Quote from: awconley on April 01, 2018, 09:43:10 PM

Hi
I don't know where to begin.
I am an honest person even to the point that I have found money on the ground at work and turned it into
security in case someone came looking for their $20....just in case that was all they had.

I may be acting to much like a stereotypical girl but I
am in tears as I write this post. I know some people may laugh at others misfortune or call me stupid (already been called that tonight)
but if there is anyone honest who knows what to do or how to
track down what happened, please let me know.

I recently started talking to an online trader who got me started in BTC. I won't say his name bc part of me wants to believe it was not him so
badly. He helped my create my two accounts...local bitcoins.com and Blockchain. I changed my passwords as he directed....he said he was connecting my
wallet to his atomizer or miner...something like that. So, moving forward a week....I started buying my own BTC.
Today I had spent nearly 9k on btc and was meeting a local btcbank company employee for a final purchase of 6k. When it was all said and done there was
.085601288 total btc in my blockchain wallet.

I can see where the last purchase of 6k was recieved and within 1 minute it was sent back out leaving me less than 1 dollar in the account.

It went to 1Ej9nEXf2nvYgFk6zxUFXQxr5uKQRdokUY

Someone said he may have created a backup of my wallet...
Someone said I could check the IP address somehow.

I am not technical and would appreciate any suggestions.

Thanks in advance.

It's just money, so you'll get it all back eventually. However, losing money the way you did is always a hard pill to swallow and the aftertaste would stay on for days if not weeks.

As what most people mentioned here, you may already have been compromised right at the start when the wallet was created. If that person has the seeds for that wallet, changing your PW would not have helped as the seeds would allow him access to your wallet. You don't want to accuse him but his actions are pretty suspect so he should be No.1 on your most probable suspect list.

To generate your bitcoin address, did you create it online or did you use a software - like electrum (https://electrum.org/) to get one. Or was your btc address generated through his bitcoin wallet and was it the the bitcoin.com password that he asked you to change.

If he gave you a btc address from his wallet, that address was under his control and he can readily check if funds are there. If he was the one who created the btc wallet for you, he may have kept the seeds to your wallet which he can actually use to access your funds.

Doing an IP trace may get you somewhere but it'll cost some money to pay a tech guy to do the sleuthing for you (and the results may be suspect). One other option is to act blind and do an entrapment on the suspect. This will involve getting in touch with local authorities who deal with thefts like this and would be quite long and complicated.

If you need to brush up on wallets, this article may help:

https://www.coindesk.com/information/how-to-store-your-bitcoins/

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