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Hello. I invested in in Coinxcryptominingcom last year which turned out to be a scam site. I posted on instagram about my ordeal and was recently contacted by @_jacob.armstrong about recovering my lost funds. He suggested contacting slushpool.com and gave me an email contact@slushpool.co.uk to explain my story. I sent them my transactions with wallet addresses to where i sent my funds and this is the response I received.

Good Day ,
We can see from our records and investigations that all your money is on a cloud crypto currency wallet and none of it is lost This is because the CME  ( Chicago Mercantile Exchange)  gap got filled at $9200 on the 2019-6-16 08:42pm which is the exact time you sent 0.31433482  BTC  ($2,861),
See the has code below as all your money in the cloud has amounted to this
https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/1MvuFAodHn775joqCnahJTiHuMnsQZnxM9

However, we have tested your funding several times and each time it got exhausted by the blockchain liquidation machine.
Nevertheless, we can successfully say all your money is in safe hands and the only way for all your money is to be released  is if  you are  to make an API Integration fee payment so all your funds amounting  to 8.79034054 BTC  will be released within  5  hours

You need to send 0.20 BTC ($1,897) as a fee to claim back your account.
And the additional fee of 0.20 BTC ($1,897) to recover all your funds.
We can say the total amounting to 0.41 BTC ($3,700) this payment is to be made within 48 hours if you want a successful refund of all your funds

The payment is to be made into this BTC address:  14hBpJncS6fqKZqoYAjRCGmbc63ZhLJ6Xs

Is this another scam? Any insight would greatly be appreciated.

^^That's obvious scam mate, for anyone to ask for such fee before your funds be transfer to your wallet is = scam. Well, you will be disappointed at this: your investment platform was a scam one as you said and still remains a scam investment platform. Don't send anything cents or whatsoever. Next time ensure to research into the investment platform before make you investment.

You should have google and check about cloud crypto mining. You will see all of them are scam!
And you won't be able to recover your fund. That jacobarmstrong guy is probably a scammer. I highly doubt contact@slushpool.co.uk belongs to  slushpool.com. Why is the email domain .co.uk while the domain has .com? Don't pay any fee or anything. That guy probably filled you in with bullshit information.
Jacobarmstrong seems to be a someone who looks for victims and take advantage of their situation.

How ridiculous it was. You have to send more BTC in order to get back your fund from them( pretending to be in the cloud crypto) and recover your account? They would like to scam you again. It is really a big mistake for you if you will send them just for that and for sure, they won't give back your money (including your activation fee).

Maybe I should have to let go of it and forget. That was a big scam and we can't think they'll be good for you, after all, and then give back your money.
This will serve as a warning for the others and be careful into nice offerings and fake sites because this will compromise accounts once they got you.

How can we avoid scammers in the best way? It is not easy to recognize whether it is a fraud or a business partner on the bitcoin forum. Just as you said we should be careful before transferring money to anyone when joining the electronic market. You must learn thoroughly over time.

Yes, it's a scam.

They are giving a same address to all their users. How can they know you have sent bitcoin to that address?
Just take a look at transaction history of the address they gave you.
https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/14hBpJncS6fqKZqoYAjRCGmbc63ZhLJ6Xs

There are many people that have fallen for this scam.

Obviously the site you contacted that requested you to deposit around 0.4 BTC is another attempt to milk you of your BTC.  You already have the fund in there, why do you need to deposit another amount when they can just deduct it from your supposed to be recovered BTC. Do not fall for this another attempt to scam you.

If it looks like horseshit, and smells like horseshit, well, it’s going to be just that .. horseshit.

The email address should be tied to the domain http://www.slushpool.co.uk/, which points to an empty wordpress blog. The "@_jacob.armstrong" Instagram profile seems to have other things on his mind: https://searchusers.com/user/_jacob.armstrong. The mumble-jumble response is another sad attempt to confuse by using obscure terms (expect for the part that asks for an upfront transfer).

