Isn't it too obvious though? I mean think about it, you get a link on telegram, you open it, you connect your wallet to it... Isn't that too obvious that he would be getting hacked? I could have spotted that from a million miles away, and your friend couldn't do the same?
I can't really say that I am feeling too sorry for your friend because he got too greedy while not being able to spot the scammers, you can't be a greedy person without really knowing all you need to know about crypto, and if you are fool enough to fall for something like this, then your greed needs to calm down a bit by getting hacked or scammed like this once in a while so you get wiser in the future.
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It wasn't only greed that was the reason why your friend's wallet got hacked.What's the other one? Curiosity
Your friend got curious on what is inside that link, and the next that happened is that your friend got greedy thus, his wallet got hacked. Overall, I'm expecting that your friend is a newbie because those who are in to crypto for a long time already know that Telegram Private Messages especially from strangers are 99% scams. As a newbie, your friend surely learns from his mistake.
Experience really is very expensive right?
You need to lose a huge amount of money before learning. 
I don't think it was just about being greedy, the problem here is your friend lack the necessary security knowledge to properly protect him from being scammed. One can't be too care but it is also very necessary to firstly have the right knowledge and understanding about any new part we want to explore.
Scammers are very crafty and will do anything necessary to try and deceive even none newbie in the crypto space. It is important to be observant and be well informed.
Scammers are very crafty and will do anything necessary to try and deceive even none newbie in the crypto space. It is important to be observant and be well informed.
Getting a random message from telegram is already suspicious, unless you didn't know scams about it. It's important to be cautious since there's a lot of way scammers will steal your money by phising links, so asking someone first about it is really important. If your friend really wanted to double his Bitcoin, I suggest look for legit ways of doing that instead of having an idea to double it overnight which is too good to be true.
I'm sure his friend also wouldn't think that the impact is huge on the assets he has in his wallet. sometimes for those who are inexperienced, getting sent a link, it's like a curiosity, of course only beginners will think as long as not sending assets it will be fine. they don't know the risks of connecting a wallet with a phishing web.
even though it was a bad experience, but it can be an important lesson for all of us. especially for OP's friends, he will be wiser in making future choices.
As newbies, almost all of us make mistakes, it is through mistakes that we grow. The people who are criticizing your friend for being greedy are the same people who have been greedy, and I believe they have been in the past as well. As long as he can learn his lesson and not give up, all mistakes are fixable.
Getting a random message from telegram is already suspicious, unless you didn't know scams about it. It's important to be cautious since there's a lot of way scammers will steal your money by phising links, so asking someone first about it is really important. If your friend really wanted to double his Bitcoin, I suggest look for legit ways of doing that instead of having an idea to double it overnight which is too good to be true.
There are many methods that scammers use to reap people their hard earned money and I am even more surprised that some of those old strategies still do work. How can a random person send you a link on the telegram and you follow the link. It did not end there, you went ahead to connect your wallet to the link provided.Not even an empty wallet, but wallet with balances in it. I can say that your friend has gotten the experience. I recently understood that many of us learn by our personal experience, instead of learning from the mistakes of others.
Op, your friend was hacked. He was phished.
Getting a random message from telegram is already suspicious, unless you didn't know scams about it. It's important to be cautious since there's a lot of way scammers will steal your money by phising links, so asking someone first about it is really important. If your friend really wanted to double his Bitcoin, I suggest look for legit ways of doing that instead of having an idea to double it overnight which is too good to be true.
Nothing that happened has to do with aphrodisiac, religious or sinful thoughts, it is the online experience-security, people do not stop falling for perhaps the most classic of fishing scams, the link + accompanied by social engineering.
There is so much information on the Internet, so many "be careful" notices, even traditional banks in any country have prevention campaigns, do not click on any link they send you, by email, chat, MSM, among other types of situations that are presented.
Really!, they are newbies, inexperienced or any social connotation that is given to this basic error, at this point in the information age and dissemination of this type of information, it falls to the obsessive-compulsive level, for clicking.
