Hi, I have a friend that has got scammed yesterday.
He was searching on youtube about Bitcoins and he found a video about a Bitcoin Generator. He trusted it (He is noob at pc and money so he didn't know about scams).
He downloaded the program, he launched it and there was "You have to deposite 0.01 btc to [wallet address] to activate the generator". He deposited it
He restarted the program and nothing happened... he lost the money.
He want to report this to the police... can he do that? Will the police do anything? Will my friend get back his bitcoins?
Your friend who was deceived deserved it because he wanted a shortcut. It was a pure case of greed. I once was caught up too in this web early this year when I got newly into cryptocurrency and thought it was easy out there making 1btc a month. I got burnt a couple of times by some Bitcoin doubling sites like:
http://bitcoin-maker.biz and others before I learnt my lesson and moved on. Let your friend love on. He has paid for his greed.