Topic: Can someone send you fake Crypto into your wallet address that isn't there? - page 2. (Read 225 times)

OP, I just went over your follow-up response. I can confirm it was a scam attempt. Since you're just starting out in crypto, this should be a good lesson for you. I learned mine a long time ago, the hard way after which I came up with the conclusion that anything that sounds too good to be true is probably not true. If anyone tries to whine you about something of that nature, you should immediately dismiss it. As long as you didn't actively work for it or participate in a program to earn the crypto, there's simply no free money anywhere. Certainly not in crypto. Even airdrops these days require you to actively farm with Liquidity.

Welcome once more and stay safe. And oh, you should be using wallets like Rabby. It's automatically hides all scam tokens sent to your wallet so you don't even interact with it.

Well if you can simplify to beginner terms for me what your question is that would help me answer.  The person said they needed me to download coinbase app onto my pc or phone.  When I did that he asked for my new wallet address I think, and then he sent me some funds into it.  

I saw there was a transaction that was successful and then he told me to transfer the funds into my ethereum account.  Then I had an error on the app that said I don't have an ETH account.  So he was trying to explain to me I needed to create one, and then add additional funds into it to "enable" it or some jabber.  It was happening so fast I didn't understand what was going on.   He tried to tell me I had the money but its locked into the Tether USDT Ethereum network and to transfer to CAD I had to deposit some 3,000 dollars into another ethereum account to move it, the address he gave me from his end.....I dunno I said that makes no sense and sounds backwards to me. Add money so you can access it sounded like a scam to me.

And yes I can only see the USDT tether amount on the wallet only, not my assets page.  I found a tab somewhere looking up on my profile and showed up a list of assets.  The section was "Hide Assets" and said my 10 dollars or so of ETH in bright, then below had a line that said SPAM and a bunch of transactions apparently, and the bottom of the list was Tether for XX,XXX dollars.

I just later gave up to talking to the guy, and been ignoring him for a few days researching what was going on, and here I am.

Hope that makes some more sense.

That's a scam. There is a trend that I have seen going around online called coinbase wallet loading and coin flashing. That is obviously what the person did to you.
 
Let me ask you: how did they do that? Did the person give you a smart contract address to add to your Coinbase wallet and import it? Because they have a specific smart contract for such a scam coin, you will need to manually enable it before it will show up on your Coinbase wallet, and once you have enabled it and they send the fund to you, it will be visible on the wallet only, but you can't swap or even send it out to another wallet, but still there will be value attached to it.

I have been questioning the Crypto market for quite some time, and I tried to invest a few hundred dollars in it a year ago, and then forgot about it seeing it was too confusing to me.  After a year, my contact called me, and said I had XX,XXX of USDT to be transferred to my control.  After we exchanged addresses, and he sent me the funds in tether USDT, and my wallet now says I have XX,XXX amount of USDT received.

The problem now is, I can't seem to do anything with it.  Its on the ethereum network, and says I have tether USDT , but I cant seem to swap, send it, or cash it out.  The amount is greyed out on my transactions page of my coinbase wallet app, and the assets page says Zero funds.  I did add 10 dollars to my ethereum account to be able to mess around with it a bit trying to figure this out.

Is this a scam amount that isn't really there? Can someone explain I am very confused.