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

[DaftAjax]

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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.

It will all depend on the user.

As for me, whenever I logged into my email account from a different computer, I will receive 2 notifications from my phone, 1 on the email app, and the other from my number. And it is also backed up by different security protocols which I enabled. So I'm pretty confident that such a hijack would ever happen. And besides, occasionally, I change my password every now and then.

[The Sceptical Chymist]

I wish BitcoinTalk.org would at least say sorry.

That's probably not going to happen, nor do I think it would it ease your pain.

Their e-mail got hacked?  I don't recall hearing anything about that, and I was around 3 years ago--but whatever, there have been lots of hacks here, so it wouldn't surprise me at all.

OP, I don't know why you would have sent 5BTC just like that, even if it was 3 years ago.  Bitcoin wasn't exactly dirt cheap in 2016 if I recall correctly.  That same year I got scammed on a loan I made.  That was only for 0.3BTC and I'm still black-coffee bitter about it, so I can only imagine how you feel.  I've got some sympathy for you, but man.  I would have done some due diligence before sending 5BTC for some advertising.  That's a lesson for you, but an expensive one.

[MFahad]

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.

So indirectly you are filing an scam accusation on bitcointalk ? To support your claim, you need to provide few things for initial investigation.

1- Your Blog URL
2- Tx ID of  5 BTC which you send
3- Screenshot of emails which you received from bitcointalk
4- Your BCT account cryptozink was created in 2018 so you must have other account in BCT in 2017. What's the name of that account ?
5- Why you are writing this now after 1.5 years and did not wrote anything about it before
6- If the BCT  email was hacked, they must have mentioned in any thread here. If they did, give us the link.

Without all this, its just a fake story......

[philipma1957]

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.

So indirectly you are filing an scam accusation on bitcointalk ? To support your claim, you need to provide few things for initial investigation.

1- Your Blog URL
2- Tx ID of  5 BTC which you send
3- Screenshot of emails which you received from bitcointalk
4- Your BCT account cryptozink was created in 2018 so you must have other account in BCT in 2017. What's the name of that account ?
5- Why you are writing this now after 1.5 years and did not wrote anything about it before
6- If the BCT  email was hacked, they must have mentioned in any thread here. If they did, give us the link.

Without all this, its just a fake story......

    And you just got paid how much?  
 To post what a dozen others have posted.

Meanwhile  I am mining away at ckpool http://solo.ckpool.org/users/146UJM5kgzLVUV23CXCf33KQKHckoX1gx3  

basically  I am the only one giving the op some hope of restitution of his lost coins.  Even spending some of my own money to give him a chance at restittuion.

I now count more then 65 paid posts to this thread.



Let me make myself clear I don't think the op told the truth.
But what I really don't like is people posting and getting paid to dump on him.

So  on the small chance he told the truth I offered to mine and give him 4700 usd worth of coin back if I hit the block. If he proves he really lost the coins in early 2017

I would give him the real worth with a limit of 9400 since coins were under 2000 the first few months of 2017 and he said early 2017.

If I do the math correctly the chance of the block being hit by tuesday the 15th of oct is really small. 
But most likely a bigger chance then the story of the op being true.

[robelneo]

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 you could have posted a screenshot of the email as proof that this has indeed happened. and besides, that's over two years ago why not  when a day after it happened, it cast a shadow of doubt on your accusations  and people will ask what are your motives on doing this, that's 5 Bitcoin even if it fetches a small amount you know the potential is going to be huge, now you are blaming for not saying sorry, when you should address it when it happened.

[cryptozink]

Bitcoin Price = January 2017 - $800–$1,150. I have nothing to gain bro.

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.

[cryptozink]

Everyone that's saying I'm lying, ask Bitcoin Talk if someone didn't hack their email system and sold ads space using their official email.

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.

[cryptozink]

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

Everyone that's saying I'm lying, ask Bitcoin Talk if someone didn't hack their email system and sold ads space using their official email.

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.

[bL4nkcode]

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

The price of BTC was around 500 on that date, so now tell us the:
TXID of the transaction if you really send the BTC on forum's address.
Website URL you want to advertise on bitcointalk.


