Topic: My friend has had some really bad luck... - page 2. (Read 2782 times)

Pps no one was offended. We've seen much worse. We've never asked for a video before.

Wish I had friends like that, asking for donations in my name and sending me cash for my stupid mistakes.  
Allso, they should really lock btc addresses on exchanges to make it more secure. This way if someone broke in they would only be able to send your BTC to you.

Ps we have all lost btc here, some much more than that. You mention the college kid. Well he had a photo. Our human brains may connect with that. A video would one up that. You are in negative territory as we arent even talking to him.

Get him a copy of virtual box and pirated xp

If someone were dying of cancer, and I knew that a small donation could help ease their suffering, I absolutely would send something. I know there's a big difference between that and someone losing money by getting hacked, but you know, if I read about something like this and happened to be feeling generous I probably would send a small amount. I think that's why it seemed a good idea in my mind. Now I realise that the problem here is that there is not really any way to prove that I'm not just making this all up. I can promise everyone that I'm not, but that's about it.

Anyway I see that many of you are somewhat offended by the idea of asking for some sort of 'bailout' so once again, I apologise.

derp

I know, I'll run this executable on the same box where I access my accounts

derp

No no one is mad at you. I meant from your friend, apologizing for his mistake. It might get him sympathy donations. Vs. Greedy guy downloading malware then not even having the balls to post himself.

You're a good guy and friend, you're good in my book. Now get your btc offline.

Before you donate to him, he should apologize to you too, that way you know he learned his lesson.

apology for what? all you asked for is a donation right? i've seen much worse.

Yes I have already apologised for any offence I may have caused, you know sometimes you think you have a good idea, but then when you read people's responses you realise that what you were asking was unreasonable. So yes, I'm sorry, I was only trying to do something to help.

Yes you are absolutely right, I had intended to donate some BTC myself which I still will, just sort of rushed ahead with creating this post and didn't really think ahead. I will be sending 2BTC right now.

if i were dying of cancer, i wouldn't even bother to ask for BTC donations. kind of strange, as some people here have set the bar much much lower than most of us. i don't expect someone to have so much compassion for my plight that i'd ask for free money, but to each his own.

Video please and an apology

if you really want to help him, you should post a video of him. if you don't put a face to a story, less people will relate to his situation.

i won't be donating, especially since this is a story with little to no backing.. and i'm not even rich myself. there are plenty of other cases worth donating for too.

Okay guys you all make fair points, sorry if I have offended anyone with my post. I honestly was just hoping to help him out and it seemed like this idea might be worth a shot. I will be giving him some of my own coins by the way, unfortunately I can't replace the full amount for him. And yeah, its true that this was not sensible on his part, but please go a little more easy - we all make mistakes, and I am very sad that this one has ended up costing him a lot. I'm sure he has learnt his lesson, and I find it such a shame that this sort of thing would even happen in the first place (yes of course, its just the world we live in - but that's what I find sad).

To anyone who thinks its fair game to steal other people's money like this, you need to take a good look at yourself in the mirror - You are exactly what's wrong with the world today.

Also please let this be a lesson to all of you who haven't taken care of your security - please please take the time and trouble to learn how to safely store coins, and be very careful what you download.

By the way I wasn't expecting people to send massive donations, I had in mind that maybe a few people might have the odd bit of change that they wouldn't mind sharing. But I guess there can't be room on the forum for this sort of thing, the number of hacks that occur would mean threads like this would pop up all the time. I guess I didn't think it through - I was really just trying to help out a friend, as I'm sure most of you can understand.

My brother is 14 and has more common sense...

I'm sorry for his loss.

Someone will be traveling on those 8.5 BTCs, but it won't be your friend. 

A question:  Did he have two factor enabled?  I have two factor for BTCe login and 'three-factor' for BTCe withdrawals, Login + Google Auth. + Email confirmation.  I am curious if the malware out in the wild is sophisticated enough to get around those controls.

Send him some of yours. Nobody has any reason to believe these stories whether they're in fact true or not, because they're posted here daily in various scenarios.

Cheap lesson

Mining Quark and (day) trading bitcoin? Sorry, but both activities indicate a very immature understanding of bitcoin, the crypto space in general, economics, and investing.

How about this can someone please just give me some bitcoins I am poor as junk my health is failing and I have nothing to leave for my wife if I pass on. What can you do you know asking for money for a 18 year old who wants to travel is kind of well selfish because for 1 he is still young and in good health ie wants to travel. Secondly he wants that money to travel how is that going to help a life be better? I could post up on here for donations for the reasons stated above but I am not looking for hand outs I am trying to earn it by learning programming and working a menial job and mining Cryptocoins for a chance they could be worth a bit someday. Tell your friend to get a job and in 4 months he will earn that back.