Topic: Thought I got scammed but now what? (Read 630 times)

The legit company/party will never make any problem become complicated, but they will find more solution to give a convenience for their clients in this you are as a client and you have a right to sue them to take that you have.

I think you have been scammed and you don't need to believe them if they need something that you must spend your effort. Just make this thing as a learning and never take any decision to leave. You can learn more about crypto, don't just rely on someone else although it is your best friend, just believe with your own decision because that is the rule when you come to this industry.

Can't underestimate the value of these words - do your own research before even moving your finger.
Anyway I don't understand what for a trusted friend could tell "hi I've invested in this company and got my funds back they are totally ok"
I mean this friend either gain from you being scammed or really got his funds back.

In adding my opinion, I would say you need to even be more careful at this time because it is very unlikely that a company that claimed to be hacked are now willing to send funds and even notify you. Again, I have not read any where that a blockchain address could not be verified. It smells more scam as it shows to them that you have created more opportunity for them to get more money.

Seems OP have resolved the matter and for anyone who might witnessed this later in the future, when its sound too good to be true, its probably false and its better to err on the side of caution and being greedy.

I'm sorry to say but you have just been scammed. As for me, when it comes to trading, you shouldn't trust anybody especially when it comes to referrals. Even a trusted friend referred you to trading company will not give you any guarantee that you wouldn't get scammed. That's the reason why we have to learn everything about trading first so we wouldn't have to entrust it with other people. That's a lesson for you to take. You have to be wiser this time and try to continue learning about trading.

It's tough but it is the best thing to do. If you are still around though can you please tell everyone the company name. It helps prevent others from walking into the same scam, and can be found through a google search as well if someone off forum is looking into them. You can do this in Scam accusations or even drop just the name here. If you do go to scam accusations you can provide more info like the address they are asking for funds and any email addresses they use.

This sounds new to me wallet activated with company wallet and wallet not eligible to receive, it could happen if you send them a different wallet and not a Bitcoin address, you don't have to add your bank to your blockchain account I never did and so are the others, something is not right here, better clarify it or better send them an address coming from different wallet like Exodus or Electrum.

Something obviously is not right here, because a Bitcoin is never activate coming blockchain.com if that is what they imply, once you got an account an address on blockchain, you can send Bitcoin there, you can try it for yourself by sending a small amount, they are just trying to scam you second time around, and you will be an idiot if you fall for it.

I think it's funny everyone assumes I'm a guy.

I'm just going to let it go. After I responded and said the wallet address was correct and I had a seasoned investor helping me.. they ghosted. Soooo yea.

Theres no bank info tied to my blockchain and I would of NEVER sent over more money.

As for my friend... she was referred by another friend as well who received money. This friend of mine who referred me has been a trusted friend for several years and I know she wouldn't ever try to scam me. She did get a return but she did also lose some of her initial investment so she had losses too.

I guess this is a perfect example of what everyone said... get people to trust you... show them a little money return and then get more money then bolt.

Cutting my losses and moving on.

Thanks for the help everyone!

Thank you for sharing all that. It looks like I did send the right address so you are probably right... they are most likely trying to get more from me which I definitely know not to send more money. I just wanted to make sure I was correct in the address that I sent in the first place. I'm just going to let it go. It's a shame people are out there doing this but that's their karma.

This is what I have in mind too, OP should move on and just learn from his first mistake, otherwise this could end up another mistake from him.

You got the point because we can presume that his friend isnt really aware that he's investing on a scam too therefore we cant really conclude directly.I was just dragged with my emotions thats why i do
talk about slapping because i do have the experience that my friend do suggest something for his own benefit when i was still a noob.Well, we do have different experiences in life.
People do eventually learn when they do experience these unfortunate events, it isnt necessary but most likely its inevitable thing.

Complete nonsense. No bitcoin address ever needs to be activated. You could send BTC to a completely random bitcoin address that no one holds the private keys presently to, and still be able to process the transaction successfully.

