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I know once you are scammed and robbed,its hard to reverse the Bitcoin Transaction ! But any of you were ever scammed and were returned your bitcoins by the scammers ! This is not a great topic but was curious if there is a Robinhood in the scammers ! Guys I meant scammers,few mine bitcoins few use their hard earned moeny to buy bitcoins,please dont grab away from the innocent souls !!

Why would scammers return back what they have stolen? That's why they are scammers for a reason. Better be aware and be vigilant with those types of people. You will never know. Having a Robinhood wouldn't be so bad. Robinhood can send some in the BTC address in my profile.  :D

Agreed though ! But yesterday on Reddit ,there was a story where one such story was shared so was curious that was that hoax or true ! Anyways you are right,they are scammers why wud they have a generous heart except to steal !

Scammers scam because they want to have more money, some of them can't provide much on the table so they resort to scamming. I doubt there would be a scammer who will return funds sent to them. If they can get more they'd even be back to scam more from you. Think of it like you got robbed and when they saw your 15 year old car, they even took it.

There is absolutely no way that a scammer will return bitcoins or any money that they have swindled out of someone. Maybe that could happen when their guilty conscience starts to affect them or maybe the victim curses them one way or another doubt it might even work.

I had a hacker return my twitter, email and paypal

Never had hacker return my btc. I can look on the bright side tho, and say I learned my a lot of lessons from it at least.

Its on few occasions that you ever get back your bitcoin from scammers after they have scammed you and that is if you are able to know the location of the scammer and also apprehending him/her but since cryptocurrency is anonymous it very hard for that to happen in most cases but it do happen on very few occasions maybe 0.1% out of 100% cases of scam get bitcoin returned back to owner.

Too unlikely in my opinion. I mean, they're doing the scamming mainly to steal your money, while being completely aware of how greatly immoral and unethical their activity is, and you expect them to return the funds? I don't think so. If there are actually scammers who returned funds for some reason, it'd probably be as small as 0.001% of total scams.

Thanks buds ! Apparently,I feel there might be few scammers wandering in the forums/groups etc as well,somewhere in the corner of their hearts if they have that guilt conscious they would give it a thought not to loot people ! I know its unlikely scammers feel so as they have no ethics or morals and they decide to scam only to ensure they are happy and least bothered about whom they scam !

Stay safe with your assetts,never trust emails,calls,never give access of your system to anyone !! Also the current trend is threatening emails saying they have your secrets etc., just delete those emails ,dont even care about such emails !

My situation was a complete different one,I was newbie then[2017,thats when my bitcoins were stolen] and was my first experience in Crypto as well encountering a scam situation,where I totally trusted that the call was from my Crypto exchange !!

Thankyou and Best Wishes All !

I never get my bitcoins back from the scammers, and they do not show anymore in front of mine.
They are run away with my money without sent back some bitcoin to me.
I think they don't care from whose the bitcoin they steal because their reason only got as much bitcoin as they can and run away.
But if among the scammers, there is Robinhood then maybe I will give some of my bitcoin to them if they have a reason why they steal the other people's bitcoin.

I was once scammed, I plead to return my coins but he threatened me because he knew my name and address. They are from other country but yes, somehow they manage to threatened that they will visit my place because they have fellows livingin our area. That's the kind of people you are dealing with, this is why I'm not entertaining any PMs unless I initiate it myself.

That was insane ! Threatening on top of stealing ! Will they ever live a better life doing these dark activities ! Let them Rest in PEACE !!

Wish they even care to answer !!

Honestly, I have been scammed before as well. Scammer's intention is to steal our earnings which is a hilarious thing. The sad thing is we can't get back our earnings once they have stolen it. That's their nature so we must get rid of them. Their main goal is to steal the earnings of others.

I am so sorry for you. In the crypto world in particular and this society in general, once you get scammed, the refund is something that is unlikely to happen. First you need to know why the scammer took your money, yes, because they need money, so there is no reason they will return the money which they tried to get. I am very sympathetic to you about being cheated, but really, once you step into crypto world, you should protect your property more closely and limit trust in others.
Good luck!

