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Discussion => Newbie discussion => Topic started by: zeroproxy on May 19, 2013, 02:55 pm
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Ok so basically my subject says it all, has anyone used coinmama before, the poetic justice of using my credit card to buy bitcoins is a hard thing for me to pass on but essentially you end up just wiring the site money via moneygram and that just seems rife with scam written all over it, however I emailed the site and they were super quick to write back and seemed somewhat solid to converse with.... the site makes my "5piz3r sense" tingle so I figured I would ask around and seee if anyone on SR had attempted to use the site? Thanks guys!
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Ok so basically my subject says it all, has anyone used coinmama before, the poetic justice of using my credit card to buy bitcoins is a hard thing for me to pass on but essentially you end up just wiring the site money via moneygram and that just seems rife with scam written all over it, however I emailed the site and they were super quick to write back and seemed somewhat solid to converse with.... the site makes my "5piz3r sense" tingle so I figured I would ask around and seee if anyone on SR had attempted to use the site? Thanks guys!
A WHOIS lookup shows the following:
Registered through: GoDaddy.com, LLC (http://www.godaddy.com)
Domain Name: COINMAMA.COM
Created on: 17-Apr-13
Expires on: 17-Apr-14
Last Updated on: 17-Apr-13
Registrant:
CoinMama
Herzeliya
Herzeliya, 46666
Israel
Administrative Contact:
Mama, Coin sipur@walla.com
CoinMama
Herzeliya
Herzeliya, 46666
Israel
9-724-899-9898
Technical Contact:
Mama, Coin sipur@walla.com
CoinMama
Herzeliya
Herzeliya, 46666
Israel
9-724-899-9898
Domain servers in listed order:
NS45.DOMAINCONTROL.COM
NS46.DOMAINCONTROL.COM
Registry Status: clientDeleteProhibited
Registry Status: clientRenewProhibited
Registry Status: clientTransferProhibited
Registry Status: clientUpdateProhibited
I'm not sure I'd trust a site so new with my money, and the date of registration along with the fact that it is based out of Israel concerns me to the recent .onion site "bust" in or around that time. I don't know what it is, but something just doesn't seem right about it.
They do seem to be attempting to build a presence over at bitcointalk.org but if it were me, I would wait a few months to see what, if anything, comes out of the woodwork here.
Libertas
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Yeah I agree, I did a who is on the site and saw when it was created but I missed the whole isreal angle, if you attempt to use the service they ask you to send a wire to a guy in germany.... supposedly they used to accept paypal and then quit, but some underlying part of my subconcious screams scam everytime I look at there site....
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Yeah I agree, I did a who is on the site and saw when it was created but I missed the whole isreal angle, if you attempt to use the service they ask you to send a wire to a guy in germany.... supposedly they used to accept paypal and then quit, but some underlying part of my subconcious screams scam everytime I look at there site....
It's all a bit too.. 'polished', or something. And I can't find a single report of anybody who has actually used them, which is rather off-putting indeed.
Libertas
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Definitely better to be safe, and hold onto your money. I would go to one of the more established sites if I were you.
It smells of a bait and switch the way you describe it. Make a couple people happy, and then bolt with everything.