First time scammed , very frustrated

[Mpamaegbu]

Well, welcome to the club. There's always a first time to everything, scamming inclusive. What we should always hope on is for the first time not to be too much to wipe off our life savings. It's the price everyone pays for refusing to listen to their inner man. I had mine in 2017 when I started out in the crypto world as a noob. I saw the signs but chose to ignore them. Of course, even in your case, there were pointers to what gave the site away as fraudulent but you were in a haste to invest without doing your due diligence. I hope you've learnt a thing or two from that incidence. Move on.

[DapanasFruit]

One thing for sure, the whole cryptocurrency industry has become the paradise of so many scammers and hackers and since they know of the potential of making money here they have become so creative in making sure they are always ahead of the game of fooling people to part of their hard-earned money. And for now, the only antidote that is very effective is correct information and being very careful especially when we are transferring digital assets. OP got my attention, and certainly I am hoping him the best time ahead...this is not the end of the road for you and don't be sad a lot since almost all of us here have already experienced being scammed likewise and many were even of more value than yours. You will surely get what you've lost, and it can even be 10x.

[Lantind]

still, it will be difficult to trace and the likelihood of returning assets will inevitably be small. If a banking system can freeze a scammer's account, is it possible that the freezing occurs to the owner of the scammer's address? if possible I think that's all that can be done and try to transfer assets with the prescribed procedure.

It seems that it will be difficult to do, especially since the freeze has to come from a bank that is always taking care of their customers, someone might be able to track this down in just a few moments, but after everything is swapped and solved in several asset models, it will be difficult to trace back.

[Yurkov]

Telegram scams have intensified this year. Actually all scammers get very active when the bull market begins. Never trust someone who contacts you first with a great offer. When the offer is too good, it should alarm you immediately that it may be a scam. Always confirm everything in official project chat rooms by very carefully checking their names and usernames of people you are contact with.

[thesmallgod]

I was also a victim few days ago, gmail accounts was hacked. The hackers got access to my coinbase wallet, huobi MEW and also tried my binance account. I lost just $40 plus. He transfered little ETH to MeW and swap the poolz token I have in my wallet on Uniswap
https://etherscan.io/tx/0x4aaa52dd6113bc2f155852e4fea9dcfcfb44259889d644e13af67d3b052ab4bf he has already succeeded in stealing from others too
https://etherscan.io/address/0x75cace0baba984f721f40443ce4acb6bb229a9b0

I was curious to know how he got my keystore file that allow him to access MEW with the password. I installed malwarebyte and scan my laptop and discovered that my system has been infected with a malware called backdoor.teamviewer.trace this is a virus that allow hackers to have remote access to the files on my system. He gained access through it to all files on my system including my browser histories and stored password. This is how he got access. I'm just sharing this so that you guys can learn and protect yourself

[Father Bitcoin]

It does find the project that ends up being a scam very annoying, but if it makes you give up and give up, you will finish without getting anything, but if you want to learn about what factors make the project a scam, going forward you will be able to recognize whether the project you are following is a scam or is it actually a lucrative project

[Jgatsby]

I totally understand how frustrating it is, been there before and I hope that this will be the last time you'll be scammed. Learn from this event and use this experience to grow, you're not starting from scratch, you're starting over with experience.

[blockman]

I totally understand how frustrating it is, been there before and I hope that this will be the last time you'll be scammed. Learn from this event and use this experience to grow, you're not starting from scratch, you're starting over with experience.

It is frustrating to be scammed but that's it, we feel sorry but we also learn from our very own experiences. Next time, OP will avoid projects that are doing the same and will be more careful to check things out first before sending any amount.
He'll be more curious and validate the addresses he'll send not just twice but many times.

[bitzizzix]

Telegram scams have intensified this year. Actually all scammers get very active when the bull market begins. Never trust someone who contacts you first with a great offer. When the offer is too good, it should alarm you immediately that it may be a scam. Always confirm everything in official project chat rooms by very carefully checking their names and usernames of people you are contact with.

