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Cryptocurrency, Scam

Still waiting on my shipment from BitcoinWare

I really wanted to get into mining because I thought that it would provide me with an easy passive income. I jumped onto the BitcoinWare website and decided to purchase some miners, they were pretty expensive too. Let me tell you, I spend over six thousand dollars on both of them, in Dash. After sending BitcoinWare the funds I got a notification from them letting me know that my stuff would be shipped out in two weeks. Great, I waited the fifteen days, still didn’t get any of my stuff.

So, I contacted their customer support via email and asked them where the hell my miners were.

They promptly assured me that my shipment has left their facility and will be delivered shortly, and, that they apologize for the delay. Cool, nice guys. I kept on waiting, days gone by, and finally a week passed, at which point I had gotten super pissed. I keep emailing them but they aren’t responding to the email I used to file the order. When I use a different email to ask them questions about their orders, they reply with the same automated message stating that shipments are delivered within two weeks or something. BitcoinWare is pretty much full of shit and I urge everyone to be careful and don’t buy anything from them!

 

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Cryptocurrency, Scam

I stupidly followed SafeTrader.io’s guide to scam myself…

I have been using bitcoins for a little bit more than six months now. I found this cool website online that seemed to be apart of LocalBitcoins. It looked pretty authentic with reviews, so I blindly followed the instructions.

The site requires me to create a bookmark (it was some JavaScript) and then open it when I’m on the LocalBitcoins website. I mindlessly did all of that and when I clicked on the bookmark.

The JavaScript code asked me to authorize myself via LocalBitcoins. (I shouldn’t have done that.) Apparently, it was a cross-site scripting attack and now I’m sitting here with nothing on my LocalBitcoins’ account except the stupid bookmark that stole everything.

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Cryptocurrency, Scam

Lost cash through a Coinbase email phishing scam

I received an email on Wednesday from Coinbase asking me to accept a new service agreement. I clicked on the link and my browser took me over to Coinbase so that I could log in and accept the new terms. I did, and I waited for a verification message to be texted to my phone. So I entered that code and proceeded to log into the platform. At which point a message popped up letting me kindly know that all of my coins have been transferred to another wallet. Fantastic, I won’t say exactly how much, but quite a lot. I was stupid, I didn’t realize that the email address was fake and was not sent from Coinbase customer service.

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Cryptocurrency, Scam

Been scammed before, didn’t expect fake cash though…

I have been scammed before, pennies, here and there, nothing too big, phishing blah blah etc. I found a buyer online who wanted to buy over ten thousand dollars’ worth of cryptocurrencies from me, and he wanted to do it in person. I was pretty suspicious, I think any normal person would be, and terrified!! So, I picked a place, I live in a big city by the way, I picked a place where I knew that there would be some security cameras. I came prepared for mischief, I had a full proof form that I wanted him to sign just to secure myself and protect myself from any kind of liabilities.

When I presented the guy with the document that I wanted him to sign, he kind of freaked out, he filled it out anyway with really bad handwriting and was kind of sneaky in covering his id.

His signature was also super sloppy. Everything felt off.

At one point the odd gentleman said that he needed to withdraw an extra 500 Euros because he was short. We walked together to the nearest bank. The guy was visibly nervous. At one point, we were in the bank and I had possession of all of the cash. So, while the guy was withdrawing his money, I ran up to the teller and asked her to do a check on the funds through their machine.

Long story short, all of the bills ended up being fake, security was called, and the guy was put under arrest.

I later found out that any such transactions could be taken care of at the bank and notarized for a small fee as well as with all of the legal requirements pertaining to them. This was probably the craziest situation I have ever been in. I honestly don’t know what I was thinking of doing a trade like that in broad daylight. I’m glad that everything went alright though. I could have possibly been mugged on my way home.

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How I tried to buy an old MacBook with bitcoin from Craigslist

I saw an ad concerning a used MacBook for sale on craigslist. What appealed to me about this advertisement was that the person said he accepted bitcoins. Cool, if this deal went through then this would have been the third transaction I do with bitcoins. I wanted the experience, and just wanted to do it for fun. Plus, I needed a new computer. So, we chat up, and decide to meet at a local Barnes and noble store. The guy comes in, I look at the Mac, and everything is okay. So, he gives me his wallet ID, and end up transferring my BTC over to him.

The guy then just stands up, takes the Mac, with my crypto, and walks out, saying that I can’t do anything. And you know what, I really couldn’t do anything.

I thought about calling the police, pulling up the video footage. But how would I have proved anything? Even a lawyer told me that my case was futile, what the hell! I was completely helpless. Bringing a friend would have probably been a good idea or a concealed weapon just in case lol.

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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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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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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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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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