Electrum Account Limits

[WinstonII]

Hello ,
I'm new in this world and being scammed already.
Now I want somme more certainty and like to have somme advice from someone .
 I've have a 1.2 BTC on my Electrum account but they let me already 3600€ on BTC pay for the  " taxes" and now.
They ask me again 0.25BTC to raise my account limits in order to be able to get my money back.
Dues anyone have some advice.
the prove that I ask , I"ll never get.  
On my Electrum account I don't see any BTC or €
Thanks

[Charles-Tim]

Did you downloaded it from https://electrum.org ? No

That is not Electrum because Electrum gives you the full control over your coins.

It is a scam.

[LoyceMobile]

Electrum is a wallet, not an account. If they ask for money, you are getting scammed.

Start from the beginning: what did you do, and how did you send money? Who did you send it to?

[WinstonII]

I got contact with someone from Trade Control with the message that there is a amount BTC from my former action blocked and he will take care to help me to get it .than he connected me with someone from electrum

[Charles-Tim]

If you sent your coins to a fake wallet (like that), you are scammed. After, the scammers are still looking for ways to scam you more.

[Edwardard]

I got contact with someone from Trade Control with the message that there is a amount BTC from my former action blocked and he will take care to help me to get it .than he connected me with someone from electrum

You got scammed here unfortunately. Electrum never blocks access to your btc as you control the keys yourself. If electrum servers are down, you can easily just export your keys to another safe wallet and spend your coins by your own. You dont need a customer support for this. Its a shame that ppl still fall for such scams. Please educate yourself more before holding any bitcoins Once again, sorry for your loss mate, the amount is huge (atleast for many ppl).

[LoyceMobile]

I got contact with someone from Trade Control

It's email spam. Answering it means they try to scam you You don't have Bitcoin, and chances are your computer now has malware. Backup data, wipe your computer, and start over.

[Tony116]

...Its a shame that ppl still fall for such scams. Please educate yourself more before holding any bitcoins Once again, sorry for your loss mate, the amount is huge (atleast for many ppl).

This reminds me of a thread I came across a few days ago with the question, "is it possible to buy bitcoins without basic knowledge" and the OP's case was the obvious answer to that question. Buying bitcoin may not be too difficult, but holding it safe is another story. Newbies were too hasty in owning bitcoin without knowledge and fell into the trap and pay a heavy price.
Condolences to the OP's loss, I think you already know what you need, please add your knowledge immediately.

[joniboini]

I got contact with someone from Trade Control with the message that there is a amount BTC from my former action blocked and he will take care to help me to get it .than he connected me with someone from electrum

What is this Trade Control you are talking about? Why did you trust them if you never hold that much money in the first place?

Also, most decentralized wallets don't have the kind of support as Coinbase/centralized platform does (resetting your password, etc). Hopefully, you can learn from this and avoid being scammed again by someone pretending to be official support in the future. CMIIW.

Buying bitcoin may not be too difficult, but holding it safe is another story. Newbies were too hasty in owning bitcoin without knowledge and fell into the trap and pay a heavy price.

It applies to most things in my opinion, especially if it is tech-related. You should never use things you have no knowledge of (even the basic ones) in the first place.

[Lucius]

I've have a 1.2 BTC on my Electrum account but they let me already 3600€ on BTC pay for the  " taxes" and now.
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On my Electrum account I don't see any BTC or €

How did you conclude that you have something, and you yourself say that you don't see anything on your "account"? On the one hand, the one who deceived you is guilty, but you are equally guilty because you believed in such a foolish thing. This type of scam is one of the simplest, but it also seems to be very effective, whether it is selling watch-only wallets or paying some kind of fees to enable the withdrawal of funds.

I hope you've learned your lesson, in the end it's just money that you obviously have - otherwise you wouldn't be able to allow yourself to throw it around so lightly.

[buwaytress]

You're definitely going to have to give some more details if you want to get more help, though from what others have said and what information you've already given: you're probably already scammed.

Are you using an app? An account online?

1. Don't send anything anymore to them.
2. Report them.

[Lucius]

Are you using an app? An account online?

I got contact with someone from Trade Control...

