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Topic
Board Nigeria (Naija)
Re: P2P Scam And How To Avoid Becoming A Victim.
by
Hatchy
on 24/05/2025, 20:13:59 UTC
I went to confirm and then returned to my app to release coins but on getting there the coins were already released to the buyer. I also have my 2fa authentication on but the coins were just sent without any verification nor my approval.

I've not experienced such thing in my years of trading p2p and till now I'm still trying to get my head around what actually happened. But then let's all be careful. Imagine this was a scammer who didn't send the money and the exchange had already released my coins without my approval.

So guys, after this post, I had to figure out what had actually happened on the day I experienced this. I tried contacting the customer care service and they apologised saying they would check it out. 

But recently I discovered that the Google authenticator app actually does copy and paste automatically, which was unaware to me. I had probably tapped on the code from Google authenticator which automatically pasted it on my bybit that triggered the release of my coin.

To confirm this, I did a transaction today on p2p and when it was Time to release the coins, I went to my authenticator app and copied the code. When I returned to my bybit, it automatically pasted and the coins were released, which was what happened the other time. I'm posting this here as well for those who might experience something similar in the future and get confused.