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

Hey op  your clever post  has generated many replies more then 60 have a signature.  So why not have all the signature people that made money posting here send in the coin to the op.

 This thread is a perfect example of why signature campaigns need to be completely halted  for a month or so to reset and track  why people post.

Case 1)
 Lets pretend op is a liar piece of shit that posted to create replies.  He got lots of them most with signatures pretty much wrong on a moral level.

 
Case 2)
Lets pretend op got fucked and lost 5 btc from Jan 2017 = $4700.00  lots of people call him out say he is a liar and they make money on their signatures pretty much worse then case 1 a bunch of heartless motherfuckers kicking a poor slob when he is down on his luck and worse yet making money on it.


I for one am glad I decided to not do signatures any more.  I also call for a 1 month test period of no signatures at all even if it is just in meta or one other section say Bitcoin Discussion


at op I am going to set an s-9  to a solo-pool and run it until Oct 15th  if I hit a block  I will toss you some coin.



http://solo.ckpool.org/users/146UJM5kgzLVUV23CXCf33KQKHckoX1gx3


take a look here for the next few days.

So where is your transaction history? And where is the email you received? Your story is worthless without sufficient evidence. If you are really face this situation, give sufficient proof here. Then everyone will believe your story.

Nobody from Bitcointalk owes any apologies because it's no one's fault that you supposedly paid an unreasonable overpriced ammount for something that, with the smallest effort, you would have found it's worth a lot less. Also, you will never get anything from anyone based on (until proven wrong) a made up story. Until proof is offered, this is bullcrap!  

I think this is fake story, right?
On 2017, price Bitcoin is still high around $1,000 per coin.
So if 5 BTC = $5,000. What the hell you want buy banner with that much money.
If you targeting specific user to visit your blog, there is social media still don't have restricted rules about cryptocurrency. Also if you don't care give that Bitcoin at that time, i think you already have big profit before to cover ads cost.

really, I doubt what the OP said. BTT email might could be hacked but if there is no evidence the same is also a lie.
it happened more than a year but just made a thread, Where have you been.
at least provide TX evidence so we believe.

How ridiculous you were, In 2017 was a pick point of Bitcoin, at the end of that year, bitcoin price was starting getting high and after that, the price of Bitcoin is maintaining a good trend. I don't know when you lost your 5BTC, it's a freaking joke for me, I don't understand who and why you sent 5BTC without not varifying or rechecking properly, how silly that was, Whatever the official email from Bitcointalk.org you might take it more cautiously. Can you imagine that time, I can't, In December of 2017, The price of Bitcoin was almost 20k and that means you lost almost 95k at that moment, It's a massive case, I can't understand even I can't feel you what you have given up. By the way, I think you took a worthy lesson from this incident and be watchful for the future.

I can sure bitcointalk.org sent email for every one promoting campaign on bitcointalk banner, how ever we are first ask to bitcointalk.org team available for promoting ads or not, after get their confirmation we can give and sent bitcoin as payment for them and impossible bitcointalk.org could be banned for sending message to other member.

It's a big amount, it will be better also if you have posted also here the body of the email that they have sent to you and the transaction hash of your payment which is 5 btc. I am pretty sure that it's still there if your story is true. 

Whether their email account was hack, they should be accounted for it and at least apologize to you for what happened or they can give some offer as compensation of what happened. It's better that you should triple check everything also before paying, your negligence also brought you to this situation.

We do place a lot of trust in emails for a service that can pretty easily get spoofed all the time.

Most email providers, I know Gmail and outlook do for sure are pretty smart with this and are able to detect spoofed attempts and these services will usually highlight these scam attempts so you won't get fooled.

That's really an expensive one to make an ad here and you didn't confirm first and sent 5 BTC. And, if i receive an email that before then i will be suspicious since its asking for money.

I doubt that this hacker already got a lot of money back in 2017 if they trust the email they have receive.

What reason do I have to lie? 5 Bitcoins wasn't that much at the beginning of 2017. BT was the most sought after space to advertise at the time. As I said, the email come from an official BT email address. It was until two weeks later they sent out a mass email saying their email server was hacked.

Again, the email come from an official BT email address. It wasn't until two weeks later BT sent out an email saying their email was hacked.

The email really come from "official" BT email address. They were hacked. 5BTC wasn't really that much at the time. An ad on BT was gold in 2017.

Dear Sir!

We are sorry that you have become a victim of sophisticated fraud back in 2017, and we, at our site, can assure you, that there are no any connections between us and that fraud.
And to prove it, you can send 1BTC to this bitcoin address : 1NeverEverSendYourMoneyToUnknownPeopleAgain , then to show our deep sorry, we will return you 2 BTC instead of 1 BTC you send, tomorrow!

