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If you can, please make this a sticky , people NEED to be warned and i need to find someone to recover 150kusd and get 75kusd for it (Relative to current BTC + BCH prices )

I got robbed of 45.8 BTC (and BCH so total = 150000$) after installing the executable from electrum-wallet.com.

I was running multisig but both on the same PC. First i ran the portable electrum.exe from  electrum-wallet.com but when it did not load my wallets *NOTE : the ones that had BTC in them ,it loaded just fine any other wallet ) - I don't want to hear opinions on my stupidity

After it didn't work i downloaded last version of electrum from electrum.org

I'm wondering how the F is it possible that after 2 years of this thread no one has taken down and/or announced the US. authorities fbi etc about it.

I'm in Romania and have no wish to deal with this legally, which will probably get me nowhere.



I  am willing to split the rights on the BTC with whoever is capable of recovering them via detective+legal means.

This is the transaction : https://www.blocktrail.com/BTC/tx/78d44db46445d3097996fc644c1221eeead31added5c35cf1b7938737e3b49db


As i said , I don't want to hear opinions on my stupidity, this is mostly a warning and hopefully a way for someone to make a healthy 75000$.

Sorry ot hear that. This is why people should be very careful moving their BTC right now trying to claim their 'free' BCC which I am assuming that you were trying to undertake. A reminder to others to only move small amounts at first.

Unfortunately you can't do nothing. Whit your money you really should be super paranoid when moving funds around.

PS: Chiar imi pare rau e o suma foarte mare dar puteai sa previi asta usor cu putina atentie.

Have you tried restoring from seed, even if you only get your BCH back it would be something.
Electrum-wallet.com isn't the website for Electrum.

Sorry to hear that you lost your BTC, it seems very unlikely that you will get them back, but you can but try.

who told you that "electrum-wallet.com" is the real website to download a bitcoin wallet from?
i am sorry for your loss but you should have double checked where you are downloading your wallet. this is not even the first scam attempt and there have been a couple of more of these sites like this.

the official electrum wallet website is electrum.org and there is no alternative to that. any other website is a scam.

How did you find eletrum-wallet.com?

I'm not able to find searching google for 'electrum' and 'electrum wallet'.

We better start reporting the site: https://safebrowsing.google.com/safebrowsing/report_badware/

Oh really dangerous
What do we need to do to protect our assets?
Please give me the answer

OMG thats a lot money you lost sorry for that why do a lot people do scam other peoples money they dont have mercy for people they are rubbing. A very bad people doing this they want money for an easy way i wish they will all go to jail and die so terible.

Wow, that is crazy to hear. The site is an absolute scam and everyone should report it.

45 BTC is quite alot. I think your best bet would be to email abuse@namecheap.com and ask for the owner of the registered domain electrum-wallet.com
Maybe put a small hint that you have been robbed off of 45 BTC equal to XXX amount of USD and that you are pressing legal charges and will inform your authorities of this, also whoever registered the domain is using Namecheaps service WhoisGuard for anonymity which you could question and threaten that you report this to ICANN for their view on this matter. According to ICANN, "The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) broadly requires the mailing address, phone number, and e-mail address of those owning or administrating a domain name to be made publicly available through the "WHOIS" directories."

Which means that anonymous domain registrations aren't allowed and that mailing adress, phone number and email to the person administrating the site should be public information.

It is a long shot, but my best bet would be to email the domain provider and explain the matter and question how they are currently supporting criminal activities and also witholding important information on the person who is scamming users.

I m sorry to tell you but this is your mistake. electrum-wallet.com is NOT official electrum website. In fact, when I try to access that website, my security software goes nuts and prevents me from even opening this page. It s obvious you have downloaded a fake wallet which contained a virus which stole your money.

Once more, really sorry for your loss.

sorry for your loss man
45 BTC is not a joke. how much bitcoins you have left ?

Blame Goodle adwords. Google ads now look so similar to their search results, many users are tricked into clicking those ads instead of the real sites

You want to take the rest?  ;D ;D

If its any help, I drafted a legal message and notified the domain hosting company about this issue. I expect them to shutdown the site and I'm waiting for their reply.