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I think if it was stolen it would be very difficult to return it. I have lost money several times and I feel very sad.

There have been reports of hackers returning funds (though not bitcoin) to exchanges. I believe in some cases the primary motive for hacking is intellectual curiosity or simply letting an exchange know of a vulnerability the harsh way. Also, there could in rare cases be a change of conscience.

If you got scammed then the best way is to call the police. Scammer definetely won't give your money back by himself while police can try to find him so you could sue your money back. Many scammers are using different resources that would allow cyber police to find him. That would work especially if you live in EU. Scammers don't really care about you until you find them.

It's possible in some ways but not here in crypto world. Chances of getting your stole Bitcoins here is too small. Once you have lost it, you should start accepting that you can't have it back anymore. You should learn from it and be keen on keeping your funds. You have to store your earnings in a safer wallet.

Once I got trapped and lost my funds of more than 0.25btc, by that time I was new to the cryptocurrency usage. I got trapped and through some tricks he got the private key and has taken my wallet into his control. I understood something bad has taken place and further I started begging him for the funds, further I was unable to reach him through any means.

What do you think, people are scamming and robbing people because they took inspiration from Robin Hood tales, the only thing you have to understand is that all these scammers and robbers are pissing at your inability to identify what is true and what is fiction, the greed to make more money without any effort is what these scammers are taking advantage and you really think that they will return what they scammed, for them they hard worked for that money to fool you.

If not get hacked on Binance then we not get the coins stolen back if there is no way to track the hacker and after also have to sue them to get funds and if not not have them then is hard to get them back.

I've never heard of any victim getting anything back.

Even now after all this time and the world being ever more connected, it's really strange how little law enforcement cares about online fraud.

You hear of single mothers being jailed for stealing £10 worth of pants from a shop. If you steal £100 million through the internet no one can really be bothered to pursue it.

The answer is definitely no. Hackers or scammers will not do that. It will be just a lesson for you that you need to be smart or knowledgable in what field you are joining with. Bitcoin industry has its good community but for you to know there are so many also scammers that are taking advantage out of it.

Inspiration for them could be themselves,absolutely well said,lazy fools scamming others and having fun out of somebody else's hard earned money ! Wish they get a life !!!

This is our harsh world.  Who teaches himself more carefully to set and protect their passwords and wallets.  But of course, no one will give you any money back because they are fraudsters and this is the Internet.  It was necessary to be ready for this.

Scamers are created tap for you for steal your wealth, not for back anymore! you can't do believe scamers can back your stealing money. it's totally unexpected! you never can hope that any robbers or cheaters back your stealing money, you need more aware! you can't keep false hope over robbers and scamers!

They scam you because they want your money so why would they send it back?
This doesn't make sense at all, Think about it why would a scammer send it back?
This is just a pure hoax .

So far none have return them. :(

I have read something about Court legitly saying to scammers return stolen funds from the rightfull owner.
Unless they do that they would had to pay for the stolen funds (as no longer in their possession) they would go to a bigger sentence.

Nah nope, i experienced once when a scammer stolen some of my bitcoins and i even beg to him to return all my bitcoins but nope it's never happen.

Once you get scammed by a hacker, say bye to your coins. The scammer will never returned your coins, just let it go and move on.

Sadly, there is no Robinhood in the era of cryptocurrency especially in the area of hacking, phishing and just anything fraud. I have never heard anyone returned the bitcoin they stole and I think it can take a big miracle for them to do so. Well, miracles can happen but not here in cryptocurrency I guess.

Scamming is now a professional job for the many of them and once they got your bitcoin they are gaining a big satisfaction of it as the bonus for their labor and time. What we need is the real Robinhood...someone who can steal from these thieves and return the money to the victims...that can be the miracle that we need.

It is unfortunate that the best security measures and the best defense technology can still be breached by hackers as shown in the Binance incident. I  am then asking: how safe really are small guys like you and me?

