I have taken part in a number of legit airdrops and they'd never ask you to deposit anything with them. You'd always be asked to sign a message or something like that. The only case where deposits were required is when exchanges were forking coins for you but it's a special case. It's not a giveaway and you can do it yourself if you want.
A golden rule is to remember that when you send coins to someone it's not like sending fiat where they have their account with a name and address. It's giving full control to someone you don't know. Do you believe that if you sent cash to a stranger via mail, typing the name XXX and a random street name they would return it to you? It's the same with cryptocurrencies.
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Topic: [ETH] I was scammed on Youtube. What to do? - page 2. (Read 1122 times)
Youtube will block the channel once it got enough reports related to scam but they are not responsible for you got scammed so you can't do anything by appealing this to Google.
This is completely your fault,why you still trust these kind of giveaways which are really too good to be true,if you have waited for few minutes and see what is actually happening there might saves you from that 7 ETH scam.
You can't trace those scammers even with the complaint on your local police station because hackers know how to hide their original location on this internet world.
Let's take this as costly lesson.
This is completely your fault,why you still trust these kind of giveaways which are really too good to be true,if you have waited for few minutes and see what is actually happening there might saves you from that 7 ETH scam.
You can't trace those scammers even with the complaint on your local police station because hackers know how to hide their original location on this internet world.
Let's take this as costly lesson.
After seeing what happens to you, I don't think you can do much or hope your personal ETH is returned. but I see that the fraudster's ETH address has become ashes or pishing, and the fraudster will never be able to enjoy the loot from your assets. other times beware that In this cryptoqurrency world nothing is truly free or becomes rich overnight.
Transaction in the blockchain is absolute and it can't be rolling back after the transaction gets a single confirmation by the block. What he can do to make sure if he will never try to join in any suspicious airdrops again in the future. There are a bunch of scammers around us and we must always be careful anytime in any situation. This is the time where we should kill our greed and move onto some another task where we could only earn with our hard efforts and never to run behind freebies. Scammers have a evil nature and they would never feel pity for anyone so the chance of them returning your money is actually "Zero."
This is so sad for your case. I am hearing about this scheme and unfortunate you end up falling in this joke scam of some hype youtubers. There are many awareness and cautious post already from this kind of scam. That's big money if youll ask me and sorry for your loss. Lesson learned if someone send you a proposal that is too good to be true never ever entertained the idea no matter how many convincing stuff he said and send to you.
As a newbie this is the most heartbreaking event that will happened to you. Anyway, maybe you already did regret it. So starting from now on stop interacting with the likes of them especially stranger keep introducing themselve as professionals.
As a newbie this is the most heartbreaking event that will happened to you. Anyway, maybe you already did regret it. So starting from now on stop interacting with the likes of them especially stranger keep introducing themselve as professionals.
currently there are many modes of fraud and are now increasingly sophisticated in their actions, but in reality can be avoided if you try to take the time to communicate or read about things like this in many forums available. use common sense every time you want to take action, what you will do makes sense and is acceptable with wise thinking. because every step you take will have a good effect if you want to be wise in moving. unfortunately you do not want to report to the authorities if absolutely necessary so that there is a deterrent effect.
After seeing what happens to you, I don't think you can do much or hope your personal ETH is returned. but I see that the fraudster's ETH address has become ashes or pishing, and the fraudster will never be able to enjoy the loot from your assets. other times beware that In this cryptoqurrency world nothing is truly free or becomes rich overnight.
Transaction in the blockchain is absolute and it can't be rolling back after the transaction gets a single confirmation by the block. What he can do to make sure if he will never try to join in any suspicious airdrops again in the future. There are a bunch of scammers around us and we must always be careful anytime in any situation. 
There are legit giveaways there that are really for free, you just have to figure out the legit ones.
Giveaway means giving a thing for free without any conditions if a giveaway has a state that requires you to send an amount of money, it means not a giveaway but a contest or campaign.All giveaway must be free and without conditions.
But it's sort of marketing for people to try their website out by giving them free amount to explore their platform.
Too bad you fell for this 
. What ethereum employee are you talking about? Those are just some scammers posing as official "ethereum employee" (and they don't even exist in real life!) and scamming poor naive people like you! If this was a real giveaway, why would they ask you to send them the ETH first? If they really wanted to giveaway coins, they would just ask for your wallet address and send you free coins over there.
There is nothing much you can do sadly. Think of the amount you lost as a payment for this valuable lesson.
. What ethereum employee are you talking about? Those are just some scammers posing as official "ethereum employee" (and they don't even exist in real life!) and scamming poor naive people like you! If this was a real giveaway, why would they ask you to send them the ETH first? If they really wanted to giveaway coins, they would just ask for your wallet address and send you free coins over there. There is nothing much you can do sadly. Think of the amount you lost as a payment for this valuable lesson.
There are legit giveaways there that are really for free, you just have to figure out the legit ones.
