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Re: Funds from electrum stolen
by
Cluster2k
on 20/03/2018, 22:53:31 UTC
Hi, I've received two transactions (about 0.45 and 0.8 BTC) while I wasn't looking at my wallet with a difference of 5 hours. The transactions were sent as payments of my services from a customer. The transactions instantly were forwarded to some unknown to me addresses even though my computer was turned off at that time. The first transaction was forwarded even before it got confirmed in electrum. The client sent transactions from Binance.

Here's my wallet: https://blockchain.info/address/1HSnJR4qm3TT8FPgy9BRthYDLh1fcKGNPp

Screenshot of transactions:



The second wallet was previously mentioned in scam accusations.

Now I'm not sure if I should release the services to the client or what to do. Please advise what would be the right decision.

note: I haven't used the wallet in over a month

Where did you downloaded the wallet from? Can you provide more infos on this point?
Are you 100% sure that you downloaded the Electrum wallet from ELECTRUM.ORG ? How did you arrive in Electrum's website? Was by clicking in a link that you find while searching on Google?

This is not the first time someone comes here saying that he downloaded Electrum, sent some coins and they were sent to a different address. In almost all cases, the user either downloaded a fake Electrum from a similar website which ads were showing on Google or he had a malware on his computer. This is 99.9% not Electrum's fault.

I've got it from official electrum website. Version is 3.0


This is the only legit link where to download electrum: https://electrum.org/#download

However actual version is 3.1.1