Please noted:
Scammers will never give back your money, they will precisely want to take your money again, again and again.
So, be careful another scamming is coming to you. Never believe in any party or person that will help you to get back your money to you if they ask some funds to do it. It is absolutely another scam.
If you're scammed, let it go because you may not get it back. Just make it is a lesson to be more careful when investing and also putting your money.

I think you should think about what the information has been given to you by the colleague above. however if there is someone who is kind enough to provide assistance but asks for something for the cost of the recovery it can be ascertained it is fraud. it is true that there are no free jobs but usually and often is the way it is often done by fraudsters. because we feel helped and the value given is still below what we have, so we are tempted to give with what we have the goal can be returned. but with absolute certainty that you will lose for the umpteenth time.

if there really is an email address we can wisely see the email address properly and we can search on google so we believe that the email address can indeed be believed to be correct. because fraudsters will usually try to change the email address that doesn't match up with the correct one.

The above bold part was enough to read and know that it's an obvious scam.
This reminds of those days when email scam was a norm and people used to ask some kind of fees to send the so called lottery winning amount to senders address.

This is something similar where the scammer is asking for some kind of fees to send the amount to the senders address.
Sorry for your loss but the amount has gone to wrong hands already and there is nothing you can do about it.

Obvious SCAM. Ask them recover your funds first and keep their fees from recover funds and remain amount send to you. I strongly believe they will never agree for it, because simply they aren't able to recover your funds. If you fall into it means you are you to scammed for second time. As a crypto users you should know very well that crypto-currency is irreversible, so any organisation is unable to recover your funds from scammer's bitcoin address. Just try to use your common sense, if you sent btc to one of your friends address then how a third party organisation could refund it. It's really unrealistic and ridiculous. Just stay away mate! Find some good job/business and live, don't regret.

It's definitely a scam. Most cloud mining sites post-2016 are half-assed projects that were never really meant for long-term commitments since you can see that most of them gets the same layout and just different in domains. There is no way that they would be asking that kind of money in exchange of a larger sum in the end. Also, notice the simple arithmetic error that they committed at the bottom which just shows that they really aren't doing this thing seriously and professionally as possible.


The signs are telling. It's an obvious scam.

Don't fall for it! Even a quick search for the email address suggests that it is not from slushpool.
And as already mentioned here, there are also enough inconsistencies when checking the address...

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Why would slushpool.com a bitcoin mining pool contact you on recovering your funds stolen by a scam site?
The Slushpool.com domain has been in existence since 2013 so the email address the scammer gave you is definitely not from their support.

The said email address was created just in April this year with the purpose of scamming people
https://mxtoolbox.com/SuperTool.aspx?action=whois%3aslushpool.co.uk&run=toolpage

Do not send them any money

Anyone who offers to retrieve hacked or stolen coins is a scammer themselves, there's simply no way to do so unless you can somehow get the private key of a scammer, which is nearly impossible. Even a good private investigator won't be able to do anything most of the time, especially since the scammers can be anywhere in the world. A tiny chance to see your coins again exists if the scammers get caught be law enforcement and the coins are retrieved by them.

the audacity they have! trying to scam you again after getting your investment getting scammed. it's good that you came to this forum when you are in doubt about something that has something to do with cryptocurrency since the members of this from are willing to warn or verify if a website you're interested of investing is a scam site or not (but most of them are). it is just unfortunate that you didn't ask first when you were deciding to invest on a project last year.

I think people need to realize that if someone has such a magical way of recovering your funds they won't come out of nowhere and ask you if you want to recover your money. First of all you were a complete noob when you investing in some cloud mining pool as I can see. Now the people from the pool might have already used their reserves and are now taking that route once again. If you really want to trust them with something make some smart contract arrangement like escrow or something. 99% it's a scam none of their words make any sense but if you are even 1% hopeful then better ask them if they would accept some escrow. If they don't just drop the plan altogether.

I hope the OP will not make a mistake of sending again money to these scammers. If they are legit, they may just ask for your credentials that you have given on the site and if it really corresponds to what they have, they will processed it. But asking more money? Please don't fall about this tactic, that's an old trick by scammers.