It's clear that the intentions of the company in question is not to repay their dues to you, but rather, to potentially defraud you further using your desire to get your money back as a gullible point of attack.

I would suggest that you distance yourself from these types of 'friends' in the future. Anyone who tries to refer you into investing, 9 times out of 10, don't have the best intentions or are ignorant. And investment companies with lucrative referral programs are also usually not very legitimate, to say the least.

You will find this a lot around here so take it with a grain of salt. First sorry you most likely got scammed, it happens, I know from experience. This sounds like it may have been some form of a ponzi. Now on the off chance the company is legit the address they are looking for is  a public receiving address for your wallet.

Not sure about coinbase but it should honestly be as easy as hitting "receive" or "fund" and then sending the company that address. This is also really easy through blockchain.com... I think now haven't used them in a long time. I am glad to her you say that you will not send them any funds, as this is a common scam tactic to get more of your funds. They will claim it's needed to verify it's you.

There isn't really much else to be said but I did find this for coinbase. Hope that helps. https://support.coinbase.com/customer/en/portal/articles/1027432-where-is-my-wallet-address-

Use this lesson in the future, and do more research in a project. Best of luck.

I'm not defending OP's "friend", but let's be a bit fair here. There's a good chance that OP's "friend" didn't also know that it was a scam in the first place, hence the "friend" referred the service to OP. It's actually a lot common that people think. Not everyone knows about ponzi schemes in general, yet a good amount of people endorse ponzi schemes with actual passion and with the actual intent of also actually helping friends & family members earn. It's not black and white in some(or most cases).

You should slapped the head of that friend of yours of causing soo much hassle and damage to you yet he do prefer a scam company to you.
Dont ever believe on fund management yet those profits given are initial only and when they do get your trust they would tend to ask for more investment
and basing on what you have said they are just trying to snip out again more money from you.Blockchain or btc address doesnt really need any confirmation for
someone to pass up the funds back.They are just luring you in to make more deposit or linking your bank account.Dont get fooled twice.

You don't even know what you're talking about. I invested the money because I was trying to help my family who fell upon rough times (who I already help out) & invested it for them to have returns. I can find the name of the company in emails but I'm not going to give it out on here...and I was working with an account manager so everything was done through him- but honestly, get off your high horse for a second & stop assuming you know peoples intentions... I've spent the better part of my life helping others financially & putting myself last.

Just a heads up: If you're looking for an actual wallet, which you use to store your funds safely, only use non-custodial wallets[1]. That way, you're never going to be required to send over documents. Only use platforms like Coinbase as a way to buy and sell bitcoin, and nothing beyond that.

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[1] https://cryptosec.info/cryptocurrency-wallets/#noncustodial

They won't pay you.

You invested $3,000 which is already a big amount and you don't even know what company it is? You don't know where you put your money? You just invest because you see your friend got returns?

OMG! Don't be mad to me but what a greedy person you are. Look at what you have done because of your greediness.

I don't use Coinbase but perhaps this video can help you how to get your BTC address:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FH24HtzBoQs

This is what actually happened. First, they gained your trust by acting legit by giving out nice (and probably abnormally good) amount of returns to your invested amount. Secondly, they took advantage of this trust and made you invest more. Once you added more to your investment, they started making excuse about getting hacked, thus scamming you. Thirdly, they expected you to never contact them and was little surprised by you contacting them after days. Thus, they wanted to try and scam more of your coins by making more excuse like "activating wallet" and other bullshits.

So they could pay me yet still get the money back? They won't get double because I'm not linking my card.

Honestly, I'm not sure what kind of company this is. I just trusted my friends recommendation and even waited until she got a payout to move forward with it.

On blockchain web wallet, yes, that's the way.

There's a dropdown there with other currencies but I don't think you will miss that part so I'm sure you got the correct address sent to them.


