Trying to recover funds from bitcoin scam

[ene1980]

The payment is to be made into this BTC address:  14hBpJncS6fqKZqoYAjRCGmbc63ZhLJ6Xs

Is this another scam? Any insight would greatly be appreciated.

Social media and telegram groups are filled with scammers and they are waiting for people who post doubt about lost coins or when your coins are stuck in the exchange and the audacity to cook up a story that could scam innocent people who are not aware of these situation.

The wallet belongs to Luno and i have reported the user and hopefully we will get a reply from them and he as collected over 7 bitcoin and still holding 1.7 bitcoin in the wallet.

[minersday]

This is definitely a scam, you don't need a rocket scientist to prove to you that its a scam.

[MCobian]

One thing we must remember, we cannot recover the bitcoin that we invest in scams sites. So it's clear to me what @ _jacob.armstrong
promised about recovering your lost funds is a lie. You will be used to be cheated again. Be careful of people who are not familiar, then
offer help by asking for payment. I am very sure that such a thing scams.

[michellee]

You don't need to send any money to them if you don't want to get another scam by them. If you're going to get your money back, they don't need to ask you to send another amount because of many reasons because they can do that without any problem. They only need to send the amount, and they can pay the fee from your funds without needing to use their money. Even if they use your money as the fee, your amount will still be bigger. So I don't think that they will give all of your funds. I am sorry for that.

[iv4n]

You don't need to send any money to them if you don't want to get another scam by them. If you're going to get your money back, they don't need to ask you to send another amount because of many reasons because they can do that without any problem. They only need to send the amount, and they can pay the fee from your funds without needing to use their money. Even if they use your money as the fee, your amount will still be bigger. So I don't think that they will give all of your funds. I am sorry for that.

Of course, they will not return money to him. Many scammers are lurking around, looking who is complaining on what, and after some time they contact people offering to solve their problem, for some payment of course.
This post is just another one after many that shows how people invest money first and do research later, and it should be the opposite to that, first do research and only then invest some money if you like what you found researching specific investment.

[Maus0728]

The email address should be tied to the domain http://www.slushpool.co.uk/, which points to an empty wordpress blog.

Even the domain will give you this prior warning if you have additional browser extension installed, what more if someone invested in that particular website  .

[johnny33]

The wallet belongs to Luno and i have reported the user and hopefully we will get a reply from them and he as collected over 7 bitcoin and still holding 1.7 bitcoin in the wallet.

How do you know who the wallet belongs to and how much is in it.

[Lorence.xD]

The amount they are asking for you to recover the funds stolen is more than your funds so that makes sense that it is a scam and I can think of reasons why you should not fall for that but the obvious is right there so make sure to do your part and report these scumbags, I am sorry for the funds that you lost and hope that you will not lose your faith in crypto because everyone can start over.

[maxreish]

What the heck was that! They are doubling scam you, bro. It is an obvious act that they are trying to get your weakness (your eagerness to get back your btc) to make you fall again on them! They are trying to make you feel the urge to get the 8 btc that they falsely say. Do you wanna believe that you really have that 8 btc and it was saved? This is hilarious, mate. If you will send .2 twice just for fee, will it guarantee you to get it? It's probably not.

[KrisAlex18]

It looks like another scam again, be careful with that, do not fall for the trap again, you should know your lesson, you shouldn't give your fund to any website that is now well known by many people. You had already lost your 8BTC which is too much, that is a really big amount of money so you should be more careful when releasing your money again. There are many scammers in this virtual world, there are also many clone websites that is really like an original website so the best thing to do with that is not to rt it unless you are really sure that it is legit, you may do some research to know whether it is legit or not.

A typical newbie who got fell into a typical scam attempt and now the scammer is doing another typical scam attempt again .
Scammers are always greedy shits when it comes to money anyways

Indeed, what if the person who recommends you to the scam website is the person who scams your money lol, scammers are scammers they will do many things just to steal your money.

[Kakmakr]

It is once again a scam and this is where they hooked you, when you said.. "I posted on Instagram about my ordeal" ...

A lot of these scammers lurk around these platforms looking for people who got scammed and they know once people was scammed, they are easy targets for the next scam. They built a elaborate story on how they will be able to help you and then they start asking for recovery fees (because they say they are going to use a lot of hashing power to recover those coins)

The truth is, once the transfer of those bitcoins are done and several confirmations has been received, no mining pool can recover those bitcoins without the whole Blockchain being rolled back and that will never happen.  

