First time scammed , very frustrated

[ukw]

This is a very unpleasant feeling, which I regret. In the crypto world we have to be very careful, because there are many people who take advantage of people and the fact that everything is anonymous in these cases is a plus for fraudsters.

[ololajulo]

No one is above this mistake, that is the reason an investor should double check before sending fund, I would have adviced to try with a transaction but the gas fee for each transaction can be a quality investment itself. I was a victim of this, then I learnt to follow any interested project early, joining the telegram and other social media group early. Get familiar with the operations, community managers, probably have a prior conversation that could keep a record for possible clone admin. Double check the address with the website if possible

[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
 

It is sad to lose assets, I understand your feelings very much. But it will be your best experience. From nowadays I am sure you will check twice all the information before acting. Scamners are extremely creative. About the polkadot and Polkastart - great things of nowadays. And of course some genius people decided to use those famous names. Do not be upset. Just move on and do not forget one day you will remember this experience with a wide smile because you will catch and see the every scammers' effort before even they try to it.

[MCobian]

We will definitely be frustrated and annoyed if we become a victim of fraud, therefore before investing we must do research and analysis properly.
Because in the crypto world, fraud is a very common thing, if we are not careful, we will definitely become victims of fraud. Moreover, what was told
by the opening post, many other people also experienced it. If we want to buy coins, there is no need to rush, do it carefully.

So that we are absolutely sure that the coins we will buy can provide profit, and also make sure the coins address is not wrong when we are going
to transfer the coins. Because there are so many fraudulent methods used by scammers to be able to trick their victims.

[fia_naila]

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
  

To be honest this type of scame is already has been done many times from 2017 when the first time ICO got hype through ethereum platform. And that yime scammer will copy paste their ethereum wallet to ICO's Slack Group and million of dollar vanished. Are you new in this crypto world ?

[jostorres]

Cloning and phishing is the new subtle means by which scammers fraudulently steal unsuspecting newbies their hard earned coins personally I nearly fell victim of a cloned address after discovering that my laptop was vulnerable I could have mistakenly sent my coins to the address it was my diligence and patience in rechecking the address that reveal the fraud, the bottom-line is that scammers and hackers are getting sophisticated in their operations on daily basis its up to every crypto users to take extra caution in handling their coins especially via telegram which is one of the social media used by these fraudsters to perpetuate fraudulent activities.

It is a very good habit of double checking the address like matching the first and last few characters at the very least before making the transaction because there is absolutely no way to get the coins back. I have had similar incident in past where no matter what address I would copy it would copy a pre-determined address, I don't know to whom it belonged but I had to install windows again to get rid off the problem.

Scamming that happens on telegram is mostly by impersonators and there is only one way to ensure avoiding these scams, just never send money to someone before you verify they are the right owners and the contract address is correct. I haven't felt to these kind of scams but the number of messages I get from scammers and impersonators makes me understand why so many guys fall for it.

[Fivestar4everMVP]

This is really bad, but all the same, give thanks that it's not more than that, I have a friend who through this same clone thing lost over $70,000 usd just like that, he actually gave them his 12 word seed and they login into his wallet and withdraw all he had worked for over 4 years to save, if not for the help of people around, he wanted to commit suicide, this happened in 2018 and till now, my friend is not back into crypto yet cus to him, it's hard to forget.
So sorry for your loss mate, and be more careful next time.

[GWS My Boy]

scammers will always exist in the crypto world everything they do to deceive its targets examples like new crypto projects when they get money from investors just run away without any burden at all keep on being careful accuracy needs to be done before investing in a crypto project

[dimonstration]

why can you be so careless, money problems you have to be careful because there are many scams out there, especially the crypto world is very close to fraud.  I hope your losses will soon be replaced by others. keep the spirit and be patient

There are tons of scammer nowadays, we will need to learn from our experiences. There are many ways that fraudsters will use just to get easily our money. I was once been a victim too when crypto just started and ICO were too popular , luckily I didn’t put too much money but it’s still a hard earned money that been wasted due-to this fraudster. We should be careful and don’t let same mistakes happen again.