There is so much information on the Internet, so many "be careful" notices, even traditional banks in any country have prevention campaigns, do not click on any link they send you, by email, chat, MSM, among other types of situations that are presented.
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Source:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_senseCommon sense (or simply sense) is sound, practical judgment concerning everyday matters, or a basic ability to perceive, understand, and judge in a manner that is shared by (i.e., "common to") nearly all people.
Really!, they are newbies, inexperienced or any social connotation that is given to this basic error, at this point in the information age and dissemination of this type of information, it falls to the obsessive-compulsive level, for clicking.
Although I think such discussion should not be in the form. However, I shared the story of one of my friends being cheated.
A friend of mine invested some of his savings in Bitcoin. But unfortunately today his personal wallet got hacked. Balance 00. I was telling my friend how that . My friend said he gets a message on Telegram and gets greedy and enters the link they provide and connects his wallet. After a while he came and saw that his balance was zero.
"Sin of Covetousness and Death in Sin" Like my friend, none of you connect wallets by entering any bad links. No one will be deceived like my friend.
Most often the mistake of beginners is that they do not want to learn the security rules. This is the first thing to start with and it is mandatory. On the other hand, this will serve as a lesson for him and in the future he will not follow dubious links received in instant messengers.There is a lot of material on the topic of security both here on the forum and on the net. A friend of mine invested some of his savings in Bitcoin. But unfortunately today his personal wallet got hacked. Balance 00. I was telling my friend how that . My friend said he gets a message on Telegram and gets greedy and enters the link they provide and connects his wallet. After a while he came and saw that his balance was zero.
"Sin of Covetousness and Death in Sin" Like my friend, none of you connect wallets by entering any bad links. No one will be deceived like my friend.
It happens, most of the time loss happens out of gambling. Newbies used to experience these kind of losses going through spam links that shouldn't be used. In the past it was multiplier schemes and I too became a victim of it. It request to install a software, at the bottom users withdrawal of multiplied amount transaction runs. Looking upon this believed and send small amount and I wasn't able to multiply. Later understood my mistake, so it is must to be very careful being on the crypto market.
-Don't connect your wallet to any platform for whatever reason, and never let out your sensitive information, most hackers work with information their collect over time by monitoring the activities of the owner before they will finally strike when the wallet owner least expected it.
When you get hack d and scammed online it is really difficult to retrieve back the money because you cant easily track them unless you report it to the police and they will try to investigate on it but again this will take time mostly if you are in third world country that is why we need to be careful online be cautious and learn how to keep safe our wallet and our selves online so that we can prevent this. Though requires effort if you want to be safe then you need to follow those important tips for getting safe from hacking
A friend of mine invested some of his savings in Bitcoin. But unfortunately today his personal wallet got hacked. Balance 00. I was telling my friend how that . My friend said he gets a message on Telegram and gets greedy and enters the link they provide and connects his wallet. After a while he came and saw that his balance was zero.
Actually there is no relationship between greed and hacking done by people against your friend, if he does not give access to other parties by linking his wallet, this is a ridiculous story of mistakes made due to lack of knowledge about investing.That's why I never agree for an unknowledgeable person taking part in a large amount of bitcoin investment how could he do such a thing and I don't think he understands any scam with security behavior to be aware of. But to be honest your story is a bit confusing to understand.
Beginners with little knowledge will not know about this type of fraud because many frauds have been modified by fraudsters so that they can work again and that is the type of fraud that we have often encountered in the past. We must always try to update ourselves by reading the latest information on many sites and comparing it to find more details about what is happening.
If we can use Telegram properly, we will be able to feel that the person we are talking to is making a very attractive offer that looks good to be true even though it is a scam. We can see if the person is on our contact list so we will know who it is.
It's really not that different, just changing the branding of a scam doesn't change the scam type at all. There are 3 types of scams in the crypto world that everyone needs to know, and two of them are world famous in the fiat world as well. One of them is ponzi, named after Charles ponzi who did it for the first time, and the way it works is that they ask you a lot of money at first, and offer you a ton of return per month, saying stuff like "we offer %20 USDT per month" type of thing is an obvious red signal.If we can use Telegram properly, we will be able to feel that the person we are talking to is making a very attractive offer that looks good to be true even though it is a scam. We can see if the person is on our contact list so we will know who it is.
