An amazing incident happened to my friend, let’s call him Oleg. In 2014, Oleg found the Xchange exchanger on the bestchange website and bought $100 worth of bitcoins there. They went to his Bitcoin Core cold wallet, after which he quietly forgot about them. Yesterday he tried to sell some of his bitcoins, he did everything as usual.
He visited the website https://www.bestchange.ru and found several exchangers and tried to sell cryptocurrency there. Since he is a very cautious person, he transferred several parts to three exchangers with the highest ratings. As a result, the situation was such that all three exchangers blocked his funds under the pretext of “not passing the AML check”, and they began to demand an answer as to where these coins appeared on his accounts, and then passport scans for verification and a banal return of coins to the wallet.
We live in interesting times, a person sends his coins for exchange, they are blocked and also require a scan of the passport. They force you to give your passport for unclear purposes, so that later, if you are lucky, they can return his crypto-coins taking part of the amount for the service commission, and naturally the miners also take part of the funds for the transactions.
I urge everyone to be careful with the site https://www.bestchange.ru and the exchangers in the top that look different, but lead to the office https://cryptomus.com, which blocks funds and starts demanding documents from you in order to return these funds. By the way, the site itself allows the exchanger admins to very easily disable your review about it.
I know of at least three exchangers that work through Cryptomus and block funds for AML: Sova, Safelychange, OneMoment.
Forewarned is forearmed.
Sources
https://www.bestchange.ru/faq.html#frozen- transaction
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_N_MSD1iFHo
https://demensdeum.com/cryptoBBS/showthread.php?tid= 1
