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.