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

[Ashong Salonga]

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.

For me the decision you made to send 5 btc on the person you dont know is really a bad decision, on year 2017 5btc is a big amount of money so you should not trust people easily, i feel bad for your lost of btc but for me you are the one who made a big mistake that's why you should be more careful now.

[ScamViruS]

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.

I don't believe your story. 5 BTC only for advertisement, with no verification? How is it possible? Give the 5 btc trx link here, We try to verify. You did not give here your blog link. Without proof, your story is baseless. In order to make the story believable, you need to provide proof.

[Chrystora123]

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I don't believe your story. 5 BTC only for advertisement, with no verification? How is it possible? Give the 5 btc trx link here, We try to verify. You did not give here your blog link. Without proof, your story is baseless. In order to make the story believable, you need to provide proof.

when viewed from the history of the OP's posts, it seems that the OP is active in this forum, but I don't know why the OP doesn't want to reply the posts in this thread!!  this makes me even more sure that the OP actually did not experience this incident.. I hope the OP is aware of the future impact if gives a fake discussion.

[ivakar]

Dear Sir!

We are sorry that you have become a victim of sophisticated fraud back in 2017, and we, at our site, can assure you, that there are no any connections between us and that fraud.
And to prove it, you can send 1BTC to this bitcoin address : 1NeverEverSendYourMoneyToUnknownPeopleAgain , then to show our deep sorry, we will return you 2 BTC instead of 1 BTC you send, tomorrow!

Best regards
bitcoin team!

[cryptozink]

The email really come from "official" BT email address. They were hacked. 5BTC wasn't really that much at the time. An ad on BT was gold in 2017.

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.

[cryptozink]

Again, the email come from an official BT email address. It wasn't until two weeks later BT sent out an email saying their email was hacked.

Sending 5 BTC to any unknown address w/o verifying is not good. If someone has contacted you, you should atleast varify it first. It was a matter of 5 BTC. You could have sent the money if amount was less but 5 BTC was a big amount to send, I think you must have checked all his credential and should have done payment in parts like you could have sent 1 BTC first and then rest amount once your blog ad was placed on Bitcointalk.

Honestly am finding it hard to believe that someone will just blindly send 5 btc over to an unknown address without any prior communication of any sort, even at 2017 btc price has already gone up, so he can't tell me that 5 btc is small amount that he cant take serious, people use escrow for service like this, he didn't apply the service of an escrow,
how can you pay for service and wait 2 weeks later to get feedback?

[cryptozink]

What reason do I have to lie? 5 Bitcoins wasn't that much at the beginning of 2017. BT was the most sought after space to advertise at the time. As I said, the email come from an official BT email address. It was until two weeks later they sent out a mass email saying their email server was hacked.

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.

I don't believe your story. 5 BTC only for advertisement, with no verification? How is it possible? Give the 5 btc trx link here, We try to verify. You did not give here your blog link. Without proof, your story is baseless. In order to make the story believable, you need to provide proof.

[d3nz]

That's really an expensive one to make an ad here and you didn't confirm first and sent 5 BTC. And, if i receive an email that before then i will be suspicious since its asking for money.

I doubt that this hacker already got a lot of money back in 2017 if they trust the email they have receive.

[Kyraishi]

That’s is massive! I’m not sure if it was true, because my inbox was always so full, and an email that sent from official site and then later informed it was hacked, it does smell fishy here, it could sound like we trust email too much, since we receive email verification for everything personal, idk who to blame now.😅

We do place a lot of trust in emails for a service that can pretty easily get spoofed all the time.

Most email providers, I know Gmail and outlook do for sure are pretty smart with this and are able to detect spoofed attempts and these services will usually highlight these scam attempts so you won't get fooled.

[BlackFor3st]

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.

It's a big amount, it will be better also if you have posted also here the body of the email that they have sent to you and the transaction hash of your payment which is 5 btc. I am pretty sure that it's still there if your story is true. 

Whether their email account was hack, they should be accounted for it and at least apologize to you for what happened or they can give some offer as compensation of what happened. It's better that you should triple check everything also before paying, your negligence also brought you to this situation.

[cotton ball]

I can sure bitcointalk.org sent email for every one promoting campaign on bitcointalk banner, how ever we are first ask to bitcointalk.org team available for promoting ads or not, after get their confirmation we can give and sent bitcoin as payment for them and impossible bitcointalk.org could be banned for sending message to other member.

[Murat]

How ridiculous you were, In 2017 was a pick point of Bitcoin, at the end of that year, bitcoin price was starting getting high and after that, the price of Bitcoin is maintaining a good trend. I don't know when you lost your 5BTC, it's a freaking joke for me, I don't understand who and why you sent 5BTC without not varifying or rechecking properly, how silly that was, Whatever the official email from Bitcointalk.org you might take it more cautiously. Can you imagine that time, I can't, In December of 2017, The price of Bitcoin was almost 20k and that means you lost almost 95k at that moment, It's a massive case, I can't understand even I can't feel you what you have given up. By the way, I think you took a worthy lesson from this incident and be watchful for the future.

[Apes]

really, I doubt what the OP said. BTT email might could be hacked but if there is no evidence the same is also a lie.
it happened more than a year but just made a thread, Where have you been.
at least provide TX evidence so we believe.

[febriyana]

I think this is fake story, right?
On 2017, price Bitcoin is still high around $1,000 per coin.
So if 5 BTC = $5,000. What the hell you want buy banner with that much money.
If you targeting specific user to visit your blog, there is social media still don't have restricted rules about cryptocurrency. Also if you don't care give that Bitcoin at that time, i think you already have big profit before to cover ads cost.