Giveaway means giving a thing for free without any conditions if a giveaway has a state that requires you to send an amount of money, it means not a giveaway but a contest or campaign.All giveaway must be free and without conditions.
Most of scammer is always active in popular site like a Youtube. And Youtube is the Top of Streaming Videos website.
This mean the popular site is the popular place of scammer.
I never trust crypto in youtube and everyday there are have live videos bitcoin giveaway. This is 100% fake. Be carefull.
This mean the popular site is the popular place of scammer.
I never trust crypto in youtube and everyday there are have live videos bitcoin giveaway. This is 100% fake. Be carefull.
Seriously there is just no reason for your lost from my point of view I mean 3ETH can be invested and profit made back if you know one or two thing My suggestion is know that nothing worth it comes cheap work and keep faith and it will be well but dont waste what you already got, it might take time to regain it
After seeing what happens to you, I don't think you can do much or hope your personal ETH is returned. but I see that the fraudster's ETH address has become ashes or pishing, and the fraudster will never be able to enjoy the loot from your assets. other times beware that In this cryptoqurrency world nothing is truly free or becomes rich overnight.
It seems to me that people who fall into such scams never learn from the mistakes of others. They have too much desire to get easy money, but in return they receive losses and bitter experience. Fraudsters have always exploited human weaknesses and will continue to do so.
Good thing that the channel was already nuked, so that no more users would be harmed from this further.
YT algorithm in making recommends is kinda screwed up sometimes, so don't trust it too much when you're having the thoughts of joining those.
Have you checked how many subs did that channel had? They could be having chat bots in their live chat, for the purpose of making it a legitimate channel for giveaways.
That live event in the video could be just an edited video file that was originally from past video but was altered, because these scammers would know that they'll be caught in no time by getting tracked.
YT algorithm in making recommends is kinda screwed up sometimes, so don't trust it too much when you're having the thoughts of joining those.
Have you checked how many subs did that channel had? They could be having chat bots in their live chat, for the purpose of making it a legitimate channel for giveaways.
That live event in the video could be just an edited video file that was originally from past video but was altered, because these scammers would know that they'll be caught in no time by getting tracked.
It is a very known scam lately and they have migrated on YouTube, showing videos to make it look legit. But with the scheme of sending them ETH for what? the giveaway? you should have already noticed it that it's a known scam that started on twitter and then just made it alive again through YouTube. Sorry about your loss and thank you for informing the community to make this issue alive again because there are still channels and videos that are active.
Those scammers are creating fake videos that show if they were sending the giveaway to their address to make it looks legit for everyone. Based on the story and it's much more familiar as a ponzi when you are sending your money and you can double your money instantly and OP gets scammed caused by this scammer was stealing the official logo of ethereum to make it legit. The problem was if OP lacks knowledge about that. There will be no give away even vitalik has already mentioned in on his official twitter account. Any giveaways are scam.
There was no way to recover his loss and what he must to do to learn even more about that.
There are legit giveaways there that are really for free, you just have to figure out the legit ones.
It's a sorry loss and it's because of greed that you fail to do the right thing and that is asking the community if the giveaway is valid and legal, it's not the only one there are also on Youtube, telegram they did not dare posts here in Bitcointalk because they will be caught.
Jeez. I am so impressed, not by the scammers but by your naivety. I just can't believe how people fall for this even if they know that the cryptocurrency space is full of scammers. This is plain sight robbery. Why didn't you do your research first before sending the money? You are either naive or this is fake. You even plugged your eth address for donations.
Maybe, just maybe, you are the one who is robbing here?
We all know that this crypto space are full of scammers but the thing is he is just reporting it to us in order for us to be more aware about on what situation he is up to. Scammers are everywhere in the crypto space and what we need to do is to share all of our experience to them in order for them to be more practical and more knowledgeable about what the scammers are planning into, and the best thing to do is to do dome research and ask someone in order not to br victim of scammers again.Maybe, just maybe, you are the one who is robbing here?
Did you read the whole thread? He is not just reporting it to us, he is also asking for donations which is equivalent to begging here in the forum. That's one of the reason why I can't take this story seriously. A newbie account who knows about cryptocurrency but got scammed from a too good to be true giveaway and is asking for donations, isn't that quite suspicious?
Sorry for your loss mate, but there is nothing you can do about it. Try to learn a lesson and not to fall into such scam schemes again. Unfortunately, crypto industry is full of such thing that are on every single corner.
It was obvious that you and many others fell for this scammer or group scammers that carried out this dastardly act. This has been a known scam but with some high level of professionalism included, nevertheless, next time you should be able to do more research about such things before you embark on transaction with the person online.
Frankly speaking, this will create more awareness among others who may or might be planing for such like you. Internet has no free money, more also, does it has second chance when the mistakes have been made.
Frankly speaking, this will create more awareness among others who may or might be planing for such like you. Internet has no free money, more also, does it has second chance when the mistakes have been made.
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