Hey there.

All my scam-alarmbells are ringing, but I’d like to have a little perspective because I never got into trading with crypto at all.

A friend of mine apparently put about $70k in different crypto into masscoin.vip Then there seem to have been some hijinx with mistyped adresses, and talks with support later, masscoin.vip representatives tell my friend, that they need to fork over another 10% of their holdings, so another $7k, to validate their account or something.

This has to be a scam, right? The Money is gone, and since it was put in via crypto there is no way to recover it?

  • cyph3rPunk@infosec.pub
    7·
    1 year ago

    Without even checking:

    YES. YES IT IS.

    Edit: any time you see a crypto project:

    • prioritizes funding before they even have a plan

    • have no working or novel technology/ideas

    • is simply an ERC-20 or Binance token

    • doesn’t have a GitHub page

    THEY ARE 99.99999999% of the time A SCAM.

    • TheYang@lemmy.worldOP
      13·
      1 year ago

      I mean from my glancing it seemed that masscoins exist and there was technological foundation behind that bit.
      I just thought that that broker was a scam, because of, extremely weird business practices

        • TheYang@lemmy.worldOP
          3·
          1 year ago

          thanks for being a second set of eyes.
          I came to the same conclusion with basically 0 experience in trading crypto.

          I just do feel bad about the insane loss, even though it was due to insane stupidity.

          • cyph3rPunk@infosec.pub
            5·
            1 year ago

            No problem.

            I don’t feel bad. There are SO many good, legitimate projects with actual, verifiable tech stacks that haven’t popped yet. The projects that target degenerate gamblers are easy to spot and this one has all of those red flags.

  • apple123@lemmy.world
    1·
    8 months ago

    hello i am also a victim to masscoin.vip, my lost is 34000€, i already filed a case by the police, the chance of recovery is little but from chinese intellgence quelle i think i know something about the criminal group, they are located at dubai. A revenge is still possible and that’s what i am going for. I know the feeling of being scammed, if you want to share more you can write me [email protected] i will try my best to help, meantime also help myself getting out from this nightmare.

  • shortwavesurfer@monero.town
    0·
    1 year ago

    I have been involved with crypto for years and the only cryptos i will even touch are Monero, Bitcoin, Litecoin, Ethereum, USDC, DAI, and Matic. Assume 99% of crypto is a scam and you will be fine. I feel confident in the list above after being into crypto since 2013. The big thing is how you approach it. DO NOT approach it as an investment. IT IS MONEY, buy coffee with it, pay your phone bill with it, paint a house for it, repair a computer for it. IT IS MONEY. Use it the same way you would use dollars or euros or pounds. Real crypto people seriously dislike “number go up moonboys”