Topic: Do not get scammed by this, specially newcomers. - page 6. (Read 989 times)

Thank you for this cautious reminder to some of us here who already know about such scams and to beginners who are just learning about them for the first time.

Let's always remember that one of the risks involved in a Bitcoin transaction is the irreversible feature; a Bitcoin transaction is not reversable. That is why it is always good to double check the wallet you are sending your Bitcoin to before sending it, because once you send it to an unknown address, your Bitcoin is gone, and no one can track or get it back for you.

It seems so; they will try to get people through that statement they made, and newbies without experience who lost their Bitcoin will rush into their DM, and only God knows the information they will request from him. Newbies, let's be careful and trust no one in crypto-related transactions. Anyone can scam you at anytime when they have the chance, and there is no platform or site that will help you recover. Your bitcoin has vanished.

Scammers always find new ways to scam people and get into their wallets, sometimes even knowing that we fell in their traps. Basically, that’s why these methods are still effective for scammers and they still get victims. And unfortunately, in crypto and bitcoin it’s hard to find a sign that warns you from all kind of scams.
Personally, I come across new methods and ways of scamming all the time and I get surprised how these scammers find all these manipulative tricks. The most recent trap, was someone trying to hire me for a job with a very professional way and a well developed website for their fake company.

It’s important to remind crypto users that anyone who tries to access your wallet in any way possible or also tries to make you download anything external to your device, is 100% a scam.

BTC tx's are not reversible, that is one point that people should never forget. If your funds are stolen there is no way to get it back, because of the transparency of the network you can see the addresses your funds moved into, but you cannot recover it because you don't own the keys, the scammer would usually also use CoinJoin when moving the funds and obscure the tx, so you can't link the input to the output.

Centralized exchanges and services can lock people's coins if they get a request from LE, but you have to lose a significant amount of money for your local agency to request a centralized exchange to confiscate funds; and all of that is if the scammer is stupid enough to send the stolen funds into a centralized service.

I always emphasize the need to people who enquire about bitcoins that there is a need to be careful with bitcoins after investing because if bitcoins get stolen by scammers or lost to forgotten passwords or even sent to the wrong address, it can never be recovered. Newbies who know this never become victims of these scammers with these methods.

I hope you made a comment under it that RECOVERY IS NOT POSSIBLE! so that people who get to that page get to see your comment too and not fall for this.

There are hundreds of method which is been used by scammers and here we cannot blame the scammers if users are so naive and it's a common sense that we should never share private keys or password and OTP with anyone and I wonder how they end up sharing private key when at the time of creating account or wallet that's the first notification which is prompted to us. This is one of the most sophisticated way of luring in victims without actually approaching them directly wherein scammers just do role play to gain trust of victims.

We cannot do much on educating them as it has to be taken up privately since government won't support us in this cause because they are against crypto and will use this as an excuse to push for centralization.

The rate of scams in our society today is quite alarming that it really scares me. I man these people has so many methods and ways of swindling people of their hard earned money. I've read so many articles and stuffs online about how people are misled online towards making investments that are not even authentic and at the end before they even realize that these are fake investments opportunities, they might have already lost a fortune.

I have this friend who complained to me about sending money to Elon Musk online all in the name of investing in Tesla company and not getting the profit he was promised. And I thought to myself, how can people be this naive about obvious scam shits like this, someone sends you a random message online and tells you he's Elon Musk and don't find that suspicious? Howwwww?

Scammers are working hard day and night, looking for new updates and methods to confuse, convince and swindle your money. So in other to be on the safer side, always disregard messages from strangers and random people, NEVER give out your private or personal information to anyone you see online of out there and lastly before you need to carry out a thorough research about any investment opportunity you hear about or have interest in before going to put in your money in there because it might just be another scam posing to be real.
Y'all just stay safe out there and protect yourself.

Your suspicion might be correct because scammers can have more than one account on Quora or social media platforms. The next response might be a thank you message from the person who claimed he lost Bitcoin. He would give testimony of how one of the experts helped him to recover his coins. These scammers can go as far as showing fabricated evidence to prove their case. Many people might become victims because of desperation to recover their coins which will make them become victims of more scams. They will ask for a service charge and end up doing nothing to recover the coin. Even when they recover it, it will become a problem to get your coin because they are already in control of your wallet.

I have seen members mostly newbies come up with threads about the loss of Bitcoin to scammers and they usually receive counsel from the community. I remember that the main option is to trace the wallet where the money is kept currently. The money can be frozen if it is in an exchange and the owner could prove that he was scammed.

Okay to recover scammed or stolen coins is really really really hard to do.

You need a decent amount of stolen coin to start.
You then need to trace where it goes.
A good thief will simply move it to an account and let it sit a long long long long time.

If the theft is big enough a good thief may  create a mixing service to be sure the mixer he uses is not run by a government agency to catch thieves.

So for someone to claim they can catch the thief is almost always a con 99%.

Hmm, interesting OP you've raised a grave concern because most of the time when we search on Google and try to find out the solution for the problem we are going through we recklessly click on Google's top recommendations without measuring whether the results Google provided are authentic or not.

Google algorithm produces the results based on the SEO optimizations and Keywords and as OP said sai when we search for such queries sometimes these types of Qoura topics are also suggested, so better be careful guys as phishers do adopt such tactics to trap you out and you won't even realize that the help you are seeking from a stranger is actually destruction by the plan.

Well, this strategy is not new, it's as old as it seems, and good thing that you directed the warning to newbies, because i personally believe that most Ogs must or should already know about this strategy, as it is everywhere, on every social media, talk about X (formally known as Twitter), Facebook, Reddit, Instagram and so on.

And some time when we check comments on blockchain explorers like etherscan, we will find some people commenting just the same thing as the op described, and just as Hugeblack have said, it is all for nothing but to take away money from unsuspecting victims, it is very important that every coming into crypto know beforehand that money or coins lost is lost, and there is absolutely no one that can help recover such fund, except the person that fund was sent to decides to send it back to where the funds came from.

Emphasis on the “do not trust strangers online” when it comes to your personal information or anything that makes you vulnerable to attacks.

There have been similar threads like that here in Bitcointalk but the only difference here is that we have people that are constantly reporting such type of threads to be deleted and also giving neg-tags to those account but on quota you can’t differentiate between legit posts and post made to deceive the readers.

There’s tons of this scammer on telegram that is far worst than that. Telegram scammer impersonate an admin of the project which the user ask for help when he post on project telegram group. An ignorance user will surely become easily scam if they didn’t check the username of the impersonator carefully since they use tricky username just to imitate the legit admin.

Same with facebook and other social that scammer is being creative on how to trick poor newbie to get their seed phrase and private key.

I can't even imagine someone claiming to restore a lost Bitcoin how and from where?
This is just something that is not possible to do because I know too well that any bitcoin stolen or mistakenly sent to wrong address can never be restored all less you have a direct contact with the person who owns the address. But however only newbies can fall for this cheap scam methods.

Unfortunately, when you are frustrated, you click on these answers, try codes, or communicate with scammers, so thank you for this reminder.
There is no one who can recover your money after you get one confirmation. It is true that this is painful, but it is a reminder that the wallet be created in the airgapped system and not connected to the Internet, or at least create a multi-signature wallet after you know how to create it.

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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