Honestly, I am not even in the condition of writing this post. It's hard to describe when you lose your hard-earned income within a matter of minutes!
Yesterday I went to a website named OVRswap (DO NOT NOT OPEN METMASK ON THIS SCAM SITE. FAKE METAMASK) and when I clicked connect wallet, it opened a fake Metmask from the right top corner.
This looks exactly the same as your Metamask extension, and I even have no idea that this Metamask is fake! It says to change your password with your seed key phrase! And I was so dumb to do that. I didn't even think properly as I saw the legit Metamask! And I made the biggest mistake of my life!
After few seconds, I understood what just happened and I immediately logged in to my main Metmask and changed the password. But no benefit as scammers has my seed phrase now. I hurriedly opened another Metmask account and went to the hacked account to transfer all of my coins to a new account! But I was late! All of my savings and earnings were lost, which was worth around $4000. Luckily I was able to save $1000 from Polygon Network.
Here's my BSC address. You can check on BSCchain to see what happened - 0xC19b004f55345A2C2E3Cd78F0bF39fd9Ee23dA4a Check on BSCscan
I was just able to save around $200 worth altcoins and sent to my new account - 0xc64f806f15d2a0d6427696c9040ee28556712e91
- ** Scammer's account**
Scammer moved BNB to this account - 0x7da6e8435b3a326bcfff4a7ad17abf9c1a96b180
Scammer moved all altcoins to this account - 0xc7114f05ab4b5d9d4d315376dfff7eeba283eec4#tokentxns
4k dollars was a lot for me and I am feeling devastated! Around 3.5 BNB is gone with all altcoins! Now I have nothing!
I read a lot of articles on how to get my money back. I learned that there is no way!
After the incident, I contacted Metmask support. But they gave me nothing but sympathy! That's not their fault, though; it's my fault that I have been scammed, and I was not careful!
From Metmask Support
Unfortunately, transactions cannot be reversed, nor missing the funds restored.
Seed Phrase / Secret Recovery Phrase cannot be edited or changed.
After this incident, I was feeling suicidal! I am feeling broken!
I know I made a mistake; I am an idiot! But that was my money, my hard-earned money! And I lost everything in a minute!
If anyone here, any dev, any tech, anyone knows any other way to get back my money. Please let me know.
I never thought I would post like this on Hive. I always posted that would help newbies to explore the crypto world. Maybe this post will help them to stay away from Scammer; help them not to be stupid like me!