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Just lost three bitcoins. One person asked me to send him bitcoins and after that he will send me money but he didnt. I know i was a fool. Can I get those back somehow?

No.

You cannot trust anybody

Stupidity is not reversible in the btc world

Valuable lesson learned. Keep your chin up.

Im sorry for your loss, fill police record it is 1000 USD theft after all, and use Escrow next time.

Any btc transaction is irreversible. Please use an escrow service.

If they dont agree, thats a red flag.

Feel sorry for you. It is not nice to be scammed  but hopefully it will never happen to you in the future.

If it is someone on the forums or online on some site, post his/her details.

You can post their name here if they are a member of this forum, so that we can all give (-ve) trust rating to him. Also you can inform police, they might track his ip if you know his email or bitcoin id.

That's a bummer man.  :(
Unfortunately if there is any way to game a transaction, it will get gamed with bitcoin. Anonymous cash brings out the crooks. Trust no one.

There is Scam Accusations section if you have his Bitcointalk username
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=83.0


It can help others

Sorry for your loss man, but sadly there's no way to reverse transaction.

I agree with some of the others who have posted, post here all the details you have on the whole situation, at least maybe that way others won't get scammed too.

Yeah, I agree. This can benefit everyone. I mean no one else wants to get scammed on here.. so less scammers, better transactions.

That sucks to hear mate, but it will be extremely hard if not impossible to find a way to get it back.

Did this happen on this forum? If so, it could help the community a great deal to know who this is -- certainly if he was foolish enough to use an alt account tied to the same IP as real account.

Unfortunately you can't get the money back but if he's from this forum click on "Trust" below his username,type the risked BTC (3) and mark that you're giving him a negative rating, this will stop him from further scams but he will probably create a new account which will give him the possibility to scam again..
he will still have to do some work until he gets out the newbie jail so you can at least rate him so we make his scam a little bit harder :)
it's the least we can do..

This is not an acceptable question.
How can you own 3 btc and ignore things like that?
Always trade with trustworthy users.
Please provide data about the scammer.

sorry for your this fool mistake now just keep positive and do more for your next coins no chance its back by theif  :(

Well, I'm sorry I don't buy this! How can you send 3 bitcoins in the first place, without knowing or using an escrow?
It seems you're post hunting myfriend and everbody else in here joined the party with you.
In case you did lost 3 coins... well.

+1

think about it this way...this experience will prevent you from making a bigger mistake in the near future

Who was it?

Nope, it was a cheap lesson well learned.
Do you know who he was, perhaps on this forum so we can be careful of him?
Also, always use escrow.

No but when someone is talking to you about investing make sure its legit
Whoever scams is a weirdo who can't make money for themselves so they got to fool people

no. let this be your $1,000 lesson. protect yourself from getting scammed.. because that is one of the pitfalls of owning bitcoins.

*facepalms* what can be said that hasn't already? If you have more than 3 btc. I suggest you keep them and never trade again!

it does sound outrageous, but i generally find people to be gullible.. so i wouldn't discount his claims at all.

Lesson Learned the hard way
Next time use escrow.

Wouldn't a sane person get the money first before sending the BTC?

That sucks, is it someone from Bitcointalk?

Well honestly it's your fault for being so gullible, OP.

Sign a message for people know its a scammer ... maybe someone "take back" the coin will give you back ( Probably not. )

That is a bummer man. We are our own banks in the BTC world, next time be more responsible.

always use a escrow service

This thread is like: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpYEJx7PkWE

starts out all nice and sweet, like sorry man, then goes into some ass kicking

how do people get scammed on bitcoin anyway?

For those interested, I didn't know anything about escrows until I read this and started doing some research. Turns out blockchain's My Wallet service has a built in escrow service. https://blockchain.info/wallet/escrow

Nope, they removed multisig transactions a while ago I believe.

What he said.  Sorry man.  That sucks. 

Ah your right, just went in and tried to verify. Sorry for the bad information... :(

Believing others is natural, most have to learn hard way, myselves included. I lost few buck over internet as well few years ago, but not since then  :)