First time scammed , very frustrated - page 6.

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Quote from: Yurkov on March 06, 2021, 02:29:16 AM

Telegram scams have intensified this year. Actually all scammers get very active when the bull market begins. Never trust someone who contacts you first with a great offer. When the offer is too good, it should alarm you immediately that it may be a scam. Always confirm everything in official project chat rooms by very carefully checking their names and usernames of people you are contact with.

Social media is a platform for verification and discussion or communication in the participation of a project or related cryptocurrency or anything, especially telegrams that are always connected and also a place for scammers to commit fraud and find gullible targets.
and to avoid scams on telegram we can avoid all private messages that offer something tantalizing and not easy to believe.

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Quote from: Jgatsby on March 19, 2021, 03:36:36 PM

I totally understand how frustrating it is, been there before and I hope that this will be the last time you'll be scammed. Learn from this event and use this experience to grow, you're not starting from scratch, you're starting over with experience.

It is frustrating to be scammed but that's it, we feel sorry but we also learn from our very own experiences. Next time, OP will avoid projects that are doing the same and will be more careful to check things out first before sending any amount.
He'll be more curious and validate the addresses he'll send not just twice but many times.

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I totally understand how frustrating it is, been there before and I hope that this will be the last time you'll be scammed. Learn from this event and use this experience to grow, you're not starting from scratch, you're starting over with experience.

Father Bitcoin

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It does find the project that ends up being a scam very annoying, but if it makes you give up and give up, you will finish without getting anything, but if you want to learn about what factors make the project a scam, going forward you will be able to recognize whether the project you are following is a scam or is it actually a lucrative project

thesmallgod

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I was also a victim few days ago, gmail accounts was hacked. The hackers got access to my coinbase wallet, huobi MEW and also tried my binance account. I lost just $40 plus. He transfered little ETH to MeW and swap the poolz token I have in my wallet on Uniswap
https://etherscan.io/tx/0x4aaa52dd6113bc2f155852e4fea9dcfcfb44259889d644e13af67d3b052ab4bf he has already succeeded in stealing from others too
https://etherscan.io/address/0x75cace0baba984f721f40443ce4acb6bb229a9b0

I was curious to know how he got my keystore file that allow him to access MEW with the password. I installed malwarebyte and scan my laptop and discovered that my system has been infected with a malware called backdoor.teamviewer.trace this is a virus that allow hackers to have remote access to the files on my system. He gained access through it to all files on my system including my browser histories and stored password. This is how he got access. I'm just sharing this so that you guys can learn and protect yourself

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Telegram scams have intensified this year. Actually all scammers get very active when the bull market begins. Never trust someone who contacts you first with a great offer. When the offer is too good, it should alarm you immediately that it may be a scam. Always confirm everything in official project chat rooms by very carefully checking their names and usernames of people you are contact with.

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Quote from: rozak on March 02, 2021, 08:36:57 AM

still, it will be difficult to trace and the likelihood of returning assets will inevitably be small. If a banking system can freeze a scammer's account, is it possible that the freezing occurs to the owner of the scammer's address? if possible I think that's all that can be done and try to transfer assets with the prescribed procedure.

It seems that it will be difficult to do, especially since the freeze has to come from a bank that is always taking care of their customers, someone might be able to track this down in just a few moments, but after everything is swapped and solved in several asset models, it will be difficult to trace back.

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One thing for sure, the whole cryptocurrency industry has become the paradise of so many scammers and hackers and since they know of the potential of making money here they have become so creative in making sure they are always ahead of the game of fooling people to part of their hard-earned money. And for now, the only antidote that is very effective is correct information and being very careful especially when we are transferring digital assets. OP got my attention, and certainly I am hoping him the best time ahead...this is not the end of the road for you and don't be sad a lot since almost all of us here have already experienced being scammed likewise and many were even of more value than yours. You will surely get what you've lost, and it can even be 10x.

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Well, welcome to the club. There's always a first time to everything, scamming inclusive. What we should always hope on is for the first time not to be too much to wipe off our life savings. It's the price everyone pays for refusing to listen to their inner man. I had mine in 2017 when I started out in the crypto world as a noob. I saw the signs but chose to ignore them. Of course, even in your case, there were pointers to what gave the site away as fraudulent but you were in a haste to invest without doing your due diligence. I hope you've learnt a thing or two from that incidence. Move on.

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Quote from: isaac_clarke22 on February 24, 2021, 01:22:35 PM

Almost $450. That's a lot of money, OP. Why would you risk that much for something even if it means to something that is quite known of a project these days? I wouldn't risk that amount solely for anything.
I guess you learned your lesson from there already. This is why when I join a certain group, not just Telegram, I tend to scout first the activity if it is filled with bots or not.

Polkadot is an excellent project and I wouldn't be hesitant investing such amount myself but yeah what happened with him was unfortunate to say the least and there are 100s of fake groups not just for polkadot or ICOs but even for exchanges like Binance. In fact if you guys noticed when Elon Muks tweeted about dogecoin there were some scam links spammed by fake IDs on twitter and a ;lot of guys must have been scammed by that fake giveaway.

Quote from: matchi2011 on February 24, 2021, 12:07:19 PM

It's time to make sure not to be careless, it's needed to have a much deeper knowledge before you participate or
before you invest your time and money.

