3 Years Ago I Lost 5 BTCs from a Scam Sent From BitcoinTalk.org Official Email - page 4.

teosanru

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Quote from: cryptozink on October 07, 2019, 12:16:07 AM

True story,

In 2017 I was running my bitcoin blog; one of the first blogs created in the space, when someone contacted me from an official BitcoinTalk.org. They asked for 5 BTCs to post a banner ad on BT. Seeing that the email was coming from an official BT address, I sent them 5 BTCs.

Two weeks later after not hearing from anyone, I received a message from BitcoinTalk.org saying their email was hacked and the ad offer was from a scammer.

5 Bitcoins today = $40,000 USD. I really miss it. I wish BitcoinTalk.org would at least say sorry.

Well, it's both a bit unbelievable and dubious. Obviously 5 BTC is pretty high of an amount to pay for any ad banner. Also surprisingly you are a newbie who has just joined a few time ago. It's better you try to make such allegations along with some solid proofs & supporting pictures. Because otherwise anyone could say such thing. I am interested if Theymos comes forward to accept if any such thing ever happened Tongue

. Moreover correct board for such types of allegation is META.

XCANA

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Unbelievable, way back in 2017 the price of bitcoin was higher due to the hype at that time, probably the amount wont be as quoted by you. Hearing from your end without proof to back your allege allegation up, without this proof you have no case on this and nothing can be done in this case. Maybe you were scammed out of curiosity to put your ad on Bitcointalk.org, nevertheless you should take this as external scam and not internal scam from BTT.

Genemind

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You should have posted a proof as well so people would really be aware if it's true. Emails could easily get hacked so you must do multiple legit checking before trusting those kinds of messages. 5Btc is a huge amount and it's really a big loss if you have sent it to scammers. It's a lesson learned so you have to be careful next time.

dave111223

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Everyone has similar stories of loss of bitcoins for one reason or another. It seems to me that the bitcointalk database was hacked a few years ago and that encrypted accounts are now recoverable on the deep. You always have to be very suspicious, especially when people contact you directly...

gunhell16

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True story,

And you want people to believe you!?

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In 2017 I was running my bitcoin blog; one of the first blogs created in the space, when someone contacted me from an official BitcoinTalk.org. They asked for 5 BTCs to post a banner ad on BT. Seeing that the email was coming from an official BT address, I sent them 5 BTCs.

It is much better if you have the email screenshot and post it here. that will support your accusation.
and what is the ad all about that was a huge price! well what month of 2017 are we talking here?

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Two weeks later after not hearing from anyone, I received a message from BitcoinTalk.org saying their email was hacked and the ad offer was from a scammer.

Another screenshot must be provided on this!
Did you talk to them in this forum also?

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5 Bitcoins today = $40,000 USD. I really miss it. I wish BitcoinTalk.org would at least say sorry.

IF you deal with them at the last quarter of the year then that was not just 40K that time!

Kyraishi

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Damn. Did you really believe an email with the details "bitcointalk.org"? Well, if you understood how the forum works, there are auctions every week I believe in the auctions area where banner ads are sold for, and no one will ever email you for payment.

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/advertise-on-this-forum-round-288-5183726

Quote from: lobat999 on October 07, 2019, 05:05:25 AM

Baseless accusations and without sufficient proofs are almost often dismissed, just like in any court of law as it is suggesting an idea that you are maligning the forum.

Also, I couldn't believe why it take almost two years for you to open this issue and not at the height of the Bitcoin bull run on 2017 where by far I'm sure you would have exerted all efforts to get your BTC back especially when it had reached $20k in December 2017.

He's probably had money issues and is looking for any venue to get his money back, desperate people are desperate. Anyway, he probably got scammed, but it definitely wasn't by bitcointalk.org, because they will never do payments via email. Here's a quote from the thread for this week's advertising space.

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You must pay for your slots within 24 hours of receiving the payment address. Otherwise your slots may be sold to someone else, and I might even give you a negative trust rating. I will send you the payment information via forum PM from this account ("theymos", user ID 35) after announcing the auction results in this thread. You might receive false payment information from scammers pretending to be me. They might even have somewhat similar usernames. Be careful.

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Quote from: Thekool1s on October 07, 2019, 03:04:28 AM

Guys, can we stop feeding the troll? OP creates a post accusing to lose 5 BTCs without any proof whatsoever and all of the peeps want him to post the "proofs"? Think about it If you would have lost as much as 0.1 BTC wouldn't you have posted all the "proofs" in the thread to give proper context and back your story up? smdh...

Exactly OP didn't show any shred of evidence in all this accusations which is very grave by the way. If there was any prove that at least the message was officially from bitcointalk and it was even hacked then OP must at least deserve some compensation but there is none of it at all.

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True story from the future would probably sound like: 10 years ago it was 2019, and everyone was coming down from a mega hangover from 2017, and I wanted to cheer some people up on bitcointalk so I hosted a giveaway and gave 100,000 satoshi away to ten people.

It was only $80 bucks at the time but you know I felt really happy to make 10 people happy.

Today, Bitcoin is 10 million bucks. I kinda miss my $100,000.

P.S. Even if someone emails me asking for 50 cents I'd be like eff off man.

kingcolex

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This should probably be in meta and this is also why you verify things of all sorts. Why would the unbeknownst to you email you and ask for 5 btc for a banner ad, that's weird.

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Baseless accusations and without sufficient proofs are almost often dismissed, just like in any court of law as it is suggesting an idea that you are maligning the forum.

Also, I couldn't believe why it take almost two years for you to open this issue and not at the height of the Bitcoin bull run on 2017 where by far I'm sure you would have exerted all efforts to get your BTC back especially when it had reached $20k in December 2017.

