Topic: Sent Coin by mistake to wrong address and got them back:) (Read 423 times)

That’s unbelievable. Honestly, if I ever made such a mistake (which I won’t  ) and send Bitcoin to the wrong address, the best idea in my head will be to send a second transaction with a description pleading to send it back. I know it may not sound really effective but that’s just what I think. But yours is pretty unusual. I’ll like to know what you were hoping to find when you searched for the address on google? You are lucky and the user who sent them back to you has a heart of gold. Hopefully you don’t fall into this mistake again.

Searched the address on Google and it came up with a user,,, just how did that happen?
What was the chain link to usage that brought about tying a user to an address?
Was it by the forum or through some other means?

Don’t mind my asking because I really want to know as, anonymity is one priced asset in the cryptospace and without that, we’ve just had one of the priced asset dilapidated which I don’t wish to believe would be the case.

Yes there are mixers to prevent this but then, how is the Google search engine coming up with the user! Perhaps the forum remains the only thing that links the user with the account.

You got lucky that the recipient sent the money back but if you know how to use the fee bumping method, Replace By Fee, you can sort of "cancel" an unconfirmed transaction and have it sent to a different address instead.

You are right, because I think he wouldn't find it funny if actually the address he sent the coins to wasn't someone he can relate with or the person didn't want to send the coins because not all person has that humility to actually send back a coins that was accidentally sent to his wallet.

It's some confusing although how the whole mix up occured with the address finding it way to his keypad or clipboard but I would like to think maybe he copied the wrong address from someplace where the actual wallet he needed to send the coins was also there.

Firstly, you could say you are really lucky to get your coins back, this rarely happens. This is probably the first time I have read this.

Second, the sender is a very kind person. Imagine if he took advantage of the coins you sent and he acted indifferent to you. Of course you will lose these coins forever. But here, he's really nice enough to send the coins back to you. It's rare to find people like this in a digital world like this. It's more like you didn't know each other before, right?

The third is to make this a valuable lesson. Be more careful and thorough when you want to make deliveries or various other types of transactions. Because it's not certain that you will meet the same good person again.

Interesting case on this one. That is really tricky when you just look at the beginning and ending of an address. Still unknown how your address ended on him because even if he randomized the middle characters it wont be identical as yours. I guess it is better to leave it as a mystery that someone might explain how it happened in the near future.

You are still lucky to send to the address of an active and trustworthy forum member. But why does it have the address rat03gopoh, you must have searched for it via that address. You were also quite careless because you didn't review the address where you were going to send the assets. If you send to an address that is not well known and perhaps someone else's address outside this forum, then you will no longer get your assets.

That's an interesting fact. But I am still confused about how he copied your wallet address instead of his wallet. After reading your post, I guess  I always did it wrong. I always check the first and the last few characters to ensure where I am sending it. What is the odd of copying a similar address? No matter how low the chance is, a single transaction can cost me a thousand dollars.

Op was lucky that he sent the amount to you, and he was able to contact you within the forum. Almost 99% of Bitcoin address are anonymous and we don't know the owner of those addresses. So it's impossible to contact the owner to get the money back.

Very interesting to see that both address first and last characters are same and we often checking only these two before sending payments. This story makes me more cautious and now I will check full address before sending payments. OP is so luck that the sender address owned by reputed member otherwise lost was confirmed. OP can better gives reply that how he copied address but I think OP copied you Proof of Authentication or something where he copied your address too.

I sent two times fund to contract address instead of exchange address by mistake and lost forever. we should also double check our wallet, not only first and last. Hackers are also doing this track when they hack keyboard. you will be satisfied after confirming last characters but you should be smart here to save your fund.

That's close, sometime I didn't check the middle digits, but I use CTRL+F to know if I didn't mistakenly copied the wrong address.

I don't know how much the amount is, but since @OP seems not familiar with this forum (for leaving feedback), I will leave a neutral tag on your profile because you've done a good deeds.

That's a good luck by the way because if you send your coins to a wrong address so you can not recover them except that the receiver will send it back to you. So luckily you got them back so this is really good thing and also you got an experience that you always should double check the address where you are sending you amount. This will decrease your risk of complete funds loss.

