Ever been a victim of a hack or scam on this forum?

I know this might sound strange and kinda unique, but I want everyone to see this for a reason. Admins, please don’t delete this. About a year ago, I was on the wrong side of things, doing some hacking and scamming. It was all pretty minor stuff, nothing serious, and I never made much cash from it, just some really dumb choices from a young and foolish mindset. I managed to get into a few people’s computers and pulled off some scams, but luckily didn’t hit many folks. However, one of the people I scammed was from this forum. I’m serious about wanting to make things right and pay them back soon. My plan is to try and find that person through this post. I know it’s a long shot and they might not even be active on here anymore, but I made this account just for this reason. I can’t reveal all the details because then someone could just say, "Yeah, that’s me, give me my money back". But I’ll share part of the story in hopes that if they see it, they’ll connect the dots. The problem is, I lost the transaction info, their nickname on the forum, and the wallet address. It’s tough but not impossible. Here’s what I do remember: I had posted a job offer in the service section, and this guy reached out to me on Telegram or maybe ICQ. From there, I ended up scamming him or hacking him. There was an Electrum wallet involved that I think he hadn’t used much before, or at least not regularly, because I told him he needed one. The amount was around $3000, I think. So if you got scammed for that amount on here, please let me know what you remember or any details you have.

Do you still have any evidence left at all from that period — old Telegram usernames, wallet version screenshots, archived chats, BTC addresses, device backups, or even approximate dates? Even tiny details could help narrow it down without exposing the victim publicly.

Yes, you're right, I haven't heard anything like this here before. But, nevertheless, you received money from this type of activity, and this already constitutes a crime. And if also remember about morality, then there is no forgiveness for you. You only want to atone for one victim? What about the others? Or maybe this is your new way to find another victim here?

I was scammed once. I once sold $100 worth of Bitcoin on a site called Paxful. The buyer sent me the dollars and just a day later I saw that the dollars had been refunded from my Neteller account.  But even after sending a message to Neteller support, I still haven't received any dollars back. This happened a long time ago, but I'm still curious about this!

Scam are not moderated on the forum, we have flags / relative ratings. Basically if you have a problem/lose money it's close to impossible to get it back. You must be aware of that, pay extremely attention once you make deal (even with trusted members... ) If you had to deal with a low rank or someone that has never made deal --> always use escrow. If possible try to take note/agrement of all passage/deal during the transaction to avoid issues. Its better also to use a public transaction where possible. About scam, yes of course many of these through the forum. From people not delivering a product (scamming a couple of bucks) to kind of "elaborate scam" where ToS while dealing with crypto are not always as advertised.

You've made a topic out of this in beginners & help section of the forum, I feel your pain but don't let this wear you down, I've lost $450 to Amazon using 0fiat too, not very long ago. Learn from your mistake, and don't repeat them again, all these centralised payment services can't be trusted, I had bad experience using paxful, normally I was paired with a scammer, lost my bitcoin to them. Learn to use P2P trade, through the likes of HodlHodl and Localcoinswap if you care about privacy, and if not, you can use OKX or Binance P2P services, they are still far reliable than Bitpay and others, you can get USDT or USD for BTC or viceversa.

I had all of that but not anymore, I've deleted all a long time ago but by the specific value and the details he will absolutely recognize it,if he's still visit this forum of course. I understand the aggro reaction,but no I don't do this stuff anymore and I'am trying to do a good thing, but Okay if you don't believe, but this reaction won't help, me finding him and paying it back will.

I have not been scammed or hacked before either from this forum or any other platform. Scammers are everywhere and you cannot do to avoid them completely, but one of the safest way to prevent yourself from being scammed or hacked is by learning to know what is needed of you in cryptocurrency and Bitcoin, once you are able to avoid creating a vulnerability for them to use to attack you, then you cannot be there victim. That you discover a member is from this forum does not mean you should entrust your asset with them without knowing them or having a proven record of their past integrity and success in what they do, any interaction made here is at your own risk, the forum will not be responsible.

