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Cryptocurrency, Scam

Signed up for a fake insider-tips telegram group.

I was sitting in a telegram group for this ICO called FLiK, I really liked the channel, everyone in it was pretty active and had high hopes for the coin. I kind of invested in it blindly, to be honest with you, I didn’t even read the whitepaper.

But I saw posts and people talking about T.I being behind the project or something. So, I thought to myself, that’s pretty cool. If he makes some posts online this token will probably moon hard. He never did, but that’s not the point here.

In the telegram chat, there was a guy talking about some kind of pay-to-see group that supposedly had access to crypto industry news before anyone else. I thought it was kind of stupid, but apparently groups like that do exist. Additionally, people have made money with them. So, I decided to join it. The fee was 1 Litecoin, and the guy showed me some screenshots that made it believable.

I said okay, and he added me into a chat with another person and said that he was an admin of that group and whatnot. Okay, I sent them the Litecoin and they told me to wait for a few minutes. The guy who pulled me into this scam actually called me right after I sent him the Litecoin and told me that I was gonna get an email soon with some additional information.

Alright, I got up off my computer to go make a sandwich.

Come back to my laptop later to see that the chat with those two guys is gone, they blocked me. I started going nuts in the other group chat where I first met the scammer. He already got banned at that point.

I think I lost like $50, not so much, but still annoying.

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Cryptocurrency, Scam

I trusted an old classmate, but then he swindled my bitcoins.

I’m just getting into cryptocurrencies and a lot of the aspects are pretty confusing to me. I know how to buy Bitcoins, Ethereum, and Litecoins on Coinbase. But I have no clue about how to invest in ICO’s, but I really wanted to because I read posts on Reddit about how people were making an absolutely savage amount of money from getting in early. So, I was reading an article and found some info about this one ICO called Bitair.

I did a little due diligence, read the whitepaper, looked at their presentation and searched up some videos on YouTube. The project seemed pretty legit to me, but I was still confused as to how I should go about investing.

I made a post on Facebook asking if someone could help me. This old classmate of mine messaged me offering to help. We got on Skype and he asked me if I had a wallet on MyEtherWallet, which I didn’t. Because I have only been using Coinbase up until now, I don’t trade, I don’t do anything like that. I would just buy Bitcoins whenever I had some disposable income and would sit on them.

We go on Skype, and I’m not really understanding all of the nitty gritty technical details. So, this guy tells me to download Teamviewer. He goes on my computer and we run through the whole process of transferring ETH from Coinbase to my wallet. We agree to Skype again once I receive the ETH.

We do, and he tells me that he has the Bitair address to which I need to send it to ready. He types it in and says that I’m all good now, and should go and check my balance on Bitair.

I went on a few hours later and my balance was 0.

I think he transferred my 1 ETH to his own wallet, I’m pretty sure that’s exactly what happened because the guy blocked me and I have no way of contacting him anymore.

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Cryptocurrency, Horror Story

btc-e falsifies reasons to lock your account and steal your bitcoins.

I was banned by btc-e for absolutely no reason at all. I asked the support team why they banned my account and they couldn’t give me a good reason. All they said is that my account was banned because it was spamming links in their chat box that contained a virus. They never showed me any proof. No link, no screenshot. They eventually stopped responding to my support tickets as well and half of the time they spoke to me in Russian when they did respond.

What bugs me the most is that I can’t pull out the funds I have on my account, but I can still make purchases… Like come on really? What adds fuel to the flame is that the ban is forever set so you can’t use the chat features, withdraw cash or coins.

I didn’t stop though, I kept trying to contact them every day and I threaten to file a lawsuit against them.

Finally after a month of constant hounding and about twenty support tickets, they remove the ban and I immediately withdrew all my money.

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Cryptocurrency, Scam

Googles ranks the phishing sites over the real crypto ones.

I always use a tumbler to make my bitcoins anonymous, but I couldn’t remember the exact URL of the one I usually go to. So I just googled “bit blender” and opened the top result thinking that it was my go-to tumbler. I was careless and didn’t notice that what I had opened was actually phishing site, a complete carbon copy of the tumbler I used. I went to the login page and put in all of my login information. The site looked identical and the deposit page was very similar to the one I was used to.

I thought something was off when I saw a lack of transactions in my history. The bitcoin blender that I usually use shows you a history of all of the wallet addresses that have been used prior. I just assumed that the site eventually deletes the history after a while and continued on with the transfer.

I sent a little bit over two hundred dollars worth of BTC to the address shown on the fake site.

I waited a little bit, but I wasn’t seeing any traction, so I checked the support page as well as blockchain.info to make sure that my transaction had been verified. It was already confirmed four times.

I messaged the “support team” to see what went wrong and got no responses at all, I then realized I was actually on a fake site.

I went back to the homepage of the fake site to use some made up credentials to log in, it worked, and on the deposit page I saw another address (not mine). I tried logging in again with another set of fake credentials to see that the wallet address changes every time…

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Cryptocurrency, Horror Story

This is how you can actually earn from bitcoin doublers… most of the time.

I like to go on the bitcoin doubler websites (they’re scams, don’t try it) and reverse-scam them (the owners). I would pretend to be a greedy smuck that’s new to bitcoin and do reverse-psychology on them. Asking a bunch of questions and acting all skeptical about it. I would tell them that I would do small little transaction to build trust first, before making a big deposit.

