A real detective story has unfolded on the BitcoinTalk forum around the crypto exchanger Elcapo. It all began when user Trêvoid received a private message on SimpleX from a person claiming to have lost 0.57 BTC. According to user Trêvoid, the victim provided a link to the transaction [1] and the deposit address, but flatly refused to publicly share the details of what had happened, which immediately raised suspicions.
At first, it seemed this could be a sophisticated FUD campaign. According to user Trêvoid, he contacted the Elcapo team, and they replied that no such order existed in their database, blaming the KYC_rip aggregator, which had allegedly pinned someone else's transaction on their service — since they, too, might technically have the capability to steal. However, user Zwei noticed an important detail: Elcapo had suddenly withdrawn its security deposit from escrow, which looks extremely suspicious. There was no room for risk, and since Elcapo refused to respond properly on the forum, user Trêvoid officially flagged Elcapo as scammers.
User marto25 brought final clarity to the situation. He attached a link proving that this was not an isolated incident, but a premeditated fraud. 79.55 ETH vanished through a similar scheme, with the transaction executed directly via the Elcapo website [2]. This fully confirmed that the malicious actions were carried out on the exchanger's own side.
The exchanger, which had tried to shift the blame onto its partners, turned out to be nothing more than an ordinary scam.
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| domain | explore | registered | registrar | abuse email | score | average | |
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| elcapo4l4xad5iipvv6ewg46x6jgb26ed43e5jbrlajxatjoxybue4id.onion | None | None | None | 10/100 | 10.0 | ||
| Blacklist: NoCoin Hexxium QuidsUp URLhaus FadeMind MetaMask Phishunt Badd-Boyz BlackBook CoinMiner OpenPhish ThreatFox TweetFeed PhishRadar Scam Block Abuse Block Phishing DB ScamSniffer PhishDestroy Malware Block Phishing Army Toxic Domains Filters Heroes GlobalAntiScam Phishing Block Pi-hole Trojan Scam Blocklist Fraud Blocklist Pi-hole Malware Crypto Blocklist Pi-hole Phishing Ransomware Block CyberHost Malware Pi-hole Malicious Pi-hole C2 Servers Thread Intelligence PhishDestroy Community | |||||||
| elcapo.io | June 19, 2026 | Unstoppable Domains Inc | [email protected] | 10/100 | 10.0 | ||
| Blacklist: NoCoin Hexxium QuidsUp URLhaus FadeMind MetaMask Phishunt Badd-Boyz BlackBook CoinMiner OpenPhish ThreatFox TweetFeed PhishRadar Scam Block Abuse Block Phishing DB ScamSniffer PhishDestroy Malware Block Phishing Army Toxic Domains Filters Heroes GlobalAntiScam Phishing Block Pi-hole Trojan Scam Blocklist Fraud Blocklist Pi-hole Malware Crypto Blocklist Pi-hole Phishing Ransomware Block CyberHost Malware Pi-hole Malicious Pi-hole C2 Servers Thread Intelligence PhishDestroy Community | |||||||
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