Lost 2.03 BTC via bitcoinpaperwallet.com Am I wasting my time trying to recover? - page 2.

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Quote from: someoneStoleMyBitcoins on June 10, 2023, 06:12:00 PM

Three years ago I made a paper wallet using an online generator and my public key is 1MXb3vY5sCC2rB2bD2rusQjxEyYUDEKcHT. I stored my private keys locked in a Keepass password manager (with a very long and strong password) and made sure it's different than my primary general Bitwarden password generator. I just checked my balance 2 days ago and realized it's all missing since 11/25/2022. Any advice how to get my money back? I feel like reporting or even trying to sue Sarkis Sarkissian (new owner of the bitcoinpaperwallet) would cost me even more headaches and waste of time since not guaranteed that I will get my money back. Do you happen to know any success stories or any recommendations on what I should do?

Thanks in advance.

I don't think it is possible to recover this scammed bitcoin. It is your fault that you deposited bitcoins there without verifying the site. This site is a scam site and this topic has been discussed before in this forum. this happened to you because you were not careful with your bitcoins. But later always use some trusted wallet to store bitcoin like electrum can be in trusted list. And if you have a large amount of crypto you can use hardware wallet. This will keep your funds safe.

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sorry for your loss, but in reality everything was lost in vain, there is no recovery and return, when you enter a fraudulent or fake site, where we consciously connect to our wallet,
if you are sincere, make this a lesson, don't easily believe in new products that you know, even if you are given rewards that sometimes don't make sense, you should look for accurate information first

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As other users have said, it is not a trustworthy site. You may try filing a case but indeed that would take time. If you have tried contacting their support and nothing happened, unfortunately you'd be really needing to face the reality. I have experienced sort of a scam before which pushed me to just accept it than to stress about it. I'm not rich but I am aware that if there's just a small chance to recover my funds, it won't be worthy of my time and effort. I'll be just looking for other way to earn money to somehow compensate with my loss. A matter of conserving my energy to what is left with me than to force things trying to please those who fooled me. Money can be earned but stress will haunt you for a long time.

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Sorry for your loss and you had no luck storing your funds with bitcoinpaperwallet.com. It's a scam that has been warned on this forum for a long time. I would say you should forget about that bitcoin, and there will be no way to get it back once it has been stolen.
By the way, can you tell me, is Keepass really different from other online password managers? If they still have an online connection, that is another risk you are facing. Never host seed phrases on online platforms.

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If you have time and you are a person who does not give up easily, then I suggest that you report the whole matter to the police, and it would be good if you try to determine where your BTC ended up (if at all possible) in order to maybe be able to detect the person behind everything. I'm not saying that the chances of you succeeding are high, but if that scammer has scammed a lot of people and if a large number of those people do the same as you, it is possible that someone will be interested in trying to solve the case.

On the other hand, if you don't do anything, you've admitted defeat and all that will only be an expensive lesson for the future. Whoever is behind it surely hopes that you will do the latter.

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Oh man, this is so much money & you had to learn the very tough way unfortunately…

Never trust random websites with that much money, man.. learn how to store BTC safely because a key generator website won’t do it and now you know.. Set up a cold storage and try again, better this time. You have to care about security of your coins!

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Quote from: someoneStoleMyBitcoins on June 10, 2023, 06:12:00 PM

I feel like reporting or even trying to sue Sarkis Sarkissian (new owner of the bitcoinpaperwallet) would cost me even more headaches and waste of time since not guaranteed that I will get my money back. Do you happen to know any success stories or any recommendations on what I should do?

Sorry for your loss mate.

You would have little success with a suit against the new owner (scammer) and as you pointed out it would cost you more in finances and stress. You could instead start building your Bitcoin stash and using better security protocol, like only using a reputable, non custodian, open source wallet (hardware or software).