The only thing I can find that matches the description of what the OP describes is the following page :

Code:

https://trade.trade-control.net/

It doesn't seem very credible at first glance, and it probably isn't, considering that without registration it is impossible to find out any useful information.

[darkangel11]

How did you connect this trade control site with electrum? Electrum is a wallet, not an exchange. It runs on your desktop, you don't contact anyone about a limits because there are no limits.
Make a screenshot of the communication with that person who demanded money from you and the conversation about raising your limits and show it in this thread. It should clear things up a bit, but I'm 100% sure you're being scammed. No exchange and no real wallet will demand money from you to allow withdrawal of deposited funds.

[WinstonII]

Hay mates ,

Thanks for the advice and feedback.
Unfortunately it looks like I'm scammed .
Dues anyone know what I can do , report them ect??

regards

[bitbollo]

you can open a scam accusation providing more details/screenshots here
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=83.0
following this format report
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=260073.0

It can be useful but in the end, people that get scammed will never make any basic search about these kinds of service. Like the same that happens to you... there is no fee to pay for "unblock bitcoin" or much more, if you don't know to have bitcoin in some "random online account", you don't have it.

[tbct_mt2]

Not your keys, not your coins. With legit Electrum wallet, you own your bitcoins because you control its private keys.

So you are totally be able to broadcast your transactions without need to get approval or supports from Electrum team. What you actually need is confirmations from Bitcoin miners.

Verify wallets to avoid scam and phishing wallets.
[Guide] How to safely download and verify Electrum wallet

Especially if you got invitation or request from some person to ask you sending your coins first, to get credit to your wallet or account, I am sure they are scammers. Real staffs of any legit company won't go first with support in DMs or emails and ask for money.

Go first means likely scammers.
Go first and ask for money, coin are surely scammers.

[BenCodie]

Hay mates ,

Thanks for the advice and feedback.
Unfortunately it looks like I'm scammed .
Dues anyone know what I can do , report them ect??

regards

For future reference can you please tell us where you downloaded this wallet from or which website you used, and also how you found it?

Are you using an app? An account online?

I got contact with someone from Trade Control...

The only thing I can find that matches the description of what the OP describes is the following page :

Code:

https://trade.trade-control.net/

It doesn't seem very credible at first glance, and it probably isn't, considering that without registration it is impossible to find out any useful information.

I see from here you stated something about "Trade Control" but I am confused how you've mistaken this for electrum.

1.2 BTC is a huge loss. You should really have checked on website/wallet legitimacy before using it or asked about it here before sending/depositing such a large amount to it

As bitbollo stated, please provide all of the information about what happened in a scam accusation thread so that others can hopefully land on it before they try this service.

[avikz]

Hello ,
I'm new in this world and being scammed already.
Now I want somme more certainty and like to have somme advice from someone .
 I've have a 1.2 BTC on my Electrum account but they let me already 3600€ on BTC pay for the  " taxes" and now.
They ask me again 0.25BTC to raise my account limits in order to be able to get my money back.
Dues anyone have some advice.
the prove that I ask , I"ll never get.  
On my Electrum account I don't see any BTC or €
Thanks

I am really sorry to say that you have been scammed. Electrum is a desktop based wallet which allows you to control your money. They do not/can not limit your account. You have full control on your wallet. So this is something else!

As requested by some of my fellow community members, please share full details of the incident. From where you have downloaded the wallet and what other things you have done. It will help others to avoid such scams in future.

[EarnOnVictor]

I'm so surprised by the accusation of the OP, electum will never do that, you have full access and control of your crypto (noncustodial). This is also an open source which everyone is talking well about. Maybe the OP is scammed already by going for the cloned site, and that would be so disastrous in that sense.

Never deposit extra to get back your money, they will scam you more. The correct site is https://electrum.org, and do not follow the review sites you don't trust or the sponsored links when you search on online engines, be advised.

[Plaguedeath]

This is why you need to verify the Electrum PGP signature in order to know if you installed the right software or the cloned one, it's actually the most important thing for everyone who want to install non custodial and open source wallet. For future reference you can read this guide how to verify the signature [1]

The next important thing you need to avoid:
1. Don't use chrome, it's full of phishing adds.
2. Don't click random link on email, telegram etc.
3. Don't believe anything about Electrum's representative.

[1] https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5240594.0