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.
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
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.
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 :)