I bought 320 tokens of EBTC on etherdelta on Oct-08-2017, transaction
https://etherscan.io/tx/0x4d0ab4e002f5ec8f23b21fd2b5a29c0e7a1d0cb7b60b35347206b8c3dd256060Next thing I knew, few weeks later, they disappeared on etherdelta. Investigating what happened, it turned out my tokens were renamed from EBTC to EBTCOLD. I continued researching and found on twitter that EBTC had morphed to a new coin and was swapping them at a certain block. This announcement was only about a week before it was to occur. It said your tokens had to be in a private wallet at the time. Only one week notice! It was already past the block that they arbitrarily designated when I noticed it a few days after the arbitrary deadline. Thinking they couldn't not honor tokens bought less than a month earlier, I transferred (transaction
https://etherscan.io/tx/0x977916a9a90bebe25bd891f42f959d1aa9b7d846171fab6175a39e288ddd1bd8) into my private wallet from etherdelta the now called EBTCOLD tokens and now they sit as symbol EBTC_ perhaps because the OLD won't fit in the IMTOKEN design. Anyhow it appears I was scammed due to not getting the new coins. How many times can they do this? The only reason I got into it was my taking what is now bad advise from OMAR (Crypt0) on youtube who was pumping it. Can EBTC really continue to scam people like this? I would obviously expect that my tokens should be swapped for the new ones but this hasn't happened.
You weren't scammed, you didn't do your own due dilligence and just like anyone else with any other investment class who doesn't keep up to date in their investments you lost your money. You are a victim of your own mismanagement of your own investments. If you were scammed, you scammed yourself.
Specific details of the swap was spoken about here every single day for at least 2 weeks before the swap, also on Telegram, Twitter, Medium, published on the first thing on the Website. Heck on the day of the swap and for a few days before I personally posted several times on the EtherDelta chat about the swap to make sure people put tokens on their personal wallet.
This time you paid 320 eBTC for the simple lesson that its your responsibility to always check up on your own individual investments. No one else will do it for you. The team made announcements on ALL channels available to them. It was up to you and you alone to read just one of those announcements. If you go in blindly in any investment you will always lose your money.
EtherDelta is a decentralized exchange, that makes it a Trustless System. The owners of Etherdelta doesn't have access to the tokens in the smart contract if they did then there is a possibility that they could run off with everyone's coins at any time. In a centralized exchange the owners does have access to all the tokens in their exchange, they can and sometimes do run off with investor money if they choose to.
Before you invest any more in any cryptocurrency please take time to learn everything you can about blockchain technology, learn about all the exchanges you do business with, learn as much about every coin you invest in and keep frequent updates on all of them. If you cannot do those basic things you shouldn't be investing because you will always lose your money.