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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @LightningStruck OP 4h \ parent \ on: I got scammed out of 1.4BTC lightning
Yeah, at this point I'm assuming almost everyone offering help is a scam. They can go bark up a different tree.
I do probably deserve what I got and I did say I was stupid throughout my post. I guess I should have said I was willfully ignorant as I went against my gut intuition.
You only learn when someone teaches about something or you encounter a situation where you have to teach yourself. I never learned about such tactics used by scammers before it happened to me. Therefore I learned through experience. I'm hoping that my story can help those learn via my experience without having to have similar experiences.
You may not have any empathy towards me or my situation but I can say that I have seen a lot of it in the community and I'm thankful that such a community exists.
I don't know how LN/Bitcoin will become more mainstream if we can't help those that don't know better. If I can get scammed then how are we going to keep young people, the elderly, and those not inclined to technology safe when there is a more widespread adoption. But maybe you don't care about that either.
I believe I said I was stupid multiple times in the post. I also never encountered this scam personally or knew anyone that had been hit by this as far as I recall. As someone who as a relative novice to TG I didn't think of doing that at the time. I did do this when I confirmed the real versus imposter later.
Hopefully by spreading my story people will learn the easy way and not the hard way like I did.
I'm also hoping to convince companies not to use TG (or any similar chat apps) as a support mechanism without having easy ways for a noob to confirm who they are talking to.
I will be an advocate for removing support off of TG. I know not every business can easily do that especially with the decentralized and global nature of the services like Amboss.
49 sats \ 0 replies \ @LightningStruck OP 4 Sep \ parent \ on: I got scammed out of 1.4BTC lightning
Absolutely!
GENESIS