[Edit] Now you might been scammed by someone who used email spoofing. Because of that time of receiving that email which aug.26, 2014,
The current auction it should be included was round 130 or the round after that round 131 and any auction run here doesnt have any instructions that you will receive any email related on advertising.

All instructions and communications are held inside the forum. So, the chance of it came from scammers/hackers is 99%. Now, its for you to decide.

[philipma1957]

Well some info has been provided. So I am still mining ⛏

If coins were 500 when op was scammed  it would be around 5 x 500 = 2500

So i will mine on till sat the 19th.

And maybe the op gets lucky.

[cryptozink]

I'm not a troll. I updated the post.

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...

[philipma1957]

I'm not a troll. I updated the post.

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...

I am in your corner bro.  Still mining away.

[worldofcoins]

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

So what you are actually asking for is the amount you lost through unofficial source.
I don't get why Bitcointalk.org would say sorry for your mistake... I just don't get your logic.

[stompix]

Well some info has been provided. So I am still mining ⛏

Some, nowhere near enough.
Philipma1957, usually I am agreeing with you but this time you're unfortunately mistaken.
The OP fell for scam that happened in 2014.

Unlike Betcoin.AG who was suspicious from the first moment: Bitcoin Talk Advertising Email Received - Need Confirmation he probably sent money.

Also, as pointed in that thread, and on every ad auction:

I will send you the payment information via forum PM from this account ("theymos", user ID 35) after announcing the auction results in this thread. You might receive false payment information from scammers pretending to be me. They might even have somewhat similar usernames. Be careful.

[Steamtyme]

 And you just got paid how much?  To post what a dozen others have posted.
~I now count more then 65 paid posts to this thread.~

Instead of engaging them to reply here and potentially earning more you can report the post - Call it redundant and repetitive, state it adds nothing to the conversation. Check their history if that's all they do go to Yahoo62278's thread and report them. Maybe they get removed maybe not.
For the paid posts here this thread started off in Bitcoin Discussion, so it's easy to see how it got hit so much.  

Meanwhile  I am mining away at ckpool http://solo.ckpool.org/users/146UJM5kgzLVUV23CXCf33KQKHckoX1gx3  
basically  I am the only one giving the op some hope of restitution of his lost coins.  Even spending some of my own money to give him a chance at restittuion.
Let me make myself clear I don't think the op told the truth.
But what I really don't like is people posting and getting paid to dump on him.
I would give him the real worth with a limit of 9400 since coins were under 2000 the first few months of 2017 and he said early 2017.

Not going to lie I don't see the logic in attempting and committing to providing someone with restitution when you don't believe their story. If you think Sig Spam is bad, I'd hate to see the ensuing flood of "scammed" users showing up here, if you did hit a block. I've seen you offer this before and admire trying to help someone out, it just seems like a slippery slope when the story and "proof" are easily fabricated.

I'm not going to repeat what's been said numerous times, I've watched this thread since it began and my reply wasn't necessary then. Now that OP has added the imgur image, I have questions.
-This is what triggered you to create the topic, but the image clearly shows that it was 2014 so I'm unsure how you landed on 2017 in the first place
- Looking over the pricing there is no way to arrive at 5 BTC. You either bought 2  ads for 4 months at 4.8, or 1 add for 7 months for 4.9?
- Would have been awesome if you would have saved any of the other emails like the reply from 2 weeks later.

Either way. Knowing now that it was 2014, this wasn't cheap but it was far less expensive than many. Like anyone who has ever been hacked or scammed this was a lesson often learned in crypto. You are responsible for your coins and verifying who you send to. So if you are really looking for an apology or validation PM theymos the Admin.

[cryptozink]

Like I said, BitcoinValues . net was sold to 99bitcoins with the email address with the proof. I'm not looking for sympathy of compensations. I was just thinking about it recently and wanted to post it. I lost a lot of Bitcoin on MtGox exchange too.

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...

[philipma1957]

Like I said, BitcoinValues . net was sold to 99bitcoins with the email address with the proof. I'm not looking for sympathy of compensations. I was just thinking about it recently and wanted to post it. I lost a lot of Bitcoin on MtGox exchange too.

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...

Well we did not hit with the s9 so oh well.