BCH-Mixer.com Scam Mixer Service

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BCH Mixer Website

BCH CoinMixer was a bitcoin cash mixing service that promises to enhance privacy by breaking the links between bitcoin cash transactions on the blockchain. This process involves sending coins from one address to another, randomizing transaction amounts, and adding time delays to transactions. The service claimed to protect users' privacy and prevent transaction tracing. It doesn't require user accounts or collect personal information. The service guarantees participation through a signed Letter of Guarantee using their PGP key. Users reported issues with the CoinMixer service, with not receiving any of their promised funds. It is unclear how much bitcoin cash was sent to the service, and whether any funds were legitimately mixed as promised.

This is a global/international case not involving a specific country.

About BCH-Mixer.com

"Welcome to BCH CoinMixer - The bitcoin cash mixing service you were looking for.

What is Bitcoin Cash Mixing Service? The way bitcoin cash transactions work causes them to be chained together in a permanent public record. They are traceable along the blockchain from one bitcoin address to another. Bitcoin mixer severs the links between your old address and a new address by sending coins from you to other people and coins from them to you. It also randomizes transaction amounts and adds time delays to the transactions. Generally there is no link between the original transactions and the final address of the coins. This process protects your privacy and prevents other people tracing your payments on the internet.

Our bitcoin cash tumbling service does not require any account or personal information and doesn't collect any information about visitor's activity.

We have large amount of pre-mixed bitcoin cash prepared for you. You can verify that your bitcoin cash have been properly anonymized via checking output address in a block explorer such as BlockChair.com.

Our bitcoin cash tumbling service is designed to be as intuitive as possible. The whole process of bitcoins anonymization should not take more than few minutes.

There is multiple mixing services on the web, however, our service is the most user friendly one. Main goal of CoinMixer is to provide secure and easy to use bitcoin cash mixing service for everybody.

Letter of Guarantee signed with our PGP key is created for every participation. This letter works as proof of your participation and prevents the mixing service keeping your bitcoin cash without compromising it's reputation.

Weekly Stats Total Mixed BCH: 68.105519 BCH Total Participants: 382 Total Time of Mixing: 11044 minutes

Proven mixing algorithm, Encrypted connection, No user account required, No logs are collected, Automatic recovery in case of failure, Real time transaction processing"

"It seems the coinmix.to guy went through with his ultimatum.. so stupidly while tired searching for a new mixer I tested this one with a relatively small amount and surprise surprise, neither output tx has appeared 14 hours later.

Anything we can do to get this delisted from top of search engines / listed on any review / scam watch sites?"

"Tried it. Both servers are down at the moment and one of them will only come back up if the software matures. Right now it's not possible to shuffle your coins with Electron Cash. I hope someone will bring up a new cashshuffle server. We need a lot of adoption to really shuffle the coins properly, even for larger amounts."

This is a global/international case not involving a specific country.

The background of the exchange platform, service, or individuals involved, as it would have been seen or understood at the time of the events.

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• Known history of when and how the service was started.
• What problems does the company or service claim to solve?
• What marketing materials were used by the firm or business?
• Audits performed, and excerpts that may have been included.
• Business registration documents shown (fake or legitimate).
• How were people recruited to participate?
• Public warnings and announcements prior to the event.

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• Any wording which directly states or implies that the business is/was illegitimate, or that a vulnerability existed.
• Anything that wasn't reasonably knowable at the time of the event.

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The Reality

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• When the service was actually started (if different than the "official story").
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• How the service was structured behind the scenes. (For example, there was no "trading bot".)
• Details of what audits reported and how vulnerabilities were missed during auditing.

What Happened

The specific events of the loss and how it came about. What actually happened to cause the loss and some of the events leading up to it.

Key Event Timeline - BCH-Mixer.com Scam Mixer Service

Date	Event	Description
January 11th, 2019 3:13:07 AM MST	Reddit Post	A post on Reddit concerned about the service.

Technical Details

This section includes specific detailed technical analysis of any security breaches which happened. What specific software vulnerabilities contributed to the problem and how were they exploited?

Total Amount Lost

The total amount lost is unknown.

How much was lost and how was it calculated? If there are conflicting reports, which are accurate and where does the discrepancy lie?

Immediate Reactions

How did the various parties involved (firm, platform, management, and/or affected individual(s)) deal with the events? Were services shut down? Were announcements made? Were groups formed?

Ultimate Outcome

What was the end result? Was any investigation done? Were any individuals prosecuted? Was there a lawsuit? Was any tracing done?

Total Amount Recovered

There do not appear to have been any funds recovered in this case.

What funds were recovered? What funds were reimbursed for those affected users?

Ongoing Developments

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Individual Prevention Policies

No specific policies for individual prevention have yet been identified in this case.

For the full list of how to protect your funds as an individual, check our Prevention Policies for Individuals guide.

Platform Prevention Policies

Policies for platforms to take to prevent this situation have not yet been selected in this case.

For the full list of how to protect your funds as a financial service, check our Prevention Policies for Platforms guide.

Regulatory Prevention Policies

No specific regulatory policies have yet been identified in this case.

For the full list of regulatory policies that can prevent loss, check our Prevention Policies for Regulators guide.