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<span style="color:red">Warning: '''Bithome.co is a scam site'''.</span>


Bithome scams users by offering to "buy" Bitcoin with PayPal, Skrill, MoneyGram, Western Union and SEPA / Wire transfer. Also users can "sell" Bitcoins, NOT.
'''This is a SCAM, do not use!'''
If you send any money, it will be gone and you will not hear back from them. In case of PayPal money is collected as "friend+family" payment and can not be charged back.
PayPal fraud team is aware, but did not do anything about it for months (01/2016). Additionally, the site uses Cloudflare and other technologies to cloak its origin. The contact address equals the one of bitin.co Scam.
<br />'''References:'''<br />
* [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1324620.msg13525414#msg13525414 scam thread on bitcointalk]<br />
* [https://www.reddit.com/r/BitcoinBeginners/comments/3ryanf/is_bithomeco_a_scam/ reddit]<br />
* [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=956142.0 Bitin.co on bitcointalk]<br />

Revision as of 20:55, 22 January 2016

Warning: Bithome.co is a scam site.

Bithome scams users by offering to "buy" Bitcoin with PayPal, Skrill, MoneyGram, Western Union and SEPA / Wire transfer. Also users can "sell" Bitcoins, NOT.

This is a SCAM, do not use!

If you send any money, it will be gone and you will not hear back from them. In case of PayPal money is collected as "friend+family" payment and can not be charged back.

PayPal fraud team is aware, but did not do anything about it for months (01/2016). Additionally, the site uses Cloudflare and other technologies to cloak its origin. The contact address equals the one of bitin.co Scam.


References: