Topic: Do not get scammed by this, specially newcomers. (Read 989 times)

It's really a very large amount, but how can someone who has more than a thousand bitcoins be fooled so easily? People who have that many bitcoins should have greater knowledge about bitcoins and also bitcoin wallets, or maybe it's a wallet that he has long forgotten (Sorry I didn't read the entire contents of the article). in this world there are many tricks that are used by fraudsters to trick their targets, therefore I will never share my personal wallet data with other people even though I cannot access my wallet again, it is better for me to create a competition and for those who can open my wallet, I will immediately give you a few percent, always remember "it's no longer your bitcoin, if you give your key"

At first what's with quora, Everytime they have solutions to multiple problems and the annoying part is people are allowed to share fake information and fake opinion on matters. have seen similar stories like this on the internet and people making comments, referring different kinds of people some making comments on how to recover the wallet, that's what you get when you share your problems on social media. Most people who believe all this information and give out there private informations to scammers I don't blame them cause in this case that involves loosing money, it hurts and at that point the person feels fustrated any little opportunity the victim sees I think that person will not hesitate to make amends. Just like the fiat system, bank workers will collide with scammers to scam customers trying to get useful information from them and bank staffs will still be the one to solve the problem, but when it comes to crypto there's no solution to this kind problem.

I couldn't agree more with you Sir. Illiteracy, mediocrity and greed sure do comes with a price. If there's one thing I've learned about knowledge is that, you can either acquire it the easy peasy way or the hard way, the choice is entirely yours, easy way is when you sort for it, study and do researches, ask experienced people to transfer knowledge to you, and the hard way is when you act out of greed and stupidity and then loose money to scammers or a shit project and then you learn your lesson from it, either ways, you learn, so it's up t everyone to choose which way they wish to learn. 

Some people are not really open when it comes to this case. It may be different for you or for some people, but most newbies can easily trust the people who offer them help in this kind of situation. Hoping to have a solution for their current problem such as recovering a wallet which is important to newbies if it has a valuable coin.

I am surprised that many people still don't know about this format, because it doesn't take long after doing my research on Bitcoin for the first time that I get to know of this trick, I lost my recovery seed and the wallet contain few BTC so I shared the story online through twitter, I started getting DM about how I can recover the recovery seed to my wallet, I just knew its impossible but I decided to see where it leads.

The person connect me to another stranger for the recovery but I believe I am still talking to the same person, and he told me to pay some amount of BTC first that after the recovery I will pay the balance, I knew the first payment is their ticket to get out and run with my money.

I opened up to them why it's impossible to help someone recover their lost seeds, and the scammer end up blocking me, I laughed about it because he felt the pain of me not falling victim to his plan after several discussions together.

I don't see how anyone should be a victim to this, because you already know what a recovery seed or private key is, once you lost it there is no way to get it back, it's foolishness of you to get scammed twice in a roll.

The first and most important step is to educate yourself about the various types of scams that are out there, such as phishing, Ponzi schemes, and pump-and-dump schemes. It's also important to use common sense when evaluating an investment opportunity, and never invest more than you can afford to lose. Additionally, newcomers to cryptocurrency should be especially wary of anyone offering to "help" them with their investments or offering "guaranteed" returns. Finally, it's always a good idea to use a trusted wallet to store your cryptocurrency, and to enable two-factor authentication for extra security.....



One of the most popular ways to store cryptocurrency is with a mobile wallet, which can be downloaded as an app on your smartphone. Mobile wallets are convenient because they allow you to access your cryptocurrency on the go, and they often have additional security features such as fingerprint authentication. However, it's important to be aware that mobile wallets are not as secure as hardware wallets, and you should never store large amounts of cryptocurrency in a mobile wallet....

Desperation makes people unable to think with correct logic because actually any form of fraud can be detected, but unfortunately, the hope of getting their money back can make them unable to think properly, and also fraudsters will always use different methods to make their movements difficult to detect by people who are desperate, agree with you that fraudsters will become rich people without having to sell services like that because they can use them themselves, so it's the same as people who sell e-books on how to make consistent profits in trading for only a few bucks because he knows it is impossible to make consistent profits in trading and it is easier to make money from selling the e-book.

Many people has learned a lot from those that fell victims to scammers, because they want to help them to recover their money that showed confirmed in the transaction. I know, newbies always seek for help when there is no help in the public that will make them to regret such decision in the hands of scammers. Do everything possible within your capacity to keep all your personal details secure and safe, because without your personal details nobody can have access to your coins in your wallet but the moment you release the coins from your wallet to the exchange market and confirmed transaction successful, show that the money is gone. Don't trust anybody in the exchange market or in the Bitcointalk forum, and if anyone is chatting with you to apply for any Free coins in the social media, please run away for such group of people before they will lead you to frustration.

Usually, newcomers get in trouble for trusting someone. With their scope of experience in the crypto market, they will though that these people who proclaim themselves as expert are true because most of these scammers used known sites and names that really a newbie got caught their attention. This will emphasize how important for us newcomers to spend more on searching the site and not fall easily into someone who offers good services which is too good to be true as it usually turns into a scam.

Usually, scammer like this is come to us when we desperate to a problem that cannot be solved like this, and like I have said before If there is person that can recover the money out of thin air thoose people would be rich without the need to sell the service 

https://au.finance.yahoo.com/news/man-has-two-more-chances-before-232-million-is-lost-forever-222045101.html -  maybe thoose scammer can help this guy

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I saw something on Quora that worried me. Someone said that he lost 1200 BTC to scammers. Then, I saw some people sharing/claiming to be experts in recovering lost bitcoin. They shared their contact details like Telegram IDs and WhatsApp numbers.

I have a suspicion that the person who lost the BTC might be the same one giving out those contact details or advices. They could be trying to trick others in the future who search for help online. Google might suggest similar questions on Quora, and people could end up sharing their private keys with scammers.

So, if you are new to all this, be careful. Don't trust random people claiming to be experts on Quora or anywhere else. They might just be trying to get your private information.

This question: https://www.quora.com/I-just-lost-1200-BTC-to-scammers-now-How-can-I-recover-my-BTC-back
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Your contribution to the forum is worth  mentioning , because sharing something like this brings help to all bitcointalk members to not fall in this same Shit , these scammers are trying to make us fool by believing that they are talking to other person but it is obvious that they are just shill account who tries to make the post more inspiring and believeable .
You are already a victim , and you already Knew what will come if believes in this kind .

How is losing 2 or 3 litecoin hilarious?
For 2 litecoins, that's over $140 dollars at the moment, for 3 litecoins, that over $200 at the moment, this amounts of money are really big for most persons, especially those in the middle and low class in terms of financial status.

But anyways, I read your comment again, I did understand why this loss was hilarious, I want to believe it's because 6 years ago when this lose happened, litecoin was probably not as expensive as it is today, so 2 to 3 litecoins were worth almost nothing at that time.

But right now, I trust you will regret it so much if you lose that same amount of litecoin at the moment, so it's very important to always guide ourselves, we are our best security, so as to avoid losing money that may seem worthless today, but could worth alot in the near future.

  Is it true that it really happened that I lost 1200 BTC? Is there a txid link that really lost 1200 btc? I don't think I saw anything. If I read the comments on Quora, it's just a story, and even if there is a source link, it seems like the same, but I didn't see anything to prove that I was able to send 100 btc, 10 000 btc, or 20 000 btc; it's just digits.

  Then, if there are any such suspicious things, and if we are the ones who lost assets, whether bitcoin or cryptocurrency, let's not entertain strangers with us so that we don't become victims of exploitative scammers.

On cryptocurrency id something is lost than it is lost forever. There are .1% chances of recovery so don't fall into these scams.
I also lost 2 or 3 Litecoin almost 6 years ago and that was hilarious.

