[ETH] I was scammed on Youtube. What to do? - page 3.

crzy

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Quote from: seoincorporation on February 04, 2020, 06:45:14 PM

The video is already down and the ETH addy is tagged as scam. Sorry about your loss, it wasn't a small amount at all.

And now what to do?

1.-Call the local police to report the scam.
2.-Try to trace the schemes.
3.-Alert the community about the scam, that way more people will be able to avoid it.

Report this immediately especially on youtube because for sure scammers are using a hacked account to scam people and unfortunately you’re of the victim OP. Its must to share this kind of scheme so your friends and other people wont fall on this, don’t trust anyone in this online world and ask someone if its legit or not.

fullhdpixel

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You must have checked on the reviews/comments, his subscribers, history of videos, etc to quickly judge if he/she is genuine.
I have seen such "doubling" kind of scam in my telegram. Even I have not subscribed to such telegram groups, people somehow manage to add me to their scammy groups.

But, when I ask questions about their genuineness, I get removed from that group and my telegram screen also getting closed. This happened to me in the name of binance like they are starting a new decentralized exchange and for that they were giving away free ETH. Be careful always. No one will give you free money for doing nothing.

lizarder

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right now it looks like this channel has been successfully deleted and this might be a lesson so don't ever be fooled by the lure of giveaway or investment that offers to doubler ethereum, I hope that in the future,cases like this will not repeat or maybe youtube can filter out this kind of content so there is no more victim even though this seems impossible.

kaneki007

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There are many cases of YouTube account hackers hacked because they once downloaded an application containing a virus (I know this because one of YouTube reviews applications offered by advertisers via e-mail and at some time the account is logged in from different places when the application is installed). And this is where the scammer uses the account to do livestream as you say, it is very sad to hear that you and others have lost some ETH, and this can all be lessons for all communities to be careful.

Pamadar

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Quote from: Leonardo7 on February 05, 2020, 09:02:47 AM

You have not been following various thread warning about give away threads by asking you for a deposit to instantly receive a double or higher value. You should have used such money on charity rather than wasting it on scammers. The ETH is gone and can't be reversed. These scammers fill telegram, twitter, and Facebook, they are even into airdrop.

Yeah right those scammers knows how to work with their prey, they will give such a nice promises in order to attract investors that will be scammed after. You need to add more research before you enter and use your money for any investment that will be available in any platforms. Be guided by this forum by continuously read and be updated.

abeecrypto

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I see a lot of people are quick to tell you how naïve you are. Well, stuff like this happens to newbies. It is understandable. At one point in our lives, we become naïve.
I hope you have learned from this mistake. Scammers are out there. Scrutinize, ask questions, and stay guided.
Thanks for posting this. At least, some people will learn from your mistakes.
And you didn’t have to beg for contribution in the end. It’s against the rules.

Leonardo7

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You have not been following various thread warning about give away threads by asking you for a deposit to instantly receive a double or higher value. You should have used such money on charity rather than wasting it on scammers. The ETH is gone and can't be reversed. These scammers fill telegram, twitter, and Facebook, they are even into airdrop.

Psynthax

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Quote from: ntsdm1 on February 05, 2020, 04:26:57 AM

One thing surprises me - how do people like You fall for obvious scammers?The whole problem is greed. You making a coin transfer wanted to get rich in an instant. But this does not happen. At least on planet Earth! Be vigilant in the future.

it's easy to answer that. He was not aware of that before and he was a part of the newcomers in the crypto. From what has already said by him and he is a new user in crypto. He was writing if he doesn't know about how the blockchain works these days, The tx can't be reverted and he has already lost his money.

bitcoinst

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Surprisingly, 10 years ago there was a similar scheme in which scammers asked to deposit a certain amount of money into a wallet, and in return sent a random amount of money that should always have been more than the down payment. People sent money, first to check a little, in return they received a threefold sum. After believing that the scheme worked, people sent huge amounts, of course, nothing came back. Time goes by and the methods do not change.

magneto

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If you are falling for such rudimentary scams then I implore you to seriously reconsider investing in altcoins like ETH, because your opinions about the coins can likely be swayed easily one way or another by simple methods of manipulation and you won't be able to hold onto your positions for as long as it takes to make a profit.

This one in particular is one of the very common scams that exist within the crypto space, mostly targeting newbies like yourself.

Follow common sense and you'll be able to avoid almost all of the scams of this type. If an extraordinary sum of returns is being promised then it's probably too good to be true.

White Christmas

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Quote from: meanwords on February 05, 2020, 03:17:57 AM

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.

Lite.Six

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so many people in any forums or some groups have always warned us who jumped into crypto world to don't trust anyone. even your friends. and you, fall for scam because you trust a person even you don't know him. be careful when you used your money. if you feel something fishy, just leave it.

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ntsdm1

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One thing surprises me - how do people like You fall for obvious scammers?The whole problem is greed. You making a coin transfer wanted to get rich in an instant. But this does not happen. At least on planet Earth! Be vigilant in the future.

Bonwin

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Your story looks too real to be debunked. I cannot really fathom if you are speaking the truth or not, but if you were actually a victim to this, it will be better for you to just to learn you; lessons straight up. Seeing that some people still fall victim of this, is quite surprising to me.

Also, do you know why I thought this is a cooked-up story?
You said you are new to crypto or that you are a newbie and yet you could write so well in blockchain terms. That made me feel you know a lot and that probably you are just eager to beg, but in a dubious way, for ETH from people, who might be easily touched by such a pathetic story.

meanwords

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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?

danherbias07

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Did you report this first in youtube or you just made up a story for some donations?
You know begging is illegal out here.
It is your fault. Why bother other people to give you something just because you made a foolish decision?
That is, if it is really true.
You know, too good to be true things like this are never to be put attention to.

You want it back then report it to someone else.
Or maybe trace the one who made the live video by getting help from the YT management.
Not here.

btc_angela

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You can't do anything about it by now, even reporting this to your local police.

Charge this as an experience, there are thousands or even million victims like you in the cryptosphere everyday. So next time be attentive and don't be greedy. Used your common sense, if its too good to be true if it's too good to be true then it probably is.

Here is another example: https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/ejjrp9/i_stupidly_lost_3000_in_a_crypto_currency_scam/

btcltcdigger

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To boldly go where no rabbit has gone before...

These types of videos have been happening more and more lately, and not only for ETH, but for BTC, BNB, XRP, etc...

And always with the same premise, "INSERT_COIN_NAME giveaway" on a INSERT_COIN_NAME channel which has 50+k subscribers, yet only 1 video on it, the one currently playing.

They post links to these in my TG group almost weekly, so i go there, and report the video for terrorism and child pornography (hoping these 2 flags would make the YT staff check them with priority).

In a nutshell, no one gives anything for free, especially not in the amounts that people get greedy over. Yes, a faucet here or there will give you anywhere from 0.001 - 0.01 cent worth of coin daily, but that's about it

Kemarit

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First off, considering your ETH gone, you can't recover it and maybe those scammers are laughing at you because he had fooled you. Let this be an expensive lessons to learn, sadly.

Second, you have to understand that there's no such thing as free Bitcoin or Ethereum, no one will give you that even offline (fiat).

Third, you can check this board: Scam Accusations and Beginners & Help. There are members here who dedicated their time and money exposing these scammers before they can victimized more newbies like you.

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