I'm not the only person who has noticed that there is something funny about all the "bitcoinfog stole my money" threads.
First, they are far too regular which suggests an extremely wide scale problem, but at the same time the reports do not appear on bitcointalk or other DNM forums. Based on /r/bitcoin having 150k subscribers you'd expect them to see four btcfog complaints per week. Based on bitcointalk having at least 250k active users per month you'd expect at least five complaints per week. For some reason /r/dnm is seeing a grossly high number of btcfog complaints.
Second, the premise of the claim is just ridiculous - fog would be tearing up the fees, and if you do or don't believe they also run Agora then they have that income as well (in the millions per month) - there is no reason why they would steal $30-300 figures from random users.
Last but not least - and which indicates a FUD campaign perpetuated against /r/dnm users - most threads complaining about fog stealing money are from users with no or little comments, karma or other contributions. You'd understand that one or two users register accounts to complain - but all of them is suspicious. If bitcoinfog were scamming for real - you'd think it would hit some regular contributors to this sub (and why would throwaways pick this sub to complain to?). This would suggest that the comments are being made to further another mixing service (perhaps, one whose admin is a regular here cough)
Here is the last month of "bitcoinfog ate my homework" threads:
- Bitcoinfog just stole my money. DO NOT use them - 2 comments, 0 karma
- I cannot log onto my bitfog account? 0 comments, 0 karma
- I feel so stupid! Helix Light is the best! 0 comments, 0 karma
- BITCOIN FOG needs to have a SELECTIVE SCAM WARNING on the sidebar 0 comments, 0 karma
- Funds stuck unconfirmed going to Bitcoin Fog. 0 comments, 0 karma
that was every complaint thread about bitcoinfog in this entire sub for the past month, and every one of them is from a fresh user account or one with almost no activity.
In the one complain about bitcoinfog that looks legitimate the user goes on to admit later that they were phished - while with the sockpuppet complaints against btcfog above they just leave the threads open with plenty of accusation but no conclusion
If you search further into history, i'm sure you'll find more examples.
I have no idea why the mods are allowing these threads, but something to keep in mind.
Cool and all. But I also post on this subreddit every single day and always make a new account after shutting down TOR. It's funny that this sub embraces anonymity but when people with no traceable history post they are often made out as shills.