Someone from the forum also asked about this site and most users replied that this is indeed a scam site. This was more than a year ago.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5126261.0

A typical newbie who got fell in to a typical scam attempt and now the scammer is doing another typical scam attempt again :D.
Scammers are always greedy shits when it comes to money anyways :D

I just hope that the OP posted here but the reality is that he already sent the additional funds that the scammer has said to him. This is an obvious scam attempt from a newbie investor like you. Better make a research first before investing. At first glance, I already see the website as a scam site.

Social media and telegram groups are filled with scammers and they are waiting for people who post doubt about lost coins or when your coins are stuck in the exchange and the audacity to cook up a story that could scam innocent people who are not aware of these situation.

The wallet belongs to Luno and i have reported the user and hopefully we will get a reply from them and he as collected over 7 bitcoin and still holding 1.7 bitcoin in the wallet.

This is definitely a scam, you don't need a rocket scientist to prove to you that its a scam.

One thing we must remember, we cannot recover the bitcoin that we invest in scams sites. So it's clear to me what @ _jacob.armstrong
promised about recovering your lost funds is a lie. You will be used to be cheated again. Be careful of people who are not familiar, then
offer help by asking for payment. I am very sure that such a thing scams.

You don't need to send any money to them if you don't want to get another scam by them. If you're going to get your money back, they don't need to ask you to send another amount because of many reasons because they can do that without any problem. They only need to send the amount, and they can pay the fee from your funds without needing to use their money. Even if they use your money as the fee, your amount will still be bigger. So I don't think that they will give all of your funds. I am sorry for that.

Of course, they will not return money to him. Many scammers are lurking around, looking who is complaining on what, and after some time they contact people offering to solve their problem, for some payment of course.
This post is just another one after many that shows how people invest money first and do research later, and it should be the opposite to that, first do research and only then invest some money if you like what you found researching specific investment.

Even the domain will give you this prior warning if you have additional browser extension installed, what more if someone invested in that particular website  :(.

https://i.imgur.com/fDkkavdl.png

The wallet belongs to Luno and i have reported the user and hopefully we will get a reply from them and he as collected over 7 bitcoin and still holding 1.7 bitcoin in the wallet.

How do you know who the wallet belongs to and how much is in it.

The amount they are asking for you to recover the funds stolen is more than your funds so that makes sense that it is a scam and I can think of reasons why you should not fall for that but the obvious is right there so make sure to do your part and report these scumbags, I am sorry for the funds that you lost and hope that you will not lose your faith in crypto because everyone can start over.

What the heck was that! They are doubling scam you, bro. It is an obvious act that they are trying to get your weakness (your eagerness to get back your btc) to make you fall again on them! They are trying to make you feel the urge to get the 8 btc that they falsely say. Do you wanna believe that you really have that 8 btc and it was saved? This is hilarious, mate. If you will send .2 twice just for fee, will it guarantee you to get it? It's probably not.

It looks like another scam again, be careful with that, do not fall for the trap again, you should know your lesson, you shouldn't give your fund to any website that is now well known by many people. You had already lost your 8BTC which is too much, that is a really big amount of money so you should be more careful when releasing your money again. There are many scammers in this virtual world, there are also many clone websites that is really like an original website so the best thing to do with that is not to rt it unless you are really sure that it is legit, you may do some research to know whether it is legit or not.
Indeed, what if the person who recommends you to the scam website is the person who scams your money lol, scammers are scammers they will do many things just to steal your money.

It is once again a scam and this is where they hooked you, when you said.. "I posted on Instagram about my ordeal" ...

A lot of these scammers lurk around these platforms looking for people who got scammed and they know once people was scammed, they are easy targets for the next scam. They built a elaborate story on how they will be able to help you and then they start asking for recovery fees (because they say they are going to use a lot of hashing power to recover those coins)

The truth is, once the transfer of those bitcoins are done and several confirmations has been received, no mining pool can recover those bitcoins without the whole Blockchain being rolled back and that will never happen.  ;)

Damn, I hope you get ur refund mate.