Once they reply we'll see if they are willing to cooperate or not, but its hard to say how much information they have on the owner of the domain. Obviously the whole possibility of anonymous domain registration and bitcoin payment will probably make this one hard to crack

That's fkd up man, appreciate you warning others with your story.

Sad to hear, indeed maybe you can look at seed to get at least your 45 BCC back, on btc im afraid and dont its possible to get it back, sorry to hear!

Fucking idiots can't be fixed.  You are going to hear about your stupidity whether you like it or not.  Idiot.

Ohh.. I'm very sorry to hear about your loss. You should pay much more attention when dealing with such amount of money(even with small amounts). Try and download the official wallet software from electrum.org . As another member said here maybe you can get the free BCH at least. Try to snap out of this loss and work very hard to make them back even if it'll take a while..

Everyone is just feeling sorry for OP with nobody except one that have offered an advice to get to the root of the matter. He knows already he has made a mistake and there is no need to rub it on its face by feeling sorry for him. But unfortunately, there is no one to report to rather is there any way to apprehend the individual. One further disadvantage of the crypto world.


This is a route to go at this time and I wish it will serve as an eye opener to other people as well.

Sorry man for your loss. That's a huge amount to lose.

After seeing and reading this post here I quickly dashed to check my coins and behold I couldn't log into my Electrum wallet which I downloaded from Google playstore. Several attempts have proved abortive. I have also read comments from frustrated users on review about that. I am not panicking yet but I hope it is just a coincidence and not that my coins have been tampered with. Does anyone have that experience too?

damn man , thats a fuckton of a money , feels bad for you , ive had problem like this once but on liqui and not much ..they keep their mouth shut then i decide to spam their telegram and boom i got my money , ive never trust any exchanger except polo and bittrex even most of them are risky there no other choices

Fake website : electrum-wallet.com  (Doesn't even use HTTPS)

Real website : electrum.org



How did you find the electrum-wallet.com URL? Did you use google?

would it have helped if you used an air gaped computer?

Why do you think it's based in the US? it's probably not, the owner of the site might be closer to you eg. eastern europe/Russia.

electrum-wallet.com is scam. download wallet from electrum.org

I'm sorry for your loss but thanks for reporting for other's safety. I have mailed namecheap to suspend domain and asked them to provide  real registration data. I will see if I can do some help.

electrum-wallet.com is clearly not the right side, just see the chrome identity it tell to em that is not secure, electrum.org is the correct one, you should avoid not secure website, and run them only on a virtual machine first

You lost your bitcoins due to carelessness! You should have secured and research very well what was the real electrum wallet. Their website is clearly electrum.org and you did not even bother check if this was the legit site. Damn, so much money lost just like that. No chance you can retrieve it, to be honest. It would take so much time and effort to follow the transactions.

I hope other people will learn from your mistake. Thank you for posting this, but unfortunately those BTC will not be recovered

soon. People hosting these scams, move quickly when they hit a jackpot like this. I would suggest that people do a test tx

first, before they move their coins. This will prevent situations like this in the future. You will only lose the test run coins and

not your whole hoard.  ::)

Everyone should already know that official wallet is only available in electrum dot org. It is unfortunate that this is a frivolous act, with a very large nominal should he be able to feel the benefits at this time. I am very concerned that there are still people who believe using unofficial wallets. I'm sorry and hopefully no one's going through this again. This is the cause that security is a very important part in the digital era and online transactions like today.

You could mitigate that by using paper wallets for cold storage for bitcoins. And storing only $1000 on Electrum. So scammer would steal only that $1000. And remember the ONLY official address of Electrum: electrum.ORG. Use Electrum only from this link. You will still have access to bitcoins when software is abandoned.

Horrible, you seem to be taking it like a champ too but damn, that's just straight horrible.

Someone really should do a screen cap of a step by step for youtube. I have a core wallet and am still scared to touch it re getting my bcc until I see someone do this (and they'll probably get great views/ad money - hint - you youtube guys that have successfully done the conversion should jump on this the search result traffic alone would do you well).

