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 :-[ I'm a Idiot!
I was on twitter last night and followed a link from user @btcgpu thinking it was the official @bitcoingold looked very similar i was tired had long day was careless!
Followed link to page: https://www.getbtcgpu.org/ that promises a easy way to claim your Bitcoin Gold from Electrum wallets i was thinking it looked legit entered my email and a password. Then it asked for my SEED for Electrum. Me being a total idiot i put it in!  :-[
Now i have had my BTC stolen in this transaction on Blockchain: https://blockchain.info/tx/2a8a36801d65c61c6d2d2b87eb16cf83f90c3136ee2fdc7dafb430ac6c32cc83

I know this is goodbye to my BTC most likley. But the funds are still held in the scammers address: 1HShXYRKhLvzYz7AnwoNJSGC5wVjdTije4
If there is anyone out their that could help me i would be eternally great-full.

All people be-aware of this SCAM i wouldn't want anyone else to be a victim to these scum!  

**SCAM BEWARE** relation to: Twitter acc: @btcgpu Web page: https://www.getbtcgpu.org/ BTC Address: 1HShXYRKhLvzYz7AnwoNJSGC5wVjdTije4

P.s. This is what these stupid Hard Forks cause if it wasn't for stupid Bitcoin Gold this would never happen!

Thanks for the warning.  I'm very sorry for your loss. Hopefully these scammers rot in hell.

never, ever share your private key,seed etc. with another party. even your mom.

I am truly sorry for your loss. Never share your private keys, seeds of hash functions.

This is crazy, sorry for your lost but your bitcoins are on the scammer's hands now, serve this as a big mistake and a lesson for you. The amount transacted was +1 BTC. And thanks for the warnng.
But one question why you want to get your BTG while most exchanges dont support this coin? This coin is just a trash IMO.

Thank you for warning the scammer for everyone on the bctalk. You should be careful with your personal information, do not log in to unfamiliar sites or public computers. And two-factor authentication is required for your accounts
 ;)

The tired mind does crazy things :-[  I was fooled because it though the link was from official @bitcoingold and i didn't take the time to look properly at the twitter account. Answer to BTG i was just curious and wanted the BTG to sell back-into more BTC! I made good profits from the BCash fork so was keen to get hold of them to sell them.
I know you should never enter your SEED or Privatekey into any web page. But i Did  :'( I'm usually careful but my mind was weak. I will need to start again but i will treat this as a lesson and a challenge to overcome. Time to start again BTC forever!!

Yes, i know. That's what bugs me so! Why!? My stupidity annoys me more than the monetary loss!

Thanks for the kind words. I still believe Bitcoin is way cheep so ill be investing and hopefully will still make my fortunes!

Thanks for letting us know of this new threat.  Hopefully you get your coins back.

Mark it on your head so it will not happen again, and always do make a research first from 3-5 websites on google.

I tried to research the people behind this site but it seems the site is protected by whoisguard so it's useless.

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There's no way to get it back, the bitcoins are now on scammers hands now, just wish him good luck karma is always there.  

Scammers are everywhere and they are using the legitimate project to steal funds from other people.
I always take care of my private keys and seed. I never reveal it to anyone. Sorry for your loss OP and thank you for giving a warning to us.

I am really sorry for you loss. It's a lot of money for sure. I got hacked 2 times in my life, both fault was my weak password. Since then I use now 16 - 49 long. My advise for future, try split and never keep your crypto under one account or wallet. It's so easy to click on link banner and download some piece of software that can steal your password/keys.
I have 5 wallets (online) - wallets that at least once I check their balance on Internet and 5 offline (never open them on online PC)
Try use VeraCrypt, that will encrypt your and keep safe your data. Best option is have 2 VeraCrypt containers:
1. For Private Keys
2. For Wallet address
With VeraCrypt you can easy mount file on your PC that will act just like another partition/harddrive. When you create container - in will be in Windows explorer but if you restart it wil automatically dismount.

I hope Karma will get this guy who stole from you.

This are the result of being careless, if you have gone through this forum fully then you could have got information that this bitcoin gold is failure and still their is no wallet to support the btc to btg swap. so who ever is believing this hardfork and thinking of gaining the free coins then it is foolishness.

I think this is a lesson learned the hard way and that is expensive paid.If you only use common sense and think about what you are doing something like this would never happened.Bitcoin Gold is just one more altcoin and only thing what is connects to BTC is name,it would be better to not even try to claim that coin because many will just lost their BTC and thieves will happily rubbing hands.Now you can just watch how your "friend" move coins from one address to
another,he take your BTC and he will get your bitcoin gold.

Im sorry for your loss and i understand you perfectly. I was very close to be scammed too, fortunatelly i was more lucky than you.
I hope you learned your lesson and you will be more careful in the future!

Of course it's a scam man

We had been talking about claiming your BTG in Mycelium section. Summarization: As long as you control your private keys then your BTG is always there. You can import it to a wallet that supports BTG like Coinomi but make sure to send all your bitcoin funds to a new wallet before importing it for security reasons which I actually did when I claimed my BCH.

