GASTY4 APPEAL

[Gaasty8]

What wallet did you use for signing message from bc1qer09xsqpn0gsxf9dqyt7zrkccd8lmy4h6smnuu?

As there is no standard for signing a message from a segwit address and I was able to verify your message using electrum, there's a high probability that you used electrum.
Am I right? Did you use electrum? If so, you may be able to find the wallet file on your computer and sign a message.

No Sir, I made use of Coinomi Wallet.

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[LoyceV]

No Sir, I made use of Coinomi Wallet.

Coinomi gives you 24 seed words to write down as a backup. If you find them, you can sign another message from the same address.

[Pmalek]

Anyone who stores their private keys in their email is on their own

True, but I was thinking more of someone getting infected with a dangerous malware and/or a keylogger that causes them to lose their passwords and having login data altered. A keylogger that records their keystrokes as they log in to their wallets, which could potentially give the attacker access to private keys.

He then got an opportunity to join a campaign and did with Remitano address because they have a peer2peer service and can easily trade his Bitcoin to Naira.

I assume Remitano is some local exchange. I also assume there is an application post or a proof of authentification post of some sort for the campaign he applied to, right? A post or entry in a spreadsheet where an unedited Bitcoin address is visible.

The recovery team might not accept this as proof, but who knows. He could record himself logging in to his Remitano account (obviously the video shouldn't show him entering his password), and showing that said account has his Bitcoin signature campaign address as a deposit address. That would prove that the person who created this thread and applied to that signature campaign you mentioned, controls the account of the service provider where that address was used as a deposit address.      

[hosseinimr93]

No Sir, I made use of Coinomi Wallet.

Do you still have access to the device you used for creating the wallet on Coinomi? If you have access to that device and you haven't deleted the wallet, you should be able to sign a message again.
Note that you don't need to import the private key if you still have the wallet in your device.

[Gaasty8]

Anyone who stores their private keys in their email is on their own

True, but I was thinking more of someone getting infected with a dangerous malware and/or a keylogger that causes them to lose their passwords and having login data altered. A keylogger that records their keystrokes as they log in to their wallets, which could potentially give the attacker access to private keys.

He then got an opportunity to join a campaign and did with Remitano address because they have a peer2peer service and can easily trade his Bitcoin to Naira.

I assume Remitano is some local exchange. I also assume there is an application post or a proof of authentification post of some sort for the campaign he applied to, right? A post or entry in a spreadsheet where an unedited Bitcoin address is visible.

The recovery team might not accept this as proof, but who knows. He could record himself logging in to his Remitano account (obviously the video shouldn't show him entering his password), and showing that said account has his Bitcoin signature campaign address as a deposit address. That would prove that the person who created this thread and applied to that signature campaign you mentioned, controls the account of the service provider where that address was used as a deposit address.      

Bless you Sir!! I'm speechless, I don't wanna talk loads, but I can sure do this to show I'm the sole owner of the account.

[Pmalek]

I don't wanna talk loads, but I can sure do this to show I'm the sole owner of the account.

Do it You have nothing to lose but you have an account to gain if the recovery team or admins accept it as valid proof. Just be careful that you don't leak any private and identifiable information about yourself in that video. I would advice you have a close family member, friend, or relative take a look before you post a link or upload the video somewhere. Or if there is someone you really trust on this forum, you could ask that person for the same kind of people. 4 eyes are better than 2. Maybe someone sees something in the video that shouldn't be there.
You didn't answer LoyceV's question about your Coinomi wallet. What's the status of it and can you still recover it from seed?

[Gaasty8]

I don't wanna talk loads, but I can sure do this to show I'm the sole owner of the account.

Do it You have nothing to lose but you have an account to gain if the recovery team or admins accept it as valid proof. Just be careful that you don't leak any private and identifiable information about yourself in that video. I would advice you have a close family member, friend, or relative take a look before you post a link or upload the video somewhere. Or if there is someone you really trust on this forum, you could ask that person for the same kind of people. 4 eyes are better than 2. Maybe someone sees something in the video that shouldn't be there.
You didn't answer LoyceV's question about your Coinomi wallet. What's the status of it and can you still recover it from seed?

