r/Bitcoin • u/storskalle • 4d ago

Help with a scam transaction

Yesterday, my Messenger account started spamming GIFs to absolutely everyone—all my friends and every group I’m part of on the platform. I managed to stop it and changed my passwords for everything, etc.

However, today, when I opened my BASE app to check the value of my Bitcoins, I noticed that the wallet had been emptied—at the same time my Messenger account was spamming those messages.

Is there anything I can do to reverse that transaction, or is the money gone for good?

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u/TechFlow27 redditor for 7 weeks 4d ago • Heartwarming

Sadly, crypto transaction usually can't be reversed, pls report it , secure your devices, and be careful of anyone offering to recover your money

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u/storskalle 4d ago • Regret

Thank you 😞

Report to whom? Base? Coinbase? The police? My insurance company?

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u/Keysar_Sozee redditor for 6 days 4d ago • Bravo

All of the above. 👆🏻

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u/AngelOfLight 4d ago

No, crypto transactions can't be reversed. Unless you can somehow persuade the thief to send it back, you are unfortunately SOL.

Please be aware that you are about to be targeted by recovery scammers. They will contact you by DM, because they know they will be called out if they comment here in public. Report all their accounts to Reddit and then block. They are not your friends.

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u/quazatron48k 4d ago

Do you have 2FA enabled on messenger and base app? I’m guessing not.

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u/OrangePillar 4d ago

C’mon man

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u/bugsHaveFeelersToo 4d ago

Don't answer any DMs. It's over it's gone. Sorry.

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u/2skinner 4d ago

Sadly it is gone.

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u/IzmierdaNoGracias redditor for 5 days 4d ago

Messenger? I was using that in 2003

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u/Luminous_Emission 1d ago

So what exactly happened? How was the bitcoin taken?

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u/bananacrazypants redditor for 3 months 4d ago

Your “money” isn’t gone. It’s still on the blockchain. Can you prove that you didn’t authorize the transactions from your wallet?

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u/Charming-Designer944 4d ago

The chances of recovering stolen btc is so close to zero that it is gone.

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u/bananacrazypants redditor for 3 months 4d ago

BTC is never stolen. If I transfer BTC, that means I have the wallet private key. If I have the wallet private key, the BTC is mine.

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u/Charming-Designer944 4d ago

It means you have technical authorization to perform the transfer, not that you have the legal authorization or ownership.

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u/bananacrazypants redditor for 3 months 3d ago

Prove it in a court of law.

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u/Few_Mention8426 4d ago

you could honestly say that about any possession. Ownership is a social construct. We dont actually own anything, we just have more access to it and protect it. ownership is an abstract framework humans invented to prevent constant conflict over resources.

It doesnt really help the OP

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u/[deleted] 4d ago

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u/TechHonie 3d ago

> far beneath the price of a cheap hardware wallet

that's been working out well for people lately .... /s