First time scammed , very frustrated - page 8.

Bitstar_coin

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Quote from: cheezcarls on February 26, 2021, 11:58:59 PM

I know how it feels to lose an amount like that. Since there is no chance of recovering it, take it as a lesson learned. I was scammed many times long before I was introduced to crypto and blockchain. I was scammed by phishing emails before, which I ended up losing my savings and in complete depression. But on the brighter side, I have learned and calling experience as the best teacher.

That's very heart felt situation for you, I have also been scammed but not too serious amount but then a loss is a loss, it is vary disheartening the way this scammers make innocent people suffer without given a shit about it,

I feel bad for @op, very bad experience as a newbie, this is reason why people are been warned to stay away from crypto, bad eggs like this makes crypto look bad, @op be careful with rest of your money and stick to top project on cmc for now, buy from only well known exchange.

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Quote from: Genemind on February 26, 2021, 11:14:23 PM

There had been a lot of scam in telegram, I once followed Polkadot channel so that I can get updates from time to time. Every time I open it, there are a lot of invites from Polkadot channels that are replicated, announcing they have an airdrop or send an "X" amount and receive x2. I always check any official announcements and even before joining any presales I check the link, website, news, etc. It's true there is nothing you can do, make your experience count and learn from it.

I agree with you. That is why I do not use telegram anymore as I heard from my friends that if we use telegram, people can easily add our account to their groups without asking permission, although we can set it up in our account. But still, that can be too risky because we never know if that group is really helping us make money or just want our money. Getting first time scammed is very frustrated because I already got that experience in the past, but that does not make me stop making money from crypto as I am trying to stay away from something that I think suspicious.

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I know how it feels to lose an amount like that. Since there is no chance of recovering it, take it as a lesson learned. I was scammed many times long before I was introduced to crypto and blockchain. I was scammed by phishing emails before, which I ended up losing my savings and in complete depression. But on the brighter side, I have learned and calling experience as the best teacher.

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Quote from: na7la on February 23, 2021, 02:58:42 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

Cheer up bro, shit happens especially in this space any slight mistake can cost you, good thing you have learnt from it, don't beat yourself up about it because almost every newbie has experience same as well,

Just have to be extremely careful, always check and double check address of any project you want to invest on especially during ieo or ico, same goes to telegram groups because there are many fake of most project out there,
I wish you good luck with your remaining %50 so you can profit and recover your loss.

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Quote from: VanDeinsberg12 on February 26, 2021, 11:42:06 PM

There should be a feature or a way for users to distinguish telegram group from a fake and official for real, this scamming activities already get out of hand so many random spam group and scam group appearing everyday, atleast if there's like badge for the official project group it could atleast reduce the confusion but nah, telegram simply ignore these scammer and gives them too much room.

^ That is not necessary but if that will probably have soon, much better.
The only way to determine if you are in the right social media, like Telegram and Twitter which is common that all projects have. You can visit their official website and below you will see the linked social media of the company. Sorry for the loss of OP, that is unrecoverable because every transaction in cryptocurrencies is can not be recover. Nevertheless, this is one of the good examples that we must avoid.

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There should be a feature or a way for users to distinguish telegram group from a fake and official for real, this scamming activities already get out of hand so many random spam group and scam group appearing everyday, atleast if there's like badge for the official project group it could atleast reduce the confusion but nah, telegram simply ignore these scammer and gives them too much room.

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Hopefully the opening post can learn from its mistakes by not checking the recipient's address again, because the method used by scammers is
an old way that has been around since 2018. I don't blame the opening post in this case, because we all make mistakes. The most important thing is
for the opening post to make this experience a lesson, so that this is the last experience of being a victim of fraud. Because as long as we are careful,
scam like that can be avoided.

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considered it as a price you have to pay to get some experience, like wise man say experience is a good teacher and i hope it will be a last time you get the scam project
you have to carefull to where your money have to put and i hope you will get more than your lost someday
stay safe

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There had been a lot of scam in telegram, I once followed Polkadot channel so that I can get updates from time to time. Every time I open it, there are a lot of invites from Polkadot channels that are replicated, announcing they have an airdrop or send an "X" amount and receive x2. I always check any official announcements and even before joining any presales I check the link, website, news, etc. It's true there is nothing you can do, make your experience count and learn from it.