While tracing the transaction and getting to the bottom of this will be indeed a very hard feat I can still see some light in this matter but getting all of the money back will not happen easily. I suspect this will boil down to major pressure from a legal advisor who goes very hard in on the hosting company and pressure them. Either through legal means or negative press.

By saying theres noway for OP to get his money back you are simply saying that the hosting company "Namecheap.com" is doing the right by hiding the registration information of criminals and also hosting and supporting criminal activities? I read at Namecheap.com that they are a "an accredited ICANN registrar". Well guys, an "accredited ICANN registrar" don't simply break ICANN rules by hiding registration information of criminals.

Report this hosting company to ICANN and threaten with legal action if nothing happens. With the right searchwords the site electrum-wallet.com (which is also a cheap copy of the correct electrum.org website) is at the top of Google search. The site is hosted by namecheap.com and the registration information of the owner which should be public information is hidden with a tool of theirs, which btw, is breaking the terms and conditions of ICANN policy.

You definitely need legal help to resolve this, and there is no certainty if namecheap.com even hold any valid registration information on the owner of the website why I think you should pressure the hosting company hard on this.

^ Chances are if the ppl behind this are smart enough to create a wallet that can wipe out your machines wallets, they've thought well past domain/hosting/ID's/IP's/legal/whatifs/unforeseens/etc. Best case scenario namecheap and the host give up intel that's probably daisy chained to dead ends imo. I'm sure they won't be around long but all it takes is a new domain.whatever and another indi/loose/foreign hosting and they're up again.

** I hate scammers as much as anyone else, however, like anyone else, I'm fascinated by the schemes they execute and must admit this shit was clever, timed, and paid the fawk off for these guys. What a beautiful and cruel world.

Wow, thanks for stating the obvious. Actually, namecheap.com offers a free WhoisGuard subscription for domain registrations.

The actual service WhoisGuard has a "zero tolerance for scammers" Well, I don't know about that. Most likely they would'nt offer such a service to begin with.

Also, namecheap.com has been sued before regarding issues with WhoisGuard, read here: http://domainnamewire.com/2011/05/09/namecheap-sued-over-whoisguard/

You should definitely threaten with legal action as this isn't the first time namecheap.com is involved in things like this.

This, I hope you get your coins back OP but the truth of the matter is that is going to be almost impossible to do so, even if the criminal is arrested I doubt very much that he would like to give the money back since in a decade or two those coins could be worth hundreds of thousands or even millions.

These scam websites are paying to advertise their websites in Google and steal this way the data from people who do the research of wallets on Google.

This also happen with the Ethereum wallets.

^ Google does semi-manual to manual reviews however A LOT goes under the radar. The website looks legit, they don't understand crypto/they are not going to download wallets and inspect software - they want your money to advertise until enough ppl complain (not that it makes it right, but it doesn't mean they are/were compliant with the scam from the jump. Google employees and review teams are often not that hard to fool or bait/switch once ads are running).

OP doesn't want to be called out for "stupidity" or whatever. I am not saying you are doing so, but let's be respectful.

With that said, you are right. If I was moving around 45.8 Bitcoins, you best believe it would be with the utmost precaution. I have lost my fair share of Bitcoin to scams and not prepared to lose more. I feel bad for OP though... the current state of Bitcoin is terrible and I think it will only stay the same, or get worse. Imagine what will happen when Bitcoin becomes mainstream. Everyone and their mother will have Bitcoin on public exchanges and scamming will become normal. It is sad.

Damn, i feeel that pain but still can't understand why people are so careless while operating such huge amounts of BTC. You could try to send your bitcoins to another waller without downloading anything (even  before download smth just check the website a billion times) and then claim your BCC. Don't think that you will get it back but that will be a lesson for everyone else.

That is a lot of money lost, sorry to hear about it, but I don't think there is any chances for you to get your bitcoins back as the bitcoins have already been sent out from the wallet. It is always better to verify a site before downloading the electrum wallet, but I still wonder how did the OP find that link for downloading the fake electrum wallet in the first place.