You were lucky in this incident as you were able to get your coins. If you would not have find him on the social media then for sure he would not have returned. Also he is a kind hearted person that listen to you and return your coins otherwise there was no legal obligation or anything as he could just block you and keep the money with him.


I will suggest you that instead of being happy about the money you got back, you should need to know why it happened that you copy the wrong address so that in future you do not repeat the same mistake. There can be number of reason for this and the one common factor which most of us not aware is that our computer maybe malware infected and when we copy the address it get replaced by any hackers address and our coins are send to the wrong person if we are not careful in rechecking the address that we have copied and pasted in the wallet to send.

To buttress the point already made, as long as you had sent the coins, you already gave up your control over its reversal. That is if you hadn't sent the coins and noticed that the wallet address was wrong, you could have easily deleted it and inputted the right address. The reason you got back your coins is because the recipient willingly sent it back. And you should count your self damn lucky.

https://dappgrid.com/recover-coins-sent-to-wrong-address/

true, especially when there is a scam called "wallet poisoning" going around, what the scammer does when they do "wallet poisoning" is they find addresses that have similar characters at the start of the address and at the end of the address to theirs, then they make a transaction with the targeted address with small amount of crypto, and then they wait for the target to make a mistake. people really need to be cautious.

Since I ignoring the B&H board, I don't know if @OP brought up his experience inti this topic (I realized after checking OP's profile via Ninjatic tool, lol).
Firstly, our conversation was via PM forum (OP PMed me first and informed me of the mistakes), then I returned the funds. I won't publish any evidence here for OP's convenience and because this matter we consider to be resolved. If then the OP wants to publish that, I personally have no problem with it.
In short, before I refunded it, I investigated OP's wallet txs. OP previously had a tx output to a destination address that contained the first and last character digits that identical to mine (a rare coincidence).
As an illustration:
A1b2Cdfdruirj4grhg2urh5ggriorjf3D4e5F : belongs to OP
A1B2c1jijrj5ofmmf8jkfidk0mawq3d4E5F : mine

We have never done any business before, I'm wondering how my address ended up on his clipboard. As you can imagine, that it is really very deceptive for users who are used to rushing, it took me a few checks before I noticed the difference.
Actually, I'm still curious about the chronology on OP's side and what wallet app he's using, I'm just reluctant to ask after I know OP's wallet is somewhat active (I think OP is busy with his business, I don't want to bother him anymore). And one thing, OP rewarded me with a decent amount of $.
My advice to the OP and all member, just checking the first and last characters of the address is not enough, some digits in the middle are also necessary and must be checked at least 3 times.

By suggesting this, you are indirectly accusing rat03gopoh of hacking Bitcoin. rat03gopoh is a forum member whose wallet address is known in the forum. There is no reason a forum member aware of scrappers will share the same address in some clipboard-hijacking software. I don't think some forum member could be that much dumb.

It could be an honest mistake of OP. Maybe he copied the Bitcoin wallet address from the forum somehow and then forgot it. But I also doubt that he did it by mistake. It's more like he did it intentionally, knowing the forum member with a reputation will likely return it, or I will destroy his account. Pretty simple math!

You may have to reinstall back your PC using the clean OS because I guess, your PC has been injected clipboard virus and malware which may still settle on your PC.

I often hear that Clipboard Hijacker is a very dangerous virus which is changing cryptocurrency wallet addresses from those saved in users' clipboards to others owned by cybercriminals. I don't indict the owner's address, but when I read your original post, and you don't know where the address comes from, that possible it is something strange for me.

He searched for the address on Google and it pointed out on the forum posted by ratgopoh.
He didn't know how it copied to clipboard and that's the mystery but still, he took it back because the receive is kind and with reputation.

No surprises - you shouldn't assume all newbies are inexperienced users, you'll be fooled if you always think of it that way. OP may be a newbie - but I don't think he's a new user here. I checked the bitcoin address, of course I found that there were many transactions sent to different users whose addresses could be found on the forum. If you are interested in finding out more facts - check out the address.


https://blockchair.com/bitcoin/address/bc1qzlcemzvsxl7pd7zswucl3a0ltdjppehelsq65u

It was a good idea to google the receiver address in the hope that it would be posted somewhere online.
You are considered one of the lucky few who were able to correct their mistakes by chance. Fortunately for you, the title belongs to one of the most honest members on the forum, and I am almost certain that it would be impossible for him to think for a moment about keeping it.
But at the same time, I was surprised how you stumbled upon that Bitcoin address, especially since your account is new and you are not an active member on the forum. Or are you using an alternative account?