We need to be careful with who we trust in this world.

/ Claes https://www.biltorvet.dk/ (https://www.biltorvet.dk/)

This is very true. These scammers are clearly looking for an opportunity to get more of your money. The only thing I suppose the op can try to do is play dumb but promise to send the money if they provide their personal data for some made-up reason. Then if the op manages to see some legal info, the op can try suing them and there is perhaps a chance of getting the money back. But it's all very dependent of the context and most likely not worth the effort. Plus, of course, it will be associated with additional expenses like lawyer consultation fees, court fees etc. So the most logical solution is probably to just let it go and learn a valuable lesson not to fall for scam.

This is exactly why noobs should do their research before investing in platforms that seem too good to be true.

There are far too many platforms out there looking to part you with your money by offering what seems like a sure thing, but really, after doing your research you'll find it is anything but.

For the most part, any money lost to these scams is almost certainly gone forever—law enforcement agencies simply don't care, nor do they have the technical capacity do anything about it even if they did.

Especially not for a few thousand bucks like you were robbed for.

Let this be an expensive lesson to you and anybody else reading this thread.

This obviously a scam and you shouldn't have to think that they will help you and you don't have to pay for them. Besides, the money is still there and only you need to have it confirmed in order to send to the said address but they are trying to do is to get money/scam you. That is something crazy about you feed them again. Don't get fooled by this and you are right, asking in here will give you some tips of what to do next.

I could say not only noobs should have to do research, it actually all of us must-have.

People never ever learn if they dont experience loss of money in actual basis and then thats they time they would make up some research because the had able to learn a lesson in the past.

Recovering funds from scams is impossible since we know that crypto does have that anonymity thing and irreversible transaction.

This is surely a costly way of learning a lesson.  :'(

Firstly dont send Bitcoins to someone as shady as this, think about it why would there be a need of fee for API Integration and why the huge amount ?
even sending regular transactions to the Blockchain network only take cents. I suggest to take your matters into a cyber security expert and dont just trust random people in the internet.

 op have done several mistakes here not just once because at first he invested on a cloudmining with a weird domain name that most of us not familiar with  . thats risky because cloudmining got a bad history on the crypto community and its not advisable for one to invest on such schemes   . he finnaly got scammed and his second mistake is posting his problem on a social media  .  what usually happen is that random people will talk and try to scam you  . third proof of scam is when they ask you for funds to fix your issue .

The scammers are too greedy here, let say, they already have the funds from your account amounting to a huge bitcoin, but they are still convincing you to deposit or send more, perhaps, they didn't really explain what is the procedure why they ask you to pay for that amount. Instead of contacting their support team giving you that kind of answer, try to report the site for them to not be able to do that again to others.

By the way, from the very first line of your post OP, your already stated that they turned out to be a scam site, which means, that no matter what you say to ask to retrieve your funds will just be a waste of time.

Day by day, this scammers are deciphering a smarter way of scamming people and this is exactly what is going on here. Losing money to the scammer in the first place is horrible. I'm seen many clouding mining and it very hard to see a legit one. Most of them will end up taking your money and run away. The second part is also a scam. If truly they want to help, they could have done that and remove the fee from the  money.

Many people don't research the investment programs, and that makes them get in the trap by the scammers. We already saw that before, and even we already get that experience in the past, so we need to be careful because the trick maybe get modified but the point is the same. If they can get the right information about the investment, they will solely with carefully, and they will not use it with the big money.

I think that is the better suggestion for you. And I want to add something more that is always make search then you should pay and trust on any website. And If you are thinking about cloud mining then eliminate that thinking it will always destroy you. Try the real mining.

I think this is another scam because why do they need to get another investment came from you and this is just a scam if they are really a customer service support they will work it out immediately without fees but we cannot decline there are some fees on their services before they make entertaining to you. Still, we must be aware of these things happen sometimes we really urgent to get our money back and one of the most common things we do is ask other people and does not have a good decision that makes more toward a wrong and another mistake which is not good. One of the best things is to pull it back and don't trust anymore this is an absolute scam for you just take care again and always use Google whenever you are using with.

