Topic: Found corrupted wallet.dat??? (Read 342 times)

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.... Ooooooookayyyyyyy, you just happen to not read a single but do ya? I'm not even going to do my 'never-asked-for' essay-type explanation for your response... Go read all my previous responses before even saying stupid things like this.



I'm really sorry to say this cuz I'm sure you're a great guy (who knows), but your reply specifically pissed me off the most... Idk if any other reply would top the stupidity of yours cuz you simply didn't read a single shet and decided to open your mouth (in this case, clinkty clacked on your keyboard). Please read everything and make sure to see if any other reply has covered what you want to say before posting 

Sorry for not responding sooner lol... Been a long weekend as my birthday was on the 18th lol



Yes, that is also a possibility. This type of response is what I've been waiting to hear! I appreciate you didn't just continue this 'you're a newb and ridiculously stupid' bit that all the other people are doing.


Let me put what you're saying into perspective:
Experienced users = someone like master oogway (assuming you and everyone else knows Kung-Fu Panda)

Do you see master oogway yelling at inexperienced people about how endlessly stupid they are and that they are wasting time? Do you see master oogway ridiculing them about how they don't know 'the way' and to just stop asking stupid questions and just listen to the rants of the experienced who don't share their knowledge in a nice manner as they should?

Cuz clearly I haven't. If you see yourself as a more experienced user than others, then shouldn't you be more slow to anger? More slow to pointing fingers and saying people waste your time on pointless topics?


At this point I'm not fighting for the relevancy of my topic; It's to show how irritating it is for the so called 'newbs' to get any actual help or knowledge the 'experienced' users claim to have.

I understand that newbs (including me) can bring in topics that may have been mentioned long ago or have no apparent relation to bitcoin, but I believe if you are part of the 'experienced' people here, you need not to get all hotheaded about it. I believe this is the only way for the bitcoin community to grow and also for this forum to thrive instead of having non-bitcoin people (aka the rest of society) call everyone here inc*l neckbeards or redditor 2.0's <--- (yes, I've actually heard someone use this term while I mentioned about this forum... Idk if anyone else will take offense but... yeah...).

This is how I see it; It's up to you to decide how you'll take this information.

Have a wonderful day y'all!

I'm sure more then 18 morons have paid for it. This file and others like it have circulated for years. And the people who make are either the OP or hire people like to OP to discuss it so that others will buy it too. Which is why the OP now has negative trust from me and others should leave them negative trust too so that anyone dealing with them knows.

-Dave

What is the (crypto) educational purpose of a publicly accessible (forged!) "wallet" file which is NOT protected by a password AND pretends to hold ~332k bitcoins? You could answer it yourself, it you wanted to, don't you think so!

More experienced users here are simply annoyed and tired of such topics because it's not original at all, especially the way you put it. It's at minimum still a waste of time, yours and ours. It's funny how you're fighting for it, though.

You're right it shouldn't be accessible to random visitor. In addition, it doesn't seem to be indexed by Google search engine either. But it's also possible that it's honeypot set by owner the website.

.... so one of the biggest factor of why I'm automatically assumed as a scammer is cuz my account is somewhat fresh to this forum... So you're telling me that if I was also a legendary or a rank around there and informed the same thing, I would be worth listening to?


Again... I ask... FALL FOR WHAT?? I've shared the link of the website's directory I found it in so everyone else has the same access to the dam file and decide to do something with it or not. I haven't asked for money for the file, I haven't said to pay to reveal more info, I clearly stated everything in every single response and yet you're ignorant enough to say the same dam shet as the previous replies? READ MY REPLIES TO THE PREVIOUS PEOPLE!!

I gave all the info I know about what I found. How in the fucking world am I scamming people if I gave up every ounce of information I uncovered?

And you people say I am the ignorant one to be using 'tactic as old as time'?? Where?!? I want you to carefully read every single one of my responses AND THEN reply. Because clearly, you are the ignorant ones for repeating the same things over and over again when I already gave my answer and response to that same accusation. READ! PLEASE!

