Did somebody ever received a BTC amount by accident !?...

[Peanutswar]

Did somebody ever received a BTC amount by accident ... This is a stupid question with the developpement of Technology ... But who nows I mean did someone received it previously  ...personally i swear god that i will send it back that is the right thing to do .............

As of now never been, but seem these probably with the people who are active in a buy and sell of crypto coins of course sometimes they copied an old address and not the recent address on their clipboard but this is a human error now in reality is if someone set you a bitcoin in a address and it has a large sum amount for sure they will think, do they give it back the funds if someone DM them?. We are in space so we are into anonymity or else you will be kind and give it back.

In this its up to you if you will give it back because this aint your mistake. Just the humanity works here

[summonerrk]

Did somebody ever received a BTC amount by accident ... This is a stupid question with the developpement of Technology ... But who nows I mean did someone received it previously  ...personally i swear god that i will send it back that is the right thing to do .............

Many years ago, I transferred crypto to fiat through an intermediary, to whom I sent my bitcoins, and he sent me money directly to a plastic card. And the joke is that their operator got something mixed up, and instead of $100, he sent me $1,000, and at that time it seemed like a lot of money to me, but I remembered perfectly well that I had given them my last name and first name. And a phone number. And so I immediately refunded them this excess of the erroneous amount. I did this solely because they would have identified me, but if someone had sent me a share of bitcoin by mistake, then I would have wondered how much this person would be able to identify me, and based on this conclusion alone, I would have made a decision about whether I would return these coins to him or not. But in general, our addresses here on the forum are open, and identification is not difficult because of the spreadsheets.

[Patikno]

Personally, I don't recall ever receiving Bitcoin by accident, or due to a wrong transfer. Such cases may have happened to others, but I think it only happened because someone had saved the Bitcoin address, making it plausible. Well, I have experienced this before, but not with Bitcoin (with shitcoin address). At that time, my friend wanted to send some shitcoin to someone else, but instead, he sent it to my address. So, from that case, I figured it was impossible for an unknown person (out of nowhere) to send Bitcoin to another person (unknown) address without any prior interaction, or without having saved the destination address previously.

[DubemIfedigbo001]

Maybe if I receive a huge amount of BTC, I will send it back if someone is looking for it, but if not, I'm going to hold it until 2050.

Do you have a reason not to send it back to the sending address if you received the coin and you're sure it's not yours and after a while you were not contacted by let's say a family, friend or colleague with claims of erroneous transaction, maybe it is right to return it to the sending address since there may actually be no way the sender can reach you, unless maybe it is from an exchange hot wallet address and you cannot return it to the owner's address. I would not want to hold what is not mine for long so I would not be tempted to spend from it.

I've not received any coin by mistake as well, If someone make such a mistake, it might work if he sends dust to the same address pleading for a refund in the description, and if it is a kind person, it would be returned, else he should forget about it.

[gabbie2010]

Did somebody ever received a BTC amount by accident ... This is a stupid question with the developpement of Technology ... But who nows I mean did someone received it previously  ...personally i swear god that i will send it back that is the right thing to do .............

I had never received BTC that was accidentally sent to me however I nearly fell into a trap set up by a scammer who had hacked my computer in a bid to receive any BTC that I wanted to send out to a particular address, whenever I copy my receiver address on electrum wallet dashboard it is the scammer address that would be pasted if not for my due diligence I would have mistakenly send BTC to the scammer address having watch closely the pasted BTC address was similar to the copied one yet there is a noticeable difference on the address, as side that I never mistakenly send or receive BTC anonymously from any one.

[Kelward]

Personally, I don't recall ever receiving Bitcoin by accident, or due to a wrong transfer. Such cases may have happened to others, but I think it only happened because someone had saved the Bitcoin address, making it plausible. Well, I have experienced this before, but not with Bitcoin (with shitcoin address). At that time, my friend wanted to send some shitcoin to someone else, but instead, he sent it to my address. So, from that case, I figured it was impossible for an unknown person (out of nowhere) to send Bitcoin to another person (unknown) address without any prior interaction, or without having saved the destination address previously.

What you said makes sense and that is why you will hardly hear that somebody sent Bitcoin to a wrong address or that another person received Bitcoin from an unknown sources. If it happens it's always from a saved address where if you want to send to a particular address you will mistakenly send to another, aside from internal mistakes it is quite difficult to here where a Bitcoin is sent to an address that doesn't have any affiliate with you.

I've never received Bitcoin by mistake before but I've mistakenly sent to a wrong address which I copied and luckily it belonged to my friend and we settled the matter amicably. So it's not quite possible to send to an address that is not saved in your device, still there is need to be very careful because you can mistakenly send to somebody you know that won't be willing to send it back to you, remember that Bitcoin transactions are irreversible.

[HashRate Hero]

Personally, I don't recall ever receiving Bitcoin by accident, or due to a wrong transfer. Such cases may have happened to others, but I think it only happened because someone had saved the Bitcoin address, making it plausible. Well, I have experienced this before, but not with Bitcoin (with shitcoin address). At that time, my friend wanted to send some shitcoin to someone else, but instead, he sent it to my address. So, from that case, I figured it was impossible for an unknown person (out of nowhere) to send Bitcoin to another person (unknown) address without any prior interaction, or without having saved the destination address previously.

Good analysis  of the situation ..... 1-  Prior interaction ; 2 - A simple Ctrl-C as we all do .....


But still a question of awarness ! i mean how serious you act with money 

[Y3shot]

I think sending money to the wrong account is very common with fiat because when you make mistakes in the account number by replacing a digit, it automatically turns into someone else’s account number. However, in Bitcoin, it is very rare to make a mistake like this because, at all times, addresses are copied.

Maybe that is why it is hard to find strange Bitcoin in your wallet, except when it is someone who already knows you and transactions have already been made before, which can lead to mistakes in sending Bitcoin to your wallet. However, sending Bitcoin to a random wallet that you don’t even know is very difficult to happen.

[HashRate Hero]

I think sending money to the wrong account is very common with fiat because when you make mistakes in the account number by replacing a digit, it automatically turns into someone else’s account number. However, in Bitcoin, it is very rare to make a mistake like this because, at all times, addresses are copied.

Maybe that is why it is hard to find strange Bitcoin in your wallet, except when it is someone who already knows you and transactions have already been made before, which can lead to mistakes in sending Bitcoin to your wallet. However, sending Bitcoin to a random wallet that you don’t even know is very difficult to happen.

Agree and had a previous experience in 2017 with XAPO Wallet ( Wichi  used for a small period and it was to get a Visa card only ) in fact i made a mistake in the addy but in this wallet i had a limit of 10 minutes i guess or maybe 5 to make anu modification ... i mean these wallets are in fact comercial and their are not following the BTC spirit 100 % ..... right now they shutdown i guess ...