You would never know, maybe not Robinhood but some saviors in during tough times like helping the blockchain or upgrading it or something. There are people who dedicate themselves to protecting different things, maybe there are Whitehackers that do for us, for everyone, we might just not know it.

Ruining people’s hardwork is not a job IMO. That’s just evil.

there are instances that when the ICO are failed the investments of the people are return to them sometimes the exact amount and sometimes it is already deducted, I think it is much better rather than running away the money.

I dint lost Bitcoin from scammers but lost some ethereum in cryptopia hack that is still in the form of CLM ( Cryptopia Loss Marker) . Apart form that i dint loose much . Long back i received fund from campaign which was more . I returned it back .

There is no such thing as scammers returning your money,
Scammers are greedy and ready to do anything just to get some money so why would they give it back to you?
Let's be honest here to you really think that a person who are willing to step on other person or willing to do anything just to get a money would return it back to you after he/she manage to stole it from you?

Thats true ! When huge companies are being hacked how big are we?Jus tiny !! And I literally pleaded coinbase and explained the situation but they never cared !!

You are a great soul !!

I'm ever got hack over 0.5 btc and it was never returned.
But the fun fact was the thief leaving 0.01

I know that it was my mistake so I'm not fully regret about it although the value quite high

It's not just hard to reverse, it is impossible. And why would a scammer return your funds? A scammer is a scammer because of their greed, no amount of sympathy will push him to return those funds. This is a stupid topic btw. Blockchain is made to be irreversible, so use your head before making any move to avoid being scammed.

The Internet is a perfect tool for criminals who want to get free money, and you do not have to worry too much that you will be caught. Cryptocurrency is in this regard, a perfect target for criminals who instead of banks robbery today only need to have PC+Internet and some skills. I can not say whether this is about the failure of the official authorities to fight with this problem, or Internet is still a wild west where person can do whatever he wants, and if he is smart enough, in most cases nobody will punish him.

I know few cases where hacked / losted coins are returned to owners. Member of this forum return significant amount of BTC related to bug in some wallets.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5127525.0
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=581411.0

Also this user is return 9 BTC to real owner after he discover bug in blockchain wallet.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2488493.0

This is not about the stupidity in the topic,if it was that stupid you wouldnt have replied though ! Anyhow its not about pointing out each other it was just to ensure if this ever happenned ! Anyways let it go !

this is what I wante to know and also get that awareness to that darksouls that there are generous people out there existing and pls stop looting somebody else's hard earned money ! Kudos to these genuine guys !

Unfortunately no, Those scammers or hackers intent to scam you or me will never give back, If they had good intent they wouldn't do it in the first place. Hackers are the worst though, They have such talent but they waste it on doing bad things, They could make so much more by doing legit things and be proud and happy about it.

It's a mean world out here. Everybody is out for money. Some do it ethically while some not. Once the money is out of our hands it's never coming back to us.
Never expect scammers to be so grateful because then they wouldn't scam you in the first place. Even the ICOs don't give your money back when they scam you why would scammers will.
Even Amazon has stopped giving refunds for many products and the only option is to replace the product purchased though you can get refund by asking to customer care but you get my point right.

Most crypto thieves are harden criminals.. A harden criminal/scammer will likely not return back what he has stolen.
The only case where you may get your funds returned to you is if they were sent by mistake to the address of honest recipient that you know and can easily contact.

No mercy in the world !!

Scammer never return back your bitcoin. They will continue to stolen again your pocket and watching you  everywhere. Scamer can diversion transction for visible good for everyone.

How can a scammer return a stolen btc?? That will be a miracle
I'm not sure this can ever happen. If it does, then it might be an error on the part of the scammer.

Sad thing is that I have experienced being scammed not just once but I think 5 times? Yes I am really a fool but  you can't blame me for doing such because I have been make believed on a really great offer and have considered it as a good opportunity to be taken but sadly it is another way around. I have not been able to recover any single cent of my Bitcoin from the person I have entrusted my Bitcoins that is why I am so regretful and have made myself a promise not to believe on other people again when it comes to my Bitcoin. The sadder thing is that by that time, Bitcoin price value have gone into a downfall seems to be a double hit for me so it makes me sadder and more regretful. Moral lesson is not to believe on other people nor be deceived into such offerings. Better assure the credibility and reliability before getting engage into such.

