I know how this sounds,.. but I swear it's true... I saw and picked up what I thought was an odd looking piece of card in a dbl sealed plastic pocket whilst walking my dogs! The card inside was wet but legible and after drying it out I discovered it was a paper wallet (I have no idea about bitcoin or wallets aside from what I have discovered over last 24hrs,... which has led me here).
The paper wallet has 0.6 BTC. Some strange things have been known to wash up on this beach. I suspect it was stolen and dumped by an ignorant burglar. It's there any way to identify from whom it came so I can return it? It seems pointless handing it into the police if they'll just destroy it....
I am in Victoria, Australia.
Thx
The paper wallet has 0.6 BTC. Some strange things have been known to wash up on this beach. I suspect it was stolen and dumped by an ignorant burglar. It's there any way to identify from whom it came so I can return it? It seems pointless handing it into the police if they'll just destroy it....
I am in Victoria, Australia.
Thx
So where do you keep the wallet? Is it in your custody or at where. Are you sure you saw it and collect the wallet or you hear the news. Because if you really saw the paper wallet, you would have send the image of the picture here. Ok by then probably you were a newbie but now that you can post picture, can you add the picture which you have over there? Make your story authentic by showing us the image of the wallet.
I am not sure if this is directly connected with case of OP finding paper wallet or if this was posted before, but there is very similar situation happening in Melbourne, Australia.
This appears to be scam attempt with QR code with a key to access the account with alleged 0.62 BTC which can be withdrawn.
Printed address starting with 1LMy3... has total deposits of only 0.15 BTC if you look in blockchain explorer, and coins are flagged as fraudulent or scams.
This was posted on Bitcoin reddit channel, it's called “Printkey Wallet” and this is how it looks like:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/wuf2ke/scam_found_these_littered_around_my_suburb_in/
Very similar amount and country like in case with OP.
This appears to be scam attempt with QR code with a key to access the account with alleged 0.62 BTC which can be withdrawn.
Printed address starting with 1LMy3... has total deposits of only 0.15 BTC if you look in blockchain explorer, and coins are flagged as fraudulent or scams.
This was posted on Bitcoin reddit channel, it's called “Printkey Wallet” and this is how it looks like:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/wuf2ke/scam_found_these_littered_around_my_suburb_in/
Very similar amount and country like in case with OP.
This want the OP would have done. But the figures in the wallet are different. The OP figure is 0.6 BTC while dkbit98 figure is 0.62 BTC but the country is the same. Therefore, if I may believe, I will believe dkbit98 part of the story. Probably the OP only hear the story and came here and he saw and picked it. If really he does that he should show us the image of his.
Then the last question to everyone, I have read the different comments from users and no solution has given. So how do you do in such case? So that we know what to do next time.