Best regards
bitcoin team!

when viewed from the history of the OP's posts, it seems that the OP is active in this forum, but I don't know why the OP doesn't want to reply the posts in this thread!!  this makes me even more sure that the OP actually did not experience this incident.. I hope the OP is aware of the future impact if gives a fake discussion.

I don't believe your story. 5 BTC only for advertisement, with no verification? How is it possible? Give the 5 btc trx link here, We try to verify. You did not give here your blog link. Without proof, your story is baseless. In order to make the story believable, you need to provide proof.

For me the decision you made to send 5 btc on the person you dont know is really a bad decision, on year 2017 5btc is a big amount of money so you should not trust people easily, i feel bad for your lost of btc but for me you are the one who made a big mistake that's why you should be more careful now.

Honestly am finding it hard to believe that someone will just blindly send 5 btc over to an unknown address without any prior communication of any sort, even at 2017 btc price has already gone up, so he can't tell me that 5 btc is small amount that he cant take serious, people use escrow for service like this, he didn't apply the service of an escrow,
how can you pay for service and wait 2 weeks later to get feedback?

Sending 5 BTC to any unknown address w/o verifying is not good. If someone has contacted you, you should atleast varify it first. It was a matter of 5 BTC. You could have sent the money if amount was less but 5 BTC was a big amount to send, I think you must have checked all his credential and should have done payment in parts like you could have sent 1 BTC first and then rest amount once your blog ad was placed on Bitcointalk.

Op may be lying but I’m not going to ignore the possibilities of the said incident, because it’s part of the common opsec mistake everyone can eventually fall into it, by understanding the know-how of each scam, we can be certainly more prepared to prevent ourselves getting duped, btw email scams look to be some of the most creative scams one can imagine, it’s not unusual to receive the same letter for verification from reputable conventional banking service, we can’t perfectly tell the source of email is legit since everything  can be spoofed, email address, website url, even the crc check can be spoofed, how safe can we think from being scammed?

Well, it's huge amount of money actually and I wonder what should it be in that email that you decided to send 5 btc to someone without any proof. Every account could be hacked as well as bitcointalk.org. There are lots of such situations, but it's only your responsibility.

I am hardly believing on the info in your topic, even in 2017, the market price of bitcoin is already progressive, and in that case 5BTC is too much for an advertisement. But by the way, this might serve as a lesson for some newly users who might read this post, we should avoid transacting with anonymous person, on the internet, everything is possible, there is allot that might deceive us.

IMHO 5BTC isn't much for those of us cpu generated 50 btcs about once every hr with old core clients.

value and refund aside,
Would it of made any difference if it was 10 years ago and lost 5BTCs?  would you expect Satoshi (founder of bitcointalk) apologize for a scam by 3rd party?  

Easy to figure out what happened here :

• OP created his account on 2018, means on 2017 he wasn't a member of this forum yet, it is impossible that he agreed to advertise his website on a forum he was never there before.
• OP looks like easily paid a huge amount of money to advertise his site, it is also impossible for anyone to giving out that amount of his money for advertising without any further cooperation with forum's moderators

This is obviously FAKE.

5BTC just for banner ads in 2017 when the price of bitcoin was extremely high, that was huge. Anyone could have known that it was a scam, at first it was even too high, besides there are accounts here carrying staff.

Couldn't agree anymore. The user should be blaming the hackers and his own carelessness first. No one in their right mind would be willing to spend 5 BTC without carefully studying the reviews and taking the necessary security precautions. A lot of websites and forums get hacked every year and what happened to Bitcointalk then was not something special or unique. At least in this case, this user could have first verified the contents of the email with the admins or the moderators, or should have at least posted a thread in the Meta sub-forum for clarification.

To be honest, I am not going to believe on your story. Although I joined this forum later 2017 but I don't hear about email hacked( not sure if I am missing something like that). I am really not aware any other similar cases. And in 2017 5 btc wasn't very small amount. And you should know that any admin or moderators will never ask for money via email. You were should verify it through forum before sent this huge amount.

the op said that it was true but im still skeptical about it  .  why would you trust someone that you wont know ? everything can pretend online and even before scammers are already on the loose but until now i still recieve fake emails and spam emails that obviously want to take advantage from us .  thats true that email is important because we recieve such verfication but that is if we sign up or contacted the site , if thats not the case  , say they are the first one that email you then that is already untrustable  .

I just have a simple doubt, where you in a comma for the past two years and if you are looking to put out an advertisement will you just follow the mail and wait for them to put up the advertisement or come to this forum and make a deal with the admin  .

