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Title: Info about scamcoins?
Post by: bitcrab on April 29, 2020, 02:35:24 am
recently it is frequently reported that some cheaters ask the fooled to deposit BTC in GDEX and then buy the scam token with GDEX.BTC.

seems mainly happened in Russia?

GDEX are considering to take measures like whitelist for this to protect the interest of BTS users.

however we have little info about the scamcoins, hope the community can provide relevant info.
Title: Re: Info about scamcoins?
Post by: serdrdoor on April 29, 2020, 07:18:06 am
It is not known - scammers from Russia or not.
But at the urges of the victims they write in English.
Title: Re: Info about scamcoins?
Post by: dh on April 29, 2020, 08:07:49 am
Recent reports was about WAZIRX asset.

I think it's good idea to implement different creation fee for top-level assets. Say, GATEWAY assets costs high fee, while further assets in same namespace (GATEWAY.XXX) costs much less. So, each new scamcoin requires high fee and scammer can't reuse it's namespace, while legit gateway may have lots of assets cheap.
Title: Re: Info about scamcoins?
Post by: abit on April 30, 2020, 08:27:21 pm
Quote from: dh on April 29, 2020, 08:07:49 am
Recent reports was about WAZIRX asset.

I think it's good idea to implement different creation fee for top-level assets. Say, GATEWAY assets costs high fee, while further assets in same namespace (GATEWAY.XXX) costs much less. So, each new scamcoin requires high fee and scammer can't reuse it's namespace, while legit gateway may have lots of assets cheap.
Sounds like a good idea. It is a bit difficult to update current code to implement this idea though.
Title: Re: Info about scamcoins?
Post by: R on April 30, 2020, 09:06:43 pm
List of known scamcoins: bitUSD, bitCNY
Title: Re: Info about scamcoins?
Post by: bitcrab on May 07, 2020, 04:24:16 am
GDEX has added ZILLIQA, WAZIRX and CONTETOS to market blacklist of GDEX.BTC.

if necessary, later will do same to GDEX.ETH, GDEX.USDT and GDEX.EOS.
if necessary, later will apply market whitelist  to these GDEX. assets.
Title: Re: Info about scamcoins?
Post by: chigbolu on May 10, 2020, 09:23:49 am
Quote from: bitcrab on April 29, 2020, 02:35:24 am
recently it is frequently reported that some cheaters ask the fooled to deposit BTC in GDEX and then buy the scam token with GDEX.BTC.

seems mainly happened in Russia?

GDEX are considering to take measures like whitelist for this to protect the interest of BTS users.

however we have little info about the scamcoins, hope the community can provide relevant info.
BSVBEAR just scammed someone of over 600GDEX.USDT

https://bts.ai/market/GDEX.USDT_BSVBEAR
Title: Re: Info about scamcoins?
Post by: bitcrab on May 13, 2020, 06:14:33 am
have set white list for GDEX.BTC and GDEX.USDT.

if necessary will also set white list for GDEX.ETH and GDEX.EOS.

Title: Re: Info about scamcoins?
Post by: chigbolu on May 18, 2020, 03:27:16 pm
Quote from: bitcrab on May 13, 2020, 06:14:33 am
have set white list for GDEX.BTC and GDEX.USDT.

if necessary will also set white list for GDEX.ETH and GDEX.EOS.
It will be nice if the HONEST assets can be whitelisted however this is commendable