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Ambridge, PA based company operating illegal, unlicensed money transmission business\r\nDate: Fri, 01 May 2015 10:39:17 +0800\r\nMessage-ID: <357624020.JBuKCSUl0u@localhost>\r\nOrganization: 8ch.net\r\nX-KMail-Identity: 1363046236\r\nX-KMail-Dictionary: en_US\r\nUser-Agent: KMail/4.14.7 (Linux/3.19.3-3-ARCH; KDE/4.14.7; x86_64; ; )\r\nMIME-Version: 1.0\r\nContent-Type: multipart/signed; boundary=\"nextPart2867216.RdcRsm78g5\"; micalg=\"pgp-sha256\"; protocol=\"application/pgp-signature\"\r\n\r\n--nextPart2867216.RdcRsm78g5\r\nContent-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable\r\nContent-Type: text/plain; charset=\"us-ascii\"\r\n\r\nGratipay, LLC is operating an illegal, unlicensed money transmission bu=\r\nsiness=20\r\ncompletely in the open.\r\n\r\nTheir payment processor, Balanced Payments, is shutting down (and might=\r\n also=20\r\nbe involved or complicit in the illegal acitivity).\r\n\r\nGratipay, LLC held funds from credit cards in escrow and then paid out =\r\nBitcoin=20\r\nto me and others. I was paid out on five separate occasions, all to the=\r\n Bitcoin=20\r\naddress 1CBTiuoHhYwKKcrxsTQ3SmrKpJYALqfeVZ. The Blockchain TX IDs are l=\r\nisted=20\r\nbelow.\r\n\r\n29a4a275abfc45577c25a7ab2417947d1e745afaecb78b16bd33999c02c55231\r\nd820f294bd51ff61291873e1474750ea1f5c6acf4431be24c65d83c1c188daba\r\n237e2c6fabaa20dd8c689f10fa0fcddc2539ec9c88d5cc562fdbc1ceab8f8564\r\n28870c24a5810ea8341c3358503eb616f1c094d5edc00438018df93369351f9d\r\nacdc354a29580a0502fe44c2234c7d503f697bca3b7fc30dd7384af85c5b5968\r\n04edb2b139b934e44f0faaa8bf7663fda8d5e9fbe9bc02386ccd63bdc7ad6c7d\r\n\r\nThe total converted in US dollars of the illegal money transmission don=\r\ne by=20\r\nGratipay, LLC just to me is $3,272 (13.7877095 Bitcoin)! MANY other dev=\r\nelopers=20\r\non the Gratipay website accepted payments, I estimate that Gratipay pai=\r\nd out=20\r\nalmost $100,000 in Bitcoin payments to completely anonymous people with=\r\n no=20\r\nAML, KYC or any other process.\r\n\r\nI am reporting this because Chad Whitacre, CEO of Gratipay, LLC termina=\r\nted my=20\r\naccount for no reason (it was giving him heat on social media), and the=\r\nn I=20\r\nresearched his license status, and surprise, there is no license.\r\n\r\nGratipay is AWARE that they are operating without a license and has bee=\r\nn=20\r\ndiscussing what to do about this completely in the open on their forum.=\r\n\r\n\r\nGratipay wants to become a money transmitter because they are already e=\r\nngaged=20\r\nin money transmission behavior:=20\r\nhttps://github.com/gratipay/gratipay.com/issues/3321 (archived:=20\r\nhttps://archive.is/d0KpY )\r\n\r\nGratipay determines that they ARE(!) a money transmitter, so is aiming =\r\nto=20\r\nchange their service so that they dodge the heat:\r\nhttps://github.com/gratipay/inside.gratipay.com/issues/192 (archived:=20=\r\n\r\nhttps://archive.is/eKGmj )\r\n\r\nCharlie Sherm recently went to jail for this exact behavior with his=20=\r\n\r\nBitInstant business. I can only hope that an investigation into Gratipa=\r\ny's=20\r\n(formerly known as Gittip) activity is launched or already underway.\r\n\r\nPlease don't let this conman get away with this. Gittip, now Gratipay h=\r\nas been=20\r\noperating an unlicensed, illegal money transmission scheme for three ye=\r\nars.=20\r\nFor more details feel free to contact me, I have researched Gratipay, L=\r\nLC=20\r\nextensively.\r\n\r\n--=20\r\nBest,\r\nFredrick Brennan\r\n8chan Administrator\r\n\r\n--nextPart2867216.RdcRsm78g5\r\nContent-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=\"signature.asc\"\r\nContent-Description: This is a digitally signed message part.\r\nContent-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit\r\n\r\n-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----\r\nVersion: GnuPG v2\r\n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\r\nC/dFptP5qt+w+MHLJlcL\r\n=2VzJ\r\n-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----\r\n\r\n--nextPart2867216.RdcRsm78g5--\r\n```"}}