Hello people of darknetmarkets, I have been a victim of a malicious scam on alphabay.
Anyways here is the story. I made a deposit of about 78 bitcoin. I waited and when it reached 3 deposits it didn't go through. So I contacted the support team, by the time they responded it had 4 confirmations already. So I talk to a moderator disc0 on there and he is very helpful at first sight. So whilst talking to disc0 I look on my balance page and the deposit address has changed, it changed about 3 -4 times. Anyways I show disc0 the proof that it was my deposit address and I had deposited the 78 bitcoins. But when I showed him it, he told me "It's a phishing link and theres nothing we can do". So i get a little bit frustrated and demand my money, he says he can't help. So since I am very savvy I though to myself, I'll take a picture of my deposit address on the onion and onion.to. So I come back to him with the other picture on the balance page with the onion link and I get ban immediately. It's bullshit and a selective scam. I heard many other reports of people getting fucked over this way but don't have anything to proof it. But I do so here it is.
First screenshot after I made the initial deposit on the onion.to balance page.
Decided to use hiddenservice.net considering it is faster and take a screenshot there also.
The conversation was lengthy and I only got one screenshot of it before he ban me.
https://blockchain.info/address/1EvYf8vevcZeXk8rkNgmQ1FAEkHJjvPjpq
Absolute bullshit, do not use alphabay folks, they are fucking scammers.
Also remember take a screenshot of your deposit address and keep your tx recorded too.
Let me repost what has been said in the ticket.
Hi NewVendorInTown, I am part of the admin team at Alphabay
I have doubled check the screenshot you sent to disc0, and unfortunately, you sent coins to a phisher address. Please open your screenshots and check:
1) Use a QR code scanner application, and scan the QR code beside the Bitcoin address - you will see that the code does not match the displayed address
2) Use the "Get signed PGP proof of ownership" link, and validate the signature with the PGP key in the Contact page, you'll see that it does not validate
3) Check the URL bar - you'll see that the URL is ".hiddenservice.net", which is an untrusted service.
By the way, there are no "faster" links. If you type "pwoah7foa6au2pul.onion" directly, you'll get our site. If you use this proxy, the proxy "hiddenservice.net" needs to query pwoah7foa6au2pul.onion anyway, so you're just adding a middleman for nothing.
All of the above, combined with a screenshot that shows that you're using Chrome on Windows (the most insecure setup ever), point to evidence that you're using a malicious man-in-the-middle attack, or you have a BTC stealer software that changes the on-screen address.
I am sorry to hear that the coins were sent to a phisher, and I wish I could help you, but this is not a BTC address that we control, so we can do nothing with the coins.
Also, ".onion.to" is also a middleman that can tamper with addresses.
tl;rd:
1) You're using Chrome on Windows with an onion middleman - the most insecure setup ever.
2) The QR code doesn't even match the Bitcoin address, everyone can see that on your screenshot
3) Please post the PGP proof of ownership if you want to prove that you're right.