Topic: sent my btc wrong (Read 387 times)

What would you do if a clipboard virus is injected in your PC and you copy some address but the virus changes the address in the clipboard with the one it is intended to send to? Is it your fault or Bitcoin's? It's definitely yours because you aren't mature enough to check the address and then send everything in a hurry. I mean, what the hell? Why do you guys don't do a double check before sending BTC to any address?

Let me.shoe you an example which is one of some mistakes I encountered (but thank God I checked it and didn't withdrew my coins from the exchange):
I used Brave browser to use my VPN and login to the exchange.
Then, went to "withdraw" section and decided to take my coins out. Then copied the address of my wallet which was a legacy address and pasted it in the withdrawal address box.
Then, suddenly the fear of paying higher fee while spending my coins from a legacy address struck my mind (yeah, I know not much fee now but I'm talking about the time when fees were above 20k SATs for instant confirmations) and I decided to use a SegWit address instead starting with 3.
I copied it from the same wallet and then tried to paste it in the withdrawal address box, but when I tapped "paste", it pasted the legacy address once again instead of the SegWit one which means that the clipboard in Brave didn't update while, when I tried to paste it in other apps, it worked fine. Then I opened a new tab in Brave browser and pasted it in the address bar and SegWit address was pasted there, I copied it from the address bar and then pasted it in the withdrawal box and voila, it worked! But this shows that you need to be very much aware of the possibilities because it's not just limited to viruses and hacks, sometimes your least stupidity becomes your worst enemy to make you lose your everything.

Additionally, Mycelium allows you to stop your transaction from getting broadcasted (only if you're lucky enough while the transaction fails to broadcast). You can cancel the "already done" transaction (read my words two times, "already done" doesn't mean "already sent") if it was not broadcasted to the network and failed, but there's a small line worth of a chance with least odds of something happening like that.

Bitcoin requires you to be an adult and experience consequences for your actions.

There is no baby sitter to fix things when you screw up. If you send bitcoins to a valid address, that's where they are going. even if it wasn't the address that you intended. There is no corporation involved to fix your errors. There is no government involved to protect you from your own incompetence. It is a peer-to-peer transaction.

You are not supposed to be able to return them or double spend them, that is the whole point.
Before you broadcast the transaction compare the two addresses and make sure they are identical. When you are done comparing do it a 2nd time. Only after you have checked 2 times do a 3rd check. 

Immutability and decentralization are actually 2 main building blocks around which the bitcoin protocol was designed. If you think these aspects of crypto are flaws you should stick to fiat. A bank can move funds around at the push of a button. They can freeze your funds or roll back any transaction they want to. I personally like bitcoin because it's irreversible, sure you have to think and double check before broadcasting a transaction, but as soon as your address is funded by a confirmed transaction, no central authority has the power to take your funds back.

The OP might be new in Bitcoin transactions and got probably lost with what he/she is doing. To be clear the Bitcoin was sent to the right address and I see no clipboard virus comprising his/her account since the Bitcoin was sent to the right address. Another possibility I am seeing is that the OP got scammed by someone in Localbitcoin and he is trying to fool him that the payment was sent to another address that is why he is confused with what is happening.

Yeap in recent time most people like to use some crack version for their device which is nothing but taking extra risks. Possibilities of facing unexpected issues with real version is relatively lower than crack one.

I am little bit curious about the real incident and sorry to say that till now OP didn't clarify all details from his side and many community users already shared their suggestions. I think it will be much better to hear from his end again with details otherwise we are just sharing possible things for him but not getting proper responses from him.

This is what I like and don't like about bitcoin transactions.
if the transaction has been confirmed the block is declared to be a valid transaction.
but that makes it difficult for our funds to return we have to know the owner of the bitcoin address (here is the most difficult point)

What's wrong ? I didn't found anything wrong here. You have sent found where you want. And seems even amount received on same address. And your sent fund still on address (unspent). Likely you have used web wallet and they transferred fund from their hot wallet. Its normal that you will see multiple address and more fund transfers together with your fund when you will use web wallet like coinbase. It doesn't mean it were your fund and how you have claimed you made transaction worth $2000 ?

You all reply conflicting with each others, to be honest nothing happen with your computer or devices, it's just old tricks of beg money.

If in case really have you problem on your device, then format whole device and install genuine windows.

The first step would be to scan your system with any somewhat good Anti virus tool.
But chances are high that it won't find your malware.

So the only way to be completely sure that your PC is clean and no longer compromised in any way, is to reinstall your OS.
Make a backup of all of your important files and format your hard drive. Then reinstall your OS.

And please.. please do NOT use any form of cracked operating system / windows. They are always infected with malware and backdoors.

This looks like the clipboard hijacking virus in action
OP didn't even noticed that the pasted addresses in his reply were identical.

Try to copy any random P2SH (3) address again and if the result is 32fmz1pdmo9XWyMAeNoniaNE94f9ubs6Ae again, you might have a clipboard hijacking virus of a hacker that uses coinpayment merchant account as a diversion (y tho?).
If this was true, you can contact coinpayment's support (link) to hodl the hacker's account by providing evidences.

If not.... uhm.

Danny Hamilton was totally right 0.02530726BTC and 0.00140000BTC was sent to wallet address 32fmz1pdmo9XWyMAeNoniaNE94f9ubs6Ae at 2019-12-19 11:12:31 and 2019-12-19 13:57:01 respectively but all didn't show in the wallet balance.
I think there's something strange about the wallet and I don't think the OP system had issue of copy clipboard hijack.
@OP, to find out what the problem was could provide the address of the wallet you use to send the transaction?

He is sweedish and speaks in his currency  he sent 2000 sweedish krona  (2k kr) =

OP is saying a lot of contradictory information.

