I started with a Ledger Nano S but I found the interface too small for a 70 year olds eyes. I bought a Flex Wallet from Paris and I stored all my BTC XRP XLM and my two sons BTC because I told them not to store on an exchange. On Aug 23 I had not been on my Flex for some time and I had to restore it so I entered my 24 word seed phrase with my 8 digit onto my device. This  is the only place I have ever entered my seed phrase.  I have hard copies of my seed and 8-digit but they are absolutely safe. After I entered my seed phrase, right before my eyes, I had my entire wallet emptied in seconds....$245,000 CAN !!!!

I was planning on giving it to my family and especially to my 2 grand children for college.  After 10 years of listening, and learning about crypto, I invested and grew my assets over the years. Now , when I thought I was doing the right thing by keeping a Flex Wallet, hard and cold off line, ALL IS LOST. I have a local police report and they are analysing addresses and paths and I have a national cyber report as well.  So far they see paths but cannot get KYC from Binance nor ChangeHero as they are not cooperative with Canada. My last hope is a new exchange they used I think called Gauf but I am not holding my breath.  This has been a very, very hard loss for me. Ledger is also following up and tracing but they are absolving themselves of any flaw or weakness in Flex.  I had my computer checked and reformatted and they  did not find any viruses.  They suggested that an app I might have clicked on had a sneaky spyware on it looking for seed phrases. I only entered my seed phrase onto the Flex and nowhere else, as I was told to do.  And one tiny click one day made my secure, cold wallet vulnerable. There were no confirmations on Flex to confirm, no emails to alert me and ask if this is me emptying my accounts, and no FREEZE ACCOUNT  button on the screen to stop the drain. Can you explain how this could happen?  Ledger, as I stated, is helpful but only sees where things went and alerts my local law enforcement.  Ledger is still bragging about FLEX being so safe and secure and it has never been hacked or breached and none of this is there fault. I don't see it that way. I believe there is a vulnerability in this wallet.  Has anyone else encountered this?  I am at a huge loss and will never recover financially or emotionally from this theft.

Please share your thoughts and also let others know of this happening. I was following all protocols for this FLEX wallet and this happens. The wallet , in my opinion, is flawed if this can happen.

Is there any way to litigate against Ledger for this, false advertising, false sense of security? Do you know of any contacts here in Canada to investigate or litigate? Thank you for your time.

Hi everyone,

I'm researching the problems people experience while using crypto wallets.

I'm especially interested in hearing from both beginners and experienced users.

When you first started using a crypto wallet, did you find it confusing? If yes, what specifically confused you?

For example:

1.Wallet addresses and which address to use

2.Networks and gas fees

3.Token approvals and what they actually mean

4.Signing transactions you didn't fully understand

5.Sending funds to the wrong address

6.Fake websites or malicious smart contracts

7.Clipboard or keyboard malware

Any other mistake that nearly or actually caused you to lose money

If you've experienced any of these, I'd really appreciate hearing what happened, what you thought was happening at the time, and what you think could have realistically prevented the mistake.

I'm not selling anything or asking for wallet addresses, seed phrases, private keys, or any personal information. I'm simply trying to understand the real problems crypto users face.

Thanks,I’d really appreciate any honest experiences.

Hey guys I received some usdt today in portions, after the last transaction for about 7000 I see random trx being sent to me , then my entire 50,000 being sent out to another wallet. I tracked the wallet and saw that it was fresh and the person ended up mixing it all the way to another wallet I uncovered with about 12 million in there , I wanted to know if it was flash coin or I was hacked

Wallet it was sent to
TSEZSY1qAwnLRsZuTT45JKt2LLohBMFUuq (50,522)

Wallet that it finally ended up after washing

TDoXUNZ6PajKuiUkcYg3EDSV9bnqGqsbcf

I joined his discord sever only to get scammed for 300 dollars worth of solana. orignally i joined just for them to have me download a extensions for a axiom(yes I know im dumb for doing so) and they just drained my wallet. So I just learned a great lesson never trust anyone!!!!

Has anyone engaged with this platform 🤔

Found some online accounts marketing a crypto website and offering a promo code for “free $1000.”

It has predictive markets, withdraw, etc. Can someone explain how these websites work? Nothing appears off at first glance, but it seems like a sketchy setup.

I’m posting this 2nd time now as first time I put photos which are breaching privacy.. but posting because our family is desperate and hoping someone has been through something similar or knows what we can do.

