Hello everybody, sorry this post didn't send updates to my email. I am reading JelenaFDB and mocaccino. Thank you for your interesting words and feedback. I am interested in this, of course.
I can see my wallet adress (WA) (public WA) but I haven't got my private keys. Where are they generated? In LocalBitcoins.com? Are they in my Dashboard?
I remember that there was a first message saying "write this on a piece of paper" as I signed up to LocalBitcoins I am going to check this out. If I had the private key, would it be possible to restore my BTC?
JelenaFDB what you are telling us makes sense. BTC should be a secure blockchain and trading for simple people like me should be secure. As this discussion is not allowed to have urls and so on, can you send me a list of forensic companies so I can see by myself if this is true?
mocaccino, what you say is that anybody can "hack" bitcoins ... right?
Please note: I am just asking!
Thank you so much.
Well,
If i'm able to follow your story, you moved your funds from localbitcoins (which is a real site, it is known for locking accounts, but they are real) to a scam site. This means that the scammer has the private key for the address that's currently funded with your money. He (or she) is the only one who can spend it.
I think there is some miscommunications: nobody can hack bitcoins, with some exceptions due to flaws in wallets. In this case, they don't hack bitcoin, they exploit a flaw in a wallet to steal from somebody else, but they're not actually "hacking" bitcoin.
As for JenelaFDB: it seems she is promoting some new service... The domain they're using is quite old, but it seems like google cache and the wayback machine don't have any pre-existing data about them, making me think they're new...
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2884270;sa=showPostsWhat she says makes some sense in some ways, but in my experience i've allmost never seen an unknown scammer (like yours) getting caught. Big ones, public ones, the ones that used a real company under their real name in order to scam people: sure... They end up behind bars... But small websites using fake company's under fake names, using whois protection on some bulletproof host: allmost never... Not for the lack of trying, but because it's allmost impossible to track them down.
Most scammers use a mixer, a coinjoin transaction or exchange their BTC for XMR. They also tend to keep their "earnings" for a long time, and tend to withdraw them from sketchy exchanges in different country's. It's possible they use a fake identity, but there are sooo many people exchanging BTC to FIAT on every given day, that it becomes impossible to know who is the scammer that scammed you.
I'm going to give an IRL situation: a bank robber is stealing money from a bank. The bank manager says: we always write down the serial numbers of all banknotes we have, so we will catch the robbers when they deposit our notes using a fake identity.... Sure, this is true IF and only IF the robbers don't wash their money trough a network of little stores first. If they do, sure, they'll still deposit stolen money, but it won't be the same bills they stole from the bank earlyer. Sure, if you knew exactly who to look for, you could arrest them, but you don't know who to look for: $50.000 was stolen from bank x on the 1st of januari, and some unknown dude is depositing $45.000 of laundered on the 1st of may in a bank in a different country, there is no way of connecting them.
In the crypto ecosphere it's even easyer: you don't need a lot of small stores, you just need to use a mixer. Everybody could do this, it's very easy and cheap, so there's no reason any real hacker wouldn't use them.
I'd be carefull using new services... I'm not saying they are fake, i'm just saying that i don't know them, and a lot of scammers prey on people that are new in this community. It's not unheared of that scammers target scam victims. Once again, i'm NOT saying this is the case here... I'm just telling you to look out not to get scammed a second time.
