3 Years Ago I Lost 5 BTCs from a Scam Sent From BitcoinTalk.org Official Email

[cryptozink]

NOTE: Sorry, I got my date mixed up. It was Aug 26, 2014. I sold the website with the email address I was using in 2017. I don't have access to that info anymore. I found this in one of my old computer drives. This is what started it.

https://imgur.com/a/pThEAAx

True story,

In 2017 I was running my bitcoin blog; one of the first blogs created in the space, when someone contacted me from an official BitcoinTalk.org. They asked for 5 BTCs to post a banner ad on BT. Seeing that the email was coming from an official BT address, I sent them 5 BTCs.

Two weeks later after not hearing from anyone, I received a message from BitcoinTalk.org saying their email was hacked and the ad offer was from a scammer.

5 Bitcoins today = $40,000 USD. I really miss it. I wish BitcoinTalk.org would at least say sorry.

[crwth]

An ad for 5 BTC in 2017 is freaking excessive. That would have already been a red flag. AFAIK, ads here are being auctioned, not contacted directly. That's sad that you fell through a scam like that. I hope you try to verify the facts first before anything else. Anyone can say they are "Official" unless you verify it. I hope you learned your lesson now. Bitcointalk is nowhere near responsible for your loss.

[yazher]

True story,

In 2017 I was running my bitcoin blog; one of the first blogs created in the space, when someone contacted me from an official BitcoinTalk.org. They asked for 5 BTCs to post a banner ad on BT. Seeing that the email was coming from an official BT address, I sent them 5 BTCs.

Two weeks later after not hearing from anyone, I received a message from BitcoinTalk.org saying their email was hacked and the ad offer was from a scammer.

5 Bitcoins today = $40,000 USD. I really miss it. I wish BitcoinTalk.org would at least say sorry.

2017 was not too long ago, that time when the price of bitcoin was already high. it was 5 BTC? then it was a huge amount of money. no one will gonna pay that high for a mere banner. that's not a reasonable price. you should have known that. the biggest error you did is, you sent the BTC right away without having a second though. This is the problem with us every time we heard something from a trusted source, even though the offer is strange we rush to take that offer. we really need to pause our self and think the possible consequences. so that we won't end up like this man.

[Herbert2020]

you didn't say which month so i am going to take the middle price and same month of October ($4000), this means someone asked you to pay $20,000 for a simple banner ad and you jumped at paying it? what the hell are you advertising that it was worth it to you to pay $20k for just one banner ad?

ps: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_spoofing

[Coin_trader]

True story,

In 2017 I was running my bitcoin blog; one of the first blogs created in the space, when someone contacted me from an official BitcoinTalk.org. They asked for 5 BTCs to post a banner ad on BT. Seeing that the email was coming from an official BT address, I sent them 5 BTCs.

Two weeks later after not hearing from anyone, I received a message from BitcoinTalk.org saying their email was hacked and the ad offer was from a scammer.

5 Bitcoins today = $40,000 USD. I really miss it. I wish BitcoinTalk.org would at least say sorry.

Can you provide a screenshot of the email and also your conversation to bitcointalk email telling what you said?

[NathanJB]

True story,

In 2017 I was running my bitcoin blog; one of the first blogs created in the space, when someone contacted me from an official BitcoinTalk.org. They asked for 5 BTCs to post a banner ad on BT. Seeing that the email was coming from an official BT address, I sent them 5 BTCs.

Two weeks later after not hearing from anyone, I received a message from BitcoinTalk.org saying their email was hacked and the ad offer was from a scammer.

5 Bitcoins today = $40,000 USD. I really miss it. I wish BitcoinTalk.org would at least say sorry.

Official bitcointalk.org accounts could be hacked as accounts here could also be hacked. If an exchange wallet could be victimized, how much more an email address? So the best thing to do is to never give any amount of BTC to anyone, even if it comes from Satoshi Nakamoto. If someone suddenly PMed me using theymos's account asking for 5 BTC, I will not give him that. Legitimate business deals do not happen that way.

[Kakmakr]

True story,

In 2017 I was running my bitcoin blog; one of the first blogs created in the space, when someone contacted me from an official BitcoinTalk.org. They asked for 5 BTCs to post a banner ad on BT. Seeing that the email was coming from an official BT address, I sent them 5 BTCs.

Two weeks later after not hearing from anyone, I received a message from BitcoinTalk.org saying their email was hacked and the ad offer was from a scammer.

5 Bitcoins today = $40,000 USD. I really miss it. I wish BitcoinTalk.org would at least say sorry.

Proof or it did not happen.    So, why did you post it here... and where are the discussion about this on the forum, because if this did happen, then there would have been a heated debate on the matter...right. 