Yes, you are right that Bitcoin transactions are irreversible; they cannot be reversed or canceled. The design of the transaction on the Bitcoin network is irreversible. This means that if you send the transaction and, after broadcasting it, verifying the miners, and completing it, you can neither reverse nor cancel the complete transaction without any reason. This is impossible, and even more impossible given the nature of Bitcoin.

But, sir, I have the right to disagree with you that irreversible transactions cannot be a misfortune of Bitcoin; rather, they are a virtue of Bitcoin. This is the reason why Bitcion is called decentralized. The second is that due to this irreversible transaction, Bitcoin eliminates the risk of chargebacks, and if Bitcoin did not have this quality, then the circumstance that is based on the decentralized standard would not fit in, but it would also be like normal centralized authorities. It would not be good.

If I'm not mistaken, some time ago several members raised a topic related to scammers, the target of which was a copy-paste device that automatically changed the copied address to the scammer's address. and for several reasons like that, it would be better if you just scan the barcode directly to make the transaction. or if we make a transaction like the OP did, we have to double-check the address we pasted before we send it.

I don't know how the OP managed to connect to another member's address on the forum. he was quite lucky.

Still, the luck is on you, how does it happen that you made a copy of the address of rat03gopoh and pasted it to your address destination, did you commit already a transaction to him or just accidentally copy is address for some reason? and that address is still on your clipboard, if other people will receive those sure low chance of getting your asset back. Good to know he gave it back, make a double-check before proceeding with the address next time.

Lucky you OP, you should be regretting by now assuming, you sent your coins to a dishonest person that wouldn't return it back. This is why you need to cross check the address which your want to send your coins to over and over again to avoid mistake of such that happened.

Scammers can also send malware to your clipboard and if you are the type that is not cautious with what your are doing online, you will fall victim for this. rat03gopoh is a good person with good reputation and that was why we are all saying that you are lucky. You would have learnt a hard lesson by now.

Hopefully the recipient of the coins will immediately return what is not his to you. Next time, you have to be more careful before you actually send it, first make sure the first and last letters are the same as your wallet address. This is a small mistake that most crypto asset holders often ignore, but this small mistake can become a big mistake when the coins are sent not to the intended address. Malware virus attacks could be infiltrated into your device that you never realize.
So always be careful before sending coins to another address, to prevent the same mistake from happening, always check before you press the send button.

Incredible fortune to get you BTC back. Always take the time to double check the address as you enter it, as others have mentioned BTC transactions are completely irreversible.

It isn't funny man anyone with a pure mindset who believes in hard work rather than stealing someone else's money will do that without any question. In the OP's case @rat03gopoh is that guy who proved that he's someone who believes in earning money via ethical and legal ways rather than stealing someone else money. It still won't be an act of stealing if he didn't sent the coins back to the OP but it would be rather ethically unacceptable and anyone with good morals would never do unethical things.

The ones with no moral may find that money sent by God even if they know that the money is someone else's money. A good person will not do that man and @rat03gopoh is the best example we can see right now. Something that you get for granted isn't worthy to keep until you don't earn it with effort.

I wouldn't say that you can double spend it rather I would say that it is like RBF where you replace the transaction with a new one although what your mean doesn't have parent where the child will pay for. I get what you mean about double spend which is to replace the previous transaction with a new one and doesn't the previous transaction will be replaced since it isn't possible to send the same crypto from your wallet going to two different wallets.

Transaction can be double spent, as long as it has not yet been confirmed.  Double spending can cancel the previous transaction that has not yet been confirmed since the person is sending the same Bitcoin to other address with a higher transaction fee to get confirmed first.  But I think this is way beyond the thread discussion.

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@OP you are lucky that the person who received your Bitcoin is a kind-hearted person and you are able to know the owner of the address.  You should be more careful next time and double check the address before executing the transaction.  You are lucky this time but may not be on the second time.

