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Complaint Review: Itbit Trust Company LLC - New York New York

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  • Itbit Trust Company LLC New York, New York United States

Itbit Trust Company LLC Itbit.com Cryptocurrency Exchange They Attempted to Steal my Wire Deposit New York New York

*Author of original report: Oh my gosh. Look at the Terms of their User Agreement

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This company is as shady as it gets. You deposit money so that you can partake in bitcoin or other crypto exchange transaction. This, on the surface, is similar to depositing money in stock trading exchanges. They claim to be for "insitutional investors" and that they are exremely safe. However, while they accept a wire deposit, with no questions asked,  so you can start your crypto account. good luck when you try to cash out your fiat or crypto ballance. Then, and only then, they ask you a million questions about your job title, source of income, etc, saying that they are an "anti-money laundering" company. However, even if you do answer all their questions, and show where the money comes from, they just ask you more questions, without justification. Then, when you bring this up, they stop answering your emails. Forget about even getting through to their phone line, or about getting a call back when leaving a message. This is not an exchange. This is a scam operation designed to steal customer's funds. I am not talking about trading risk. I made very few trades before asking for my money back. They refused to send my money, which had never been used to buy cryptos, back to me. The company also uses slick words, like keeping the cryptos in "cold storage", which might confuse and appeal to newbie crypto investors. This is used to take advantage of the mom and pop investor and their hard earned money. My advice is to stay away from this company at all costs. There are legitimate crypto exchanges out there. This is not one of them. I don't know how they are allowed to stay in business.

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Oh my gosh. Look at the Terms of their User Agreement

AUTHOR: Justin - (United States)

POSTED: Tuesday, July 03, 2018

Just to further add to my comments, take a look a the agreement, which you must sign to use the service(actually they say even if you DONT SIGN it applies!). This is one those boxes that many people check without even reading it.

Below is copied from their website:

1.6.1. No one is authorized or allowed to access this Site or use the Services unless he, she or it has signed this Agreement. Such signature does not need to be a physical signature, since electronic acceptance of this Agreement is permitted by various jurisdictions’ laws, such as the Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act (E-Sign Act) and similar legislation. You manifest your agreement to this Agreement by taking any act demonstrating your assent thereto. Most likely, you have clicked or will click a button containing the words “I agree” or some similar syntax. You should understand that this has the same legal effect as you placing your physical signature on any other legal contract. If you click any link, button or other device provided to you in any part of our Site’s interface, then you have legally agreed to all of these Terms and Conditions. Additionally, by using any part of our Site or Services in any manner, including the Exchange, you understand and agree that such use constitutes your affirmation of your complete and unconditional acceptance to all of the terms in this Agreement.

1.6.2. Even if you fail to sign this Agreement, you understand and agree that you are still bound by the terms of this Agreement by virtue of your viewing the Site or using any portion of the Site or our Services.

1.8.2. We agree that if we make any material changes to this Agreement, we will send you an email or written notification regarding the changes and include an updated version of this Agreement on our web page.  The updated version of the Agreement will include a new “last modified” date at the top of the Agreement in order to identify the then-currently applicable Agreement.  Following receipts of such a notice and the posting of the updated version of the Agreement on our web page, please re-review the Agreement in order to ensure that you understand how your rights and responsibilities may have been affected by the revisions.

1.8.3. If you fail to periodically review this Site and Agreement to determine if any of the terms have changed, you assume all responsibility for your failure to do so and you agree that such failure amounts to your affirmative waiver of your right to review the amended terms. We are not responsible for your neglect of your legal rights.

2.18. WITHDRAWING CURRENCY

In addition to allowing Members to trade virtual currency, the Exchange allows Members to withdraw virtual currency upon request to us. Members may withdraw all or some of their virtual currency, and there is no minimum amount of virtual currency required to maintain your status as a Member (however, as indicated above, you may only trade or sell virtual currency up to the amount shown as belonging to you in the ledger maintained by the Exchange). XBT currency will be transferred from the Exchange’s account to the specific Bitcoin address provided by the Member. Withdrawals may take up to three (3) days to complete, provided that larger withdrawals may take up to thirty (30) days to complete and that any withdrawal may be delayed as necessary to comply with applicable law and/or the Exchange’s customer identification and anti-money laundering procedures.

This last part must have been added recently.
"Any withdrawal may be delayed as necessary to comply with... Exchanges customer identification and anti-money laudering procedures"

Yet no such procedures exist for depositing funds. Why not? Delayed as necessary, in my experience, means delayed indefinitely, even in lieu of them showing any evidence of money laundering or other illegal activity. Again, I say, how is this company allowed to remain in business?

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