It can be a million dollars in the next ten years, there is nothing you can do about it. 5BTC for advertisement in 2017 was surreal and i would like to see the transaction ID since you want an apology from the admin for your foolishness  .

That’s is massive! I’m not sure if it was true, because my inbox was always so full, and an email that sent from official site and then later informed it was hacked, it does smell fishy here, it could sound like we trust email too much, since we receive email verification for everything personal, idk who to blame now.😅

Let's assume that they are true allegations and OP did really get scammed out of 5 BTC a couple years ago.

If this did happen, we can all rest assured that it was definitely not bitcointalk that did scam him, because they never organize payments or even offer to sell banner advertisements outside of the forum.

It was likely someone with a fake domain name that was hidden using fake letters. For example, he may have gotten an email from bitcointälk.org (look closely and you'll see the different letter "ä"). Most email services do however flag those as spoofed emals though.

Quality shitpost lmao, everyone is eating this up too.

Maybe he got overwhelmed by the majority of responses that contradicts his statement, requiring him to show proofs to back up his allegations but none has been exhibited so far! To make a long story short, this is all but malicious act with the intent to harm this forum's reputation yet so far it had never succeeded in doing so. I guess we should now move on to discuss other productive topics rather this one. Imho.

That was huge amount by now worth 5 bitcoin. Sorry for your lost but why you are now appealing to this? Well on that incident, I think that's your mistake because it's easy to say that they are official unless you'll be able to confirm it first before sending that huge amount of bitcoin. I think that's a lesson learned for you not to trust no one especially with regards to money.

OP did not bother to go back here and answer some of the questions, there was no follow up when the accusations are serious but why know it's been three years and remember that Bitcoin is very huge when it hit the all-time high, people doing accusations to a group or individuals and posting it online should further elaborate and come back on his thread ifhe is that serious.

you got scammed for 5BTC 3 years ago and you just come back to ask bitcointalk.org to say sorry? that's funny. but perhaps providing the details so we can see is a TRUE story just as you claim. because if its true, you should really heard the sorry from someone who spoof the email. that is if we can ever find him. but let me just say SORRY, your money is already gone.

5 BTC is a huge amount of money right now. Hope this is a lesson for you and a reminder for us. Just don't believe that we have no solid proof that someone emailing you is true and not a scam. Find and verify it first before we act so that we can be sure, Today is a time when many thieves and criminals will do everything for money even if it is wrong.

Please can you tell us which website you owned? Have you heard anything about email spoofing? Despite the fact that most mails have good anti spam protection, it's still possible to send fake emails which will bypasd spam filter.
Then you could at least check website instead of directly sending bitcoins to an unknown adress, have you even checked history of that adress?
In any way no one has to apologize, especially bitcointalk's staff.

Have we ever heard of the news regarding the email of bitcointalk has been hacked before? As OP stated that he received an email a few weeks later when the incident was happened. I think this is just another statement to get an attention from bitcointalk users. OP seems to be lying and just created a situation out of nowhere. If ever that the bitcointalk email was hacked, this site is no longer be here.

If he cannot prove his accusations then I am sensing it was meant to discredit bitcointalk.org and I guess no one will ever believe him. But assuming it did happen, then  I assume he was a  victim of an email phishing attack using a fake look a like email address of bitcointalk.org in which case the staff of this forum has nothing to do with nor committed any kind of fraud and have no liabilities whatsoever since he has only himself to blame for not being cautious from his actions.

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

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.

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.

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...

And you want people to believe you!?

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?

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.
 

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.

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

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.

could have been a fake account,scam everywhere

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...

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.

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.

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

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...

Ouch. That was sad to hear. It's a lesson that you should never sent your bitcoin when you're not sure what is it about. Though it was still 2017, it's now 2019 I bet you've already grown and learn how to avoid scams. Since we're responsible for our own actions here in crypto, we can't blame anyone because it's our own action afterall.

This ain't true story if you can't justify your statement, 5 bitcoins in 2017 = $100,000 and too expensive for a single banner, this story is so exaggerated for me. The other question that came in my mind is how come that the certain email (that has been hacked) as you were saying knows that you have a lot of bitcoins sleeping in your wallet, this is so odd.

Please support your story with proofs and evidence, like what others want you to do to prove if this story of yours is true and not just a hoax.

Bitcointalk never supports or promotes any banner ads. The promotions were made by different managers through the bitcointalk.org platform. You should've known about it, or should made a confirmation before sending. If you've send this before 2015 it is agreeable, by 2017 the market was strong and experiencing bull trend.

By 2017 such a big amount for banner promotion, you are responsible to check it and proceed further. Phising activities in the name of popular forums and services were common. Now you should not expect a sorry from the team who doesn't have anything associated with them.