I understand that there are people who try to scam and shit out there but at least take the time to read so that the responses are circulating the same thing over and over.


I don't like scammers myself, heck I believe scammers hate that they are who they are! The point is, you don't have to let your guard down to read my responses. You can have your pessimistic beliefs BUT still read everything AND THEN write a reply. It's that simple.

With that, I gotta go out for Friday night church so I won't be able to respond back for a while. Have a great day/night/evening!

Trust issues and distrust in crypto world? Lol . Maybe we should be gullible again, just trust you blindly and set aside that fact that you are a random newb using a playbook of known form of scam. So are you for real?
Either you think we are all stupid enough to fall into this or you are so new to the scene that you don't even realize you are using really old tactic.

There are like hundreds of different kind of scams out there in out to drain our wallets and not trusting anyone blindly is pretty much 101 of how to keep your crypto. So, you really think that dissing us with trust issues and being crazy would be a solid tactic. I seriously hate scammers who pray for newbs.

Young? More like naive. Spend enough time in this game, and you will see every scam under the sun recycled a thousand times. Sounds like the younger generations are too busy reinventing the wheel to learn from past mistakes.  Try to spend at least ten minutes searching this forum or other sources and learn more about "fake wallet.dat scams". Or dont. How you want to waste your time is your business.



Okay, sure. But now you know. Why keep going on?  Thats where a good old "c'mon, just stop it!" comes in handy. 

... cuz, they paid for these type of files...? And they were password encrypted so they don't have immediate access to these wallets...? idk, but you seem like you just read my original post, then scrolled all the way down, and commented off my latest reply without reading every other reply I made containing other information.

I 'found' the file but like I said, it's corrupted (and still being a person less than 20 yrs old, I don't exactly have the technological knowledge most others here have to be able to do something about this corrupted file). That's why I decided to just let y'all know that I found this, and that you can also check it out by yourself from the exact website I found it and it's not some pay-to-get file. Go check my other reply, it holds the url to the website's directory I found it in.



They're just gullible people who just want to take their chances on a quick fortune which most likely isn't lol


Also

What tf is a common and stop what :\                <-- ohhhh, common as in commoner? man, that makes two of us! lmao!      (if commoner is not what you meant, ignore this LMFAO)
I'm just informing, nothing else. I am not asking people here to buy it or something, I clearly informed how and where I uncovered such file and that it's up to the rest of y'all to do whatever with this information... What am I doing wrong?

I've also stated that if you believe this thread was a waste of your time, don't waste more time to state it was a waste of your time. It's as simple as that. Please be more respectful when expressing such pessimism. If you are to have more knowledge than another, you don't belittle them for their limited knowledge. After all, everyone starts somewhere... And clearly nobody starts off knowing as much as the older people does. So be more understanding if someone doesn't already take into account what you already know... cuz we ain't mind-readers lol

Common just stop it!!!!
Those addresses that somebody intentionally picked from top100 richest and only the ones who haven't moved in a decade have been present in different combinations in "found" wallets on this forum already a hundred times, the same story, found on same darkweb, found on some lost HDD, found bla bla bla... and yet, all those newbies coming close to a fortune in billions sitting right there haven't been able in years to get any of the coins there..., why do you think so?

And funny enough, as one of the addresses there is from the stolen MtGox funds, so right now if you truly have found the wallet you should send it to the feds  
Also for the rest you should return them to this guy who says he has lost it:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.55153847

LE:
My god, 18 morons have paid for this:
https://satoshidisk.com/pay/CEu1tX

I've seen those threads lol

Like I've stated in my previous reply, I found it in a website's directory that should not be accessible regularly for normal site-goers and obviously, I have opened it up on notepad to check the encoding to see if there is any sussy malware code written. It didn't so the file checked out clean.

I've seen the threads about the wallet.dat files with passwords encrypted, but this wallet had no encryption to protect the wallet. The other thing is, I don't know what the difference is from a wallet.dat from bitcoin core and from electrum as I've never used bitcoin core before (my old ass MacBook takes forever and makes it go slower, trying to sync nodes so I gave up on that). I don't know if there is even a difference between the files from the two services.

