I sent BTC to the wrong wallet address

[haliscomert]

1L1UduuGPZ8ttGe59F2w9tTEumQFhtxiuT (BTC) wallet accidentally sent 4.37 BTC, if the account owner is here, please check your wallet and return it to my account below:

BTC 1L1UduuGPZ8ttGe59F2w9tTEumQFhtxiuR

BTC (segwit) bc1qt8uz7d7695naxktvz33az5wqekmun5kvtnajgt

Ethereum (ERC20) 0x7dd6c1a980d195153b8427711a831cdc826583de

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[BitMaxz]

No one would believe you if you just  say that you accidentally sent BTC to that address how can we be sure that you own the address where it came from?

Is this the address 1L1UduuGPZ8ttGe59F2w9tTEumQFhtxiuT where you sent the BTC or where the BTC came from?

If some one owns this address and receive this BTC you need to provide a sign message of that address to make sure that you own that address.

[hosseinimr93]

Is this the address 1L1UduuGPZ8ttGe59F2w9tTEumQFhtxiuT where you sent the BTC or where the BTC came from?

None of them. That address is invalid.
OP changed the last letter of his address from R to T without knowing the new address is invalid and without knowing all bitcoin transactions are public.


haliscomert, as said by BitMaxz above, no one would believe your claim.

[Aanuoluwatofunmi]

Provide the transaction id to it, after doing that, i still doubt as well if someone can boldly comes out to claim they are responsible for the amount, if you look at the amount being involved here, its something huge and i don't think someone can easily make a refund like that if they got that kind of money, except there is a proof that you can present in showing that the recipient is a member of this forum, moreover, home comes do you arrived at using a wrong address in sending the fund.

[Richbased]

Firstly, if you sent BTC to a wrong address it is gone and cannot be reversed and how did you know that someone possibly from the forum might be the owner of the wrong address you sent the Bitcoin to and how can you convince us that you are the original owner of the wallet address with which the Bitcoin was sent when there is no evidence such as transactions ID to enable us trace the account and possibly a signed message from your Bitcoin address to prove that you are the original owner of the wallet address, the help you ask for may be impossible at this point.

[m2017]

The recipient of 4.37 BTC will be able to return this to the sender’s address if he wants, but no one obliges him to do this (and can't force him) and everything depends only on his personal moral qualities. Also, it may turn out that the owner of the wallet learns about an extraneous transaction only after a while (perhaps after years). So, even if what OP said is true (which those present without proof strongly doubt), several factors must converge favorably so that he can regain what he has lost.

To avoid such incidents, you need to more carefully check the address (for correctness) of the upcoming transaction.

P.S.
It's funny that OP indicated the Ethereum (ERC20) address in case of a return. Does he want bitcoin sent to ETH address? OP learns nothing and wants to make another mistake (after which a refund will certainly be impossible)?

[Hyphen(-)]

First of all, did you know that Bitcoin transactions are not reversible?

The recipient can only send back if he/she is willing to send the BTC back to you,

How can we even know the recipient of the 43.7 BTC you claimed to have sent wrongly?

The recipient is lucky and will hardly return the BTC because he/she might not be this forum user, and I don’t think if the recipient is not this forum user he/she will be able to trace you to send back the BTC.
 
To avoid similar cases of this kind, always double check your wallet address before proceeding to send BTC. Sending BTC of such amount requires carefulness because if mistakenly sent out to the wrong address, it is gone.

[AprilioMP]

The address you said you accidentally sent 4.37 BTC to is invalid (400:OK).



The two Bitcoin addresses below have no content. The Ethereum address also has no content.

Either you are carrying out a scenario by raising this topic to show that you have made a mistake by accidentally sending a number of Bitcoins, but after checking the addresses you listed, none of them have any content.

Is this bullshit? If you intend to trick people, you will not succeed in doing so for those of us who are active here.

[Makus]

Your story seem very impossible and a lie, it's rear for someone to even lost that amount of Bitcoin at this current bull, that Bitcoin is experiencing. Though we are getting to a side ways movement but that's not my point, my point is, how can someone believe that this story is actually true. And aside that, it would be very difficult for you see the person who received that Bitcoin here in this forum or even outside beside most persons now would consider that, a gift and not see it as what you clam it is, that is if the story is actually true. Before you make any transaction, it's advised that you cross check the recipient Bitcoin address.

