My money disappeared immediately when it entered my Electrum wallet

My money disappeared immediately when it entered my Electrum wallet.

What is happening? Huh

I really needed that money and its all i got!
All my money is gone cause of hospital bills cause my sons mother got cancer, when i noticed on my old Localbitcoins account that i had some money i could transfer.
THIS would save me!!!!
I have a electrum app since a couple if years ago that i used.
But when the money finally come after 25+ hours the disappeared right away!

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Can someone help me explain or see where they are or tell me if i can do something!!!

This is....so f-uped

The image is blurry and not readable at all. Try and upload another image.

Or you can let us know the txid or the bitcoin address that you sent the coins to so we can be able to track it on blockchain explorer.

Worth knowing that for your privacy, you may not want to let us know the txid or the address.

It seems like you have a fake Electrum wallet or someone had your seed (backup) and was just waiting for you to make a transaction. In any case, you can't just get your coins back and the only thing left for you to do is report the case to the police and hope for a miracle.

The internet is full of stories like yours - unfortunately, many people who invest in BTC do not know what risks they are exposed to when they use desktop/mobile hot wallets. There is an Electrum board on this forum, and we just recently had a similar case.

This is obviously another case of coin theft and the truth is there is actually nothing you could possibly do about it. Once a transaction has been confirmed totally on the network there's pretty much nothing you can do about it. Had it been a situation where the transaction hadn't been confirmed you would have dropped it asap.

The best suggestion I have op is for you to format and clean up your device if you intend to continue hodling some coins in it. There are many possibilities to how the coin were stolen and a proper check up may give you a trace.

from the looks of it, your wallet has most likely been compromised, and sadly, getting your money back is impossible unless you can track who took your coin. As Mia Chloe suggested, you might want to clean your devices for possible malwares which could be the possible reason why they were able to steal your money.

Any online device is always prone to hacking and as already suggested by others, your device was probably infected with a malware and you should format your hard drive.
If you want your wallet to be completely secure, you should install your wallet on an air gapped device and sign your transactions offline, so that your private keys don't connect to the internet at all.

It seems your wallet is already compromised and the hacker behind it just waiting for your wallet to have a balance and immediately transfer, we highly recommend formatting and backing up your files as much as possible so that your other information can be saved too. If you have an extra budget do an upgrade of hardware wallet and at the same time is another layer of security like anti-virus. Ideally, create a new wallet and not use that wallet anymore, or else hackers just keep looking at your transactions and do the same again.

Quote from: acroman08 on February 06, 2025, 03:36:54 PM

from the looks of it, your account has most likely been compromised

It's a wallet, not an account.

Electrum wallet is a non custodial, and also open source wallet software, and users of Electrum wallet don't need to register any account.
Download the wallet software, verify it, and create your wallets offline, it's how non custodial wallet works.

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and sadly, getting your money back is impossible unless you can track who took your coin.

Bitcoin transactions are irreversible, so no chance to get stolen bitcoin back. Exemption is if you contact government, police and they find the hacker, so they can rescue stolen bitcoin for you, or just part of it.

Quote from: dzungmobile on February 06, 2025, 04:17:06 PM

Quote from: acroman08 on February 06, 2025, 03:36:54 PM

from the looks of it, your account has most likely been compromised

oh my bad, I meant wallet. also, I know what Electrum is I have been using it for years.

Quote from: dzungmobile on February 06, 2025, 04:17:06 PM

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and sadly, getting your money back is impossible unless you can track who took your coin.

I know, that's why I said "Unless you can track who took your coin" because if you can't track who took your coin the chance of you getting it back is almost impossible.

Quote from: superkissekatten on February 06, 2025, 12:14:10 PM

All my money is gone cause of hospital bills cause my sons mother got cancer, when i noticed on my old Localbitcoins account that i had some money i could transfer.

It's been two years since the LBC stopped operating and it's really a wonder till now they let the unclaimed balance to withdraw.

Other already pointed out the reason which could be compromised seeds or private keys is the reason why your wallet has been wiped and there's nothing you can do at this point. Yes it's really sad but all you can do is take it as lesson and never make the same mistake again.

The bitter truth is that your funds has been stolen but the bright side is that now you know that your wallet has been tapped into, I suggest you take precautions moving forward and since it's electrum you may choose to check out their cold wallet storage.
I believe that you may have unintentionally exposed yourself to those thieves by your actions online or maybe you have been careless with your details online or offline regardless you should double up your security level.

