Good to hear you already reach Binance and are on the way to a solution. I know it would be hard to get back your funds, but at least you will know the culprit who stole your funds. As usual, Binance wouldn't disclose any personal identity to you due to privacy issues. But they would disclose it to the legal department. So if using Bitcoin is legal in your country then you may proceed with further action to claim police. Best of luck to you.

For security reasons you must reset your Ledger device, don't save it on any machine either online or offline. Write it on paper and save it in multiple places. Don't share with anybody about seeds. Don't trust anyone with funds.

I have reported a site as well where they use fake BBC website design. Here it is, bbcnews.app | Fake Tesla doge giveaway . They are taking advantage of Facebook ads and spreading phishing sites to scam us. Tesla & Elon fake giveaway has become the most famous scam technic nowadays and I think crypto users have become aware of it. Some greedy newbies would just fall into this trap. Anyway, we need to make more awareness to prevent scammers.

As many users already answered, the fund couldn't reverse anyway. There was a rumor that blockchain wallet's staff was involved with that kind of hacking. I just forgot the article where I read it and failed to search. Since users could request to change the email address that's the advantage for inside hackers ( blockchain staff). They don't have access to the fund, but they have access to the user's database like email addresses. So they target few users and make a request to change email and they do it themselves. Then somehow they retrieved the wallet files through email and access to the funds. So it's a possible scenario in your case. Even you don't share any credentials still funds would steal by blockchain staff.

I believe centralized exchange will welcome the government's issued stable coins. Since exchange itself will be most beneficiary by allowing traders to use CBDC. Both are centralized exchange and CBDC. And it will be an advantage for traders to cash out their earnings as well. So from the exchange side, there wouldn't be prevention if the government that creates CBDC does not prevent it. Because all the control of CBDC will be in the government's hands, so getting their permission would be mandatory.

Thanks everyone for your input. To be honest a few users of the forum who were victims of the impersonator advised me change my Telegram username like this I have currently. Once I changed Telegram username then it drives me to think that anyone would sill can create a similar username as my forum profile display name. That's the only reason I requested theymos to change my forum display name as well. I know still scammer could impersonate my username somehow. But it's my belief that the current username is quite safe from the previous. There was no any other intention to change my username like gain weight or prove myself as an established forum member. If you have reasonable reason to change your username then the admin would help you for sure. There is no need for special criteria as far as I know. This thread I just create for the record to avoid any future confusion.

Welcome to the forum. I think you should create an announcement thread in the Service Announcement section. You should write more about your company to draw attention from forum traders. Seems it's a centralized peer to peer exchange where need to submit personal information and verify government-issued identification card. So here is the matter of trust. You have to prove how are you trustworthy and how are you better at existing peer-to-peer exchanges. Why traders should choose you since there are many trusted existing exchanges? Once you create an announcement thread with all the information I have asked for, then traders would inspire to use your platform.

It seems it's hard to withdraw your funds from there without complying with their requirements. You may fight with them in court, but most probably you have to spend more than your portfolio of Paxful. Sometimes exchanges are forced to follow the government's requirements, if something like that then even you can't win from the court as well. If you have access to the address from where you have sent the funds to Paxful, you may try to convince them to send it back to the same address. But I am not sure if it would help or work the right way. But you can give it a try, otherwise, you have to follow their instructions. No one could help you except Paxful support.

Please avoid creating a duplicate post. I know you made this post with good intentions and I appreciate it as well since you are helping newbies. But if you had used the forum search button then you wouldn't create this post, because a lot of related threads would be discovered during the search. I am pointing out this because when you again intent to create a few generic posts then must use the search button. It will prevent may spam from the forum.

Taking possible all usernames is quite hard, let's assume how many usernames would generate this way.
1. C00LCRYPT0VAT0R
2. C0OLCRYPTOVATOR
3. C0OLCRYPT0VATOR
4. C0OLCRYPTOVAT0R
5. CO0LCRYPTOVATOR
6. CO0LCRYPT0VATOR
7. CO0LCRYPTOVAT0R
8. COOLCRYPT0VATOR
9. COOLCRYPTOVAT0R
10 COOLCRYPT0VAT0R

All the above usernames are fake and it's hard to take all the usernames since you need a unique mobile number to take a Telegram username. Not sure if more fake usernames would generate in this way. Any reasonable members should realize the difference between O & 0 if they are familiar with the Telegram scam. It's hard to prevent Telegram impersonators, changing forum username was my little try to prevent them.

First of all, you need to study more to know about how works trust and flag systems. Just keep in mind, trust and flag system can't prevent doing anything except warning. Trust and flag systems have been implemented just for warning purposes. It's not related to forum rules. If a user has a red trust of a flag from DT members and still you want to believe them, then we can't prevent you. That's it.

