ware
Registrant Address1: 793 Cinder Fawn Street
Registrant Address2: Snaketown
Registrant City: Michigan
Registrant State/Province: MI
Registrant Postal Code: 49633-8641

If you have the energy, you might consider contacting register.com and
reporting what seems like a pretty clear case of abuse.

Thanks,
Seth

2013/5/16 <bahma...@gmail.com>:

> This is his last reply, he wants me to download and install something.
>

[Alex Kotov]

Another sad thing that now it is not the best time to buy XRP. Official Giveaway should begin on next week or so. Price will drop significantly.

[bahma...@gmail.com]

@seth, thank you for the attention on this matter! It seems you're the only one whose taking this matter  seriously.

I hope you left negative feedback for the seller on Bitmit.  Searching
for ripplecoin.us I didn't find anything on bitmit; is the post still
there?

I did not buy from bitmit, it was there where I found the advert of ripplecoin.us. When I click the buy option in their website, I was then redirected to mtgox payement button. I informed mtgox but they seems not serious of the scam.  I cant find the post in bitmit now perhaps the scammer have deleted it.

If you have the energy, you might consider contacting register.com and
reporting what seems like a pretty clear case of abuse.

I might do that, am just a regular internet user, dont have much knowledge how to do it. My priority at the moment is to inform ripple users about that site.  I have big hope in ripple but was scammed in my first attempt to avail XRP for experiment. My dream actually is to form a not-for-profit company that would serve poor fisherfolk and farmers in my country using ripple. These people have no access to bank or other credit companies and always abused by loan sharks operator. 

Thanks!  

On 17 May 2013 10:41, Alex Kotov <aleksand...@gmail.com> wrote:

Another sad thing that now it is not the best time to buy XRP. Official Giveaway should begin on next week or so. Price will drop significantly.

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[Ryan Fugger]

I would contact in...@ripple.com about this.  They would likely not be happy about a scammer using the Ripple name.
Ryan

[Seth de l'Isle]

Good idea. I just sent them the relevant info.

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