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@shYter90, there are also block explorers that tags these known addresses from exchanges e.g. walletexplorer.com however it's not privacy friendly if that is something you care about.
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bro. why complicating things for him? he just asked where he can find freelance writer for crypto. and service board is full of those. let him go easy way.
We can't be sure if the available writers here will meet OP's criteria so it's always nice to have alternatives. In addition, using multiple platforms to find people could also 'broaden your search'. Some freelancers could be in platform X but not in platform Y therefore if you stay in one place, you could be missing out on other candidates. I would recommend it if OP is looking for a specific quality and/or has a limited budget. |
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Then I see no reason why these 'well-known authors you've worked with' wouldn't vouch for your service in their official handles. In fact, it's normal for authors to link where people can buy their works.
It's one way to make people less skeptic about your service. I highly suggest it.
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So bassacly I have lost alle bitcoins on my bitstamp account because I cannot document how I got the bitcoin? I cannot even rember how I got them.
You can try to look for clues in your email account/s during 2013 and see if you signed up to any bitcoin-related services. Look up words such as bitcoin, btc, purchase etc... or try reviewing all the "verify your email" emails during the said year. |
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i didn't learn coinpayments.net until you fall victim to it. it links to a site https://giftmarket.top/ to sell cheap gift cards and the payment method is to transfer money to the wallet of coinpayments.net you will never receive gift card after money transfer you will also never get refund from coinpayments.net Stay away from it and warn everyone Sorry but you are blaming the wrong person here. Coinpayments is merely a payment processor-- a tool designed to help merchants accept cryptocurrencies. Just like how exchanges (and its wallets) can be used by scammers, the same also applies to these payment processors. Unless you're saying this obscure website was endorsed by them which I doubt happened. Try to report the website for fraud in coinpayments, maybe they'll ban them or something. |
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I’ve already file a complaint to FBI IC3, but do not expect them to respond immediately. Should I continue to stay in contact with my mentor as not to alert her?
Unfortunately reporting doesn't mean it will be investigated but the bigger the case becomes the more likely it is to gain their attention. astrox411, I've enabled newbie to send me personal messages. Feel free if you want to chat via personal messages to share scam experience. Thanks.
One of the main reasons why this pig butchering scams worked is because the victims were in a closed space called PMs where outside opinions are less likely to go thru, hence it's not a good idea for anyone here to immediately slide into people's PMs unless we're talking about information that is not suited in public communities. |
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That's all good advice, but there's more to it than that. Anytime you join a group you're exposing yourself as someone who's interested in the subject of said group. For example, I recently joined a group to get some technical support on a (legitimate) BTC service. Normally I leave the group once I've done my business, but this time I stuck around to see what other issues people were discussing. It didn't take too long before I was getting messages from unknown individuals playing chummy and asking very personal questions. Much like cold-call telephone scammers. You can easily put two and two together; scammers see you as a member of the group, and try out their scam attempt on you.
Telegram needs to step up their game. Discord seems to be doing a better job at handling scam DMs (at least from my experience). My most recent encounter were all automatically marked as 'likely spam' and had their content hidden. I am also able to join cryto groups without worrying about scam DMs as there's an option to block all messages coming from non-friends (whitelisting some servers is also possible). Telegram has a similar feature called "archive and mute" that automatically sends PMs from strangers to a chat folder but apparently, it will only show up if a user has received too many messages from unknown contacts.... |
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There's also /r/Jobs4Bitcoins in case you can't find someone you like here. Just make sure to not pay first and use of the escrow agents unless the person on the other end is reputable enough. |
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Yes, scammers were probably around but bitcoin was almost worthless as well...
Price doesn't matter when people are buying thousands of it. Even a $25 could feed a family from a 3rd world country for a day or two. My belief is anyone using Bitcoin in 2010 knew about private keys and self custody and all that since really there was even the only way to send things like that
and the fact that you do not need a private key to send someone bitcoins is the the basic of the basics. |
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In simpler terms it's a phishing scam with an addition of the old fake investment/advance fee fraud where you're promised of high guaranteed returns magically appearing out of nowhere. There is no such thing as high profit with zero risk, money ain't that easy. This isn't arbitrage trading either, you're just buying crypto and sending it to the scammer's address. Scammers would often use buzzwords (smart contract, arbitrage, decentralized) to appear 'smart' and 'legit'. In the future, I'd make use of this tool by binance to verify their official handles, see https://www.binance.com/en/official-verification |
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So did people in 2010 when buying from a website actually sell wallets (or private keys) rather than sell Bitcoin that they would then transfer to the buyer?
