Hi guys, I'd like to share my bad story as a warning to anyone new to bitcoin. A few months back, I joined a group chat where people were discussing a "sniping bot" that could allegedly assist you buy new currencies before their prices up. The community was pleasant and competent, and the bot was free to use, so I figured I had nothing to lose. They wanted me to connect my cryptocurrency wallet to the bot so it could "analyze" my holdings and assist me with trading.
The moment I connected my wallet, my entire balance more than $200 that I had saved for so fast quickly gone. There was no notice, no ability to reverse the purchase, and no one to contact for assistance. The crooks vanished, and I lost my money permanently.
Sorry I felt humiliated and outraged, but I discovered that these scams are widespread. Scammers promise easy rewards, encourage you to move quickly, and frequently impersonate experts or friends.
If you are asked to link your wallet, invest in a new coin, or pay a charge to release your cash, it is almost probably a scam.
I hope this help newbies.
The moment I connected my wallet, my entire balance more than $200 that I had saved for so fast quickly gone. There was no notice, no ability to reverse the purchase, and no one to contact for assistance. The crooks vanished, and I lost my money permanently.
Sorry I felt humiliated and outraged, but I discovered that these scams are widespread. Scammers promise easy rewards, encourage you to move quickly, and frequently impersonate experts or friends.
If you are asked to link your wallet, invest in a new coin, or pay a charge to release your cash, it is almost probably a scam.
I hope this help newbies.
Sorry about your experience, but looking at your profile, you have spent a little time here to have read about scams and how they operate, so you should not have fallen for them. At first it is not advisable to connect your wallet with assets to any telegram bot be it online or any platform, what you should have done was to create another wallet if you feel that they are genuine and just a little tip to see how it goes before you do any thing but what were you thinking before connecting a fully loaded wallet with asset to a telegram bot which you have no idea who they are.
These are common mistakes made by newbies, and so far, there have been lots of threads created on this platform with respect to scams, which I believe the community learns from because on a daily basis, lots of scams happens with new tactics to get at unsuspecting individuals with little or knowledge on how the scammers operate and the fall victim of such. OP, it's unfortunate you had such an experience, but it is nice you informed the community so that others would know about it and how they operate.
Scammers are never short of words on how to entice people to fall into their traps, they upgrade their tactics every day and it takes observations to detect them so quickly hence it is good to be always posting about scam attempt here so that the community would be regularly update of happenings as it relatesto scammers ar\nd their tricks.