Lost or Stolen Bitcoin, please advise - page 2.

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Quote from: kahc on March 12, 2018, 05:56:08 PM

Quote from: scottyd06sd on March 12, 2018, 12:12:35 AM

HI,

I am very new to Bitcoin. I have an account with Coinbase. While on line I tried to make a purchase, I sent the Bitcoin to an address for deposit. The Bitcoin went through the address and has bounced around, a total of 1106 confirmations to be exact.. When I track it, it says spent at the last address. I came across the vendor on another site, I spoke with him and he said it wasn't his address. But he would work with me.

Is it possible to get my Bitcoin back? I would be happy to pay a bounty in Bitcoin if I can get it back.

Thanks!

If you are 100% the deposit address is correct, then the vendor is trying to scam you.

Possible case and might considered to investigate around if you did send into the right address.This is really plausible if someone neglect or denied on receiving it on exact address but he refuse that he receive nothing then its just a pure scam but if you sent it on a wrong address then for sure considered those bitcoins are lost forever since theres no way on reversing such transaction which had been broadcasted already.

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Well this is for sure no way to reverse a bitcoin transaction. There are two possibilities 1. seller is trying to scam you 2. You sent your bitcoins to wrong address

If its first scenario then try to get some info from seller like
1. Confirm with seller correct bitcoin and see what address did you use to send your bitcoin (compare with your trans history in coinbase)
2. Check with seller if they uses unique new address for each sale or using same address for all users (logically they should be using same address)
3. If its same then you should see multiple receivings from different customers along with you transaction <----- means seller denying the receiving

4. Now if they generate unique address each sale, ask them how they generate and how they keep track of it. It is possible new address generated and lost by seller.

If the seller is honest and legitimate they will help. Otherwise you can only forget and curse the seller :p

In case second scenario if you sent to wrong address then you have trace the source of that address and request the source to send it back.

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Quote from: scottyd06sd on March 12, 2018, 12:12:35 AM

HI,

I am very new to Bitcoin. I have an account with Coinbase. While on line I tried to make a purchase, I sent the Bitcoin to an address for deposit. The Bitcoin went through the address and has bounced around, a total of 1106 confirmations to be exact.. When I track it, it says spent at the last address. I came across the vendor on another site, I spoke with him and he said it wasn't his address. But he would work with me.

Is it possible to get my Bitcoin back? I would be happy to pay a bounty in Bitcoin if I can get it back.

Thanks!

If you are 100% the deposit address is correct, then the vendor is trying to scam you.

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Quote from: scottyd06sd on March 12, 2018, 12:12:35 AM

HI,

I am very new to Bitcoin. I have an account with Coinbase. While on line I tried to make a purchase, I sent the Bitcoin to an address for deposit. The Bitcoin went through the address and has bounced around, a total of 1106 confirmations to be exact.. When I track it, it says spent at the last address. I came across the vendor on another site, I spoke with him and he said it wasn't his address. But he would work with me.

Is it possible to get my Bitcoin back? I would be happy to pay a bounty in Bitcoin if I can get it back.

Thanks!

This happened with me during my initial days dealing with bitcoin and ethereum ... unfortunately you cant get them back

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Quote from: scottyd06sd on March 12, 2018, 12:12:35 AM

HI,

I am very new to Bitcoin. I have an account with Coinbase. While on line I tried to make a purchase, I sent the Bitcoin to an address for deposit. The Bitcoin went through the address and has bounced around, a total of 1106 confirmations to be exact.. When I track it, it says spent at the last address. I came across the vendor on another site, I spoke with him and he said it wasn't his address. But he would work with me.

Is it possible to get my Bitcoin back? I would be happy to pay a bounty in Bitcoin if I can get it back.

Thanks!

Always and always double check what you are doing and to whom are you sending your money. The whole idea behind bitcoin is that there is no middleman who can do charge backs or anything, you are responsible for your funds and thus you should act accordingly. Maybe you had some malware that switched the address which you have copied I know those exist as well.

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As pooya says above, you can't get the coins back if they're confirmed - that's part of the Bitcoin appeal, irreversible transactions. There's another possibility here: the vendor could be trying his luck. If you got the address from the vendor's site/page (you should prove where you got it, a screenshot perhaps?) and if your device isn't compromised (you scan and find nothing), you could also try look up the address, perhaps the vendor is already linked to it or linked to any of the addresses that the "spent" coins went to.

A bit tricky to do business with Bitcoin for newcomers but you probably know by now to confirm ownership of the address if doing direct txs with vendors. Which site did you do this on?

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no, unfortunately for you bitcoin transactions are not reversible if they are confirmed and your transaction (based on what you said) is already confirmed.

your only possible option is to figure out where you got that address which you sent to. if you can find out the owner then you may ask him to send it back. otherwise if you copied a wrong address or for example if you have a clipboard-hijacker malware on your computer which changes copied bitcoin addresses, then you are out of luck.

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HI,

I am very new to Bitcoin. I have an account with Coinbase. While on line I tried to make a purchase, I sent the Bitcoin to an address for deposit. The Bitcoin went through the address and has bounced around, a total of 1106 confirmations to be exact.. When I track it, it says spent at the last address. I came across the vendor on another site, I spoke with him and he said it wasn't his address. But he would work with me.

Is it possible to get my Bitcoin back? I would be happy to pay a bounty in Bitcoin if I can get it back.

Thanks!

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