Gm wonderful freedom tech people 💜 I’ve got a story about being “PIG BUTCHERED” to share with you. It’s my real experience happened since this November and am still dealing it with now. ⚠️I am about to lose $150k worth of bitcoin in online scam on Christmas Day🤦‍♀️🎄 Bitcoin is fine. It never betrays us. It doesn’t disappoint us. The biggest security holes are human errors. I betrayed myself, breaching my investment philosophy. I hope this story to be shared far and wide for educational purpose. The exchange site has changed its URL three times in a month. They try to charge me a hefty withdrawal fee. Hope this scammy operation will be busted soon.

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Ouch! It's an expensive lesson to learn, if you can check your wallets and get the public keys you used you could tag those UTXOs and pass them on to authorties for blacklisting and open up a case, but yeah that's mostly admin and no real improvement in recovery of funds. These scammers can take their time and build up a relationship because they're cycling through a client list over time so they can afford to be patient as they plan to rug you. Hope you do find some peace and are able to move I lost a fair bit back in the day leaving it on an exchange that got hacked so I know the pain, and yeah it put me on the straight and narrow of self custody real quick.
Thank you for your comments! Yes it’s been reported officially, with more details. I’m in zen mode 🧘🏻‍♀️ and feeling calm. There’s many lessons I’m learning from this experience, especially about my vulnerabilities, and power of belief, imagination, and deception! Love and hope can be exploited by bad actors sometimes very easily. Ordinary people in struggle are more likely to become victims, like myself. But I will never stop believing in good side of us ☺️🙏