Quote from: Z-tight on December 02, 2024, 09:45:00 PM

Quote from: Sergeant Major on December 02, 2024, 05:11:07 PM

To answer a question asked in the above responses, I did not convert the 3.32 ETH to cash to send it out. It was transferred to an external Coinbase wallet, according to the people at Coinbase I spoke to. I kept a screenshot of the transaction details, as it was just after I sent it that I began to feel the "Oh SHIT......" coming on.

If i understood you correctly, the perpetrators of this 'Elon Musk crypto scam' received the stolen funds you transferred to them from your Coinbase account on their own Coinbase account, it is strange to see scammers receiving stolen funds on kyc platforms. Did you report this loss when it happened? I know it is almost impossible to recover stolen funds, but you have nothing to lose and it was sent to a kyc platform. As for tax, if you can prove that your funds was stolen, i don't think you should have any problem.

This all happened on August 13, the day that Elon Musk was going to have the long meeting with President TRUMP. I was all excited to watch it, and when I got on youtube just before the meeting was supposed to start, I saw the supposedly fake video of Elon pushing his coin doubling thing, and that's where I pwned myself to the tune of 3.32 ETH, or $9000. I'm still amazed I didn't at least google it first, I know better than this.

When I got in touch with Coinbase reps about it, they were able to look up the transaction and that's where this talk of an external coinbase wallet comes from, that's what they said. I tried a couple times to talk to someone and get a better answer.