[albon]

I've come across similar stories of people claiming to have lost huge sums of money by futures trading or sending a transaction to the wrong address to gain sympathy and collect donations. Still, they used edited screenshots, unlike the OP, who mentioned the invalid address so that no one would search for the transaction through the blockchain explorer. So I advise you to put aside lying, and even if you're telling the truth, you've already lost your Bitcoin assets because once a Bitcoin transaction is sent and confirmed, it cannot be reversed. 

Also, whoever owns 4.37 BTC, equivalent to $277,500 at the current price, how can he send this huge amount to the wrong address if his device has not been susceptible to Clipboard Hijacking? Then he is a blind person and not fully aware!

Therefore, anyone who wishes to send a Bitcoin transaction must take sufficient time to verify and check the recipient's address and avoid copying addresses from previous transaction history. He should also ensure that the device he uses for these transactions is secure and free from trojans.

[Nwada001]

Is this bullshit? If you intend to trick people, you will not succeed in doing so for those of us who are active here.

What will he be trying to play here is the same thing that I'm also wondering, like, does he want people or anyone who might have that amount in his wallet to send it back to him? Are people that stupid? 
 
One thing that just came to mind is that maybe the Op has heard or seen someone who might have mistakenly sent bitcoin to the wrong address and is looking for means to get it back, but even if such things happen, the best thing is to send it back to the same address that sent the transaction for verification purposes, or better yet, the person will have to sign in a message to prove that he is truly the owner of the wallet and wants it returned to another different address.

[SatoPrincess]

What gave you the idea that the owner of that wallet address is a member of the forum or are you posting this on every crypto forum and groups that you can find? It’s hard to believe that someone would make such a careless mistake of not double checking the wallet address when transacting such huge amounts of bitcoins.

[tabas]

As explained well by hosseinmir, the address is invalid and if you're serious that you've sent that amount to that address then you're lost. How on Earth that someone who owns that amount not do some test transaction of sending small amounts first just to be sure? I guess that many do this to make sure that you're sending to the right address not entirely sending the whole batch without checking it first. Or before sending, you didn't check the wallet address correctly. Otherwise, no one is going to believe you here and you're just making some prank calls in here or what you really up to? unless you show a proof like a screenshot or txid that you truly sent to that then we'd believe you.

[Churchillvv]

I'm surprised nobody is really saying the truth here!

This is obviously a scam. It's just a strategy that most scammers have developed to use in communities where bitcoin and/or crypto is being discussed as to find victims in a smarter way.

I have seen this somewhere on Reddit but I can't find it and here too it is, OP, I'm sorry to say this I don't think the owner of the wallet address ( account as you put it) is here in BTT forum.

I believe we will be seeing this in frequent time as BTT has a large number traffic so it's a target form scammers.

You can try other places.

[Chikito]

1L1UduuGPZ8ttGe59F2w9tTEumQFhtxiuT (BTC) wallet accidentally sent 4.37 BTC, if the account owner is here, please check your wallet and return it to my account below:

You have to sign a message if all the address is true and valid. No one to send it back that USD 270K. you are a newbie that accident claim sent the wrong address. In this world, everyone can claim, even he can claim that he was Satoshi, but when he can't sign all the addresses (to which you haven't the private key), all just bullshit.

It different case if you are trusted member here, Like case with me sometime ago, A manager AB de Royse777 was wrong sent btc to me, because he is trusted member here, then I sent it back to him.

[1]. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5489938.msg63897508#msg63897508

[nc50lc]

For everyone else: There's no need for a signed message or transaction ID since it's a made up scenario of scammer who doesn't know how Bitcoin address works.

He wanted to pass that he "accidentally" typed the wrong last character thinking that it wont invalidate the address.
The alleged address that received the 4.37BTC doesn't have the correct checksum, thus any well-written wallet wont be able to send to it.
You can try it in any wallet that you use.