Thankful for the guidance here once more Sir.
I had a bad Cell phone,so I changed the later already.... All I'm saying is that, I don't have it anymore.

[Igebotz]

Alternatively, if that does not work, try resetting password using secret question as that would automatically lock the account and prevent the hacker from causing any more damage.

What happens if you don't have a secret question on your account? We don't know whether OP has it turned on or not, thus the two options are to sign a message from his old address or send the original email to the account recovery team

[Upgrade00]

What happens if you don't have a secret question on your account? We don't know whether OP has it turned on or not

AFAIK, it only locks the account if the secret question option is active and the one put in is correct. This was not suggested as a means to recover the account, but rather to lock it in order to prevent any damage to the account.

thus the two options are to sign a message from his old address or send the original email to the account recovery team

Both might be necessary in some situations to prove ownership, but based on the admin's discretion, just an email from the original account can suffice.

[GeorgeJohn]

Alternatively, if that does not work, try resetting password using secret question as that would automatically lock the account and prevent the hacker from causing any more damage.

What happens if you don't have a secret question on your account? We don't know whether OP has it turned on or not, thus the two options are to sign a message from his old address or send the original email to the account recovery team

I see that op is a beginner and is finding it very rigid to understand exactly what's signing of message is all about because since he should have done that by now, and if op can't sign message that means it will be very difficult to resolve the matter, but i think from my options B, op can equally provide evidence or prove by rendering the transaction receipt from the immediate signature campaign payment with the link, at least such can indicates that it's rightful owner of the account since is novice to sign a message, I don't know what will be your prospection.

[noormcs5]

Alternatively, if that does not work, try resetting password using secret question as that would automatically lock the account and prevent the hacker from causing any more damage.

What happens if you don't have a secret question on your account? We don't know whether OP has it turned on or not, thus the two options are to sign a message from his old address or send the original email to the account recovery team

I see that op is a beginner and is finding it very rigid to understand exactly what's signing of message is all about because since he should have done that by now, and if op can't sign message that means it will be very difficult to resolve the matter, but i think from my options B, op can equally provide evidence or prove by rendering the transaction receipt from the immediate signature campaign payment with the link, at least such can indicates that it's rightful owner of the account since is novice to sign a message, I don't know what will be your prospection.

The OP seems to be in very awkward situation because he has nothing with him to proof that he owns the account. Also another thing which is surprising is that the hacker who hacked the GASTY4 account, didn't login again after Feb 04. I wonder when he will login and what will be his response on this.

[Pmalek]

I had a bad Cell phone,so I changed the later already.... All I'm saying is that, I don't have it anymore.

The quality of the mobile phone doesn't have anything to do with it. It doesn't matter if you create a Coinomi wallet on a phone, PC, old or new device. During the creation process, you are presented with a 24-word recovery phrase that you are supposed to write down on a piece of paper somewhere. That's your recovery method in case something goes wrong with your device. What happened to the seed of your Coinomi wallet? Where did you store/write it down?

[LoyceV]

What happens if you don't have a secret question on your account?

Nothing. That's why I removed the "secret answers".

[Rikafip]

The quality of the mobile phone doesn't have anything to do with it. It doesn't matter if you create a Coinomi wallet on a phone, PC, old or new device.

I don't think that he said that quality of a mobile phone has anything to do with his issue. He simply wanted to say that he  replaced bad/old mobile phone with a new one while not having seed phrase from the old phone's Coinomi wallet, so now he can't access it anymore. Classic newbie mistake, that he probably won't make again.

[Mpamaegbu]

but i think from my options B, op can equally provide evidence or prove by rendering the transaction receipt from the immediate signature campaign payment with the link,

What OP tendered was a wallet address from an exchange for the campaign he last had, unfortunately he can't sign a message from that. It's not primarily because he's a novice at signing a message. He once signed one but that was on a device that later went bad and he didn't get out his seed phrase. If he had the seed phrase that would've been an easy thing to import to another device and then sign a message from the wallet. I think it's a dilemma for OP now. I'm sure I've come across OP's posts and he's a Nigerian.

