ninefoundation

Re:Tell HN: Worst Amazon AWS customer service experience on Wednesday April 24, 2024 @01:32AM (#40140943)

Anyone else experienced their AWS account being locked indefinitely like this, just because you spun up servers too quickly, and even though everything clearly was authorized by you?

Tell HN: Worst Amazon AWS customer service experience

Posted by ninefoundation on Wednesday April 24, 2024 @01:28AM
from the self-post dept.

In short, I spun up some servers to finish an urgent job, and now AWS has frozen access to my data for over 24 hours and it's wrecking my business.I.e. Spin up servers too quickly? AWS holds your data hostage indefinitely.Background:Had an urgent compute job 2 days ago, that I needed finished ASAP. So I thought great, temporarily spinning up a large amount of compute is exactly what AWS was...

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Re:Ask HN: $ 6000 Stolen from me by Sequoia-backed Coinswitch / Kuber ... on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @01:02PM (#25349026)

Current ticket: #101772 Previous ticket: #95957

Re:Ask HN: How do people make money in the cryptocurrency industry? on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @10:00AM (#25346014)

Theft by refusing to process legitimate KYC seems to be the most popular way these days:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25345719

Ask HN: $ 6000 Stolen from me by Sequoia-backed Coinswitch / Kuber - What to do?

Posted by ninefoundation on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @09:41AM
from the ask-hn dept.

Coinswitch.co claims to offer easy no-login crypto exchanging. You send them crypto, they send you back a different crypto.Works well until it doesn't. Suddenly they steal your funds, refuse to return them demanding KYC -- but then refuse to ever complete your KYC, stalling perpetually.In my case, they stole over $6000 in Ethereum (which originated from Coinbase) from me a little over a month...

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Re:Ask HN: Sequoia's Coinswitch / Kuber Scam – Theft via perpetual KYC... on Wednesday November 25, 2020 @03:22AM (#25207031)

Certainly would not have trusted the company with so much money if Sequoia's name wasn't plastered all over its marketing.

Happy to share more details / proof in the comments. HN restricted the length of the post to 2k chars.

HN: what can I do?

Clickable links:

https://coinswitch.co/

https://coinswitch.co/terms

https://coinswitch.co/app/exchange/transaction/28f07022-4ab2...

https://www.sequoiacap.com/companies/

Ask HN: Sequoia's Coinswitch / Kuber Scam – Theft via perpetual KYC delay

Posted by ninefoundation on Wednesday November 25, 2020 @03:20AM
from the ask-hn dept.

Sequoia-backed Coinswitch.co claims to offer easy no-login crypto trading, but then selectively steals the largest of orders.My experience: 23 days ago, I was attempting to use Coinswitch, when they froze my ~$6000 ETH transaction (https://coinswitch.co/app/exchange/transaction/28f07022-4ab2-4fa6-b093-fe61a6bcb82f#). These were fresh ETH, recently withdrawn from Coinbase. Immediately after...

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