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You will never think it’s going to happen to you until it happens. Well it happened to me, due to me not doing my research first before putting money in. This happened 2 weeks ago. There was a hype with ECA and I wanted to go in it, but that day we were going home and that will be an 8 hour drive and I know that there will be no internet signals or mobile signals along the way.

# Lost 24 litecoins on coinsmarkets.com

So, the night before we travel, I quickly transferred my 24 litecoins to the exchange that was trading ECA which was coinsmarkets.com. Coinsmarkets.com was also the exchange that was on the coinsmaketcap.com and on the ECA website so I figured it would be a legit website to trade ECA. Anyway, the coinsmarkets.com could not cope with the amount of people going into their website and crashed. Their website crashed before I made a trade but my litecoin is already there. I figured it is safe because they are saying that they are working on it. I have been continually logging into their website hoping that it’s back up and running. 2 weeks on and their website is still down because it is still throwing an error. This time I can’t log in. I thought I am just putting my credentials wrong so I put in “lost password” as you should to make sure. Their website is saying emails sent but never receive emails. Now I am getting worried, I think this is another scam and will probably lose my funds all together. I have contacted their support and their twitter account but no response yet.

# Lost 24 litecoins on bitafex.com

Now this is a total scam website. I have posted already an article about this but I will just let you know how I got hooked into it. When coinsmarkets.com crashed, I was told bitafex.com is trading ECA as posted on cryptocurrency facebook group. So before we head off on that day I quickly made an account with them and deposited my money 24 litecoins. Whenever we got to a next town with a mobile signal I checked bitafex.com and about the website when I learned that it was a scam website. Too late for me my litecoins are already there. I tried to withdraw it and the first attempt say “user cancelled” which I did not. The second attempt is still “being processed” and it is 2 weeks now. I already made a post or article warning others about bitafex [HERE](https://steemit.com/blog/@webcoop/bitafex-com-is-a-scam-exchange-warning). [![bitafex1.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmXnyrWne4MYaU3TqCWK52Knw8tSE6WCM57Uugp95RvPpi/bitafex1.jpg)](https://steemit.com/blog/@webcoop/bitafex-com-is-a-scam-exchange-warning)

# Will I ever recover my funds?

I don’t think I will ever get my funds back. It is still in the wallet addresses on the exchanges but if I can’t get access to the website or they are not allowing me to withdraw the funds then everything is lost.

# Moral of the story

Always do your research. Don’t rush at anything in cryptoland especially if it involves your coins or money.