First time scammed , very frustrated - page 3.

isaac_clarke22

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Quote from: leea-1334 on March 25, 2021, 08:38:29 AM

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Not really mandatory, but at least be wary of who you deal with.
You know the basics of those good old notices that admins won't ask for your password and all of that.
Just like the scam that I was about to be baited where the site even asks for my MyEtherWallet password.

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You are supposed to have been counciled about these. Often times people come into the crypto space not knowing that loads of scammers are in to make money off the ignorant newbies and these newbies don't as questions. They end up facing collosal losses much worse than these but a consultant would have warned you about them for even a much lesser fee.

Quote from: na7la on February 23, 2021, 03:58:42 PM

There is a start for everything , so i just get first time scammed and hope last time.
Since few times i follow polkadot env and liked their projects especially polkastarter . it's like the ico's for projects to raise money . I wanted to participate to one of them and got whitelisted to superfarm ($super) to buy in the presale at a good price but sended 0.25 eth to wrong adress . yes i'm little bit dumb they made a clone of their official telegram channel and i get caught . usually i don't do that but we all do mistakes .

the adress of the scammer : 0xC88b5F4aaE1C8f2778DEF2257b6bAf1BA62E4B09

i hope he will die with a cancer . i lost $447.83USD that's 50% of my humble portfolio and i worked hard to put this money in . i know that there is nothing i can do and i feel little bit down but that's life assholes are everywhere . Whitout this scammers cryptocurrency and the world would be better .

So just a little thought for me . good luck and get your money safe

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Quote from: max6575 on March 25, 2021, 10:41:39 AM

there are many ways as hacker gains of login with the account. sometimes they are not modest on technicals but only depending with their chance as creating phishing site to collect information from failed users as inputing details with the phising site. i have experience once as accidently entering login to false forkdelta website.

The scammer trap through fake websites has been around for a long time and for now it doesn't seem to work anymore because everyone who has been tricked has started to look carefully at all websites so they can tell the difference.

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there are many ways as hacker gains of login with the account. sometimes they are not modest on technicals but only depending with their chance as creating phishing site to collect information from failed users as inputing details with the phising site. i have experience once as accidently entering login to false forkdelta website.

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It will be a lesson when you have experienced fraud. I have also been in a position where I got a fraud that frustrated me. Make sure if you are interested in investing or buying tokens in an ICO or pre-sale,
use free funds because if we spend too much money but don't meet expectations and actually lose mentally if we use free money we are not too stressed. Manage money management and do further research before investing

Very true, I think most of us here experienced that. I nearly cried the first time I have been done. Good thing that time my girlfriend (now my wife) comforted me and chilled me out. The best part is another investment came up very well and I guess that there's always a sunshine after the rain. So it's a lesson and what doesn't kill you makes you stronger.

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Sad to hear about what happened to OP. During the last 4 plus years, I was scammed multiple times. But eventually, we need to move on. For my part, I took these as valuable lessons in the field of cryptocurrency. There is not much we can do to get back the coins/tokens. These people wash the coins several times before cashing out through exchanges or P2P platforms. And you need a lot of time and resources to trace them.

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Some people said that this is one of the requirement for us to learn and become knowledgable enough about crypto but I disagree with them. We can be knowledgable in crypto market without losing or being scammed by others or we can learn from others mistake. Yes it is understandable for those newbies that the risk is really high for them but we can be more cautious with regards on our decisions.

leea-1334

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^ As you said,,, sadly but truly,,, getting scammed is a mandatory experience for all of us. I was scammed too in the past sad to admit but I definitely learnt my lesson and have not been scammed (fingers crossed) since 2017.

As much as you learn from others it is only from your own mistakes that becomes the best teacher. Such is crypto!

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Quote from: bandungan on March 23, 2021, 10:23:45 PM

~~Scammers are now smarter~~, they can try to duplicate with a similarity of up to 90%. Sometimes we are careless and they are used to trick us. so you can make this experience a lesson in the future for you to be more vigilant in securing your assets

Nope, they aren't in any way smarter. It's just that most investors/traders often fail to do their due diligence patiently coupled with the tendency of greed. Otherwise, how do you relate with a random stranger online promising you something free with little or no investment. If it isn't greed on the part of he who is trying to invest then I don't know what else it should be.

Quote from: mamesso on March 25, 2021, 01:39:47 AM

It is very painful suddenly losing 0.25 eth, but it is a reality that you must accept. The bitter experience you will experience will be the most valuable lesson for you and will make you more careful in the future.

Hopefully, the OP learnt from that sad (but mandatory) experience.

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Quote from: mamesso on March 25, 2021, 01:39:47 AM

It is very painful suddenly losing 0.25 eth, but it is a reality that you must accept. The bitter experience you will experience will be the most valuable lesson for you and will make you more careful in the future. Keep up the spirit friend, get up immediately and continue to improve your knowledge of how to invest that is good and safe so you can get your money back.

True, losing assets will indeed be a good lesson for everyone who experiences it even though it is very bitter especially the value of 0.25 ETH is very good if we calculate it at this point, but never give up is a very good solution for the OP, because of enthusiasm and high optimism will be able to bring it to more valuable things in the next time.

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It is very painful suddenly losing 0.25 eth, but it is a reality that you must accept. The bitter experience you will experience will be the most valuable lesson for you and will make you more careful in the future. Keep up the spirit friend, get up immediately and continue to improve your knowledge of how to invest that is good and safe so you can get your money back.