[alanst]

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...

Nobody from Bitcointalk owes any apologies because it's no one's fault that you supposedly paid an unreasonable overpriced ammount for something that, with the smallest effort, you would have found it's worth a lot less. Also, you will never get anything from anyone based on (until proven wrong) a made up story. Until proof is offered, this is bullcrap!  

[ScamViruS]

What reason do I have to lie? 5 Bitcoins wasn't that much at the beginning of 2017. BT was the most sought after space to advertise at the time. As I said, the email come from an official BT email address. It was until two weeks later they sent out a mass email saying their email server was hacked.

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.

I don't believe your story. 5 BTC only for advertisement, with no verification? How is it possible? Give the 5 btc trx link here, We try to verify. You did not give here your blog link. Without proof, your story is baseless. In order to make the story believable, you need to provide proof.

So where is your transaction history? And where is the email you received? Your story is worthless without sufficient evidence. If you are really face this situation, give sufficient proof here. Then everyone will believe your story.

[philipma1957]

Hey op  your clever post  has generated many replies more then 60 have a signature.  So why not have all the signature people that made money posting here send in the coin to the op.

 This thread is a perfect example of why signature campaigns need to be completely halted  for a month or so to reset and track  why people post.

Case 1)
 Lets pretend op is a liar piece of shit that posted to create replies.  He got lots of them most with signatures pretty much wrong on a moral level.

 
Case 2)
Lets pretend op got fucked and lost 5 btc from Jan 2017 = $4700.00  lots of people call him out say he is a liar and they make money on their signatures pretty much worse then case 1 a bunch of heartless motherfuckers kicking a poor slob when he is down on his luck and worse yet making money on it.


I for one am glad I decided to not do signatures any more.  I also call for a 1 month test period of no signatures at all even if it is just in meta or one other section say Bitcoin Discussion


at op I am going to set an s-9  to a solo-pool and run it until Oct 15th  if I hit a block  I will toss you some coin.



http://solo.ckpool.org/users/146UJM5kgzLVUV23CXCf33KQKHckoX1gx3


take a look here for the next few days.

[marcotheminer]

Hey op  you clever post  has generated many replies more then 60 have a signature.  So why not have all the signature people that made money posting here send in the coin to the op.

 This thread is a perfect example of why signature campaigns need to be completely halted  for a month or so to reset and track  why people post.

Case 1)
 Lets pretend op is a liar piece of shit that posted to create replies.  He got lots of them most with signatures pretty much wrong on a moral level.

 
Case 2)
Lets pretend op got fucked and lost 5 btc from Jan 2017 = $4700.00  lots of people call him out say he is a liar and they make money on their signatures pretty much worse then case 1 a bunch of heartless motherfuckers kicking a poor slob when he is down on his luck and worse yet making money on it.


I for one am glad I decided to not do signatures any more.  I also call for a 1 month test period of no signatures at all even if it is just in meta or one other section say Bitcoin Discussion


at op I am going to set an s-9  to a solo-pool and run it until Oct 15th  if I hit a block  I will toss you some coin.



http://solo.ckpool.org/users/146UJM5kgzLVUV23CXCf33KQKHckoX1gx3


take a look here for the next few days.

I'm with you there for the 1 month sig-free trial run of a section. If that block hits, you should verify the story

[philipma1957]

Hey op  you clever post  has generated many replies more then 60 have a signature.  So why not have all the signature people that made money posting here send in the coin to the op.

 This thread is a perfect example of why signature campaigns need to be completely halted  for a month or so to reset and track  why people post.

Case 1)
 Lets pretend op is a liar piece of shit that posted to create replies.  He got lots of them most with signatures pretty much wrong on a moral level.

 
Case 2)
Lets pretend op got fucked and lost 5 btc from Jan 2017 = $4700.00  lots of people call him out say he is a liar and they make money on their signatures pretty much worse then case 1 a bunch of heartless motherfuckers kicking a poor slob when he is down on his luck and worse yet making money on it.


I for one am glad I decided to not do signatures any more.  I also call for a 1 month test period of no signatures at all even if it is just in meta or one other section say Bitcoin Discussion


at op I am going to set an s-9  to a solo-pool and run it until Oct 15th  if I hit a block  I will toss you some coin.



http://solo.ckpool.org/users/146UJM5kgzLVUV23CXCf33KQKHckoX1gx3


take a look here for the next few days.

I'm with you there for the 1 month sig-free trial run of a section. If that block hits, you should verify the story

If I hit that block  I would be happy to give the op 4700 USD worth of btc. Since he said he lost the 5 coins when it was in early 2017  thats what he lost 4700 in fiat.

If he can full prove the 5 btc loss  was when coins had shot up a bit I would be happy to send him  the usd value on the day he lost the coins.

up to 9400 if he proves it.

[Broly46]

That’s is massive! I’m not sure if it was true, because my inbox was always so full, and an email that sent from official site and then later informed it was hacked, it does smell fishy here, it could sound like we trust email too much, since we receive email verification for everything personal, idk who to blame now.😅

We do place a lot of trust in emails for a service that can pretty easily get spoofed all the time.

Most email providers, I know Gmail and outlook do for sure are pretty smart with this and are able to detect spoofed attempts and these services will usually highlight these scam attempts so you won't get fooled.

I think email is one of the notorious way to hijack into a PC, nobody would believe wanna cry was first spread through email attachment and it certainly bypass the gmail security system, of course there is still a lot of of hidden exploits that’s waiting to be unearthed, I know mobile number can’t be reliable since there is no security at all behind this ancient primitive technology, but we can’t afford to drop it yet to verify simply everything.