I know most have already deemed such thread like mine as "a waste of time" as it seems to entail the same old "oh, a wallet.dat file from the internet, maybe it's a risk I should take and others should try toooo!" but I just wanted to inform the general public about my findings.

The file isn't something I hold personally and try to distribute, but is already online so to scam people to 'buy' the file is the craziest, most stupidest shet I've heard... albeit, scammers have tried and succeeded in fooling couple gullible people lol


But yeah, I do understand the mindset you guys have when it comes to such topic but out of all honesty, the pessimistic comments (not yours specifically, but the ones that come out of nowhere and immediately label someone a 'scammer' for mentioning such topic) could just overall not be commented if that's how you feel, cuz why waste time commenting about wasting your time if it truly is a waste of your time, right?

Idk, that's how I see it, like if that's the type of comment one wish to make, at least make it modest and nice enough to tell the OP that such topic may just not be viewed in a positive light and suggest nicely to either give solid proof or just lock up the thread... If that's not nice, then Idk what is lol

Here's my thought, it's fake wallet file designed to waste someone time or scam someone else. Please read post i quote below,


While he's talking about fake Bitcoin Core wallet file, the principle should be similar for fake Electrum wallet file.

If you hang out on bitcointalk as long as others here have, you see people like yourself who "found" such garbage on the internet (usually pay for it) then end up creating a topic like yours. Although most of them don't say where they found it, they usually say it is "their own wallet"!

These files are manually changed to look like they contain such large amounts. They rely on you to be greedy so that they can scam you, one way or another.
Usually they scam you by selling the file to you for small amount of money. Sometimes it is just a malicious file that would infect your system and steal your actual bitcoins. Sometimes the file is free but they rely on convincing you to pay a service they run to "recover" those coins

First of all, my bad for suddenly going quiet. I was out and about with family and got home a bit later than expected lol.


I've seen about the pywallet and tried setting it up but had some hiccups and didn't have the time to really go thru with it.




I guess most don't want to even 'waste' time on responding to the thread. I know how scammers work and their stupid ahh gimmick to tell a convincing story and yada yada yada. I still took my shot and tried to see if there would be anyone left who wouldn't start off their comments with "you're a scammer, etc etc etc"

Anyways, to the real juicy details (idk, rereading before posting, it kinda sounds anticlimactic but oh well X-X):
I was google dorking and deep web searching to see if there are any leaked wallet.dat files (obviously rarely any since if your a real crypto bro, you'd be smarter than to store that important file in an online directory) and stumbled across one in a directory for rpg games... Specifically the Russian RPG server directory... I don't want to point fingers but it hey, it was there...

The rpg's main website is https://www.rpg-club.org
And if you were to specifically google dork something about wallet.dat this link pops up https://www.rpg-club.info/rpg-club.net_2018.sql             <  this one is a .info
Obviously the first thing I saw was the difference in the links as the main is a .org and the link I found the file was a .info                                     |
                                                                                                                                                                                                                   |
I made sure to double check with the main website and it shows the same thing: https://www.rpg-club.org/rpg-club.net_2018.sql                       < this one is a .org like the main website

They both show the same thing, and I may not be technically advanced enough to look for any other directories they have that may store similar information.

That is where I found the corrupted wallet.dat file and you can go to download it yourself to check it out (obviously make sure to double check it through notepad or something first in case your that paranoid... dw, I was and that's what I did too lol).

Like I mentioned above to BitMaxz, I was trying to use pywallet to recover it or at least attempt to recover it, but I had some few hiccups (mainly cuz I still use a dam 2017 MacBook T^T) and I didn't have much time to read over the pywallet docs and stuff.

