<p>There's no way this is legitimate.</p>

<ul>
<li>Domain is less than a month old</li>
<li>All product photos can be found elsewhere on the web. <a href="http://www.stss.ru/products/workstations/tesla/RX240T8.2.html">http://www.stss.ru/products/workstations/tesla/RX240T8.2.html</a> <a href="http://www.fractal-design.com/?view=product&amp;prod=94">http://www.fractal-design.com/?view=product&amp;prod=94</a></li>
<li>Address/phone number/name on Contact Us page differs from address/phone number/name on WHOIS record.</li>
<li>They say their miner connects over USB. However, they don't have any drivers for it on their website, or say what OS it works with.</li>
<li>They said that they're too busy to take a video, or post an non stock-photo image, but they would in a week. They said that 10 days ago.</li>
<li>They <a href="http://anamurminers.com/index.php?route=information/information&amp;information_id=4">claimed</a> that they designed, wrote, sourced, soldered, and tested the whole thing, front to back, in 3 weeks. Then somebody on bitcointalk pointed that out, and now it took them 3 months! Still implausible, though. Unless you're willing to pay insane markups, your shortest turnaround time on an ASIC is around 6 months, and that's if you already have your design done.</li>
<li>They offer local pickup (in the Czech Republic)</li>
<li><p>This gem:</p>

<blockquote>
  <p>Due to Czech law, we MUST, give you back your money even after 14 days, if you are not satisfied with the product.   </p>
</blockquote>

<p>I doubt that.</p></li>
</ul>

<p>So yeah. Scam. I'm guessing that Antonio Barreto is the brains of the operation, and Anamur Silif is the fall guy.</p>

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2013-05-23T16:09:18.523Z
2013-05-23T16:22:08.620Z
2013-05-23T16:22:08.620Z
Nick ODell
<p>Certainly nobody except the owner or local auditors can tell you if its a scam, all you can do is gather as much information as possible. <strong>Maybe the only real deal would be to visit the company locally or get documents that proof what they claim</strong>.</p>

<p>Concerning the website, its a very basic opencart shop one can setup in 30 minutes.</p>

<p>Below is what i got on a fast search.</p>

<blockquote>
  <p>Information about us</p>
  
  <p>www.anamurminers.com is a site operated by <strong>Anamur Silif, s.r.o.</strong>
  ("We"); we are a company registered in Czech republic under
  registration number <strong>241 65 280</strong>. Our registered office is Primátorská
  296/38, Prague 8   180 00.</p>
</blockquote>

<p>#</p>

<blockquote>
  <p>The domain/hosting whois reveals:   Email Search: is associated with
  about 213,056 domains NS History: 3 changes on 4 unique name servers
  over 0 year. IP History: 3 changes on 4 unique IP addresses over 0
  years. Whois History: 13 records have been archived since 2013-05-04 .
  Reverse IP: 629 other sites hosted on this server. Log In or Create a
  FREE account to start monitoring this domain name Preview the complete
  Domain Report for anamurminers.com</p>
  
  <p>Registrant:  Anamur Silif s.r.o.  Kasparova 590  Liberec,  46312  CZ</p>
  
  <p>Domain name: ANAMURMINERS.COM</p>
  
  <p>Administrative Contact:
      Barreto, Antonio Joaquin<br>
      Kasparova 590
      Liberec,  46312
      CZ
      +420.774984192    Fax: +420.000000000</p>
  
  <p>Technical Contact:
      a.s., INTERNET CZ<br>
      Ktis 2
      Ktis,  384 03
      CZ
      +420.383835353    Fax: +420.383835354</p>
  
  <p>Registration Service Provider:
      INTERNET CZ, a.s., 
      00420-38-3835353</p>
  
  <p>Registrar of Record: TUCOWS, INC.  Record last updated on
  10-May-2013.  Record expires on 30-Apr-2014.  Record created on
  30-Apr-2013.</p>
  
  <p>Registrar Domain Name Help Center:
      <a href="http://tucowsdomains.com" rel="nofollow">http://tucowsdomains.com</a></p>
  
  <p>Domain servers in listed order:
      NS2.GOSHAWK.ARVIXE.COM<br>
      NS1.GOSHAWK.ARVIXE.COM   </p>
  
  <p>Domain status: clientTransferProhibited
                  clientUpdateProhibited</p>
</blockquote>

<p>#</p>

<blockquote>
  <p>Google search on <strong>Anamur Silif, s.r.o</strong>
  <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=Anamur+Silif%2C+s.r.o&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;sa=Search&amp;channel=fe&amp;client=browser-ubuntu&amp;hl=en" rel="nofollow">https://www.google.com/search?q=Anamur+Silif%2C+s.r.o&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;sa=Search&amp;channel=fe&amp;client=browser-ubuntu&amp;hl=en</a></p>
</blockquote>

<p>#</p>

<blockquote>
  <p>More lookups: </p>
  
  <ol>
  <li><p><a href="http://rejstrik.penize.cz/24165280-anamur-silif-s-r-o" rel="nofollow">http://rejstrik.penize.cz/24165280-anamur-silif-s-r-o</a></p></li>
  <li><p><a href="http://www.bizbiz.cz/v2/firmy/239749/anamur-silif-s-r-o" rel="nofollow">http://www.bizbiz.cz/v2/firmy/239749/anamur-silif-s-r-o</a></p></li>
  <li><p><a href="http://topkontakt.idnes.cz/f/anamur-silif-s-r-o/1945713/" rel="nofollow">http://topkontakt.idnes.cz/f/anamur-silif-s-r-o/1945713/</a></p></li>
  </ol>
</blockquote>