The activation part doesn't make sense. There is no such thing as they will activate your blockchain wallet.

You only need to provide your bitcoin address and that's it.

That's BS, btw. Seems like they trying to scam you again.
So what if you pay for it, the next thing you know there is your 3k then ask you to pay this and that until you didn't know your paying them in double.

Is the company sort of an exchange site?

@bittraffic

I've said multiple times I WILL NOT give them any more money nor have they asked for more money.  Everyone keeps saying the same thing but they haven't asked for more nor would I send more. I'm just trying to figure out how to share the address with them for them to send money to.

My original investment was $3000. My friend did $6000 and she got a return (& showed me her return). That was the only reason I went ahead with it as I'm typically cautious about such things.

I know a little of FOREX... I did trade BTC over the summer myself ... but just for fun. That's why I have knowledge of MT4, etc. I don't have any interest in learning all the things as I have a beauty biz that I run.

I'm curious how much you gave to them because I can sense you are from FOREX market and the fact that they as for more means you really gave them good amount to ask for more? This is if you are just open to share though. Scammers think they can scam once more after they have scammed you, it could be shame on you if you send more.

Thank you for sharing all that - that's basically what happened but my friend did get a return which is the ONLY reason I was open to it. They haven't asked for any money. They just said that the address I gave them didn't work. I had just set up the blockchain account and I just hit request and copied the address provided. Is that the correct way? I hadn't verified any info yet, etc - just literally opened the account and went straight to request. So that is where I'm wondering if I did it wrong. And again, I won't send any money.

Trading is this: Buy low / sell high. So what they promised you is that they would do all of this actions with your money too, in overall they would collect big capital, profit for themselves and share some percent with you because of invested capital from you. But in reality all they do is nothing, pay first investors and leave last investors without money.
It's 100% scam that they said your bitcoin wallet needs to be activated with company wallet, I think they'll ask you to send some money on their company's address in order to verify your wallet so keep in mind that it is scam, never do that!
You can't get your money back.

Right. What I was saying is I think I gave the wrong address as I've never used blockchain before and it all looks foreign to me since I know nothing about trading. The most experience I have with anything is Hugo's way & MT4. & that's very limited.

I just switched over to coinbase- I'm just trying to understand what bitcoin wallet address to give. Coinbase seems to have more support there so I will research to see what I need provide. Obviously I'm not attaching any banking, etc and won't give any more money to this.

Most likely, scammers have deceived you and you need to know that before sending funds, check the identities to whom you send your funds. How to understand the address is not suitable for sending. This is their excuse.

That activation part don't make sense. For receiving your funds, Bitcoin wallet is enough and it doesn't need any kind of verification for that matter. However, new you're , I am sure you know how to work with bitcoin wallet. So don't involve in any kind of information sharing or trade with these guys. If they are ready to send funds. Just give them your public key. If they again come up with another excuse. Leave it and move on. They might be planning another hack.

 Never trust a hacker twice!

I wouldn't give any more money to this... I'm just supposed to send my bitcoin wallet address - from what I understand, I can send that just not my ID & I'm still safe. None of my banking is attached so they can't take anything from me.

There is too much information here.
First of all you probably don't want to name the company, but I think that there is no need for secrecy. It would be better so the rest know what's going on and don't fall for the same scam, although you might have your reasons and I understand that.
Then you don't seem to care much about several thousands of dollars. I hope that at least your friend, repaid some amount.

The company saying that they got hacked is usually a red flag and you figured correctly that you've been scammed.
Their answer probably means that you haven't passed a certain procedure (KYC probably or some ID check) but since they didn't write you in detail what has happened and how to fix the issue  it looks just like an excuse.
The reason they answered to you, is probably because they want to scam you out of more money. They did once and probably think they can extract more from you.