Second is pyramid, it is more like "you pay me 100 bucks, and for every person you bring in I will give you 70 bucks, so second person forward you will make a good profit". And third which is in crypto alone is rug pull, simply take as much investment as possible, then leave with all the money you collected.
But the buzzword of the scam is that if their offer looks too good to be true in a short time, we should be suspicious and have to find more info to find out. If we want to invest, we must also determine how much money we will use so that it does not exceed our financial limit because many people forget themselves and are very enthusiastic about getting big results in a short time. And many people have become victims of this, so we must be able to prevent it from happening to us.
Beginners with little knowledge will not know about this type of fraud because many frauds have been modified by fraudsters so that they can work again and that is the type of fraud that we have often encountered in the past. We must always try to update ourselves by reading the latest information on many sites and comparing it to find more details about what is happening.
If we can use Telegram properly, we will be able to feel that the person we are talking to is making a very attractive offer that looks good to be true even though it is a scam. We can see if the person is on our contact list so we will know who it is.
It's really not that different, just changing the branding of a scam doesn't change the scam type at all. There are 3 types of scams in the crypto world that everyone needs to know, and two of them are world famous in the fiat world as well. One of them is ponzi, named after Charles ponzi who did it for the first time, and the way it works is that they ask you a lot of money at first, and offer you a ton of return per month, saying stuff like "we offer %20 USDT per month" type of thing is an obvious red signal.If we can use Telegram properly, we will be able to feel that the person we are talking to is making a very attractive offer that looks good to be true even though it is a scam. We can see if the person is on our contact list so we will know who it is.
Second is pyramid, it is more like "you pay me 100 bucks, and for every person you bring in I will give you 70 bucks, so second person forward you will make a good profit". And third which is in crypto alone is rug pull, simply take as much investment as possible, then leave with all the money you collected.
There is one type of scam that used to be a bit more disguised and that is the token drop to countless addresses combined with fake liquidity provision and fake trading volume. I guess there has been a high number of people falling for that scam when they imported that token for example to their Metamask and either tried to trade it or allowed the contract to drain funds from their own address due to actually authorizing that contract via Metamask.
That was a bit of a surprise to me as well when it happened for the very first time. Now etherscan.io has all kinds of warnings, but still that is something people fall for. Back then there were also legit airdrops, which made it a bit trickier.
The standard described here as someone texting you a link via Telegram, nobody should ever fall for that and connect their wallet or dump their private key into an unknown website login interface. Sorry, but that is actually stupid. It is like finding a wooden fake ATM at the street where there has never been one before and it says "free money" and you walk in and put your debit card in and provide your PIN. Who would do that?
Although I think such discussion should not be in the form. However, I shared the story of one of my friends being cheated.
A friend of mine invested some of his savings in Bitcoin. But unfortunately today his personal wallet got hacked. Balance 00. I was telling my friend how that . My friend said he gets a message on Telegram and gets greedy and enters the link they provide and connects his wallet. After a while he came and saw that his balance was zero.
"Sin of Covetousness and Death in Sin" Like my friend, none of you connect wallets by entering any bad links. No one will be deceived like my friend.
A friend of mine invested some of his savings in Bitcoin. But unfortunately today his personal wallet got hacked. Balance 00. I was telling my friend how that . My friend said he gets a message on Telegram and gets greedy and enters the link they provide and connects his wallet. After a while he came and saw that his balance was zero.
"Sin of Covetousness and Death in Sin" Like my friend, none of you connect wallets by entering any bad links. No one will be deceived like my friend.
Unfortunately, everything is lost here, so sorry for your friend. At least though he should learn from this mistakes and no make them anymore. There are a lot of criminals in crypto, hackers or scammers that will make you click some link or ask you to download something and the next thing you know, your crypto has is gone. So the next time, don't click or any or trust someone just because they tell you that you will get a big amount of crypto. Your friend is obviously inexperience in this but as I have said, this is a expensive lessons to learn.
