I am a newbie when it comes to crypto and like an idiot I clicked on an nft and connected my wallet. They somehow drained 2600 of my staked sol on different validators, happened about 2 hours ago. Anyone I can hire to try to recover this? I feel so stupid
I call bullshit. Yes, maybe you got hacked for 2.600 Solana, but 2600 nah lol. You were not holding 150k+ of crypto while calling yourself a newbie.
What is your wallet address?
expensive lesson.
you didn’t get hacked you provided everything
Honestly gonna suggest you to not use dex, it’s very fragile. Put funds on where it’s safe or get a ledger or put it on a multi sig wallet on a laptop that has nothing except your wallet.
What’s a multi sig wallet?
What’s the address?
About the part whether they can control the SOLs after stealing them, yes they can:
The scammer then owns the stake account and can do whatever they want. There are many ways to instantly unstake including sanctum.so or manually depositing the stake account into a stake pool then selling the pool tokens
I lost 1.75million usd on a socially engineered phishing scam in 2021. The feeling is crushing to even the most stoic. Its money and you will be able to get it back in due time. Focus on your health and family for the next few days. If you’re a US resident then you can claim as a loss and deduct on your taxes (small positive in the sea of negative). DMs open if you need to vent.
How can you claim it as a loss on taxes if you didn’t technically sell it but just give it away to someone else as part of a phishing trap
Have you shared this story anywhere that I can read? If not I feel like it would be worth sharing so others can learn from your misfortune.
Would you have sold your moonbirds tho ? They tanked pre hard
You had 1.75m in nfts? 😂😂😂😂😂
That’s brutal - that’s above my Eth value lost, which still spun me for months.
Wow that’s crazy…
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Thats brutal. Have you ever done a write up on how it occurred? Would love to know how this happened so I can avoid something like that. My condolences.
Man that’s brutal. My condolences.
I need to get into scamming people… shits so profitable
Scammers are scum. But they are probably living easier lives right now especially with inflation lol
Many scammers operate out of groups. I believe scammers attract negativity in some way either externally or internally, they often end up hurting themselves in the end, it may take a decade or longer when they realize or they attract that negativity externally. If they are too cold to ever care they are not the type of miserable person you would ever want to be or to ever be associated with. They are scum they know it, they may try to justify it at times but they know. Just talking in general because your comment was innocent sarcasm that some will see inappropriate due to the situation
sorry bro
I know that everyone here is quick to blame OP for this mistake but crypto will never be fully adopted by the general public if this type of thing can happen so easily. We need to find ways to make this type of issue far more difficult. UX/UI is key to user adoption.
Hence we have upcoming ETFs to deal with this gap with boomers not having to worry about technicalities while the tech savvy will directly use the crypto the way it’s intended.
It can be a lot of money. I’m a generalist software engineer and I still use varying tactics to mitigate risk (e.g. distribute tokens across many many wallets).
Is there a certain value where it’s not worth the effort/cost of sending for you?
I don’t understand your question.
Is there a dollar, or amount of coins that you have set to know when it’s time to start a new wallet?
I would just think spreading around a ton would add additional fees etc, so I’m wondering if there’s like, “Oh, I separate into new wallets after I have $x amount”
My rule is to never put more than 200-250 SOL in a single wallet, but these are all HODL wallets. I never put more than like 10-20 SOL in an actively used wallet.
Also these levels all depend on your income and wealth.
And it’s not fill up one wallet then start another. If I have 500 SOL then I’d split them between 10 wallets, 50 SOL each. As I buy more, I fill each wallet in roughly equal quantities.
If I have 4000 SOL then I would do 20 wallets with 200 each.
It’s basically just, how much (in %) terms am I willing to lose at once. By using 10 wallets you limit your single wallet risk to ~10% of your entire portfolio.
The fees on Solana are so miniscule that you don’t even need to consider it.
That makes sense to me - Eth has been may largest bag, and the transfer fees would make it less worthwhile to have to split multiple times over
(Mind you, it would have saved me like a life savings, but hey, live and learn…)
ETF’s don’t increase user adoption just investor money.
Who are we to say how someone should use crypto?
People learn. Every new technology comes with new scams.
Why wallets don’t quarantine all NFTs and have big bold ***unless you know what you are doing you are about to be drained *** warnings to un quarantine them inbuilt and set as default I don’t know?
Got to keep that much SOL on a ledger…have some play SOL in a hot wallet.
Why do people keep falling for these nft scams? You should only be worried about what you purchase and stop looking for free handouts. Human greed is why people are getting scammed
Unstaking takes a whole epoch ~ 3 days. What’s your wallet address? Was it a hardware wallet address? Check the address on a Solscan and see if it’s still there.
Scammed out of $156k just like that. Wow
Same thing happened to me. It’s just Solana crap. 99% of programs are not open source. Txs can have random instructions mashed together, there’s no way of knowing what you’re signing. If you use your wallet it’s just a matter of time when you will get scammed. And nobody cares about security on this chain
The phantom wallet tells you what is coming in and what is going out of your wallet on every single transaction you sign. There are no circumstances where you should ever be skipping over that summary and blindly trusting a transaction