First time scammed , very frustrated

[Yurkov]

I have recently applied a rule on Telegram that allows me not to waste time on scammers. I noticed that all suspicious people on Telegram, when writing to me, mostly just a greeting and nothing else. When someone talks to me with a real thing, they usually present it right away - if they don't, then they are out of luck, because I just ignore messages like "Hi", "Hello", "How are you". This is actually enough for now.

[Fredomago]

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.

We have to act accordingly, being furious and always put our guards up is very important, lots of scammers are really good in what they are doing.

If you are not careful you'll just find yourself being victimized, don't bother to waste your time with social media especially in telegram where a lots of scamming are ongoing.

Sepnd time in learning and free up your mind fro those hackers and scammers around you.

[bitbollo]

@OP
I am sorry to ear about your loss... this can happens, and with enough time you can recover from it while you have learned a good lesson.
I am curious to know more about... how did you pick up a "wrong address"? it was just an error or you was meanwhile visiting some phishing website? More over, pay attention if you have some malicious software that is able to change an address after you have copied it, this has been a very common strategy for scam user ...

[dhemasm]

I'm sorry about your loss mate, Scammers will be always smart and one step ahead us so you need to be more careful. Always Double check everything from address, username, website, etc. You also need to be more careful for participating on installing any wallet, I personally was also get scammed before around 2018 and also get hacked on 2019, Well it's crypto and everything can happens. You the only controlling your fund and you need to take care of it, Good luck and stay safe!

[Yatsan]

May you have take this as a lesson to always double check and verify the address before proceeding on the transaction proper so you will not miss even a single information that might get you caught into trouble. Now that there many rising projects in the crypto community that I witness day by day, for sure there are lots of scammers out there that are just waiting to seize the moment to took advantage of the weaknesses of the people putting them into frustration right after realizing they have sent into a wrong address and got scammed because of that. Better to always check out small details before you do actions to avoid getting victimized once again by those scammers out there.

[oemar bakrie]

I'm sure everyone who is here must feel sad about the scam calling one of the great projects in crypto,I myself was also fooled by not having to cross-check the email and had to give one of my wallet keys
and why do I believe it because I myself feel like I am following the project..
From this experience, I have to be more careful not to be in a hurry to believe so that bad things don't come again.

[TWW]

I'm sure everyone who is here must feel sad about the scam calling one of the great projects in crypto,I myself was also fooled by not having to cross-check the email and had to give one of my wallet keys
and why do I believe it because I myself feel like I am following the project..
From this experience, I have to be more careful not to be in a hurry to believe so that bad things don't come again.

why did you give the key to the project you participated in?
logically, the team would not dare ask for it from anyone.
if it's from the web or an app that has to link your wallet key. I suggest you use a new wallet. not a wallet to store your assets.
such situations are common in exchange projects. there is an incoming email on behalf of a project. we have to be more careful because scammers are always looking for loopholes.

[poodle63]

I have recently applied a rule on Telegram that allows me not to waste time on scammers. I noticed that all suspicious people on Telegram, when writing to me, mostly just a greeting and nothing else. When someone talks to me with a real thing, they usually present it right away - if they don't, then they are out of luck, because I just ignore messages like "Hi", "Hello", "How are you". This is actually enough for now.

I do that too and usually avoid any account with some shady profile picture, it's really unfortunate though telegram can't really stop these plague, I even have reported many accounts that are advertising scam phising website but telegram do nothing to them just letting them roam free scamming people maybe because the amount of accounts created by scammers are too overwhelming.

[carrie_white]

I'm sorry to hear about it. to be honest I have never experienced anything like that, and I thank you for sharing your story, because I think this is important for us so that we can be more vigilant and careful again when we want to transact in the crypto world.

[Luffygroove]

we all learn from our own mistakes and others. I hope people see this and learn from this mistake too. We have to be super-duper extremely be careful in this cryptocurrency world. Extra checking anything involved. Extra careful with people's intentions. We need to be guarded by ourselves, more researching and analyzing. Double-check is a must even multiple times. If someone contacts you and they told you that they're part of the team, re-checking their user ID or directly check to their group and ask for validation. Be careful and happy hunting.

[wiss19]

we all learn from our own mistakes and others. I hope people see this and learn from this mistake too. We have to be super-duper extremely be careful in this cryptocurrency world. Extra checking anything involved. Extra careful with people's intentions. We need to be guarded by ourselves, more researching and analyzing. Double-check is a must even multiple times. If someone contacts you and they told you that they're part of the team, re-checking their user ID or directly check to their group and ask for validation. Be careful and happy hunting.

