The fruit of greed is never good,,

[ancafe]

A friend of mine invested some of his savings in Bitcoin. But unfortunately today his personal wallet got hacked. Balance 00. I was telling my friend how that . My friend said he gets a message on Telegram and gets greedy and enters the link they provide and connects his wallet. After a while he came and saw that his balance was zero.

Actually there is no relationship between greed and hacking done by people against your friend, if he does not give access to other parties by linking his wallet, this is a ridiculous story of mistakes made due to lack of knowledge about investing.

That's why I never agree for an unknowledgeable person taking part in a large amount of bitcoin investment how could he do such a thing and I don't think he understands any scam with security behavior to be aware of. But to be honest your story is a bit confusing to understand.

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[xSkylarx]

It happens, most of the time loss happens out of gambling. Newbies used to experience these kind of losses going through spam links that shouldn't be used. In the past it was multiplier schemes and I too became a victim of it. It request to install a software, at the bottom users withdrawal of multiplied amount transaction runs. Looking upon this believed and send small amount and I wasn't able to multiply. Later understood my mistake, so it is must to be very careful being on the crypto market.

Yes and I don't think it is really wise of us to attribute such an incident to greed because from ops' own point of view, his friend git hacked because he was greedy to have wanted to participate in the airdrop, but the fact is that most of us here have had a similar experience as a newbie and even high-rank member have also become a victim as some point before making wallet security their top priority.

-Don't connect your wallet to any platform for whatever reason, and never let out your sensitive information, most hackers work with information their collect over time by monitoring the activities of the owner before they will finally strike when the wallet owner least expected it.

As everything happens online we won't be able to do anything once we've lost our funds. So, it is good to keep things in a much secure way. Whenever you get to follow a link please check the source from which you've received it. If it is from a trusted service or from a known person. Later choose to open it or not, nowadays it is the much preferred way for the hackers.

When you get hack d and scammed online it is really difficult to retrieve back the money because you cant easily track them unless you report it to the police and they will try to investigate on it but again this will take time mostly if you are in third world country that is why we need to be careful online be cautious and learn how to keep safe our wallet and our selves online so that we can prevent this. Though requires effort if you want to be safe then you need to follow those important tips for getting safe from hacking

[nimogsm]

Although I think such discussion should not be in the form. However, I shared the story of one of my friends being cheated.

A friend of mine invested some of his savings in Bitcoin. But unfortunately today his personal wallet got hacked. Balance 00. I was telling my friend how that . My friend said he gets a message on Telegram and gets greedy and enters the link they provide and connects his wallet. After a while he came and saw that his balance was zero.

"Sin of Covetousness and Death in Sin" Like my friend, none of you connect wallets by entering any bad links. No one will be deceived like my friend.

Most often the mistake of beginners is that they do not want to learn the security rules. This is the first thing to start with and it is mandatory. On the other hand, this will serve as a lesson for him and in the future he will not follow dubious links received in instant messengers.There is a lot of material on the topic of security both here on the forum and on the net.

[famososMuertos]

Nothing that happened has to do with aphrodisiac, religious or sinful thoughts, it is the online experience-security, people do not stop falling for perhaps the most classic of fishing scams, the link + accompanied by social engineering.

There is so much information on the Internet, so many "be careful" notices, even traditional banks in any country have prevention campaigns, do not click on any link they send you, by email, chat, MSM, among other types of situations that are presented.

What did common sense mean?
Common sense (or simply sense) is sound, practical judgment concerning everyday matters, or a basic ability to perceive, understand, and judge in a manner that is shared by (i.e., "common to") nearly all people.

Source:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_sense

Really!, they are newbies, inexperienced or any social connotation that is given to this basic error, at this point in the information age and dissemination of this type of information, it falls to the obsessive-compulsive level, for clicking.

[AicecreaME]

Getting a random message from telegram is already suspicious, unless you didn't know scams about it. It's important to be cautious since there's a lot of way scammers will steal your money by phising links, so asking someone first about it is really important. If your friend really wanted to double his Bitcoin, I suggest look for legit ways of doing that instead of having an idea to double it overnight which is too good to be true.

[KingsDen]

Getting a random message from telegram is already suspicious, unless you didn't know scams about it. It's important to be cautious since there's a lot of way scammers will steal your money by phising links, so asking someone first about it is really important. If your friend really wanted to double his Bitcoin, I suggest look for legit ways of doing that instead of having an idea to double it overnight which is too good to be true.

There are many methods that scammers use to reap people their hard earned money and I am even more surprised that some of those old strategies still do work. How can a random person send you a link on the telegram and you follow the link. It did not end there, you went ahead to connect your wallet to the link provided.
Not even an empty wallet, but wallet with balances in it. I can say that your friend has gotten the experience. I recently understood that many of us learn by our personal experience, instead of learning from the mistakes of others.

Op, your friend was hacked.  He was phished.

[crunck]

As newbies, almost all of us make mistakes, it is through mistakes that we grow. The people who are criticizing your friend for being greedy are the same people who have been greedy, and I believe they have been in the past as well. As long as he can learn his lesson and not give up, all mistakes are fixable.

[Awaklara]

Getting a random message from telegram is already suspicious, unless you didn't know scams about it. It's important to be cautious since there's a lot of way scammers will steal your money by phising links, so asking someone first about it is really important. If your friend really wanted to double his Bitcoin, I suggest look for legit ways of doing that instead of having an idea to double it overnight which is too good to be true.

I'm sure his friend also wouldn't think that the impact is huge on the assets he has in his wallet. sometimes for those who are inexperienced, getting sent a link, it's like a curiosity, of course only beginners will think as long as not sending assets it will be fine. they don't know the risks of connecting a wallet with a phishing web.
even though it was a bad experience, but it can be an important lesson for all of us. especially for OP's friends, he will be wiser in making future choices.

[Anonylz]

I don't think it was just about being greedy, the problem here is your friend lack the necessary security knowledge to properly protect him from being scammed. One can't be too care but it is also very necessary to firstly have the right knowledge and understanding about any new part we want to explore.
Scammers are very crafty and will do anything necessary to try and deceive even none newbie in the crypto space. It is important to be observant and be well informed.

[LogitechMouse]

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It wasn't only greed that was the reason why your friend's wallet got hacked.
What's the other one? Curiosity

Your friend got curious on what is inside that link, and the next that happened is that your friend got greedy thus, his wallet got hacked. Overall, I'm expecting that your friend is a newbie because those who are in to crypto for a long time already know that Telegram Private Messages especially from strangers are 99% scams. As a newbie, your friend surely learns from his mistake.

Experience really is very expensive right? You need to lose a huge amount of money before learning.

[dezoel]

Isn't it too obvious though? I mean think about it, you get a link on telegram, you open it, you connect your wallet to it... Isn't that too obvious that he would be getting hacked? I could have spotted that from a million miles away, and your friend couldn't do the same?

I can't really say that I am feeling too sorry for your friend because he got too greedy while not being able to spot the scammers, you can't be a greedy person without really knowing all you need to know about crypto, and if you are fool enough to fall for something like this, then your greed needs to calm down a bit by getting hacked or scammed like this once in a while so you get wiser in the future.