It happens, most of the time loss happens out of gambling. Newbies used to experience these kind of losses going through spam links that shouldn't be used. In the past it was multiplier schemes and I too became a victim of it. It request to install a software, at the bottom users withdrawal of multiplied amount transaction runs. Looking upon this believed and send small amount and I wasn't able to multiply. Later understood my mistake, so it is must to be very careful being on the crypto market.
-Don't connect your wallet to any platform for whatever reason, and never let out your sensitive information, most hackers work with information their collect over time by monitoring the activities of the owner before they will finally strike when the wallet owner least expected it.
It happens, most of the time loss happens out of gambling. Newbies used to experience these kind of losses going through spam links that shouldn't be used. In the past it was multiplier schemes and I too became a victim of it. It request to install a software, at the bottom users withdrawal of multiplied amount transaction runs. Looking upon this believed and send small amount and I wasn't able to multiply. Later understood my mistake, so it is must to be very careful being on the crypto market.
-Don't connect your wallet to any platform for whatever reason, and never let out your sensitive information, most hackers work with information their collect over time by monitoring the activities of the owner before they will finally strike when the wallet owner least expected it.
I hope those who read this thread learn from the story of @OP, never be greedy and connect your wallet to any link sent via pm of an unknown person on any social media platform.
-So there is a need for to protect our wallet with secondary security layers where available and necessary, to avoid easy access to transfer funds.
As you all know that greediness is a curse and if anyone is greedy in the crypto market he will surely going to lose his money. I know many people who are very much technically strong in fundamental analysis and technical analysis but they lack their control over emotions and they become greedy during trades and investments and in the end lose their money.
Scammers use people's desire to get rich quick and easy to entrap them in their fraudulent schemes. One of the most prominent examples is those private keys that are published publicly or sent to people in private messages, and that whoever finds them thinks that he will be able to obtain the tokens in that address. Greed alone is what drives these people and prevents them from seeing the history of transactions at the same address because they will suffice with the referral method before they send Ethereum to pay the transfer fees.
The concept of "aspiration for the better" is fundamentally different from the concept of greed. Ambition towards improving our situation for the better is a legitimate ambition and always requires the actions of the mind before entering into any deal or adventure with the possibility of assessing the consequences.
Greed is completely different, as it is based on the same concept of “aspiration for the best,” but without thinking about it rationally, and the goal is to achieve goals by all possible means, whether they are legitimate or not.
The concept of "aspiration for the better" is fundamentally different from the concept of greed. Ambition towards improving our situation for the better is a legitimate ambition and always requires the actions of the mind before entering into any deal or adventure with the possibility of assessing the consequences.
Greed is completely different, as it is based on the same concept of “aspiration for the best,” but without thinking about it rationally, and the goal is to achieve goals by all possible means, whether they are legitimate or not.
A friend of mine invested some of his savings in Bitcoin. But unfortunately today his personal wallet got hacked. Balance 00.
Your friend's wallet wasn't hacked, they gave up access to a 2nd party by linking their wallet or giving out their private keys.A hack would be a breach or a compromise on the system, this is a silly mistake.
This is the reason why I caution that newbies should not invest until they have gotten enough fundamental information about the assets and how to secure themselves, without this, they would get quickly lose their funds.
people who are really that greedy and careless at the same time.You cant really just think off about the risks and danger just because you are already that minding on how to make
money or making profits and this is where most people do fall and commit out mistake.
Hacking and frauds and everything that it is in correlation is really that very common into this market.
A friend of mine invested some of his savings in Bitcoin. But unfortunately today his personal wallet got hacked. Balance 00.
Your friend's wallet wasn't hacked, they gave up access to a 2nd party by linking their wallet or giving out their private keys.A hack would be a breach or a compromise on the system, this is a silly mistake.
This is the reason why I caution that newbies should not invest until they have gotten enough fundamental information about the assets and how to secure themselves, without this, they would get quickly lose their funds.
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