If that ever happened it would belong to the minority side but I can't imagine someone who ask for private key/s as a means of withdrawal had a clean intention... My guess is OP was scammed and/or is relying on some hazy memory. |
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I talk with lot Austrian companies, also with VirWOX. They tell me at the end only MtGOX sell Bitcoins in that period with that price, maybe some Austrian company reselling Bitcoins for them at that time, i don't know.
I don't know for sure but that seems unlikely. There's honestly too little info to guess. Whatever happened to checking emails? I was looking into bitcoin communities in austria and found an NPO founded in the same year ( https://bitcoin-austria.at), they might be able to tell what was available for the locals during that time. Found them in bitcoin wiki in case you're curious. |
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Ah yes I forgot they exist... but since we're talking about bitcoin, I'd stay far away from any browser miner who claims they're mining bitcoin given how unprofitable it is with CPU/GPU, you won't get good results from it.
I have not seen this before, what I have seen before are apps and sites that confuse people that they are mining sites in a way to think you can use your laptop and phones to mine but not actually how it works. Some even are mining but no more profitable. The faucets that I know like freebitco are the real faucets that reward people for solving captcha and the reward is not that profitable compared to the time used to be solving captcha. There are CPU mineable coins and it could work if you manage to get ahold of a huge chunk of ppls PC/smartphone's processing power. In terms of profitability only the service provider and/or the website owner has the chance for it, average users who are mining using one or two PCs can't expect more than a beer money. |
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Yes, you are right, they receive from that company wallet ID, and other creditials. They tell me also receive notifications from that company about BTC price changes.
Wallet ID reminds me of blockchain.info (now blockchain.com) however their web wallet was setup during 2012 and the buying service was by the end of the same year. They aren't an autrian company either but I see they had sofort banking during that time. You can find how their wallet ID/Identifier looks like back then at: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=40264.0 |
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About the taxes. I am not so sure about the taxing policies in your Country but what I have always known is that they mostly tax capital gains, not losses including money lost to scams
They were talking about reducing the taxes they owe by declaring losses. If eligible (since not every loss is tax deductible), a portion of their taxable income would be reduced. |
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I am now just focusing on how I can at least deduct it on my taxes. My initial research does not give hope since theft losses are not deductible. I have some hope that I can claim it as a "rug pull" which may be considered a capital loss.
That could be a way to minimize losses but can be another problem if done wrong. I suggest consulting a local CPA who has experience with crypto taxes, this list could help: https://cointracking.info/law/. |
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It is very difficult to trace the company you are referring to, which was operating in 2011, considering that in Australia there are, more and less 11 companies running Bitcoin/crypto exchange business.OP was actually talking about Austria not Australia. My friend buyed Bitcoins in 2011 from Austrian Company, they make payment via Bank. After few months they lost his iPhone where is stored all data from company and Bitcoin account. From that time they is unable to find that company, i search for him but i can't find nothing. I see lot members here know all about Bitcoin from start. Maybe anyone know who sell Bitcoins in Austria 2011 year, and where can be that Bitcoins stored. They know email used on that company and we can recover them.
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There's a good chance it's now defunct, the oldest austria-based exchange I could find that is still in business was founded in 2014 (supposing no one moved). If it's some local exchange, looking up using their language is something to try.
Since the friend still has access to the email account, try reviewing all verification emails during 2011. You could also use possible keywords such as exchange, bitcoin, BTC etc.. when searching for emails.
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If you already had a wallet you had an option of having the bitcoins transferred to that wallet by inputting the word list or a private key, if not then it created the wallet and gave a list of words, a file download of the wallet and a string of characters as I mentioned in my first post.
Huh? why would they ask for your private key (AKA access to your btcs) instead of your address during withdrawal? Are we sure this isn't some scam exchange? were you able to actually confirm you own the bitcoins? |
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