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Lucius

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Quote from: Shenanigan on November 25, 2023, 07:50:21 AM

okay, how to send a report correctly? what should I write in the report?

It would be logical to write what you think the topic should be locked for - and you already wrote that in your post "OP is troll, no proofs, no signed messages". Although keep in mind that mods don't have to share your opinion and won't do anything.

Quote from: Shenanigan on November 25, 2023, 07:50:21 AM

P.S: Still no proofs, no signed messages from OP. I'm amazed at this, this ex-holder of such wealth does not know how to sign a message with Bitcoin

The fact that someone allegedly had 11 BTC does not mean that this person must know how to sign a message or that he has any broader knowledge about Bitcoin. I have personally seen a lot of people who bought BTC a long time ago and then found themselves in a situation where they did not know even the most basic things, and these were not trolls, but people who really had the BTC they were talking about. Possession of something and knowledge about it do not have to be related to each other.

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11 BTC? Damn. That's a lot of money for people like me and I must say that you are handling this really, really well since losing that amount would most probably shake me to the core.

If you weren't using that amount actively for various purposes, I must say that it was pretty dumb of you to leave it in an online wallet as some of the posters above mentioned. All the best trying to recover your stash.

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Im so sorry for you bro. Like 11 btc can buy house and lot, can start business, and buy cars all at once. If I have 11 Bitcoin and I got hacked, I don't know what will happen to me, definitely lost myself. It is really hard to retrieve this even you reported it. You know how they play with the system, and I know you know that even if you report this, there's nothing you can do anymore.

Hoping for your fast recovery brother. Always remember that every bad things, there's always a better things to come.

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I'm sorry to hear about your loss, but I would say that you shouldn't have kept such a large amount in a personal device that you and maybe others have access to. If I had 11 Bitcoins, which is more than $400k based on the current price of Bitcoin, I would spend some money and buy a hardware wallet and keep them in that instead just to make sure that my Bitcoins are more safe and secure from things like malware or keyloggers and any other stuff that can cause me the loss of my assets through the internet.

Though it might not be possible for you to get your money back now when it's gone, you should try and find out how it happened, and who knows, maybe someone around you has done it, someone whom you told about your Bitcoins and that they are stored in your personal computer and they got access to it somehow. The world is different these days, you can't trust anyone when it comes to finances.

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Quote from: Lucius on November 25, 2023, 07:05:28 AM

Quote from: Shenanigan on November 25, 2023, 03:31:02 AM

mods, close the topic, OP is troll
no proofs, no signed messages

Why do you think mods are reading this? Even if they read, first someone should make a report so that something might happen - and if you think the topic should be closed, why don't you click on the "report to moderator" button in the OP?

okay, how to send a report correctly? what should I write in the report?

P.S: Still no proofs, no signed messages from OP. I'm amazed at this, this ex-holder of such wealth does not know how to sign a message with Bitcoin

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Quote from: Shenanigan on November 25, 2023, 03:31:02 AM

mods, close the topic, OP is troll
no proofs, no signed messages

Why do you think mods are reading this? Even if they read, first someone should make a report so that something might happen - and if you think the topic should be closed, why don't you click on the "report to moderator" button in the OP?

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In what world $1 or $2 are gigantic fees? Those who cannot afford to support Bitcoin with such a small fee should definitely think about it and maybe find an altcoin that does not have any fees - there is no need to talk about the security of such a blockchain, right?

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Quote from: Outhue on November 25, 2023, 05:25:34 AM

Sorry to say but even if this person learn how to sign a message is the BTC coming back? Are you guys going to get his BTC back for him? Why are you forcing him to sign a message? So that you can believe that he is indeed the rightful owner? What is next after? Let us send his BTC back to him since he is the rightful owner?

OP, I am glad you learned your lesson, you don't have to keep longing this thread, you shared your pain and people don't still believe, leave the post and move on, new readers will learn something from it or also join the group of people that don't believe.

My advice for you now is to get a hardware wallet, it's not even up to $300 to get a solid one, Trezor, Onekey, Keystone, Tangem, D'cent, and so on, these wallets are badass, good for keeping large amount of crypto, now they are doing discount, black Friday's everywhere, act now to avoid future losses, take heart and be strong.