Those people are everywhere in fact they have came up with same fake made up stories on this forum many times where they claimed that they have lost their Bitcoin wallet or they can't recover their Bitcoin wallet which they have made during 2011 or some past dates when mining of Bitcoin was easy and any miner could get Bitcoin easily by mining it. Many people of the forum tried to help them because you know guys at our forum are very helpful. Fortunately everyone who's part of this forum is well aware of such scammers and that's why I always recommend everyone to register at this forum and read some threads here before starting their Bitcoin journey.

Now, the worst they can do is to use same stories on social media sites and with their other alt accounts they pretend to be the experts of Bitcoin recovery. I think it's better to promote awareness against such users and I think you have made a good thread by sharing awareness against such scammers. Only education and awareness can help someone to be protected from such scammers.

I have even seen some recovery guys who promoted their services via social media sites like YouTube, they pretended to be the gurus of Bitcoin recovery and they made videos in so entertaining ways that many people might have trusted them with their own lost Bitcoin recovery after watching those videos. I believe we all as a community have to promote awareness against such people because the users who trust such people might end up loosing their last hope of recovering their lost Bitcoin.

Why we are not much interested in fiat money is because with fiat money I am not safe to be accountable for it but if we talk about bitcoin it is completely independent. But we have to remember that as it is independent the responsibility to control it for every individual. If I fail to secure my wallet I will be held responsible. I can never be safe if I entrust my wealth to someone else. Moreover, if the person whom I trust today fails to keep my trust, I will be likely to be deceived. So I don't want to take that kind of risk.

    The phishing attacks rate are now become rampant, people need to be extremely careful with the links they click on the internet. This attackers are working tirelessly to improve their system making it more real and convincing for people to fall for their trap thereby capitalize on their potential victim. It’s sadden that people fall for this trick, all the money they work so hard for gone in split second. What most people fail to understand is that crypto is a very safe space and you’re entitled to your own privacy and private key, it’s almost impossible for someone to guess your private key, unless you allow it.
   We should be vigilant and aware of this attackers, whenever we surfing the internet because this attackers have a way of sugar coating things so that people can fall for their tricks, if you’re confuse about how to go about a particular problem we have YouTube videos that can help us tackle the problem.

The person sharing does details might end up been scammed again, the chances of getting their money back is low and does
Asking the victim so details. I hope is not one of their schemes, for some one to loose does amount of Bitcoin is something that is very painful fallen another trap will just break him.

You have point maybe the victim was the one that gave out is details because I don't think they would have gotten access to his wallet without him, and scammers are trickier than we expect, maybe the victim was given option of him investing on platforms to make more profit and once they have gotten the details they need the next thing is to move does funds.

The clear statement of not your keys not your coin and aside the advice in this community their is nothing he can do to get does bitcoin back and I fear some of them claiming that they lost there bitcoin in their wallet i feel some of them are scammers them self and looking for ways to break into another person's wallet, is something people can do when it involves money.

I love the fact that he was cleared about impossibility of getting the bitcoin back so if it is real story or not, and have your data or privacy bridge is dangerous even that can give them access to your bank account.

Correct . There are a lot of scams nowadays, be more alert in getting to know people in this virtual world, don't easily trust strangers you just met,  Sometimes even the closest people often cheat, especially strangers

I read the answers to this question and a lot of the answers tickled me and made me smile because in the end even if it's true about losing their bitcoins to fraud but there are still people who do take advantage of this for their own benefit and this is really crazy and proof that life is hard.
But on the other hand this can also be used as a promotional event and make it appear as if they lost bitcoin so that they can promote their merchandise indirectly by claiming they can return the bitcoin lost due to fraud so that when someone has the same problem they can immediately look for the information listed and actually make the person who lost even more loses.

But when looking at some other answers it is still fortunate that there are people who are still good by giving good answers such as