Very sad to hear this.45 BTC is not a small amount.All that glitters is not gold.I think due to curiosity of gaining free BCC,you have downloaded wallet from Electrum-wallet.com.Thats the great mistake you have done.These types of scams come around at such unusual times like hard fork occuring.

OMG, i so sad hear about that, 45.8 BTC is much, this is night mare  :'(

OK... It took me a few minutes of research to find out what happened exactly. So this guy installed a trojan from this site:

http://electrum-wallet.com/

instead of installing the electrum wallet from this website:

https://electrum.org/

A very very costly mistake instead. Also, just a few days back, Theymos had instructed us not to transfer the BTCs in very large blocks. He ignored that warning also.

The only possible way to recover those is to move legally,file a police complaint regarding the coins and the loss,and forward it to all the exchanges regarding the movement of the coins,since it is a public ledger the hacker have to cash out at some exchanges and there are instances when the exchanges withheld the money from hackers when they deposit in it,other than that there is no way you could recover those.

You have to figure it's going to take quite a while for conventional police forces to catch up to the technology at play here.

It's like in the safari. A lone, thirty wildebeast straying into a new and unusual wateringhole unaware that its surrounded by hidden lions waiting to pounce and rip its guts out once it stays just a bit too long with its guard down.

I'm so sorry for your loss. It's not a small amount. I think what you should do is research who is owner of this fake domain. It's the only glue at this moment.

Try reporting to FBI or something.
Call. Contact host. Maybe you can reach out to an international lawyer.

Sophos stopped me from opening the site. Reinstall your PC but be sure you don't destroy any wallets in the process.
If you hold any more coins get a hardware wallet ASAP!

In my opinion if you hold more than 1 Bitcoin a hardware wallet is mandatory!

Did you check is he also got the BCH/BCC balance? Maybe there is still something to rescue here.

It seems to me that the scamming websites become more and more popular as bitcoins boom. It becomes to create a website to phishing and send fake emails/messages around.

WARNING for everybody else who opened the site!!!

Your machine might got exploited, there is an exploit kit live.


Virus total scan
https://www.virustotal.com/de/url/45de65ee218e3b662a58f93a53b9adc59f0c50c7fade6d0b1e1aa477dc116ef4/analysis/

No, There is no exploit kit installed. I have checked source. Only files are infected and virustotal is showing malware because site has been reported as malware hosting site in past.

This is one of the attack places that isn't used very often but could get a lot of people. Brand new coins, people don't trust those wallets, people don't trust those coins actual code itself, brand new websites people don't trust those, but generally a wallet for Bitcoin itself gets a decent amount of trust right off the bat without any sort of Open Source or anything.

Sorry for your loss OP, I've lost a similar amount a while back, and know how much it hurts.
Take care man.

I googled the site on www.who.is and www.scamfoo.com and surprisingly no case about fraud has been reported concerning the site so far. That means it is business as usual for the scammers as the public hasn't been alerted of their scams. No bad publicity or review yet.

Is OP alive?

Just for his information I gathered some info that you can use to further your search for your Bitcoins.

Heres an IP of the company who owns the domain

IP Location   Germany Germany Waldbrunn Ip Projects
ASN   Germany AS31400 ACCELERATED-IT, DE (registered May 06, 2004)
Resolve Host   xxx
Whois Server   whois.ripe.net
IP Address   82.211.xxxx
Reverse IP   2 websites use this address.

Additionally, if you believe you are a victim of an Internet crime, or if you are aware of an attempted crime, you can file a complaint through Internet Crime Complaint Center at https://complaint.ic3.gov , who are in the best position to fully investigate any such issue across any/all service providers.

And behold;

REGISTRANT CONTACT
Name:Alexandr XXX
Street:ul. Gincharnaya XXX
City:Moscow
State:Moscow
Postal Code:101XXX
Country:RU
Phone:+7.XXXXX
Email:email@mail.ru

The ball is in your hands now, OP

Are you sure, I thought the .com is the right one??? Now I am bit confused.

FFS look at his post count and the fact that he cannot spell Ethereum.  ::)

PSA: The only official wallet for electron cash is www.electroncash.org   -- some people have had false sites on this one too steal their funds.

