The Waves Platform Seemed Promising to Me
Several months back I was talking to someone who was raving about the Waves platform. I love to diversify into all the different platforms that could potentially take Ethereum's crown, so I traded for 78 WAVES tokens (which was worth over $700 at the time). I just left it sitting on the exchange for a couple months which was fine.
I can risk my funds to get an airdrop for $5 of Bitcoin Cash? Sign me up!
I run an airdrop website so I've used the Wave Lite client (which is aparrently being sunset) to claim Waves-based airdrops for months. Ten I heard about holders of Waves tokens getting airdrops of coins just for holding Waves tokens in non-exchange wallets. They were airdropping Bitcoin Cash to wallets that had the letters BCH in the address. I noticed that I did, so I decided to throw my money onto that address and figured it'd be safer there anyway... I guess I was wrong.
Dude... where's my money?
I don't check on that account often so I decided to log in and see if I got any of the Bitcoin Cash. I didn't have any and I also didn't have any Waves tokens. Well that sucks. I've only used this Waves Lite Client to log into my account which I have bookmarked in my browser. So either there was a leak at the website or I have some keylogger on my computer. But somehow someone got ahold of my seed, username and password. Maybe they got it months ago and just saw that I finally had something of value in there. I think this is a wakeup call that I need to stop using the "private key" method to log into My Ether Wallet. Because that's probably even easier to steal.
And this is the address of the bastard (or bitch... I don't want to assume the cyber criminal's gender haha) who stole the crypto 3P2UGJe9JYhnfVhw6M3dHFQZMSvWcA9psz6 I don't expect anything to come of this, but if there is a way to look into it (there isn't right?) let me know.I have like $2 worth of tokens left on my account and won't be using it anymore, so privacy be damned! This is the transaction that they put in to steal my Waves http://wavesexplorer.com/tx/EnUxbKw6yGr9eSxBioRJtMPQRRFUYpAU7EpcxnHPPmos
Not a big deal
I'm not rich and $300 is a nice chunk of change for me, but when it happened I wasn't the least bit upset. I just kind of accepted it with no reaction. And even now I'm just kind of slightly annoyed. I've been in crypto for a year and a half and I haven't had anything stolen from me, or given money to scammers. I know people have gotten hit for much worse. I guess it was just my turn in this wild west of a market. Anyway, thanks for listening to my story and if you have your own stories of losing or getting crypto stolen, feel free to leave a comment :)
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I don't use that link anymore but this, https://beta.wavesplatform.com/
Do you have still many token there? can you open your wallet again?
Yeah I just joined that site.
I don't have any more Waves :/ I can still get in the account but there's nothing of value there.
As far as I can remember I only used my bookmarked Waves Lite Client website.
I am careful in any site because your funds will be lost if a mistake was made.
Wish I can invite you to our waves assets too only if you are interested in waves asset.
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sorry this happened to you mate. Well written though. Hope you have more luck with your other coins!
Hello!
Judging by the history of transactions, probably you became a victim of phishing wallet.
First of all, please check browser history and if you find any suspicious links related to official waves app, probably you will be able to see the main reason.