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Quote from: crwth on October 07, 2019, 12:20:16 AM

An ad for 5 BTC in 2017 is freaking excessive.

I think it's a fair price to consider how big this forum is, to think that how many people can view that ad if it was published from here. But the wrong and obvious scam here is why is the forum itself is offering the ad posting for their website? It should be the owner of the ad that will be publish who will offer money to promote his blog/campaign but instead the admin of the forum here is the one to offer to good to be true dude.

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Quote from: pieppiep on October 07, 2019, 04:35:17 AM

I think you need to think before you sent that bitcoin, at least, you know that the forum is bitcointalk.org. I wonder why you are not visiting this forum and ask about the email, so you will see that it is from bitcointalk.org, or that it is fake. Besides that, we don't know if that is a true story or not. And even if that is a true story, it's already happening for a long time ago.

Next time, you need always to check if you got an email from anywhere, so you don't get the same mistake as before. 5 bitcoin is a big amount for most people, and they will not be easy to send to unknown people or email. But that will be a lesson for you and us so we can be careful to send any amount to the person that we don't know.

I wonder if OP never suspects the email he received. I don't see any reason for sending a fund just by receiving an email like that. If it was me, I will get suspicious and I'm not gonna send even a small amount of penny into their wallet. It is an obvious scam. With that worth of btc to spend just for a banner.

But then, OP probably learned about his mistakes for trusting an email that was sent to him before.

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Quote from: Coin_trader on October 07, 2019, 12:42:10 AM

Quote from: cryptozink on October 07, 2019, 12:16:07 AM

True story,

In 2017 I was running my bitcoin blog; one of the first blogs created in the space, when someone contacted me from an official BitcoinTalk.org. They asked for 5 BTCs to post a banner ad on BT. Seeing that the email was coming from an official BT address, I sent them 5 BTCs.

Two weeks later after not hearing from anyone, I received a message from BitcoinTalk.org saying their email was hacked and the ad offer was from a scammer.

5 Bitcoins today = $40,000 USD. I really miss it. I wish BitcoinTalk.org would at least say sorry.

Can you provide a screenshot of the email and also your conversation to bitcointalk email telling what you said?

I'm willing to bet the OP won't do this because it seems like his/her goal is just to attract attention and make a post. 5 BTC is only owned by a professional and it is not possible for a professional to make posts without clear evidence.

Quote from: dessyhodin97 on October 07, 2019, 03:50:02 AM

could have been a fake account,scam everywhere

scam everywhere and maybe who said this sentence is was one of them

pieppiep

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I think you need to think before you sent that bitcoin, at least, you know that the forum is bitcointalk.org. I wonder why you are not visiting this forum and ask about the email, so you will see that it is from bitcointalk.org, or that it is fake. Besides that, we don't know if that is a true story or not. And even if that is a true story, it's already happening for a long time ago.

Next time, you need always to check if you got an email from anywhere, so you don't get the same mistake as before. 5 bitcoin is a big amount for most people, and they will not be easy to send to unknown people or email. But that will be a lesson for you and us so we can be careful to send any amount to the person that we don't know.

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could have been a fake account,scam everywhere

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Quote from: cryptozink on October 07, 2019, 12:16:07 AM

True story,

In 2017 I was running my bitcoin blog; one of the first blogs created in the space, when someone contacted me from an official BitcoinTalk.org. They asked for 5 BTCs to post a banner ad on BT. Seeing that the email was coming from an official BT address, I sent them 5 BTCs.

Two weeks later after not hearing from anyone, I received a message from BitcoinTalk.org saying their email was hacked and the ad offer was from a scammer.

5 Bitcoins today = $40,000 USD. I really miss it. I wish BitcoinTalk.org would at least say sorry.

At one point or the other, people have fallen for one scam or the other and most times, its not the fault of the impersonated party because they don't know. Sometimes, it takes time to figure it out while at other times depending on the nature of the approach the scammer is using, they might be casted easily. Without not sounding insensitive to your plight, you should have at-least double check whether the information is correct considering you have not seen something like that or even come to the forum to see whether you were targeted or a lot of other people got the same message. Either way, its time to move on...

gentlemand

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Welt Am Draht

Since bitcointalk.org had as much to do with you being fooled out of your money as I had to do with it, let me take this moment to humbly apologise on its behalf. It won't happen again. No, sir.

MonsterV

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It's sad to see your story about losing your bitcoin, but you should provide clear evidence of accusations to this forum, like ss. If you browse through threads in every part of this forum, you will definitely find various accusations against community and platform made by newbie members. Most of them boast and bullshit without proof, I hope you can prove it.

And in my opinion this is not entirely wrong bitcointalk.org because this is an unwanted disaster bitcointalk.org as well. I have known this forum for a long time and every advertiser can display their ads through the thread that has been provided every week.

Anonylz

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Sending 5 btc over for a banner ad just because you thought the mail was coming from bitcointalk.org and it never occur to you to make an inquiry by coming to the forum to ask the mods about it? 3 years ago and again you are just coming now to talk about it, even when btc hit ATH of $20k you never fill the need to come by then to make your claim? am sure you still have this so-called mail from bitcointalk.org, if you do, then all you need do is provide it so that forum members can scrutinize it properly Wink

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Change is in your hands

Guys, can we stop feeding the troll? OP creates a post accusing to lose 5 BTCs without any proof whatsoever and all of the peeps want him to post the "proofs"? Think about it If you would have lost as much as 0.1 BTC wouldn't you have posted all the "proofs" in the thread to give proper context and back your story up? smdh...

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