I'll never gonna say anything more like what others said.

Sorry for your loss.  I hope this can at least help prevent you or other people from getting scammed in the future.  The crypto world is like the wild west right now, you need to be very careful with your private information.

Thanks, well that's some good news anyway. Unfortunately i don't have any Bitcoins anymore the lot have been stolen by this scam! But i still have some crypto assets in Alt's that i hold.
Ill be ready to get my BTG when the official launch happens.
Such a shame i lost it all.  :'( I invested in the early days of 2014 (early believer) i invested £175 to get 0.35 BTC made some good trades in the market turned my 0.35 into 1BTC plus change!
Lately i reinvested £1000 @ £3250 to get my Balance to just short of 1.3 BTC now its all gone! Damn  ::)

The site i can't access the site here i think they  were close or remove the domain after you report it here..
Next time before you claim bitcoin gold backup or send your balance first in the new wallet before you use the seed or private keys to other wallet to claim bitcoin gold ..
For now i don't see any wallet was supported bitcoin gold and i think better to wait for the announcement thread or i think this november end of another fork we will see the releases of new wallet that support bitcoin gold..
Hope you learn right now  i feel you since i also scam before but in investment plan and cloud mining sites..

Sorry for your loss, please only use well-known and trusted wallet providers. An announcement was also made a week ago: https://twitter.com/CoinomiWallet/status/922848438412304384

I'm sorry you lost your coins,  and thank you for making us aware of these scams. Scammers honestly stink.

Sorry for the loss op.

There is a known list of scams on the bitcoingold.org site if you scroll down to the bottom of the website as if seems people or one team are trying to manipulate users (especially newbies with amounts above 1btc that they can profit from due to the newbies still leaning).
It's quite damaging to the value of bitcoin as new users get turned away instantly once they believe something they read on social media :( ).

A a time of a fork, your address should have bitcoin then you can move it freely and test with private keys without having balance for `bitcoin network` but the past balance is already copied to `Bitcoin Gold network` after the fork. So this at least avoid them to steal your bitcoins, but they full control your address after that so please do use the address again.

Wow, i've been there just this morning ...

StuDoge: post an address of your own ... i would ask for some donations ...
Another way of donating is, by using your address for faucet references. I claim from faucets every day ...
you wont get your 1.29 BTC this way but, at least a couple of bucks maybe

Let's help StuDoge

Regards

A very expensive lesson. The only person at fault here is yourself, and your lack of knowledge. Someone with a good understanding of Bitcoin wouldn't touch a website asking for a key, seed or anything of that kind with a 10 foot pole.

That is against the rules.

Those are a waste of time. You're better off working minimum wage.

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Are there any forum accounts linked with this?

Yeah, faucets are a waste of time if you plan to spend your earnings now ... think of people who are claiming from several years ago ... they (as i did) have earned considerable amounts of money ... in 2013 i reached 0.3 BTC by claiming ... and yes, there were also people who said to me, "it is a waste of time" ... ¬¬ ... do you think they are still thinking that way ? :D ... probably right now it is actually a waste of time, but, who knows ? ...

Regards

edited: sorry .. but you seem a liiiiitle bit arrogant ... :D, just a little bit ... because yes, he is at fault ... but, do you think it is worth to say it  ? ... he knows it ... don't say obvious things, please ... 0 charismatic ...

Keep earning 0.00000050 BTC from your account signature because, of course, "that" is not a waste of time ... :D

Another advise: move on. I think you know as of this moment that you can't do anything to get it back. You need to start from the scratch. Stop reminiscing those moments that broke your heart. It will hurt and waste your time to start again.

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I found other comments funny. It's like they punch you several times in the face like they are trying to make you realize something that you already knew and emphasize it more making you feel stupidier and stupidier.  :D

I am deeply sorry for your loss and I will also like to thank you though for sharing this information so we can all be more careful because bad guys are looking for every means to scam people off their bitcoin.

I know! I was always aware that you should never submit your private key or SEED to anyone. That's is the crazy thing! I have been in BTC since 2014 and the crypto-markets i understand how Bitcoin and crypto work well.
My mind just blanked on the night, after a long day at work i was tired browsing twitter and did the most stupid thing i have ever done in my life!  >:(
Just gotta move on and buy more BTC now! More hard work for me!  ::)

Thank's mate. Yes just gotta move on. I look forward to the challenge in buying those dips!  ;D

Wow it's a huge. i'm say sorry for your loss and thanks for your sharing about Scam/Fraud.
And to all others, never share your seed and your private key or your balance was stollen

Another scam! Be careful next time.

Bitcoin Gold is totally scam operation, those developer and everyone involved are criminal, their miner is secretly paying fees to developer and their wallet is stealing BTC this is highly organized crime operation

Sorry to hear about your loss..
But how could you just gave away BTC1+ to an unknown person.    ::) :-\ >:(

Btw, thanks for your valuable warning. It really worth you a lot to learn something from the mistake.