[Pmalek]

What OP tendered was a wallet address from an exchange for the campaign he last had, unfortunately he can't sign a message from that. It's not primarily because he's a novice at signing a message. He once signed one but that was on a device that later went bad and he didn't get out his seed phrase. If he had the seed phrase that would've been an easy thing to import to another device and then sign a message from the wallet.

In that case, I guess the only thing he can do is try to prove he owns and has access to the platform that generated the Bitcoin address that he used in the WINZ.io signature campaign. I am not familiar with a case where such evidence was accepted during an account recovery. But it's still better than doing nothing. The recovery team will surely not act based on no proof at all.

The question is, is OP comfortable with making a video that shows him logging in to the exchange to display the receiving address and hoping that the admins will turn a blind eye to everything else that is missing!?

[Rockstarguy]

I feel the reason why OP didn't copy his seed phrase, he never knew the importance of signing a message,  maybe  he thinks signing a message was for formality or fun for newbies in getting it right. He never expected something like this to happen,  that it could be used to recover hacked account. Maybe that was why he felt reluctant of copying the seed phrase for the future.

[Mpamaegbu]

He never expected something like this to happen,  that it could be used to recover hacked account. Maybe that was why he felt reluctant of copying the seed phrase for the future.

Honestly, we never can know when little things we neglect get back to bite us. Like they say, "Experience is the best teacher." I nearly was caught in a similar situation with a Trust wallet I misplaced its seed phrase. I ran berserk for weeks, and then eventually decided to let it go because it became obvious I couldn't access it again. It was after several months that I had forgotten about the whole incident that I stumbled on where I wrote it down. My excitement on the day knew no bounds. It was then the importance of that seed phrase dawned on me and I remembered veteran members here hammering on that.  I hope OP, and several other newbies here learn from this experience and become better with the security of their wallets. No one should  wait until it happens to them. Learning from others' mistakes can also be a part of learning experience.

[lovesmayfamilis]

Honestly, we never can know when little things we neglect get back to bite us. Like they say, "Experience is the best teacher."

If you say that experience is the best teacher, then the OP must draw the right conclusions. No wonder, I asked a question that the OP carefully ignored. He created a topic in which everything was thoroughly chewed to him.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5380534.msg58939174#msg58939174

Why didn't he heed all the advice he was given at the time? Why create a topic and not listen to the answers? Merits?

The OP lost access to the account himself, could it also be a probable cause of an incorrect attempt to change the password, which the OP is embarrassed to say? It's always easier to blame others.
OP, your account is not banned. And, that is, you still have an attempt to create an account from scratch, given your previous mistakes. Because of your own mistake, you will learn from this rather than being sophisticated and begging for restoration.

[Mpamaegbu]

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If you say that experience is the best teacher, then the OP must draw the right conclusions. No wonder, I asked a question that the OP carefully ignored. He created a topic in which everything was thoroughly chewed to him.

What I meant with that by inference is if something happened to one it would be very hard for one to forget such incident as one must've learnt a lesson or two from that. For instance example, everything ceases whenever I'm installing a wallet or any other thing that demands something being copied out that can grant one access. By extension, if OP resolves this issue it will be very unlikely of him to repeat the mistake. On the "neglecting your question thing", it could be an oversight. I'm sure OP wouldn't do that on purpose. You can say I'm playing the devil's advocate here but that's the way I see it.

Merits?

Nah, I don't think this will be it. Who seeks merits for a throwaway account? Aren't appeal accounts throwaway accounts? I later checked OP's main account from the link you sent there and discovered I had even merited him in the past. Sad. I do hope he gets back his account so he can continue posting.

The OP lost access to the account himself, could it also be a probable cause of an incorrect attempt to change the password, which the OP is embarrassed to say? It's always easier to blame others.

I sincerely hope that's the case. Again, no one is above mistake and there's nothing to be ashamed of if that's the case. It happens to the best of us.