Some technical explanations:

• Address 1L1UduuGPZ8ttGe59F2w9tTEumQFhtxiuT, base58 decoded, separated the last 4Bytes checksum: 00d08175a8f7d52324279706dae9d132e17a1bfce8  8c7b316e
• The first 4-Bytes of the SHA256x2 hash of the above's left part should be equal to the right part (checksum): 8c7b316e.
• So let's get: SHA256[SHA256(00d08175a8f7d52324279706dae9d132e17a1bfce8)]: 8c7b316c28e25f67a1b027243d1b9558c15a7efb10e8e283c2ce9e12f89f794a
• The first 4-Bytes of the above are: 8c7b316c which isn't equal to 8c7b316e.
• With that, the address is invalid.

On a slim chance that the exchange/wallet is miswritten to accept such address:
Since it's only the checksum part that's wrong, the output should still be sent to the address with the correct checksum, thus, to his own address ending with "R".
That's because Bitcoin P2PKH outputs aren't actually addresses but "scriptPubkey" or "locking script" which is in the first part of the decoded data above.

It's a different scenario if he edited one character that's not part of the checksum instead since it would be sent to another address. (only if a buggy wallet allows it)
There's a 1 out of 32bit chance (4-Bytes) that it will be valid to any wallets, that's 1 out of 4,294,967,296 (2^32).

[Kelward]

Some technical explanations:

• Address 1L1UduuGPZ8ttGe59F2w9tTEumQFhtxiuT, base58 decoded, separated the last 4Bytes checksum: 00d08175a8f7d52324279706dae9d132e17a1bfce8  8c7b316e
• The first 4-Bytes of the SHA256x2 hash of the above's left part should be equal to the right part (checksum): 8c7b316e.
• So let's get: SHA256[SHA256(00d08175a8f7d52324279706dae9d132e17a1bfce8)]: 8c7b316c28e25f67a1b027243d1b9558c15a7efb10e8e283c2ce9e12f89f794a
• The first 4-Bytes of the above are: 8c7b316c which isn't equal to 8c7b316e.
• With that, the address is invalid.

It's been proven beyond reasonable doubt by experienced forum members like you that the OP is a scammer, who obviously didn't know that we have extremely knowledgeable crypto geniuses who can detect a scam from milles. I wouldn't dwell on the OP bursted plans but on these technical explanations that you have outlined, this is my first time of seeing anything like it, and I'll like to learn about it. I'll be very grateful if you can share a link on how to learn and understand these technical calculations, thanks.

[nc50lc]

-snip- this is my first time of seeing anything like it, and I'll like to learn about it. I'll be very grateful if you can share a link on how to learn and understand these technical calculations, thanks.

Sure thing.
About the "checksum" specifically, read this article: learnmeabitcoin.com/technical/keys/checksum/

For other technical guides, click that site's technical link on the left side and you'll see a comprehensive list of inner workings of Bitcoin.
But if there's something that is too much for your current knowledge, you can always cross-refer it to the Beginners counterpart of the topic, use search or the links on the left side.

[Lida93]

1L1UduuGPZ8ttGe59F2w9tTEumQFhtxiuT (BTC) wallet accidentally sent 4.37 BTC, if the account owner is here, please check your wallet and return it to my account below:

BTC 1L1UduuGPZ8ttGe59F2w9tTEumQFhtxiuR

BTC (segwit) bc1qt8uz7d7695naxktvz33az5wqekmun5kvtnajgt

Ethereum (ERC20) 0x7dd6c1a980d195153b8427711a831cdc826583de

You claim to erroneously send 4.37 BTC  to some undisclosed wallet address.

My questions are:
If your claims are true why didn't you make available to our knowledge the wallet address you wrongly sent the 4.37 BTC to, just as you could make known to us the address  1L1UduuGPZ8ttGe59F2w9tTEumQFhtxiuT you claim to have been used to send the BTC.

Secondly, Why provide entirely different wallet addresses as where the BTC should be sent to assuming the person who wrongfully received the 4.73 BTC decides to send it back. Why do so when you could use same address you used in sending it to also receiving, that's if your claims are genuine and not some sort of a scam scheme.

Your claims to me are suspicious for you don't seem to be straightforward.

[Mpamaegbu]

I believe we will be seeing this in frequent time as BTT has a large number traffic so it's a target form scammers.

You can try other places.

It's that time of the season once again. These scammers have a way of resurfacing whenever the market is trying to enjoy a rally upward. What baffles me is why they choose to come here to display their level of amateurishness when they ought to know that a good number of users here are highly knowledgeable in these things. Another one bites the dust.