You must be Mr. Moneybags to pay that much for a banner ad.    Post some screenshots of the deposit you made into the Bitcointalk.org Bitcoin address for payments for this services, so that we can see that this is genuine. 

[stompix]

True story

In 2017 I was running my bitcoin blog; one of the first blogs created in the space, when someone contacted me from an official BitcoinTalk.org. They asked for 5 BTCs to post a banner ad on BT. Seeing that the email was coming from an official BT address, I sent them 5 BTCs.

What's your blog, cause the website you have in your profile was created in 2018 and by 2017 there were thousands of blogs already
Your account is not from 2017 either.
And you get scammed for 5 BTC (worth maybe 15-100k depending on the month in which it happned) and you just now come here to talk about? Of course, for somebody claiming to airdrop 9 million $ in tokens that would peanuts /s

So,
- screenshot of the email with the full header
- proof of the transaction with a message signed from the sending address so you just don't pick any random tx from the chain

[abel1337]

True story,

In 2017 I was running my bitcoin blog; one of the first blogs created in the space, when someone contacted me from an official BitcoinTalk.org. They asked for 5 BTCs to post a banner ad on BT. Seeing that the email was coming from an official BT address, I sent them 5 BTCs.

Two weeks later after not hearing from anyone, I received a message from BitcoinTalk.org saying their email was hacked and the ad offer was from a scammer.

5 Bitcoins today = $40,000 USD. I really miss it. I wish BitcoinTalk.org would at least say sorry.

Can you send us the blockchain transaction id? or at least the bitcoinblog that you are running. or maybe the email that bitcointalk.org(maybe not) email that was sent to you 3 years ago.
or any proof that can prove your statement.

This might be a built-up issue to scandalize this forum

[LogitechMouse]

True story,

In 2017 I was running my bitcoin blog; one of the first blogs created in the space, when someone contacted me from an official BitcoinTalk.org. They asked for 5 BTCs to post a banner ad on BT. Seeing that the email was coming from an official BT address, I sent them 5 BTCs.

Two weeks later after not hearing from anyone, I received a message from BitcoinTalk.org saying their email was hacked and the ad offer was from a scammer.

5 Bitcoins today = $40,000 USD. I really miss it. I wish BitcoinTalk.org would at least say sorry.

At least send some proofs here that what you are saying is true . I'm not saying that you are damaging the image of the website but I don't think they will do it to you. They will not just PM you out of nowhere and ask for 5 BTC. Just my opinion.

But in behalf of the admins of the website, I would say sorry or not because they are not the ones who did it. Probably a scammer did it and they just used this site. Send some proofs before creating a thread like this here

[DdmrDdmr]

This is an open forum, and as such, all these things can and probably should be discussed in the open. Nevertheless, this kind of accusation should be backed by evidence (i.e. emails) in order for them to be credible.

Regardless, the first thing I would have done at the time was to check current prior auction sections to see what was being offered for a slot (or more):

December 2017: re:Advertise on this forum - Round 229

Auction ended, final result:
Slots BTC/Slot Person
4 0.22 ChipMixer
1 0.18 FortuneJack
4 0.16 Stunna

June 2017: re:Advertise on this forum - Round 211

Auction ended, final result:
Slots BTC Person
4 0.90 nemgun
1 0.90 leonArdo@margin
1 0.85 Gunthar
3 0.85 ChipMixer

January 2017: re:Advertise on this forum - Round 196

Auction ended. Final result:
Slots BTC/Slot Person
2 0.60 Randian Hero
3 0.60 lightlord
1 0.60 BitDouble.io
3 0.60 Lunarbets

5 BTCs was way off at any moment during 2017 ...

[Wexnident]

True story,

In 2017 I was running my bitcoin blog; one of the first blogs created in the space, when someone contacted me from an official BitcoinTalk.org. They asked for 5 BTCs to post a banner ad on BT. Seeing that the email was coming from an official BT address, I sent them 5 BTCs.

Two weeks later after not hearing from anyone, I received a message from BitcoinTalk.org saying their email was hacked and the ad offer was from a scammer.

5 Bitcoins today = $40,000 USD. I really miss it. I wish BitcoinTalk.org would at least say sorry.

Show proof bro. A priority when talking about scams and hacks. Also, we all know about how the security of anyone can be compromised at any moment. No matter how high the position of someone asking something from you, at least ask for some kind of proof /assurance/contract. Especially since your coins are handled by yourself. It isn't contracted to some kind of rules and laws. You handle whatever happens and anything that you do is your responsibility. Not really the fault of bitcointalk right there.