Because it's quite often for newer members to come up with such stories to attract attention and merit as well, in a desperate attempt to rank up. I don't know what to believe. I've read a whole lot of stories here, and a large number of them were fiction. I can't accept that someone who supposedly had 11 BTC, worth approximately half a million dollars, was that of a novice who did not have a hardware wallet, which barely costs $70, and kept his wallet on a shared Windows computer, not even a separate computer or OS for this purpose. I'm sorry, but it doesn't sound plausible.

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Quote from: salad daging on November 24, 2023, 01:34:18 PM

Quote from: soulcity on November 24, 2023, 11:59:40 AM

My PC is running back up right now. I'll post the signed message after it finishes and I figure out how to do it. If you feel you need to report this post, by all means, do what you feel need to do

If you don't know how to sign messages maybe this can help you. How to sign a message?!

It's regrettable to lose 11 BTC that's a huge amount we thought, but why not choose a cold wallet as suggested by others as it's not worth such a huge asset but keeping it in a hot wallet which might be vulnerable to hacker attacks when you experience its negligence.

It's just a lesson because it's impossible to get coins back, so in the future, be more careful.

Hope you don't get depressed.

Sorry to say but even if this person learn how to sign a message is the BTC coming back? Are you guys going to get his BTC back for him? Why are you forcing him to sign a message? So that you can believe that he is indeed the rightful owner? What is next after? Let us send his BTC back to him since he is the rightful owner?

OP, I am glad you learned your lesson, you don't have to keep longing this thread, you shared your pain and people don't still believe, leave the post and move on, new readers will learn something from it or also join the group of people that don't believe.

My advice for you now is to get a hardware wallet, it's not even up to $300 to get a solid one, Trezor, Onekey, Keystone, Tangem, D'cent, and so on, these wallets are badass, good for keeping large amount of crypto, now they are doing discount, black Friday's everywhere, act now to avoid future losses, take heart and be strong.

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This post remember me why i have hardware wallet. Always sad to read things like this

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Quote from: _BlackStar on November 24, 2023, 03:55:17 PM

Let's be honest - this is bad news. If this does happen to you – I assure you that no one here is happy about this other than the hacker. I don't know what caused your wallet to be hacked and I'm not sure how it happened although I have gone through each of your replies to gather some information.

Also - everyone here hopes you'll get your hacked bitcoins back - but that's very unlikely because only hackers can do that. Don't give up and rise up with whatever means you have now - we only learn from your mistakes. The only thing I regret about you is - you share a PC with other people where there are 11 btc stored in your online wallet. 11 btc is right now equivalent to $416,350 ^{[$37,850 per btc]} - of course this is a big amount to lose.

It is regrettable why the OP shared a PC with someone else even though it was his wife, while dangerous conditions never knew to come even though he had done a deeper inspection, then what is regrettable is that he did not buy hardware that is still priced at $100 even some are below that so if he keeps it there it will certainly be safer in a cold wallet.

After checking the txid provided by the OP there is still no movement in the hacker's wallet to other wallets, maybe the hacker kept it there first, but the funds will never return if it is in the hands of the hacker.

$416,350 is a huge amount, we will not be able to collect more than that (11BTC).
Stay strong and stay patient even though I know it will hurt even more, but it's true what others say make it a lesson including for myself so that I don't give access to my PC to anyone.

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mods, close the topic, OP is troll

no proofs, no signed messages

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Perhaps it's got something to do with you connecting your wallet over the internet. Mere logging in on sites and connecting wallets are already a recipe for disaster, and I'm guessing the attack had happened a while ago if not even years from before, just biding its time before striking. I wanna send out my condolences and all that stuff, since losing your money, let alone from a hacker is a massive gut punch. But don't beat yourself up to it bud, the one thing that you should always hold on to is your life and sanity. As long as you got these with you, you'd be able to get your 11 bitcoins back one way or another, trust me.

Couldn't be your wife since you told us she'd never know how to work her way into a bitcoin wallet anyway, but if you're sharing computers it could be something she clicked on the internet while she was surfing.