Social media is a platform for verification and discussion or communication in the participation of a project or related cryptocurrency or anything, especially telegrams that are always connected and also a place for scammers to commit fraud and find gullible targets.
and to avoid scams on telegram we can avoid all private messages that offer something tantalizing and not easy to believe.

[Fatunad]

Telegram scams have intensified this year. Actually all scammers get very active when the bull market begins. Never trust someone who contacts you first with a great offer. When the offer is too good, it should alarm you immediately that it may be a scam. Always confirm everything in official project chat rooms by very carefully checking their names and usernames of people you are contact with.

Social media is a platform for verification and discussion or communication in the participation of a project or related cryptocurrency or anything, especially telegrams that are always connected and also a place for scammers to commit fraud and find gullible targets.
and to avoid scams on telegram we can avoid all private messages that offer something tantalizing and not easy to believe.

In any mediums then those scams are really present and making yourself arent really that sensible into those things then you would most likely getting scammed.
You should use up your common sense and you would really be saving up your ownself on losing money.First time scammed? Im sure that most of us did really
experience the same thing where we do really get scammed when we are still noob.Im not generalizing but i highly believe that we do all commit the same common
mistakes when we are just starting.of course frustration is there and when reality slaps you hard in the face and then this is where learning starts.

[blackened515]

this will be a valuable lesson throughout your life because after all your money will never come back if you have been trapped by a fake project that was planned in detail by scammers.  Everyone will feel frustrated when they lose a lot of money even if they only make small mistakes because they are not careful to enter the wrong address when making transactions.  this is where we have to be more careful in choosing a project, don't be easily tempted by a pretty good presale price offer because usually fraudulent projects certainly take advantage of the lure that is large enough to attract the attention of many people

Do you know that there are more scammers on telegram project groups than real projects groups?, therefore it takes time for newbies to know exactly the faulty part of them, the failed path in them, confirmation of whitepaper either it's a plagiarised content or not, these researches may let you know if they are scam or not, so you could be careful enough to participate in their ICO.

[nykka]

Being scamed is really frustrated, but when you were in such situation, you have a huge experience, which can be really useful in your life, so you shouldn`t be sad about it. Of course it`s always unpleasantly, but such situations make us smarter and help us to avoid bigger mistakes in future

[Yamifoud]

Being scamed is really frustrated, but when you were in such situation, you have a huge experience, which can be really useful in your life, so you shouldn`t be sad about it. Of course it`s always unpleasantly, but such situations make us smarter and help us to avoid bigger mistakes in future

Appreciate that kind of charisma.
And since we are exposed to online transactions, we can't sure that we are 100% guaranteed safe from scammers and hackers. They are around us and we might be a lucky person becoming their targets over a thousand/millions crypto users. That is why I usually don't make exchange talks to someone online, especially when dealing with investment. It is much better to use an exchanger if we wanted to buy coins, that will be safe.

[Untomabur]

Investing in the Defi project you have to be careful, because not everyone can make money, yes I know it's a bad thing that has just happened to you, frustration is a natural thing, but if you get frustrated all day long and don't want to play in the world cryptocurrency again because of this, so I say sad, being exposed to a scammer is already a risk, I have also experienced it.

[virasisog]

There are a lot of scammers in telegram especially with Polkadot project. I had been invited by a Polkadot airdrop group several times and no matter how many times I report it as spam it keeps on appearing on my telegram account. I am careful when I am using telegram, this is a good platform to join crypto group but this is also home for scammers. Just be cautious.

[poodle63]

Telegram scams have intensified this year. Actually all scammers get very active when the bull market begins. Never trust someone who contacts you first with a great offer. When the offer is too good, it should alarm you immediately that it may be a scam. Always confirm everything in official project chat rooms by very carefully checking their names and usernames of people you are contact with.