I've heard some cases of honest people giving back bitcoins that had a weak brain wallet or from users that mistakenly set some coins to a wrong address.  Those situations are rare and most people are greedy and you will not have any chance to recover stolen coins.

Logically, it cannot happen. I have never red anything about a scammer returning the funds. And the topic is not about being sure that it won't happen. He's asking if scammers ever return those funds.

It will take too much effort to ever try to get that bitcoin back, I simply give up!
Think about mt gox how much efforts have been taken for the users to bring this fraud into the news, and how long does it take to even recover some money out of it, I think all of them have already gave up getting it back, only the guy who has power to life threatening the exchange could get some back.

scammers are people who don't have conscience. If you fall a victim, forget it your money is never coming back. Scammers will never return any money stolen, they rather sleep with girls with it and go in vacation.

Seems like mr scammer doesn't care at all. They don't have a moral to begin with. You don't expect someone who stole something to return it (unless you know who stole and caught it red-handed, authorities will take care of it)

The beauty of bitcoin one way is beautiful for the genuine people and for scammers its beauty in their own way to scam innocent souls !

That's the nature of scammers. They will be satisfied once they have steal already the hard earned bitcoins of other people. And there's no way that those stolen bitcoins will be ever returned because it's now safe on the wallets of scammers. So if possible, be very careful with your hard earned bitcoins not to be scammed by anybody else.

Scammers will never give it back to you, in the first place, they have their own will to steal or scam some bitcoins to other people. What's the point of their hard work to scam some people then giving back it again?
That's why there's a lot of scammers/hackers in cryptocurrency since most of the transaction are irreversible and it's so difficult to track every user's identity.

nah, it is almost impossible for the hacker or the one stole the BTC to return it in good faith. It is also hard to detect the culprit of stealing BTC because of anonymity. But the transaction could still.be done even if the absence of KYC still block chain could prove it.

Now, does stolen bitcoin really be returned?

No way, hacker needs it and why does he return it? In the first place he had stolen it so why it will be return?

I have been scammed a few times with cryptocurrencies. Many of my friends also have similar experience. And in none of the cases, the money was returned. And I don't know a single incidence in which the scammers returned the stolen money. They don't need to fear anyone. Cryptocurrency offers them anonymity to a certain extent and the advantage is that they can do all these hacking from thousands of miles away. In less than 0.01% of the cases, the law enforcement authorities will be able to get hold of them.

So far I never heard that there are scammers who returned the money to the owner. I guess this kind of scenario will never happen in the future especially that someone who steals really need an easy money and once they can steal from someone they will surely use it.

Money is everything in this world, you can buy anything that has a value if you have the money therefore it is very rare that someone will return the money especially the scammer. As you can see, scammers are also very patient and it doesn't matter for them whether how long it takes for them to create some code to bypass the other security in order to steal some money. Therefore it is not so easy to steal money from other and that is the main reason why the scammers will not return the money that they successfully stole.

Thats the sad part :(

Agreed !! The guiltless soulss :(

There were some instances but very rare like this one



I had no bitcoins stolen from me in the first place but if I did I wouldn't expect the thief to feel remorse and send it back. Such things almost never happen.

Maybe it's because I don't have much faith in humanity. :P

lol no.
and the worst part is that i have never been hacked and it wasn't a hacker that stole my money, it was an exchange called Bittrex and they stole thousands of dollars worth of bitcoin and some altcoins from me and millions from a lot of other users like me and they never paid any of us back. they simply stole it and got away with it.