On the surface, you seem like a good person who wants to atone for your past sins, but who knows, maybe you're actually looking for your next victim through this? If your good intention is true, I don't think you need to look too far, because it will definitely be like looking for a needle in a haystack. Be a good person after that, don't do the bad things you did again, I think that's enough. However, if you insist on looking for that person, good luck in your search bros.

You could simply publish the person's address or some similar information, and if that person exists and is here, they will recognize it. Even if you hacked it, that person could probably still have access, so you could simply return it to the source and give the victim a chance to move it to another site. But you're giving very little information to make your real intentions with this post clear.

The first encounter of bitcoin loss was a multiplier scam. Now people are much aware about it. This could've happened during the year 2016 or 2017. Quite often we were able to see multiplier platforms with bitcoin addresses running throughout the platform stating that they've multiplied and received funds in those respective bitcoin addresses. Believing in it I transacted $200 worth of bitcoin. I was waiting for long and my bitcoin address never gets showed up. Kept checking for few more days and later only understood it's a scam. We cannot seek support from anywhere, lost is lost forever.

OK now you want to pay back what you stole from someone in this forums, first for a reason can you use an escrow in this forum, deposits the total amount you want to restitut on the wallet provided by reputable escrow in this forum. Next step is you sharing some public information about the said member, no doubt that the dots will connect and if the member is active they easily get reached and repayment made back. Between that, how much have you been able to refund back to your other victims so far?

And if he really wanted to give back the money he scammed from that person, he has the account to contact the person.  So he can directly tell the person himself that he will give back the money, why use this forum for communication? Anyway, I got scammed many times on the altcoin bounty campaign, and probably many of us here experienced it too.  It is a campaign to advertise their project, offer a bounty reward, and at the end of the campaign, the payment was not delivered. It was too frequent that at one point, not being paid was normal. lol

This forum is very complex, before you found any user you're looking for, you will provide or mention the person's username name, here is not a place where someone be noted or noticed through a mere description...Secondly, Any scam that happens outside the forum, between two or three parties doesn't require much attention...

Unless I'm missing something, OP claims he no longer has any of those. So he can only post a thread and hope someone recognize whether they're his victim or not. Anyway, whether this works or not time will tell. If OP starts doing something suspicious we can warn people, especially newbies, to not fall for that. The timeframe is too broad to point fingers anyway.

Never and I remain vigilant to this day not to be deceived and deceived by scammers on this forum or any other more dangerous place. I've always been active in the online world and I'm quite critical of anything, so I always do a check when it comes to money and if there's a scammer trying to scam me, I can detect it first. Don't trust anyone in the online world including in the crypto world, everyone can be online including criminals who want to trap their victims.

No one on this forum has ever scammed me either, and I never even had a reason to think someone wanted to do that. But that doesn’t mean people shouldn’t stay cautious and avoid sharing personal information that could become a reason for fraud or scams. Just because something has never happened before doesn’t mean it can’t happen in the future. Always stay careful, it never hurts.

Even though I have not been scammed by anyone, going through the story one thing that I can pickup from the story is , we should be very careful when ever someone on the forum post about a job, business transactions which will make you to communicate with you on telegram outside of the platform should be flagged as suspicious. We should not forget to always deal with reputable members of the community when ever we are to make any dealing on the forum but it okay now that you say that you want to make amen, just make sure that you should not go back to your former life style taking this type of decision is the best thing you can make for yourself.

Maybe you should think of a way to increase the exposure of this thread other than bumping it once in a week or so. Assuming your victim is still active it's hard to imagine they never visited the Bitcoin board at all. Why not change your personal text info or something similar, or just post regularly so you can wear a sig or something. Alternatively, try to recover the details so you can just send back the money as impossible as it sounds. Nobody is going to trust random users on the internet as good as the deal sounds.

It’s not everyday you see a scammer restituting money, which makes it even more suspicious. OP, seeing as no one has responded yet, you could try moving the thread to reputation board for more visibility.