When I initially found this corrupt wallet.dat file, seeing that whoever originally held this probably had access to these addresses, I didn't know whether or not I should tell someone as that could lead to sticky situations... or I was getting delusionally paranoid lol

But I decided that if I just inform as much people at once (at least attempt to since people already thought I was a scammer instead :\), then it would become a public problem and it is what it is.... idk

I don't know if this information will be of any use or be the slightest bit useful, but I will be handing over this information over to this forum for anyone interested to take a peek and perhaps help solve... this... mystery...? Again, I don't know but maybe.... justtttt maybe, this may (delusionally) be a small step to finding out the Mt Gox hacker(s) or something... lol

Anyways, like most people said, I didn't plan on making people pay for this information, it should be free as it may be useful for someone. If that someone happen to find it useful, I'd just kindly ask to optionally give some dono since I'm still tryna make it out of college and don't think that the level of education taught is really worth the money I'm in debt to.      (.__________.)


But yeah, that's about it. This is as much as I, myself know. If I were to ever get any progress or if anyone else had any progress with this info, please do reply back to this thread to keep it updated I guess.

I hope everyone a great night(for me at least)/day! Godspeed to you all!

     I don't think so, because the real crypto enthusiasts don't have that mindset as to why they are here in the crypto space. It just seems that the narrow-minded forum members
seem to think that you are the OP. I'm sorry that there are people who have done something similar to what you did.

     So what is the purpose of your choosing this topic? What do you want to convey to the forum members here? I can't get the gist of why you did it.
what exactly?

Well, that's always what scammers do here on the forum they post storytelling and put screenshots with tons of BTC if you are interested they gonna PM you and sell the wallet.dat.

If you're not the same as them then focus on your plan I guess you want to try to recover this wallet?
For me, if you found this free and open for everyone I'm sure it's a waste of time but if you still insist you can try pywallet to recover corrupted files check the link below.

-  https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.3378030

Hell, it would be a helluva miracle ngl. But as I stated, I found it uploaded onto an online directory (anyone can find it if they know what to search). I downloaded it to see how stupid they must be to leave a file like that just out there. It shows up to me and most likely everyone else who downloads it as 'corrupted' as we aren't the ones to import those addresses (this sentence is just my assumption as I don't know if that's how it actually works). The person/group of people who foolishly decided to leave the file out in the open most likely have the actual access to these addresses.

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... are basically everyone on this forum very narrow-minded or do y'all just have some type of really really bad trust issues? It really does fascinate me ngl. Maybe it's cuz I'm still young, but wow... the level of distrust and quick to say something is a scam or misinformation is crazy and beyond words lol

And yet, you started your post with exactly that - spread of misinformation and false leads. "I've been doing some digging and found a wallet.dat file" Yeah right!


Its a well-known type of scam. You are just a decade too late.  

... 

I don't have any intention to lie about this? What am I to benefit out of lying about finding this corrupted file?


My original response:
The actual fuck? Why would I waste time to do that? Have you not read a single word I wrote? I don't understand what your thinking process here.

Buttttt.....
Took time to rethink what I would say:
Sure, there are people out there who try to scam others in the way you described. But I have clearly mentioned that I am wanting the forum's feedback on what I have stumbled across.

I have no reason to photoshop what I found, cuz I don't like being deceived (experienced it myself, as I believe everyone did one point or several point in their lifetime) so I don't like deceiving others on anything. I respectfully asked for people's thoughts and opinion and of course, what you had to share is one. So thank you for sharing your thoughts but I find it very rude (in the perspective of the OP) but also very valid (as I would have thought the same myself if I were in the perspective of responding to an OP).

I dunno if it's just me, but I think it would be better off if we don't start off convos with such negativity and pessimistic pov unless it's obvious that an OP should get the rough talk.
If I were to say that I'm trying to sell this corrupted file (along with the broken english, idk but broken english is what makes them super obvious and hilarious for even trying XD) for money or something without anything said, I'd find the rough talk and the pessimism valid.

But yeah, I dunno, I get carried away in trying to elaborate my perspective it ended up being a longer response than I expected LOL

But do expect my responses to be hella long since I want to make sure I explain things in a way everyone understands