I first entered the world of cryptocurrency in 2012. During my initial years, I was really immature and inexperienced. I lost huge amount of coins, that I accumulated through hard work. In none of the cases, these coins were returned to me at a later point of time. A few instances are listed below:

1. Lost around 30 BTC after investing in BTCT.co, which was the Bitcoin version of the crypto-stock exchange Litecoinglobal. The exchange closed down suddenly and my shares (BTCT-AT) became worthless.
2. Lost close to 1 BTC when instawallet closed down suddenly.
3. Lost coins while investing in LABCOIN, Quark.etc
4. Lost coins when Mt Gox closed down
5. Incurred losses when Cryptopia closed down.

I've been scammed once and it's my biggest mistake in my crypto life, well I'm a newbie back so it's understandable. Well scammers are everywhere and i don't any scammer will give back what it already gets especially with a valuable cryptocurrency like bitcoin.

damn exchange, really your fate. I'm sure you have been careful to avoid hackers and individual scamers. if any exchange do scaming is unexpected, because cases like this rarely occur. Imagine even an exchange as a corporation scaming, this mean we need put more caution cannot trust anyone in this business.

I was lucky enough that none of my bitcoins got stolen but if you count scam ico's i participated, i never saw that bitcoins again.

If something stolen on the blockchain, it is nearly guaranteed you will never see them again.

Tragically it can never happen, even if you put up a note that you are really poor and it's your whole life savings , it won't matter much to them.

They actually worked hard to hack your wallet , finally succeeded and then to go down to return that money ? They won't do that , they are people blinded by money and doesn't care where it's coming from .

Unfortunately, don't trust anyone and don't let anyone know how many Bitcoins , you are holding.

be careful with borders or the like, as far as I know there is currently no good person who can return the stolen bitcoin, we all day guard and be careful of the rampant thieves

I don't have an experience of that. But I have experience from being scammed, and the money was not returned to me. I don't think that the scammers will return the money to the victims because they will not think about that. Maybe there is Robinhood that will return that money to people, but I don't think that is many of them. If it's related to the money, only a few people will realize that stolen from other people is bad and they will give back the money to the owner.

Well, someone stole my credit card details and they used it for digital online purchases and I never saw that money again.  >:(  I promised myself that I would cancel my credit card and that I would never get a credit card again .... and I have not had a credit card since then.  ;)

I also take every precaution necessary now to protect my bitcoins from hackers and scammers. <I type my URL's and I store the majority of my coins in cold storage>

Scammers are not in this game to return stolen or scammed money, they could care less about who you are and how long you have been working for those coins and what your circumstances are.  >:( >:( >:( >:( >:(

I once been scammed and lost a huge amount of bitcoin. I do anything i could but i cant really know how to get my bitcoin back. Even crowd sourcing isnt enough. This becomes a life long lesson in me and ive done all i can do to secure my resources now. So far im doing a good job.

While I have not seen any scammer return bitcoins to the victim, I have actually read an article where a thief stole money from an old lady and returned it to her.
The old lady was withdrawing money from an ATM and the thief was waiting outside the ATM just when the lady got the money the thief barged in stole the money from her.
Just when he snatched the money, he looked in the ATM to find out the low balance of lady and then he returned the money to the lady left.
He was caught by the cops though since the incident was captured on CCTV.

It our responsibility to secure our money in the first place, if we ever get scammed its our own fauly. I got scammed for more than 5 times, and I know its my fault. Its not that hard to reverse the payments we did, we just don't have the capability to do it. no reverse option when it comes to btc transactions unlike in banks.

Really? This is the first time I have heard that the scammers returned the money they stole, most of the time they just run instantly without a trace

Its better to move on than to let your past bring you down. We cant help once your wallet was hacked, just put your wallet to safety the next time and use that experience to avoid being scammed again. Its impossible to make it back you will just waste your time, better to use your time to move forward.

I recovered most of the coins I invested in a mining contract in 2011 because I was persistent, almost everyone else who left money with that person didn't get anything, or only a small percentage back.

In the history of bitcointalk there have been a few scammers to return or start returning some of the stolen or defruaded money after a while, I think the most recent one is TradeFortress.

I had similar experience with that exchange, some of my coins are frozen there I can't withdraw them, they are asking to provide doc and activate my account before I can have the possibility to withdraw those coins. I told them I don't wanna use their exchange anymore I just want my money back and they refused. Bittrex is really a bad exchange to trade, I am glad that binance take over the market.

