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I got scammed for $600.

Its not the scam that pissed me off. Its my ego as an engineer that blinded me.

It was last year during crypto nft ups and downs.

Its called a frontrunner scam.

From what I remember, I followed this tutorial on YouTube to setup this bot on remix ethereum compiler.

I read all the code and couldn't find anything fishy.

So I figured, all the comments are hyping it, fuk it, $600. Let's see how it goes, I can take out my money if it flops.

And this fuking contract wouldn't show any updates on Etherscan

The guy in the video mentioned you may need to wait a while.

Plus he sounded like an honest guy.

I googled it after I fuking put my money in and followed the tutorial.

And a video explains the scam.

Theres a file filled with comments to throw you off. But hidden in the comments is some code to change the wallet the crypto goes to.

Fuking wrekt. Rookie mistake.

I went to the hackers telegram group and told them I'd report them, he said you gota put in more money for it to work.

Realized I'm being trolled, I rage quit and never told a soul.

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  • 5
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    It's good that you released some stress here. Usually these things puncture a hole in our heads.

    I got looped into a pyramid scheme in 2017 when I was desperate to find work and was naive. I lost about $70 USD and it still fills me with rage sometimes.
  • 1
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    @Sid2006

    I'm glad others know that feel.

    https://media.tenor.com/NCAE4Kxnjj8...
  • 1
    281d
    Getting scammed sucks because they got the better of you. But that is what they do! They are scammers. They work hard to convince you, to do something, you normally wouldn't do.

    For example, the age old romance scam takes a lot of time and effort to pull of, but it still pulls $475 million in the US alone (Wikipedia). And those are just the reported cases! Think of the embarrassment being involved in such a scam...

    Next up are scams with duplicated AI voices ("Hey mom, I had an accident.."). Scammers know how to manipulate you, imagine being a social engineer 40h a week.

    Some general pointers: Be careful of strange propositions, where someone tries to get you to act on something RIGHT NOW. Do not act immediately. Sleep it over (literally!). Are they even who they say they are? And if you must, test the waters by sending a small amount ($1) and see what happens.

    That being said, I lost $65 as a student trying to buy a second hand physic book online and I'm still pissed about it lol
  • 0
    281d
    I'm mostly sad to read about the response that they gave you on the group.

    Always try financial shit out with minimum amount and a debugger. Just using a tiny sum might not trigger the theft code or the theft is more subtle (fraction of the amount, so it's disguised as transaction fee for example)
  • 1
    281d
    @Nanos ask that lunch money back with interest. Maybe you'll get rich
  • 2
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    Good example of “open source software is more secure than proprietary software” being nonsense. You can still hide malicious code.
  • 0
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    @novasurp security has nothing to do with this. Pretty sure the transaction itself was very secure because of open standards etc. If you believe anything closed is more secure than open you are in for a world of pain.

    Supply chain security is a big problem though but it's equally problematic in open and closed source. Just look up the solarwinds hack for example.
  • 1
    281d
    I once bought something from a dropshipper. I consider this being scammed too
  • 1
    281d
    When I was a child, I paid an internet company I saw in an ad $75 for a bios update. They talked to me on the phone and helped me install it, so maybe it wasn't that much of a scam.
  • 0
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    @hjk101 I didn’t imply closed source software is more secure than open source software. The point is that there is no relation.
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