INTRO
I want to explain everyone what happened to me yesterday. It's important for me, so I can get over it, and I hope people won't do the same mistake.
My plan
Yesterday evening, I wanted to buy EOS token using 5 ETH (for me it's a lot of money). I decided to wait for the end of period #5, so I can compare the ratio ETH/EOS Token with market price of ETH/EOS.
The environnement
I had a very tiring and stressing day at work. Then when I get home my girlfriend was begging for help with her computer. My 2 cats were meowing for food. And the Token countdown clock was ending soon...
The loss
I went on http://eos.io/distribution to get tokens. I already did it the day before with no problem... but with very very few ETH (it was a test).
But yesterday the website was not responding with metamask. So I decided to use www.myetherwallet.com to transfert my ETH.
I copied the eos.io address and paste it in www.myetherwallet.com
Normally I ALWAYS TRIPLE CHECK the address, but this time I didn't... With the stressing environnement around, I wanted to go fast.
When the period #5 was over, I went to check my EOS token and the nightmare began: 0 token.
Actions taken
- I checked the transaction here : https://etherscan.io/tx/0x0cfa1e4ca68307593220195492f663ccfb135cec1d2a85586036ccc9bb245fec
->I saw that my ETH had been sent to another address from the EOS one.
- I panicked and post on steemit here: https://steemit.com/eos/@tyvain/help-eos-distribution-no-token-received
- I sent a mail to EOS support. -> They said they can not help.
Why did this happened ?
I am not sure, but I think my computer or browser has some kind of malware that changed the address when I paste it.
I went to see the contract where my ETH were sent. Other people commented that it's a SCAM address. Also I can see a lot of ETH are sent on the address. You can have a look at this scam contract address here: https://etherscan.io/address/0xa46847df9032d0abe4156bc56f3eb9188a2bd40a#comments
I am not a crypto expert at all. If someone can give me explanation on this...
Whose fault is it ? Who to blame?
It's 100% my fault. I can only blame my self. I should have been more careful.
That being said, this is a steal. There is someone who is stealing other people money.
What can we do about this?
So what now ?
At the moment I am depressed and didn't sleep well last night. Now I need to get over this and stop being sad about it.
There are more important stuff in life...
If you want to help me
- REPLY: if you have a comment that can help in anyway, please send a reply.
- SHARE: share this post, try not to make the same mistake
- SPEAK: Am I alone in this case? This has happened to other? Share a link or a story about it
- UPVOTE: to cheer me up a little
If you want to help me more
- FOLLOW: you can follow me. I post my own comics on a daily basis: https://steemit.com/created/nerdz
- WHO KNOWS: if you are rich, feel free to me some ETH on my account to refill me:
0xD15d05D8Ae2F9D4cDfe0638C2fF645E88bb1CA1b
Thank you for reading.