Getting back into crypto, but can’t find my ada

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This one went to a Shelley wallet that hasn’t been touched since that day – 2021-09-02:
https://adastat.net/accounts/c4d3b5e70a535e815094d03e450f2244c7a6cd346e9228084592d209

This could be a Daedalus wallet with 24 word seed phrase or a Yoroi wallet with 15 word seed phrase. Try all seed phrases that you have! You can try in any wallet app – Eternl, Typhon, Lace, … – they can all manage this wallet if you find the correct seed phrase.

This could be a chance to retrieve at least a part of your ADA.

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This one did obviously go to the address you gave us. Seems to be this transaction:
https://adastat.net/transactions/b6cbc7381f1bc412e619de3ec110db3a35f204ea1e71d3e5be98c9e33e0fb617#outputs
(The difference between the 20.045603 ADA reported by Coinbase and the 19.865582 ADA arriving on the address can well be Coinbase’s fees.)

And also the third withdrawal on this list – 39.16 ADA on 2021-06-16 – fits well with this transaction:
https://adastat.net/transactions/3f30867ecd1cbc289db7448a0040580ad02d2537078f99b842cd526cf45c5ac6#outputs
38.983635 ADA arriving on that date.

As said: This is very surely not a Daedalus or Yoroi wallet.

What we can surely and without a doubt see on-chain is that whoever had the key to that address also had the keys to 70 other addresses to move >40k ADA elsewhere in this transaction:
https://adastat.net/transactions/d612af3e0e57fc5f8d1bb70adda67defcd6747eacb7723c14c06c654ccf4a99e
(And more addresses and even more ADA in other transactions.)

So, unless you had 40k ADA that we have never talked about in this thread, this address is not from your Daedalus or Yoroi wallets.

The address it all was consolidated on – https://adastat.net/addresses/Ae2tdPwUPEZ6xYrxCgRDM2NQFM5oajHEoJN3i9ZVV2AbsbvxoJBjVu3yP7W – does come up in some discussions:

This doesn’t have to mean that the address owner themselves has to be a scammer or so. It would also fit my guess that it is the address of an exchange where scammers had cashed out in those cases and where you have sent the ADA back then by accident.

Hard to find out after more than three years, but is there any chance you copied an address from somewhere else? The deposit address of Coinbase or another exchange you were using?