Yes, a lot of scammers even waste time, I was talking to a potential scammer few days back on telegram and he seemed like a very nice guy who was trying to convince me that he has some trading skills by which he can earn a lot of ROI and lacks capital, I believed him and continued to listen his story. At the end of everything, he asked me, so how much you want to invest initially? I was like, man so much time and efforts you put into explaining to just bust yourself by asking for money.

I have actually stopped replying to messages from unknowns now.

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Yes, now many users are losing their funds due to scammers. But you always have to be human and stay decent with others. After all, if you get lost somewhere and you were deceived, the Universe will see everything and will return to you with double success. And to the one who does not act according to the conscience of the Universe, thanks to something completely different. It means that you need to do a lot of good deeds and attract as many users as possible to good deeds. And then, I think, there will be much fewer scammers. And our society will change for the better, and it will be much easier for everyone to live and make a profit.

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Quote from: meldrio1 on March 02, 2021, 06:27:10 AM

Oh wow I've checked the address of scammer and it's quiet a lot of money that he scammed people, it's an easy money for scammer. Yep sometimes we do mistakes but I hope this is your the last mistake when do transaction always careful and dyor.

That's why they keep doing this thing all over again because of the huge number of victims. Those innocent people who work every day to get those money sacrifice some blood and sweat just to earn those cash. They just wanted to try some investments maybe they can find some answers to their financial struggles and then you have these evil people who have some evil intention to fool those poor guys. I hope they can recover their money from different sources and may those scammers face their doom someday.

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In this case, if the scammer's address goes to the exchange, there is a possibility that we can report it. because in some cases we can also find out the identity of the scammer. however, the procedure for obtaining the data is not easy. because we have to make a police report to convince the exchange. The existence of fraud like this case can make a lesson for anyone to be more careful

still, it will be difficult to trace and the likelihood of returning assets will inevitably be small. If a banking system can freeze a scammer's account, is it possible that the freezing occurs to the owner of the scammer's address? if possible I think that's all that can be done and try to transfer assets with the prescribed procedure.

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I believe that all of us who operate, invest in this crypto sector have suffered at least once a scam, certainly the first time is shocking, but then unfortunately we get used to it, we must learn to minimize risks and do our own research on concreteness, on solidity of the project, of the coin before investing

For me, being scammed is always shocking and I dont want to "get used to it". Being scammed in bounties is different, there you just lose your time (which is frankly speaking more valuable than money imo).

na7la got scammed by a fake webpage. Like this, I think person can be scammed only once, maybe twice. I dont believe that it is possible to get used to sending money to fake webpages address.

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Quote from: jjdub7 on February 28, 2021, 03:10:47 PM

This is one of the main things we need to beware of. It is very difficult / impossible to get back our tokens that we have sent.
I'm sorry that you learned this in a direct way and they managed to scammed you.

In this case, if the scammer's address goes to the exchange, there is a possibility that we can report it. because in some cases we can also find out the identity of the scammer. however, the procedure for obtaining the data is not easy. because we have to make a police report to convince the exchange. The existence of fraud like this case can make a lesson for anyone to be more careful

You are absolutely right, if the scammer deposits the coins into the exchange, we can report it, but it seems that you have to follow the legal procedures in force in the country the exchange is in.

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Take this experience as a lession and be careful for next time. never send any funds to anyone Via DM. there will be a lot of people pretending to be official team members of projects. but they are just impersonators and you have to be smart to spot the impersonators. real team members will never ask for money via DM.

Also do the followings:
1: Report that Scammer's group and profile and block them.
2: inform official team members about the scammers so they warn their other communities.
3: Move this thread or Open a scam accusation in the correct section here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=83.0
4: try to help others by warning them and spread awareness so if even one person is saved by this. it'll be huge help for crypto community.

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I checked the address 0xC88b5F4aaE1C8f2778DEF2257b6bAf1BA62E4B09.

What we don't know and is not proven from this post is if this is actually a scammer. If you can prove this is an address of a scammer perhaps you can try contacting Tether and ask for advice, since the accused account has recently sold most of the ETH and switched to USDT. Tether has previously frozen USDT funds in accounts of hackers and perhaps if there is clear evidence this account is scamming, then it can take this decision again.

https://etherscan.io/address/0xC88b5F4aaE1C8f2778DEF2257b6bAf1BA62E4B09

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Warning! There are reports that this address was used in a Phishing scam. Please exercise caution when interacting with this address.

Maybe you can contact others that were scammed in the etherscan comments section and decide how to proceed. There is already a comment written.

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Oh wow I've checked the address of scammer and it's quiet a lot of money that he scammed people, it's an easy money for scammer. Yep sometimes we do mistakes but I hope this is your the last mistake when do transaction always careful and dyor.

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Quote from: fly.math on February 28, 2021, 09:30:38 AM

This is a lesson learned for you... hope this kind of scam wont get you again.. Telegram is the home of scammers, tehy are good at imitating supports or administrators

Not only telegram but almost all of the popular platform there gonna be some scammers. even twitter right now is full of so many scammers and youtube too with all the fake conversation about fund manager created by some bots. Best course of action is just to report them so other people who are lacking in information regarding the scamming activities might never see it because the scams gonna be deleted immediately.

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Sorry for your loss I understand how it feels when our hard working money goes like this way. Somewhere you were responsible that's why you didn't send the whole amount you still have 50% of your portfolio like you mentioned which is going to be helpful for you to recover your loss if you do the right use of it with better understanding and responsibility.

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