Topic: 177 LTC , 34000 GNT , 28+ ETH stolen from my wallet (Read 1815 times)

Sorry for your loss but don’t give up on crypto world. I am sure you will gain more in the future than what you lost today. Nonetheless, as many members advise you, please get a secure hardware wallet to keep your coins.
Many scammers are out to scam, so stay alert and watch out for phishing websites.

What more can one expect from a noob like OP. Hope you learned your lesson a hard way.

Really sorry to hear that, I have also some similar experience that some of my coins just missed and I can do nothing with it, for example lost my password. But I think you can get the money back if you keep on the investment on this market since I think this market will have a bright future and now it is just a begin.

That is terrible for me, I think I will never announce to the whole world how many coins I have and where are these coins, thank you for your information.

You put your money in the suspicious place. but why don't you just try to buy trezor to secure all of your funds and to keep them more safe? But i think you just get malware that already stole all of your funds. Remember to not put your email or something that really important for you anywhere.

well really donno what to say! What a loss.

Thank you nevertheless for sharing your story with us, it will just make us more cautious. Recently started moving funds from exchanges and keep them in secure wallets. I think it's a practice that everyone should do. Proper wallet not jack of all trade wallet aka Exodus.

Don't quit, learn from your mistakes. Like some other people mentioned get your basic security into place.

Good luck

I am sorry to hear that, I think you should store your coins more safely next time.

I think this should be your mistake, no such websites like shapeshift.io does not need your few eth or any other currencies, you probably caused yourself to be hacked.

Yes this is what I thought initially! Exodus wallet I though was very secure
as the users are in control of the private keys, its not like an online wallet
on and exchange.

Hmm I dont doubt the OP and I am very sorry that it has happened to him
but I would think there is something else at play here with no disrespect to the OP.

Can't be really sure about what happened here since OP did not give full details of what happened (addresses, txs, support tickets). I would be so surprised to learn that Shapeshift collaborated with Exodus. As far as Exodus is concerned, isn't your private keys already available for you? You are only using the software, not storing the keys at them.

Googled Exodus scam and no good hits either. Unless he used a fake Exodus.

I apologize for your loss. I hope you do not give up on your path, perhaps this is the most worthwhile lesson in your life but try to start from scratch because we all make mistakes

Sorry for the losses boss. Why are you giving scammers the chance to rob you. With these huge amount of coins you were holding, you needed a safer wallet than keeping your money on exchange. I thought you took safe methods to save your coins just to hear today that your coins are gone again if  not a discussion you wanna create, then I must say you don't learn.
Hero men were giving you advice on how to securely save coins and yet you get scam again. 
By the way I'm sorry once again for the losses .

Sad to hear stories like this, but do not give up on Crypto completely as I believe in 5 years time even this loss will pale in comparison to the possible gains you could miss out on by leaving.

First you need to educate yourself on basic security practices however. If you can, get a hardware wallet as many here have already recommended and get away from online wallets except for very small amounts you intent to use within a relatively short period of time. Practice with your hardware wallet and become very familiar with how it works and how to properly recover the funds. Test with only a small amount <0.001 BTC until you are comfortable with how to get at your funds in any situation.

Also, as others have pointed out, do not post any more information publicly about yourself, including emails, accounts, wallet addresses, or other information than is absolutely necessary, and in most cases this is zero. Hopefully you wouldn't post your Bank's name, account number, and amount on deposit on the Internet, and neither should you post any details about your crypto holdings.

Any online accounts you do have, you should use dedicated email addresses only for that account and never post it anywhere. Use only services (email and other) that provide two-factor authentication, never rely on just an email and password for security.


While Windows may be less secure, it is only due to users not taking the time to practice proper security precautions. There are many guides online how to lock down a Windows installation to be in fact quite secure. The main problem is people are using their all-in-one PC for everything and not exercising the caution they should be with so much money at stake. Just like you wouldn't (hopefully) leave an envelope with $20,000 cash in it laying around in your unlocked car, you shouldn't leave the same on your non-secured PC.

For any amounts over $10k (arbitrary) you should be looking at a hardware wallet or dedicated PC. Regardless of OS, take time to properly secure it and disable everything not needed to simply run the wallet software. Be sure to encrypt your wallet with a hard password of at least 32 mixed characters (Upper, Lower, Numbers, Symbols). Setup firewall rules to only allow the bare functionality needed. Never use it for anything else, never ever use a web browser or email client on it, just the wallet and that's it. The only time it should even be running is when you are syncing and ready to make a transaction.

Also don't use wireless and have a decent home router with everything locked down. Again, many sites on how to do this and test its effectiveness are out there.

Anyway, I could go on forever, but the end result is your funds are only as secure as the effort you put into securing them. In this case it sounded like the OP put too much trust into third parties and did not take time to understand how any of it really worked, much less how he could himself take more proactive steps t securing his funds. Now he is pissed at the world because of his carelessness and is ready to give up rather than double down and take advantage of the opportunity of a lifetime.

Sorry to tell you this, but they were not your coins. If you do not own the private keys, then you do not own the coins. Next time, you will put them in true wallets, making you there true owner !

Oh man... sorry for you man

Crypto wont be maintstream untill global security of funds are safe, without having to be a nerd wizzard to keep your funds safe.

I know there are very secure ways of holding your coins, but there is no way my mother understands it. Untill she can, cryptos can't go mainstream in my opinion.

sorry to hear that, blockchain has so many people who were hacked, just to comfort yourself and dont give up

sorry for your loss.. 

exodus is closed source wallet and everybody who is serious about security and money should avoid such a solutions....
Everybody who is really serious about crypto should use HW wallets or extreme caution about offline/cold storages


loss is bad, but it look like combination of wrong decisions made by you.

I'm very sorry for your loss.

I'm an new player who just entered into this field, by June this year.

So how does it happened exactly? Some social engineering?

SCAM ALERT

I used Exodus wallet to exchange my ethereum to btc and shapeshift scammed me with the help of exodus  

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.20786589


Help me!! To get my funds back you scammer.... I am now going to leave this community as i was already scammed here 20 eth and 170+ LTC , and now some more ETH scammed from me.
Scammers every where making new projects to take money from people like me who want to convert their fiat to crypto believing that crypto will change the future...

fuck ou scammers...