Have you been scammed BTC? What will you do if your bitcoin get scammed? - page 2.

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Quote from: mindrust on April 10, 2017, 02:04:11 PM

Since the bitcoin transactions are irreversible, unless you got the identity of the person who scammed you, nothing much you can do. Even if you have his/her identity, you should be able to prove that you are scammed by that person. Yes, it usually ends up bad.

Try to explain your situation to the police they'll look at you as they see an alien. Grin

Exactly! That is why before you invest or transfer btc to a site or anyone make sure to double check everything because scam is everywhere whether we like it or not, scammers normally tell you good things and they have put a lot of effort to make it look like a legit one. We should be very keen and vigilant in handling our coins because of the fact that as of right now there isn't much a way to reversed BTC transfers from your end unless the other person will send it back.

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I have never been scammed Cheesy

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Quote from: Vishnu.Reang on May 12, 2019, 08:47:33 AM

God!! 20 BTC is such a large amount... in fact it can be life changing. I have been a victim of scams a few times, but I never lost such big amounts. So it was easy for me to forget about everything and move on. But in your case, it would have been devastating. Moving on is one of the options, but if I were in your place, then I would definitely pursue the scammers.

But back then 20 BTC was not worth what it is today. I suspect very small fractions of BTC will be worth very significant amounts in the future, so that people will wonder why we threw or gave away tens of thousands of satoshis as if they were nothing.

Bitcoin was probably pricing 22-266 dollars on that time op mentioned (beginning of 2013). So he might have lost between 440-5320 dollars. Well, that is not too much depending the person, but it's a decent amount anyway. In some countries it's possible to live for more than 1 year with such amount.

Back to the question, I think what I would do depends on the scam situation. If it were an exchange I would sue them with all other users who were scammed, at least on this point regulations are very helpful.
But if scammed by other kinds of sites I think it's harder to fill an action against them, especially the pyramid schemes, that is why it's better to just not invest.

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Quote from: sngwinner on May 12, 2019, 02:00:43 AM

I have lost some btc to investment bots but to be scammed, not yet. It wouldn't be a pleasant feeling though but there isn't much you can do about it.

What do you mean by investment bots, till now i have not come across this one, are you talking about trading bots? .
No one could scam you if you are not falling for their fancy returns and if you very well understand that there is nothing you can get for free or without any effort and if you have a logical reasoning on things, no one could scam anyone, but that is not the world we are living in, majority or all of the scams take attracts their victim by promising high returns and if everyone thinks logically, they will move on to other things.

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Quote from: Vishnu.Reang on May 12, 2019, 08:47:33 AM

God!! 20 BTC is such a large amount... in fact it can be life changing. I have been a victim of scams a few times, but I never lost such big amounts. So it was easy for me to forget about everything and move on. But in your case, it would have been devastating. Moving on is one of the options, but if I were in your place, then I would definitely pursue the scammers.

But back then 20 BTC was not worth what it is today. I suspect very small fractions of BTC will be worth very significant amounts in the future, so that people will wonder why we threw or gave away tens of thousands of satoshis as if they were nothing.

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Quote from: Davkul on April 10, 2017, 06:15:39 PM

Uhm no. Actually, I've been scammed once for $50 BTC, but I doxed the guy, found out he was on a forum (I was member of that forum as well), exposed him as a scammer and destroyed his reputation, then he decided to pay me back. The guy was literally desperate.

Sounds like you did the right thing. I fell for a stupid bitcoin faucet scam a couple of years ago, but I only lost .00450000 BTC. I also lost some BTC due to not storing passphrases and gambling. We can only learn once we lose bitcoin due to stupidity or theft.

cryptoheadlines

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No, I am still safe. There is no option when BTC in blockchain. You can not find that person.

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God!! 20 BTC is such a large amount... in fact it can be life changing. I have been a victim of scams a few times, but I never lost such big amounts. So it was easy for me to forget about everything and move on. But in your case, it would have been devastating. Moving on is one of the options, but if I were in your place, then I would definitely pursue the scammers.

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I have lost some btc to investment bots but to be scammed, not yet. It wouldn't be a pleasant feeling though but there isn't much you can do about it.

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Quote from: kvlolo on April 10, 2017, 02:00:52 PM

Have you ever been scammed? And what will you do if your bitcoin get scammed?

Few years ago, it seemed to be the beginning of 2013, I did not remember clearly, I've ever been scammed for nearly 20 BTC, I funded a gambling site, my account got frozen without any reason few hours after I funded.

I could do nothing except crying.

I bet you cried much more when you saw btc spiking up to $20k in December but I guarantee that you are going to be much more agonized when you know that this coming bull run and the next halving hype, an all time high will happen again and you start to tell yourself the 'if only' scenario in your head.

