So Binance has an auto fill feature for their withdrawal page. I meant to send my funds to my cold storage but instead it auto completed to 1JWES7kCXb4j7hjpLqSvoWZHCLiKV7Hr8c. By the time I confirmed transaction it was too late.After digging through basically everything, I've determined this address is one that I've sent to before. It belongs to @cryptokings25 on Telegram, and he runs a paid signal group. I sent 0.01 to this address ~1 year ago.I managed to get in contact with the guy, and he sends me this: https://i.imgur.com/r1XW6PH.pngAt this point I know he's trying to scam me even more, and likely wants a full 1 BTC out of me. I tell him that he can just keep 0.2 for himself, and he says this: https://i.imgur.com/bDYQ6Gj.pngHe then proceeds to send me an address *different* from the one I sent: http://bit.ly/315kCvv (14xUCFPQV48uEvcZwqcWt5nYNGBe644vSe)At this point I don't even think he has control over the address I sent the 0.8 to. I ask him to sign a message with the address of the original wallet, and our dialogue goes something like this:https://i.imgur.com/tKfflwj.pnghttps://i.imgur.com/QsPrtEH.pngAt this point I know with certainty he doesn't have control over the address. May this be a lesson to you all to check the withdrawal address letter by letter because it's so easy to be careless, like I did, about withdrawing and misplacing funds.Anyway, I can somewhat sleep comfy at night knowing this scumbag didn't get a single dollar out of me (assuming he actually doesn't have access to the address). I hope his ex-wife uses the money for something nice, maybe a vacation or something.
Submitted June 04, 2019 at 07:24AM
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