Only once to a scam exchange,I got entered into a clone site because at that time I am on my new laptop so bookmarks are not available yet so I just tried using google but ended up into the clone site,when I deposited money it immediately got redirected to another bitcoin address,I thought it was normal in an exchange but later only realized that I got scammed but the amount is not that much big,it was only about $100.

Not a single satoshi had ever returned i deposited 0.01 btc to a doubler site when i was new to bitcoin and i managed to saved 0.01 through faucets i thought that was a legit but in the they run away my 0.01 although the price of that time was 2 dollars so, i didn't care at all, well there is nothing i can do about that since all bitcoin transactions are irreversible so, there's no way to recover it.

if my bitcoin is stolen, I certainly can't return it, it's better if I just pray, in the past I have also been cheated by scammers on various hyip sites or through websites or other events paid for with bitcoin and scammers offer me a big fee after I working with fatigue, no pay and my capital is also lost taken by fraudsters or irresponsible scammers.

A scammer who stole your bitcoin and then returned it to you afterwards? So what's the point of stealing it? Maybe it's possible if the one he scammed, caught him. His identity and others so he have no choice but to return it. Though I haven't experienced nor encountered it yet... It's possible but with really low chance of happening, unless he realized that what he's doing is wrong.

Scammers will scam and will never return the scammed items back to the owners, no, they won't take the rusk of be caught. Bitcoin transactions cannot be reverse as such when anybody is be scam it is gone forever. Many people fell for scam because of greed and if that is the case, they are at fault in the first place. For us to avoid be scam, we must adhere to the principles of security, and not only that, defense mechanism should be practice online. Maybe in the future they may add a layer to act as an escrow to bitcoin transactions.

This is why is called a scam , because they don't return anything , why would they return? I had some coins on cryptsy back in the day when it was hacked or whatever happened with the exchange but the scammers never return anything or BigVern because most of the users still believe it was an intern job planned by him. We all must be careful with our funds , where to deposit , where to trade , where to hold and so on because scammers never return anything they stole.

It will never happen a scammer will return what they stolen from a user. I once a victim of a scam that someone stole my btc those days that I am new to crypto. This should be taken seriously to have keep safe our wallet to avoid got scam our money. Many people become a victim of stolen bitcoins and it did not ever return.

It's true, it will become a miracle if a scammer/hacker will ever returned the money that they stole to its user. There is no way that they will return it. That's why every individual in the crypto community should be careful and alway activate any 2fa or verification to have a high security of our own wallets.

this is a usual case though, but no solution has been found to help. there's no robinhood yet, so everyone just has to be careful with whom they do their business dealings with

I have been hacked many times by a friend of mine in facebook. He targeted 5 websites that I am using and he took almost 200$ from me. Luckily I had only few amounts of bitcoin at store on my wallets since I always convert it to cash to be used in daily expenses. After that event I placed 2fa on almost all of my websites that I joined. As of now there are zero cases of me being hacked but I was scammed many times due to greed of earning huge profit. So far none of that btc have returned. Its hopeless.

Never heard and experienced like this before through my 4 years in bitcoin industry and countless times I got scammed no one return, they stole it for a reason bro they are greedy they won't return even a penny to us. It's impossible that a scammer would ever give back the bitcoin he scammed.

For solution to the existing issues that has to do with reverse transactions will be an end to the lingering scams around the world of cryptocurrency. They have said the only solution to this is; creating a layer on Bitcoin core to act as an escrow, but sincerely speaking this will be done in the nearest future, until then, play safe and act smart.

From my understanding what's been stolen from wallets is similar to the offering to the God. This can't be got back, as it belongs to the respective church or the other temple authority. The funds might get used in some other way for other charities through the authority. This will not be got back to the owner.

I have never encountered with such situation but i have never heard that some hacker returning your money after stoling it from your wallet.The owner never gets it back and you must be careful beforehand and never wish for such miracle to take place.