Best thing that you can do in regards to this matter is to coordinate with whoever provides hosting for the said site and tell them that if they don't provide any personal information about the hackers, they can get into legal trouble. As much as you want to avoid that route, that will be the only way you can go to right now.

Damn this is F'''''''up!  Thank you for having the courage to warn us all, knowing some are going to beat you up anyway.

Lol...A Newbie with just one post count warning us is a laughable venture especially since it has to do with clarification on a website address. I really don't think he gave the genuine site address. People, be guided. By the way, the Electrum wallet for Android is now up and running. Its crash almost panicked me. Sigh...

Ouch, sorry for your loss and thanks for the warning. Hope you recover your funds somehow.

Don't be too harsh man, Everyone feels really bad and I know what's his feeling right now. Very big amount compared on my loss from gambling and trading. He's a victim of a phishing link these people are completely lazy fags.

Possible that contacting the host will help you out but make sure that you will have proper documents and other stuffs for it. FBI? They can help too I guess.

Edit:
Props to this man

thanks for the warning op. maybe ill be more carefull about what im downloading from now on.  and ihope more people being read this not to ignore to be help them as a warning.


you did a really good job men. now op has this information to report this scammer. i hope that who did this scam got to jail more years to pay what he did to you (op). we support you in this fight against scamer.

Why am I not surprised the thief is from Russia? Call me whatever you want but really a lot of these scams originate from there.

If the cash is in Russia now good luck trying to get it back.

Uhm, I might be new to the forum. But I've been around long enough to absolutely hate scammers.

My intentions are good and I've reported the information I have to OP. Its up to him what he wants to do with it.

Going by the date and timing of his transaction, I noticed some desperation to catch up with the BCC timing and bonus, that must be one reason he was unable to think twice, but 45BTC actually calls for double checking no matter what. It's quite pathetic the internet is full of wolves in sheep clothe. I think you really need to report the site if you really care about another victim falling into their trap!

And he is probably keeping these "winnings" from OP and other people that didn't had even basic knowledge about Bitcoin security. It's an easy bet with pretty high odds.

Wait. Isn't it Electrum.org ?


uhhhhh :D

I'm pretty sure this won't help you but I live like 10min away from this hoster, small world...

Electrum.org is official Electrum
ElectronCash.org is official Electron Cash (the SPV wallet for Bitcoin Cash)

 ;D ;D ;D lets smoke man  ::)

My antivirus doesn't even let me view the website. When investing more than 2-3k or earning it from profits you should invest about 400-500 on a new laptop and a good anti virus. It's a small investment for peace of mind and security of your funds.

This. You would think people would double check downloading executable programs especially when they will be using said program to handle their ~150,000$... Anyways OP I hope you have learned a lesson from this and I am sorry that it happened.

I reported the domain name to namecheap and i am shocked to read their response


Shame on Namecheap.They can't spot that it's phishing scam.I know the domain is not hosted at namecheap but they can suspend the domain but no they won't.They want to keep doing business with scammers.

Credit card fraud is rampant as well and that does not stop people from using credit cards, the only issue is that with bitcoin you cannot get the money back and this is something people will need to get used to, in bitcoin there is not a security blanket protecting us, if you lose your money you lose it for good.

Coinbase really should of told everybody that they will distribute BCASH and these thefts wouldn't happen. I blame that exchange.

Most people on Coinbase are complete noobs who had no idea how to even withdraw BTC , let alone split properly.

I blame Coinbase for all these thefts.

Auf sry for lose bro but there is no way to recover your money because to find a criminal which taked yur money is not possible and punish like that ,online scammers always find some mystake in law and nobody cant punish them or they are pro so nobody cant find them.

OMG! :-[ Do you know how much is that in my currency, it is equivalent 0f 5.3 millions here. In your case, I was wondering if you had the private key, and phrase words also the passwords it can't be steal by anyone. I think there's nothing we can do but to accept the facts what happened to your money anyway.

I am sorry to hear this happened to you.

The domain is decent and I can see how you might have thought it was legit.

Unfortunately, there is no way for you to get your Bitcoins back.

