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Topic: Sent Bitcoins to Wrong Address, how can I see where I got the address from? (Read 1967 times)

legendary
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sites usually save history of BTC withdraws

Don't your site offer it?
member
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I don't think that you can make something to have your bitcoin back. Next time, observe everything that you do and pay attention !
hero member
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Incidentally, how do you add a message with a transaction? Special wallet function?  Just curious thx

That is a feature of blockchain.info.
You need to use the blockchain.info wallet, send at least 0.001 btc and you can attach a "Public Note" (only viewable on blockchain.info) with your transcation just like this one https://blockchain.info/tx/a6bf00a4bdf7d4aa944ccca1f5ffe8bb24895bfdb862de3247ab94dbf7e6a8e2.
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legendary
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Let he who is without sin cast the first stone
Shitty situation man... had that happen to me when I sent crypto to the wrong wallet as well.. learned the hard way to take your time and double check.
hero member
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If you send bitcoins to a wrong adress you will not have the possibility to recover them, that is why you should always be careful!
Yup lesson learned, this was resolved a week ago though. Wink

Thanks for everyone's advice.
full member
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If you send bitcoins to a wrong adress you will not have the possibility to recover them, that is why you should always be careful!
hero member
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I checked all of my previous gambling accounts, and the deposit ended up going to my old Dicenow account. Tongue

It was weird how that deposit address ended up being shown, considering it is a few months old. Thanks for all your help everyone.
legendary
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Send email to satoshi, I'm sure he would happily refund you back your btc  Grin
hero member
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The are two possible causes I can think of: 1) You accidentally copied another address or 2) You got a malware

FYR: http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2014/02/26/nearly-150-breeds-of-bitcoin-stealing-malware-in-the-wild-researchers-say/
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But some of the malware goes further, the researchers say. To steal the coins of users who encrypt their private keys with passwords, many of the Bitcoin stealing programs also included keyloggers designed to eavesdrop on users’ typing. Even more tricky are malware types that wait for users to copy a Bitcoin address they want to send bitcoins to into their clipboard. When the user tries to paste the address, the malware replaces it with a different string, irreversibly sending the currency to the malware operator’s wallet.
legendary
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Bitcoin doesn't allow reversible transactions. That coins are left on that address. You should have double checked the address before you do the transaction.

Hope this serves as a lesson to you and all the users out there that doesn't check the address before they do some transactions. Sorry mate.
legendary
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Merit: 1074
Can you see the whole address or only the first part?

If you see the whole address, copy and paste it in the blockchain.info search block. Then see if it's a active account. {Payments going out of it}

If it is a active account, you could send it a small amount of coins, just enough for you to complete the transaction. Add a message with the transaction, asking the owner of the address to contact you.

You might be lucky, and he/she see the information and they might respond positively, by sending you the coins back.

If there is no activity on the address, you are kinda stuffed, and has to write off, those coins, as a lesson learned to double check, before you send.  Sad
full member
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You can try to do a google search with keywords like the address + bitcointalk , and replace the bitcointalk with websites, you may have visited in the last 6 months. I doubt it, you will be able to get the funds back .
legendary
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The good/bad thing about bitcoin is you can't reverse a payment if you send to a wrong address.
Be careful when sending your coins.
hero member
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If you sent them to an unknown address they are pretty much gone.
hero member
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Smoke weed everyday!
I made a bet on Directbet.eu, and I use Google Chrome. There is a box/form that asks what Bitcoin address to return the payment to if you win. I double clicked it and saw a Bitcoin address there, very foolishly thinking that it was mine. The address started with 1DP3, my Bitcoin address also starts with that, so I thought it was mine and made the bet. I won the bet and now the payment ended up on this other address. Is it possible to see where I got this address from? What website for example did I type this address out and submit for it to show up again? Thanks.  Embarrassed
Is this a site that you have played at before? If so the address may have been saved in your cashe from the last time you gambled at the site.

Another possibility is that you had previously filled out some form with the same title that the site labeled the payout address as. Your computer/browser would have potentially auto filled the address as being the same as what you previously entered
hero member
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I have no idea about that, but you may try to use google search to see if it was a well-known address or if someone has ever mentioned it before.

Next time, may be you should double check the first few characters as well as the last few characters, just to be more sure you haven't copied the wrong address.
hero member
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www.DonateMedia.org
I made a bet on Directbet.eu, and I use Google Chrome. There is a box/form that asks what Bitcoin address to return the payment to if you win. I double clicked it and saw a Bitcoin address there, very foolishly thinking that it was mine. The address started with 1DP3, my Bitcoin address also starts with that, so I thought it was mine and made the bet. I won the bet and now the payment ended up on this other address. Is it possible to see where I got this address from? What website for example did I type this address out and submit for it to show up again? Thanks.  Embarrassed
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