First he said he wanted to send 2 k to the address.

Now, he says that it was only 0.025 (which is only 1/10 of the original value). And as pointed out by DannyHamilton, it was sent.



There are no transactions of 2K USD neither of 0.025 bitcoins in the address he said he sent by mistake. Neither the transaction he mentioned makes any sense.
Even if he was using a custodial service, nobody would give him such a tx.

The OP might be completely lost and doesn't have any clue about what is going on, or he just invented this crazy history to beg for money.

You can use a virus scanner, and stop downloading random stuff from the internet/granting random privilages.

If you didn't download random stuff then you mighthave sent it to the right address, can you get in touch with the person you sent the coins to, or take a screenshot of the localbitcoins website where it tells you to send it to that address?

  How do i remove this virus from my computer? and yeah sorry for begging.

If that is true, then there is good news.
0.02530726 BTC WAS sent to 32fmz1pdmo9XWyMAeNoniaNE94f9ubs6Ae on 2019-12-19 at 11:12 UTC


Correct.  That's where you said you wanted it to send.


No?  It's very right?  You said you were supposed to send to 32fmz1pdmo9XWyMAeNoniaNE94f9ubs6Ae and you said you DID send to 32fmz1pdmo9XWyMAeNoniaNE94f9ubs6Ae.


Once you send bitcoins, the only way to get them back is to convince the recipient to send them back to you.


What other address?  They were sent where you said you wanted to send them.


Begging isn't allowed here.  You can get banned for begging for bitcoins.


This is EXACTLY what is supposed to happen.  Bitcoins are supposed to go to where you send them.  You sent them to 32fmz1pdmo9XWyMAeNoniaNE94f9ubs6Ae and that is where they went.


You need to be more careful when you are handling someone else's money.  If you lost their money, the right thing to do is to pay them back with your own money (which means this is your loss now).


Please call someone who cares about you for help.  Money is not important enough to result in death. You earn more money, you pay people back, then you move on with a wonderful life.

Both of those addresses are the same? It's likely you've got a clipboard virus if it's done that here too.

The coins were sent at this datetime: 2019-12-19 11:15:12

yeah it has to been offchain, because when i did copy my bitcoin adress then sent it, i notice that it wasent the one i copy. So it has to be a virus or something, because im 100% sure i copy the bit adress im suppose to send to 0.02530726 this is how many bitcoins i lost....

32fmz1pdmo9XWyMAeNoniaNE94f9ubs6Ae this was the one i was going to send to and it got sent to       Sent to 32fmz1pdmo9XWyMAeNoniaNE94f9ubs6Ae
txid 5c688e313326e00b288c888455e8cf3e29dcab8a78463b4edd9077a8e5b23da4    

and as u can see its very wrong... and i wish i get my bitcoins back. Im swedish so i send 2000 swedish kr (200€) please help me guys i have no idea how it got sent to this other adress


im using a swedish website called LocalBitcoins.com

https://localbitcoinschain.com/address/3PJ8va5VdsaK4JXtu85vU4TAe636rptWy7 if anyone wanna support me because this isint supposed to happen and this 2k was not  my money........ i kinda feel suicidal right now.

According to walletexplorer.com 32fmz1pdmo9XWyMAeNoniaNE94f9ubs6Ae belongs to Coinpayments.net.  I think bitmover is correct, the transaction may have happened off-chain, and only recently showed up on the blockchain.

@OP, did your funds eventually arrive?

He looks to be using an exchange custodial wallet. Coinbase?

dunderbaba, maybe the transaction is reversible if you contact the support because it really looks like the transaction you made happened offchain (with the custodial service's wallet)

please tell us more details, how many BTC did you transfer? To which address you sent it?

32fmz1pdmo9XWyMAeNoniaNE94f9ubs6Ae received near 2k usd (1400) today.

dunderbaba, what wallet you use for this transaction? You say it is about $2000 which is about 0.28 BTC, but the total transaction is 12+ BTC worth over $80 000?

Coins are sent to 34FAsnsgURPQkcMoL41BzRufnUaStdZotT and after that, they move to 13 different addresses, but most still ended up on 3QT5hB8qmBBpEeKTie6Cr2bzvwABW4kEk6 (11.88791659 BTC) and then again moved to new addresses. Coin is still on the move, mixing with someone other coins, but it is evident that it is an attempt to hide the track.

34FAsnsgURPQkcMoL41BzRufnUaStdZotT->3QT5hB8qmBBpEeKTie6Cr2bzvwABW4kEk6

I hate to be the barer of bad news, but the transaction is confirmed... This makes the transaction irreversible.
The only one that can help you is the person that owns the private keys whose public key hash is the address you mistakenly funded.

If you copy/pasted the wrong address yourself (by accident), you should be able to contact the real owner somehow (where did you copy the address from?) and ask him/her to send your funds back.
If you were the victim of a clipboard virus, i guess you're out of luck. In this case i'd advise you to go to your local police office and file a complaint. In case the creator of the virus ever gets caught, the police might give you your funds back... But the odds are really, really, really small.

An other thing you could do in case of a virus or hacker is to follow the trail of unspent outputs and hope the thief makes the mistake of exchanging your funds on a KYC exchange without mixing or cleaning the stolen funds... However, this is a difficult task, and the odds of the thief making such a dumb mistake are small.

hey i was suppose to send some bitcoins to a adress but somehow it got sent to https://blockchain.coinmarketcap.com/tx/bitcoin/21c96ed965f6254e8ea94b6d38dc8b7023c1b33c65f31faffee36e3bb93e22a9


and it was suppose to be sent to 32fmz1pdmo9XWyMAeNoniaNE94f9ubs6Ae and it was 2k worth of bitcoins now im having great panic and idk wtf to do. Somebody help me i beg you guys