WOW!!!
A big thank you to everyone who has commented.
Yes, i was 99.9 sure it was a scam. here is what they said when I questioned them about it.
Hello Martin,
"We have all the information needed to recover your bitcoin. Considering the volume of hack request we get on a daily basis, hack requests are queued and we also have to ensure that we are dealing with serious people.
We would trace the transaction from your wallet through all verifications on the blockchain and within 24 hours we will get the job done. However, we would require that you pay a commitment fee of $500 which is a baseline fee for Bitcoin recovery of over 1 BTC"
So, the amount stolen was 8 BTC from Binance
(Unsurprisingly they didn't want to know)
Several Alt coins were converted in to 8 BTC and vanished right before my eyes. The whole process was over in about 5 seconds, so I suspect a BOT was on the loose.
I will investigate the ESCROW option mentioned and hope for the best. As we are talking several thousand £'s it got to be worth a try, even though the odds are low.
It could be worth a few thousand to a Bounty Hunter if they are successful.
I have the times and the final withdrawel transaction Hash number, Will I need to get anything else??
WOW can you please explain in details what happened ! did you tried to contact Binance ? . Did you had your 2 factor enabled ? . I never used API or bots but I know you get the option to disable withdraw ! it is really strange that you did not ! . A big thank you to everyone who has commented.
Yes, i was 99.9 sure it was a scam. here is what they said when I questioned them about it.
Hello Martin,
"We have all the information needed to recover your bitcoin. Considering the volume of hack request we get on a daily basis, hack requests are queued and we also have to ensure that we are dealing with serious people.
We would trace the transaction from your wallet through all verifications on the blockchain and within 24 hours we will get the job done. However, we would require that you pay a commitment fee of $500 which is a baseline fee for Bitcoin recovery of over 1 BTC"
So, the amount stolen was 8 BTC from Binance
(Unsurprisingly they didn't want to know)Several Alt coins were converted in to 8 BTC and vanished right before my eyes. The whole process was over in about 5 seconds, so I suspect a BOT was on the loose.
I will investigate the ESCROW option mentioned and hope for the best. As we are talking several thousand £'s it got to be worth a try, even though the odds are low.
It could be worth a few thousand to a Bounty Hunter if they are successful.
I have the times and the final withdrawel transaction Hash number, Will I need to get anything else??
Anyways as stated above if the BTC gone it is gone no way to get them back . Sorry for your loss .