To summarise, with the details provided this looks like a scam and probably it is. I can't think of any legitimate company answering without detailed instructions on how to proceed. They should have told you exactly the steps you should take and if this involves asking for more money it will be another attempt to scam you again.
Now about getting your money back from scammers, that might be from extremely difficult to impossible.

And then what? Let me guess, they require you to deposit a certain amount of BTC for you to unlock your wallet? lmao. Move on mate. Quite an expensive lesson, but a lesson nonetheless.

Just to add a silver lining for you, think about this. At least you lost money right now, rather then in the future where you potentially could have a lot more money to invest(potentially millions). Thousands wouldn't be worth crap in the future for you and you're just going to laugh at this experience. You just gotta look at the bright side of things, and always be skeptical about things.

Best of luck moving forward!

You cannot return money because you are unfortunately deceived, and the only way to get your money back is to send your scammer back, which is impossible.
You have to watch who you send the money to, find out a little bit more and hear experiences from the others before sending the money.
Bitcoin wallets are free, and there is no activation, so you can't manage.

it sounds to me that they scammed you first (when you send them the money as investment to give you profit) and they liked how easy it was. now they are trying to scam you again with a new shinnanigan and gain access to your web wallet!

the only thing you need to give them so that they can pay you back your investment+profit is a bitcoin address and nothing more. there is no activation,...
a bitcoin address that you create using blockchain.com wallet will start with 1. the address must be generated by your wallet not with something someone else gives you. it would look like this (the following is my address as an example):
1JxAgzsnfiVuTHUEwSvx2P8DyhnnqXpy4B

What is there to activate?

Yes. You are once again lured to another scam if you are to send an amount of BTCto activate it. You are correct from the beginning you are scammed.
This is why you shouldn't trust it when someone says they can trade for you. Entrusting your money means its lost now and you are going to be okay with it since you already give it away.

Obviously you have been scammed, and Scammers want to get more of your money. Bitcoin wallets are free to use and do not require activation. Getting money back is probably impossible, maybe you should learn more about Crypto, Why invest when a simple thing about storage wallets you do not understand?

It's probably the case of trying to get double scammed.  You obviously are well aware that your original amount was stole "hacked" (a lot of companies say this as a back door excuse as to why they dont have your money), but bare minimum you can give them an address you own the the private keys to and send that to the company for your refund.  It should be as easy as that.  Anything more of them asking for your credentials that you originally did not provide I would not give them.

In my opinion once you have created a Blockchain wallet you will need to verify your email to activate it or getting into a process of identifying your legitimacy but I guess Blockchain needs to have something on it so you can be ready to send some yourself, But if you have created your wallet I think it is ready and can receive some Bitcoin, But I don't know about a Company wallet verification maybe they are trying to buy some time or making some excuse in budging the topic.

If they are a licensed fund with an authority which I am skeptic about - I think they are obligated to do KYC of their clients/investors but don't take my word for it. Be cautious and make a background analysis of that company. Remember that scammers can be very ingenious - don't giveaway your personal data, maybe consult yourself with a lawyer.

Hey everyone-

I should start by saying I know VERY LITTLE about trading.
A little over a year ago, a trusted friend was referred to invest into a company who does the trading for you. She ended up getting a nice return and referred me. I was skeptical but because she was a trusted friend and had already received a return on her investment, I decided to give it a shot.
I invested several 1000's and then the company said they got hacked a couple months later.
Anyways, I figured I had been scammed and just let it go. But a week ago I just thought I'd email to see if I could get my return back.
I didn't expect a response but I got one.
So here I am now. They tried sending it to the blockchain address I created but I had no idea what I was doing and I received an email this morning that they (the company who does the trading) tried to send over the the transfer but the wallet address was not eligible.

They said my bitcoin wallet needs to be activated with company wallet.

Clearly I have no idea what that means and I also did not add any banking info, etc in my blockchain because the last thing I want is for my bank account to be compromised.

Can anyone help me figure this out so I can get my money back?

Thank you!