[Kyraishi]

you didn't say which month so i am going to take the middle price and same month of October ($4000), this means someone asked you to pay $20,000 for a simple banner ad and you jumped at paying it? what the hell are you advertising that it was worth it to you to pay $20k for just one banner ad?

ps: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_spoofing

There were times where the BTC auctions went for quite a lot, during the ICO boom period, I remember seeing some banner's go for around 1.2 BTC when BTC was around the 5 digit mark, which isn't far off 20,000 for a simple banner slot. I think there where even weeks where they went for upwards of 2 BTC for the ads.

Anyway, about the scam, it was probably a spoofed email or a faked one with there being a special unseeable character. It was probably not the real bitcointalk that scammed you and they shouldn't need to give you a refund.

[apoorvlathey]

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I wish BitcoinTalk.org would at least say sorry.

Sorry for what? Their email might have got compromised and now 3 years after out of the blue you want them to apologize to you...

Another thing is that emails must not be blindly accepted coming from a particular domain because it is fairly simple to set up a script with SMTP server to send out emails claiming to be someone else. This is achieved through E-Mail Spoofing.

[judeafante]

True story,

In 2017 I was running my bitcoin blog; one of the first blogs created in the space, when someone contacted me from an official BitcoinTalk.org. They asked for 5 BTCs to post a banner ad on BT. Seeing that the email was coming from an official BT address, I sent them 5 BTCs.

Two weeks later after not hearing from anyone, I received a message from BitcoinTalk.org saying their email was hacked and the ad offer was from a scammer.

5 Bitcoins today = $40,000 USD. I really miss it. I wish BitcoinTalk.org would at least say sorry.

The big question is why now, do you have have an old post about your complaint with a valid proof of this, you should have posted it the time it happens because that's three years ago, you should also send a screenshot on the exchange of email, so we can see if the accusations is valid or it was a hacker who victimized you.

[romero121]

True story,

In 2017 I was running my bitcoin blog; one of the first blogs created in the space, when someone contacted me from an official BitcoinTalk.org. They asked for 5 BTCs to post a banner ad on BT. Seeing that the email was coming from an official BT address, I sent them 5 BTCs.

Two weeks later after not hearing from anyone, I received a message from BitcoinTalk.org saying their email was hacked and the ad offer was from a scammer.

5 Bitcoins today = $40,000 USD. I really miss it. I wish BitcoinTalk.org would at least say sorry.

Bitcointalk never supports or promotes any banner ads. The promotions were made by different managers through the bitcointalk.org platform. You should've known about it, or should made a confirmation before sending. If you've send this before 2015 it is agreeable, by 2017 the market was strong and experiencing bull trend.

By 2017 such a big amount for banner promotion, you are responsible to check it and proceed further. Phising activities in the name of popular forums and services were common. Now you should not expect a sorry from the team who doesn't have anything associated with them.

[doomistake]

True story,

In 2017 I was running my bitcoin blog; one of the first blogs created in the space, when someone contacted me from an official BitcoinTalk.org. They asked for 5 BTCs to post a banner ad on BT. Seeing that the email was coming from an official BT address, I sent them 5 BTCs.

Two weeks later after not hearing from anyone, I received a message from BitcoinTalk.org saying their email was hacked and the ad offer was from a scammer.

5 Bitcoins today = $40,000 USD. I really miss it. I wish BitcoinTalk.org would at least say sorry.

This ain't true story if you can't justify your statement, 5 bitcoins in 2017 = $100,000 and too expensive for a single banner, this story is so exaggerated for me. The other question that came in my mind is how come that the certain email (that has been hacked) as you were saying knows that you have a lot of bitcoins sleeping in your wallet, this is so odd.

Please support your story with proofs and evidence, like what others want you to do to prove if this story of yours is true and not just a hoax.

[jake zyrus]

Ouch. That was sad to hear. It's a lesson that you should never sent your bitcoin when you're not sure what is it about. Though it was still 2017, it's now 2019 I bet you've already grown and learn how to avoid scams. Since we're responsible for our own actions here in crypto, we can't blame anyone because it's our own action afterall.

[Thekool1s]

Guys, can we stop feeding the troll? OP creates a post accusing to lose 5 BTCs without any proof whatsoever and all of the peeps want him to post the "proofs"? Think about it If you would have lost as much as 0.1 BTC wouldn't you have posted all the "proofs" in the thread to give proper context and back your story up? smdh...

[Anonylz]

Sending 5 btc over for a banner ad just because you thought the mail was coming from bitcointalk.org and it never occur to you to make an inquiry by coming to the forum to ask the mods about it? 3 years ago and again you are just coming now to talk about it, even when btc hit ATH of $20k you never fill the need to come by then to make your claim? am sure you still have this so-called mail from bitcointalk.org, if you do, then all you need do is provide it so that forum members can scrutinize it properly