I'm not sure if it's clear under what context you experienced the error, but I imagine it was a transaction within some private community because it's impossible to randomly come across a known address.

Something similar happened to me when I tried to get an airdroped NFT and ended up signing a blind transaction for purching it. When I explained it to the seller, he refunded it me (If he had let me keep the NFT, he'd have been a fucking hero, but no, haha). It was about $250, which speaks volumes about the seller's honesty. In this case, it happened in Decentraland, where the NFT name linked to the wallet is widely used. It's about individuals aiming to establish a good name and reputation.

There's no way that a transaction can be cancelled or it is irreversible meaning once you sent the coin then it will be sent and it cannot be undone. There's no way you can get it back unless the owner of the wallet address return the coin that you have mistakenly sent. There aren't lots of people who return what isn't theirs but there are some people who will return it to thr owner. Try checking your device as I think there's a malware in your device and that's why it happened. You better learn what is Clipboard hijacking and what will happen if your device have clipboard malware.

Can't blame you finding it funny and probably in awe that you had your token returned in one piece after sending it to the wrong address, the world now has more bad eggs than good so when things like this happen we imagine it if it's a dream but no it's ain't a dream good people still exist and here's one in the forum that has proven it not just in words but in deeds by returning what he knows morally isn't his.

My advise is be careful case of next time you might not be lucky in this way and also not find it funny by the time you come to reality that your token is gone never to be returned.

Luck shined on you OP  that you know the owner of the wallet address by virtue of your findings. I think you are very much lucky and you be thankful that you received your coin back but you have to be careful next time so as not to make or repeat such mistake again because you just might not be lucky the second time if such mistake repeats itself.

It is very much advisable that one double check their wallet address before transacting so as not to make any mistake. Such as you making sure the wallet address corresponds with the receiver address so as to avoid transacting with the wrong address because most times virus of such nature might have invaded your gadgets without you knowing but crosschecking before transacting might put you and the know.

Being irreversible is not an issue, it's a positive that Bitcoin has other forms of currency.

First point to note is for a transaction to be reversible, there has to be a central authority to oversee transactions and go through the details of each one to ensure people do not just reverse transactions after paying for something. This will mean Bitcoin is not decentralized and is not a unique, futuristic asset at all.

If transactions were reversible you will not be certain you own the bitcoins in your wallet.

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What we have to do it take responsibility when making a transaction. Triple check the address in it's entirety and not just the first and last characters.

It’s not everyday you hear something like this. How you got the bitcoin address is still a mystery as you gave little information about that or the amount in question. You’re indeed very lucky that the owner of the bitcoin address is a member here and one with a reputation for that matter. You won’t always be this lucky, there are many people who have lost their bitcoins in this same way. Bitcoin transactions are irreversible, so make sure to double check your address when making a transaction.

It seems this person rat03gopoh has not replied yet here if he did send BTC back to you.
He just recently online 3 hours ago and I believe he will send your BTC soon. You are lucky that it is one of our fellow forum members but if not you won't be able to get your coins back.

Next time triple check the copied/pasted address before sending BTC I experience this sometimes that's why I always check multiple times to make sure it will be sent to the right person.

This time you are very lucky OP because your mistake sent it to someone who can return it, next time be careful maybe someone else won't think twice about returning it if it's a mistake from you, just double check the address to make sure that the wallet is correct.

Then has your btc been returned so far from rat03gopoh?
If it's done then it's better to lock this thread because the problem is over.

Lucky you that the person you had sent your bitcoin is a good person. This kind of situation doesn't happen that much. The fact that the coins where sent to you back and the chances that you wrongly copy pasted an address. I wonder how you contacted him? Thru telegram? If it's a random address, there's no way that you will contact that person.

I suggest to run an antivirus or check your device if it has a malware in it as you said that you didn't know where that address, though I doubt that the person was a hacker given that he returned your money, but just to be safe, check your device.

Don't be in haste when trying to do a transaction to avoid such a mistake repeating itself in the future, or multi-tasking when doing a transaction, You are very lucky to have your funds sent back because you rarely have this case happen and I must commend the receiver of the funds for returning the funds,  if this transaction were to be someone else outside the forum, your crypto is lost once it has been confirmed on the blockchain network. This should be a lesson for you, Op.

