This is not the first time I am buying bitcoins or had a bitcoin wallet.
I have had several bitcoin wallets which never got hacked, like coninbase, bitcoinwallet, Zebpay and more.
Although a scamster in the past took my webmoney but did not pay bitcoins but this was an year ago. I was able to find him the exact person and had a telephonic chat with him, his name was Govind Sidhu and I did expose him, however he was not caught by authorities..
Anyways now I have never had a coin mining software installed on my system..
Nor is there any malware and you have to take my word for it.
I am connected with a very high speed internet connection with 50mega bits per sec speed, and I do also happen to install the latest antivirus and malware software.
This is the sequence of events that unfolded..
Do remember that any login to Blockchain.info is protected by a wallet identifier, a password and approval by email.
In this scenario if a phishing site does happen to obtain my password or wallet identifier it still cannot do anything because it would not and cannot gain access to the wallet because it would never have the email approval, (which 99% possibly takes ip address into factor)
So the facts of the case are
1. New Wallet, new email, safe computer, high speed internet with all latest malware protection and antivirus,
2. Have experience of bitcoins since 2012 and also had been scammed once before
3. The address where I intended to pay the bitcoins got changed.
4. When I went out to do a transaction using my blockchain.info wallet the transaction showed pending and the bitpay invoice was unpaid
5. The address where the bitcoins were sent got changed to some unknown address where it was not intended to send them
6. The support team of blockchain.info is completely clueless and helpless
My takeaway from this SCAM
1. If I were to take take every penny I owned and put it in bitcoins I could turn bankrupt in a single night...
2. The Blockchain.info wallet has had several similar reports
3. I used to think bitcoins could be tracked and hackers traced but now I know this is not possible
4. Blockchain.info has been completely unsupportive in this case, the transaction showed pending without even a single confirmation for several hours..
5. Blockchain has links with other sites and automated system to steal and clear out all the bitcoins from some accounts.
6. I checked the place where the bitcoins were transferred and it is my personal belief the same scamsters have stolen at least 10 mil in bitcoins...