Topic: Urgent -Transaction stuck "missing block" - They will burn my BTC (Read 372 times)

He has unfortunately already scammed you. He is surely not looking to return your money. Don't give him any personal information like your name, address, date of birth. Who knows if he would be prepared to visit you where you live. He might think you have more than 0.3 BTC in your possession.

A new address from a new wallet is all you should give him. He might try to confuse you again by saying things like you need to give him a funded address with the seed so that the security department con confirm the wallet's authenticity, or similar tricks. Don't fall for it. In your eyes he is a scammer that will try everything he can against you.

Stop it with all the exchange bullshit. You put your money on a scammer fake 'exchange' who just takes your money and doesn't give it back out.
If you want to try to have them send you back your funds, download a real Bitcoin wallet software like Electrum, generate a new wallet and click 'receive', then give him the address that Electrum spits out.

If you ever need to sell your BTC, don't contact such a scammer agent ('account manager' - WTF do you need that for?) again, just use Bisq or if you don't care about KYC use a trusted KYC exchange like Binance, Kraken or another on the top of this list for example: https://coinmarketcap.com/rankings/exchanges/. If you want to 100% make sure, just ask here if an exchange is safe. There are enough people who can help you.

He probably wants your phone number for future scams. I'm pretty sure you're a high value target now for scammers, so your phone number is worth a lot.
You can get a prepaid burner phone, but I wouldn't get my hopes up. I think the only way for you to get any of your money back, is if the scammer believes he can scam you for more later on. Don't send him anything else, no matter what he promises.

So not the address I sent the 0.3 BTC from?

Another one on a different exchange?

What do you mean by spending funds on a know your customer service?

Thanks

If it's ONLY your address, preferably one that has never been used before, it's safe... If you spend those funds on a KYC service, you might decrease your privacy, but that's it....

Don't get your hopes up tough... Make sure you don't hand your seed phrase, account details from a different service or private key to him, and make sure he doesn't push you into sending him more funds first

mocacinno has said everything bro
I literally don't think creating a new transaction is the solution

So finally, after me not sending any more money, they have declared that the funds are burned.

In addition to the funds that were put up for this ‘contract’, I have other funds in a regular trading account with this  account manager, who is allegedly separate from blockchain.com.

I have asked him to halt trading, and to return all my funds to me.

He has asked for a number and wallet address.

I’m not sure what ‘number’ he needs, but if I were to give him my wallet address, would I be compromising myself in anyway? Or is it safe to give the wallet address, in the hope that he just may return my funds?

(Long shot, I know)

Thanks.

I appreciate all the advice, thank you.

this ^^^

Really, there are some of us who might come over as smug, but i'm pretty sure even those people feel sorry for you... I mean, we have nothing to gain from you getting scammed, and most people actually have a lot of sympathy for you. There might be a couple of people out there that are enjoying these kinds of threads, but i'm pretty sure they're grossly outnumbered.

I guess we've all experienced this situation. I know at first hand how it feels, I was a victim too, but didn't lose so much money. I lost almost nothing and was so pissed off, so I can't imagine how I'd react if such thing ever happened to me.

Depends. Is that amount much money to you? You know that there're things you may also lose by choosing to not admit your defeat, right? Time. I wouldn't try it, no.

I can't imagine myself trying to find a person by knowing they can have hidden themselves very easily.

Additional warning: do not believe everything you read on the internet, that includes Bitcointalk. Scammers have used this forum to steal large amounts of money.
Many people here are willing to help, but always be vigilant. Especially when you receive a PM from someone. See How can we protect Newbies from getting scammed?.

In my experience, not many people enjoy seeing new Bitcoin users get scammed. Actually, it sucks big time, but the harsh reality is you're not the first and you certainly won't be the last.

If the scammer is smart, you'll never find him. If he makes a mistake, you may have a chance. But I wouldn't hold my breath.

Yes, Black Hat Coiner, I know. I feel very stupid and angry. I’m just trying to keep them talking at the moment, to have as much evidence as possible. It must make lots of people here feel very smug and fortunate, so enjoy those emotions if you like, I don’t care. This is my first time, hopefully my last, I’m trying to learn as much as possible from it.

I have a friend who has runs their own cyber security operation, and contacts in Germany where this scam is supposedly originating, so maybe I’ll get lucky, probably not, but wouldn’t you try? Or would you just give in?

Alright, you need to hear this out:  You've been scammed. That's the end of the story. Harsh or not, this is what happened. There isn't such thing as a missing block, you can verify that the transaction is confirmed from a block explorer.

