Cryptocurrency

Cryptocurrency, Scam

Someone stole 3 bitcoins from me through a Google Chrome Extension

So, I frequent a few trading platforms. I kept seeing advertisements about some kind of chrome extension. Selective ad marketing I guess. Anyway, I installed the BTC ticker into my browser. Everything was up and running, I used it a couple of times, didn’t think anything of it. No red alarms etc. Here’s where it gets fun, the ticker actually came with some malware it somehow picked up! I was going to go withdraw some coins from my trading account, everything was going smooth.

It was only after I got #$%^&*#$ out of 3 bitcoins that I realized that the add-on changed my deposit address to its own.

At least they didn’t cost 4,000$ back then…

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Cryptocurrency, Scam

How I almost lost ten thousand bucks on a Bittrex phishing site

I have been actively trading crypts for about three months now. I really liked it, at first I started with about 100$ of birthday money, and slowly traded my way up, I made about 5,000$ speculating and watching the market. I was so happy; actually, I was saving up for trips to Iceland and Japan. Well, I got fucked two weeks ago. I used Bittrex for trading.

I was too lazy to enable two factored authentications and I’m guessing that I accidentally entered my log in information on a copy site that ended with .me instead of .com.

This isn’t the first time someone gets duped by a phishing site, make sure you keep your eyes peeled and always remain vigilant. Btw, I lost bout 7,000$, in almost five minutes.

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Cryptocurrency, Horror Story

Cops raided my house while I’m studying abroad

Basically, I was going away for a semester of studies abroad in Madrid, Spain. I had some extra bitcoins that I invested in the year before. I was in desperate need for cash so I decided that I was going to sell them. I went on local bitcoins and found some dude in five minutes who wanted to buy them. I was a little worried that it was a face to face transaction.

Though, I have done face to face transactions a few times in public places so everything was going to be okay. I was pretty sure.

I met with the individual in a spot not too far from where I live, maybe like five miles away. The guy gets out of his car, walks over to mine, goes for his pocket, I get a little worried, but then he pulls out the money, 350$. Then the dude booked it and ran to his car. Whatever, lol. I was driving back home and noticed that I was being followed by a piece of trash Toyota. I decided to drive a little erratically, took detours, drove through a parking lot and eventually lost the Toyota.

Cool, I was packing my bags and really looking forward to my semester abroad in Spain.

I don’t check my physical mailbox often, but when I did a few days after meeting with the individual and being tailed by the Toyota, I noticed a bunch of needle marks and rips on my envelopes, it definitely didn’t look like an accident… Two days went by, and I was really freaked out, but it was Saturday and I was supposed to be leaving for Madrid that day.

When I was in the shower, I heard my house door get smashed in.

I freak out, run downstairs, and see six police officers with canines standing in my living room. I was notified that I sold my bitcoins to an undercover cop and that they had a search warrant. Long story short, they found some weed, but it wasn’t anything serious, I had a medical marijuana registration card. The police just had suspicions that I was selling drugs through local bitcoins or something. They ended up going through my personal laptop and phone. Thank god, I was clean and clear.

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Cryptocurrency, Horror Story

I lost hundreds of dollars’ worth of bitcoins on eBay

Hey everyone! So, my goal was to sell some bitcoins via eBay, because I figured a lot of people were still confused back in the day as to how to purchase, trade, sell bitcoins and what not. And I figured that I might as well do it on eBay since most people were familiar with how it worked.

Well, everything was going okay, I was doing the trades through PayPal, and had my customers verify themselves by providing me with some of the info in that link.

So, one day I get a message from a client, asking me if I could sell 600$ worth of coins. A few days pass, and I get a notification of a gigantic hold of funds with a message stating that the individual got hacked.

So, an unauthorized payment was submitted by the client, and pretty much I lost a ton of coins with no way of getting them back.

I didn’t know that PayPal has a reversible payment option with a dispute system that doesn’t take bitcoins into account. Guess I got screwed, note to everyone else. Never sell any bitcoins on PayPal or eBay if it’s more than $50 worth.