[Sebas.tian]

I know how you feel right now, because I was in your shoes before I experienced frustration from the hands of the scammers in the areas of investment. It reduced my income to zero level at the moment which took me over three years to recover from the loss.
Since i experienced such things from the scammers, I learnt my lesson never to invest in the hands of scammer and it will hard me to invest in a place, I will not achieve something good from my investment. Before I invest in any altcoin I always carry out my personal research to know if it will bring good result at the end of the business or not before investing on a particular project.

[Asuspawer09]

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
 

Scammers these days are everywhere, sorry for your loss but I guess you need to move on and start a new one, learned from your mistakes.

Usually, when it comes from discord, Twitter, or any other social media platforms you need to double-check everything especially if links came from it, I also fell from someone on discord thinking that it is the same website from a private message, he is also in the same channel and gives me a pm, I see the same website but its a clone or a phishing website and I put my private key on it luckily I don't have funds on that wallet.

This is also why I rarely join ICO or presales because of the sketchy websites that is look like a fake one, before I join one I double check everything and look in the internet if its a trusted project.

[MUG1WARA]

I have experienced things like you and I really know how you feel right now, but with this you can gain experience and be more careful in investing, don't be sad bro because with this incident you will be bigger, remember the adage if no one is successful who never made mistake

[GrosWesh]

Everyone should stay humble and be aware that even with maximum caution, it doesn't take much to get ripped off  .

There are so many possible ways to get stolen it is scary! Take your precautions and act knowingly

This is why we must act calmly, take the time to verify the legitimacy of what we are asked to do when we interact with a contract or a site, and everything should be fine.

[abel1337]

Always remember that scammers are always there and they are taking advantage of every trend in the market right now, Be wary of your investment especially that you got scammed by a clone telegram channel. One of the first things you can do if you are investing is to identify their legitimate and official social media channels, You can find it on their announcement thread or website. I've got scammed before and I know it feels terrible especially that 50% of your portfolio is wiped out, It will take time to regain.

[kawetsriyanto]

So sorry to hear that.
In the crypto world, scammers are someti8ng that is very usual, they scam people in various ways, but mostly the scheme is the same. For example is when they offer very promising projects or investments, they want you to transfer the amount of money and will back to you with multiple profits. This is so strange and will lead to a scam.
From what you experienced, you must be patient and make this a very big lesson, sometimes, the experience is the best teacher. Don't be greedy and careless to put certain money into something not clear

[JNR]

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
 

always double check everything before you send your eth mate
and why you don't go to official website to get the real telegram channel
by the way, you should be more careful and learn from your mistakes

[tippytoes]

The issue of scams is very much common in crytocurrency .I don't think there is any body into crytocurrency that will tell you that they have never been scammed not even once.The best thing is to be more careful next time and try to make research before engaging in anything to avoid loosing your money again.

If not being scammed, lost money with ICO or IEO or in any type of these crowdsourcing campaigns. I was not scammed but lost money in one of the ICOs before. Thought that everything was fine as they even had their members disclosed in the public. But maybe, they didn't have the intentions to screw their investors, but they were not successful with their platform. And so they failed, and investors lost money. One way or another, we will lose some in this crypto journey. And that will be a learning lesson for us not to make the same mistakes again.

[BChydro]

It is sad to hear people falling for scams but you did not mention how you send money to random people, they contacted you in social media and you readily sent the money thinking it is a legit one. There are a lot of scams happening in Telegram where people are posing as legit groups and approach you in private and try to convince they are the legit team especially when you contact any team support in the legit support channel you will get multiple private message claiming to be legit representatives.

[jamm7]

I feel sorry for you,this is happen in life but you should learn from this mistake, be carefull for the next time.Dont worry you will earn more then this lost amount.

[TastyChillySauce00]

People try to create duplicate or fake accounts so rampant nowadays, it's not a rare sighting for us to find these fake accounts swarming some popular figure's tweets and projects.
That's why you should double check everything that you trying to do in crypto space. Heck, everytime I pasted an address I'd check it like 5 times because i'm aware the existence of malware that replace address within clipboard.