Of course it's a scam.
Scamming people,who were already scammed by another scam is just disgusting.
Who the hell is still investing in crypto mining?Crypto mining is a well known scam for years!
When you are scammed by paying BTC to someone,your BTC are gone forever.There's no way to recover them,even if you pay some other person or "company" to recover your funds for you.
Just look at their message.They have given you a BTC address to pay them.Only scammers do this.
This is part of their social engineering.They are urging you to act quick,because time is running out and you have to send money fast and all the other BS.This is just despicable. >:(

Lol ;D I was laughing so hard when I was reading the so claimed letter you got from the people that will help recover the money.
Man this is cryptocurrency, once you make a transaction, your money is gone if you don’t know the person that owns the address you’re sending that money.

And yes, this is another scam. Don’t send them any of the fees that they are asking for. Trust me that if our try that you will be falling from frying pan into the fire lol.

Those are just scammers avoid them. If a government agency was going to help you wouldn’t be paying that. And moreover that’s not even how it works , if it was possible to recover those funds. I will advise you to forget that money and move on, and be careful next time. I'm just saying all these from what I have observed in all past similar situations. People tried to recover but they again got frustrated by government agencies/police.

I think it is really hard to recover if our funds is being scam specially in cypto feild, that is why we need to be more smart in order for us to avoid  being victimized by scam site, every scam has an amazing offer that it why there are so many people fall into it and lost thier funds, experience person sometimes also fall into scam because scammers are also smart. Just keep going and absurd all learning for good.

The site you transferred your bitcoin to was entirely a scam site Bitcoin cannot be recovered from now on You should have analyzed the site well before Scammers will never return bitcoin. Therefore, before doing the next exchange you should analyze the sites well or the OPs will help you a lot.

My advice is never to be interested in investing in cloud mining, because now it's almost 99% cloud mining scams. Then its no wonder
you be a victim of scams, then be careful with offers of recover funds that ask for payment in advance. Things like that are another scams.
Actually, if you have sent funds and it turns out you are exposed to fraud, it is impossible to refund these funds. Because investing in crypto
very different from investing in fiat or gold. Therefore next time be more careful in choosing where to invest. Do some research deep before
deciding to invest, so you can avoid fraud.

This was a clear attempt again to fool you around because what in this world you were going to pay for something you already own and you are just needing a hand to resolve the problem of claiming your funds back. Well, it can be possible to first make their move to see if they can work things out and really return your funds back and once you have secured that it was safe with you, then you can pay them back for the effort. But it seems to be not working on that way so better yet not to fall for that email asking you for fees in exchange of returning your funds back because my friend have already experience something like that and instead of having his funds back, he was once again got scammed.

I know it is kind of hard to forget about your funds but we have nothing to do about it anymore. Let's just say that your experience have teach you a lesson so that you will not get scam again so better do research every details first to be able not to get fooled and always do secure your account to keep it safe from scam and hacks.

This is absolutely scam I don't think so why there is still some people becomes a victim with the scam we have a lot of sources to avoid this kind of scam we have the Google or any search engine that can browse into the world of the internet just to check their platform if this is a scam.

We cannot escape the scammers in reality because they are everywhere for example in our most communication tool telegram once you have a problem there is a chance that sometimes pretends to help you and tell they can fix your problem just do this or do that. Be mature enough guys if you think this is too suspicious just avoid immediately don't take a long conversation on it.

I'm sure that is a scam cloud mining site, they ask money first to recover your account, don't fall for it. Seem like you have to give up your money and this thing should be your learning for the future.