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People try to create duplicate or fake accounts so rampant nowadays, it's not a rare sighting for us to find these fake accounts swarming some popular figure's tweets and projects.
That's why you should double check everything that you trying to do in crypto space. Heck, everytime I pasted an address I'd check it like 5 times because i'm aware the existence of malware that replace address within clipboard.

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I feel sorry for you,this is happen in life but you should learn from this mistake, be carefull for the next time.Dont worry you will earn more then this lost amount.

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It is sad to hear people falling for scams but you did not mention how you send money to random people, they contacted you in social media and you readily sent the money thinking it is a legit one. There are a lot of scams happening in Telegram where people are posing as legit groups and approach you in private and try to convince they are the legit team especially when you contact any team support in the legit support channel you will get multiple private message claiming to be legit representatives.

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The issue of scams is very much common in crytocurrency .I don't think there is any body into crytocurrency that will tell you that they have never been scammed not even once.The best thing is to be more careful next time and try to make research before engaging in anything to avoid loosing your money again.

If not being scammed, lost money with ICO or IEO or in any type of these crowdsourcing campaigns. I was not scammed but lost money in one of the ICOs before. Thought that everything was fine as they even had their members disclosed in the public. But maybe, they didn't have the intentions to screw their investors, but they were not successful with their platform. And so they failed, and investors lost money. One way or another, we will lose some in this crypto journey. And that will be a learning lesson for us not to make the same mistakes again.

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Quote from: na7la on February 23, 2021, 02:58:42 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

always double check everything before you send your eth mate
and why you don't go to official website to get the real telegram channel
by the way, you should be more careful and learn from your mistakes

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So sorry to hear that.
In the crypto world, scammers are someti8ng that is very usual, they scam people in various ways, but mostly the scheme is the same. For example is when they offer very promising projects or investments, they want you to transfer the amount of money and will back to you with multiple profits. This is so strange and will lead to a scam.
From what you experienced, you must be patient and make this a very big lesson, sometimes, the experience is the best teacher. Don't be greedy and careless to put certain money into something not clear

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Always remember that scammers are always there and they are taking advantage of every trend in the market right now, Be wary of your investment especially that you got scammed by a clone telegram channel. One of the first things you can do if you are investing is to identify their legitimate and official social media channels, You can find it on their announcement thread or website. I've got scammed before and I know it feels terrible especially that 50% of your portfolio is wiped out, It will take time to regain.

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Everyone should stay humble and be aware that even with maximum caution, it doesn't take much to get ripped off Roll Eyes

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There are so many possible ways to get stolen it is scary! Take your precautions and act knowingly

This is why we must act calmly, take the time to verify the legitimacy of what we are asked to do when we interact with a contract or a site, and everything should be fine.

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I have experienced things like you and I really know how you feel right now, but with this you can gain experience and be more careful in investing, don't be sad bro because with this incident you will be bigger, remember the adage if no one is successful who never made mistake

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Quote from: na7la on February 23, 2021, 02:58:42 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

Scammers these days are everywhere, sorry for your loss but I guess you need to move on and start a new one, learned from your mistakes.

Usually, when it comes from discord, Twitter, or any other social media platforms you need to double-check everything especially if links came from it, I also fell from someone on discord thinking that it is the same website from a private message, he is also in the same channel and gives me a pm, I see the same website but its a clone or a phishing website and I put my private key on it luckily I don't have funds on that wallet.

This is also why I rarely join ICO or presales because of the sketchy websites that is look like a fake one, before I join one I double check everything and look in the internet if its a trusted project.

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I know how you feel right now, because I was in your shoes before I experienced frustration from the hands of the scammers in the areas of investment. It reduced my income to zero level at the moment which took me over three years to recover from the loss.
Since i experienced such things from the scammers, I learnt my lesson never to invest in the hands of scammer and it will hard me to invest in a place, I will not achieve something good from my investment. Before I invest in any altcoin I always carry out my personal research to know if it will bring good result at the end of the business or not before investing on a particular project.

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