Looking for Help with transaction that never showed.

[Mysterio]

My friend sent me some bitcoin.  On Jan 16th he showed me the transaction receipt. attached here. also my 24 hour electrum btc address is here attached. 

On my end I have seen nothing other than a strange credit of .006 bitcoin and then the sending of the same .006 bitcoin. wtf....noone did this.

Im not sure where to start this recovery, any help appreciated   

version 4.09 on windows 7

FYI...I was an original beta tester of bitcoin , simple machines forum, and was initially into it at .14 cents, went through the mt.gox debacle etc until now.   if that counts for anything....

heres the info, wheres the BTC?  seems stuck in limbo with no transaction notice on my side....nowhere to go in an increase the fees...because no notice of pending transaction.

https://imgur.com/uKR4y5Z

https://imgur.com/undefined

https://imgur.com/GfBnXAq

[hosseinimr93]

The second link you shared doesn't work, but from what I see in the third image, it seems that your wallet has been compromised or you were using a fake version of electrum.

Im not sure where to start this recovery, any help appreciated  

Bitcoin transactions are not reversible and unfortunately, there's nothing you can do.  


Edit:

Your friend sent your the 0.0662557 BTC, but you were not the one that spend the coin?

It seems so.
I could find the transaction OP is talking about on the blockchain.
As the outgoing transaction was made just after the receiving transaction and with a very high fee, it seems that the fund has been stolen.

[NeuroticFish]

Your skills in hiding the address are not great. You could have been simply paste your address to make our task a little easier.

You've received 0.00662557 with transaction a20d98e9e5d0a83bca00de0995b790dfc15b07ef1a9577f1f6496825fab92d89
The whole amount was sent away with transaction 83cda9ade4d168840d4cd4101debb7027e621d15df2d43c72513b5faa89238e4

The following things are strange:
* you don't know what has happened with your money
* the send away tx has a quite large fee (106 sat/vByte, 4.60$ in fees!)
* the send away tx was confirmed in the same block as the input tx

My conclusion is that your wallet is compromised, somebody else has scripts watching your wallet and steals your money.
I don't know if your device is also compromised, it can also be the case.

Make sure you stop using this wallet (you have no other funds on it, right?) and the new one you generate you do it safely on a clean device.
Also you should consider buying a hardware wallet...

[Charles-Tim]

Nothing more than your wallet is comprised and your coin was stolen. Sorry about that, but you need to know how to protect your wallet.

For protection of your seed phrase, you can add passphrase along while generating your seed phrase, different keys would be generated, anyone that knows the seed phrase but that do not know the passphrase will not be able to compromise your wallet with only seed phrase if you use a strong passphrase. Back up the passphrase in different location from the seed phrase. But the con is that if you lost the passphrase, you will lose your coin, just like if the seed phrase is lost. You will have to protect both seed grade and passphrase. If you do not want to go for passphrase, protect your seed phrase more in a way no one can sees it.

Do not trust anyone with your device.

Also you can get a hardware wallet.

[hosseinimr93]

My conclusion is that your wallet is compromised, somebody else has scripts watching your wallet and steals your money.

Your conclusion is 100% correct.
Blockchain.com explorer says that their node received the incoming transaction on January 17, 03:59:10 (GMT) and the outgoing transaction on 03:59:11 (GMT) which is only 1 second later.

[nc50lc]

-snip-
https://imgur.com/GfBnXAq

Electrum version matches the stats in your previous replies when there was no issue, guess you haven't updated it.
So I think you've either leaked your seed phrase or compromised your PC just recently.

Have you used any bitcoin payment URI lately with a "file://" in the last few characters?
Where do you keep the seed phrase?

But the thing is, there's no way to retrieve the bitcoins without finding the culprit to "convince" him to send the funds back.

[Pmalek]

version 4.09 on windows 7

You are using an outdated version of Electrum on an old and even more outdated version of Windows. Windows 7 is no longer recommended and Windows doesn't care about it either.

FYI...I was an original beta tester of bitcoin , simple machines forum, and was initially into it at .14 cents, went through the mt.gox debacle etc until now.   if that counts for anything....

That doesn't change the situation you are in now one bit.

heres the info, wheres the BTC?  seems stuck in limbo with no transaction notice on my side

It's not stuck in limbo. Your transaction history shows an incoming transaction followed by an outgoing one. These two transactions are 1 second apart. You should consider your wallet and the device it's installed on as compromised.

Do you still have the exact address you downloaded your Electrum wallet from?
A lot of time passed since you last used your wallet in 2021 and who knows what you did to get infected.
Did you download any Electrum updates and how? Did you ever verify the signatures for any of those updates?
How much do you know about basic computer security, and is the computer used for torrents, porn, dubious websites, cracked software and games, etc? 
Malware and viruses can easily spread over email as well if you don't know what you are doing.   

[o_e_l_e_o]

The only safe assumption here is that both that seed phrase and your computer are now compromised, and you shouldn't use either of them again for anything important. You should also assume that any other wallets you have stored on that computer, as well as any online logins you perform from that computer, are similarly compromised, since you cannot be sure if it was malware which compromised your wallet and such malware could also compromise anything else on that computer.

Time to format your device and install an up to date OS on it, and not an outdated and insecure one such as Windows 7. Create a new bitcoin wallet with the seed phrase only ever written down on paper, and send any remaining coins from other wallets to it. Change all your passwords.

[Mysterio]

Thanks for all of your responses....obviously compromised
 

I once had a friend on this forum, or this platform rather,  that lost 500,000 BTC from a wallet hack....this was in 2011. 



 

[Lucius]

I once had a friend on this forum, or this platform rather,  that lost 500,000 BTC from a wallet hack....this was in 2011. 

Half a million BTC hacked? Are you sure it wasn't about maybe 5000 or 50 000 BTC? I personally have not heard of such an event, and it is not even on this list -> List of Major Bitcoin Heists, Thefts, Hacks, Scams, and Losses