This guy continues discussing with you by the belief you'll be fooled to send another 0.3 BTC. Thus, he responded with a part from an unknown code trying to justify that you've done something wrong. Do you really believe that a multi-millionaire company would show you such thing as a response from their support?

Lesson learnt and you've paid 0.3 BTC for it. Do not repeat it and always create a thread here whenever you have queries about things you don't know.

This looks like smoke and mirrors... really... This looks like an ether contract, which has nothing to do with missing transactions on bitcoin's blockchain...

The thing is: it seems like every time this scammer sends you an answer, he makes sure he uses some defenitions, codes, contracts,... that might sound familiar if you're a bitcoin beginner. However, he uses everything out of context, just to confuse you completely.

Bottom line: your 0.3 BTC transaction went trough, that's final... The transaction has been confirmed... He is now using some random ether smart contract code that looks complex whilst still being semi human-readable to install some fear into you, in the hope you'll send him another 0.3 BTC

I asked for systemic proof that my deposit failed, and this is what they sent. Any coders that can verify this?

https://ibb.co/wYnrcY8

You said you're looking for a way to track them and involve law enforcement, right.
Then I'd suggest you to keep your communication with the suspect by stalling with few of more of those "questions" and show it to the authorities.
Police may be able to get some leads if they are knowledgeable in crypto and if the scammer is dumb enough.

Yes it is phishing, blockchain.com's email should be from @blockchain.com or @.blockchain.com - with dot before the url.
(and the replies should be weeks to months apart :D)

I don't understand what you were trying to do in the first place. Did you want to send the funds on your exchange to another exchange?
Why did you like to "deposited it elsewhere" in the first place?
And where did you try to deposit it to?
Such large amounts in general shouldn't reside on online wallets except for a short duration after purchasing..

Your transaction was fine from a technical point of view. The address is owned by a scammer. You got scammed, and by the nature of Bitcoin, there's is no "undo".

All transactions show up on all block explorers. Try Blockchair.com for instance. Exchanges usually don't show other transactions.
My advice: before doing anything else Bitcoin related, make sure you understand what you're doing. Unfortunately, you were now an easy victim for scammers, and there are many more scammers out there.

Yes, the email domain is different from the website domain. Email domain is @ltdblockchain.com, website is blockchain.com. So maybe phishing.

When I search for my transaction ID using the search function on blockchain.com, my deposit shows up, and also shows that it has left the wallet I deposited my 0.3BTC into, into and out of several other wallets, until it gets to a wallet where there are so many transactions that I lose it.

I emailed the phishy representative about this today:

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Hello,

I’ve been looking at the transaction trail of my 0.3BTC deposit on the Blockchain.com search function, I can see my deposit has left the wallet I deposited it to, and been moved into and out of several other wallets, until it is mixed in with a lot of other transactions in another wallet… what is going on?? If my initial deposit failed, why is it able to move into and out of all these wallets?

I would like to see clear evidence that my initial transaction failed, I want to see detailed systemic screenshots, describing errors in detail please.

Regards,
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The reply I got was:

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If I understand correctly, your question is why your 0.3BTC transaction was moved to different wallets.

The reason for that is the reservation of your crypto funds, before you will be able to make a duplicate transaction the funds will be stored on different wallets to avoid sending them to burning address.

That, among what I've told you yesterday, is the reason why we charge customers for 2,000 GBP for address reservation. It requires us to use several different wallets and for each wallet we pay additional fee.

Kind Regards.

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Totally ignored my request for proof.

I’m still not sure if the blockchain.com website I’m looking at, the one where I can see that my deposit arrived in the wallet, is real/legit or not. It seems ok to me… I submitted a support ticket to ask if they could verify my deposit, and if they had a representative by the name I had been told, using the @ltdblockchain email address, and if his communications were legitimate or not, but I have not heard back after two days. But then again, I’ve had terrible customer service from other exchanges too, so this fact alone doesn’t mean they are a scam site…. I think…

I mean, if my deposit is able to move around to different wallets, then SURELY it is/was a perfectly fine transaction in the first place, right?.. if not, it simply wouldn’t move around like that?…

Would my transaction ID show up on any search function on any exchange? Or would the wallet I deposited to only show up specifically on the exchange it belongs to, in this case blockchain.com?

The moment I saw this explanation, I was in an impression that it's a scam attempt. It's a BS theory which works when someone is not much experienced in crypto industry. Sorry OP for your loss and good work mocacinno to confirm it and saving OP's 0.3 BTC.

Evan at $43,440 rate 0.3BTC is a lot of money.