Intro
I appreciate DEFICHAIN project and I am not trying to hurt this community in any way, but to bring awareness about a knock off called DEFICHANE that tries to scam people.
How I came to know about this
I am party of a community that organizes educational events about cryptocurrency and supports new coming blockchain solutions. Today I have received a message from a person infiltrated in this community with a promo code in value of 0.5 BTC for DEFICHANE. It sounded too good to be true but I thought about checking it out. I registered on their website and inserted the promo code, receiving those 0.5 BTC as promised, but after that things got strange.
Nothing is for free
First thing I tried is obviously to withdraw this funds, but the exchange stated that you need to have deposited 0.02 BTC before in order to comply with legal regulation of tracking crypto assets. Isn't that strange? Haven't seen this kind of absurd requirement before.
Transfer is failing
Second thing I have tried is to make a transfer to a personal wallet, both on the Bitcoin and Ethereum blockchain, but the transfer failed with reason that my account doesn't have this option, but without further explanation.
Investigate the exchange
DEFICHANE false statements
Like anyone else would do I searched about DEFICHANE in different search engines, but haven't found anything about it. If you look on their website, they state that they exist since 2017 and have over 1 mil users. How is this possible and not find any information online about it or anyone referencing it?
Obvious alert
If you searched for defichane.com on urlvoid.com, you would find that the domain has been bought from namecheap.com 7 days ago: Creation Date: 2021-02-06T16:44:52Z. Again, isn't that strange given that they were supposed to exist since 2017?
Their cover-up
After my initial search some info appeared online about DEFICHANE on BTCNEWS.ONE, which I have reasons to believe is faked up, but won't go into details. The 2 articles that are available about DEFICHANE don't have anything to do with it. One is related somehow to to defichain, but it is incoherent, missing the context. That just pust some jargons in and victims might see it and believe it is all legit.
Conclusion
DEFICHANE is a scam that tries to convince people to deposit $1000 with the "proof" that they will be able to withdraw over $20,000. Keep in mind, if something is too good to be true, then most likely is fake.
PS: I apologise for making this so long, but I hope this will help people stay await from it. It hurts me to see that no matter the technology, there will always be greedy people that will use it in a harmful way. Hope this helps! Cheers!
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