Yeah, I feel sorry for OP cause I know how they are feeling right now. I have experienced that once, though mine is a different story entirely. It happened when I was still new to cryptocurrency and I got my first crypto and was holding for sometime before I decided to sell it and being a newbie I didn’t know how I was going to sell it, crypto was still around my area and there wasn’t all this big platforms there so we had to use P2P trading as means to sell our cryptos and that is a high level of risk.

So, my first time trying it out I couldn’t figure out who was legit or not and I got scammed half of the coins I had. Trust me, I spent the whole year cursing out that asshole lol. Well I still got over it and worked hard and worked my way up. I wish you luck and try to be careful next time when dealing all these people. Avoid them as much as you can.

[cyriljundos]

its just the beginning bro.you can gain more if you re invest and trade your coins.  dont lose hope in this field of crypto, people always tend to deceived newbies and investors not making their own money but trying to scam people. you can re invest and start a new hopefully you can gain profit and earn in this crypto trading.

[bandungan]

Scammers are now smarter, they can try to duplicate with a similarity of up to 90%. Sometimes we are careless and they are used to trick us. so you can make this experience a lesson in the future for you to be more vigilant in securing your assets

[Father Bitcoin]

I hope it becomes the last bad memory, and in the future you can be more patient in observing a project that you will follow, not easily tempted by a fantastic nominal, because in this world no one can be trusted unless you trust yourself, good luck for future.

[aryana42]

I hope it becomes the last bad memory, and in the future you can be more patient in observing a project that you will follow, not easily tempted by a fantastic nominal, because in this world no one can be trusted unless you trust yourself, good luck for future.

Yes, but basically every human being is always tempted by a large nominal amount from a new project, but if that nominal doesn't make sense, then I don't think it should be believed, because scammers always show the advantages they have to trap everyone, because their goal is to deceive people through the project, not develop the project.

[Father Bitcoin]

Yes, but basically every human being is always tempted by a large nominal amount from a new project, but if that nominal doesn't make sense, then I don't think it should be believed, because scammers always show the advantages they have to trap everyone, because their goal is to deceive people through the project, not develop the project.

but if without a scammer case like this, we will never be able to learn to be more patient and more thorough, because it's natural that we want to get something big with abundant profits quickly, and that's the challenge that needs to be overcome in choosing a project that will we follow

[TastyChillySauce00]

Scammers are now smarter, they can try to duplicate with a similarity of up to 90%. Sometimes we are careless and they are used to trick us. so you can make this experience a lesson in the future for you to be more vigilant in securing your assets

Exactly, I've seen some scammers go as far as creating linkedin profile and any other social media then they gonna use it in telegram group to increase their "fake" credibility as people assume if they have all the social media then they are the real person but that's not always the case and telegram banning isn't helping since creating a telegram account is really easy in some third world countries.
It's crazy how much these scammers put their effort into scamming activities like that.

[bittick]

Very sorry for your loss. If it's for your consolation I was robed for more than $100k, which was 90% of my portfolio at that moment.
I find a lot of transaction to this address https://ethplorer.io/address/0xc88b5f4aae1c8f2778def2257b6baf1ba62e4b09 more than 21 ETH.
It will be fine if you open scam accusations and post all proof which you have about them. It will not help you, but maybe you will save someone's else money.

Man that's actually crazy being robbed of $100K i doubt I could stay sane if I were robbed that much amount, however I do agree opening scam acussation prevents other people from getting scammed but it's not really helpful in the long run since the scammer could easily use fake ID rinse and repeat but the benefit still there I guess. i think we can also report certain address to blockchain explorer website owner so they could tag it as scam.

[Jackl87]

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
 

Sorry to hear that OP. 450$ is a significant amount for most of us including me.
Telegram is a place where you can gather a lot of infos about crypto projects but also a very dangerous place.
Always Remember: A real admin will never send you a private messag first with a chance for direkt investment or something like that those are always scammers.
Now with all those exclusive launchpads that are having the hottest new projects exclusively we also have to deal with cloned telegram groups like you did.

[Mauser]

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
 

Sorry to hear that buddy, it is good that you post the sammer adress here, so no one else is going to fall for his scam. To be honest I think most of us here on the forum have fallen for a scam or two over the many years we have been involved with crypto currencies. It probably takes an event like yours where we lose our money to change our approach to trusting strangers on the internet. I remember when I first started out with bitcoins, I got scammed out of my facuet money which was around $10 back in the day, today it probably is worth more like $500. After such an experience I am now tripple checking everything before paying any services online.