I can’t believe what you did, but I will only make it worse if I continue. So, just want to say there is an adress, Cardano can track them all, and so every “giveaway” should be reported, those adresses marked, or even better blocked on all exchanges. We should have some emergency alarm site for it. That would be a solution, that can be done for sure, but in what time, on what levels, that is another topic. Just like that Poly hacker the other day, their adresses should be blocked immediatelly. It is a dangerous path, tomorrow my adress can be blocked, or yours, but it needs to be done in such fraudulent cases.
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“Nobody will ever send you something for nothing! Nobody will ever send you something for nothing!!” Charles Hoskinson
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I really feel horrible about your loss. It could happen to anyone who is relatively new to the crypto world.
I believe the best our community can do is to educate newcomers. I also like the popup idea warning about common scams or activate whitelist address (by default) as these mechanisms will make you think twice. Though annoying, I would not mind if it can save just one person from being scammed and lose their life savings.
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“People are fallible!”
Charles Hoskinson
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About 4 months ago, I got scammed by same scammers, lost a huge huge huge amount of ADA, and nobody helped to stop them or trace them. Right after I sent all those cryptos to the scammers, I learned that I was scammed. I sent tens of the emails to every channels avaliable. I contacted FBI, Cardano, etc and nobody helped. The money was gone.
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All of a sudden, my life was upside-down and i started living in a hell of shame, anger, extreme hopelessness and many other terrible feelings. I will never forget what they have done to me and others, and I wish them a life full of misery.
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You are asking a stupid question. People are devastated in situation like this and they don’t need a moron like you to brag about his own intelligence.
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To be fair, my ada staking rewards feel exactly like getting something for nothing to me 
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so sorry to know about this, bro.
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My point is more that anyone whose been in the crypto space for even a small amount of time should have heard about the give away scams which have been known about for years. You should really get information from multiple sources. I have a feeling people falling for these scams spend all their time on reddit. Reddit is not a good source of information. I do a lot of research and I know a lot about crypto and everytime I go to reddit everyone is clueless. There are plenty of crypto youtubers who will tell you about these things and how to stay safe. But even without that. How the heck do you not use common sense? There’s no such thing as a free lunch. I feel sorry for people who fall for this stuff but at the same time if people would just stop falling for it the scammers would go away.
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This is not even about crypto itself, if I get a letter at home telling me to send 50$ that I will receive 100$ back, does any f*cking one in this world gonna eat that crap?
And I will remind you of the “get paid to lick and send envelopes, you just need to buy the starter pack, send us the envelopes you licked and we will pay you”; guess what!
Am I the only one living in 2021 with an actual functioning memory? wtf is going on?
Madoff schemes should be well known by now and actually make everybody suspicious about this kind of crap. Simple as that.
There is, but you have to ask for it, won’t be given to you by itself; if you know what I mean.
cheers
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Thats rediculous. You are committing your stake to a pool that works hard to maintain servers and network performance to validate transactions worldwide. In exchange you get 5% interest on your stake. Thats not something for nothing.
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I done the exact same. Unfortunately for 15,000 Cardano.
Really naive and silly of me. Especially considering the fact it was all of my ADA/Cardano holdings.
ADA/cardano to some scammers wallet, worth in the region of over $42,198.69. (last week) in x2 separate transactions.
Here’s the website I followed:
[Link removed by @Zyroxa]
This is the wallet address I sent all my holdings to:
addr1qywut3pa275u8mzp32x6smavthp98dmjg39j7rm9ed4mp8sggt8z6uuf0zrzydcw5ney7mavcgcunj37cs8jqdjrxrtqca7m2k
From my coinspot ADA/Cardano wallet address:
addr1qxzgz6esg7lfa7k3tf9a53nfxwktj0dcmp5suefr0v74dvk6s0qr3rpd6asg9nkkvywj79dfn66vjkprgpsm2na8fw8ssumux8
I am absolutely gutted. Cardano is a project I really believe and trusted in and obviously the video on youtube is pretty fooling.
I know how silly all of this sounds but the creator of ADA/Cardano was due to make a big announcement last weekend about smart contracts and I was unsure of the time being in Australia and obviously he’s in America or somewhere in the world I just noticed this ‘Live - people watching’ and automatically thought this was his big announcement.
Wishing you all the best in the future!
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So sorry to hear that, hopefully you had bought them at much cheaper price. I know somehow how you feel, I lost 1500 Iota coins back in 2018 when it spiked, not a big deal.
My wallet was compromised because I sent twice to the same address, it was forbidden back then.
I just don’t understand how you sent the whole amount. Why didn’t you try with 10 ADA first? 
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It’s still illegal just curious if you contacted the authorities - crypto pretty easy to track
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I did - but so far haven’t hear back from them
I know , same question I keep repeating in my head
We all wish you the best of luck in retrieving your funds
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Thanks Bruce. I will keep updates through here if there is any advancements
I feel really bad for you, I do. I just can’t understand how anyone (no disrespect) could send all of their coins, especially 220K? And if you had 220,000 Ada (wow), I’m guessing you know how transactions for crypto work. If you send crypto, they can’t send you back crypto, as you didn’t provide them a receive address, right? Can’t send to a send. Man, hope you get through this. Lotta scum out there.
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