[Claes1989]

Damn, I hope you get ur refund mate.

We need to be careful with who we trust in this world.

/ Claes https://www.biltorvet.dk/

[kryptqnick]

..snip..

Please noted:
Scammers will never give back your money, they will precisely want to take your money again, again and again.
So, be careful another scamming is coming to you. Never believe in any party or person that will help you to get back your money to you if they ask some funds to do it. It is absolutely another scam.
If you're scammed, let it go because you may not get it back. Just make it is a lesson to be more careful when investing and also putting your money.

This is very true. These scammers are clearly looking for an opportunity to get more of your money. The only thing I suppose the op can try to do is play dumb but promise to send the money if they provide their personal data for some made-up reason. Then if the op manages to see some legal info, the op can try suing them and there is perhaps a chance of getting the money back. But it's all very dependent of the context and most likely not worth the effort. Plus, of course, it will be associated with additional expenses like lawyer consultation fees, court fees etc. So the most logical solution is probably to just let it go and learn a valuable lesson not to fall for scam.

[DarkDays]

This is exactly why noobs should do their research before investing in platforms that seem too good to be true.

There are far too many platforms out there looking to part you with your money by offering what seems like a sure thing, but really, after doing your research you'll find it is anything but.

For the most part, any money lost to these scams is almost certainly gone forever—law enforcement agencies simply don't care, nor do they have the technical capacity do anything about it even if they did.

Especially not for a few thousand bucks like you were robbed for.

Let this be an expensive lesson to you and anybody else reading this thread.

[jhonjhon]

This obviously a scam and you shouldn't have to think that they will help you and you don't have to pay for them. Besides, the money is still there and only you need to have it confirmed in order to send to the said address but they are trying to do is to get money/scam you. That is something crazy about you feed them again. Don't get fooled by this and you are right, asking in here will give you some tips of what to do next.

This is exactly why noobs should do their research before investing in platforms that seem too good to be true.

I could say not only noobs should have to do research, it actually all of us must-have.

[stomachgrowls]

This is exactly why noobs should do their research before investing in platforms that seem too good to be true.

There are far too many platforms out there looking to part you with your money by offering what seems like a sure thing, but really, after doing your research you'll find it is anything but.

For the most part, any money lost to these scams is almost certainly gone forever—law enforcement agencies simply don't care, nor do they have the technical capacity do anything about it even if they did.

Especially not for a few thousand bucks like you were robbed for.

Let this be an expensive lesson to you and anybody else reading this thread.

People never ever learn if they dont experience loss of money in actual basis and then thats they time they would make up some research because the had able to learn a lesson in the past.

Recovering funds from scams is impossible since we know that crypto does have that anonymity thing and irreversible transaction.

This is surely a costly way of learning a lesson. 

[Sadlife]

Firstly dont send Bitcoins to someone as shady as this, think about it why would there be a need of fee for API Integration and why the huge amount ?
even sending regular transactions to the Blockchain network only take cents. I suggest to take your matters into a cyber security expert and dont just trust random people in the internet.

[shoreno]

 op have done several mistakes here not just once because at first he invested on a cloudmining with a weird domain name that most of us not familiar with  . thats risky because cloudmining got a bad history on the crypto community and its not advisable for one to invest on such schemes   . he finnaly got scammed and his second mistake is posting his problem on a social media  .  what usually happen is that random people will talk and try to scam you  . third proof of scam is when they ask you for funds to fix your issue .

[Debonaire217]

The scammers are too greedy here, let say, they already have the funds from your account amounting to a huge bitcoin, but they are still convincing you to deposit or send more, perhaps, they didn't really explain what is the procedure why they ask you to pay for that amount. Instead of contacting their support team giving you that kind of answer, try to report the site for them to not be able to do that again to others.

By the way, from the very first line of your post OP, your already stated that they turned out to be a scam site, which means, that no matter what you say to ask to retrieve your funds will just be a waste of time.

[thesmallgod]

Day by day, this scammers are deciphering a smarter way of scamming people and this is exactly what is going on here. Losing money to the scammer in the first place is horrible. I'm seen many clouding mining and it very hard to see a legit one. Most of them will end up taking your money and run away. The second part is also a scam. If truly they want to help, they could have done that and remove the fee from the  money.