Full Story:I was added in a telegram otc group called "United Traders OTC Community" (Had around 1500 members), and i was approached by this person named "Jensso". I know its a telegram and anyone can have any name. I am just stating things as it is. So he approached me to sell hbars (Hedera Hashgraph Cryptocurrency). And we had a very long conversation and i have never done this before. So we had a deal for $10K worth of HBARS, and we proceeded with the escrow from "United Traders OTC Community", His telegram handle was @RobertLevyOTC. I asked him to do the transaction in 2 steps, but he said it would cost $100 for each transaction. I thought that was expensive at the time, and trusted the guy. I sent $10,100 USDC directly from the exchange. And after i sent it, the seller didn't send his HBARs to escrow instead said he has more and can give me a better deal. At that point i realized that i have made a huge mistake. I told him to honor this deal and we can talk about rest later. But as soon as i said that, Both of them deleted all the conversations we had and blocked me. They also blocked me from their group.I know it is nearly impossible to recover the funds, and at this point i am not expecting it too. Its a very important and expensive lesson learned for me. But if anyone is able to recover the transaction, I will happily give $2500 to the person. And i have been thinking how many people have this guys been scamming. I know its impossible to stop these scammers but at least we can do is let people know about them, so no one will fall prey to them.Here is the:txhash of the transaction: https://ift.tt/2LbHKnl Address of Scammer:https://ift.tt/2S3zpTs
Submitted July 10, 2019 at 08:56AM
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