08-26-2020, 12:52 PM
WARNING!Please guys be extremely careful!
<table> <tr><td> <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/igt0g6/warningplease_guys_be_extremely_careful/"> <img src="https://b.thumbs.redditmedia.com/gPUoeb24_jX89eh72KdHeHDFb192JGlBevONv2MMNEs.jpg" alt="WARNING!Please guys be extremely careful!" title="WARNING!Please guys be extremely careful!" /> </a> </td><td> <!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>I hope my story will help some of you to never repeat my mistake.</p> <p>I just got scammed the way I never even thought is possible ( some of you might heard about this but I never heard until today).</p> <p>Decided to cash some money out thru Coinbase, logged-in and copied BTC wallet address thru built-in Copy function as it shows on the screenshot below.</p> <p>Logged in Binance to sent the BTC to Coinbase and just pasted the address from the buffer without second thought. Pushed the transaction. 1hour later I realized that its different address and only first 4 symbols are same. Somehow my copy-paste buffer changed the address from right one to wrong one.</p> <p>Money lost. No way to recover it. Please dont repeat my mistake do not blindly trust to copy-paste buffer , your computer could be infected with malware that swaps addresses and it will be too late when you realize that.</p> <p>​</p> <p>P.S:</p> <p>Since Coinbase not showing whole address and first 4 symbols were the same it was very easy to overlook </p> <p><a href="https://preview.redd.it/iem7nkx97aj51.png?width=373&format=png&auto=webp&s=1343cc72036278e982cd54b80e48eaf99dac2a8b">https://preview.redd.it/iem7nkx97aj51.png?width=373&format=png&auto=webp&s=1343cc72036278e982cd54b80e48eaf99dac2a8b</a></p> </div><!-- SC_ON --> Kind Regards R
<table> <tr><td> <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/igt0g6/warningplease_guys_be_extremely_careful/"> <img src="https://b.thumbs.redditmedia.com/gPUoeb24_jX89eh72KdHeHDFb192JGlBevONv2MMNEs.jpg" alt="WARNING!Please guys be extremely careful!" title="WARNING!Please guys be extremely careful!" /> </a> </td><td> <!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>I hope my story will help some of you to never repeat my mistake.</p> <p>I just got scammed the way I never even thought is possible ( some of you might heard about this but I never heard until today).</p> <p>Decided to cash some money out thru Coinbase, logged-in and copied BTC wallet address thru built-in Copy function as it shows on the screenshot below.</p> <p>Logged in Binance to sent the BTC to Coinbase and just pasted the address from the buffer without second thought. Pushed the transaction. 1hour later I realized that its different address and only first 4 symbols are same. Somehow my copy-paste buffer changed the address from right one to wrong one.</p> <p>Money lost. No way to recover it. Please dont repeat my mistake do not blindly trust to copy-paste buffer , your computer could be infected with malware that swaps addresses and it will be too late when you realize that.</p> <p>​</p> <p>P.S:</p> <p>Since Coinbase not showing whole address and first 4 symbols were the same it was very easy to overlook </p> <p><a href="https://preview.redd.it/iem7nkx97aj51.png?width=373&format=png&auto=webp&s=1343cc72036278e982cd54b80e48eaf99dac2a8b">https://preview.redd.it/iem7nkx97aj51.png?width=373&format=png&auto=webp&s=1343cc72036278e982cd54b80e48eaf99dac2a8b</a></p> </div><!-- SC_ON --> Kind Regards R