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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, 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, 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, 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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Cryptocurrency, Scam

Cancelled my purchase order, but simple-btc kept my money anyway.

I wanted to purchase about $300 worth of Bitcoins through a service called simple-btc. I setted up an account, connected my bank information and sent a request to purchase $300 worth of Bitcoin. But then I changed my mind and cancelled the transaction a few minutes after because I wanted to do it on a different exchange. To my horrible luck, I checked my bank account and realized that $300 were still gone!

I immediately rushed to get on the simple-btc website but it was down!

But since I used PayPal to make the purchase, I contacted them. They looked into the situation and said that simple-btc never canceled my transaction!

It’s ridiculous, pretty much the site fooled me into thinking that it was canceled and then went down completely!

PayPal sided with seller, they still consider Bitcoin as magic internet money. All my money went down the drain. I have no idea why I didn’t just use a reputable exchange or something.

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Cryptocurrency, Scam

Losers disgustingly trying to scare Bitcoin hodlers with the Hurricane Irma tragedy.

Following the damage caused by Hurricane Irma, I got an email from Athena Bitcoin, yay, another blockchain phishing attempt. The email is pretty ridiculous, can’t even believe someone has the gal to try and pull a scam like this.

So, the email from blockchain.info mentioned something about the company’s servers in Tampa Bay, Florida, being damaged by the hurricane. And in order to prevent total data loss, a backup server will be set up, however, there is a risk that it may go offline and all the wallet and crypto data may be lost in limbo. However, the blockchain has servers all over the country, but, only those who had their wallets and keys stored on the Tampa server will be affected.

The email requested an immediate transfer of bitcoin address and holdings to another one provided in the email. The email also tried to scare users like me into transferring funds to the address provided by stating that if the backup server goes down, the organization will carry no responsibility as per the funds and information already stored. Thankfully, I didn’t send any information to the wallet info contained in the email. However, my roommate did, but he ended up losing about a hundred bucks. No biggie I guess, but everyone should remain vigilant in the chaos following Hurricane Irma, especially cryptocurrency aficionados!

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Cryptocurrency, Scam

No site can “magically” double up on the amount of bitcoins.

I saw this Google ad, BitcoinBanking, it offered a chance to wager bitcoins and gain interest on the loans. It even offered to double the amount of bitcoins I wagered. Sounded pretty good, looked through some reviews (guess they were fake).

What happened was that I already deposited the minimum amount of bitcoins required and gone through the whole signup process. But then they locked my account and kept demanding me to send even more bitcoins to in order access anywhere on their site or do anything at all.

What nonsense, these guys just gimped me for some BTC, a small amount but still, I feel kind of stupid.

I tried to speak with the BitcoinBanking support crew, but I only got nonsensical answers in return. People beware, just because there’s an ad on Google, doesn’t mean it comes from a legitimate company. Anyone can advertise on Google, even the scammers from BitcoinBanking!

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Cryptocurrency, Scam

BroCoin is a shitcoin and CryptoDAO has a monopoly of them.

For those of you out there who didn’t have a clue, there’s actually cryptocurrency called the BroCoin. It so happens that the exchange CryptoDAO happens to be the only exchange that lists it.

How did I come into possession of awesome BroCoins? Well, I participated in their crowd sale event!

Shortly after I realized that the coins were completely useless and I wanted to get rid of them. So, I sold my BroCoins on the website and decided to withdraw some sweet bitcoins into my account.

I submitted a withdrawal request on CryptoDAO, and waited for a confirmation. Over a day passed and CryptoDAO cancelled my request for some reason and sent the BTC back to the wallet on their exchange site.

Okay, I waited a little bit longer, sold some more awesome BroCoins, and decided to withdraw everything in one day. All of the transactions were showing as complete on CryptoDAO’s sleek page. But here’s the issue, out of the three withdrawal requests that I have submitted, ONLY funds from the third one have been delivered to my wallet, while the others have been completely lost.

I double checked everything to make sure that there weren’t any issues on my end, and there weren’t. I have been trying to contact CryptoDAO’s support team for over a week now and have not gotten any response, my conclusion is that CryptoDAO is just a piece of hot, steamy garbage.

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