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Author Topic: So I just lost 5.000 $ right? ETHEREUM Destination address typo error  (Read 1265 times)
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September 08, 2017, 06:01:26 PM
Last edit: September 08, 2017, 06:22:37 PM by wmm_O
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I was doing my first ethereum transaction right now as I got paid this way for the very, very first time.

Received my coins here on my mobile wallet:
0xeE183DC2242b25ef8AE86caf4FEF6d18794893c8
https://etherscan.io/address/0xee183dc2242b25ef8ae86caf4fef6d18794893c8

And sent them right away to an exchange as I was familiar way more with bitcoin than ethereum. As the mobile wallet's QR code reader function (Coinomi) did not work at all, I had to manually type the destination address and of course did a typo.

It was supposed to be sent to: 0x3f13171bedaf7a2b6e69fc12e08ff0429d8b058b

And I sent them there: 0x3f13171bedaf7a2b6e69fc12e08ff0429d8b059b
https://etherscan.io/address/0x3f13171bedaf7a2b6e69fc12e08ff0429d8b059b

I think I am going to die now, what the heck. with bitcoin you cant send to wrong and invalid addresses how is that going with ethers??? Embarrassed

Anybody knows what to do? How on earth could this crypto currency be send to invalid / non existing addresses???

I for sure will never use ethereum again, this is crazy wtf..
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September 08, 2017, 06:14:05 PM
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Well it appears your screwed. It's a valid address, that's why it worked. Same thing can happen with bitcoin. I'm sorry for your loss.
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September 08, 2017, 06:14:35 PM
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Wow..if you really hit a valid address then you're really unlucky!
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September 08, 2017, 06:15:54 PM
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Wow..if you really hit a valid address then you're really unlucky!
Yeah but otherwise it could've not been sent or am I wrong? and it was just one wrong letter, a number to be precisely.

holy shit... Embarrassed
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September 08, 2017, 06:19:44 PM
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I'm afraid to tell you that the ETH you used is lost because the transaction is showing confirmed already and also unfortunetly the address was a valid one.
Sorry for your losses
Don't do these type of mistakes again

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September 08, 2017, 06:23:45 PM
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it's a huge value. why such a thing can happen without being deliberately. the only way if you find the owner of the wallet. I think you're really out of luck bro. I'm sorry to hear that.
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September 08, 2017, 06:26:42 PM
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Oh no! Sorry to hear that. Non-reversible and no recourse. Unless you know the owner of the wallet and they do you a solid.
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September 08, 2017, 06:28:39 PM
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Wow, so sorry for your loss!  Was there no way to copy/paste the address?  I don't know if I'd trust myself to manually type in an address without an error.  If I just had to do it I'd double, triple, and quadruple check the address.

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September 08, 2017, 06:31:25 PM
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Wow, so sorry for your loss!  Was there no way to copy/paste the address?  I don't know if I'd trust myself to manually type in an address without an error.  If I just had to do it I'd double, triple, and quadruple check the address.

unfortunately not, no. i could have sent me the wallet by messenger or mail.. but did not as i was in a rush and just wanted to get them onto the exchange. was a big and truly expensive mistake as i know now.

and i know it was a pretty dumb idea to accept an altcoin i was not familiar with, but it was ONE small typo, a 9 instead of 8 in the address. this is unbelievably bad luck.. Huh Embarrassed Embarrassed Embarrassed
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September 08, 2017, 07:46:33 PM
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Sorry to hear that. This might be a bit naive, but if the owner of that address is honest and a bitcointalk member, maybe you can start a thread trying to find the owner of that address? Maybe offer a reward or something like that? It is a huge chunk of money so they might be willing to come forward.
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September 08, 2017, 07:50:27 PM
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Out of curiosity has anyone ever had a successful recovery of a mislaid transaction where the owner just transferred it back or a partial amount back?

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September 08, 2017, 08:35:57 PM
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Did you not copy the address?

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September 08, 2017, 08:45:14 PM
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I was doing my first ethereum transaction right now as I got paid this way for the very, very first time.

Wow, so sorry to hear about this happening to you.

I might be doing this wrong as I'm not as familiar with Eth as BTC, but I'm showing that the wallet had no transactions prior to this one.

https://etherscan.io/balancecheck-tool?a=0x3f13171bedaf7a2b6e69fc12e08ff0429d8b059b

So... I am thinking that while it must be a valid address (either that or Eth does not check/care), that the wallet has never actually been used.  I don't know if that helps or makes it worse in terms of recovery.  Again, very sorry and I hope you are able to recover your funds.


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September 08, 2017, 08:59:23 PM
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Each ethereum address can have two different formats: lowercase OR partially uppercase. Partially uppercase format is checksummed meaning that if you mistype something, transaction won't go through. Lowercase format is not checksummed. For this reason, you should try to use partially uppercase format whenever possible. You can read more about it here: http://myetherwallet.groovehq.com/knowledge_base/topics/not-checksummed-shows-when-i-enter-an-address or here: https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/issues/55

EDIT: also, that exchange you're talking about should probably know better than to use non-checksummed deposit addresses.

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September 08, 2017, 08:59:44 PM
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I am so sorry for your losses :-(
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September 08, 2017, 09:11:11 PM
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This will not help you but...
When I'm need to send some big amount i'm just send some small amount. After everything is correct I will send full sum.

Wish you have a power to live through this event. Life is going!
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September 08, 2017, 09:13:15 PM
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Nothing can be done.
You made more than 1 typo here:

0x3F13171BEdAf7a2b6e69fC12e08ff0429D8b058b
0x3F13171BedAf7a2B6E69Fc12e08fF0429d8b059b
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I understand typos after number, but you had two ff and you typed  f F?

To many typo if you ask me. Are you trolling us here?

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September 08, 2017, 09:27:18 PM
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I don't know what to say. I'm very sorry for your loss. I hope you make much more money to compensate with another coin or trade.

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September 08, 2017, 10:20:24 PM
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I'm sorry but I have to laugh!  Grin Grin. In my opinion, you should ALWAYS copy and paste the address and certainly, you screwed up. Your mistake turned out to be a very expensive one!
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September 08, 2017, 11:01:16 PM
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Won't get your money back, but know that many - even extremely experienced - users have had this bad luck. It's called an expensive lesson... Good luck man.

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