You may need to find out about cloud mining site reputation especially in this forum. Yeah, there are a lot of cloud mining site that have scammed many people. Look at these thread,

 1. ▁ ▂ ▄ ▅ ▆  Cloudmining 101 (ponzi risk assessment)  ▆ ▅ ▄ ▂ ▁ (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=878387.0)
 2.  BITCOIN CLOUD MINING IS A SCAM (noob word!) (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=667957.0)
 3. Lets STOP the Cloud Mining scammers HERE (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=896280.0)
 4. Advice for new users regarding CLOUD MINING (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=739510.0)
 5. [SCAM] Cloud mining website hashflare.io using fake reviews (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1425951.0)

Not a good move sorry for your loss. Basically, if you send fund or bitcoin to an address like this if it's already confirmed in the blockchain there is no way you could still recover your funds if it's already confirmed. Unless somehow you reported it to the authority and caught the company they might be available to recover the stolen funds from you. But sending bitcoin to recover your funds or to claim back your account etc. Bro that's obviously a big scam you might need to- do a little research first in the websites that you are planning in invest with.

I agree on that there is no another way to recover the funds that is already send or confirm or already receive by the reciever , if you want to recover it dont send any other payment to them you are just wasting another funds, the best thing to do is to report it to the government agency that can track the scammer, but this is really hard to them scammers are smart, i am sure that they do change thier info or profile or maybe everything so that they will not get easily track by their victim so base on my analysis it is really hard to recover the funds that is already sent, be careful and make a research first before making a decision scammers are everywhere.

Whenever you see this site wants from you to send huge amount of fee for withdraw funds, it is sure that this site is scam. Maximum cloud funding sites are scammers. Investing in online platform without investigating is very risky. Once upon a time i have fall victim of this type of scam site.

Hoping that it would be possible, as far as I know, once you have scammer and the money was stolen from you, you cant turn it back to you anymore, that is why it is important to double-check everything before you confirm the transaction because there is no "undo" button for every transaction, which is similar when you have scammed by someone, once you have transferred your money already to them, then you cannot turn it back to you. Do bot scam for any fake website. There are many websites offering a good investment where you can earn money for only a few days but nothing will happen.

This is obviously another scam, someone that wants to help you out won't be asking for such amount of money just to recover your stolen funds, all these cloud crypto mining are all = scam, none of them is working tbh, even the guys you contacted to retrieve your cash are still looking for a way to steal your money, right now the best advice I can give to you is to "let the sleeping dog lay" meaning although it hurts to lose such amount of money, but I think you should let it go, and just move on to avoid getting scammed again in attempt to retrieve the former cash.

It happened to me once. When I gave new to the online world. I tried a lot to get it back later but to no avail. Even though I didn't have much money in my wallet then, I was Got in trouble. Although I recovered it very quickly. Learning from here I have learned to keep all my information all important things in a good place

This is a very fun experience for me. I accidentally left my private key in copy folder on my laptop. One day my laptop broke down and I lost everything in that folder. My account had a good amount of bitcoin. I thought I lost everything. Good luck so I got all my information in another folder after fixing the laptop.

I suggest you to not invest on such sites anymore and to never give personal details of your transactions or crypto currency balances to strangers.
When you have an issue like that to solve, look for trusted people to help you, that is very important.
There is a lot of scammers around trying to re-scam people who has been scammed recently, as they were an easy target for their shady approaches... Stay alert and don't even reply messages like that. Let scammers talking by themselves.

It isn't really a good idea to store private keys, phrases or wallet information to a file that could be deleted, or altered by anyone. Hardware wallets advised that we should kee our passphrase to somewhere safe, write it down instead of copy and pasting it or typing it to store in a file. Though, password in file could still be kept if we have strong antivirus, but what happends if our laptop or PC crashed, I advise that we should always have a separate partition in our harddisk, to store our operating system, and our files. So that if virus destroys our OS, we can immediately fix our computer by formatting it, and since we have stored our files in another partition, it will not be affected by the virus nor will not be deleted when we've formatted our laptop/PC.

I agree. It is not recommended to ask random people just to ask for them to help you. There are lots of scammers around, they are always in the corner waiting for someone to become their victim. It is best to not to trust anyone so easily and avoid doing transactions so easily.

Lol, someone is telling you to pay a thousand dollars to get your funds back and you still want to ask whether it’s a scam? Lolz. Even if we are to assume that it’s not a scam, do you think that it’s right that you’re going to be paying such an amount just to recover that amount? This is a full scam, so I will advise you stop talking to them so you don’t end up losing more after this.


