I have a 12 word seed phrase that appears to be wrong (Ethereum)

[icekohl]

Hello everyone...

Hopefully this is the right place to post something like this.

12 ETH was sent to a new Metamask wallet, and the seedphrase written down. We have all 12 words.

But when we try to restore the wallet, all associated addresses seem to be empty.


Does anyone know any software too partially crack Ethereum seed phrases? (Try combinations of similar words)

No way to crack it now. You should copy and paste that seed phrases to notepad or something like that and save it carefully. But what happen with your old metamask? You can find the way to access it through your password, then export again the seed phrases. I think it's the only possible way now.

[mrdeposit]

Hello everyone...

Hopefully this is the right place to post something like this.

12 ETH was sent to a new Metamask wallet, and the seedphrase written down. We have all 12 words.

But when we try to restore the wallet, all associated addresses seem to be empty.


Does anyone know any software too partially crack Ethereum seed phrases? (Try combinations of similar words)

When you search by public key on https://etherscan.io/ , does the amount you send appear there? If so, match the public keys when you access the wallet. Maybe you try with other wallet seeds. If this is not the case, share more information about the transaction.

[Ucy]

Hello everyone...

Hopefully this is the right place to post something like this.

12 ETH was sent to a new Metamask wallet, and the seedphrase written down. We have all 12 words.

But when we try to restore the wallet, all associated addresses seem to be empty.


Does anyone know any software too partially crack Ethereum seed phrases? (Try combinations of similar words)

Are you the real owner of the 12Eth? Why would you want to crack the phrases this quickly when you can still try other methods? If phrases are that easy to guess, don't you think Ethereum will be at risk

[aemma]

Hello everyone...

Hopefully this is the right place to post something like this.

12 ETH was sent to a new Metamask wallet, and the seedphrase written down. We have all 12 words.

But when we try to restore the wallet, all associated addresses seem to be empty.


Does anyone know any software too partially crack Ethereum seed phrases? (Try combinations of similar words)

It's obvious you copied the wrong thing. When it comes to taking note of back up phrase or private keys, carefulness is needed because once created there is hardly anyway to crack it. Mostly we are talking about Ethereum blockchain is one of most secured blockchain. So I will implore you go back and check the words again and maybe check where you have written other word seed might be you are using another for it. I have not heard of cracking Ethereum seed phrases.

[AtomicLemon_]

Hello everyone...

Hopefully this is the right place to post something like this.

12 ETH was sent to a new Metamask wallet, and the seedphrase written down. We have all 12 words.

But when we try to restore the wallet, all associated addresses seem to be empty.


Does anyone know any software too partially crack Ethereum seed phrases? (Try combinations of similar words)

Are you the real owner of the 12Eth? Why would you want to crack the phrases this quickly when you can still try other methods? If phrases are that easy to guess, don't you think Ethereum will be at risk

As explained above, quite a few times now:
1. I have a 12 word seed. It appears to be wrong. I suspect there is only one word (the 3rd one) that is wrong.
2. This is a problem I am helping solve for a FRIEND



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Updates:
I started a 'btcrecover' program to try bruteforce the broken words, but I have no idea how long it will take. (So far seems to be taking quite a while)

[LouVandetta]

As explained above, quite a few times now:
1. I have a 12 word seed. It appears to be wrong. I suspect there is only one word (the 3rd one) that is wrong.
2. This is a problem I am helping solve for a FRIEND



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Updates:
I started a 'btcrecover' program to try bruteforce the broken words, but I have no idea how long it will take. (So far seems to be taking quite a while)

So this friends of yours lost his seedphrase? And you think that only 1 word that is wrong. Not to be rude or something, but how did you or your friend knew that the 3rd word is the wrong one? Does that mean you remember correctly the other ones? That is why you have to always save the unique phrase in somewhere safe but you could retrieve them whenever you want to. Piece of advice, always double check everything you've wrote down especially if it's an important things.

As for the tools to crack ethereum seed phrases, if such tools exist, don't you think it would make the wallets easier to be hacked by hackers..

[jajorforce]

Hello everyone...

Hopefully this is the right place to post something like this.

12 ETH was sent to a new Metamask wallet, and the seedphrase written down. We have all 12 words.

But when we try to restore the wallet, all associated addresses seem to be empty.


Does anyone know any software too partially crack Ethereum seed phrases? (Try combinations of similar words)

Same sad story for newbie to visit phishing address. This same story repeat by new members. Several times experts suggest to visit legit address and check several times. Another thing should check before send coin, login your wallet to check 12 words or private wallet is perfectly noted

[Rustamm]

If you inserted a seed into MEW and it gave you access to the list of wallets, then most likely you wrote it down correctly, otherwise you would not have access. Perhaps you just need to carefully look at all the wallets and find the one that contains 12 ETH. I think you just missed it because I had similar situations.

[fuer44]

Did you download the correct link for metamask? I'm thinking is that you might have downloaded the fake version of metamask and the seed that was given to you is also known by the creator of it. Which means that after seeing that you have sent ETH to it, they've sweep your balance.

lol READ what he said...   omg
he MADE an ETH addy, SENT 12 ETH to it, then wrote down the seed words
NOW hes trying to restore it, but it wont take the seed...        he says nothing about being robbed... now if he said "the ETH was transferred OUT", you might be right, but he didnt

@OP, theres no way for me to know from what u have said if i would be helping you jack someone (maybe you stole those seed words?) so i wont suggest how to solve this
imo, next time save a priv key put it in a text file and encrypt that text file. problem solved

[DaMut]

As far as I know, if the seed is wrong the wallet will refuse to load the address. but why did he say the address seems empty?
before brute-forcing it, have you tried checking the wallet that contains the balance?
this is quite fishy, are you sure the seed is associated with an address that contains a balance inside of it? your friend might lie to you.