The big question is why now, do you have have an old post about your complaint with a valid proof of this, you should have posted it the time it happens because that's three years ago, you should also send a screenshot on the exchange of email, so we can see if the accusations is valid or it was a hacker who victimized you.

Sorry for what? Their email might have got compromised and now 3 years after out of the blue you want them to apologize to you...

Another thing is that emails must not be blindly accepted coming from a particular domain because it is fairly simple to set up a script with SMTP server to send out emails claiming to be someone else. This is achieved through E-Mail Spoofing.

There were times where the BTC auctions went for quite a lot, during the ICO boom period, I remember seeing some banner's go for around 1.2 BTC when BTC was around the 5 digit mark, which isn't far off 20,000 for a simple banner slot. I think there where even weeks where they went for upwards of 2 BTC for the ads.

Anyway, about the scam, it was probably a spoofed email or a faked one with there being a special unseeable character. It was probably not the real bitcointalk that scammed you and they shouldn't need to give you a refund.

Show proof bro. A priority when talking about scams and hacks. Also, we all know about how the security of anyone can be compromised at any moment. No matter how high the position of someone asking something from you, at least ask for some kind of proof /assurance/contract. Especially since your coins are handled by yourself. It isn't contracted to some kind of rules and laws. You handle whatever happens and anything that you do is your responsibility. Not really the fault of bitcointalk right there.

This is an open forum, and as such, all these things can and probably should be discussed in the open. Nevertheless, this kind of accusation should be backed by evidence (i.e. emails) in order for them to be credible.

Regardless, the first thing I would have done at the time was to check current prior auction sections to see what was being offered for a slot (or more):

December 2017: re:Advertise on this forum - Round 229

January 2017: re:Advertise on this forum - Round 196


5 BTCs was way off at any moment during 2017 ...

At least send some proofs here that what you are saying is true . I'm not saying that you are damaging the image of the website but I don't think they will do it to you. They will not just PM you out of nowhere and ask for 5 BTC. Just my opinion.

But in behalf of the admins of the website, I would say sorry or not because they are not the ones who did it. Probably a scammer did it and they just used this site. Send some proofs before creating a thread like this here

Can you send us the blockchain transaction id? or at least the bitcoinblog that you are running. or maybe the email that bitcointalk.org(maybe not) email that was sent to you 3 years ago.
or any proof that can prove your statement.

This might be a built-up issue to scandalize this forum

What's your blog, cause the website you have in your profile was created in 2018 and by 2017 there were thousands of blogs already
Your account is not from 2017 either.
And you get scammed for 5 BTC (worth maybe 15-100k depending on the month in which it happned) and you just now come here to talk about? Of course, for somebody claiming to airdrop 9 million $ in tokens that would peanuts /s

So,
- screenshot of the email with the full header
- proof of the transaction with a message signed from the sending address so you just don't pick any random tx from the chain

Proof or it did not happen.    So, why did you post it here... and where are the discussion about this on the forum, because if this did happen, then there would have been a heated debate on the matter...right. 

You must be Mr. Moneybags to pay that much for a banner ad.    Post some screenshots of the deposit you made into the Bitcointalk.org Bitcoin address for payments for this services, so that we can see that this is genuine. 

Official bitcointalk.org accounts could be hacked as accounts here could also be hacked. If an exchange wallet could be victimized, how much more an email address? So the best thing to do is to never give any amount of BTC to anyone, even if it comes from Satoshi Nakamoto. If someone suddenly PMed me using theymos's account asking for 5 BTC, I will not give him that. Legitimate business deals do not happen that way.

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

you didn't say which month so i am going to take the middle price and same month of October ($4000), this means someone asked you to pay $20,000 for a simple banner ad and you jumped at paying it? what the hell are you advertising that it was worth it to you to pay $20k for just one banner ad?

ps: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_spoofing

2017 was not too long ago, that time when the price of bitcoin was already high. it was 5 BTC? then it was a huge amount of money. no one will gonna pay that high for a mere banner. that's not a reasonable price. you should have known that. the biggest error you did is, you sent the BTC right away without having a second though. This is the problem with us every time we heard something from a trusted source, even though the offer is strange we rush to take that offer. we really need to pause our self and think the possible consequences. so that we won't end up like this man.

An ad for 5 BTC in 2017 is freaking excessive. That would have already been a red flag. AFAIK, ads here are being auctioned, not contacted directly. That's sad that you fell through a scam like that. I hope you try to verify the facts first before anything else. Anyone can say they are "Official" unless you verify it. I hope you learned your lesson now. Bitcointalk is nowhere near responsible for your loss.

NOTE: 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

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.