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Quote from: someoneStoleMyBitcoins on June 10, 2023, 06:12:00 PM

Three years ago I made a paper wallet using an online generator and my public key is 1MXb3vY5sCC2rB2bD2rusQjxEyYUDEKcHT. I stored my private keys locked in a Keepass password manager (with a very long and strong password) and made sure it's different than my primary general Bitwarden password generator. I just checked my balance 2 days ago and realized it's all missing since 11/25/2022. Any advice how to get my money back? I feel like reporting or even trying to sue Sarkis Sarkissian (new owner of the bitcoinpaperwallet) would cost me even more headaches and waste of time since not guaranteed that I will get my money back. Do you happen to know any success stories or any recommendations on what I should do?

Thanks in advance.

It will do no good to report the owner of the service. The problem is that you have relied on an online private key generator and this is already a wrong practice, there are many other ways to generate a secure entropy seed, for example you could do it with dice. Also you kept the key on keepass which recently found a vulnerabilty bug.

https://www.darkreading.com/application-security/keepass-vulnerability-imperils-master-passwords

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don't think u can do anything about it.

better read up on stuff on how to make a secure wallet before putting in substantial money in it.

that would be my advice going forward.

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Quote from: someoneStoleMyBitcoins on June 10, 2023, 06:12:00 PM

Three years ago I made a paper wallet using an online generator and my public key is 1MXb3vY5sCC2rB2bD2rusQjxEyYUDEKcHT. I stored my private keys locked in a Keepass password manager (with a very long and strong password) and made sure it's different than my primary general Bitwarden password generator. I just checked my balance 2 days ago and realized it's all missing since 11/25/2022. Any advice how to get my money back? I feel like reporting or even trying to sue Sarkis Sarkissian (new owner of the bitcoinpaperwallet) would cost me even more headaches and waste of time since not guaranteed that I will get my money back. Do you happen to know any success stories or any recommendations on what I should do?

Thanks in advance.

There's no way virtually at this point, the site you just visited and entrusted your bitcoins with is a known scam and people have fallen for it in the past, much to no avail. You might wanna sit this one out and find other ways to earn that 2.03 bitcoins back because well, since there's been a few months of inactivity on your part no doubt the coins have already changed hands multiple times, may even be untraceable now at this point.

Moving forward, do not entrust your money or your coins on anything that can be connected over the internet, even if it promises security, only transact specific amounts you would need and don't pull your whole investment out, and ultimately, invest on a hard wallet that is not connected to the internet to make sure that your coins are safe. Let this be a lesson, and I know it's a really expensive one, but I gotta set your expectations here in regards to earning your BTC2.03 back from these scammers, which is nigh-impossible since they jump-shipped a while ago if I'm not mistaken.

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I never heard of that site and I agree with the above it might be a scam site. So there is no way to recover your BTC from the thief.

Another thing is why you store your private key to KeePass they always have vulnerability issues like the news recently hackers can retrieve your master password in clear text.
Always keep your private key on offline devices generating private key on Electrum or Bitcoin core are safer than using other sites that generate keys.

Charles-Tim

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It is a scam site.

Read this: Re: bitcoinpaperwallet.com - scam still alive?

Advice:
It is better to use HD wallet like Electrum to generate seed phrase and wallet on an airgapped device and use it as a paper wallet instead. You can extend your seed phrase with passphrase which is an alternative to BIP38 encryption on paper wallet, although it is not encryption but called word extension, which can generate different keys and addresses from the same seed phrase and makes your wallet safe like encrypting it.

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Three years ago I made a paper wallet using an online generator and my public key is 1MXb3vY5sCC2rB2bD2rusQjxEyYUDEKcHT. I stored my private keys locked in a Keepass password manager (with a very long and strong password) and made sure it's different than my primary general Bitwarden password generator. I just checked my balance 2 days ago and realized it's all missing since 11/25/2022. Any advice how to get my money back? I feel like reporting or even trying to sue Sarkis Sarkissian (new owner of the bitcoinpaperwallet) would cost me even more headaches and waste of time since not guaranteed that I will get my money back. Do you happen to know any success stories or any recommendations on what I should do?

Thanks in advance.

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