[Rodeo02]

Did you download the correct link for metamask? I'm thinking is that you might have downloaded the fake version of metamask and the seed that was given to you is also known by the creator of it. Which means that after seeing that you have sent ETH to it, they've sweep your balance.

lol READ what he said...   omg
he MADE an ETH addy, SENT 12 ETH to it, then wrote down the seed words
NOW hes trying to restore it, but it wont take the seed...        he says nothing about being robbed... now if he said "the ETH was transferred OUT", you might be right, but he didnt

@OP, theres no way for me to know from what u have said if i would be helping you jack someone (maybe you stole those seed words?) so i wont suggest how to solve this
imo, next time save a priv key put it in a text file and encrypt that text file. problem solved

I agree with cj why not having multiple way of recovering before you sent your eth. Saving your private key is a good way since you can use open it in many different wallet using private key.
I'm guessing you didn't try to reopen the wallet with your passphrase before transferring the eth balance ,thats why its happen.

[tianglistrik]

there is no way in my opinion, that I know if you forget the password to login wallet maybe there are still services that accept it because my friend has done it. but if you lose the seed, your funds will be lost

[Fappanu]

You already have the 12 seed words. But why is it still wrong and the metamask refuses to accept it? Maybe a letter is wrong and you should know where it is. And when you know where the wrong word are, look for the right letter to add. Similar to

Star = Stars

[StephenJH]

Double-check the seed phrase, sometimes the small punctuation or single letter can change everything in the security world of Cryptocurrencies. Maybe there is password protection for the seed phrase in the second level of decrypting the ETH wallet. If you remember that there is no password protection, then trying different combinations of seed phrases will solve the problem, I hope.

[Prompyboo]

Now just picking a password to hack the metamask is very difficult but there are many other ways through which scammers doing this.

[Sab11]

Hello everyone...

Hopefully this is the right place to post something like this.

12 ETH was sent to a new Metamask wallet, and the seedphrase written down. We have all 12 words.

But when we try to restore the wallet, all associated addresses seem to be empty.


Does anyone know any software too partially crack Ethereum seed phrases? (Try combinations of similar words)

you should double check the words in your seedphrase maybe you misclick and not notice that you added some characters or numbers in your seedphrases hope you bro recover your 12 eth ethereum seed pharases is hard to crack.

[TastyChillySauce00]

Now just picking a password to hack the metamask is very difficult but there are many other ways through which scammers doing this.

If you are talking about bruteforce, there's definitely no way a scammer will do such method because it'll be not worth it anymore because bruteforcing a password is not as simple as "picking a password"

I agree with cj why not having multiple way of recovering before you sent your eth. Saving your private key is a good way since you can use open it in many different wallet using private key.
I'm guessing you didn't try to reopen the wallet with your passphrase before transferring the eth balance ,thats why its happen.

Retesting the seed is a crucial part that most of people usually just skip. They don't know that there are chances error to occur and not testing the seed beforehand is really something lackeys would do.
Maybe OP need to check out the word one by one if there's any typo in it or try to rearrange the words which surely take a quite the time.

[acdc]

Hello everyone...

Hopefully this is the right place to post something like this.

12 ETH was sent to a new Metamask wallet, and the seedphrase written down. We have all 12 words.

But when we try to restore the wallet, all associated addresses seem to be empty.

There are many situations that can happen here.
You may have entered a fake version of the Metamask wallet, there are currently many fake versions created to steal users' money.
You may have had an account hack and you wrote down the wrong seed phrase.
You should first check the wallet address here https://etherscan.io/. If the wallet address is correct and 12 ETH is still in the wallet, you should carefully check your seed phrase, many cases of wrong writing from the seed can still occur.

Does anyone know any software too partially crack Ethereum seed phrases? (Try combinations of similar words)

I have never heard of Ethereum phrase cracking software.

[AtomicLemon_]

Hello everyone...

Hopefully this is the right place to post something like this.

12 ETH was sent to a new Metamask wallet, and the seedphrase written down. We have all 12 words.

But when we try to restore the wallet, all associated addresses seem to be empty.


Does anyone know any software too partially crack Ethereum seed phrases? (Try combinations of similar words)

Same sad story for newbie to visit phishing address. This same story repeat by new members. Several times experts suggest to visit legit address and check several times. Another thing should check before send coin, login your wallet to check 12 words or private wallet is perfectly noted

  As explained above multiple times now, the ETH is still in the address it was sent too.

As far as I know, if the seed is wrong the wallet will refuse to load the address. but why did he say the address seems empty?
before brute-forcing it, have you tried checking the wallet that contains the balance?
this is quite fishy, are you sure the seed is associated with an address that contains a balance inside of it? your friend might lie to you.

I don't know why he would lie to me, as far as I know he has no reason too.
The actual seed phrase he gave me checked out, but did not have any balance.

If you inserted a seed into MEW and it gave you access to the list of wallets, then most likely you wrote it down correctly, otherwise you would not have access. Perhaps you just need to carefully look at all the wallets and find the one that contains 12 ETH. I think you just missed it because I had similar situations.

Already tried this with no luck, also tried changing the word he though was wrong to the most similar ones from the English wordlist

[leatutz]

Any new wallet warned you before open an account that they have no control in private key. So you should write it down in your notebook perfect. For another secure layer you should visit one time and keep back process. Only one word is everything.