It's not an easy task for you, but not true for everyone those are related to bounty management. Same like if you aren't a web developer then develop a site with coding hard tasks for you. But it's not a hard task for a web developer at all. Once a time bounty managers had value, but nowadays you will bounty managers everywhere in the forum. Even many newbies managing bounty or working as an assistant. So, it's still easy managing bounty, but it's hard to maintain quality.

So you just create this account to advertise xyz site? When I see a domain extension with xyz, it's looks always suspicious to me. I am not sure or I would be wrong, but this is the thought that comes to mind when seeing this domain extension. If you are the owner of this site, then no one will believe you if make a post like this. If you have a real business then you should open proper announcement threads where you can add more details about your site. But still, it will suspicious if you don't change the domain extension.

With the current username and Telegram username, I believe any reasonable users wouldn't fall into the scam that attempting by an impersonator. As much as I have been trying to prevent impersonator and that's the reason why I changed username. Now depends on the person how they could prevent scammers.

Changing the username takes a week exactly. I send the request to theymos a week back.


Assuming same like me theymos love your old username.

The thread is to notify I have been changed my username from "Coolcryptovator" to "COOLCRYPTOVATOR" by requesting theymos. There is reason why I changed old username. I don't want to loss my previous username, so just turned my old username to CAPITAL letter. I am confirming that from my Bitcoin address as well, here is my old singed message. Thanks theymos

Here is new sign message;

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-----BEGIN BITCOIN SIGNED MESSAGE-----
I am Coolcryptovator, I changed my username from "Coolcryptovator" to "COOLCRYPTOVATOR" and it has been done by theymos. So my current username is COOLCRYPTOVATOR and UID same as before (1980983). Today 19-July-2021.
-----BEGIN SIGNATURE-----
114pNiQHqBRSD8AbP1hVyn5hYQGaBMfXYW
H1JVwgCXIUa7X9SahipULSanWR2mejHoGWUjGoQ2UMm4dE/gf0PVTEInVuFkR8dW1kwK2ZmUH+xfOk3vTMpX6I0=
-----END BITCOIN SIGNED MESSAGE-----

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Verified

You are right, my username has been changed from Coolcryptovator to COOLCRYPTOVATOR. I have requested to admin a few days back due to Telegram impersonator and today I received PM from admin "Done". So I believe there is a low chance to impersonate. I will make a reputation thread with BTC signature soon when I sit on my PC. Thanks to the admin theymos since username change possible only by admin.

Wrong. I have talked with Telegram support, once you change your Telegram username, then your previous username will release for others. So anyone would take it after 15 minutes you left.

Simply I do not get advice from anywhere lately. Yea, once a time I was stupid and took advice from others about crypto trading and lost portfolio as well. After then I never follow anyone nor take advice. Once I start to make decisions myself during trading after then I can say I am not in the loss at all although I am not in profits. I am pretty sure you will lose your portfolio especially if you follow trading advice from Telegram. From YouTube, you may just learn, but don't take advice from them. As soon as you can teach yourself then you would be gainers. Otherwise, it's pretty hard to stay stable in crypto trading by depending on advice.

@OP, can you please add more details about your accusation by following the scam accusation format from the pinned post. It's hard to understand what you exactly want to mean. You should add references to original wallets and mention which is the fake wallet. Then we can get it easily and could avoid fake wallets. Your current thread really wouldn't help many users unless you add more details. Just insert a phishing link in the code, so no one would click on that. Don't trust often in Google ads, use the proper URL for your desire site.

Bumping this thread with an update.
Seems scammers still continue their activities about buying devalued coins. Mostly they are targeting Telegram crypto-related groups. 2 days back I have received another PM from scammers, I don't have enough time to play with him. So I just ignore and report it. So guys just be careful from this scammer.

Sadly there are no rules for merit buy/sell, it's just the same as account farming and selling. The rules about merit sell are limited for merit sources. Merit sources aren't allowed to sell their merits anyway. I don't think anyone intends to sell merit they don't have really anything. So it's just a scam method. The good thing is merit sell thread has been trashed by moderators. I don't know why users attempt to buy merit where they could earn it from here just by little effort.

I am wondering why reputation is too important to build? Those name you have mentioned in the thread, they are best contributors to the forum. I don't think they had focused to build their reputation in the forum and as far as I can see they always try their best to contribute to the forum. Reputation can't build, your activity and contributions will determine your reputation. If you try to build a reputation so quickly, then based on my experience there would be a reaction as well. I have seen a few users who had tried to build their reputation in the forum so quickly. But at the end of the day, they left the forum or got a tag from DT members.

So, I will suggest contributing to the forum. It doesn't necessary to concentrate to build your reputation. Just be honest and help others.