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!