I deposited about 1.991 BTC and it took hours and hours, and after I finally checked back half a day later, they had been withdrawn. There were many other reports on the Alphabay forums, of people saying they, just like me, thought that they'd gotten phished or hacked, but had a very strong feeling it would have been impossible.
Now there are more reports of issues such as customer and vendor accounts being frozen or banned, deposits never showing up, complaint threads being banned, and reports/evidence that the admins are being really counterproductive.
There were so many reports of being phished or hacked last night- bitcoins vanishing- and many people realizing this couldn't have been possible, but every time these forum threads went up, the admin would comment something like "This is how everyone gets phished: [link]." Then they change the thread to status to "resolved/fixed" so no one can reply anymore. I saw this happen last night in a thread where everyone was very suspicious of it being a large scale hacking/phishing operation and everyone concluded they were exit scamming. It's still happening today.
Thoughts? Anyone else with reports of scams and strange activity on AB?
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22+ BTC are missing from my alphabay wallet after I went to withdraw them. This is real. Admins have been silent for days. Hope that is just due to Christmas.