I've locked myself out of $900 and I need your help. I use this exchange MEXC often as a simple middleman whenever I accept crypto from people in real life. So instead of giving you my address, I give people the address from the exchange and when I withdraw to my personal wallet it comes out of a different wallet so the people I interact with don't see all my tokens, activity, etc. Today I tried this shit and MEXC says I need to confirm my identity. If this was less than $100 I would just forget it but this is $900 so I thought ok fine I will do it. The problem is that they don't accept users from the USA so I was using a VPN and now they want to verify my ID from one of the countries that they accept users from. What do I do? Please I'm not going to be homeless from this but it really hurts to know that I just burned $900 dollars.
>>62014384>I just burned $900
>>62014384
Come on is nobody really going to give me some kind of advice? I feel kind of depressed from this.
>>62014419Give it back Jamal
This is not the right basket weaving forum for you if losing 900 Dollars depresses you.
>>62014384Do you know somebody in a country from where Mexc accept users that you can trust?If not, you are never goint to get that money back.You should not fuck around with the laws when putting cash in one of these iffy exchanges.Why didnt you use a Us based exchange? Or a metamask wallet?
>>62014384be glad its only 900 try to be more careful next time
>>62014462most likely because what he's doing is illegal
>>62014384That's the MEXC gamble. It works fine on VPN until one day for no apparent reason it'll press you about confirming your identity and then you're fucked. I lost more than that on top of what I lost being a retard using leverage. I take it as a blessing considering had I not been banned, I probably would have added more margin and still have open positions currently as the market crabs. Fuck that site.
It's a shame we let these govs and companies ever get away with this ID verification shit to this point, isn't it?
>>62014644Spain just required all citizens to report everty bit of property they have outside the country. (Land, stocks, cash, crypto,..)
>>62014462>>62014483I'm not doing anything illegal. I already told you the truth. I was using this exchange's wallets as a middle point so that people couldn't track my personal wallet. I bought $900 from a friend today and I gave him this CEX wallet without realizing that MEXC had changed their policies sometime in 2025. The reason I was using MEXC is because they don't require KYC and still let you withdraw like 1 whole bitcoin.
>>62014384Stop being a fucking retard, I had the same shit happen to me. You write support email stating that all purchases were made on vacation in Mexico and if they don't let you withdraw you will get your lawyer involved. Its been a long time but mexc doesn't have any rules on people transferring crypto only buying and selling is prohibited for US citizens. Confirm your identity drop and write them that email and they will let you withdraw
>>62014384How many times must we say it? Not your keys, not your coins.
>>62015137What I meant is that buying crypto is illegal in the USA but not illegal for Americans on mexc so you can be American and buy crypto in Mexico on MEXCApologies I'm high as fuck but this worked for me
>>62015121monero solves this
>>62015160buy an ad.
>click on a perp dex to see what it's about>get this messageI'm actually offended, I haven't tried to access shit. Little bitches.
>>62014384Didn't you say your friend from another country was the person using it and you you were mistaken that it was you and you submitted his information to help him because he has a hard time with technology, and that he owes you 100% of the crypto in the wallet and is going to send it to your new master wallet as soon as it is unlocked for him by this exchange? I could've swore this was implied earlier?
>>62014384Fellow burger here. I had this happen with $47k after rapidly depositing and swapping to xmr and trying to withdraw. I was being hugely retarded but I wasn't aware of better options for xmr at the time and I was fomoing into a parabolic move. They locked the account and it seemed like a hassle so I left the 47k usdt I hadnt yet withdrawn sitting there for 6 months or so. Finally I got around to going through kyc kabuki with them a few weeks ago. It was, as expected, drawn-out and humiliating but at the end they unlocked my acc and I withdrew with no further problems. So just email support, explain you're a burger who didn't know better and go through kyc via email with them. You'll have to live with the spectre of not knowing if theyve sold your kyc data to the darkweb but that's the price you have to pay, unfortunately.
>>62014462>>62015141>>62015216>>62015253Thanks to everybody for your advice. I will try to find someone from another country but if I can't then I guess I will email them and tell them I am from America. But won't they freeze my money since I've already made a few trades in the past? I have actually used their exchange in the past to make a few trades, but I very rarely trade on it.
>>62015297I made trades into xmr and had several successful withdrawals to my xmr wallet before they froze my acct. They still unfroze me just fine after kabuki theatre had concluded. It probably helped that all my funds originated from a solana wallet I owbed with a ton of obvious shitcoin gains, so the source of my funds was relatively clear and straightforward. If you're getting random deposits from multiple addresses not under your control that might make your situation a lot murkier. Part of my humiliation ritual involved me filming a video of me showing that I controlled the wallet the funds originated from.
>>62015310I don't own the wallet that sent the funds to MEXC. My friend owns the wallet and I gave him $900 so he would send the eth to me.
>>62015310They let you use the account afterwards or just to withdraw?
>>62014384It's bad if multiple wallets send coins to your exchange wallet because they can send funds from blacklisted wallets and the exchange could request proof of origin.You should continue posting your issue here and on other communities. Proof your innocence. Be cooperative but if they drag it out, threaten endless FUD and complaints.MEXC is kind of dirty and states KYC is optional but they freeze accounts randomly and then force KYC. This is called shotgun KYC.Apparently they have recently made it mandatory without informing their users about this change.The chances of your KYC data getting sold or leaked in the future are high. Already happened to T1 CEXs.Before you use the identity of someone else, know that they could request more documents like bank statements or more videos.>>62015253There was a riot against MEXC on Twitter some months ago, maybe the have only let you withdraw because the pressure was too high?
>>62014384Exchanges aren't stupid. They scan all your Android apps.VPN apps and no KYC.Bingo! We'll just scam this user selectively.Anyway, your story is a load of bullshit. If you're in the US, you can easily get the same wallet address on Coinbase as on MEXC.You're doing this to evade taxes.At least be honest about it.
>>62015875Only to withdraw.
>>62016008No bank account was ever used so if I find someone from overseas they should have all the information required, even if MEXC demands video.>>62016019I never used my phone, only my desktop with a vpn. Why are you so certain I was doing illegal things? I am trying to evade taxes on $900? Do you hear yourself? As I've stated before, the truth is that I was using it because it is a buffer between me and whoever I give my address to, and the main reason I don't use Coinbase is because MEXC doesn't require KYC. Why would I give my ID to companies that will probably leak it eventually if I don't have to? It's literally just one extra step that I don't need to concern myself with. Also years ago I was trying to fomo in to something and I bought ETH on Coinbase and when I tried to withdraw it said I needed to wait a full 7 days. I don't know if this has changed since, but that was the last time I ever used Coinbase.
>>62014384>he fell for the MEXC scam
get an rns id, i think the cheapest one is $300use rns id to kyc at mexcbasically like getting $600 back which is better than nothing. or take your chances with mexc support
>>62014384thanks for playing kiddo
>>62017262Interesting, I've never heard about this before. I probably won't do it, but it sounds kind of cool. I will look into it.
>>62014384go to the country and befriend someone and use there id and take a selfie. i did this, the thing is , in a few years they may make you update the info like binance..and this is where im fucked. i dont know where the girl went that let me use her ID. a few years ago... now my OG binance account from 2017 with 1400 bnb is locked. no more trading without paying taxes... sigh...
