Bitcoin Forum
May 28, 2024, 03:48:08 PM *
News: Latest Bitcoin Core release: 27.0 [Torrent]
 
   Home   Help Search Login Register More  
Pages: « 1 [2]  All
  Print  
Author Topic: I keep getting calls telling me there are are few bitcoins blocked in my name.  (Read 218 times)
SFR10
Legendary
*
Offline Offline

Activity: 3010
Merit: 3441


Crypto Swap Exchange


View Profile WWW
January 21, 2022, 06:14:25 PM
 #21

One of them even sent me a screenshot (I am sure that is fake as well).
Would you mind sharing that screenshot here [I'm interested in seeing the URL part]?
Note: Don't forget to censor/blur the sensitive parts!

There's nothing else you could do except changing your phone number.
There's always the option of ignoring calls from unknown numbers.

For now, I am not trading in anything, crypto or shares. I let the bank do it.
What kind of trading is the bank in question, doing on your behalf?

█▀▀▀











█▄▄▄
▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀
e
▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄
█████████████
████████████▄███
██▐███████▄█████▀
█████████▄████▀
███▐████▄███▀
████▐██████▀
█████▀█████
███████████▄
████████████▄
██▄█████▀█████▄
▄█████████▀█████▀
███████████▀██▀
████▀█████████
▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀
c.h.
▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄
▀▀▀█











▄▄▄█
▄██████▄▄▄
█████████████▄▄
███████████████
███████████████
███████████████
███████████████
███░░█████████
███▌▐█████████
█████████████
███████████▀
██████████▀
████████▀
▀██▀▀
Kakmakr
Legendary
*
Offline Offline

Activity: 3444
Merit: 1958

Leading Crypto Sports Betting & Casino Platform


View Profile
January 21, 2022, 06:31:44 PM
 #22

Apparently people still fall for the old Nigerian Prince scam (Also called : Advance-fee scam), because these people are still trying to do it.  Grin

An advance-fee scam is a form of fraud and is one of the most common types of confidence tricks. The scam typically involves promising the victim a significant share of a large sum of money, in return for a small up-front payment, which the fraudster claims will be used to obtain the large sum. If a victim makes the payment, the fraudster either invents a series of further fees for the victim to pay or simply disappears.

Source : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advance-fee_scam

I think the targets for these scams are people who are new to the Internet or older people who are desperate to increase or double their savings. (They do not have work, so they do anything to get a little extra money)  Angry Angry Angry

..Stake.com..   ▄████████████████████████████████████▄
   ██ ▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄            ▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄ ██  ▄████▄
   ██ ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀ ██████████ ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀ ██  ██████
   ██ ██████████ ██      ██ ██████████ ██   ▀██▀
   ██ ██      ██ ██████  ██ ██      ██ ██    ██
   ██ ██████  ██ █████  ███ ██████  ██ ████▄ ██
   ██ █████  ███ ████  ████ █████  ███ ████████
   ██ ████  ████ ██████████ ████  ████ ████▀
   ██ ██████████ ▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄ ██████████ ██
   ██            ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀            ██ 
   ▀█████████▀ ▄████████████▄ ▀█████████▀
  ▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄███  ██  ██  ███▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄
 ██████████████████████████████████████████
▄▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▄
█  ▄▀▄             █▀▀█▀▄▄
█  █▀█             █  ▐  ▐▌
█       ▄██▄       █  ▌  █
█     ▄██████▄     █  ▌ ▐▌
█    ██████████    █ ▐  █
█   ▐██████████▌   █ ▐ ▐▌
█    ▀▀██████▀▀    █ ▌ █
█     ▄▄▄██▄▄▄     █ ▌▐▌
█                  █▐ █
█                  █▐▐▌
█                  █▐█
▀▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▀█
▄▄█████████▄▄
▄██▀▀▀▀█████▀▀▀▀██▄
▄█▀       ▐█▌       ▀█▄
██         ▐█▌         ██
████▄     ▄█████▄     ▄████
████████▄███████████▄████████
███▀    █████████████    ▀███
██       ███████████       ██
▀█▄       █████████       ▄█▀
▀█▄    ▄██▀▀▀▀▀▀▀██▄  ▄▄▄█▀
▀███████         ███████▀
▀█████▄       ▄█████▀
▀▀▀███▄▄▄███▀▀▀
..PLAY NOW..
isaac_clarke22
Sr. Member
****
Offline Offline

Activity: 1596
Merit: 264


View Profile
January 21, 2022, 07:10:13 PM
 #23

~
Yeah, if it is senior they're going to come back and ask for more of whatever payment they want. It is really depressing as I heard that some would even claim to be a police  and would charge these people due to a non-existent charges that were done against them.  Some would also claim to be an IRS.
Most common method used by scammers to older people is the tech support scam for obvious reasons and yeah it still happens until this day.
teosanru
Hero Member
*****
Offline Offline

Activity: 2100
Merit: 618


View Profile
January 21, 2022, 07:22:26 PM
 #24

Hi Guys

A few years ago, I was defrauded by some company and they fooled me into investing money with their fake company.

