NEED HELP! 6000 dollars stuck

[DCFreak]

So i made an account and pressed on Import Bitcoin addresses to make it and I received about .964 of Bitcoin. Is there a way to get that money out of that wallet or did I just lose 6 grand. When I made the account it didnt give me a seed. P.S. I did this from my phone. Please respond ASAP! 

ok... so where did you send the money from?
Go there, get the transaction ID and post it here so we can check the transaction status. Maybe its not confirmed yet hence you can't send the BTC anywhere else and thats why it says pending.

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[Rickorick]

There lies the scam, you cant change a watch only wallet, NEVER! Who ever gave you the address, probably scammed you.

[vel2001]

how could they scam me if i didnt pay them any money. I was being paid

[SportbetMaster]

i got it from verified source from Tesla. Is there any way to change a watching only account to a normal wallet, thats all im asking

I just downloaded the electrum wallet on my android to understand how it work.
you clicked on the camera to scan a QR code and you imported the address right?
Now you should know that your bitcoin are not in you phone wallet but are in the address that you have previously imported.
you should go to your computer where you have created a new wallet and try to send the btc to a trusted wallet

[Rickorick]

Ok. then the address you imported int electrum, how did you create it?

[LoyceMobile]

how could they scam me if i didnt pay them any money. I was being paid

I'll give you this address: 16rCmCmbuWDhPjWTrpQGaU3EPdZF7MTdUk
If you import it, you have $700 million in your wallet. But you can never use it.

You didn't get paid, you received someone else's address. Adding Tesla for credibility only makes it sound more like a scam.

[Remember remember the 5th of November]

i got it from verified source from Tesla. Is there any way to change a watching only account to a normal wallet, thats all im asking

Not if you do not get the private key from said person.

[bob123]

I see so much scams currently. And all do follow the same scheme.

The scammer somehow sells an 'address' to someone, which then will be imported as a watch-only wallet, tricking the buyer into believing he owns the coins now.


May i ask how people get into this situation ? I mean.. HOW did you get in contact with the scammer ? And WHAT did he tell you? And why did you try to buy it this way without knowing how bitcoin works / what bitcoin is ?
How can someone believe that some public information (address) is enough to 'own' money ? I mean.. everyone can know this address, it is public.


Dear OP, please tell us WHERE and HOW you got in contact with the scammer. It won't help you, but it might help future victims.

[HCP]

May i ask how people get into this situation ? I mean.. HOW did you get in contact with the scammer ? And WHAT did he tell you? And why did you try to buy it this way without knowing how bitcoin works / what bitcoin is ?
How can someone believe that some public information (address) is enough to 'own' money ? I mean.. everyone can know this address, it is public.

Because there are a LOT of people who see/read all the news about Bitcoin (and Cryptocurrency) and want to get on the cryptomoneytrain after seeing all the instagram/twitter posts by the Lamborghini driving "Insta Crypto Millionaires" but who have no real idea about how it all works.

As the famous quote goes... "There's a sucker born every minute".

#humansGonnaHuman... Greed always seems to trump commonsense (not unique to the Cryptosphere)... and with Crypto it's probably cheaper and easier to get away with, hence the proliferation of HYIP's, "Coin Doublers" and other crypto scams that abound.

[tarball]

i got it from verified source from Tesla. Is there any way to change a watching only account to a normal wallet, thats all im asking

There are two types of wallets: watch-only wallets, and non-watch-only/regular/normal/signing wallets. A watch-only wallet has a public key hash (bitcoin address), with the wallet tracking its history on the blockchain. It can also create unsigned bitcoin transactions which can later be signed with the private key (in a different wallet).

A 'normal wallet' is one that has private keys (from which the pubkey and pubkeyhash are created). The transactions here are created, signed, and broadcast (the latter if it is an online wallet). With this wallet, you 'own' the coins you see on the wallet as you can transact with them. On a watch-only wallet you cannot however (hence the term watch-only).

[idsyours]

how could they scam me if i didnt pay them any money. I was being paid

Long story short: No, you can't get that bitcoin out of there. You don't have the password (private key) to the wallet. Whoever sent you that bitcoin, tricked you into believing that you own this bitcoin now. But you don't. Hope you didn't pay for it.

[stomachgrowls]

how could they scam me if i didnt pay them any money. I was being paid

Long story short: No, you can't get that bitcoin out of there. You don't have the password (private key) to the wallet. Whoever sent you that bitcoin, tricked you into believing that you own this bitcoin now. But you don't. Hope you didn't pay for it.

Thats the question since he do already forgot this thread he might already known that wallets being given is watch-only. Advice's above the the most precise things about these classic way of scamming.
I'm surprised that it do still exist even nowadays.Only people who are completely newbie to blockchain tech and basic wallet informations will normally easily got victimized with this obvious schemes.