First time scammed , very frustrated

[Vinaa77]

Almost everyone who is new to crypto goes through the scam phase as many of them see that earning profits in crypto is easy. but they are wrong because there is a high risk behind it. it can be used as a lesson for @OP to be more careful. I myself have several times experienced fraud in ICO cases or unclear tokens. I have stopped it for 2 years buying altcoins that do not have a clear concept and team

[Casdinyard]

Once you're scammed or fooled, that's the end for your holdings. The least thing you can do is to learn from what happened and to avoid not being a victim again. If there are possible ways to regain your losses, do every bit of it but as you are trying to get yours back, never forget what brought you into such situation. With that, you'll be wiser next time. Scam projects and the likes won't stop as long as there are people who are still falling for their scheme. Always make precautions such as asking to other people if something is bothering you or simply if you are not sure with what you are doing. That won't cost you much.

[Distinctin]

Once you're scammed or fooled, that's the end for your holdings. The least thing you can do is to learn from what happened and to avoid not being a victim again. If there are possible ways to regain your losses, do every bit of it but as you are trying to get yours back, never forget what brought you into such situation. With that, you'll be wiser next time. Scam projects and the likes won't stop as long as there are people who are still falling for their scheme. Always make precautions such as asking to other people if something is bothering you or simply if you are not sure with what you are doing. That won't cost you much.

It is gone and we have to move on. It gives us learning not to fully give trust to someone we know online unless if you have a lot of transactions done before. Because mostly scams happen in telegram group, someone pretending to be good and be consistent with what he/they promise but once your trust got caught, that will be the time they start to demand you and finally scammed thing to happen next.

Just invest xxx and I give you returns twice, it a common scam trick and most newbies had become a victim this broken and very attractive offerings.

[molsewid]

It is gone and we have to move on. It gives us learning not to fully give trust to someone we know online unless if you have a lot of transactions done before. Because mostly scams happen in telegram group, someone pretending to be good and be consistent with what he/they promise but once your trust got caught, that will be the time they start to demand you and finally scammed thing to happen next.

Just invest xxx and I give you returns twice, it a common scam trick and most newbies had become a victim this broken and very attractive offerings.

It is really hard to move on, of course, we work very hard for that money and in an instant, we lose it all it is really depressing but we should learn to accept it yes and move forward, but we should learn to pause for a while  because we need to emotionally stable at first so we can make another trading plan and we should raise awareness so that we will never be victimized by a scammer, remember there's no easy money in trading.

[Fredomago]

Just invest xxx and I give you returns twice, it a common scam trick and most newbies had become a victim this broken and very attractive offerings.

Too good to be true, but still a lots of people continue to belive in it, some do received compensation and out of greed they continue to invest only to reallize that they've already been victimize by scammers.

Never to let yourself in with such promises, nothing is easy you need to work more harder and keep going deeper.

It is really hard to move on, of course, we work very hard for that money and in an instant, we lose it all it is really depressing but we should learn to accept it yes and move forward, but we should learn to pause for a while  because we need to emotionally stable at first so we can make another trading plan and we should raise awareness so that we will never be victimized by a scammer, remember there's no easy money in trading.

Move forward and work with enhancing your knowledge, if you already been victimized nothing you can do but to accept that and take it as challenged to move on and find the best way to recover and earn more.

[fullhdpixel]

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

I am sorry for your losses. I remember when I first got scammed and it is really not a nice feeling, doesn't matter how great or newbie you are in the crypto world you could always get scammed because there are zero indications of being a scam beforehand for most of them, obviously there are some that you know but you do not get scammed by those anyway, there are Nigerian prince scams and not like we get scammed about those because those are definitely simple stuff we are well aware of but there are still a lot of ponzi schemes that change brand and shape and people still believe that, just offer people 10% monthly return and give them that money for a few months and suddenly people will think that you are legit, they will all call you ponzi for the first few months but when you are capable of offering people that return for let's say 1 year, suddenly you are legit and a ton of money will come in and you could still scam even the veterans.

[btcltcdigger]

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 man. Thing of it is, where ever there's money to be made, there's gonna be lowlife scammers trying to trick you out of it.
Latest fad of scams, closely resembling the 2017 ico scam phase, is the BSC yield farming rugpull phase.
All these meme and food coins coming out, it's getting ridiculous

[jjdub7]

This is one of the main things we need to beware of. It is very difficult / impossible to get back our tokens that we have sent.
I'm sorry that you learned this in a direct way and they managed to scammed you.

[gurunanakji777]

It happens with many of us. Scammers are in every field we should be more cautious while doing transactions because scammers always wanted us to scam. From next time always more careful or double-check the contract address of the ICO if you plan to invest. 0.25 Eth at the current value is not a small amount. Always follow the official website or links do not try to open by typing that can lead to a phishing link.

[Kunnu]

Sorry for your loss I understand how it feels when our hard working money goes like this way. Somewhere you were responsible that's why you didn't send the whole amount you still have 50% of your portfolio like you mentioned which is going to be helpful for you to recover your loss if you do the right use of it with better understanding and responsibility.

[TastyChillySauce00]

This is a lesson learned for you... hope this kind of scam wont get you again.. Telegram is the home of scammers, tehy are good at imitating supports or administrators

Not only telegram but almost all of the popular platform there gonna be some scammers. even twitter right now is full of so many scammers and youtube too with all the fake conversation about fund manager created by some bots. Best course of action is just to report them so other people who are lacking in information regarding the scamming activities might never see it because the scams gonna be deleted immediately.