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2013-05-23T19:39:27.967Z
2013-05-23T19:45:43.570Z
2013-05-23T19:45:43.570Z
Aurigae
<p>seems like they are also discussed here: 
<a href="http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=233346.0" rel="nofollow">http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=233346.0</a></p>

CC BY-SA 3.0
2013-06-14T14:47:09.937Z
2013-06-14T14:47:09.937Z
concerned
<p>I'm thinking about ordering two 63 GH/s Bitcoin miner's from Anamurminers.com Also see: <a href="http://anamurminers.com/asic-miner" rel="nofollow">http://anamurminers.com/asic-miner</a>. Can this company be trusted? They say they can ship two to the UK straight away.</p>

<mining-hardware><fraud>
Can anamurminers.com be trusted?
Steve
# Can anamurminers.com be trusted?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2013-05-23)

I'm thinking about ordering two 63 GH/s Bitcoin miner's from Anamurminers.com Also see: <http://anamurminers.com/asic-miner>. Can this company be trusted? They say they can ship two to the UK straight away.

**Tags:** mining-hardware, fraud


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## 3 answers

### Answer by username_1 on 2013-05-23. Score: 6

There's no way this is legitimate.

* Domain is less than a month old
* All product photos can be found elsewhere on the web. <http://www.stss.ru/products/workstations/tesla/RX240T8.2.html> [http://www.fractal-design.com/?view=product∏=94](http://www.fractal-design.com/?view=product&prod=94)
* Address/phone number/name on Contact Us page differs from address/phone number/name on WHOIS record.
* They say their miner connects over USB. However, they don't have any drivers for it on their website, or say what OS it works with.
* They said that they're too busy to take a video, or post an non stock-photo image, but they would in a week. They said that 10 days ago.
* They [claimed](http://anamurminers.com/index.php?route=information/information&information_id=4) that they designed, wrote, sourced, soldered, and tested the whole thing, front to back, in 3 weeks. Then somebody on bitcointalk pointed that out, and now it took them 3 months! Still implausible, though. Unless you're willing to pay insane markups, your shortest turnaround time on an ASIC is around 6 months, and that's if you already have your design done.
* They offer local pickup (in the Czech Republic)
* This gem:

  > Due to Czech law, we MUST, give you back your money even after 14 days, if you are not satisfied with the product.

  I doubt that.

So yeah. Scam. I'm guessing that Antonio Barreto is the brains of the operation, and Anamur Silif is the fall guy.


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### Answer by username_2 on 2013-05-23. Score: 1

Certainly nobody except the owner or local auditors can tell you if its a scam, all you can do is gather as much information as possible. **Maybe the only real deal would be to visit the company locally or get documents that proof what they claim**.

Concerning the website, its a very basic opencart shop one can setup in 30 minutes.

Below is what i got on a fast search.

> Information about us
>
> www.anamurminers.com is a site operated by **Anamur Silif, s.r.o.**
> ("We"); we are a company registered in Czech republic under
> registration number **241 65 280**. Our registered office is Primátorská
> 296/38, Prague 8 180 00.

#

> The domain/hosting whois reveals: Email Search: is associated with
> about 213,056 domains NS History: 3 changes on 4 unique name servers
> over 0 year. IP History: 3 changes on 4 unique IP addresses over 0
> years. Whois History: 13 records have been archived since 2013-05-04 .
> Reverse IP: 629 other sites hosted on this server. Log In or Create a
> FREE account to start monitoring this domain name Preview the complete
> Domain Report for anamurminers.com
>
> Registrant: Anamur Silif s.r.o. Kasparova 590 Liberec, 46312 CZ
>
> Domain name: ANAMURMINERS.COM
>
> Administrative Contact:
> Barreto, Antonio Joaquin  
> Kasparova 590
> Liberec, 46312
> CZ
> +420.774984192 Fax: +420.000000000
>
> Technical Contact:
> a.s., INTERNET CZ  
> Ktis 2
> Ktis, 384 03
> CZ
> +420.383835353 Fax: +420.383835354
>
> Registration Service Provider:
> INTERNET CZ, a.s.,
> 00420-38-3835353
>
> Registrar of Record: TUCOWS, INC. Record last updated on
> 10-May-2013. Record expires on 30-Apr-2014. Record created on
> 30-Apr-2013.
>
> Registrar Domain Name Help Center:
> <http://tucowsdomains.com>
>
> Domain servers in listed order:
> NS2.GOSHAWK.ARVIXE.COM  
> NS1.GOSHAWK.ARVIXE.COM
>
> Domain status: clientTransferProhibited
> clientUpdateProhibited

#

> Google search on **Anamur Silif, s.r.o**
> <https://www.google.com/search?q=Anamur+Silif%2C+s.r.o&ie=UTF-8&sa=Search&channel=fe&client=browser-ubuntu&hl=en>

#

> More lookups:
>
> 1. <http://rejstrik.penize.cz/24165280-anamur-silif-s-r-o>
> 2. <http://www.bizbiz.cz/v2/firmy/239749/anamur-silif-s-r-o>
> 3. <http://topkontakt.idnes.cz/f/anamur-silif-s-r-o/1945713/>


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### Answer by username_3 on 2013-06-14. Score: -2

seems like they are also discussed here:
<http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=233346.0>


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