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I don't care if the story is true or not but it is not a good endeavor to allow people to mess with our most important stuffs, if this story is clear that means the op might be so careless interns of making things right by giving everyone there parts by telling them what to do and what not to do.
If you are really the man of the house your wife will definitely give you the kind of respect you want, so I believe that if in at the first place you told your wife not to mess up with your PC or the device you used in signing the BTC wallet, your wife would have stay far from it.
Now you see why it is not good to keep things just anyhow, although I feel so sad for this because it not far for the next halving, your 11 BTC would have yield good returns for you.

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Quote from: soulcity on November 24, 2023, 12:02:21 AM

Also, the coins have not moved from hacker address

And what are you waiting for? Tell us the hacker's btc address. And we will send feedback to all blockchain-explorers that this is the address of scammers. Explorers will mark it as a scam address. It will be difficult for hackers to withdraw btc

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@OP I trust by now your pc must have been done with the upgrade for you to get the sign message done and share the wallet with members of the forum for further investigation.
If you have no clue how to do that, someone already post a link above for guidance. It will make your claim more genuine if we can all see the hacked wallet. You should also get in touch with your local authority for proper investigation. This is no small amount and I sympathise with you if this is the case.

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Do I believe in this story? Yes, because it's very likely to happen given that OP allows his wife to download and install whatever she wants. Giving access to the machine that stores your coins to anyone is a bad idea. Allowing them to download and install software is a bad idea times two. Not dividing a large amount like 11 BTC into 2 or 3 wallets is a bad idea times three.
Is this story true? Who knows. Maybe it's meant to scare people away from bitcoin? Maybe it's written in hope of getting attention from the media, since they like to write articles about such things. If it's true, you can get your own piece in the news one day. Just wait until your stolen money is worth a couple million $ and they'll call you for an interview. Cheesy

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Quote from: soulcity on November 24, 2023, 12:53:35 AM

Talked to my wife. She tried to install a voice changer software yesterday from a link on twitter and it didn't install. This is a windows 11 PC. I see something new called WingFtpServer as a startup program. That has to be it. C'est la vie Embarrassed

Since you now know the reason behind the hack there is not much to do except correct the mistakes that led to that money being lost, probably the easiest way to solve this is to use a hardware wallet from now on as it is relatively inexpensive compared to the size of your assets, now another way to deal with this is to have a PC completely dedicated to storing your wallets and that is offline all the time, with a Linux OS installed instead of windows.

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Let's be honest - this is bad news. If this does happen to you – I assure you that no one here is happy about this other than the hacker. I don't know what caused your wallet to be hacked and I'm not sure how it happened although I have gone through each of your replies to gather some information.

Also - everyone here hopes you'll get your hacked bitcoins back - but that's very unlikely because only hackers can do that. Don't give up and rise up with whatever means you have now - we only learn from your mistakes. The only thing I regret about you is - you share a PC with other people where there are 11 btc stored in your online wallet. 11 btc is right now equivalent to $416,350 ^{[$37,850 per btc]} - of course this is a big amount to lose.

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Quote from: Charles-Tim on November 24, 2023, 12:12:28 AM

Sorry for the loss. But why have huge amount of coins on an online wallet? The safest wallets are offline/cold and multisig wallets. If you know you can not run your node with cold wallets or with multisig, do not have huge amount of coins on it.

This is such bad news.
Those who save their bitcoins in an online wallet is dancing tango with the devils. There is always a pains end to it. A thousand and one times it has been echoed that your best bet is to save your bitcoin in a multisignature or cold storage wallet.

I hope that it is not only you who have learned from this experience but others who are making the same mistake as you currently can learn and preventing the impending disaster.

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Quote from: Ultegra134 on November 24, 2023, 02:35:12 PM

The OP has yet to provide a signed message from the supposed addresses that were hacked, and even if he does, it's still not 100% valid proof that the money was indeed stolen, as it can be a transaction conducted by himself. With that being said, I have my doubts regarding the validity of this story. Why would anyone have 11 Bitcoins on his Windows 11 laptop, which can be accessed by other people in their household? Anyone with such an amount of money would simply buy a hardware wallet for $100 or at least have isolated his wallet on a Linux OS.

I'm sorry but it sounds like an episode in things that never happened, if I'm wrong, then I'm sorry for your loss, no one deserves it, even if they neglected their safety.

if that is a true story and the 11 btc are more than half his btc he asked for it and he got it.

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