Topic: 3 Years Ago I Lost 5 BTCs from a Scam Sent From BitcoinTalk.org Official Email (Read 1122 times)

Well we did not hit with the s9 so oh well.

Like I said, BitcoinValues . net was sold to 99bitcoins with the email address with the proof. I'm not looking for sympathy of compensations. I was just thinking about it recently and wanted to post it. I lost a lot of Bitcoin on MtGox exchange too.

Instead of engaging them to reply here and potentially earning more you can report the post - Call it redundant and repetitive, state it adds nothing to the conversation. Check their history if that's all they do go to Yahoo62278's thread and report them. Maybe they get removed maybe not.
For the paid posts here this thread started off in Bitcoin Discussion, so it's easy to see how it got hit so much.  
Not going to lie I don't see the logic in attempting and committing to providing someone with restitution when you don't believe their story. If you think Sig Spam is bad, I'd hate to see the ensuing flood of "scammed" users showing up here, if you did hit a block. I've seen you offer this before and admire trying to help someone out, it just seems like a slippery slope when the story and "proof" are easily fabricated.

I'm not going to repeat what's been said numerous times, I've watched this thread since it began and my reply wasn't necessary then. Now that OP has added the imgur image, I have questions.
-This is what triggered you to create the topic, but the image clearly shows that it was 2014 so I'm unsure how you landed on 2017 in the first place
- Looking over the pricing there is no way to arrive at 5 BTC. You either bought 2  ads for 4 months at 4.8, or 1 add for 7 months for 4.9?
- Would have been awesome if you would have saved any of the other emails like the reply from 2 weeks later.

Either way. Knowing now that it was 2014, this wasn't cheap but it was far less expensive than many. Like anyone who has ever been hacked or scammed this was a lesson often learned in crypto. You are responsible for your coins and verifying who you send to. So if you are really looking for an apology or validation PM theymos the Admin.

Some, nowhere near enough.
Philipma1957, usually I am agreeing with you but this time you're unfortunately mistaken.
The OP fell for scam that happened in 2014.

Unlike Betcoin.AG who was suspicious from the first moment: Bitcoin Talk Advertising Email Received - Need Confirmation he probably sent money.

Also, as pointed in that thread, and on every ad auction:

So what you are actually asking for is the amount you lost through unofficial source.
I don't get why Bitcointalk.org would say sorry for your mistake... I just don't get your logic.

I am in your corner bro.  Still mining away.

I'm not a troll. I updated the post.

Well some info has been provided. So I am still mining ⛏

If coins were 500 when op was scammed  it would be around 5 x 500 = 2500

So i will mine on till sat the 19th.

And maybe the op gets lucky.

The price of BTC was around 500 on that date, so now tell us the:
TXID of the transaction if you really send the BTC on forum's address.
Website URL you want to advertise on bitcointalk.

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[Edit] Now you might been scammed by someone who used email spoofing. Because of that time of receiving that email which aug.26, 2014,
The current auction it should be included was round 130 or the round after that round 131 and any auction run here doesnt have any instructions that you will receive any email related on advertising.

All instructions and communications are held inside the forum. So, the chance of it came from scammers/hackers is 99%. Now, its for you to decide.

Sorry, I got my date mixed up. It was Aug 26, 2014. I sold the website with the email address I was using in 2017. I don't have access to that info anymore. I found this in one of my old computer drives. This is what started it.

https://imgur.com/a/pThEAAx

Everyone that's saying I'm lying, ask Bitcoin Talk if someone didn't hack their email system and sold ads space using their official email.

Bitcoin Price = January 2017 - $800–$1,150. I have nothing to gain bro.

At least you could have posted a screenshot of the email as proof that this has indeed happened. and besides, that's over two years ago why not  when a day after it happened, it cast a shadow of doubt on your accusations  and people will ask what are your motives on doing this, that's 5 Bitcoin even if it fetches a small amount you know the potential is going to be huge, now you are blaming for not saying sorry, when you should address it when it happened.

    And you just got paid how much?  
 To post what a dozen others have posted.

Meanwhile  I am mining away at ckpool http://solo.ckpool.org/users/146UJM5kgzLVUV23CXCf33KQKHckoX1gx3  

basically  I am the only one giving the op some hope of restitution of his lost coins.  Even spending some of my own money to give him a chance at restittuion.

I now count more then 65 paid posts to this thread.



Let me make myself clear I don't think the op told the truth.
But what I really don't like is people posting and getting paid to dump on him.

So  on the small chance he told the truth I offered to mine and give him 4700 usd worth of coin back if I hit the block. If he proves he really lost the coins in early 2017

I would give him the real worth with a limit of 9400 since coins were under 2000 the first few months of 2017 and he said early 2017.

If I do the math correctly the chance of the block being hit by tuesday the 15th of oct is really small. 
But most likely a bigger chance then the story of the op being true.

So indirectly you are filing an scam accusation on bitcointalk ? To support your claim, you need to provide few things for initial investigation.

1- Your Blog URL
2- Tx ID of  5 BTC which you send
3- Screenshot of emails which you received from bitcointalk
4- Your BCT account cryptozink was created in 2018 so you must have other account in BCT in 2017. What's the name of that account ?
5- Why you are writing this now after 1.5 years and did not wrote anything about it before
6- If the BCT  email was hacked, they must have mentioned in any thread here. If they did, give us the link.

Without all this, its just a fake story......

That's probably not going to happen, nor do I think it would it ease your pain.

Their e-mail got hacked?  I don't recall hearing anything about that, and I was around 3 years ago--but whatever, there have been lots of hacks here, so it wouldn't surprise me at all.

OP, I don't know why you would have sent 5BTC just like that, even if it was 3 years ago.  Bitcoin wasn't exactly dirt cheap in 2016 if I recall correctly.  That same year I got scammed on a loan I made.  That was only for 0.3BTC and I'm still black-coffee bitter about it, so I can only imagine how you feel.  I've got some sympathy for you, but man.  I would have done some due diligence before sending 5BTC for some advertising.  That's a lesson for you, but an expensive one.

It will all depend on the user.

As for me, whenever I logged into my email account from a different computer, I will receive 2 notifications from my phone, 1 on the email app, and the other from my number. And it is also backed up by different security protocols which I enabled. So I'm pretty confident that such a hijack would ever happen. And besides, occasionally, I change my password every now and then.

I think email is one of the notorious way to hijack into a PC, nobody would believe wanna cry was first spread through email attachment and it certainly bypass the gmail security system, of course there is still a lot of of hidden exploits that’s waiting to be unearthed, I know mobile number can’t be reliable since there is no security at all behind this ancient primitive technology, but we can’t afford to drop it yet to verify simply everything.

If I hit that block  I would be happy to give the op 4700 USD worth of btc. Since he said he lost the 5 coins when it was in early 2017  thats what he lost 4700 in fiat.

If he can full prove the 5 btc loss  was when coins had shot up a bit I would be happy to send him  the usd value on the day he lost the coins.

up to 9400 if he proves it.

I'm with you there for the 1 month sig-free trial run of a section. If that block hits, you should verify the story