Hello everyone.
Unfortunately I got scammed by this website: [Link removed by @zyroxa]
I know I fell for a well known trick. I would like to inform others and also to ask if we can do anything to get the persons behind this. Here is the whois result Whois Lookup Captcha but the hosting company does not disclose the owners name. I made a ticket to that company but I am not very optimistic that they will disclose any information. Since this fraud hearts not only me but also the cardano community is there any way to get some help. A DMCA report by the organization might help for example.
We are aware about those scams and doing our best to get those sites taken down. But if one of them gets taken down, atleast 2 news are created in the meantime.
Thank you for your response Zyroxa. Is it possible for the organization to ask from NameCheap Inc. for the details of the persons running the website? It is possible that they gave some personal information or paid with a card on their name. If we don’t want new websites to run we need to get the scammers. I did it myself but since I don’t own any of the Cardano copyrights I don’t think I will get far.
I think that it is easier to educate people about the value of crypto & blockchain than try to prevent scams. Very few people would give $500 to someone and expect $1000 in return, unless they were a registered financial services provider. In the same way, delegating to a stake pool of your choice or running your own stake pool will provide a similar return of maximising investment. Anything else is probably not legitimate. And I think that is what is missing - a layman’s explanation of what investing or interacting in the crypto space means. This is information is available if you do your due diligence, but for newcomers into the space, it can be very confusing to understand what is going on.
I fell for it too 4 days ago… i feel so stupid man… i sent 5181.6 ADA to this ada giveaway address:
31af771afd85d41b365212a7573b29bfafa8a464b39623bcf5ae998738464a50
Hello . I initialy reported my misfortune with a cardano-youtube scam site in another post..
It was a dumb act partly driven by greed but the general interest i had in the last month on cardano was driven by more noble motives.
But i dont understand a so far a defensive attitude toward Mr.Hoskinson . Mainly i came to the project by his videos and https://cardano.org/. So i argue that taking into account that there is an apparent scam wave targeting cardano and that they usually use his public image to lure and giving the report that youtube cant help enough i asked as one of my proposals to either abandon youtube or more emphatically send a permanent warning to his new viewers.
I think that misfortune could be maybe a chance to empower the community be being more helpfull to unlucky newcomers .
In any way i find it disheartening an attitude of protecting and defending a prominent member or a foundation or youtube while in contrast in situations like this the same structures or people must lead to help and guide .
I paste the scum adress.
addr1qx83jacckwx6g7hxmpr6ez0r2x0pq9rpjvvc3htq9x96wnu0r9m33vud53awdkz84jy7x5v7zq2xryce3rwkq2vt5a8suyj9xg
I would like to participate in any legal action and i wish there is a coordinate action .
ohhh, i just, march 14 2021, saw a live video on YT. from Mr. Hoskinson with more info on [Link removed by @Zyroxa].
My english s not good and some support member there helped me step by step what to do to sent ADA and receive it doubel back. I thought it was strange so i asked why they give away free ADA? he answered to promote ADA and bla bla. I felt for it and i never thought that it good be a scam. ;-( I lost 9000 ADA , for me that is big big money. i think i kill myself
it said: full details on [Link removed by @Zyroxa] with an e at the end but i dont write that because someone could click on that
I lost thousand of ADA to a youtube+website scam at 2.00 UTC 13/3/2021
I have screenshots, tx details etc .
I’ve read in the forum that there is no hope and that this is not the first scam on youtube.
I am one month a small holder of ADA and to be frank i am little dissapointed to hear that this is not the first time. Should the community have already taken some measures for new users .
As a new user i’ve saw videos on youtube and many of Charles Hoskinson. And the scam relied mainly on his public persona to lower my defenses.
Surely there is also my naiv to blame . But being a new user, the idea of public offering is not alien to me. When bitcoin forked i got many BCH for free. So my argument is that the scam pulls some subtle strings and i would expect to be more public warning from Charles Hoskinson and youtube. Those videos use and harm Hoskinson image. Doesnt that worries him?
Anyway practically i am willing to give 5% for anyone helping me recover my ada and track the scams. I’d prefer to be part of a more organized legal initiative from cardano organization but i am willing to try that alone. In that case please communicate to me to seek a way to recover ADA and track the culprits.
Just type the transaction ID there. And you will get the transaction data (target wallet, how much ADA, etc.)
I am so sorry to heart that. But what you could do are reporting it to the police & try to inform Youtube to take down that video/banned the user.
IOHK, Cardano Foundation and the Cardano community already tried to take down lots of scam stuff (fake Daedalus app, scam Youtube channel, etc.). But it’s like firefighting everyday, you could not take down everything.
It worries him the most. You cannot imagine how many life threats he gets everyday from dumbs who blame him for their mistake (if I want to be gentle).
I thinks i’ve helped in that respect. Immediately i sent twitter messages to youtube and the video was down in an hour .
i respect the already existing efforts to bring down scam sites ,but respectuffully i think Charles Hoskinson should NOW put a sign to his youtube channel to warn new users like me that the learn about cardano first through youtube. Doesnt it bothers his that they use his persona? I would be furious if they used my persona to lure people to scams. Also i think there should be a legal help site ready to help fill police reports. Also a scam alert to Deadalus would help. Additionaly a pool to add crypto to track down those scammers. I’ll try to do it alone but that will take more time and will surely leave a very bad taste in my memory.
You be defensive of him and offensive to me.
He has a public persona in youtube. The suggestion to make a more active effort by having a sign perhaps in his youtube site is offensive to you or to him? i refered to a fact. That among the lure package they make they use his persona to lower my dump defense. The same goes for youtube company.
Anyway i accept being dump . (being btc user a decade its my first time to fall for a scam. I even managed to avoid an ebay scam to buy a photo of a rtx3080!! ) .
But that dumbness of mine couldn’t also be used as an excuse for not being more active or more ingenious in helping us the dumbs who are new cardano users?
Anyway i want to be productive . But how can that be if i dont refer to facts (except my dumbness)
So i repeat my proposals:
legal help from cardano organization / community ( to file a report to a police )
(i refer to ‘a police’ because i am not sure what jurisdiction is that scam crime that could originate anywhere in the planet)
technical guides how to help or seek help to better track down
more visible signs to alert cardano users and thinks the Deadalus wallet could be a start.
(many websites techs have alerts for example that occasionaly alert to download a new version due to a new threat.Could that in our case accomodate also general scam alerts.)
Pls, read between the lines, I did not referred you, because you know that he cannot and could not do anything. I referred to dumbs who think he tricked them.
I dont accept the argument that he can be the most prominent public figure of a project and nevertheless accept that ’ you know that he cannot and could not do anything’.