BCASH (the ZCASH spin-off) won't be available until 2018.  You mean Bitcoin Cash.

There's no such thing as 'should of'. The correct English is 'should have'.

Almost 46 btc is a huge amount of money !  
I was also searching for a method to cash in my bitcoin cash and saw that exact think to do what I needed. The author from where I saw about this was also saying to try it on our own risk because there could be some theft in that electrum- wallet  because it is not from electrum and it was a third party software.
Hope you get justice somehow and someday . And if that happens, hope you share your story.

Sorry for your loss man! but this is the way to go its a start, good luck

Lesson here is to cary your BTC on hardware wallets at all times!

Oh. my. god.  :'( :'(  45 bitcoins...
I'm so sorry for your loss, even though i have no advice to give you i gladly reported this scam website but i'm kinda baffled on how someone with so much bitcoins could fall for such a bait and not pay attention and it made me even more paranoid  :o . I hope you do find a way to get them back and get the scammer behind bars  :-\ .

As much as hate to admit it you have a point, i have seen cases where when this cases happen best you can get close is the ip address and the country the hack was done from, but in this case its was done from from a program the victim gave permission to, i am sure they would have tied up loose ends except it was a fluke and if it is then, it is worth a shot to report to the authorities


Great work getting the details of the scammer, i hope it was a fluke and they would be stupid enough to give valid address.

Recovering 45 BTC in current times is Herculean unless you have the money to buy again straight away else you might rue for a long time and might not recover that much any time soon. 

I don't think ridiculing the guy is a good idea to be honest. Losing that amount of money is no joke.

There is many people try to make a fake website that mimic the real one
You have to be extra careful and double check everything before you move your bitcoin
I have fall victim once and from that point on,i am always extra careful before entering some shady website

Dang! That's a lot of money! If it were me, i would think not just twice but 10 times before i trust any site! Gawd! I might even over react and be paranoid with even a single flaw i see! I would've asked around first before I do anything! Because again, that is such a big amount heck i dont even have bits of btc and can only dream of having even one.

But doesn't matter anyway, at least with this, a lot has learned. And hopefully you also op.
Thanks for sharing your story.

Wow man, your frreaking amazing! Damn! Hope op finds this helpful and gets his possessions back. Because what happened to op is just so heartbreaking. Makes me want to beat the sht out of that lazy scammer who can't get btc the right way. Those coins are the fruit of op's blood and sweat. That fcking scammer didn't even try to think about putting himself in other people's shoes. I hope he gets the worsh punishment possible and karma finds its way to him.

This is really horrible. At today's exchange rate, the total value of coins stolen (BTC+BCH) was close to $200,000. My advice to the OP would be to contact the cops in his hometown. Does anyone know about the nationality of the OP?

Note: Just noticed that the OP is from Romania.

The problem is that people need to change their behavior when dealing with money and they do not, for example if you are going to use your computer to store money, in this case bitcoin, then avoid installing anything other than the necessary tools and avoid downloading pirate software and do not click in every link you see, since it is possible that you lose your money if a virus gets in your computer.

why not use linux+electrum instead of trusting trezor hardware wallet when you can't be sure that's it's not tempered in transit :P

You should blame Bitcoin cash people to cause this for you, when they enact a total double spent split this opens doors for others to dare stealing from us.
Theymos putted the link in forum header for a long time, pretty much ever since the split happened. where did you hear about electrum in the first place? you must've heard about it in this forum that means you should have at least visited the original electrum site once, you gave away your coins willingly and voluntarily, there is nothing anybody could do here, I know we have some badass hackers around but not even they can hack in to Bitcoin. lol

All these suggestions and pieces of advice here are totally baseless and needless now. We should be asking if OP is still alive after reporting that incidence here. I sincerely hope he hasn't committed suicide for that isn't a small amount of cash to lose.

why don't you first click and see the OP profile before increasing your post count?

Scary times I guess but my condolences to the OP I think you can start again and buy some bitcoins down but just be extra careful this tim around. I don't know why but electrum bett and start backing up else they loose our trust.