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Cryptocurrency, Scam

Sent my money to a copy website

I was once trying to buy something from an online auction that a friend of mine recommended. The site looked completely fine and trustworthy. So, I found the merchandise that I needed on the platform, browsed around some more, and was pretty much ready to check out. I noticed a little notification spring up in my message box soon after I registered my account. I didn’t give it any thought really, whatever, just a system message. Well, I ended up transferring my bitcoins and waiting for my wallet on the website to receive the funds.

Two hours went by, three hours, four hours.

I went to bed and woke up the next morning hoping that my cryptocurrencies would have gotten to the wallet already. Which they didn’t. So that’s when I decided to read the message in my inbox on the website. It was a warning from the mods to double check the URL and make sure that it ended in .com, and nothing else…

Whelp, the website to which I transferred my funds, about 400$ ended up ending in .gg, so I pretty much god duped by some guys who made a complete copy of the website, and all of my money went to their personal wallets with absolutely no way of getting any of it back.

Pretty pissed, but pretty sly guys to pull that one off. Now I will always read moderator messages lol. Watch out!

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Cryptocurrency, Horror Story

I got hassled by police in Montenegro

Hello, I’m 25 years old and was, note the word, WAS, really interested in cryptocurrencies and digital asset trading. It’s not so popular here in Montenegro, but I was able to make some easy money speculating anyway. I sold over $400 worth of BTC to someone through localbitcoins, we did all of the trades in increments, and not everything was sent in one day.

About one week after doing the last trade, the police officers knock on my door.

What? They arrest me instantly, take me to the station and start questioning me. I told them everything, that I was just a trader on localbitcoins and wanted to make some money, that everything was legal and okay. They didn’t believe me at first and thought that I was some kind of drug dealer and that we were laundering money back and forth. I was forced to let them go through everything that I had, my phone, my email, my social media.

For some reason, the police want me to send back the money that I received for trading.

Which is kind of ridiculous, and makes me think that they didn’t listen to me at all. If I send the money back to the guy, he will just keep his cash AND my coins.

Good think the Montenegrin police didn’t find out that I was a miner, hehe.

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Cryptocurrency, Horror Story

Thank you silkroad!

I was a freshman in college when this happened to me. I was a regular kid, went to class, partied, smoked some Cannabis. I used to buy everything from my local dealer. However, one of my friend threw me the idea of using silk road, which used to be a really popular dark net platform that could be used to buy almost anything. I was using silk road for quite some time, and to great success at that too.

Not a worry in the world. At one point, I decided that I was going to sell what I was buying and make a good return.

I decided to buy about $1,000 worth of stuff to, ahem, sell, and it was at that very moment that the owner was arrested and the site went down. Too bad for me, I had already sent my thousand dollars’ worth of bitcoins to the trader through silk road. He got my bitcoins to his wallet, but I never got my delivery. That’s pretty much how I lost $1,000 trying to make some! Oh well, I’m well past it now, but as a college freshman, in need of money, I was super pissed. The worst part that I couldn’t do anything about the money that I lost since the website was down and what I was doing was kind of illegal so…

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Cryptocurrency, Scam

Got Screwed in 8 Hours

So, I have been a regular user of the crypto community for a while, I have conducted a few transactions and trades, and have made a good sum of money legitimately. But this bitcoin scam that I got involved with blew my mind. What happened was that some guy contacted me after he saw that I was selling crypto. He offered me to lend out bitcoins, and get them back later with an extra %, and that they would find the borrower. So, I sent the dude $50 worth of coins, and I got everything back +% return percentage. Okay, whatever. I decided to do the lending process again but putting a little bit more money at stake.

Of course, I spoke to these people over the phone, and they sounded really convincing, it was too hard for me to believe that anyone would go through so much time to steal fifty bucks.

Told me all kinds of fancy stories about how he’s been doing this lending stuff for three years now, and how some clients have invested over 5 bitcoins at a time with him. Everything was fluid, I went through the whole process with them about five times in total. For the sixth time, I decided to up the stakes and send them more money. I wasn’t worried, after all I have been doing this lending thing with them for about a week now.

And guess what, everything went cold, it’s been over a day now and I was supposed to get my return already.

No replies, nobody is picking up the phone, the person’s profile is gone from the platform, and I’m out 600$ with no way of getting it back. Never believe in “lending” btc again.

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