Social media is a platform for verification and discussion or communication in the participation of a project or related cryptocurrency or anything, especially telegrams that are always connected and also a place for scammers to commit fraud and find gullible targets.
and to avoid scams on telegram we can avoid all private messages that offer something tantalizing and not easy to believe.

Just avoid those kind of accounts that uses some womans picture and  out of the blue trying to reach out to you, it seems the scammer targetting people by impersonating someone and if you do that, you easily avoid 90% of the scam cases.
Seems unreal that someone could fall into that trap but it's true and not many of people familiar with the condition of situation around telegram groups.

[Farma]

There are a lot of scammers in telegram especially with Polkadot project. I had been invited by a Polkadot airdrop group several times and no matter how many times I report it as spam it keeps on appearing on my telegram account. I am careful when I am using telegram, this is a good platform to join crypto group but this is also home for scammers. Just be cautious.

actually not just polkadot. I also join other telegrams, and have quite a number of scammers who try to create similar telegram groups and make names like moderators or admins with the lure of airdrops. however, our vigilance must be extremely high in this matter. quite a number of people are deceived just because of the similarity of telegram and system.

[shoreno]

There are a lot of scammers in telegram especially with Polkadot project. I had been invited by a Polkadot airdrop group several times and no matter how many times I report it as spam it keeps on appearing on my telegram account. I am careful when I am using telegram, this is a good platform to join crypto group but this is also home for scammers. Just be cautious.

actually not just polkadot. I also join other telegrams, and have quite a number of scammers who try to create similar telegram groups and make names like moderators or admins with the lure of airdrops. however, our vigilance must be extremely high in this matter. quite a number of people are deceived just because of the similarity of telegram and system.

why will those scammers make a simillar group to what you joined when you are already on the legit group ? they will easily got caught when they do that but they can make their selves as an admin or moderator if they created the group but it doesnt make them appealing if they have those status since you already know that they are scammers . i never get decieve in telegram because if i like a project and joined it i only joined the link that officialy came from their root source and not by searching inside the telegram

[Pokapoka124]

There are a lot of scammers in telegram especially with Polkadot project. I had been invited by a Polkadot airdrop group several times and no matter how many times I report it as spam it keeps on appearing on my telegram account. I am careful when I am using telegram, this is a good platform to join crypto group but this is also home for scammers. Just be cautious.

It is not particular to Polkadot project. Scammers will jump on anything. I even saw a post about a fake bitcointalk site..these guys are working real hard to step up their game. We just have to be smarter and careful with what we do. Telegram is flooded with scam groups..it has become a safe haven for scammers. They are quick to send a pm telling you of a life changing investment where you can earn x10 of your capital in hours lol..no jokes people fall for it.

[milani]

There is a start for everything , so i just get first time scammed and hope last time.
Since few times i follow polkadot env and liked their projects especially polkastarter . it's like the ico's for projects to raise money . I wanted to participate to one of them and got whitelisted to superfarm ($super) to buy in the presale at a good price but sended 0.25 eth to wrong adress . yes i'm little bit dumb they made a clone of their official telegram channel and i get caught . usually i don't do that but we all do mistakes .

the adress of the scammer : 0xC88b5F4aaE1C8f2778DEF2257b6bAf1BA62E4B09

i hope he will die  with a cancer . i lost $447.83USD that's 50% of my humble portfolio and i worked hard to put this money in . i know that there is nothing i can do and i feel little bit down but that's life assholes are everywhere . Whitout this scammers cryptocurrency and the world would be better .

So just a little thought for me . good luck and get your money safe
 

Lots of people very often receive messages via different chats from so-called admins or supporters in order to get your data like wallet address or seed phrase. Or very often frauds make clone chats or accounts or addresses. That's why in this case it is a fraud and not scam, because it was not the project's fault, it was lack of your watchfullness. And the best way to protect yourself is to be extremely attentive. But you get the most valuable thing - experience, and the next time it wi be really hard to fraud you)) that is a good side of this situation.