So Binance has an auto fill feature for their withdrawal page. I meant to send my funds to my cold storage but instead it auto completed to 1JWES7kCXb4j7hjpLqSvoWZHCLiKV7Hr8c. By the time I confirmed transaction it was too late.
After digging through basically everything, I've determined this address is one that I've sent to before. It belongs to @cryptokings25 on Telegram, and he runs a paid signal group. I sent 0.01 to this address ~1 year ago.
I managed to get in contact with the guy, and he sends me this: https://i.imgur.com/r1XW6PH.png
At this point I know he's trying to scam me even more, and likely wants a full 1 BTC out of me. I tell him that he can just keep 0.2 for himself, and he says this: https://i.imgur.com/bDYQ6Gj.png
He then proceeds to send me an address *different* from the one I sent: https://i.imgur.com/0v6BkzS.png (14xUCFPQV48uEvcZwqcWt5nYNGBe644vSe)
At this point I don't even think he has control over the address I sent the 0.8 to. I ask him to sign a message with the address of the original wallet, and our dialogue goes something like this:
https://i.imgur.com/tKfflwj.png
https://i.imgur.com/QsPrtEH.png
At this point I know with certainty he doesn't have control over the address. May this be a lesson to you all to check the withdrawal address letter by letter because it's so easy to be careless, like I did, about withdrawing and misplacing funds.
Anyway, I can somewhat sleep comfy at night knowing this scumbag didn't get a single dollar out of me (assuming he actually doesn't have access to the address). I hope his ex-wife uses the money for something nice, maybe a vacation or something.
Submitted June 03, 2019 at 08:24PM by steve-gq http://bit.ly/318jHKE
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