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I've been scammed for about $30 worth of bitcoin and it's about some Chinese guy that will ask for help in telegram that he will give the commission when we get the bitcoin out of that scammed website. I really don't know why i fall for it but i think because I'm desperate to make profit that day and my greediness end me up losing some btc. Well we can't do anything about it just learn from our mistakes and move on.

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My bitcoin was scammed when I invested before in the HYIP investment and almost of my bitcoin got lost because of that so Idecided to stop. But in the gambling site I do not scammed and frozen my account since I played because all my gambling site that I play is all legit but they have scenario that they have gambling site who are scammed players by freezing their acccount.

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Quote from: The Sceptical Chymist on April 10, 2017, 06:23:00 PM

Yeah, I got scammed last year by some asshole who thought he needed the money more than I did. Not much I could do about it, and I ought to have known better than to give a no-collateral loan to someone on this forum. Ooops.

I learned my lesson and haven't lent anyone money since. 'Twas an expensive lesson, but it could have been much worse.

I've also experienced this, a few years ago, when I focused on the loan fund business. most of them offer their account to be collateral. Stupid I'm, I did not check first on their loan history. because he owed me several times, after he gained trust, then he borrowed large funds, because he paid on time and smoothly, I lent him.

Apparently he had loan from many people with that one account. I tried to contact him on Facebook, but he argued that his account was hacked, there was nothing I could do after that

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Quote from: kvlolo on April 10, 2017, 02:00:52 PM

Have you ever been scammed? And what will you do if your bitcoin get scammed? Few years ago, it seemed to be the beginning of 2013, I did not remember clearly, I've ever been scammed for nearly 20 BTC, I funded a gambling site, my account got frozen without any reason few hours after I funded. I could do nothing except crying.

Wow...20 Bitcoin is now worth a lot of money. Had you just hold it without thinking about it then it would have been so good to harvest it now (that is if you had failed to sell it in 2017). The feeling of being victimized by a scam is something that is hard to explain...you can get angry with yourself for falling such a scheme and you can also feel pity that you lost something valuable in our quest to earn more money. I am sure that your Bitcoin is hard-earned so accepting the whole charade can be difficult but life has to move on. I was scammed too with revenue sharing programs before -- I think that was in 2017 when revshares were all so popular. I can only count a few of my friends who are not victims of scams...be it using the fiat money or cryptocurrency. Sadly, there is really nothing we can do about it except moving on and not stopping in looking for ways to increase our worth.

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i don't think the number of people who have not been scammed ever in this world is that many unless they have never used exchanges in their life. all the exchanges that i have used and there are many, have scammed their users or at the very least have gotten hacked and i have lost bitcoin in some of them because no matter how careful you are and how short you keep your coins there, there will be a time when they catch you and scam you!

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Never in my years in crypto world that someone was successfully scammed me. Many tried but they failed because never in my life i would go first in my trades. Specially on mrai days where in there is no exchange yet only peer to peer trade.

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i have been scammed by Vaultmex exchange, the money is in the exchange but they have locked my account because I wrote on twitter and discord that they are scammers etc, alot of ppl are affected.
is there a way to get back my money? i have the transaction id and i can still access the exchange and see the money in the wallet, however I cannot withdraw it. is there a way to withdraw this money from this scamming exchange?

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I think it's hard to find people on this forum, who weren't been scammed at least once time.
I have been scammed several times, but my losses weren't big.
When I was unexperienced, I invested in some HYIP's even knowing about risk to be scammed. I lost some money, but my investments was small and my losses wasn't big.
Also, I joined some faucets which didn't paid after reaching paymen treshold. Yes, there was only few hundred thousand satoshi in total, but I more regret my time, wasted on these scam faucets.
I'm happy that I haven't been scammed for big amount of bitcoins and I hope to never experience it.

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Quote from: kvlolo on April 10, 2017, 02:00:52 PM

Have you ever been scammed? And what will you do if your bitcoin get scammed?

Few years ago, it seemed to be the beginning of 2013, I did not remember clearly, I've ever been scammed for nearly 20 BTC, I funded a gambling site, my account got frozen without any reason few hours after I funded.

I could do nothing except crying.

Not that much since even Im a newbie back then, I have mind stating that there's no easy money. The amount scammed from me is not a decent one to consider and just want to try some risk to see how the system "there" is going on since lots of positive review are being brought up.

In real world, I have also some scammed experienced although again not that much. I just want to test some company back and see how it will goes but in the end, their journey become a wrecked one.

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Thanks guys, I've learned a lot from your replies.

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