Domain is owned by Some Alexandr Ivanov and what's interesting is Alexandr Ivanov is Waves CEO.

Sorry OP,looks like that guy is using fake name and it won't help you.

  OP all your bitcoins went to bittrex and I'm sure they will be able to tell who owns that account since ID verification is required for trading.


10 btc
https://www.walletexplorer.com/txid/a2aaa01783be382d6b6b894d4dfff8ced11c8cd9acffac509f6965bf5c94ccdd
2.49853017  BTC
https://www.walletexplorer.com/txid/7ac1311f4e01303a4fb4d7285e558e4c96a691cd3391b226b8384f7fe31a9eb5
8 BTC
https://www.walletexplorer.com/txid/6f0edfde2b3ff4cc8e7945626ad9bba8d145a749b916351d15e4e71923d336cf
10.80 BTC
https://www.walletexplorer.com/txid/555e42db6942e9d58eb40dd6a13cf73812b19f02ed1d0b204907c9c3780fcaf5
10 btc
https://www.walletexplorer.com/txid/47f0573116ca0dbcb6cf0dd44f2645967501e76c81f9291b483abfae1371d4ce
7 btc
https://www.walletexplorer.com/txid/c7158bc447dfe1d87cb5f4e812803c502d5d5f8cede440f0dcd715b2e35e34d1

Yo kingcolex sorry man! Will you still be able to forgive me????!! Lol. I was really naive and got carried away., i just happy of the thought that the op had hopes to find who ever is that lazy motherfcker that stole his hard earned bitcoins. And plus I don't know that much about how computers work. xD
But istill, i wish someone finds a way to help op get his coins back. I really feel bad for him.

Awesome job man!! I hope this really can help op now., if you're still alove op, you should try doing what mr. escrow.ms is trying to say. You should go and report this to any representative of bitrex or something. Don't lose hope. Just try and try because you will never know until you try. You getting your possessions back would be a great  thread closer. xD

Beat of luck op hope you get back what's yours.
And thanks for this info mr.escrow.ms

Wow! You are awesome. But still there is no 100% guarantee that the thief will be caught and the coins will be returned to the victim. The ID verification system at Bittrex is not 100% fail-proof. Recently there were reports of stolen ID cards being used to create dummy Bittrex accounts. Also, if the thief is from a country such as Yemen or Pakistan, there is not much the OP can do about it.

From the given information, I guess you are a penetration tester or a security professional. I hope the victim will be able to understand this piece of info. But this will definitely work and he has no better option at the moment. Whether they were stupid or it’s a coincidence, the good news is there is an address.

I thank you all for the support and help you provided, xdev,  escrow.ms and all others that have sent me PM and posted here willing to help.

Bittrex has locked the said account but it seems the coins were moved many days ago. If someone can confirm that, please do.

Even if funds are moved, they should be able to tell withdrawal addresses.

It depends on the amount of money you have, Linux and electrum is a very good combination if you are low in budget since Linux is free and the same is true for electrum. About the Chromebook I do not really like anything produced by Google since to me those are nothing but spy machines and the trezor is probably the best hardware wallet in the world.

Thanks for the information and sorry for the huge lost.  These days the most intelligent and skilled person uses their abilities to do unacceptable work.  For the sake of easy money?  That is very stupod thing to do.  But still we cant do anything for that.  The innocent and legit one suffered in this. Don't worry karma is on his way.  And you will gain more than what you lost.

because you want the experience to be seamless. You can use trezor or ledger without actual deep knowledge of OS, computers, crypto. It is a tech for an average user: very secure and easy to use. Linux+electrum on the other hand is not, especially if you are a windows user. It is not very secure, either. And why trust electrum more than trezor is beyond me...

Everyone expects the US to protect them.  Then, when the US acts like the world policeman, everyone says what assholes the US are.  lol.  The US and FBI can give a fuck about your stupid bitcoin loss due to downloading fake software.  Why do you cry to them?