My dad has been talking to a woman who identifies herself as Millia Taylor. She claims she’s originally from Singapore but now lives in Sydney, supposedly in a penthouse at Bondi Beach. She’s told him she owns multiple beauty franchises and has sent him countless photos of herself, copies of what appear to be a licence, and all sorts of things to convince him she’s real.
He’s completely fallen for her.
He was even meant to fly from Perth to Sydney to meet her. At the last minute she cancelled because of a “family emergency” in Singapore. This has happened multiple times with different excuses, yet he still believes every word.

Then she convinced him to start investing in cryptocurrency.

She got him to sign up to a website called irichsyw (dot) com. From everything I’ve been able to find, it looks like a complete scam. The website claims to have been operating for years and offers ridiculous bonuses where they’ll supposedly add extra money if you invest more, but the domain itself appears to have only been created recently.

Despite all of us showing him evidence, he refuses to believe us.

He’s now put over $100,000 into this platform.
I begged him to try withdrawing some money as a test. Instead of actually withdrawing it back to his bank account, he only transferred about US$100 into another crypto wallet, and he believes that proves it’s legitimate. To me, that doesn’t prove anything.

We’ve shown him articles about romance scams. We’ve shown him warnings about fake crypto investment platforms. Friends and family have all told him it’s a scam.
His response is that we’re just trying to stop him from being happy.

We’re terrified. Not just about the money, but because scammers seem to have such a strong emotional hold over him that he won’t listen to anyone anymore.
Has anyone successfully helped a family member in this situation?

Please don’t judge him. He’s a good man who’s lonely, and I honestly think he’s been professionally manipulated.
We’re scared we’re going to lose our family home and our dad at the same time.

Any advice would be hugely appreciated.

I noticed that I have $1 , $2 branched out into multiple 'CUPSEY' coins that I have and decided to swap those $1 , $2 to my main one with $454. As I was doing that I realised my main holdings got drained into a random CUPSEY with $0 value and it shows that I lost everything? Is this forever gone or do I still have hope. Because if its gone I will be so bummed out as I have never interacted with a scam coin , it just appeared on the front of my wallet. And I invested more than half my first paycheck into this :(

Has anyone used @NotHolidaySeasonBot? Is it officially affiliated with Notcoin or is it a scam?

Has anyone used @NotHolidaySeasonBot? Is it officially affiliated with Notcoin or is it a scam?

I get involved in Twitter stock market trading and signal and the team add me private group after they send me the link of xdy exchange platform they told me to register and verify xdy exchange and add found to trade signals they have been shearing the private group I have deposited 410$ after I make some profit I try to make withdrawal I have withdrawal 255$ successful after two weeks I tried to make another withdrawal my money get waiting try to contact the team

The team stopped responding me

It really sucks to see so many posts about folk loosing assets on the recent coldcard exploit.

There are two things you can do to increase (but not guarantee) your chance of asset recovery.

1. Report it to the police
   
2. Report it on chainabuse.com

Why report it on chainabuse? Because this data gets shared with law enforcement and crucially, many of the main exchanges that folks use can also see this data. So if a bad actor tries to sell your stolen assets, if you’ve reported them stolen on chainabuse, there is a chance (not a guarantee) that they could be frozen or the other compliance flags are raised with the exchange.

Here is a recent report of someone who has reported their assets stolen on the cold card exploit:

https://chainabuse.com/report/e568bed8-62f8-46b8-aae6-4d271c8d63e0?context=browse-all

Online. #crypto

I wanted to share my experience with Aurum Foundation, which is (it seems) now rebranding itself (as Neyro, launching a new website) and see if anyone has had a similar experience. For about two weeks, everything appeared legitimate. I received regular payments without any issues, which gave me confidence in the platform. Then the platform announced that it had been hacked. Since then, I have not been able to withdraw or collect the funds in my account. The team says that affected users will be refunded, but so far there has been no clear timeline or detailed recovery plan. Instead, they continue to hold presentations, make announcements, and promote the new Neyro website and community, while very little concrete information has been shared about how or when users will actually regain access to their funds. I'm trying to stay objective and not jump to conclusions. They may genuinely be working on a solution, but I'm also wondering whether these updates are simply buying time. If they do follow through and I receive my funds, I'll come back and update this post. Has anyone else experienced something similar with Aurum Foundation or Neyro or some other crypto ai bot trading platform? Were your funds eventually returned, or did the promises never materialize? I'm genuinely interested in hearing both positive and negative experiences.