And so I would make small little transactions and grab the interests and never come back.

I took a little break from doing this, however, this past weekend I found an interesting site to hit. I did a quick check on them, looked at their reviews and was ready to outwit them. Being experienced at this, I confidently sent the site some BTC, a little over 100 dollars worth. Guess what! They just took the funds and ignored me. Lol, guess I got what was coming to me. I knew my stint would backfire eventually… Oh well.

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Cryptocurrency, Scam

This is why no one buys bitcoin products made in China.

I found a company in China that claimed to sell all of the gear necessary to start a small mining operation.

I contacted and spoke with one of their team member over Skype. I read some good reviews too. I was really excited.

The deal was for me to send $1600 worth of BTC to them and have my gear delivered to me by early September. Well, things didn’t really go that well. Initially, my order status on their site was confirmed, then it changed to expired, then it changed to unpaid, and then to unshipped. This was bad news because the funds have already been taken from my account. I tried emailing them, but nada.

The tickets that I have opened on their website have been pretty much totally ignored, as expected really. I actually even tried calling them, to no avail. I kept on getting stuck with their automated message system in Chinese. I don’t speak Chinese.

Recently they made some posts on social media about selling more mining gear, they made that post the same day my order changed to expired. I even started writing shitposts on their forum to get some justice, nope. I guess it needed to be in Chinese. I really don’t have any clue as to what I should do. I thought about contacting the FBI or something, but that might be a bit overkill and I kind of don’t know how to anyway, to be honest.

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Cryptocurrency, Scam

Only sketchy people will trades coins over Skype.

I made a post on the Bitcointalk forums mentioning that I would like to buy some gift cards with my bitcoins. I wrote down my Skype information on the posting. To my surprise, I got absolutely no replies on this forum but my Skype account was absolutely blown up with offers and what not. I found a person that seemed to be legit enough and I checked his reputation on the forum, everything seemed alright.

We spoke on Skype and he presented me with the gift cards, I got all of the transfer information from him and sent him the BTC.

The guy reports not receiving the funds. But, when I look at the information behind the transaction I can clearly see that the guy received my BTC and even forwarded it to another account.

But the gift card information I got wasn’t even authentic either.

We did the transfer through Coinbase, and, they have been a little funky recently and take a while sometimes. But to be honest, I think he used the recent events as a way to confuse me, buy time for himself and eventually stopped answering to me.

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Cryptocurrency, Horror Story

Nitrogen Sports made the error, but I’m the one paying for it.

I really enjoy sports betting, and the Mayweather-McGregor fight was the perfect opportunity to raise some BTC by betting. I generally use Nitrogen Sports to make my bet. Well, I put my money on Mayweather noting that they would go over 9.5 rounds. I made my withdrawal without any issues. I then made another small deposit online and made some earnings on that deposit as well.

Later I tried to pull out my funds, but the platform wouldn’t let me do it. They took all of my funds and gave me negative an account balance.

I ended up figuring out that they backpedaled on their rules and changed it. They deemed the fight as being less than the ruled 9.5 rounds. Ridiculous. They changed their rules AFTER settling on the bets and distributing funds.

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Cryptocurrency, Horror Story

It took forever to get the money Cex.io owed me that I owed to someone else.

Long story kind of short, I ended up owing a lot of money to a certain individual, but this person didn’t mind getting paid in crypto. I already had an account set up on Coinbase, but I reached my buying limit over there so I used Cex.io instead (it was kind of trusted I suppose). I set up a transfer for five thousand dollars to Cex.io. I thought that the money would have been available immediately, but it wasn’t. I was super worried so I contacted their support system immediately.

The guys at Cex.io told me that transfer take about two weeks. Well, lo and behold, two weeks fly by and my funds are still nowhere to be seen.

The guy I owed money to started pressuring me a little bit because he was low on cash himself. I tried messaging their service over and over again, it’s been almost two months now and I haven’t gotten my crypto, and, my money has already been taken out of my bank account. All Cex.io did was escalate my ticket.

I have gotten numerous messages from Cex.io following that escalation, each one letting me know that my situation is being escalated even further.

I tried opening new support tickets but those get closed almost immediately by Cex.io. The other support guys keep telling me that my issue has already been escalated. I thought I was going to be out five grand. I had to borrow money from a friend to pay back the money I owed to the first guy since it took too long. Then I spoke to my bank and they told me that I should probably contact my local authorities and I did. Luckily, they had a guy on the team that specialized in this type of stuff and I was finally able to get my money back from Cex.io.

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Cryptocurrency, Scam

OneHash is not a real betting site, they just steal the deposits.

I tried to use OneHash for some payments. I checked out the betting site. It looked fine. Then I transferred a pretty large amount of money to the platform, waited around for the funds to be confirmed, authenticated, verified and etc. Nothing happened and my funds are now gone. I sent their support service an email, but nope, no reply. I went on their live chat service. They greeted me nicely and asked me to provide some information pertaining to the transfer, as soon as I finished doing that, the support agent logged off the chat.

What the heck…Giving me the endless runaround. The platform simply claims to not see the transaction every time and asks for proof. When in reality they simply stole my BTC and ran like hell.

And I also found out that I’m not the first person to have fallen victim to OneHash. I’m posting this so more people don’t get duped by them. Honestly annoying…

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