I've been getting a few air drops: EthZero, LCC, BTG, BCH and more - so using forks is nothing to me, I always practice good forking, making sure I sent my coins to a new wallet before using a private key on the new coin wallet. However, today something bad happened.
I googled the BTCP airdrop and immediately a reddit page appeared - I clicked the wallet link (electrumbtcp.com) and was brought to a relatively "official" page. Running on only 3 hours of sleep (my first mistake here) I quickly downloaded the wallet then began transferring my funds off from my primary wallet onto my secondary wallet. I took my BTC private key and entered it into the scam/fake BTCP wallet. I then went away for a few hours and came back to transfer my BTC back to my primary wallet (which I thought was the new wallet). Soon after it was confirmed, it left again. I knew immediately what happened.
I just lost 7.2+ BTC. My heart is sinking even as I type this now. How could I be so careless? I went on auto pilot and it cost me $70,000~
I've been doing research and I'm looking for any kind of legal recourse to this.
Here's some random links including my exodus wallet to the scammers wallet.
https://live.blockcypher.com/btc/address/1EgaeuKXBs1kJGx68JtqhxeDGLsAxkDfbx/
I'm trying to spread awareness. I dont want this to ever happen to anyone again. I'm unsure if I want to continue into the crypto world, I feel extremely defeated and don't know how to proceed. My "job" is crypto trading, investing and mining and I'm about burnt out on all of it.