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Quote from: Father Bitcoin on March 23, 2021, 11:51:30 PM

but if without a scammer case like this, we will never be able to learn to be more patient and more thorough, because it's natural that we want to get something big with abundant profits quickly, and that's the challenge that needs to be overcome in choosing a project that will we follow

Yes, it is clear, with the existence of scammers, everyone can learn that in crypto there is nothing easy and instantaneous, so that such challenges can make everyone stronger in facing, analyzing and researching very carefully when there is a new project which was launched.

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Quote from: peter0425 on March 24, 2021, 11:54:09 PM

Quote from: na7la on February 23, 2021, 03:58:42 PM

There is a start for everything , so i just get first time scammed and hope last time.
Since few times i follow polkadot env and liked their projects especially polkastarter . it's like the ico's for projects to raise money . I wanted to participate to one of them and got whitelisted to superfarm ($super) to buy in the presale at a good price but sended 0.25 eth to wrong adress . yes i'm little bit dumb they made a clone of their official telegram channel and i get caught . usually i don't do that but we all do mistakes .

the adress of the scammer : 0xC88b5F4aaE1C8f2778DEF2257b6bAf1BA62E4B09

i hope he will die with a cancer . i lost $447.83USD that's 50% of my humble portfolio and i worked hard to put this money in . i know that there is nothing i can do and i feel little bit down but that's life assholes are everywhere . Whitout this scammers cryptocurrency and the world would be better .

So just a little thought for me . good luck and get your money safe

You are so hard wanting Him to Die in Cancer , What if His family is starving to death now and scamming is the only way to live?
I am not giving consent to bad actions but sometimes there is a Good explanation in why they do that.

And besides you are stupid enough send a funds in Clone telegram when you seems to be an old trader .

I disagree a 1000% with that comment there, Yes the poster most have had his own fault but to me there is no reason what so ever to guarantee anyone to scam another out of their hard earn money because I was also a victim and not even from a telegram but from an exchange. Back then in 2017, even though I was a newbie to the cryptocurrency space, I didn't think an exchange would scam its users but that was what happened and I lost about $500 and that was a huge money to me also though I didn't wish whoever Bad illness like our poster here Grin

but you can see how annoying it can be. I would rather ask for help in my bad situation than to result to scamming anyone.

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Quote from: na7la on February 23, 2021, 03:58:42 PM

There is a start for everything , so i just get first time scammed and hope last time.
Since few times i follow polkadot env and liked their projects especially polkastarter . it's like the ico's for projects to raise money . I wanted to participate to one of them and got whitelisted to superfarm ($super) to buy in the presale at a good price but sended 0.25 eth to wrong adress . yes i'm little bit dumb they made a clone of their official telegram channel and i get caught . usually i don't do that but we all do mistakes .

the adress of the scammer : 0xC88b5F4aaE1C8f2778DEF2257b6bAf1BA62E4B09

i hope he will die with a cancer . i lost $447.83USD that's 50% of my humble portfolio and i worked hard to put this money in . i know that there is nothing i can do and i feel little bit down but that's life assholes are everywhere . Whitout this scammers cryptocurrency and the world would be better .

So just a little thought for me . good luck and get your money safe

You are so hard wanting Him to Die in Cancer , What if His family is starving to death now and scamming is the only way to live?
I am not giving consent to bad actions but sometimes there is a Good explanation in why they do that.

And besides you are stupid enough send a funds in Clone telegram when you seems to be an old trader .

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So sad for you, but can not blame anyone when you are a person who lacked vigilance. Apparently, the attraction from fundraising projects like polkastarter is something that many people realize over the pastime, and scammers have also taken advantage of this to attack people's greed and disarm.

However, do not be too sad when you have discovered it, and consider this as tuition for you so you can be more cautious in this market, and always remember to be wary of anything you see in the market.

isaac_clarke22

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Quote from: Rengga Jati on March 24, 2021, 06:59:15 PM

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All of types of projects there surely will be scammers.
I've seen airdrops already of any types here in the forum and as well outside the forum through airdrop bounties.
It isn't just scammers that you would expect.
There are phishers and anything beneath those lines.
This is why I never tried anymore airdrops since.

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But do not get bored, you need think more positively and see it as a fee in this market.
There will always be a lot worse for us to work towards a better future.
There is a saying that i would love to send you 'Bad ending for a good start' .

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There's always a first time for everything Wink

Don't worry about it OP, it wasn't a lot of money. I know it's 50% of your portfolio so you think it was a lot but many people make that much in a month. Even signature posters can make it in about 2 months so you'll get over it. It's not like the scam ruined your life or something.

Learn from it and be happy that you did not have to pay more for the lesson.

Rengga Jati

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So sorry to hear that, hopefully, this is your last bad experience.
yeah, this is a very worthy experience for you ad also for us. You know, the scammer is everywhere in this cryptocurrency project. There will be many more types again of scammers that will probably reach you someday. So, itis better to know about the investment that is very legit. I am sure that many new projects will be coming (both the legit and also scam). that is why I suggest you better invest or make a short investment in top coins. or if it is a new project, better to put your money in IEO in a big exchange. There are some top exchanges that have launchpad for new projects and you can use this chance. And once more, never trust any investment with high profits instantly in the crypto world, because they will be mostly SCAM.

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This is why we have to be really careful about the new project. The chance to getting scammed is really high than we choose a project that being listed on the top exchange or at least a coin that is in top position in the market.

I have once time to be cheated, at that time I was tempted to the new project that give me instant profit per days. They call it as mining proccess, I bought a coin and safe it for mining and I'll get profit per days from the mining proccess. But, it was scam, I spend $600 and it is loss all of them.

New project will always do anything to attract new user, they make tempting offers with great returns. But at the end we will be regeretted against what we has done.

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