Here is how I lost $200 to a crypto scam in 2021.
In 2021, a member of our crypto community sent me a message that he had a funded wallet for sale.
He sent me a screenshot,showing me the balance,I can’t really remember the exact figure, but the wallet had about $500 - $1350 worth of USDT in it.
He claimed he needed the money urgently and he couldn’t wait to buy $BNB to pay for gas fee, at this point I wasn’t thinking straight again, I saw this as an opportunity to make money (profits).
I asked for wallet address and I sent him $150 ,I bough the wallet for $150 , after he confirmed he received the money he sent me the wallet recovery phrase.
This is where it got messed up.
I Log into into the wallet and lo I saw the money in it , he wasn’t lying I said to myself, pasted my wallet address and I tried withdrawing the funds in it , then I discovered I needed to send in some BNB to pay for gas fee.
I copied the BNB wallet address and I sent in $10 worth of BNB into the wallet , it reflected but the next few seconds I couldn’t see the BNB I sent in, it mysteriously disappeared.
I went back to my Binance account and sent in another $10 worth of BNB to pay for gas fee, it reflected in the wallet and it immediately disappeared.
I did this over and over again, then I realised the whole game .
There was a software/bot attached to the wallet , it will instantly send out any BNB you send into the wallet to another wallet address.
With this you will never be able to withdraw that funds in the wallet as you will need to pay gas fee, and the more you send in BNB for gas fee, the more the bot sends it out, and the bot is faster.
Later I saw someone else trying to sell that same wallet I bought.
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