Yes you’re saying the truth, there will always be people who are inexperienced, and they usually fall for these scams. I have reached a level where I can easily tell that something is a scam, but even when I was a noob I was still never scammed, although back then I wasn’t able to identify them easily, but I still never fell for it.

I don't think there will be any work with free here, the reverse fee money will just go. A scam and I don't think you will get your money back anyway. Learn from this mistake and then proceed with caution. Refrain from paying them anymore.

What can you expect from them? they are criminals and they will steal your money.

Most of the time, newbies are the most prone to this kind of circumstances because they are easily lured by these scammers. That's the reason why if we know someone who is new to a cryptocurrency industry, we should inform them about those hazards because scammers will do anything just to fool people with their fake platform or website. Don't expect for a refund if you are victimized by these people, even if you cry a lot, they will not give your money back. Don't repeat the same mistake ever again.

I had similar experience with localbitcoins. Someone took control of my account, and it has got 0.2btc. During those days I wasn't aware of the 2FA, the person who took control of my account has took my balance amount and he then called me informing your account has been hacked. Suddenly I tried to access it, but I wasn't able to enter into my account. I called him back, and he demands to transfer 0.05btc, so that my account balance along with this 0.05btc will be credited back to the account. I understood the situation and pleased him to give me back. Suddenly he ended the call, and the number isn't in usage anymore.

Good for you that asking here first before sending another scam attempt.

Look at how they fool you,

You wanted to take your funds back and they are the one who was being suggested to solve your problem  then why need to ask another amount just for recovery?

That is stupidity to believe,it is their obligation to bring back your funds so they have no rigths to ask for money.

Do not easily trust people who only you know on the internet, let alone involve large amounts of money, even though they provide guarantees that your assets will be returned. Come on, understand the crypto ecosystem well, assets that have been sent to others cannot be canceled or withdrawn unless with the approval of the new owner. Do not let you get caught in another fraud mode. You better use the money for something more useful, learn the right investment or trading strategy, do the analysis, learn to the right people and you believe, motivate yourself to be able to get profits so that you can cover the losses you can last year.

This is obviously another scam and I'm glad you've not taking any step to send them your funds, the @_jacob.armstrong guy obvious saw you as a target he can easily prey on and out of him being smart, he thought it would be more convincing if he gave you a scam email which in created because i doubt if that email belongs to slushpool.com due to the fact that it dosen't end with .com rather it did with .com.uk! Scammers will always find ways to prey on people by devising any means possible

Here is another asshole @anderson_abade_ bitcoin scam artist. He claims his company can recover scammed funds through contacts he has on the dark web for a fee. He is a pathological liar. His whatsapp is 1 (209) 314-0311. Spread the word and spam the fuck out of this prick.

You can try a lot of course but once it's scammed it's gone

Spamming scammers won't deter them from making further attempts to scam others. The best strategy is to either completely ignore their overtures or report them to Telegram so their accounts can be sanctioned. Even at that, these scammers can open several accounts later. On a related development, I guess you finally got your Bitcoin returned to you and you didn't send further coins to that dude in your OP? Whatever you do, please stay away from cloud mining or doubling sites. They're all scam.

And another best strategy is to get people informed and aware so that nobody will fall victim to this obvious lairs, if he claims this is possible - recovering of a stolen btc, then he can probably present evidence of some of the client he has already helped with this situation, it is better for people to learn and understand that once there is a stolen or mistaken send to a wrong address btc occur it can never be gotten back except the thief or the mistaken address decided to return the fund.

Regardless of whether it is a scam or a pending scam waiting to be happened, situations like this are most likely will not occur to someone who is new within the Cryptocurrency Industry since those decisions are already involving big exchanges of money. These kinds of news are somehow not true or even baiting other people to fish for some help which is financial help but of course, most experienced users would just likely want newbies to report this to the website in which you are scammed or even just spread news that you were scammed and not explain how is it most likely you were scammed.