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How about this: Mozart was a "star" from the Capital of Austria
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yesterday my friend told me spammer coerced him to transfer all his fund to a bitcoin account from his bank account.
He lost huge amount of money.
is there any way to get it back from spammer?
diligent hands rule....
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You can't be serious?
If true, it's gone. Since crypto is largely unregulated, you have no recourse to get it back and no federally backed insurance either, like FDIC for banking accounts.
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it is serious...
diligent hands rule....
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I get requests on my WhatsApp to invest in crypto. I just say that I'm contented with whatever I have, and close the request. Don't know how they get our phone numbers.
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Amarnath S wrote: Don't know how they get our phone numbers.
I'm going to take a wold guess and say it's something like this:
for (int areaCode = 1; areaCode < 999; areaCode++)
{
for (int exchange = 1; exchange < 999; exchange++)
{
for (int lineNumber = 1; lineNumber < 9999; lineNumber++)
{
SendSpam(areaCode, exchange, lineNumber);
}
}
}
A version for your local phone numbering scheme is an exercise for the reader. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
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You've probably just saved the Q&A section a bunch of "send codez pls" requests with that post...
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dandy72 wrote: You've probably just saved the Q&A section a bunch of "send codez pls" requests with that post...
Nah.
A) Google doesn't index the lounge.
II) Even if it did, they wouldn't search for it before posting.
3) Even if they found it, they won't be able to complete the exercise for the reader as needed by their boss. Never mind the implementation of SendSpam().
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
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Ask spammer to return the money?
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If you ask nicely, he should help with that. 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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The keyword is "Lost" here. Unless his bank is willing to help, it probably describes his funds extremely well.
You have to remember this on the internet even more than IRL: "If it looks too good to be true, it probably is".
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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It happened to me too, but it was an AirBnB scam. I have always wondered how people can fall for obvious things like this, and that particular event taught me an important lesson, so here is the story:
Every year (money decides if every year), we try and go skiing for one week with the extended family and my BIL is in charge of finding and booking a cottage or hotel or whatever we can stay at (because I hate the AirBnB concept, so do not want to do it myself, and because my BIL and his wife have so many requirements to where they want to stay that it is better than they choose to avoid family war). He speaks only French, but can get by with German or English, or uses Google translate. Some years ago, we wanted to go to Austria. So he found out a nice cottage for 18 people (kids outnumber us !), asked us if OK, and told us that we had to book quickly because it would not be available for very long ; in the meantime, he had to leave for a long weekend where he was not easily reachable - bad network area. We confirmed and he tried booking before leaving, but failed, so he sent me the link to the AirBnB website, and could find a spot where he had network to call me on the saturday to tell me to try and book, even if we could barely communicate.
I navigated the AirBnB website, tried to book with my credit card, it failed several times, and I finally used the option to wire money (here the catch, no need to mention it).
Of course, the money was gone - we only noticed the scam after he was back a few days later. The website was an extremely well made fake of the real airbnb site, the domain name was something like booking.airbnb.com, I still have it somewhere on my computer ( I sniffed it because it remained online for a few days ). Some wordings were a bit strange, but my BIL was used to send me link of "google translated" websites, so it did not struck me more than that.
No need to say, I was both impressed and angry that I, the assumed "IT expert" in the family, could fall for a scam that actually raised all the red flags so obviously : external website, no paying possibility using the online platform, too attractive advertisement, bad wording in the website, etc...
So what I learned is : it is always a matter of context -> If I had been only a tad more experienced with how AirBnB works, or my BIL would have been more reachable, or if he did not used to send me bad translated webiste, or .. or ... or ... , it would not have worked. So these scams do not (or not only) work because some idiots are too naive and unable to spot them, it also works because in the millions of people who are approached, there will statistically be one constellation of events that makes it work.
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Rage wrote: told us that we had to book quickly because it would not be available for very long ; in the meantime, he had to leave for a long weekend where he was not easily reachable - bad network area.
Are you sure it was actually your BIL? That sounds like typical scammer tactics to me - impersonate someone you know, create a false sense of urgency, and claim that you can't contact the real person to check. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Yes, definitely - I think they managed to create the false sense of urgency by him, and he simply kind of transferred it to me because he was offline for a few days - Bad thing was, since I was not involved, and have never been in the past, in the booking procedure, I could not objectively question whether it was legit or not. As I wrote, this is a (hopefully) once-in-a-lifetime chain of events.
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I think your 'mistake' was not really your fault. You accepted information from someone you knew and trusted, so there was no real reason to do any extra checks.
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And that's why security in professional environments and in coding is based on "no trust". A company I worked for lost 5 millions on a scam this way - paid for product licenses and sent the wire payment to a different bank account set up by the scammers. Nobody ever double checked on different channels.
GCS/GE d--(d) s-/+ a C+++ U+++ P-- L+@ E-- W+++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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I hope the Finance Director got sacked.
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Those responsible for the sacking have been sacked.
I don't know, I was a conslutant and very well on my way out of that hellhole. Consider that they worked on safety critical components (either 22000 volts equipment or automotive stuff) and half of the workforce was alcoholic and drunk on the job, engineers included. Yikes.
GCS/GE d--(d) s-/+ a C+++ U+++ P-- L+@ E-- W+++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Sounds like a fun place to work. 
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I quit my consultancy company because they stuck me there (coercing me to lie to their faces about my experience btw) and refused to move me even when it was obvious it wasn't going to work.
A year later they still aren't finding anyone that wants to work there, and the customer itself can't find a developer to hire since almost two years. The only one they roped in is a former employee of the company I am working for right now and he ran out the back door after barely 6 months.
GCS/GE d--(d) s-/+ a C+++ U+++ P-- L+@ E-- W+++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Yeah, talk about a great trust anchor 
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What happened is a process weakness, not an error on your part. Stuff like this happens - I almost fell for one thanks to a typo from my wife and her lack of experience with the site.
GCS/GE d--(d) s-/+ a C+++ U+++ P-- L+@ E-- W+++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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thanks for your story![Rose | [Rose]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif)
diligent hands rule....
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My parent in law got caught by the microsoft hotline scam 3 years ago. I could jump in before he transferred the codes of the prepaid cards he bought (100€ worth).
Pity the [insert not KSS words here] had already crapped his HDDs, luckily they only deleted, not encrypted.
I could recover over 90% of the content, but I had to invest a lot of spare time during almost 2 weeks on it.
He is not a real tech safe person, but neither dumb. As Rage said, there are constellations in which even skilled people can get caught.
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
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Define "huge amount of money". $100? $1000? $10,000? $100,000?
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