Topic: When I first heard of Bitcoin and How it scared me - page 2. (Read 286 times)
Well this is why the telegram scams are a thing. People fell for them. I have yet not regretted reporting and blocking anyone who had financial offer for me in telegram. Well sometimes i waste their time a lot by being difficult catch and making up some weird excuses to make them work more.
Well, it's quite unfortunately that I couldn't read through the whole wall of text but atleast I got the most important points... I'm sorry for your loss first of all; you see, it's either you read and learn before starting anything you wish or painfully come back to study the same thing after spending alot for your mistakes; I'm not gonna really blame you for not getting to know alot about what you got indulged in cus I dunno 'how' and 'who' introduced you to it and 'where' but there's no time to keep regretting about what has been done already, just go ahead and do the right thing since you came into the realization that you followed the wrong path,...
People usually learn their lessons in 2 ways.
The easy way: by educating themselves and reading a lot.
The hard way: by getting scammed.
Looks like you fell for the latter. Look at the bright side — you've already been a victim, so do all you can to make it never happen again. Fortunately — while it's still money, thankfully it's not like-changing amounts of money.
Educate yourself:
https://notyourkeys.org/
https://cryptosec.info/scams
The easy way: by educating themselves and reading a lot.
The hard way: by getting scammed.
Looks like you fell for the latter. Look at the bright side — you've already been a victim, so do all you can to make it never happen again. Fortunately — while it's still money, thankfully it's not like-changing amounts of money.
Educate yourself:
https://notyourkeys.org/
https://cryptosec.info/scams
It's always like that I guess if you are a newbie, I've been a newbie in the past and investing without a knowledge will lead you to get scam easily. I guess common sense won't hit until you experience first what is the feeling of being scammed so we should learn our lesson if we don't want to get scammed again and always do your own research.
One thing that pushes us to go on a risky investment is greed plus the lack of knowledge is a common recipe to get scammed. And I agree that the internet is full of scammers since almost everyday scammers are evolving not just the technology.
One thing that pushes us to go on a risky investment is greed plus the lack of knowledge is a common recipe to get scammed. And I agree that the internet is full of scammers since almost everyday scammers are evolving not just the technology.
I was comfortable with the investment package that did cut across depositing a $200 and earn $2500 in 24hours.
This was the point I realised that, I had been scammed
I'm sorry for your loss, but even more sorry for your lack of common sense. Haven't you ever heard that the internet is full of scams? Why would a stranger want your $200, legitimately? Why wouldn't they use theirs and enjoy the $2500 themselves?Use your head, buddy.
When I first heard of bitcoin was in the year 2019. I didn't know much about crypto then, I just felt it was something that will just come and go like the many other schemes in the past. I never knew it was already in existence since 2009. One of the drives that moves people is to make money obviously and making it through some new innovations always feels like the best way and so, my time of change came. It came through a news in my neighbourhood of a guy who had just cashed out $2000 from Bitcoin.
Like every other human, I developed interest. I suddenly felt the need to know everything about Bitcoin, how it works, the trading accept, the mining accept and so on. At that time, I had a friend that had tried on so many counts and on different occasions to tall me into making some crypto or Bitcoin investment. I placed a call to him and told him of my interest in Bitcoin. That I would like to learn more and buy some Bitcoin as well. He then directed me to get a wallet (Trust Wallet), gave me instructions on how to create or set it up, extract my wallet and so on. I also fund my wallet that same day and went on social media like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, telegram, google and more in search of instruction materials and informations on Bitcoin.
Along the line, I saw an investment platform on telegram. They had different packages to pick out an investment and based on my finance level, I was comfortable with the investment package that did cut across depositing a $200 and earn $2500 in 24hours. I also saw many testimonies from other users on how they have been successful credited. It felt too good to be true but as a novice, I found it interesting and had to give it a trier. I chatted with the admin, he sent me the site and I went through it, filled up the forms and then deposited $10 worth on on the platform to be swapped for Bitcoin. Afterwards, I chatted the admin up to inform him of my successful deposit, he asked on how much I did deposited and I replied $10. He instructed that I should drop my wallet address for refund that the, minimum is $200. I dropped my wallet address and I was refunded my $10 initial deposit. At this point of a possible refund, I debeloped trust and also concluded that the platform was real then, I deposited $300 on the platform. Still referenced my my wallet address for my earning. I chatted the admin again that I have made the payment, he said I should wait for 24hours I will be credited once it 24 hours. I was excited and 24hours wasn't so much time so, I had to wait it out.
When it was time, I went to check my wallet and it wasn't credited, I went back to telegram where I found the platform and realised that, I had been removed. When i tried to chat with the admin, I couldn't find him and the chat we had together had been cleared and also deleted me.
This was the point I realised that, I had been scammed and its an experience I promised myself not to go through for a second time. It almost killed my zeal to learn but, you can't go traditional on a growing or new world order. This is the more reason why I'm very focused on learning at this point. A friend referred me to this platform recently and that it is a discussion platform on all things crypto. I'm open to learning, I'll like to know more as you guys do and then would like some correcting too when I'm wrong. Thank you.
Like every other human, I developed interest. I suddenly felt the need to know everything about Bitcoin, how it works, the trading accept, the mining accept and so on. At that time, I had a friend that had tried on so many counts and on different occasions to tall me into making some crypto or Bitcoin investment. I placed a call to him and told him of my interest in Bitcoin. That I would like to learn more and buy some Bitcoin as well. He then directed me to get a wallet (Trust Wallet), gave me instructions on how to create or set it up, extract my wallet and so on. I also fund my wallet that same day and went on social media like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, telegram, google and more in search of instruction materials and informations on Bitcoin.
Along the line, I saw an investment platform on telegram. They had different packages to pick out an investment and based on my finance level, I was comfortable with the investment package that did cut across depositing a $200 and earn $2500 in 24hours. I also saw many testimonies from other users on how they have been successful credited. It felt too good to be true but as a novice, I found it interesting and had to give it a trier. I chatted with the admin, he sent me the site and I went through it, filled up the forms and then deposited $10 worth on on the platform to be swapped for Bitcoin. Afterwards, I chatted the admin up to inform him of my successful deposit, he asked on how much I did deposited and I replied $10. He instructed that I should drop my wallet address for refund that the, minimum is $200. I dropped my wallet address and I was refunded my $10 initial deposit. At this point of a possible refund, I debeloped trust and also concluded that the platform was real then, I deposited $300 on the platform. Still referenced my my wallet address for my earning. I chatted the admin again that I have made the payment, he said I should wait for 24hours I will be credited once it 24 hours. I was excited and 24hours wasn't so much time so, I had to wait it out.
When it was time, I went to check my wallet and it wasn't credited, I went back to telegram where I found the platform and realised that, I had been removed. When i tried to chat with the admin, I couldn't find him and the chat we had together had been cleared and also deleted me.
This was the point I realised that, I had been scammed and its an experience I promised myself not to go through for a second time. It almost killed my zeal to learn but, you can't go traditional on a growing or new world order. This is the more reason why I'm very focused on learning at this point. A friend referred me to this platform recently and that it is a discussion platform on all things crypto. I'm open to learning, I'll like to know more as you guys do and then would like some correcting too when I'm wrong. Thank you.
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