02-18-2020, 07:59 AM
I had a lapse in judgement and got scammed.
<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Hi so this post is fye and for me to vent about my own stupidity. </p> <p>So about an hour ago I was scammed by a YouTube livestream. Correction: I scammed myself because of a YouTube livestream. </p> <p>I was browsing my home page on YouTube when I come across an ‘Ethereum Foundation’ livestream advertising a 100,000 ETH giveaway. I click on it and it has a couple thousand viewers and the channel has around 60k subs. I check the description and there’s a link with the giveaway instructions ‘signed’ by Vitalik Buterin. My stupid ass looks at this and says ‘this looks legit, 3 eth for 15 eth in return, and if there’s none left you get your eth back! No downsides!!’</p> <p>Well after I sent the 3 eth, I look through the channel uploads and it’s just some dude in Africa. I’m mad at myself for falling for such a dumb gimmick (I’ve been in the crypto space since October) and I’m really just writing this to get my frustration out. I know it’s not a terribly huge amount of money lost, but it still hurts that I could’ve been so stupid for those 5 min. </p> <p>I know most of the people here already know about these scams, but I guess if someone hasn’t and they read this, it might save them some money (and shame) in the future. </p> <p>I hope this gave you a laugh and I look forward to all the comments telling me I’m an idiot.
</p> </div><!-- SC_ON --> Kind Regards R
<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Hi so this post is fye and for me to vent about my own stupidity. </p> <p>So about an hour ago I was scammed by a YouTube livestream. Correction: I scammed myself because of a YouTube livestream. </p> <p>I was browsing my home page on YouTube when I come across an ‘Ethereum Foundation’ livestream advertising a 100,000 ETH giveaway. I click on it and it has a couple thousand viewers and the channel has around 60k subs. I check the description and there’s a link with the giveaway instructions ‘signed’ by Vitalik Buterin. My stupid ass looks at this and says ‘this looks legit, 3 eth for 15 eth in return, and if there’s none left you get your eth back! No downsides!!’</p> <p>Well after I sent the 3 eth, I look through the channel uploads and it’s just some dude in Africa. I’m mad at myself for falling for such a dumb gimmick (I’ve been in the crypto space since October) and I’m really just writing this to get my frustration out. I know it’s not a terribly huge amount of money lost, but it still hurts that I could’ve been so stupid for those 5 min. </p> <p>I know most of the people here already know about these scams, but I guess if someone hasn’t and they read this, it might save them some money (and shame) in the future. </p> <p>I hope this gave you a laugh and I look forward to all the comments telling me I’m an idiot.
</p> </div><!-- SC_ON --> Kind Regards R