You're lucky that you're able to determine who's the owner of the address but how did you managed to send it to a random address(his) when you don't know him? What are you doing that time when you're trying to send that transaction? Are you also in the forum and just trying to browse and by random accident you copied his address but how? I am just confused. As long as your problem is solved and you have no worries anymore, you tend to be lucky this time but whatever you do and how you did ended up sending it to the wrong address by mistake the next time you commit this mistake and you can't see the owner of it. The receiver might just think he's lucky that he's got some random airdrop.

Be careful not to make the same mistake twice, you may not be so lucky the second time.

To avoid mistakes of sending to a wrong address, always double check the address you pasted with the one you copied because asides the mistake you made, you may never know when you have been affected by the clipboard virus from cyber criminals that can modify crypto address copied to the clipboard to that of the criminal behind it.

 It is not impossible to be a victim when the device you use often to surf the internet is same device you store and send your bitcoins from.

Unfortunately there is no way to cancel or rivers are transaction in Bitcoin. That is one of the biggest issues with Bitcoin. You are lucky enough to get the money back. There are numerous occasion where people have mistakenly sent out Bitcoins and never receive them back.

Bitcoin is good as an investment but if we look from the perspective of a currency or a payment processor, it cannot be worse.

The owner of the address you sent will definitely send your money back if the transaction you said was sent by mistake is successful.
The story you call funny reminds us of the checksum function.

OP. Next time be careful when you want to make a transaction. Carelessness can make us lose money.
@rat03gopoh haven't seen this thread.

Yes @rat03gopoh is a respected member of the Indonesian community of the forum. He is also an active Hero member of that posts on different boards of the forum. I guess you will definitely get back the mistakingly sent funds. But you need it be careful next time because you might not be lucky. Many people have lost money due to such mistake. Have you contacted him through personal message?


Strange indeed. But anything is possible in the crypto space. He claimed it was an error without giving any further explanation.

Google is not used to verify or search for transaction details, but most times Google can give you a clue to whom the address belongs. That's for a case where the address has been used in a public place where a name or person details are attached to the person.
 
With the help of Google, you can easily link an address that has been used in a place that is public, like this forum; they can just help locate a post where the address has been posted. I guess that's what the OP did, and the address linked to the above-mentioned user is in this forum.

So what was your original destination address? Were you randomly sending to a random address or you knew what you were doing? Because if you are sending to an exchange, to a friend, to anyone, usually you'd double check the address before sending, but now you are saying you don't know how his address got into your clipboard, that's a bit strange.🤔

I feel lucky that I found the owner of the address and he seems like good person and very reputable on this forum

Yep its funny someone returned the coins. Hard to believe I guess thats why you find it funny. You are lucky to have sent the coin to someone who has no intention of keeping it. If it's someone else, you'd be posting your rants already.  It is not every day a person receives some coins that they don't expect and for that, they will consider it sent by God.  

The only method to recover it is if the recipient's address returns the coin; otherwise, it is lost.

To avoid such mistakes, always be cautious when sending out coins. There are several malware viruses that infiltrate our devices via phishing attacks and then take control of our keyboards, with the ability to replace our wallet addresses with their own in order to receive the coin we are about to send. That is why it is important to double-check the address before sending it, as they can change our addresses with theirs that have similar suffixes to ours.

Surely you accidentally control + c his wallet address when you view one of his post containing his wallet address or when you view his profile.

You are lucky that his an active user here in forum and has a good repute here or else you will not get back your tokens. @Yamane_Keto was right, You didn’t recover it but the guy here in the forum is just a good person since he has no obligation to return it to you since you send it to his address already without him misleading you.

You did not recover them, but the owner of the private key sent the same amount to your address. There is no way to cancel the transaction after sending it (1 confirmation)

It is true that you are lucky to get your money back, but you lost the transaction confirmation fees.

That’s definitely the only way to get a coin sent to a wallet back, the recipient sent it back directly. But then how did the address get attached to him, TXID doesn’t displays reference name and google isn’t use to search for transaction details but rather a block explorer is used instead.

Lol so I still don't know how it happen but somehow I sent some money to @rat03gopoh how I get his address copied to my clipboard I don't know but I was searched on Google for the address and come up with the holder then contacted him and hope to get it back, 😅  funny story