Wow .... 45btc just disappeared.
I think it's very hard to get your coins back, even if you're reporting elsewhere. because it's so hard to keep track of the system the way you do it, maybe all you need is a world-class hacker who can help you track and return your coins.
I think hackers are very smart he is able to hack anything that is in front of him.

would be better if google made these ADs look more like ads rather than official SE results based on some merit.

they should also enforce some harsh kyc on people using adwords now

Blame Goodle adwords. Google ads now look so similar to their search results, many users are tricked into clicking those ads instead of the real sites

out there there are many people who may be the same as you lost their bitcoin in the wallet, but it is true said by friends here the missing bitcoin will be hard to find anymore especially if someone has moved your bitcoin from your wallet to his wallet, I hope it can be experience you and wish there was a replacement after that

Auf sry for lose bro but there is no way to recover your money because to find a criminal which taked yur money is not possible and punish like that ,online scammers always find some mystake in law and nobody cant punish them or they are pro so nobody cant find them.

Oh. my. god.  Cry Cry  45 bitcoins I'm so sorry for your loss, even though i have no advice to give you i gladly reported this scam website but i'm kinda baffled on how someone with so much bitcoins could fall for such a bait and not pay attention and it made me even more paranoid  Shocked . I hope you do find a way to get them back and get the scammer behind bars  Undecided .

This is a serious issue and 45.8 btc is a huge amount of money already. Though I cannot help you with your situation since you need to many things in order for you to possibly gain back your bitcoin and the likelihood of it to be returned is only 1%. Anyway to all who wants to received any forked bitcoins I suggest you store it in website wallets that credits your forked bitcoins such as yobit that gives the amount ahead of time.

No, I’m not hound at forty five point eight bitcoin to stole it because it is not good to do even if you are in the situation that you are have a problem in terms of financial aspects and always remember there’s always a right thing to do in that situation.

it's the name of the theft by using Bug from the wallet install, very on my shoe once with 45 BTC you and I can only hope that your Bitcoin will come back to you.

I suggest to my friends who do not imitate like this here, save your Bitcoin in your own wallet or local Exchange who accept Bitcoin, because if the local Exchange experience interruption can be claimed easily because it's your own country.

This same issue that i have been read last year,i guess some of hacking that happens in electrum wallet.

But i believe this has been  addressed this year,the problem about electrum wallet hacking..i dont know if the funds that was hacked gives back to the owner.

OMG, 45.8 BTC is big amount!
Sorry man, you can't find your BTC and find thief is impossible.
What police say  to you?

45.8 BTC is such a huge amount, like for me I haven’t see such a big amount together so it is such a huge amount that has been stolen from the electrum wallet. Inspite having millions of advantages this only bad thing of bitcoin made bitcoin critise all over the world , due to all this hacking and other illegal use, people fear of investing into bitcoin that they could not be the prey of such case , all these activities and scam needs to be regulated as soon as possible if we want to seen our currency in the form of bitcoin world wide.

This is such a huge amount of bitcoin that has been stolen from your walking I mean 45.8 is such a huge amount to think and if truely speaking I haven’t seen such a huge amount together. 45.8 bitcoin in INR is worth to approx 2.41 crore, it is such a huge amount and I don’t think that this amount could ever be recovered and if in your country the bitcoin is not legalised then it is like next to impossible to recover the amount because in this case you even can’t do police complaint.

My country is now a little more acceptive of bitcoin. I'm looking to file complaint both locally and also in I2C. I am thankfull to all who have been helpful more than 2 years ago and tried to track the culprit and also linked me ip address and all the other stuff. I will use this thread as evidence, together with my emptied wallet and anything else i can find. Looking for help and suggestions, anyone who can help me recover the amount, i am willing to share 10% of the recovered amount ( if that seems fair ) or if the entire amount can be recovered, 20%.

I have been away from BTC for a while, but i never forgot about this huge loss and am still hoping i can recover at least part of the 45 BTC.

We have drafted letters and will let you know how far we get.

Yours
FCF

Let's hope it still matters after Trump does his Coup d'etat.

I made an IC3 Complaint yesterday, explaining what happened and linking this thread. Perhaps they will find the culprit. If anyone has any additional info, please add.

PM me, I received a response from electrum that isn't definite or helpful but it's something.