I reported that to the police and to the trading organizations at that time.
Of course, I did not get any money back and the police told me that cannot do anything.

Now, I keep getting calls from people (fraudsters I am sure) telling me that I have a few bitcoins blocked in my name. One of them even sent me a screenshot (I am sure that is fake as well).
They want me to give them 5% so that they can transfer me the bitcoins (I learned the hard way how fraud works), and I am not sending any money to get any money.

My question is...

How, where, and is it possible to check if I really have any bitcoins blocked in my name? (If yes, then how)

Thanks
Andy

*** To any Fraudsters reading this, I am not going to give you any money so please don't try to fool me again. (Fool me once - shame on you, fool me twice - shame on me).
No it's not! Unless you have any rich father who has left behind these assets for you there is no way someone has blocked anything in your name. Any bitcoin lying anywhere can be operated with the private key which you will have. If you don't have it then this company should be having it but if they have it they will just take away all the money why only settle for 5% so don't trust any such scheme
Rengga Jati
Hero Member
*****
Offline Offline

Activity: 1988
Merit: 632


Livecasino.io


View Profile
January 21, 2022, 11:41:08 PM
 #25

I reported that to the police and to the trading organizations at that time.
Of course, I did not get any money back and the police told me that cannot do anything.
This sentence is very familiar and most will also end like this. Be patient and get a lesson from this. So sorry to hear that.
If we have been scammed and we have lost our money in crypto investment with a fake company, I am sure enough that the probability to get back the money is extremely small may be zero.

They want me to give them 5% so that they can transfer me the bitcoins (I learned the hard way how fraud works), and I am not sending any money to get any money.
Don't believe it too easy again, moreover if they ask for some money again from you. They will just deceive you and get your money more and more. but I am quite curious why they can call you? Did you give them your phone number? You may tract it from their phone number, right?

██
██
██
██
██
██
██
██
██
██
██
██
██
... LIVECASINO.io    Play Live Games with up to 20% cashback!...██
██
██
██
██
██
██
██
██
██
██
██
██
sheenshane
Legendary
*
Offline Offline

Activity: 2422
Merit: 1228



View Profile WWW
January 21, 2022, 11:59:19 PM
 #26

First, you may wonder why it becomes Bitcoin blocked in your name and I don't know how they know your name, the last one is Bitcoin block doesn't own by anyone or there's a name on it.  When there's asking money to get larger money after you deposited to them, that's a scam.  Just try troll at them too but never give any amount to them.

This is very common on the Telegram platform(a house of theft) which is someone calling you, asking you for investment, or rather seeking help which acts like they have an account on exchange but they can't withdraw.  You can block/ignore them so that they can't make any calls again. (that's a perfect solution)

▄▄███████████████████▄▄
▄█████████▀█████████████▄
███████████▄▐▀▄██████████
███████▀▀███████▀▀███████
██████▀███▄▄████████████
█████████▐█████████▐█████
█████████▐█████████▐█████
██████████▀███▀███▄██████
████████████████▄▄███████
███████████▄▄▄███████████
█████████████████████████
▀█████▄▄████████████████▀
▀▀███████████████████▀▀
Peach
BTC bitcoin
Buy and Sell
Bitcoin P2P
.
.
▄▄███████▄▄
▄████████
██████▄
▄██
█████████████████▄
▄███████
██████████████▄
███████████████████████
█████████████████████████
████████████████████████
█████████████████████████
▀███████████████████████▀
▀█████████████████████▀
▀██████████████████▀
▀███████████████▀
▀▀███████▀▀

▀▀▀▀███▀▀▀▀
EUROPE | AFRICA
LATIN AMERICA
▄▀▀▀











▀▄▄▄


███████▄█
███████▀
██▄▄▄▄▄░▄▄▄▄▄
████████████▀
▐███████████▌
▐███████████▌
████████████▄
██████████████
███▀███▀▀███▀
.
Download on the
App Store
▀▀▀▄











▄▄▄▀
▄▀▀▀











▀▄▄▄


▄██▄
██████▄
█████████▄
████████████▄
███████████████
████████████▀
█████████▀
██████▀
▀██▀
.
GET IT ON
Google Play
▀▀▀▄











▄▄▄▀
Pages: « 1 [2]  All
  Print  
 
Jump to:  

Powered by MySQL Powered by PHP Powered by SMF 1.1.19 | SMF © 2006-2009, Simple Machines Valid XHTML 1.0! Valid CSS!