[meldrio1]

Oh wow I've checked the address of scammer and it's quiet a lot of money that he scammed people, it's an easy money for scammer. Yep sometimes we do mistakes but I hope this is your the last mistake when do transaction always careful and dyor.

[Altcoinsintel]

I checked the address 0xC88b5F4aaE1C8f2778DEF2257b6bAf1BA62E4B09.

What we don't know and is not proven from this post is if this is actually a scammer. If you can prove this is an address of a scammer perhaps you can try contacting Tether and ask for advice, since the accused account has recently sold most of the ETH and switched to USDT. Tether has previously frozen USDT funds in accounts of hackers and perhaps if there is clear evidence this account is scamming, then it can take this decision again.




https://etherscan.io/address/0xC88b5F4aaE1C8f2778DEF2257b6bAf1BA62E4B09

Warning! There are reports that this address was used in a Phishing scam. Please exercise caution when interacting with this address.

Maybe you can contact others that were scammed in the etherscan comments section and decide how to proceed. There is already a comment written.

[jamalaezaz]

Take this experience as a lession and be careful for next time. never send any funds to anyone Via DM. there will be a lot of people pretending to be official team members of projects. but they are just impersonators and you have to be smart to spot the impersonators. real team members will never ask for money via DM.

Also do the followings:
1: Report that Scammer's group and profile and block them.
2: inform official team members about the scammers so they warn their other communities.
3: Move this thread or Open a  scam accusation in the correct section here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=83.0
4: try to help others by warning them and spread awareness so if even one person is saved by this. it'll be huge help for crypto community.

[Dedewahyu]

This is one of the main things we need to beware of. It is very difficult / impossible to get back our tokens that we have sent.
I'm sorry that you learned this in a direct way and they managed to scammed you.

In this case, if the scammer's address goes to the exchange, there is a possibility that we can report it. because in some cases we can also find out the identity of the scammer. however, the procedure for obtaining the data is not easy. because we have to make a police report to convince the exchange. The existence of fraud like this case can make a lesson for anyone to be more careful

You are absolutely right, if the scammer deposits the coins into the exchange, we can report it, but it seems that you have to follow the legal procedures in force in the country the exchange is in.

[bakasabo]

I believe that all of us who operate, invest in this crypto sector have suffered at least once a scam, certainly the first time is shocking, but then unfortunately we get used to it, we must learn to minimize risks and do our own research on concreteness, on solidity of the project, of the coin before investing

For me, being scammed is always shocking and I dont want to "get used to it". Being scammed in bounties is different, there you just lose your time (which is frankly speaking more valuable than money imo).

na7la got scammed by a fake webpage. Like this, I think person can be scammed only once, maybe twice. I dont believe that it is possible to get used to sending money to fake webpages address.

[rozak]

In this case, if the scammer's address goes to the exchange, there is a possibility that we can report it. because in some cases we can also find out the identity of the scammer. however, the procedure for obtaining the data is not easy. because we have to make a police report to convince the exchange. The existence of fraud like this case can make a lesson for anyone to be more careful

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.

[yazher]

Oh wow I've checked the address of scammer and it's quiet a lot of money that he scammed people, it's an easy money for scammer. Yep sometimes we do mistakes but I hope this is your the last mistake when do transaction always careful and dyor.

That's why they keep doing this thing all over again because of the huge number of victims. Those innocent people who work every day to get those money sacrifice some blood and sweat just to earn those cash. They just wanted to try some investments maybe they can find some answers to their financial struggles and then you have these evil people who have some evil intention to fool those poor guys. I hope they can recover their money from different sources and may those scammers face their doom someday.

[bonyaserg]

Yes, now many users are losing their funds due to scammers. But you always have to be human and stay decent with others. After all, if you get lost somewhere and you were deceived, the Universe will see everything and will return to you with double success. And to the one who does not act according to the conscience of the Universe, thanks to something completely different. It means that you need to do a lot of good deeds and attract as many users as possible to good deeds. And then, I think, there will be much fewer scammers. And our society will change for the better, and it will be much easier for everyone to live and make a profit.

[TheGreatPython]

Almost $450. That's a lot of money, OP. Why would you risk that much for something even if it means to something that is quite known of a project these days? I wouldn't risk that amount solely for anything.
I guess you learned your lesson from there already. This is why when I join a certain group, not just Telegram, I tend to scout first the activity if it is filled with bots or not.

Polkadot is an excellent project and I wouldn't be hesitant investing such amount myself but yeah what happened with him was unfortunate to say the least and there are 100s of fake groups not just for polkadot or ICOs but even for exchanges like Binance. In fact if you guys noticed when Elon Muks tweeted about dogecoin there were some scam links spammed by fake IDs on twitter and a ;lot of guys must have been scammed by that fake giveaway.

It's time to make sure not to be careless, it's needed to have a much deeper knowledge before you participate or
before you invest your time and money.

Yes, a lot of scammers even waste time, I was talking to a potential scammer few days back on telegram and he seemed like a very nice guy who was trying to convince me that he has some trading skills by which he can earn a lot of ROI and lacks capital, I believed him and continued to listen his story. At the end of everything, he asked me, so how much you want to invest initially? I was like, man so much time and efforts you put into explaining to just bust yourself by asking for money.

I have actually stopped replying to messages from unknowns now.