Topic: Lost my coin very confused plz help (Read 1679 times)

I didn't c and p it I copied it by hand and i just figure the thief would move the coin eventually it's been about a week I will keep watching it

.. exactly.

There is nothing weird. The coins won't disappear and there is no reason for the hacker to move it immediately. And there could be other possibility, e.g. nothing hacked but you C&P-ed a wrong address

Yeah at this point I'm pretty positive I was hacked but my coin is still there so that's wierd

I think, since the starting numbers are the same, that this was a hack attack. The hacker found that you had your address in the clipboard, sent it to himself, let a service (or his hardware) create an address with 3 same starting digits and changed your clipboard to that address. When you checked the address you were fooled with the first signs matching and sent it away to the hacker.

Since there were no coins sent to this address previously its unlikely that your browser autocomplete brought back this old address somehow.

Blockchain wont be able to do anything. The first digits being the same does not let it look like an error on their side.

Blockchain is a public ledger, so enter your btc address.

Locate the recent date that you remember sending it on and it should show the #`s sent. From there see where it went, and keep doing this until you arrive a final btc address, if someone stole your coins possible chances is that they forwarded the money without mixing it.

Nope didn't use a link I typed it in myself, I checked those out though thanks for the help I appreciate any help I can get

My guess is it was a phishing attempt. Did you use an email link to log into the site before getting the address?

A couple sites about 2 different phishing scams involving localbitcoins:

https://localbitcoins.com/forums/#!/fraud#be-careful-very-official-l

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/more-phishing-emails-localbitcoins-937187

Still didn't get my Btc yet but I'll update when I solve the problem thank u for the input everyone

localbitcoin is not a wallet.  It is an account.  I know they like to call it a "wallet" on their website, but they are wrong. You don't have any control over the private keys or the addresses at localbitcoin and it isn't possible for you to create a backup of your bitcoins since localbitcoin is in full control of the bitcoins.

Every address you see on that website is localbitcoin's address, not yours.  Bitcoins that are sent to those addresses are sent to localbitcoin, not to you.  Then when bitcoins are received at an address that they have chosen to associate with your account, they update a record in their database indicating how many of their bitcoins they are willing to send on your behalf.

There are three possibilities I can immediately see here:

1. It is possible that some malware hijacked your browser and replaced the address when you went to your account page.  Then you might have accidentally sent bitcoins to this fake address that is under the control of a thief.

2. It is possible that you are the victim of a phishing attempt and that the web page that you visited wasn't really localbitcoins.  Perhaps it was a similarly named website that was designed to look just like the localbitcoins website and you were tricked into sending bitcoins to an address under the control of a thief.

3. It is possible that you had some other address in your computer clipboard.  That you thought you copied the address from the localbitcoins page, but that the copy failed (maybe you hit the wrong key or clicked the wrong area of the screen when you tried to copy).  Then you accidentally pasted the old address that was still sitting in the clipboard without realizing it.  If you did this, then you accidentally sent to an address that you actually got from somewhere else.  If you can figure out where you got that address from, you might be able to convince them to send your bitcoins back to you.

4. It is possible that localbitcoins had a problem with their software.  Perhaps their software lost track of the fact that the address was supposed to be associated with your account.  Therefore, localbitcoins has received the bitcoins, but they have credited someone else's account (or maybe nobody's account at all).  If this is the case, you'll need to talk to localbitcoins support.  They'll need to investigate their software and if they can determine that they had displayed that address to you, then they will update your account balance in their database to reflect the additional bitcoins.

I highly suggest in future look into places such as circle, coinbase, etc.   You will be better of then using localbitcoins.

I would ask localbitcoins support.  But it appears the btc address you asked got the btc. 

That's the problem between you and localbitcoin. The bitcoin network has done exactly what you told it to do: send 9BTC to 1D89CWFGzDGNFvU8wbT2rnszZpJgmr26Ap.

This topic is not belonging to this "Development & Technical Discussion" section, which is for "Technical discussion about Satoshi's Bitcoin client and the Bitcoin network in general. No third-party sites/clients, bug reports that do not require much discussion (use github), or support requests."

Localbitcoins is just a worthless crap on the internet with all lilliput scammers flocking there to have a good time preying naive genuine users.

Already did I'm talkin to then right now they just take forever to answer just figured id see what I could figure out in the mean time

You should submit a ticket to localbitcoin. People here couldn't help much

My balance is .012 from leftover funds but the 9btc is nowhere to be found it seems to have disappeared .
Would it have been possible for someone to get into my account and switch the deposit adress in order to get the coins sent elsewhere while I was thinking they were be going to my account. That's what it seems like happened that's the best way I can explain it Iknow I'm not making much sense lol

My account is at 0 that's why I'm so confused

So just go to localbitcoins and see if you have 9 Bitcoin credited to your account. By "account" I don't mean any particular "bitcoin address". I mean the balance shown by localbitcoins

Yeah not trying to be difficult just want to shed some light on my situation it was going into my localbitcoins wallet

You've been told multiple times now that looking up in a blockchain explorer doesn't tell you if they are in the same wallet or not.  Stop assuming that you know how bitcoin works, and stop using a blockchain explorer.  You're just confusing yourself.


You're saying that they are NOT at the address that you sent them to? Or you are saying that they ARE at the address that you sent them to, but you can't find that address in your wallet?


Maybe.  You really aren't giving anybody enough information to help you.


It could be stolen, and the thief just hasn't moved it yet.

It could be that whatever wallet you are using has lost track of the address due to a bug or poor programming.

It could just be that you don't understand what you are seeing and everything is fine.

There's no way to tell with the information you're giving us.