Hi guys! I have realized that I got robbed and scammed by professional programmers. First of all, I'm not the only person got scammed with this method. The scammers wallet address is 17bH1SYLoBdGsBaDedPR2EE3JUt8oRS7qd . This address and the issue is currently being discussed in reddit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/BitcoinCA/comments/7keu2l/scammed_watch_your_google_chrome_extensions/Firstly, I have paid 0.0585 btc for purchasing hash power from hashflare on December 13, but it didn't reflect to my account, then I've opened a ticket and started to wait an answer. In that period I have decided to purchase monero hashpower from genesis mining, and paid 0.043031 on december 16. Because I'm a beginner on bitcoin community, I couldn't understand that the hackers replace their wallets qr code on my payment page on both hashflare and genesis mining website. and today I realized that I had paid my payments to exact same addresses. Than I have searched this address (17bH1SYLoBdGsBaDedPR2EE3JUt8oRS7qd) and found a topic on reddit. They are currently continuing to scam people. I don't know what do I do? I was using ublock adblocker, reddit users saying that the cause is adblocker. I want from you to speak out this kind of scamming. I have lost 1750$ and I'm so upset. My scammed transaction id's are:
https://blockchain.info/tr/tx/6d36c986298332973f2a42f524d286e07000fb3bc98949de28b7b5f92e092053https://blockchain.info/tx/45040b8ad51b86e8cf5d79018c17b6dd9c1924d2cb2f36dab99ed4dc11586a13They even currently scamming people, recently someone paid 4600$
Please help and speak out.
1750$ was %60 of my investment. But I will never stop to promote this decentralised new world! Never give up.
If there is someone want to console me and compensate my damage even though a little bit, here is my ethereum wallet: 0x63037338dc8ffe7cbec377d7daa679ad5a6fdc8f
I will update my wallet balance when I got money for transparency.
So 1.6 BTC scammed just on that address, which i don't think that is even close to the full amount that the scammer has scammed through this method since he could have easily used multiple addresses to receive funds to.
This is by no means an old method of scamming people, in fact it has been around at least since last year, that's when i first saw this kind of scam emerge. But to get it via a chrome extension seems new to me.
Always check at least the first four letters of your address to confirm that it is the correct address - if it isn't then install antivirus/uninstall some extensions to see which one is the culprit.