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Board Altcoin Discussion
Re: My trustwallet of $211,000 has been stolen, any help or advice is appreciated
by
Hispo
on 05/04/2024, 10:28:00 UTC
Man, $211,000 on Trust Wallet? On a mobile app/browser extension? Not even an $80 hardware wallet? Cry

Best of luck.


I would take that a step further and advise everyone  to stay away from Ethereum altogether, where 90% or more of all crypto hacks have always occurred.
I get the criticism towards Ethereum, but of course the huge majority of hacks would be on Ethereum — because all the apps are on Ethereum/L2s. Ethereum's competitors outside of Solana have little to no on-chain activity.

Right. That was the first thing with came to mind when I read the amount of .Oney this unfortunate person had in their mobile wallet. I don't want to be rough or hurt OP feelings... But not buying a 200$ advanced hardware wallet to safeguard almost a quarter of a million of dollars sounds like insanity to me.
There are even people within the Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency community in general which do not even have 2000$ and yet they choose to store whatever they have into a hardware wallet (which does not even need to be a premium model).


There is no much I can say beyond what others have. For that amount of money it would be worth it to hire a professional whose job is to track criminals like this one, in exchange of your stolen money. Though, the free recovery cases I have seen are from people who went all their way until the end and with their own available resources to hunt down those scammers.