I think you are only talking about the recent 2025 transaction...
Your wallet got compromised probably when you tried to import it again on your device recently. You've been using it before which means it isn’t fake and you've also done some couple of transactions, so it's probably your device that got compromised or your seed phrase backup got exposed to a wrong hands, that’s the two possibility.
Sorry for your loss, even though it's being tracked you will still end up reporting it if possible..
Prevent any future scenario from repeating itself by
Using a cold storage on a airgapped device and then you can use the Extended Public Key to settup a view only wallet on your hot wallet..
Make sure you generate a new standard wallet entirely.

Quote from: Peanutswar on February 06, 2025, 04:11:35 PM

It seems your wallet is already compromised and the hacker behind it just waiting for your wallet to have a balance and immediately transfer,

Could be a key logger or probably clipboard malware if copied (so many possibilities of malwares though).

Quote from: acroman08 on February 06, 2025, 04:36:19 PM

Quote from: dzungmobile on February 06, 2025, 04:17:06 PM

I know, that's why I said "Unless you can track who took your coin" because if you can't track who took your coin the chance of you getting it back is almost impossible.

Even if he can track the one who took his coin still there's no chance to recover it. Since its hard to sue someone especially when you ask them to send it back since those criminals would provably not gonna do those request.

To bad he made a bad decision to transfer it on electrum which he used before. If he just decide to transfer it to reputable exchange since he said that funds could save him then maybe he have more chance to cash out it. But since the money is gone then I guess this is another harsh lesson to learn and better for OP to learn from this mistake and verify the wallets he used if its still safe or just grab new wallet if they are not sure of the security of their old wallet.

Advice for everyone:
Consider using a fresh wallet after a long time of inactivity, because you wouldn't know if your seed phrase is leaked or you have been compromised along the line.

Quote from: uchegod-21 on February 06, 2025, 11:55:14 PM

Advice for everyone:
Consider using a fresh wallet after a long time of inactivity, because you wouldn't know if your seed phrase is leaked or you have been compromised along the line.

It makes some sense, but only if the device on which the new wallet will be installed is not infected with a virus/malware. For all those who plan to invest long-term, it is much better to invest a little more money and buy a hardware wallet, preferably one that is air-gapped, and create a wallet on it that is protected with a passphrase, which provides additional security if the seed and passphrase are stored separately.

Quote from: uchegod-21 on February 06, 2025, 11:55:14 PM

Advice for everyone:
Consider using a fresh wallet after a long time of inactivity, because you wouldn't know if your seed phrase is leaked or you have been compromised along the line.

Is it very easy to check your Bitcoin address and know that whether it was compromised or not?
Is it very easy to import your wallet mnemonic seed or a private key for checking?

You can import your Bitcoin public addresses in a Watch only wallet for checking regularly too.

I agree that using different wallets, and diversify your Bitcoin fund in different wallets and perhaps on different devices and locations are good practice.

Quote from: uchegod-21 on February 06, 2025, 11:55:14 PM

Consider using a fresh wallet after a long time of inactivity, because you wouldn't know if your seed phrase is leaked or you have been compromised along the line.

This will give you false security.
If your device is compromised, all your wallets and any new wallet you generate are compromised.
If you want to make sure that your wallet is secure, you should go for a cold storage. If you can't have a cold storage for any reason, format your device and then generate a wallet. (This doesn't make your wallet completely secure, but I think that's a better idea than just creating a new wallet.)

Quote from: hosemary on February 07, 2025, 02:06:22 PM

This will give you false security.
If your device is compromised, all your wallets and any new wallet you generate are compromised.

It's a false security belief too.

Good and safe practice to keep devices are clean, uninfected is a best protection layer for your devices, then your wallets. People have false belief that if they activate 2FA, use strong passwords, install internet security or antivirus software on their devices, they can do whatever careless and unsafe practice in Internet surfing and their devices and wallets will be completely protected and secured.

It's terrible false belief.

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If you want to make sure that your wallet is secure, you should go for a cold storage. If you can't have a cold storage for any reason, format your device and then generate a wallet. (This doesn't make your wallet completely secure, but I think that's a better idea than just creating a new wallet.)

Knowing about good hardware wallets to buy, and buy it right way is important too.

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