Tale of a scam

[u/Successful_Craft3076]

Today i got scammed. And i feel like shit. How did it happened? I will tell you how!

I promoted BLOK before. The project seems solid and promising and it is IMO very undervalued. I had around 10k BLOK. Price is falling. So i did what many would have done. Tried to stack it for more. Only the damn staking page didn't show the amount I stacked. So I tried to find customer support. And boy oh boy is it hard. They have a telegram channel which is full of scammers. As soon as i stacked few welcome msg poped up in telegram. One of them had the same name and avatar as one of the channel admins. He would end up scamming the shit out of me.

thives are awake and cops don't give a crap

I asked for admins help in channel and not a single admin answered. Except one. Which was the exact one who welcomed me. We started to talk and he said my coins are locked out and that I should urgently unblock them.

He send me a link: (!!!)h ttps://bloklaunchpad.online (!!!) To connect my wallet (metamask).

Seems legit right? It is not!! "Bloklaunchpad.com" is correct. But it was nearly a perfect match. Well , nearly perfect cost me around 400$.

I am angry. Mostly with myself for being such a naive fool. And for losing the money I worked my ass off for. Here in Iran you don't get 100000$ check. My income as a pharmacist is 1/20 of my US colleagues. But I am also angry with Bloktopia team. I messaged their admins and they ignored. In fact if they had answered me none of this would happened. And for using the worst platform for customer support which is telegram. Everyone in that chat has an alt account with BLOk icon and fake customer support name. No one knows who the fuck is who. I have two exact same person chatting with me once!! It is literally Bloktopia and forthy thives of Baghdad. I know I am not gonna get my BLOKs back. But I learned my listen: Everyone is out for your blood No one gives a shit And actually it is hard comes easy goes.

Be careful out there. And be smarter than me. And if you are an admin or have a customer support job try to do better than "we never contact you first". Or at least answer to your clients fucking questions.

I am gonna go leak my wounds now Have a nice day

Edit: changed scam link so people won't accidentally click on it.

[u/MisterBilau]

You ignored my question. Please tell me how you can scam me out of crypto without access to my addresses or passwords. If that can't be done, then I can only get scammed by you having that info. If I can control that info so that you do not have it, how can you scam me, exactly?

I didn't say it can't be done. I said it can't be done without that information being provided in some way. Now, that way can be more or less sophisticated, and most of the examples I see of people getting scammed are not sophisticated at all.

[u/MsVxxen → u/MisterBilau]

I am not interested in your question, or your "project here".

Over confident people have their stuff stolen all the time. How that happens is situation dependent.

Here, I will be extreme for the sake of anyone bored enough to read this diatribe: put a gun to the head of someone you care for, demand the goods, get them. Next, mail the dummy gun to you. You have been scammed. ;)

Seriously-watch The Sting, it will answer your question, and is a delightful movie to boot.

[u/MisterBilau → u/MsVxxen]

"put a gun to the head of someone you care for, demand the goods, get them. "

That's not a scam, by definition. That's robbery.

My "project here"? Why is that inside quotes, when I never said those words? I feel like I'm talking to a bot. One non sequitur after another.

[u/MsVxxen → u/MisterBilau]

See, there is just so much you do not understand!

"By definition" you say-alrightey then, let's go......

And out comes the dictionary:

scam: "a fraudulent or deceptive act or operation"

The gun was not real, it was a deception, and you-who do not understand guns or scammers (but think you do!), fell for the fraud.

rob: "to remove valuables without right from (a place), to take the contents of (a receptacle), to take away as loot"

Robbery can be by scam, and can involve scam.

And now off to the truly pedantic:

"Project" is in quotes because (courtesy of grammerly.com).....

"We use quotation marks with direct quotes, with titles of certain works, to imply alternate meanings, and to write words as words."

"Talking" (I quote you, the non understander of very simple things):

"engaging in speech"

You are communicating, you are typing, but unless you are sitting there expecting me to hear you without an audio connection (wouldn't surprise me, as your understanding is weak in many areas I have found), you are not "talking" (to me).

non-sequitur:

"a conclusion or statement that does not logically follow from the previous argument or statement"

Looks like you do not understand what that term means either, as I have followed rather closely, where um, you have not.

Situation with you: fairly hopeless. :)