I'm not sure what's going on here so I am posting this topic. I lost some money but as long as we can save someone else from falling for the same scam it's all good.
Yesterday I had someone hit me up on Discord asking to have their Bitcoin exchanged for any other token. I agree even tho the amount was below my minimum. After waiting for a while for the other party to send the Bitcoin I get a phone call and need to go out. About 30 minutes later I get sent this screenshot:
At this point I'm out and can't send what we agreed on back for 1 reason:
1. I have no access to my wallets so I can't see if the other party has really sent the coins.
After getting spammed for hours with infinite messages and missed calls which were mostly made of threats about bad reviews I go back home and open my wallet to see that there is nothing in there.
I let the other party know about it and I get sent the following link: https://mempool.space/tx/c306113746b9cf78d6823ee75260ad311d612f0ae3c145207bccf71b2fdb5e44
At the time the transactions was visible at the page, it later changed to: "This transaction has been replaced by:
e5e783122e3c2dcd3b4ec3b1ed5533fe3b0438512c5597625351d0f108737c7f"
Meanwhile this shows up in my wallet:
Luckily the scammer wasn't smart enough to gain my trust and make 100x that amount.
At this point I'm confused and the most I can make out of this is that this is a double spending attack of some sort.
Now what I'm left with is the following: https://www.blockchain.com/btc/tx/c306113746b9cf78d6823ee75260ad311d612f0ae3c145207bccf71b2fdb5e44
Any suggestion as to what happened is welcome, the amount wasn't huge and I've already made that back twice so fuck the scammers but let's save someone else from falling for the same thing.
Yesterday I had someone hit me up on Discord asking to have their Bitcoin exchanged for any other token. I agree even tho the amount was below my minimum. After waiting for a while for the other party to send the Bitcoin I get a phone call and need to go out. About 30 minutes later I get sent this screenshot:
At this point I'm out and can't send what we agreed on back for 1 reason:
1. I have no access to my wallets so I can't see if the other party has really sent the coins.
After getting spammed for hours with infinite messages and missed calls which were mostly made of threats about bad reviews I go back home and open my wallet to see that there is nothing in there.
I let the other party know about it and I get sent the following link: https://mempool.space/tx/c306113746b9cf78d6823ee75260ad311d612f0ae3c145207bccf71b2fdb5e44
At the time the transactions was visible at the page, it later changed to: "This transaction has been replaced by:
e5e783122e3c2dcd3b4ec3b1ed5533fe3b0438512c5597625351d0f108737c7f"
Meanwhile this shows up in my wallet:
Luckily the scammer wasn't smart enough to gain my trust and make 100x that amount.
At this point I'm confused and the most I can make out of this is that this is a double spending attack of some sort.
Now what I'm left with is the following: https://www.blockchain.com/btc/tx/c306113746b9cf78d6823ee75260ad311d612f0ae3c145207bccf71b2fdb5e44
Any suggestion as to what happened is welcome, the amount wasn't huge and I've already made that back twice so fuck the scammers but let's save someone else from falling for the same thing.