Topic: How I Met My Scammer - page 2. (Read 7346 times)

I have also experienced being scammed few years back when I was still a newbie to bitcoin. My friend invited me to join an HYIP site. It's ROI is 3 months tops. I was hesitant at first since I don't know anything about bitcoin but one day I decided to join under my friend's referral link. First few weeks I was earning daily returns from what I invested. I was so overwhelmed hoping that I could reach ROI after 3 months as what the site promised but unfortunately, I was just paid for 13 days. I wasn't able to reach my ROI. My friend the one who invited me didn't even reach 3 months and lost some of his BTC investments as well. The site that we invested only last for a month. That's why today I won't trust any cloud mining sites or HYIP sites.

Sad to hear, but I am sure you learned a lot from your mistakes ;-) Did you lose any coins or did you enter a private key of an empty wallet?

The beginning of this month, I received an e-mail from a fake Helbiz token official telling me they were organizing an airdrop that gives subscribers 5000 helbiz token, so I always excited about the whole deal because the stakes were too high as the last time I checked 1000 helbiz token was worth about 14$, so you could imagine how excited I was about the whole thing. In the e-mail I received, I was directed to a myetherwallet website which looked almost  genuinely as the original website, I was then instructed to connect my wallet to helbiz token smart contract address, I later realised how stubborn I was when I give my private keys out so easily like that. I remember I  felt really bad all day when it happened.

It would be very nice if some of you could share stories how you got scammed. Its definitly worth it If your stories safes at least one person getting scammed ;-)

I dont really know how this should be possible ... can you provide some details about what happened when you clicked the link?

So all you did to get your coins stolen was you clicked on a link? You didn't share a private key or anything like that? If so, that's really scary. Thanks for sharing.

This is a very good topic, thank you for opening this thread. Let me also share my ordeal. I was scammed recently of my hard earned Ethereum, through a link I got as an email. I received an email asking me to validate my ether wallet, unknown to me that it's a fraudulent link, immediately I clicked the link the hackers got access to my account and took all my Ethereum and other valuable altcoins. Please we all should thread with caution. Don't click on every link you receive in your mail.

I was scammed once of my bitcoin out of my ignorance. It happened around 2015 when I was still new to cryptocurrency.
I was desperately in need of cash so I decided to sell of my small BTC. I met this guy on facebook who gave me a site on where to sell it, to him he can't buy BTC from me without using that site, so foolishly believed him. After transferring to that site, the guy's number stopped connecting.
Well I learnt my lesson.

Thanks for the Steemit follow. I hope to post on there soon, but real life has been crazy busy lately.

I am so glad that you can see the good even in a bad situation. Not only have you learned from the mistake, but you have gone on to contribute within the industry in a meaningful and profitable way. It's that characteristic which separates those who become successful from those who get stuck in a failure. You took stock of the situation, dealt with the sense of loss and shame (the latter being often sadly piled on by people on this forum), treated it as a learning experience, and then went on to make some good contacts and find your place in the industry. I can tell that you will do very well.

I honestly think getting scammed at one time or another is more the norm in this industry. It's a sad commentary on the bad actors within our industry and not on the victims. And valuable lessons can be gleaned, and so ultimately it's not so much whether or not you got scammed that reflects on your intelligence, etc., but what you choose to do once you realize that it happened to you.

May many take heart and hope from our stories. Getting scammed does not have to define us, nor be the end of the world for us. It really can be just a setback that we overcome. Thanks again for starting this thread.

Well I guess this goes to prove the old adage, There's a sucker born every minute.

Thanks! And hopefully it is a lesson for a lot of people. Eg. Twitter is full of scam attempts nowadays. It was definitly worth sharing If my story saved at least a single person from getting scammed

sorry about your loss, hope that was the last sad experience for you.
thank you for sharing, your story could be a lesson for many people.

the most important thing is you can move on and be more careful.

I faced a similar skirmish act why trying to register for a partcular airdrop that required  me to input an activation code from my mail after registering to progress, on opening my mail i got a mail rather from my bitcoin wallet  account asking me to input an activation code because i tried accessing my account from a particular unknown IP address,,, then it dawned on me that my bitcoin wallet account has been hacked and wats remaining was the activation code from my mail,,,immediately i halted the whole process. Lesson try to make ur password to your wallets as unpredictable as possible and different from your mail password...lets secure our future.

Thank you very much wiser, both for the merits and your courage to post your story aswell!
Followed you on steemit, impressivly well written stories!

The things I learned from the scam far excels the 60$ I ve lost:
- I was so pissed about myself and wanted to get back the XRP so I came across airdrops. I took part in some very well running airdrops like Poly and HYDRO
- I registered at this forum right after the scam, met a lot of very nice people and learned a lot of things.
- I discovered bounties and found a new hobby: reading whitepapers, summarize them and translate them to German
- ...
So in the end I actually ve to say Thank you to my scammer

Yeah, and unfortunately a good amount of people actually fall for this for some reason. People always go straight to investing for "ez money", without even doing much thought and research on what the process is.

So these airdrop forms are actually asking for people's wallet private keys??? That's pretty low.

FYI, for everyone here, a private key is not needed in order to send funds to a wallet, only the public key, which is also known as the address. So if they are asking for a private key, at the very least they are asking for information they should not need in order to give funds away. They *would* need a private key in order to import the address and empty it of funds, though.

Had an unpleasant experience with Airdrop scum. I've got a link to an exclusive   high-necked Airdrope. Had to fill in the Google form and calmly wait for 50$. Before filling in the form, I've checked the company, of course and they seemed to be a big project, that was about to finish the airdrop. The Google form was enormous (20+ fields) and I have written there not only my personal wallet data, but also... PK! Yes, I was inexperienced and did it mechanically. I had no idea what a scum was. And, it is obvious now, that the form was fake. Naturally, I've lost almost  0,1 ETH and any desire to deal with Airdrops in the future. It's my fault, I know :-(. Had to be attentive and learn the experience of other people.

look at the lending forum, its reeks of 419 newbie scammers.

The crypto world has always been a shady place where all sorts of vile people crawl out of the toilet.

Masternode is the new word for scam.

Trust nobody, especially on here.

Scam ICOs are becoming enough of a problem to have attracted some high level attention. Here's one example:

https://www.howeycoins.com/index.html

Read through it, see if you can find the red flags, and then at the very end, click on the link to buy the coins (but you won't actually follow through with it), and have a good laugh.