Topic: How much money you've lost due to SCAMs? - page 2. (Read 2456 times)

An update guys.

The Australia coin Dev just emailed me over night with this.



Strange behaviour !  banned me for asking to know who they are as I am Australian, stated I was abusive etc, yet if you read their posts they were abusive and aggressive from what I can see.

Now the email above quote, thats the only PM they sent me and I find in my opinion that this is a form of intimidation!

Just a pity he got it wrong as its not me!  lol  I don't use Facebook!  haha

As I kept saying to them they are digging their own hole and are their own undoing as they won't be upfront and declare who is on the team!  they state on their web page your getting a part of Australia crypto coin!  yet we still can't find out who or where they are!  they also state that the DEV team s Australians yet I think it is only one person doing the posts.

Whats the world coming to ……

I made a bunch off DOGE

I've lost about 20BTC in scams though over my bitcoin career. Mostly from being a dumb fuck.

If this site was moderated properly we would have fewer scams and more faith in cryptocoins. The positive feedback is lost and therefore you can't trust anyone.

$3000

But I learned from the experience, was that really a loss?

Sorry to hear it.  If you didn't contact the site admins, and the account went away anyhow, It's a strong indication that you were not the only victim.  The scammer's got to figure that if she scams people from her account, the admins are going to hear about it and she will lose the account within hours  (or get it marked as a scammer, which would be just as bad for scamming).  Therefore, once she makes her move she only has a few hours of active scamming before she loses the ability to abuse whatever trust people have in the person behind that account.

So, to make the most of a few hours of active scamming, she'd spend weeks and weeks on the setup, with as many targets as she could handle.  Heck, she might even have operated tor sites giving the very best prices for bitcoin (at a slight loss) in order to "earn" the marks' trust.  All of that ... unfortunately for you ... is bait.

But once the active scam starts, she has to move on all the targets and move fast before the account gets marked scammer and the targets notice.   If she  can get all of them to trust her with a few BTC, on the same day, then she walks away with a tidy profit.

Think back...  was there a big looming deadline or brief window of opportunity that the scammer (or one of those onion sites whom you don't actually know wasn't her) told you you were about to miss out on?  I'd almost bet that there was. 

Yet to be scammed but lost a reasonable amount of BTC in PC death and the recent price falls haven't helped. I have only invested a portion of what I've made from Gold appreciation since 2007 therefore nothing to cry about (but crypto has been nasty).

The last four months must have created a shed load of Bagholders.

FYI, I prefer Gold as it's the only thing in the World that is actually money (most other things will eventually return to zero).

0 and a bit.

Coinmarket.io: a fraction less than 2 BTC and it turned on the proverbial dime. When it was flickering in and out of 521 Land, I test-withdrew 0.01 BTC and it got through. So, I waited until it was online again and withdrew the rest: about 1.989 BTC. Just my luck, it withdrew back into Area 521 as I clicked the Email confirm link. Since then, I've had a recorded withdrawal with no tx id.

If only I had withdrawn 1 BTC instead of 0.01...

Coinex has kept some of my Doge in withdrawal limbo, but otherwise no real loss to scams for me. It wasn't much Doge, but still... annoys me they have it (or lost it).

I am curious what types of scams people have lost money on. Although people seem to complain a ton about shitcoins as 'scams' here, most of the real loss would logically be from bad IPOs, bad exchanges and flat out thieves.

8.8 BTC at Coinex.

it is help for him to buy new Scrypt miner farm from KNC.

14 BTC, I got scam by NineLives (MiningHardware.co.uk) 

Scammers have always been around. Two years ago I tried to buy some bitcoins for $20 each, after the scammer posted an offer here. Sent payment by paypal and never got any bitcoins. No harm done though, as Paypal refunded me. It put me off bitcoin for two years though :/

I lost 2 BTC in early November on a silver bullion deal gone sour. Dude never sent the silver after I sent the BTC. This was when BTC was trading at $200. A week later the price BTC exploded so that sucked even more.

I have lost another 1 BTC aprox. to scam pools and to exchanges like Cryptorush.

You really have to learn to shrug shit like this off, after all this is the wild west.

0BTC 

I have been robbed about 15k euro plus 31 bitcoins by mtgox.

Best regards,
ilpirata79

You are not alone my friend. I got burned hundreds of times before finally learning that people cannot be trusted. Its a sad world we live in.

3.75 btc here.

Someone just went offline with his account and never came back.

Shouldn't have switched without an escrow.

Hi Guys,

Yeap I feel the pain!   its hurting the crypto world badly and is stopping new people from getting getting into it.

Mining is my hobby so I started a website www.miningcryptocurrency.com.au to Help Aussies get into it as we are a bit behind, plus our power costs are high!  anyway I was sick of the online scammers and setup my site to help people do it as safe as possible and also ensure its done as ethical as possible.

These people are the lowest of scum as they are ripping off people who are trusting and trying to make a dollar so to loose $1000 is devastating!

I have also been ripped by Cryptorush as they in my opinion are misleading, they won't reply to emails!  and they are not clear about their website as what they are really saying is if you transfer in BTC or LTc we are keeping it!  the only way to get your money out is to trade it for alt coins but the alt coins are at least 33% to 50% higher to buy, so if you do and then transfer out when you sell you loose out!

Then I also seen they were selling off their hugh gpu mining rigs! I could not believe it that they had a hugh mining farm and running a exchange!  they can pump and dump, delay orders or make sure their coins are sold at higher prices etc, its so wrong.

If only we could unite world wide to have a central point for all facts to be listed clearly as a one stop place, it will make it so easy for us to review scammers etc, the forums are too spread out and watered down.

I even just got banned from the Australia coin forum as I kept asking to know who they are and if they are in Australia as they kept avoiding any questions, they banned me for abuse yet I did not abuse them or swear but they certainly attacked me,I only kept asking who they are, they also locked their forum on here and started another one instead of answering the questions so now they can edit and delete anyone who questions them by the looks, their website www.auscoins.org is also hidden so you can't see who or where its actually owned!  you have to pay extra for that! the weird part is they made the coin red/blue/white and that is not Australia at all.

Ok im very new in the cryptocommunity but what i can say after 3 months is:

Cryptoworld is not quite different from "Realworld" both are very scammy

and most just want the best from you: your money!

We have to look out for the exceptions, and for me i'm also ignoring most
of the Nonsense- and Shitcoins which appearing every week.
In most cases only a small group around the dev(s) are profiting from the
coins and soon this coins are gone.
Also this shitwaves of copy & paste coins scaring newbies and damaging
the reputation also of most of the other coins (especially for non-crypto
enthusiasts).
Avoid IPO's from Shitcoins, avoid Premined Coins (if there is no real idea
or concept) avoid whatever smells fishy

and keep smilling that is the best medicine
and of course never ever go all-in with something you are not sure about!

Zero lost, but I'm interested in which scamcoins you bought into and got scammed.


John K is currently MIA with coins.