THELOGICALINDIAN - On 11 March anunknown Russian online barter account alleged OOOPay OOOPayorg announcedthat it started to acquire Bitcoin payments Bitcoincom went abysmal into the Russian web to acquisition out whether this account is accepted Heres what we found
Also read: Russian Firm Tries and Fails to Patent ‘Bitcoin’ Trademark
What’s OOOPay?
Many of Russian SEO experts and armpit creators use www.sbup.com for blockage websites’ angary and ratings. So we absitively to use this apparatus too and here are the results:
As we see above, the TrustRank of this armpit is 2.05/10, PageRank 3.62/10, Google PageRank is 0 and Yandex Index of Citations is 30 (this cardinal is attainable for about any blazon of betray armpit if its owners put some efforts into SEO).
Now, lets attending at the whois stats of this site. The area was aboriginal registered in 2013-07-18, and adapted on 2015-05-18. However, OOOPay’s website claims that they accept been in business since 2001. Moreover, the registered alignment is Domains By Proxy LLC, which indicates that the accurate owners of this armpit are accommodating to adumbrate their faces from the public.
User Feedback
Perusing through various public reviews of the site, we accept baldheaded that the acknowledgment doesn’t attending acceptable either.
According to the comments in the links above, best of the site’s users accept accepted that the armpit is absolutely a scam. Mirpravda, for example, deems OOOPay.org as a artifice operation that puts users’ drop beneath austere risk. It says:
Additionally, a user from the Sites.Reviews account beneath the awning name Samsonn larboard a brace of screenshots of his chat with chump service. Here’s a screen shot, area you can see the convo (in Russian) and that he exchanged 561 Payeer RUB for 511 WMR:
You can see that the acquittal is in action and will be completed ”after a few hours.” Real exchanges never do this — they usually barter your e-cash in account (that’s the convenience of application cyberbanking money isn’t it?). You can see all the screenshots (in Russian) here.
In the press, the alone acknowledgment beside a appear press release — which anyone can pay to broadcast online — is a baby commodity on Banki.ru here. If you appointment this page, you will see a abbreviate ”news story” about the account and three abrogating comments beneath the commodity advertence that OOOPay is a scam.
Russia is advised to acquire a hostile altitude apropos Bitcoin action with looming penalties of up to 3 to 5 actor rubles for companies ambidextrous with the “money surrogate” digital currency. Thus, it is consistently ambiguous back a Russian business claims to acquire Bitcoin.
OOOPay is a scam and Bitcoin.com advises all users to do their appointment afore depositing money with these counterfeit services.
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